Jiang Ziyue led his fleet to bravely attack the 6.6 speed of Akuberi, hoping to rush to the planet "Africa" as soon as possible to reinforce the "Hannibal" detachment.

However, the physical presence of the distance still limits their impossibility of arriving instantaneously. Just as Jiang Ziyue and his officers and men were going all out, the "Hannibal" detachment, which was 3,000 light years away, had to fight alone. Because the Immortal Star Bundeswehr expeditionary fleet launched an attack as scheduled, the spearhead was directed at the planet "Africa".

The expeditionary fleet has an overwhelming superiority in forces, and at the same time controls the initiative on the battlefield. Therefore, the commander, Admiral Xu Hongzhao, concentrated all his forces and attacked the planet "Africa" to 'lure' the imperial army to come to a decisive battle and annihilate it in one fell swoop.

At about 2 o'clock on November 26, 2919, the warships of the Wehrmacht Expeditionary Fleet changed to the speed of light at a distance of 30 AU from the planet "Africa", and then quickly formed three fleets according to the original battle sequence. The Second Fleet formed an umbrella array covering the planet "Africa" and flew ahead at a reaction propulsion speed of one-third of the speed of light, while the First Fleet and the Third Fleet were horns of each other, covering and following up at a distance of 200,000 kilometers behind the Second Fleet.

The three fleets followed the ecliptic plane of the star "Solo's Gate" and violently attacked the planet "Africa". If all goes well, they will launch a landing operation in twelve hours.

The unmanned reconnaissance ship soon informed the enemy situation to the "Hannibal" detachment of the Central Fleet of the Imperial Army. On the flagship battleship "Scipio the Great", the commander Reginald? Admiral Ustinov found it very tricky.

The enemy commander was always 'treacherous', and not only did the three fleets maintain close contact with each other, but the distance between the warships in each formation was more than 1,000 kilometers. Even if the Imperial Army launches a space storm, it will be difficult to produce good results. Instructions from the planets "Iserlon" and "Neo-Byzantium" also did not arrive. The principle had been established to delay the enemy as much as possible, but time was running out for the Imperial Army.

Ustinov decisively gave the order to attack. She knew very well that it was impossible to delay any longer, and that in the unlikely event of victory, she would have to fight to the death in order to weaken her opponent to the greatest extent.

Both the regular army and the militia and reserve interstellar marines who were newly added to the fleet received orders to prepare for broadside battles. When the same order reached the armed merchant ship "Wildebeest", Lotta? Staudt immediately felt the desperate determination from the commander of the fleet.

After reading the order, Lota calmly added to her men:

"If you have anything to say to your family, quickly record it and send it to the final briefing ship."

No one can hear the despair behind these words.

However, when the other reserve 'female' soldiers hurriedly recorded their last words and 'handed them over' to the communications non-commissioned officers for centralized transmission, they found that the captain had not left anything behind.

"Sir, don't you leave anything for your family?" The communications non-commissioned officer asked with concern.

"No need, you can send everyone's information right away."

Lota whispered. At this time, she didn't know what to leave behind. For her parents, she felt that everything was superfluous. When she received the mobilization order, her father, Albrecht, a veteran general? Stoldt said:

"Don't worry about us, just fulfill your responsibilities. No matter what the battle will bring, we are proud of you as a 'girl'. ”

As he spoke, the father took out a large gold double-headed eagle emblem and tied it around the neck of the 'daughter'.

"Is this your grandmother, my mother, known as 'Angry' Wave 'Emma, the Heroic Barcia? Emma? General of the Stoddt Empire, awarded a medal in the Battle of the Himalayas. You already wear a golden medal of Caesar, and I hope that you will be worthy of this eagle of victory, and save the fate of the Senate and the people of Rome like your ancestors. ”

The emperor's mother, Cornelia, was silent and worried, but she did not stop her husband from agitating the action of the 'daughter'.

Lota embraced her parents before embarking on the journey. Naturally, she couldn't give up her feelings for her parents, but for Jiang Ziyue, she felt that saying anything was not enough.

Their happy days have only been more than half a year, but they have separated, and they have even been 'forced' to the brink of life and death. She seemed to be able to sense that her husband was anxious about her well-being, but she still felt some comfort. At least, Jiang Ziyue's situation is safe for now.

"Sir......

The communications non-commissioned officer made a final effort, hoping that the captain would also leave a message for the family, after all, they were all fighting on the "home front".

"Okay, I'll just leave a message."

Lota was moved.

The content of the message was very short, and the time of the video was also very fast, but in that short dozen seconds, Lota recalled a lot.

The Imperial Army's counterattack was soon launched.

General Ustinov concentrated all his warships, changed the speed of light at fifteen million kilometers on the right flank of the enemy's battle formation, and quickly arranged them into a huge cone-shaped formation. The reason why this direction was chosen was only to guide the other side to turn to the battle, so that the direction of fire on both sides would not be directed towards the planet "Africa" and the star "Solomon", so as to avoid as much as possible that the lost artillery fire would hit the stars and planets tens of astronomical units away.

In order to strengthen the penetration, Ustinov also placed all 2,000 battleships in the front of the cone, and the cruisers, which were much inferior in firepower and protection, and the armed merchant ships and auxiliary cruisers of the militia reserve units were placed in the rear.

The appearance of the imperial army as scheduled made Xu Hongzhao excited, and immediately ordered the whole team to turn to meet the enemy. The three fleets turned ninety degrees to the right and rearranged into a huge umbrella formation. Judging from the number of enemy troops, the enemy was pouring out, so this time, he did not arrange the cruisers into multiple small formations to deal with the situation as he did last time, but all of them were grouped into a huge umbrella formation.

In this way, the two sides are about 200,000 astronomical units away from the planet "Africa", ready to engage in a "fierce" battle.

The total number of warships invested by both sides reached 8,000, and the total number of soldiers combined exceeded 700,000. Although slightly inferior in scale to the Third Battle of Yi in June, this battle will be the largest battle to take place in the Empire since 2890.

There are no tactical maneuvers that rack their brains, and there are no tactical innovations that play all kinds of 'tricks'.

Both massive fleets moved at one-half the speed of light, flying close to each other. At a reduced distance of two million kilometers, all ships enter an irregular spiral and gradually slow down to one-twentieth of the speed of light.

At a distance of 300,000 kilometers, the dense beam of light instantly divided the lonely space into countless fragments.

Immediately after that, high-energy particle beams and 'excited' beams hit the electromagnetic shield and ceramic alloy armor with intense light one after another. The slight, frequent, and disordered space 'waves' caused by the annihilation of antimatter particle beams and ordinary matter, mixed with the radiation 'emission' and kinetic energy caused by the explosion of directional energy, mercilessly shook the warships of the two sides.

On the bridge and in the tactical command center of almost every warship, the three-dimensional images showing the situation of friend and foe are covered with dense red 'colored' ship-shaped icons. The scene of 8,000 warships bombarding each other is undoubtedly extremely grandiose, but not a single soldier who participated in the battle would have the leisure to enjoy this kind of space fireworks display made of countless lives and huge wealth.

The numerically superior Bundeswehr Umbrella Array calmly unleashed focused firepower, pouring the energy of death on the opponent.

The Empire, which was superior to its opponent in terms of strength but superior to its opponent in terms of single ship ability, bathed in the fierce firepower of its opponents, maintained a tight formation, and rushed towards the core of the enemy formation on the ecliptic plane while struggling to 'shoot'.

In the tactical command center of the battleship "Scipio Grande", in the heavy space combat suit, Reginald? General Ustinov looked serious. It was a death-defying attack, the meaning of which could not be victory at all, but the maximum attrition of the enemy. Therefore, she adopted the most traditional attack tactics, stabbing the core of the opponent's array with a conical formation, preparing to make the most brutal and bloody 'melee battle' on the sideboard.

"At the speed of a thousandth of a light, the entire Marine Corps is dispatched and begins to engage in broadside battles! All the Marines concentrated on attacking the enemy's battleship! ”

The "black widow" let out a mournful howl.

"For the good of the Senate and the people of Rome, remember the oath we took to join the army - to go forward, never back down, fight to victory, shed the last drop of blood! VENI，VIDI，”

In a communication system where a large number of incomprehensible interference signals appear due to the enormous scale of energy 'shooting', a collective response full of decisive meaning but emotionally 'excited' immediately 'provoked':

“VENI，VIDI，”

Although the umbrella formation is considered to be an effective restraint against the aggressive cone formation, and the superiority in strength more effectively exploits the advantage of the umbrella array's focused firepower. However, the conical formation of the Imperial Army, which came by surprise, was not afraid, maintained high fighting spirit and firm confidence, stubbornly spewed out dense directional energy, and rushed straight forward.

The heroic and tenacious 'spirit' of the inferior opponent is quite admirable. General Xu Hongzhao, commander-in-chief of the Bundeswehr expeditionary fleet, couldn't help but sigh with emotion:

"If it were me, I would never have recklessly launched such a fearless charge."

It was only after he finished saying this, which was half praise and half criticism, that he realized his opponent's true intentions.

Countless Imperial Interstellar Marines have been ejected from various warships, and in the turbulent waves formed by directional energy, they have rushed into the Bundeswehr ship array with inertia and their own power.

Although many of the soldiers were killed in the rapid loss of pressure as soon as they were knocked out of the cabin by the high-energy particles, 'excited' beams, and extremely fast flying debris that destroyed the power armor, the Marines behind still fought for their lives, rushed away the bodies and even body fragments of their companions, and flew towards the Union warship.

Since the two sides have launched three volleys, the corresponding distance has also been reduced to tens of thousands of kilometers. In the face of the frantic "sea of people" charge of the Imperial Army, the unprepared Bundeswehr simply did not have time to respond effectively.

Battleship after battleship was climbed by the galloping Imperial marines.

The swarming Imperial Marines were like a colony of ants besieging elephants, desperate to launch a broadside battle. Although there is a highly intelligent computer-aided control, it is still very difficult and dangerous to forcibly land on the surface of a warship under extremely dangerous circumstances when the relative speed exceeds 20,000 or 30,000 kilometers per second and the firepower of the enemy and us are intensively 'exchanged' with each other.

Before a large number of Imperial Marines could board the opponent's ships, they were smashed to pieces by the fragments and particles bombarded by the opponent's short-range defensive fire and directional energy. As soon as some of the team members boarded the target battleship, they were 'fired' by the artillery fire of their own fleet, and together with the enemy ship where they were located, they were blown into scattered clusters of high-energy particles.

Despite the bloodshed and sacrifice, the fearless 'spirits' won the results, and the marines, who managed to board the opponent's ships, quickly launched attacks and sabotage operations.

General Xu Hongzhao felt remorse for his intransigence of the enemy, so he quickly issued a new instruction:

"Dispatch the Marines and destroy the Marines who are on board the enemy!"

By the time the Bundeswehr marines began to meet them along the various passages and escape pods, the two armies were already 'intertwined'. The Conical Formation of the Imperial Army poked into the umbrella formation of the Bundeswehr.

The fleet artillery battle also escalated to a white-hot stage. Facing enemy warships passing around at high speed, which were still hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away, the warships of both sides, no matter how big or small, spared no effort to open fire, and all the kinetic energy bombs equipped on the ships were also 'fired'.

The directional energy and kinetic energy projectiles were 'intertwined' into a net, connecting countless powerful explosive flashes into one piece after another, stretching for hundreds of thousands of kilometers, forming a huge light curtain perpendicular to the stellar ecliptic plane of "Solo's Gate" in the space where the battlefield was located.

At night in the western hemisphere of the planet "Africa", many people saw a vague nebula in the bright starry sky. Although the nebula lasted for a short time, through the announcement of the provincial governor, it was known that the short-lived nebula was the tremendous energy of hundreds of thousands of warriors fighting bloodily.

After passing through each other's formation, the warships of both sides turned again, once again faced each other to launch artillery bombardment, and rushed towards each other. At the same time, the marines of both sides fought desperately in the 'chaotic' current of energy emitted by the fleets of both sides.

The battle has become a grinder of death and despair.

Lotta? Staudett had fully felt the irresistible destructive power of the machine.

The armed merchant ship "Wildebeest" has been badly damaged, except for the two rocket thrusters in the tail section, other functions of the power system and all weapons systems have failed. The body that had been 'pierced' by the directional energy was constantly shining outwards with a strange light.

"I'm Captain Lotta? Reserve Major Staudett, now ordered to abandon the ship. May God bless you all. ”

Instead of shouting Caesar's slogan, as is customary for the Imperial Army, Stoldt, who believed in Jesus Christ, followed the Western naval tradition and prayed for God's protection.