Ten days.

All kinds of lures, all kinds of predictions, all kinds of ambushes.

The Pioneer Fleet fought several battles with the mechanical civilization.

The number of Slayer warships destroyed alone has exceeded 30,000.

And according to the number of troops sent by each mechanical civilization, in addition to the first three times, the next few times are also getting fewer and fewer.

Even the last time, only a thousand Slayer warships appeared.

Although, in terms of the overall number of annihilation, it is only one percent of the strength of the mechanical civilization.

But obviously, on the side of mechanical civilization, there are fewer and fewer warships that have been equipped with hyperspace engines.

This is the main goal of Jiang Xingchen's operation.

Since it was already difficult to tap more potential, under Jiang Xingchen's order, the Pioneer Fleet entered the second stage of operations.

What is the content of the second phase of the operation?

It's very direct, and it's also very rough.

Destroy most of the energy sources of mechanical civilization in the Barth system.

Even in order to pursue efficiency, Jiang Xingchen directly ordered the operation in the form of a single ship.

What, I'm afraid that a single ship action will be discovered by a mechanical civilization, and it will not be able to defeat it?

What do you say, who told you to fight?

Arrive at the mission objective, exit hyperspace, and directly use high-powered naval guns along the track to take a round, and after destroying all the energy factories, directly detach from hyperspace.

The whole process doesn't even take ten minutes.

Unless the mechanical civilization has a warship with a hyperspace engine, which is very close to you, it will not be able to catch you at all.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, if there is really a mechanical civilization nearby, and it will catch you through hyperspace navigation, then you won't just break away from hyperspace when you find out about the hyperspace reaction?

Contactless combat...

As long as I don't stand there stupidly waiting for you, you'll never be able to catch me.

Two corps, a full 60,000 warships, participated in the second phase of the operation.

On average, each warship can attack as few as ten planets and as many as twenty or thirty planets per day.

With this efficiency, it's only three days.

Except for the periphery of the assembly site of the mechanical civilization, the living planets in the entire galaxy have all been plowed by the pioneer fleet.

The efficiency is staggering.

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In the first stage, the goal is achieved!

In the second stage, the goal is achieved!

Next, it's time for the third stage!

In fact, Jiang Xingchen's entire plan has four stages.

Therefore, it is clear that the third stage is still not a decisive battle.

So, what is the third stage?

If the first stage is an ambush, the second is a non-contact logistical attack.

So, the third stage is...

Infinite short war of attrition!

Do you wear each other down?

Obviously not, the Federation does not have the strength to go and consume with mechanical civilization.

Since it is not a force of troops, what is this war of attrition going to consume?

Energy!

Nearly three hundred mechanical planets, more than 200,000 slaughter warships are gathered together.

If at this time, a fleet appears on its periphery and keeps attacking from outside your range.

What would you choose?

For mechanical civilization, there are undoubtedly two choices.

One is to send your troops to rush forward at full speed, shorten the distance until they are within their own range, and then destroy the enemy.

The other is to send the remaining fleets with hyperspace engines to ride directly and finally destroy the enemy.

Of course, if the mechanical civilization chooses neither of these options, but fights in the same place and does not fight back...

Jiang Xingchen doesn't mind either...

And whichever way the mechanical civilization takes, it is a huge energy drain.

Dozens, hundreds, or even tens of millions of annihilators were dispatched.

Or, a large fleet of ships traveling in hyperspace.

Which of these is not a huge demand for energy?

Of course, Jiang Xingchen didn't expect to be able to make the mechanical civilization fall into an energy shortage stage a few times.

It's not realistic!

Hence the idea of an infinitely short-term war of attrition.

What is this concept?

Have your six legions take turns, each time from a safe distance.

Forcing you to mobilize large forces to encircle and suppress, or have large fleets attack in hyperspace.

And once you can threaten me, that is, the forces of a mechanical civilization, quickly enter the distance of ten light-seconds.

Or maybe a super-sized fleet begins to sail in hyperspace.

I'm just going to leave the battlefield.

Then by the second fleet, the operation was repeated from other directions.

Not stopping for a second will force you to have huge forces move around again, or fleets to use hyperspace engines over and over again.

Thus depleting your energy reserves little by little.

Although, in the process, the development fleet will consume more energy, even more than ten times that of mechanical civilization.

But...

As long as it does not withstand a large number of attacks through the space shield, the star core energy carried on the Pangu II battleship is enough to support this consumption.

You know, Star Nuclear Energy is known as...

The existence of perpetual motion energy.

Theoretically, as long as the universe does not collapse and dark energy remains the basic component of the universe, then the star core energy will never be exhausted.

So, consuming ten times more energy than a mechanical civilization?

I'm sorry, Jiang Xingchen really doesn't care.

Even if it consumes a hundred times more, as long as it does not exceed the output of the star core energy, no zero-point energy module is used.

That's...

It's not a thing!

At the same time, in the process of repeated and never-ending harassment, Jiang Xingchen will also send some troops to take advantage of the lack of skills of the mechanical civilization to carry out a comprehensive attack on the energy factories in the star systems around it.

Thus further reducing the energy supply channels of mechanical civilization.

Strategically, that's what happened.

However, on the side of the mechanical civilization, there are also some things that Jiang Xingchen cares about and is very vigilant about.

For example...

Surrounded in the middle by the mechanical planets, something about the size of a mechanical planet, and clearly under construction...

I don't know why, when I saw this information sent back by the strategic reconnaissance ship.

Jiang Xingchen remembered...

More than ten days ago, Ouyang Qing reported...

Punisher!

However, since it is under construction, and it depends on the situation, there is still a lot of time before completion.

Then, Jiang Xingchen would not stop this third stage of the battle plan because of this factor.

"Phase 3, begin!"

"Yes, Commander!"

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It is still the First Fleet that is taking the lead.

With the formation of tens of thousands of hyperspace windows, the 30,000 warships of the First Army have come to the battlefield.

It was less than 50 lightseconds away from where the mechanical planets were clustered.

And the large number of Slayer warships on its periphery were less than 30 light-seconds.

"Command all fleets, attack begins!"

"Yes, Captain!"

"In addition, always pay attention to those slaughterers of the mechanical civilization, and report as soon as they discover the hyperspace reaction!"

"Understood!"

In the next moment, 30,000 warships and hundreds of thousands of space-type strikes had already blasted towards the mechanical civilization in unison.

At the same time, the mechanical civilization was also the first time that the outermost Slayer battleships all released the Annihilators and pressed towards the First Legion of Duan Xingke in the distance.

And in the depths of the array of mechanical civilizations.

There were about 5,000 Slayer ships, waiting there without the slightest reaction.

It wasn't until some time later that countless annihilators, under the fire net of the First Legion, finally approached ten light-seconds.

The 5,000 Slayer ships are in action.

Hyperspace windows have been constructed...