Chapter 80: The Afterhand
"Ah Yan, how long can our resources last now?"
In the office, Shi Man looked at several holographic projections in front of him and asked Wang Yan beside him.
Wang Yan replied without hesitation: "Our current resources have all been invested in the manufacture of warships and their equipment, and the resources of the warehouse have been stretched to the bottom."
Hearing this, Shi Man couldn't help but be stunned: "Is it consumed so quickly?"
Wang Yan said helplessly: "The Jialan Empire has dispatched too many fleets this time, and its combat attitude is also very resolute, as if it doesn't care about casualties, it attacks us, and our combat readiness is running out."
Shi Man still underestimated the revenge of the Jialan Empire, and the war retaliation has only been going on for three days now, and the border defense line has not been safe in these three days, and has been fighting with high intensity.
Because of the deployment made by Shi Man before the war, the fleet of the border defense line is now less than 30,000, which also makes the soldiers on the New Eden side have not rested, and they almost drove back to the battlefield immediately after completing the cloning service, which made them very tired physically and mentally.
And because of the sleepless high-intensity battle of the Jialan Empire, the combat readiness of New Eden was almost exhausted on the first day, and the rest was forced by Shi Man to gather all the production lines of the entire New Eden to build warships and equipment, which barely maintained the battle for the next two days.
It has to be said that the industrial foundation laid by New Eden is very good, and under the concentrated and full operation of Shiman, it can produce nearly 10,000 battleships and their supporting equipment every day.
But because it took too many resources to lay the industrial foundation in the early stage, New Eden is now facing the embarrassment of having an empty production line and no resources to use.
Looking at Shi Man, who was deep in thought, Wang Yan pursed his lips and said, "Otherwise, let's let the Angel Enterprise Consortium also go to the front line, now our establishment is relatively complete, and our combat readiness is also more sufficient."
In this regard, Shi Man refused without hesitation.
"No, your fleet can't move now, or if the Jialan Empire launches a surprise attack on our hinterland, then everything will really be over."
From the beginning of the war to the present, Shi Man has not dispatched the fleet of the Angel Enterprise Alliance, in order to prevent the Jialan Empire from sending fleets to attack the industrial center of New Eden, if these industrial clusters are lost or even destroyed, then New Eden will really lose.
Without the supply of warships and equipment, even if the clone pilot is a god, he will not be able to withstand the attack of the Jialan Empire.
Wang Yan knows the importance of the task of the angel enterprise consortium now, but she is still very worried.
"But now that the resources are about to be exhausted, according to the current intensity of the battle, we will hold out for three more days at most, and then these industrial clusters will be useless."
Shi Man looked up at the fleet fighting in the starry sky in the holographic projection, and was silent.
And Wang Yan didn't persuade again, and stayed quietly by Shi Man's side waiting for the other party's final decision.
The war lasted only three days, and the two sides invested nearly 25 warships, lost more than 100,000 warships, and the wreckage of various warships was scattered all over the battlefield.
It's not that Shi Man didn't think of the idea of fighting the wreckage of these warships, after all, these warships can also get a lot of resources after recycling and smelting. ….
But the Jialan Empire has been maintaining a 24-hour high-intensity attack, and it does not give New Eden a chance to collect the wreckage of these warships at all, and even in order to prevent New Eden from recovering the wreckage of these warships, the Jialan Empire also has a special hunting fleet that keeps an eye on these wreckage, and stares at the New Eden industrial ship to hunt.
Obviously, the Jialan Empire also knows the barrenness of the Realm of Chaos and the Undercurrent Domain, and wants to consume New Eden to death.
In the end, Shi Man turned to look at Wang Yan with a little solemnity on his face.
"'How's the Scorched Earth Project going?'
Wang Yan replied with the same serious face: "At present, the fleet has infiltrated the northern territory of the Jialan Empire and is hidden, waiting for the order to move at any time!"
'The Scorched Earth Project, this is the final plan finalized by Shi Man and refined by the various command levels of New Eden.
And this is also the plan formulated by New Eden to prevent the Jialan Empire from being unable to stop the fish, and it is also a great gift from Shi Man to the Jialan Empire!
New Eden currently has a total of 200,000 cloned pilots, and the 30,000 people on the front line and the 10,000 people left by the Angel Enterprise Consortium to guard the chaotic domain, the rest are in the VVV Alliance's implementation of the 'Dreadnought Bomb Plan', and when they take advantage of the chaos to infiltrate into the territory of the Jialan Empire in batches, their purpose is only one, that is, once the front line is lost, then they will carry out a devastating blow to all the targets they see in the Jialan Empire.
A full 160,000 warships are lurking in batches in the subspace of various galaxies within the Jialan Empire, once they start to act, not to mention that the entire Jialan Empire can be affected, but it is no problem to turn the northern territory of the Jialan Empire into a scorched earth!
When the defense line is breached, Shi Man will directly take the Angel Enterprise Consortium to other star fields to seek development, and the clone pilots who died in battle will also be stored in the database of the New Key of Eden, and when they are resettled, they can be resurrected by cloning services, and Shi Man's loss is only the vast majority of the current industrial facilities in the Chaos Domain.
Again, as long as Shi Man is still there, it is only a matter of time before he re-emerges.
And in the face of the Jialan Empire, which has turned into a scorched earth, I am afraid that it will not be so good, not to mention the decline because of this, but it is inevitable that the vitality will be greatly damaged.
This is the parting gift that New Eden left to the Jialan Empire!
Shi Man nodded, and then said to Wang Yan: "Start executing the 'Scorched Earth Plan, let's see how the Jialan Empire's side reacts, if it is best to let it retreat, but also prepare for the worst."
"Understood."
Under such an offensive of the Jialan Empire, Wang Yan also knew that this was the last chance for New Eden.
If the Jialan Empire retreats and ceases the war because of this, then they can still hold on to their current home, and if the Jialan Empire still attacks desperately, then they can only be prepared to go to other star fields.
It is conceivable that after the implementation of this scorched earth plan, the Jialan Empire may be even more violent.
In front of Shi Man, Wang Yan closed her eyes and connected to the New Eden server, and an encrypted order was conveyed very secretly.
With the arrival of the order, a large number of New Eden fleets suddenly appeared in the four star fields in the north of the Jialan Empire, attacking all targets that could be detected. ….
All the warships, spacecraft, and space stations sailing in the starry sky were devastated, whether they were military or civilian targets, and at the same time, several frigates very stealthily jumped out of the wormhole, emitting indiscriminate and high-intensity electronic interference to the outside world.
Under the sudden attack and electronic interference, the entire northern part of the Jialan Empire was paralyzed, and all contact with the headquarters of the Jialan Empire's first star was instantly lost.
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Gardner Galaxy, a very important transportation transit system in the northern star field of the Jialan Empire, has several jump gates inside it that can lead to other regions, so there have always been several garrison fleets stationed here, and after the outbreak of war, there are a lot of resources here every day.
Because the Gardner star system is not on the border, but is the closest to the central star field of the Jialan Empire among the four northern star fields, it has not experienced war here for more than ten years.
And on this business-as-usual day, everything was different.
In just an instant, the long-range communication of the entire Gardner star system was ineffective, and its communication range could only be maintained within a light year, and before the executive officers stationed here could react, nearly 2,000 unknown warships were detected locally.
Looking at these warships, its executive officer quickly knew what kind of battleships these were.
"Those weird frigates and battleships of the VVV Alliance?!
Not good, order the garrison fleet to take to the skies and prepare for defense!"
That's right, these are Black Hidden Special Service Ships, and they were also specially prepared by Shi Man for this Gardner star system.
And these fleets didn't care too much about the garrison fleet that took them into the air, and launched an attack on the Jump Star Gate with a very clear goal.
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It was a round of bomb dropping, followed by torpedo bombardment, and in less than five minutes, a jumping stargate was paralyzed, and its jumping force field became very unstable, and even spatial folds appeared around the city, and finally began to collapse and decompose and be sucked into the spatial turbulence.
After seeing this scene, these Black Hidden Special Service ships did not hesitate to transfer their targets to another jump stargate.
The mission of these Black Hidden Special Service Fleet is to destroy all four jump gates in the Gardner star system, paralyze the most important transportation hub in the northern part of the Jialan Empire, and buy time for the implementation of the 'Scorched Earth Project!'
It was naturally impossible for the garrison fleet of the Jialan Empire to watch them mess around like this, and it didn't take long for several regular fleets to arrive at the battlefield, and the enemy who was attacking the Leaping Star Gate immediately launched an attack.
The interceptor ships were the first to enter the battlefield, and various interception force fields immediately covered the hundreds of stealth bombers that were attacking the Leaping Star Gate, and then the attacking fleet followed up and launched wanton attacks.
In the face of the attack of the garrison fleet of the Jialan Empire, the New Eden side did not retreat but advanced, only to see these hundreds of stealth bombing ships turn their bows and rush towards the enemy, and hundreds of bombs also moved towards the enemy fleet in a stable manner, and finally formed a large area of coverage explosion.
In the face of this continuous explosion, the garrison fleet of the Jialan Empire lost nearly one-third in an instant, and one and a half fleets were reimbursed on the spot, and even the pilot had no chance to escape, all of them were blown up to pieces on the spot and mixed in the wreckage of the battleship. ….
In the face of this instantaneous loss, the commander of the Jialan Empire couldn't help but shake his hand, but then rushed up again with the fleet.
"Brothers, that's all the enemy's ships can attack, and when they get close, they're lambs to the slaughter, scatter them with me!"
In the face of the New Eden's guard-level fleet, none of the other tactics used in direct melee work together.
After all, this stealth bomber is only a frigate class, and in the face of a cruiser-class or even a battleship of greater tonnage such as a battleship, it is almost a matter of two guns.
It would be a great addition to the tactics of maneuvering and positioning, after all, the signal radius of this frigate is very small, and their weapons are too far away to exert their power.
Led by the Commander, the fleets of the Jialan Empire charged, and instead of turning the ship around after dropping the bomb, the New Eden side continued to charge.
The fleets of the two sides were mixed together in an instant, and the stealth bombers of New Eden suffered heavy losses in an instant under the attack of the regular fleet of the Jialan Empire, and in close quarters, even the battleship's close defense system could pose a great threat to the stealth bombers, not to mention the main guns.
After seeing the results of the battle, the commander of the Jialan Empire was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered the interceptor ship to stop all the remaining enemies, and they wanted to annihilate all these enemies!
Because the two fleets were fighting in a small starry sky battlefield, the interceptor ships of the Jialan Empire effortlessly covered the New Eden fleet with the interception force field, and both fleets were intercepted.
A large number of jump interception and deceleration fields formed a colosseum in this small starry sky, and the battle became more intense.
Seeing that the battle was completely tilted towards the side of the Jialan Empire, its commander couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then gave an order to the fleet: "Each fleet attacks freely, and the interceptor ships pay attention to interception, don't let the enemy escape a single person!"
I saw that as the outcome of the battle gradually became clear, the remaining stealth bombers of New Eden were no longer entangled, but began to fight and retreat, and activated the thrusters towards the jump force field.
And the interceptor ships of the Jialan Empire naturally would not let them go, and then more jump interception fields appeared on the battlefield, completely blocking them within thousands of kilometers around, so that these stealth bombers in New Eden had no way back.
Looking at the New Eden warships, which were already less than two hundred, the fleets of the Jialan Empire rushed like tigers and wolves to compete for battle success.
For this kind of enemy that can be killed with a single shot of the main gun, this is the battle feats of vain!
And just when the Jialan Empire was immersed in the joy of imminent victory, its commander always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it.
After he observed the entire battlefield, he suddenly realized that his and the other fleets were all shrouded in interception forces, and there was no way to retreat, and the enemy was deliberately luring them all into this self-built cage.
It's a trap!
Thinking of this, he immediately shouted, "It's not good, everyone immediately withdraw from the range of the interception force field!"
And it's already too late.
As soon as he finished speaking, more than a thousand stealth bombers outside his interception field suddenly jumped out of subspace, and then thousands of bombs were thrown into the leaping interception field.
Looking at the bombs flying at a steady speed around him, the commander of the Jialan Empire had a white smile on his face.
"That's ruthless!"
You must know that there are not only them in this jump interception field, but also nearly 200 warships and hundreds of space escape capsules in New Eden, which will be killed together with their own people!
Electromagnetic pulse waves formed by thousands of explosions raged on the battlefield, destroying all the warships and space capsules, and even the jump interception force field was blown up and disappeared.
With the destruction of the Gardner system's garrison, the new Eden Black Hidden Fleet, which was unhindered, launched an attack on the remaining Jump Gates and divided its forces to attack the Jialan Empire space station in the system.
This scene in the Gardner star system is just a microcosm of the four major star fields in the north of the entire Jialan Empire, and the 'Scorched Earth Project' was carried out very thoroughly by these clone pilots, and the war was pushed back into the territory of the Jialan Empire.......
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