Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 623: New Weapons
“Since you have chosen war, then war it is.” After arriving here, Xiao Yu did not hesitate. He controlled his fleet and immediately charged forward.
It was clear that this preliminary Level 6 civilization before Xiao Yu had also prepared for war at this time. All the information that needed to be exchanged between the two sides had already been fully exchanged earlier. There was truly no need to say anything more now. They could start fighting directly and use their military strength to decide the ownership of this small universe.
Xiao Yu’s flagship, the Planet-Class warship the Earth, still did not participate in the battle. Although the Earth was the most advanced and most powerful ship among all of Xiao Yu’s vessels, Xiao Yu believed that this level of battle did not require his flagship to personally join. Having fifteen Planet-Class warships participating was already enough. The remaining Planet-Class warships Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Saturn, together with roughly five million escort ships, guarded the Earth on all sides, standing by Xiao Yu at all times. No matter when, his own safety always came first.
Xiao Yu’s fleet was still in curvature space at this moment. Once a civilization reached the level of a Level 6 civilization, it completely broke the rule that warfare was unsuitable in curvature space, because space weapons could ignore the effects of curvature space. They could move at faster-than-light speeds. Thus, war between Level 6 civilizations took this form.
Ships kept appearing in visible space and then suddenly disappearing, then appearing again. The distance between two appearances might be several million or even tens of millions of kilometers. Level 6 civilization warships could very easily enter or exit curvature space, which brought an extremely marked improvement in maneuverability and led to a great expansion of the battlefield.
This preliminary Level 6 civilization possessed around one hundred million ships, but only one Planet-Class warship. It was obvious that this Planet-Class warship was this preliminary Level 6 civilization’s flagship.
“Although I can simultaneously control only fifty million ships, which is just half of the other side, this number will not drop. No matter how many of my warships are lost, I can always extract reserve ships from the small universe at any time and continue fighting. This preliminary Level 6 civilization cannot do this. If they lose one, that is one lost. They cannot obtain replenishment as I can. Hm. For a preliminary Level 6 civilization, these one hundred million warships are at least 80 percent, perhaps even 90 percent, of their combat power. For the sake of this small universe, they have taken out most of their strength. They are indeed willing to pay in blood.” Xiao Yu thought with emotion.
By now the war had fully broken out. This region of space had truly become a killing field. Countless pitch-black spatial rifts crisscrossed within it. Countless warships flashed into space and then quickly disappeared, with explosions appearing out of thin air again and again, and fragments of ships appearing out of thin air again and again.
Xiao Yu knew that was because ships in curvature space were being destroyed. After a ship was destroyed, its wreckage obviously could no longer maintain curvature flight and could only withdraw from curvature space, creating the current scene, as if explosions and debris suddenly appeared in empty space.
As soon as the engagement began, Xiao Yu quickly assessed the opponent’s strength. The conclusion was that in every respect, the performance of this preliminary Level 6 civilization’s ships was inferior to his own. This was obvious. After all, he could rely on his own power and technology to manufacture a small universe, while the other side did not have this ability.
The current situation on the battlefield had Xiao Yu slightly on the back foot, because his participating force was only fifty million ships while the other side had over one hundred million. But Xiao Yu was not worried in the least, because he knew that as he continuously attrited the enemy, their number of ships could only decrease further. When this number fell below seventy million, that would be when he seized the upper hand.
Amid the chaotic battlefield, the fifteen participating Planet-Class warships fully displayed their formidable power. This was Xiao Yu’s first time using Planet-Class warships in actual combat, and they did not disappoint him.
With hulls hundreds of kilometers long, these Planet-Class warships possessed the combat strength of massive space fortresses. Tens of millions of engines and sufficient energy supply gave them a powerful maneuverability that space fortresses and bases could never have. four-dimensional shields, space folding shields, and multi-layer hybrid shield systems provided these ships with extremely strong defenses. Xiao Yu installed countless space weapons on the surfaces of these Planet-Class warships, along with various second-tier conventional weapons such as negative matter cannons, light-beam weapons, and kinetic weapons. These weapons were distributed in every corner of the Planet-Class warships, which meant these ships had no attack blind spots at all. From any direction, they could attack with great ease.
Planet-Class warships, in coordination with smaller ships, formed complete combat groups. Under Xiao Yu’s control, these combat groups either all entered curvature space, or left a portion in visible space while another portion entered curvature flight, charging back and forth across the entire battlefield, invincible wherever they went.
Fifteen Planet-Class warships meant fifteen combat groups. These fifteen combat groups, together with a number of ships roaming the battlefield and striking at will, constituted all of Xiao Yu’s combat forces in this war.
Because of their numerical advantage, this preliminary Level 6 civilization had basically encompassed Xiao Yu’s ships within the core of the battlefield, but Xiao Yu had no scruples at all. He knew that if he wished, he could break out of this encirclement at any time.
The efficient ship grinder of war was operating rapidly. Up to this moment, Xiao Yu had lost three million ships, while in contrast, the preliminary Level 6 civilization had lost ten million ships.
The performance of Xiao Yu’s ships was not so superior as to produce such a ratio on its own. The most important reason was those six million new-model ships built entirely from the Arboreal Race alien beast’s flesh. Xiao Yu saw a new-model City-Class ship in hot pursuit of an enemy Province-Class warship. Faced with a City-Class ship far smaller than itself, that Province-Class ship had almost no power to fight back.
“I did not intend to annihilate you all. If you withdraw now, I can still guarantee I will not pursue and kill you.” At this moment, after confirming that the preliminary Level 6 civilization had fully grasped his strength, Xiao Yu sent such a message. But what answered him was the silence of this preliminary Level 6 civilization and an even fiercer offensive.
This preliminary Level 6 civilization answered Xiao Yu with action.
“In that case, I have no scruples either. I will let you taste the newest weapons I have developed.” Xiao Yu said. “Once I eliminate your flagship, I imagine you will have no will to resist.”
Although this preliminary Level 6 civilization’s flagship was a Planet-Class warship with a size and mass no less than that of the Earth, it was built from ordinary materials. This meant that in hull structure, stress absorption, attack load, and all other aspects, it could not match any Planet-Class warship in Xiao Yu’s fleet. Even so, a Planet-Class warship was still a Planet-Class warship. Such a behemoth, no matter how ordinary, was not easy to destroy.
But Xiao Yu was not worried, because he knew he had the power to do it as long as he made up his mind. As space technology advanced, Xiao Yu, together with the Space Academy of Science and the Weapons Technology Institute, had developed an enhanced version of the spatial rift weapon. This war was Xiao Yu’s first time using this weapon. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
This weapon could not be deployed by a single ship. Facing a Planet-Class warship, at least ten ships were required to use it. This ratio seemed uneconomical, but it was actually the most cost-effective method. If Xiao Yu piloted one or two Planet-Class warships to slug it out with the enemy flagship, he could eventually destroy it, but one of his Planet-Class warships would inevitably suffer quite serious damage. Using this weapon, however, he could be sure his side would suffer no losses. This method was safe and efficient.
Under Xiao Yu’s control, ten Planet-Class warships disengaged from their combat groups, gathered with a small portion of ships, while the remaining five Planet-Class warships and numerous sub-Planet-Class ships took on the task of containment. They launched frenzied attacks on any enemy ships attempting to approach their flagship, doing their utmost to thin the defensive strength around it.
Under such circumstances, the escorting power around the enemy flagship decreased rapidly. At this moment, the flagship seemed to sense danger’s approach. It tried to evade and charge into the cluster of its own ships to gain escort, but it failed.
At some unknown time, ten Planet-Class warships had already quietly encircled it. These Planet-Class warships did not launch a true attack on it. Instead, as if following some pattern, they attempted to occupy several points around it. After dozens of minutes, these ships stopped and maintained a state of relative rest with respect to it.
