Chapter 723 What Are the Two Heroes of the Empire?

Two huge fleets confronted each other at a distance of three astronomical units. The disturbance of space and time caused by the large-scale jump has not yet dissipated, and the distorted shadows of the ships are extremely spectacular.

Vice Admiral Pryor's flagship Flashpoint, forty-three Minotaur-class battlecruisers were deployed on both sides of the ship in an inverted V-shaped wedge array. Frigates and fighters passed between the warships, and thousands of propeller tail flames looked like a huge group of comets from a distance.

The huge fleet on the opposite side was equally daunting. There were eighty aircraft carriers and one hundred and twenty void glow ships surrounding the magnificent mothership and arbitrator in the center. More reconnaissance aircraft, Phoenix fighters and folding prisms jumped out from the fluctuating invisible force field layer by layer, and a large number of aircraft carrier-based aircraft groups poured out of the hatch like an angry swarm of bees.

Although it was only an advance fleet, its firepower was comparable to that of the Empire's main fleet.

This is the greatest fleet in the history of the Protoss. No one can withstand the full force of the furious attack of the First Son of God. Wherever the Golden Fleet goes, it is invincible.

The Golden Fleet is the hope of the First Son of God to regain the glory of the Protoss, and only hopes to live up to the glory of the deceased sages, but in the end, it is counterproductive. The Golden Fleet, which has been corrupted by Amon, is now given only one mission, which is to purify everything with flames.

The current Golden Fleet is like a slug winding through the Milky Way, leaving countless dead planets that have been reduced to scorched earth along the way. This fleet is so powerful that it doesn't even have to worry about its flanks and tail.

Prior knew that there was no possibility of negotiation and communication between them and the Protoss commander of the Golden Fleet. All calls from humans fell on deaf ears, and every communication request was only exchanged for the Protoss's attack filled with raging anger.

He couldn't confirm that the commander of the Golden Fleet would be corrupted by the corrupted Kara, which would affect his judgment, or that the command level of the fleet had long ceased to exist and the Dark God Amon took over everything.

If that were the case, the enemy might make a mistake.

The moment the Golden Fleet's advance fleet appeared in Torenes, both sides observed the enemy fleet at the same time, and chose to deploy in attack formation and open fire at the same time.

Even though the Imperial Fleet was well prepared, the Protoss Fleet still launched an attack before them.

Once in contact, the Purity of Form, the flagship of the Void Light Ship at the forefront of the Protoss Fleet, opened its golden and silver blade-shaped fluid force field projector, like an open pod. The brilliant blue prism that immediately burst out focused on the bow, projected with a majestic momentum that penetrated the stars, and bathed her magnificent ship body that was more than 2,000 feet long.

The shining prism rays were just a thin blue silk thread against the dark background of the universe, but in front of the human warships that were the first to bear the brunt, they were giant light columns filled with the breath of destruction. No captain dared to let his warship be placed under it with confidence and boldness.

The Imperial battleship Amphitrite immediately turned its bow, and the prismatic beam passed through the bottom of her hull and between the Jupiter, bombarding the shaky matrix shield force field of the Meleager in a terrible flash. The nearby Iron Ravens and Viking fighters immediately scattered like a flock of frightened birds.

The captain of the Patroclus immediately ordered the main gun turret to return fire, and the compressed nuclear explosion hit the Void Glow Ship Pure State like a star that was shrunk countless times, creating a dazzling huge spot of light on the raised plasma shield field of the ship.

The Yamato cannon ion beam from another Imperial battleship Aeneas followed closely, and this attack was completed in one fell swoop, directly penetrating the shield of the Pure State and causing fatal damage to its bow.

The explosion that penetrated the bridge extended to the traffic tower bridge and crystal matrix array behind, forming a tragic death space. Its gorgeous bow was almost completely destroyed, and the shining blue psychic flames continued to pour out from the huge gap that could accommodate a medical transport ship, which was both spectacular and terrifying.

Even so, the main body of the Pure State was still intact, and most of the hull and crew were not affected, but it had obviously lost the ability to continue fighting.

This failed to scare the Protoss and force them to retreat. Such a loss could not even cause a sad sob in Kara, who was filled with hatred and anger.

The severely damaged Void Light Ship was kicked aside mercilessly by her friendly ships. Hundreds of Protoss reconnaissance planes accelerated away from their own fleet like diving falcons, quickly closing the distance with the Imperial fleet. A large number of antimatter missiles were ejected, like rapidly enlarged light spots, heading straight for eleven Imperial battlecruisers including the Prior flagship Flashpoint Operation.

At the same time, many Void Light Ships that had left the mothership's cloaking force field also opened fire together. The dozens of huge energy beams were far beyond the visual range, like bright blue laser cutting guns, enough to cut off any small celestial body or warship.

The Imperial warships also opened fire, and the space between the two fleets was immediately covered by overlapping energy beams, accompanied by a large number of explosions and flashes.

Vice Admiral Pryor's Tyranid Empire Fleet continued to sail towards the Protoss Fleet in front while firing. Their warships were inferior to the Protoss battleships in terms of speed, weapon range and power. If the Protoss Fleet chose to fight and retreat with the advantage of speed and range, then the Imperial Fleet would be out of reach, so they had to close the distance.

But the Protoss fleet made the same choice as the human fleet. They did not slow down, but plunged into the dense parallel laser gun fire network of the Imperial warships. If the Protoss wanted to launch a boarding battle through the warp offensive, it would be unusual.

In other words, the decision of this Protoss fleet was against common sense from the beginning. Obviously, the Imperial fleet of Torenes had set up an ambush on the way that the Golden Fleet had to pass and had been waiting for a long time. Without knowing the situation in the star field, the Protoss fleet rushed out rashly, just like a mad bull just destroying all obstacles on the road.

As a result, the two fleets quickly closed the distance after the battle began. The distance between the leading warships of both sides was so close that the light produced by the explosion of weapons often appeared very close to the warships.

All the Protoss and human fleets that had already engaged the enemy no longer cared about ammunition, and terrible explosions occurred from time to time.

At this moment, from the perspective of the entire battlefield, the two sides fought fiercely from the beginning, and many warships were fired upon and suffered heavy blows. The forty-odd warships of the leading force of the Terran Empire Fleet had slowed down significantly at this time, and were fighting with the Protoss Fleet.

Judging from the formation, the Imperial Fleet and the Golden Fleet were both using their sharpest spearheads to hit the front of the other side. Once they broke through the center, the enemy would be defeated.

However, the remaining nearly one hundred battleships of the Empire and all the remaining more than three hundred Valkyrie frigates did not slow down, but continued to accelerate and drove from the rear to the two wings respectively, and a fierce giant clamp was taking shape.

On the other hand, the Protoss Fleet invested all its warships in the front, hitting the more than forty warships led by Prior, and was determined to win this struggle.

Even though most of them were ancient technologies, the ion thrusters and gravity thrusters of the Protoss warships and fighters were much faster than the clumsy battlecruisers of humans. This should be a big advantage, but the problem is that they rushed too fast and too far without the restraint of the commander, but did not realize that they should cover each other's flanks.

If Prior was the commander of this fleet, he would be furious at the stupidity of his subordinates.

Although the rulers of the Protoss Empire are stubborn and stupid, the executive officers of the Templar class are all excellent generals, and they will not make such mistakes.

The reconnaissance planes and Phoenix fighters ran too fast, so they actually dragged the main battleships behind. These Void Rays were produced earlier and were not equipped with melt flow rotors that could increase speed.

By the middle of the battle, they were actually separated by the dispatched Imperial battleship clusters or Viking fighters, and it was difficult to form a stable front of mutual assistance.

In this way, the Protoss fleet fell into the crossfire of the front and left and right wings, and the Imperial battleships that went straight into the center made them unable to take care of the head and tail, like a big snake cut in the middle.

The situation on the battlefield gradually changed in favor of the Imperial fleet. They surrounded the isolated Protoss battleships and dealt them heavy damage.

Under such circumstances, the commander of the Protoss fleet did not take any remedial measures, allowing the unfavorable situation to get worse and worse, falling into an absolute passive position and letting the enemy take advantage. The Imperial Fleet divided the entire battlefield into many parts, and concentrated superior forces in several areas at the cost of the loss of some warships, severely damaging the Protoss warships or making them lose their mobility.

In contrast, each Protoss warship fought on its own, and it was more like a beast fighting in a trapped beast than a warship driven by a highly intelligent race.

The Imperial Fleet fought decisively and resolutely. The Protoss Fleet could have saved a considerable number of warships and retreated, because their motherships were very powerful, and the Imperial warships that detoured to the rear could not prevent these Protoss ships from jumping away.

But surprisingly, these Protoss warships decided to fight to the last moment, regardless of the cost and damage, as long as they could cause losses to the Imperial Fleet.

At this time, Prior, who confirmed that most of the enemy fleet had been destroyed, ordered a retreat, and did not waste precious troops on pursuing the victory. The Imperial warships that could keep up with the fleet did their best to keep up, while the rest chose to blow up and sink, and transfer the survivors to other warships.

In the fourth standard after the battle broke out, all Imperial warships evacuated Torrenis, leaving a large area of ​​warship wreckage in the galaxy. In this newly formed starship graveyard, the number of Protoss warships far exceeded that of Imperial warships.

After a while, the Imperial fleet gathered at the point.

This is a binary star system, consisting of a red giant star that is constantly ejecting energy and debris and a sub-giant star that has entered its twilight years, and is about to be destroyed in a few million years. The gathering point is located between a stable Lagrange point in the system, and the deceleration traces left by many warships after the jump can be observed near it, which is still very eye-catching against the turbulent radiation background.

In the universe, such systems composed of multiple stars are actually quite common, and single-star systems like the Earth are really rare.

There is no life in this galaxy, so it is not within the attack range of the Golden Fleet. From experience, it is safe, but of course not absolute.

On the flagship Flashpoint, Prior was busy asking his officers to count the losses. As for the enemy's losses, there was no way or need to count them, as their losses were at least ten times greater than his own.

Such a victory is certainly not enough to weaken the power of the Golden Fleet and make them stop, but Prior believes that this will force Amon to focus his main energy on the battlefield here, so that the main fleet of the Empire can enter the Aiel battlefield more smoothly.

After a few more such attacks, the Golden Fleet is likely to send more fleets to sweep the surrounding star systems and search for Prior's Imperial Fleet. If you think about it carefully, the cat-and-mouse game is not bad.

What Prior is most worried about right now is one of the battleships, the Aloraya, which was unfortunately hit by the main gun of the enemy mothership. The huge explosion at the stern of the ship once affected the engine room, causing the battleship to stop. It was the engineer on the ship who miraculously made it keep up with the fleet's jump.

But even so, the Aloraya is still in a very bad state, and Prior may have to abandon her.

The Empire lost twelve battlecruisers in this battle, and more than 30,000 Imperial soldiers were killed or missing, which is within Prior's expected tolerance.

Among the famous generals of the empire, Prior was cold-blooded and ruthless. He believed that as a commander, he should realize that casualties on the battlefield were inevitable. Sometimes they might suffer heavy losses, but if they retreated while still being able to meet the pre-tactical requirements, all the sacrifices would be in vain.

Of course, this still made Prior very sad. The fleet was different from the army. The latter would be streamlined in peacetime, leaving only skeleton officers and elite standing troops, and then expanded in wartime, while the navy needed to be prepared for war all year round, because excellent naval soldiers could not be trained in a few weeks. Each warship required a large number of personnel to ensure combat effectiveness, but it could not be increased too much after the outbreak of war.

There were always people in the Naval Operations Department who criticized Prior's combat methods for being too bold and reckless, and for treating the emperor's fleet as a real chip on the gambling table like a gambler, and then pointing fingers at him. That's fine, sometimes even Duke would come to join in the fun.

Their rusty brains never understood that following the past experience and following the rules to deploy troops would not work against the Protoss and Zerg, and even the Kemorian pirates' fighting style was much more imaginative than some of the Imperial Navy commanders.

Some naval commanders not only commanded in a rigid manner, but also formulated the orders to the troops in too much detail, and clearly wrote down all the possible situations and responses on the battlefield, as if it was a game strategy.

The battlefield is not a sandbox, it is really huge, it can easily accommodate tens of thousands of planets, everything is fluid, and those who think they can remotely control the battlefield from a remote terminal think that fighting is too simple.

They may have made an obvious mistake, this world is not a game world.

Prior thought that the secret of winning a war lies in gathering more troops than the enemy in time and space, and exchanging the greatest results for the smallest cost, so it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of fleet mobility

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Fortunately, the emperor trusted him and boldly handed over the troops to him, and didn't want to listen to any rumors.

This feeling... is great.

"General, someone is contacting us." Prior's adjutant Senfa reported to him at this time:

"It's a Leviathan."

"It's actually here, and even I don't know the exact location of the Cerberus swarm." Prior said to Senfa: "See what it has to say."

Currently, there is only one Zerg leader in the friendly camp. When there is no tiger in the mountain, the monkey will be the king. Emperor Augustus also gave this guy the title of Imperial Zerg Marshal. Anyway, it can't control even a human.

"My swarm noticed the battle just now." A child-like shrill voice came from behind the screen, but there was no picture: "At that time, I guessed it might be you."

"You may not know that I happened to be on the left wing of the Golden Fleet at that time. They sent a thousand warships to chase me, but they didn't even touch the tail."

"So, I'm lucky." Prior really thought so in his heart. With the participation of the Cerberus swarm that obeys the Empire, his soldiers can get rid of the war of attrition and implement bolder tactics.

In this case, Prior planned to go around to the rear of the Golden Fleet and make the Protoss run for their lives.

He didn't know if his fleet would turn around and destroy the destroyed cities behind the Golden Fleet if they set up bases behind them. This seemed like a bug.

According to speculation, what Amon wanted to do was to destroy all life in the universe, leaving no living creature, but how could he be sure that there would be no fish that slipped through the net.

"The two of us are too strong." The brainworm said.

"Without you to attract firepower, we will never win anyway." Prior said: "Marshal α, maybe we can join forces."

No one can tell what kind of existence such a weird creature is. It seems to speak in the way of human thinking, but the way of thinking may not be in the same logic at all.

A monster that imitates humans will only feel creepy and cold hands and feet when you react.

α also has a brainworm under his command, which is a small brainworm produced by the second generation of the master. Whether it is psychic power, wisdom or control over the tribe, it is not as good as the old brainworm.

By now, α has trained the brainworm, which is called β in the official documents of the empire, very well.

"Tell me about it." A crisp chewing sound came from the other side.

This is not a fragment, the perspective will change below (.Don't criticize me)