Chapter 125 Proton Annihilation Bomb

When Isabel's elf friend arrived as scheduled in a top-level armed cruise ship, the fleet battle between the Federation and the Empire near Robert IV was basically decided.

The entry of the Sorrow Fortress was like putting the heaviest weight on the scale symbolizing victory or defeat for the Imperial Fleet.

Although the 13th and 14th fleets are not the most elite ace fleets of the Federation Navy, their comprehensive combat capabilities are by no means bad, and they have no problem competing with the same-level fleets of the Empire in terms of hardware.

But unfortunately, the two fleets encountered an artificial celestial fortress this time.

This strategic-level unit, which can no longer be simply measured by cost, was designed to achieve the purpose of suppressing or even annihilating multiple fleets with a single fortress since its birth.

In the Imperial Defense Advanced Research Project Institute, the project leader of the Wall of Sighs project envisioned.

An artificial celestial fortress is a type of fortress that can be deployed in a warring galaxy for a long time, taking into account strategic long-range strikes, wide-area battlefield surveillance, ship repair and replenishment, and serving as a strategic offensive and defensive support point.

When the number of such strategic fortresses is accumulated, the overall military strategy of the Star Dragon Empire will change to a certain extent.

Whether it is attacking or defending, fighting against foreign enemies or suppressing internal strife, or even conducting deep space exploration in areas outside human territory.

The first thing decision makers have to do is-'I will put an artificial celestial fortress here first'.

According to the project leader, this is called 'testing the waters'.

First jump an artificial celestial fortress over, and then decide on subsequent actions based on the actual situation.

And in his opinion, with the current technological level of humans and elves, it is extremely difficult to destroy a fortress in a short period of time.

So it is completely possible to boldly and radically arrange these strategic fortresses.

To a certain extent, his conclusion is not a big problem.

The only 'small problem' is that he is a little too optimistic about the construction cost and construction period of the artificial celestial fortress.

In the initial stage of the Wall of Sighs plan, the plan at that time was to allow the empire to have 10 first-generation fortresses and 5 improved second-generation fortresses within 20 years.

As a result, 25 years have passed, and the empire has only received 5 first-generation fortresses.

Just like all the huge cross-era plans, there are problems encountered during the implementation process.

The artificial celestial fortress, which uses a lot of new technologies, will encounter new problems every day after the formal construction begins.

In addition, many new technologies and new materials are "built and tested" during the construction of the fortress.

The progress of the entire project has been greatly delayed.

But no matter what, the effect of the first actual combat of the Empire's artificial celestial fortress is still full.

It can be said that it opened the eyes of the federal joint fleet present.

The central fleet was shot by a focused rainbow and 90% of it was blown up, and the commander of the task force, Brigadier General Duwell, who survived before, was also killed on the spot.

However, even in the face of such a situation of sky-shattering at the beginning, Lieutenant General Guterres still decided to organize a wave of attacks.

Although this huge fortress did shock him.

But as the commander of a fleet, he still couldn't run away without firing a shot in the face of the enemy's new units.

Even if he couldn't win, at least he had to collect more information and provide it to the decision-making organs in the rear, so that they could think about how to deal with it.

So after the remaining left and right wing fleets joined, Guterres adopted a tactic that was very familiar to Marquis Ascania.

The huge fleet formed a huge spindle and then rushed towards the left wing of the Imperial Fleet at high speed.

"My Lord, the Federation Fleet may detach at high speed after the intersection and then jump out."

In the combat command center of the Sorrowful Fortress, Marquis Ascania turned his head and whispered to Duke Duke.

"What? Have you suffered from this tactic?"

"Not really, sir."

Marquis Ascania was a little embarrassed, but he still briefly described the situation when the Eighth Expeditionary Strike Group first encountered the Federation Fleet.

"Well, it seems that these commanders of the Federation Fleet seem to be a bit academically rigid."

Duke Duke thought for a moment, and then issued a new order:

"In that case, solve the track of the Federation Fleet and prepare for the second irradiation of the Focusing Rainbow!"

The huge Sorrowful Fortress began to adjust its axis under the work of a large number of attitude control engines.

While Lieutenant General Guterres led the fleet to attack at high speed, he also collected some characteristics of this artificial celestial fortress during the continuous attack of the fleet.

First of all, the deflection field generator of this thing should be the most powerful one in history.

Conventional warship heavy particle cannon shooting can be completely ignored by it.

Based on the power roughly calculated by the shipboard control personality, Guterres estimated that it might take 3 to 4 full-strength attack fleets to cause the deflection field generator to overload.

Secondly, this artificial celestial fortress can carry out emergency repairs on damaged warships retreating to the rear.

According to the images captured by the optical sensor, the fortress released dense autonomous engineering maintenance robots.

These swarm-like robots, carrying equipment such as foamed metal and inert gas compression tanks for emergency treatment, assisted the damaged ships in emergency damage control.

With their assistance, the damaged warships were roughly repaired at an unprecedented speed and then returned to battle.

However, Guterres ultimately collected only this information.

Because the Fortress's Focusing Iris fired again.

This time, in order to attack before the federal fleet left, the Focusing Iris only illuminated at half power.

But even so, it easily swept away the tail of the 'spindle' of the federal fleet.

In this case, Guterres did not hesitate to make a jump with the fleet that had reached the speed requirement.

When the fleet escaped from the jump from the emergency decommissioning coordinate No. 12, Guterres immediately ordered the fleet to maneuver quickly, and then blocked the Robert II on the connection between the fleet and the fortress.

Although the empire's man-made celestial fortress has not yet demonstrated the ability to strike at ultra-long distances, with the current power of the Focusing Rainbow, Guterres believes that this thing can definitely threaten his fleet.

So to be on the safe side, he used Robert II as a shield in front of the fleet.

"No matter how powerful it is, it won't be able to penetrate the planet, right?"

While Guterres was thinking this, he immediately used his identity authority to unlock the last encrypted message left by Marshal Trafalgar.

Although before departure, Lieutenant General Guterres did not know what the old marshal meant when he said that "the war has become so tense that it may be irreversible."

But now he knew it couldn't get any worse.

The encrypted file was opened quickly, and Guterres just glanced at it and closed the file.

"I must have opened it the wrong way."

Ten minutes later, in the battle conference room of the Destiny.

"You mean, the Marshal asked you to use proton annihilation bombs to attack Robert IV?"

Griezmann, sitting opposite Lieutenant General Guterres, had a look of disbelief on his face.

"Yes, the document is clearly written, and the authorization command code for the proton annihilation bomb of the Thirteenth Fleet is also attached."

Guterres pinched his eyebrows with his hands. He never thought that this first battle would lead to this situation.

"According to the old marshal's request, if we are sure that we cannot fight against the Empire's invasion fleet and prevent the Empire from occupying the Robert system, we will launch proton annihilation bombs at Robert IV."

"Lieutenant General, you need to think clearly."

Griezmann said with a serious expression:

"If you issue an attack order, everything will be irreversible. You may be reviled by the people, and even politicians who are worried about finding a target will open fire on you."

"No, no, no, you made a mistake. I was not the one who pulled the trigger."

Guterres stared into Griezmann's eyes and shook his finger.

"Marshal Trafalgar is the one, I'm just the trigger."