Clash

Upon waking up, Yue Yuan received a notification from the Strong Artificial Intelligence, stating that the Interstellar Transaction Market's fleet had arrived in the nearby star system and would likely enter the effective range of the laser Energy Weapon in about two hours.

Without delay, upon hearing the news, Yue Yuan immediately cleaned up his room and then took the elevator to leave the rotating living area and arrive at the Command Center of the Lyra.

After Yue Yuan returned, the personnel from various fields who had gone back to rest arrived one after another. The helmsman, Fire Control Officer, Intelligence Officer, communications officer, Science Officer, First Mate, Second Mate, and everyone else arrived and, without needing to be notified by anyone, went to their respective seats and secured themselves.

The war is about to begin. Once the Lyra enters combat mode, it will inevitably undergo many super accelerations, decelerations, and full rudder maneuvers, so it is important to keep itself in its proper position to avoid being thrown against the bulkhead.

The Lyra is now a creation of Level 3 Civilization. Compared to the Lyra of the past, it has not only improved in terms of power, firepower, defense, and shields, but has also undergone a major upgrade in terms of interior, Ergonomics equipment, life support equipment, and high-G acceleration buffer devices.

Take each person's seat as an example.

In normal circumstances, the seat is just a seat. However, once war breaks out, the area around the seat will undergo mechanical changes according to a specific procedure, transforming it into a one-way transparent, enclosed, individual room.

It has complete life support facilities inside, so you can eat, drink, and relieve yourself all in one place.

Of course, in combat mode, they don't eat normally; instead, they receive Nutrient Solution. There are two modes of this Nutrient Solution: one is an immersion method, where the solution is mixed with Acceleration Buffer Fluid, but this mode is rarely used now due to humans' powerful Overclock Mode capabilities. The other is a direct drinking method; when hungry, the Brain Chip sends a command to the system, and Mechanical Arm delivers the Nutrient Solution, which then swells up in just three seconds to replenish nutrients.

Actually, an injection method was also designed, but it was eliminated due to the Overclock Mode.

As for the excretion issue, the existing pipe connection will be used to ensure that there will be no embarrassing situation due to the need to relieve oneself during combat.

It can be said that, at present, there is almost only one factor that limits an individual's ability to fight for a long time: sleep.

Humans cannot fight without rest like machines. Scientists have tried to solve this problem from a biological perspective, but the root cause of the energy replenishment mechanism through sleep is still largely unknown.

Therefore, in a protracted war, humanity's Lyra can typically only operate at high intensity for a few days continuously before withdrawing from the war to allow humanity sufficient rest before resuming the fight. Of course, if the situation is favorable, command can be temporarily handed over to Strong Artificial Intelligence, allowing it to take over the command of the battle until humanity awakens.

In any case, under normal circumstances, the Lyra, as the command ship, would be in the middle of a large group of Unmanned Warship, and the enemy would not be able to break through the defense line in one go, so the problem is not too big.

Everything was ready, and the two warships were about to clash.

At this moment, the crew of the Lyra saw from the images transmitted back by the probe that the fleet of the Interstellar Transaction Market had actually split into two. One part was heading towards the orbit of the Twelfth Planet where the Lyra warship cluster was located, while the other part was heading towards the fleet of the Planet Thirteen.

This move was so confusing that even Yue Yuan, who had prepared to notify the North Sea Fleet to come to the rescue, was somewhat taken aback.

Logically, given their numerical advantage, shouldn't the best course of action for the Interstellar Transaction Market be to concentrate their superior fleet numbers and crush one of the human fleets? Why did they split themselves into two fleets? Could it be that they didn't receive news that their sub-fleet had been destroyed by the human Third Fleet and the Donghai (East Sea) Warship Fleet?

This is a bit unusual. If it's not a conspiracy, then the art of war in the Interstellar Transaction Market is just not very good.

But are aliens really that stupid? After a moment of contemplation, Yue Yuan, the Commander-in-Chief, decided to proceed with the original plan and ordered the North Sea Fleet to launch a preemptive attack on the Interstellar Transaction Market fleet from the orbit of the Planet Thirteen.

Although the Interstellar Transaction Market fleet is now divided into two, Yue Yuan doesn't need to say anything. The North Sea will intercept the sub-fleet based on the actual situation, instead of foolishly plunging headlong into the Planet Thirteen.

If the main focus of the Interstellar Transaction Market is the Planet Thirteen, then the Lyra is the one doing the work for the North Sea.

In fact, according to Yue Yuan's understanding, the best target for the Interstellar Transaction Market should be the Planet Thirteen, since that is where humanity is currently developing its resources.

Could it be that this Interstellar Transaction Market has been blinded by the hatred from the previous Orbital Bombardment?

Shaking his head, before Yue Yuan could think further, the Lyra battleship fleet collided head-on with the Main Battleship of the Interstellar Transaction Market.

In the pitch-black starry sky, on one side was the Lyra warship cluster arranged in a spherical array, and on the other side was the Interstellar Transaction Market fleet that seemed to be covering everything like a net.

Three million warships thus met fourteen million warships head-on.

At a distance of twenty light-seconds, the Laser Energy Cannon at the front of the human warship array fired first, with hundreds of thousands of Laser Energy Cannon traversing the dark starry sky and rushing toward the target warship at the speed of light.

It refers to the target warship, not their respective target warships.

Because of the presence of Polarization Shield, destroying a warship with a single shot is unrealistic, especially at such a long distance. Therefore, free firing is not advisable in long-range engagements; only concentrated fire can break through the enemy warship's Polarization Shield and thus destroy it.

If hundreds of thousands of warships fire together, and a single concentrated shot can destroy a warship, it's actually a win, since it's inherently difficult to hit the target in such long-range combat.

Sure enough, a few dozen seconds later, through feedback signals, humans saw that the first salvo from the lead warships had, unsurprisingly, missed its target.

Almost simultaneously, humanity received an alert that it was under attack.

"Warning! Ship 99189 has been attacked by an enemy Energy Weapon; its Polarization Shield is about to overload."

"Polarization Shield overloaded; Polarization Shield disappeared; armor on Ship 99189 is heating up. Close-In Weapon System No. 318, 125, and 16 have been destroyed; the warship's cooling system is operating at full power."

As the alarm was broadcast, the humans could clearly see the Polarization Shield of the warship at the very front of the battleship array suddenly light up, and then shatter in less than 2 seconds. Immediately afterwards, the surface of the warship changed from a bright silver metallic color to a pale red, accompanied by incandescent light radiating outwards.

This one, this warship seemed to have become the sun in the night sky, dazzlingly bright.