Trump Card

Through data analysis, Yue Yuan discovered that most of the battle damage to the Lyra warship cluster was caused by the enemy's ultra-micro Nano Weapon. Very few warships were directly destroyed by laser Energy Weapon, accounting for only 3% of the lost warships. Conversely, most of the warships of the Interstellar Transaction Market side perished under human laser Energy Weapon.

Because Level 3 Civilization warships are much larger than Level 2 Civilization warships, their main guns are no longer limited to one or one type, but can be equipped with two or three guns while ensuring firepower.

If desired, Electromagnetic Railgun, Laser Energy Cannon, and Positron Cannon could all be implemented simultaneously. However, the existence of Magnetic Force shields makes the value of Positron Cannon as main guns extremely small. Therefore, most human warships are only equipped with Electromagnetic Railgun and Laser Energy Cannon as main guns, while Positron Cannon are used as Close-In Weapon System.

From this perspective, it's not unreasonable to define Type I, Type II, and Level 3 Civilization as Low-level Civilization or Aerospace Civilization in the universe. Especially in terms of weapon systems, there isn't much change from Level 2 Civilization to Level 3 Civilization.

Aside from having a Super Micro Nanobots warhead, the only other improvements are a larger caliber, greater power, faster rate of fire, and better accuracy.

Even the detection system is still the same Neutrino Detection as that of Level 2 Civilization, at least at the current stage of humankind.

Of course, in terms of various manufacturing processes, the Level 3 Civilization is indeed many times more powerful than the second-level civilization, and it also has a Polarization Shield, which is enough for the Level 3 Civilization to completely crush the Level 2 Civilization.

However, since humanity and this so-called Interstellar Transaction Market are both at the Level 3 Civilization, there is no situation of overwhelming superiority. The odds of victory depend on the level of understanding of the war situation and the art of war, as well as some technologies that may have a significant impact on the war.

For example, the No. 2 Alloy Material used by humans.

In this offensive, humanity achieved considerable success thanks to the strength of No. 2 Alloy Material, the Commander's keen sense of the battlefield, and the enemy's mistakes.

However, after this round of attacks, humanity is still generally at a disadvantage, at least in terms of numbers.

After breaching the Second Sub-Fleet of the Interstellar Transaction Market, the Lyra fleet was reduced to only 2.3 million ships. Meanwhile, the Interstellar Transaction Market still had approximately 10.4 million ships fighting against the Lyra.

In the battle against the Lyra fleet, they lost approximately 3.6 million warships. Looking back, the rows of cold, metallic lumps drifting in the starry sky are the best proof of that.

Such a kill ratio also set off alarm bells for the Interstellar Transaction Market, because according to this kill ratio, even if their fleet fought to the last ship, they would not be able to destroy the human fleet.

However, the Interstellar Transaction Market quickly realized the problem. Their actions after the Second Sub-Fleet was breached by humans showed that they had realized that splitting their forces was not a good idea, as it would only give humans an opportunity to exploit, just like what had just happened.

The three-part fleet regrouped and, chasing after the Lyra battleship group, accelerated again, attempting to crush humanity in one fell swoop with Great Fleet operation.

However, the experienced Yue Yuan would not let them have their way! When the probes returned to the Interstellar Transaction Market, the three squadrons reunited into one Great Fleet. Yue Yuan then ordered the Lyra battleship cluster to abandon the Twelfth Planet. The fleet did not turn around but continued to accelerate forward.

After penetrating the Second Sub-Fleet the Interstellar Transaction Market, the Lyra battleship group was now facing away from the Twelfth Planet. Turning back again would inevitably lead to a protracted battle with the enemy's Great Fleet, and the outcome would be uncertain.

The reason for continuing to accelerate forward is that the warship cluster is now heading towards the Planet Thirteen, which is the battleground between the North Sea warship cluster and another fleet from the Interstellar Transaction Market.

Yue Yuan had calculated that if the Lyra battleship group continued to accelerate, due to the advantage of being the first to move, the Interstellar Transaction Market fleet, which had just begun to accelerate, would arrive at the combat zone about four hours later than him.

The Lyra battleship group could take advantage of this time difference to launch a joint attack on the fleet located on the Planet Thirteen, in conjunction with the North Sea battleship group.

If handled properly, by the time this fleet arrives, they might be able to crush the fleet on Planet Thirteen.

The successful implementation of this tactic depends on one prerequisite: the fleet on the Planet Thirteen that is fighting the North Sea battleship group cannot split into two fleets to conduct long-range two-pronged operations that ignore communication delays.

After this period of fighting, the North Sea battleship group did not find any indication that the fleet it was fighting against had spun off from its own fleet.

Thus, it can be roughly determined that the Interstellar Transaction Market does indeed have a Strong Artificial Intelligence, and its current location is in the fleet that is fighting against the North Sea warship group.

Once this fleet is defeated, the remaining fleet that seems to be relentlessly pursuing them will be rendered ineffective, and humanity will have withstood this wave of attacks.

If humanity can withstand this wave of attacks, their Second Fleet and third fleets will arrive soon. At that point, humanity will have an additional ten million warships, and their numerical advantage will be gone, reversing the tide of Interstellar Transaction Market battle.

At that point, the roles of offense and defense will be reversed.

This is humanity's trump card. The Lyra and North Sea battleship groups don't actually need to win quickly. As long as they hold out until the Second and Third Fleet arrive, it will be considered a victory.

Victory is truly in sight!

Following Yue Yuan's tactics, the Lyra fleet quickly increased its speed to fifty percent of the speed of light. At such a high speed, traversing the Void between the two planets would take less than half an hour, even including the deceleration time required for arrival.

Yes, slow down.

The battle between the North Sea warship group and another Interstellar Transaction Market fleet has now reached a fever pitch, with spaceship debris and wreckage scattered everywhere on the battlefield.

If the battlefield were to be penetrated at 50% of the speed of light, these debris and wreckage would turn into kinetic bullets. Even the powerful Alloy No. 2 armor would not be able to withstand such frequent impacts.

Therefore, to slow down, the fleet will reduce its speed to about 10% of the speed of light. This is relative to the speed of the enemy fleet on the battlefield, not relative to the speed of the Main Sequence Star in this Star System.

Speed in space is always relative, because there is no frame of reference, so talking about speed is meaningless. In this environment, no matter how fast you go, you can't actually perceive or detect your own speed; it's not impossible to say you're stationary.