Stalemate Phase

In war, anyone can be sacrificed. If the Lyra is destroyed, Yue Yuan will die too. He said this only as a prayer in his heart. As a long-time comrade-in-arms, he naturally did not want Man Yuemei to die.

Therefore, upon learning the news, he immediately mobilized all available resources to provide support. Of course, this support was ultimately for the sake of the overall situation; the destruction of the Second Fleet was crucial to the outcome of the entire battle and would affect the fate of Human Civilization.

Therefore, whether it is Man Yuemei or Yue Yuan's own life or death, they are minor matters, as long as humanity can ultimately achieve victory.

After issuing the orders, Yue Yuan and the crew of the Lyra once again joined the effort to annihilate the remaining Interstellar Transaction Market fleet. Following the handover of command, the Lyra fleet swelled to over 2.3 million ships, and a devastating annihilation battle then unfolded across the cosmos.

This was a resounding and exhilarating battle of annihilation, in which the human fleet suffered relatively few casualties. This is where the difference between Strong Artificial Intelligence and mere programs becomes apparent.

In the annihilation battle, it can be seen that the coordination between almost every human warship formation is very tacit. What is often thought to be a salvo that has no enemy ships in sight will actually hit the warship that suddenly turns just as the salvo arrives.

It was as if the warship itself had run over and taken the laser energy beam in its face.

This seemingly random salvo of laser energy bottles is actually calculated based on parameters such as the strike range of the previous or previous rounds of Electromagnetic Railgun and the possible surroundings of enemy ships.

Simply put, it involves blocking movement, predicting movement, and making good use of the speed difference between the two main guns to coordinate effectively. It is very complex, but for Strong Artificial Intelligence, it is a simple calculation.

As the saying goes, even if you had 100,000 pigs, it would take half a year to slaughter them.

The same applies to the Lyra fleet's attacks on the Interstellar Transaction Market's warships that had lost core control; therefore, for some time to come, this part of space will remain in war.

While the annihilation battle was in full swing, another battlefield entered a turning point in the war.

The support from the South Sea warship has arrived.

Having received the support notification long ago, the Second Fleet quickly allocated nearly half of its warships, or 1.5 million warships, to its command the moment the South Sea arrived at the battlefield.

The reason why the human Third Fleet was at a disadvantage was that the fleet could not be divided into two fleets to deal with the enemy fleet attacking from two directions. Now that the South Sea Fleet has joined, this situation has been immediately alleviated.

The warships that were previously unable to stray too far from the Third Fleet flagship, the Han Hai, due to distance and control delays, immediately converged on the South Sea, forming a new warship cluster before the enemy Commander could react.

In fact, the Commander of this pirate-style fleet wasn't unaware of what was happening; rather, he didn't realize that the mere 100,000 warships that came to support the battlefield actually contained a Strong Artificial Intelligence control center, and that the handover of command between humans on the battlefield was so effortless.

He didn't expect it, and therefore missed the opportunity to block the South Sea from entering the battlefield.

By the time he realized it, it was too late. The South Sea warship group had already formed up and was now leading more than a million warships to fight against the squadron he had previously sent out.

Looking at the battlefield where Electromagnetic Cannon fired incessantly and Laser Energy Cannon beams crisscrossed, the Commander knew that his strategy of Strike at the Yellow Dragon at the heart of the enemy's flagship had failed.

The Commander didn't get carried away. He looked at the distribution of the two sides' warships on the star map for a while, and then said, "Notify the squadron to withdraw from the battlefield, rendezvous here, and then head to the Aboer Planet Base!"

"Commander, are we just going to retreat like this?"

"Hmm!" the Commander said calmly, "It's because our intelligence was insufficient. We didn't expect that this Earth civilization actually has more than two Strong Artificial Intelligence. I really don't know how they did it."

"Given the current situation, even if our fleet manages to destroy that flagship of this Earth civilization with all its might, their fleet won't lose control. And we can't make their fleet lose control; you've seen the formidable fighting power of their warships. I don't want to admit it, but I have to, we cannot defeat them."

The Commander of the pirate-style fleet spoke with a sense of helplessness. If his fleet had a few million more warships, he might have been able to destroy the fleet before the Strong Artificial Intelligence arrived to provide support.

The main reason was that he hadn't expected this so-called Earth civilization fleet to have such formidable combat power. When he received the message from the Main Civilization fleet, he was somewhat skeptical.

Now that the facts are before him, he has no choice but to believe it.

After losing over two hundred thousand warships, this pirate-style fleet successfully escaped the battlefield. The Second Fleet of Humanity did not pursue them, but merely launched some probes in the direction they left to locate their trail.

Then, dragging its tattered hull, the Han Hai, along with the remaining million-plus warships and the million-plus warships assigned to the North Sea, made a turn in the starry sky and headed toward the Planet Thirteen.

In this round of conflict, the human Second Fleet suffered nearly half its losses, fortunately, the flagship was not destroyed. The pirate-style fleet suffered almost twice the losses of the human fleet. Despite being on the defensive, the human warships still managed to achieve a 1:2 kill ratio.

At this rate of attrition, the ultimate victory will inevitably belong to the human Second Fleet, which is the main reason for the retreat of the pirate-style fleet.

The reason why the Second Fleet did not pursue was entirely due to the severe damage to fuel and the flagship.

At almost the same time, humanity's Third Fleet ended its bombing of the First Planet Base of the Interstellar Transaction Market and began its return journey.

Like the First Fleet, they also needed resupply. Although they could continue fighting for a while, they couldn't fight until they were truly out of fuel, and in order to prevent the Interstellar Transaction Market from launching another attack on the Planet Thirteen, the Second and Third Fleet also had to return.

Upon their return, the Third Fleet also brought intelligence about the Interstellar Transaction Market planetary base.

Besides the First Planet Base, which was successfully attacked and destroyed by the Third Fleet, the Interstellar Transaction Market side still has six planetary bases.

The six planetary bases have different focuses. The first, second, and sixth bases have the capability to build Sea-Class Warship, while the third, fourth, and Fifth Base focus on residential and scientific research as well as the storage of various supplies.

Yes, this naming method using numbers is actually a way for humans to name each other's bases for convenience. In the Interstellar Transaction Market, these bases all have their own names. For example, the Aboer Planet Base that the pirate-style fleet was going to was actually the Sixth Planet base.

It is located on the Ninth Orbit Planet in this galaxy.

This star system has a total of thirteen planets. The innermost one is a solid planet, which is also the location of the First Planet Base of the Interstellar Transaction Market. The second and third orbits contain two Gaseous Planet.

Its third, fourth, and Fifth Planet bases are all located on the moons of the Second Orbital Gaseous Planet. The two solid planets beyond that are for resource development, followed by the Second Planet base, which has shipbuilding capabilities.

Then there was another Gaseous Planet, followed by the eighth orbital planet, a solid planet used for resource extraction.