Faced with the sudden ambush, the joint forces of the Horsehead Civilization Alliance in the Sagittarius Arm had clearly been psychologically unprepared.
In an instant, they were thrown into complete disarray and routed.
Fighting on two fronts, it took less than three hours in total to eliminate the enemies on both sides.
Thus, these invaders, who had claimed that six billion combat units would steamroll Orion Arm Tenth District and had even eyed Ninth District greedily in an attempt to occupy it—
could not exactly be said to have been completely wiped out; it could only be said that none survived.
His subordinates were taking stock of the battle losses and the number of captured warships.
Meanwhile, Li Chen began studying the operational plan for the next step.
Wars between civilizations were like this.
When facing an opponent with a massive technological gap, the weaker side would perish faster than anyone could imagine.
Under systematic warfare, for one nation to defeat another that appeared immensely powerful, with vast forces and a torrent of steel—
often took only a very short time.
Li Chen had already witnessed this back on the original Earth.
Now, Earth Civilization possessed two powerful technological means. The first was Nanotechnology.
The Nano Special Warriors had repeatedly achieved extraordinary feats; there was no need to say more about that.
And now, the Energy Hearts were becoming increasingly useful.
They were far more formidable than the Nano Special Warriors.
As long as their energy storage limits had not been reached, and as long as there were enough Energy Hearts—
whether it was a planet or a star, a black hole or a Star Destroyer Mothership—
regardless of where the enemy came from or which civilization they belonged to—
as long as you had energy, you were a target