According to Old Li's calculations, the supply of Silo Liquor laced with addictive substances will run out in the next few days. The original plan was to have the antidote for the addictive substances appear on Wind Star in the short term. However, the situation has changed. Now, the conflict between these clan leaders and the new leader is being used to create internal strife. Therefore, the limited quantity of medicine has reached all the clan leaders through various means. However, ordinary people will not receive the medicine; they will be trapped in the addictive substances' hellhole.
Sure enough, within just three days, large-scale turmoil began to occur on Wind Star. First, more than 80% of the people suffered greatly from not being able to obtain new Silo Liquor. The effects of the addictive substances had reached their expected level, and the Wind Star People were completely defeated. They lay sprawled on the surface of various planets, rolling around, screaming, roaring, and cursing. Many more Wind Star People could not bear the pain and chose to end their own lives.
Nearly a hundred clan leaders of Wind Star have obtained the antidote, but there is just enough for the clan leaders and their guards, not enough for every Wind Star People.
The source of all this was the Minister of Industry. The clan chiefs received information that the Minister of Industry was colluding with the alien puppets to assassinate the leader and attempt to control the Wind Star and usurp the throne. The enraged clan chiefs immediately united. Although each clan chief's guard was small, consisting of only ten or twenty thousand warships, the combined fleets of the more than one hundred clan chiefs amounted to two million ships.
Meanwhile, the 40 million Wind Star still remaining in the Wind Star territory also received news from the Minister of Industry and the high-ranking officials under his control: the alien race had invaded, the leader had betrayed his own civilization, and for the sake of civilization, he had executed the leader. All the ministers and the leader's personal guards could testify to this. Moreover, the alien race had incited the clan leaders to come to the leader's building, preparing to take control of Wind Star.
The Minister of Industry is exploiting the fleet's inability to maintain contact with others to create public opinion. If the fleet could maintain constant contact with the planet, Old Li's projection on the planet would have been synchronized with the fleet long ago. Currently, the fleet does not have enough information, and in addition, the fleet has its own discipline. They must obey the leader's command, regardless of who the leader is. This is the most basic discipline of the fleet.
However, although the fleet could not contact the planet, its size was simply too large, especially within the territory of the civilization, making information isolation impossible. Several clan chiefs had personally piloted small ships into the fleet to explain the situation. Many of the mid-level commanders of these fleets were also elites from their respective clans, and they did not doubt their clan chiefs.
This led to the patriarchal fleet continuously approaching the Head of State Star, while the Progenitor's fleet retreated step by step. Neither side fired, but tensions were high, and the situation was extremely tense. It wasn't until the patriarchal fleet reached near the planet's orbit that the Progenitor's fleet stopped yielding, and the two sides remained deadlocked.
Inside the defensive perimeter, Hu Yu's fleet was still struggling to break through. The danger in front was gone, and only the pursuers behind remained. The pressure instantly decreased significantly. At least 25 million warships had broken through the blockade of the Wind Star warships and entered the passage. The number of warships guarding the passage entrance was heartbreaking. In just three or four days, more than ten million Wind Master had been destroyed by antimatter bombs and gravity bombs.
The situation in the passage was not optimistic either. Hu Yu had underestimated the power of these space-based artillery emplacements and interstellar mines. Some of the space-based artillery emplacements could fire lasers with diameters of tens of meters. Because the fleet could not activate force field protection while in warp drive, it could only let these laser cannons strike the hull of the Wind Master. If it were just one laser beam, it would be fine, as the Wind Master's armor, which was a hundred meters thick, would not be burned through by these high-energy lasers. However, the closer they got to the interior of the Wind Star territory, the more defensive weapons there were. By the last 100 astronomical units, the laser weapons had become so numerous that they intertwined to form an impenetrable net.
The Wind Master have lost over five million ships in the previous attack. As expected of Planetary-Level Civilization has been operating for over 50,000 years, this defense system alone is enough to withstand attacks from tens of millions of warships of the same level.
Hu Yu could only continue ordering the fleet to maintain high-speed warp drive, completely disregarding the fact that the number of warships lost was already exceeding 100,000 per second. If they stopped to clear out these defensive weapons before advancing, it would probably be too late, because the Wind Master at the passage entrance could no longer stop the Wind Star Fleet's attack. Moreover, the Wind Star Fleet had already discovered the Wind Master ' crazy actions and could only forcefully break through the Wind Master ' defenses and rush into the passage. The distance between the two sides was less than ten minutes' journey.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Wind Master responsible for defending the passageway made a fortune. The remaining 7 million-plus Wind Master, facing the warships eager to rush into the passageway, launched antimatter and gravity bombs directly at the entrance, supplemented by powerful lasers. Under this powerful attack, the Wind Master had no choice but to press on, and the number of ships destroyed increased dramatically. However, the Wind Star Fleet could easily afford such losses, and only a portion of the warships were trying to break through the passageway; the rest were still surrounding and attacking the Wind Master from the outside.
The Wind Star Battleship's armor layer is only half the thickness and strength of the Wind Master's Wind Master. As civilizations within the same star system, their material technology is not significantly different. Whoever has thicker armor will have greater survivability. The Wind Master has been able to hold out until now largely due to the thickness of its armor.
The losses of the outer Wind Star warships, which were initially greater than those of the Wind Master, became far less than those of the Wind Master. This was because the Wind Master were determined to defend the entrance to the passage and prevent the Wind Star fleet from entering. Even after the Wind Master lost more than 8 million ships, the Wind Star fleet's losses were still less than 4 million, less than half of the Wind Master ' losses.
More than 40 million Wind Star warships have broken into the passage. Hu Yu ordered the defending fleet to disengage from the Wind Star fleet and withdraw as soon as possible. Their sacrifice bought the warships entering the passage ten minutes, which was enough. Now that the mission was complete, there was no point in fighting the Wind Star warships any longer.
More than 5 million Wind Master remained on the outer perimeter. After receiving Hu Yu's orders, they fought and retreated slowly towards the outer edge of the battlefield. After coordinating with each other to leave the battlefield, they immediately flew in all directions. The Wind Star Fleet did not pursue them. Firstly, their speed was the same and they could not catch up at all. Secondly, the interior of the civilization territory was the top priority. These Wind Star warships also followed them into the passage entrance.
One hundred astronomical units can be traversed in just 50 seconds at a speed a thousand times faster than light. However, the Wind Master are like wild beasts that have rushed into a thicket of thorns, covered in wounds, but they still have to keep going.