After hanging up the call with Kuai Zi, Loulian was curious about this person named Yan Xia.
In the Civilized Federation, there are hardly any humans with such a naming style, and as the highest military commander, how could he have no information about him?
He did know someone named Yan Xia, but that was a figure from over ten thousand years ago. Within the Civilized Federation, no matter how high your position is, you cannot attain immortality unless you leave the Federation.
"If this were a game, then this person should be an NPC who provides assistance."
However, Loulian knew that this wasn't a game, and he couldn't apply the rules of a game to reality.
"According to the information about that person, the overall battle situation is actually in our favor. The enemy's number of battleships is limited, and the energy they have brought into our battlefield is no match for ours."
"The most important thing is support."
He spread out the star map and began to study it.
The Tianlianhao was not the only battlefield; there were multiple battlefields in its vicinity.
The focal points of the battles were all very tricky. The Silk Civilization must occupy and control these fixed-star systems. If they don't control them, it means they cannot directly enter the Federal Star Domain without any concerns.
"The most exciting part is actually the alliances and enmities among these fixed-star systems. Did that Yan Xia predict even this?"
If the Silk Civilization slowly attacks each fixed-star system one by one, the cost of capturing these systems would be minimal.
But Yan Xia also noticed this, so Loulian had to make the Silk Civilization attack several fixed-star systems simultaneously, dispersing their combat power.
These fixed-star systems formed a fan-shaped encirclement, spanning 36 light-years, trapping the Silk Civilization's fleet within.
In a sense, this was both a defensive and an offensive move.
If the Silk Civilization concentrates its forces to target one fixed-star system, then the Federal battleships in the other systems will launch a pincer attack on the Silk Civilization's rear.
The Silk Civilization's expeditionary war also requires a constant supply of troops.
To support these troops, they have stationed and developed in three fixed-star systems. If they are attacked by the Federation, it would be equivalent to cutting off the Silk Civilization's reinforcements, and the Silk Civilization's vanguard forces will become a rootless tree, slowly rotting away.
However, if the Silk Civilization only sends a small force, it won't be able to defeat the Federal fleet, and the battle situation will only become a stalemate.
"This stalemate seems to favor the Silk Civilization, but it's not the case."
"This is the Federal battlefield, and a prolonged stalemate will allow the Federation to seize the opportunity to deploy more fleets to surround this small force."
"Everything is within the calculation."
"This time, the Silk Civilization has no choice but to come out in full force, fight on multiple fronts, and be forced into a full-scale war."
"Their only two options are to either engage or retreat."
"But this is also not very feasible. If the Silk Civilization's vanguard forces retreat too far, how will they gather information about the Federation? Their role as a vanguard force will be lost."
"This commander is a bit scary."
The more Loulian analyzed the situation, the more he realized that the Federation had the upper hand in the current battlefield.
This was not surprising, as this was the Federal battlefield, and the gap between the Federation and the Silk Civilization was not so large that one could easily crush the other. Moreover, they were only facing a vanguard force of the Silk Civilization. If they couldn't win against this, the Federation might as well be destroyed.
In fact, the fundamental reason the Silk Civilization launched this campaign was because the Federation had provoked them, and the Silk Civilization also knew that the attack came from two level-2 civilizations that were seemingly on par with them.
At this point, they were at a disadvantage, which forced them to counterattack. They didn't know why the Federation and another civilization were attacking them, and the two civilizations had even sent vanguard forces to attack them. The Silk Civilization had no choice but to counterattack the weaker of the two civilizations, the Federation, and it was not the case that the Silk Civilization was so powerful that it wanted to attack the Federation, which was not much different from them.
However, such comprehensive control of the situation and judgment of the enemy's psychology were beyond the reach of ordinary people.
This was what made Loulian feel terrified about Yan Xia.
"I just hope that the Battle of the Silk Thread can be completed smoothly!"
...
2 years and 3 months later.
Inside the fixed-star system, the Tianlianhao had already developed enough factories and produced a sufficient number of bug nests.
The Silk Civilization's battleships were also about to arrive.
The first to arrive were not battleships but countless laser weapons like meteors.
As a powerful level-2 civilization, their laser weapons were no longer pure lasers. These lasers did not reach the speed of light but were at 95% of it, and they contained many other things within them, which had a much greater effect than the laser weapons themselves.
The terrifying lasers, when approaching objects, began to shrink inward, forming black holes.
However, these black holes were not real black holes; they could be called singularities.
Once the singularities reached a critical value, they would explode, and the terrifying blast could devour everything within a radius of 2 million kilometers.
"Singularity weapons."
"Let the Bug Tribe intercept them."
Tens of thousands of these weapons rushed towards the massive Tianlianhao. A singularity hit the Tianlianhao, and the terrifying explosion directly tore through its energy shield, consuming nearly 9% of the total energy reserves of the Tianlianhao's battleship.
And that was just one.
Loulian's mind was not at peace. The Silk Civilization's weapons were too powerful, able to trigger massive energy attacks with a small number of photons, a highly practical tactic on the battlefield.
If he wasn't careful, the Tianlianhao could be destroyed instantly.
In such a terrifying battle, personal bravery was of no use.
"Counterattack!"
"Initiate the Geometric Array..."
Energy was continuously transmitted from the Tianlianhao to some large-scale equipment around it through wireless means. These large-scale equipment were called Energy Receivers, which could accept energy and then release it in a specific way.
The function of the Energy Receivers was to assist in releasing large-scale attacks.
In the deep space between the Federal and Silk Civilization fleets, countless shattered rays of light, like broken glass fragments, spread towards the Silk Civilization. It was as if the two fleets were inside a piece of glass, and the Federation was shattering the glass, causing the cracks to spread in a designated direction.
The Silk Civilization fleet tried to dodge the distorted light, but the width of the Geometric Array reached 700 astronomical units, making it impossible to evade.
The entire Silk Civilization fleet was enveloped, as if trapped in a fragmented geometric world.
The intact fleet was isolated by these fragments of light energy.
The Geometric Array was an application of light, using specific binding forces to make the light appear in twisted, varied geometric forms. This was a weapon invented by a scholar from the Light Wing Tribe, and it was not just about trapping the enemy. With such terrifying energy output, it carried powerful magnetic waves that disrupted electromagnetic signals, reverberating back and forth within the geometric structure.
The fragments began to shatter, and that was the annihilation of positrons and electrons.
"Buzz, buzz, buzz~~~~"
High-frequency electromagnetic waves struck objects, producing a buzzing sound.
A circle with a radius of 1000 astronomical units was covered in extreme light, and the brightness of this light was a billion times that of the sun.