Under the ambush of the Federation's battleships, the Civilization of Threads lost more than 80,000 ships in just 72 hours.
The remaining Thread ships fled in all directions, and the central Federation battleships began to fire even more powerful super-distance, gravitational, and geometric weapons in all directions.
This was a release of energy and a release of emotions.
The Federation had suffered an uncountable number of civilian casualties.
The Federation not only needed a victory on the physical battlefield but also craved one on a spiritual level.
The subsequent attack covered over 100,000 Thread ships, further shattering the Thread fleet's hope of regrouping.
After confirming the loss of more than half of their ships, they began to scatter without reservation.
In the following offensive, they lost about 30,000 more ships. This time, the Federation's victory report indicated the destruction of 210,000 Thread ships with almost zero casualties on their side.
Upon receiving this news, Yan Xia immediately issued an order for the fleets led by Nuo and Loulian to return to their original positions.
Nuo, who was on his way to the battlefield, also turned back.
Yan Xia heard some soldiers in the biological warship complaining about why they didn't just stay in place from the beginning.
This was a classic case of hindsight.
After all, this tactic was never considered at the start, and no one expected it to achieve such a great success.
If this ambush had only destroyed around 100,000 Thread ships, Nuo wouldn't have been able to withdraw from here. With the destruction of 210,000 ships, it meant that this Thread fleet was no longer a significant threat, so Nuo naturally returned to block the Thread fleet attacking from another direction.
This defense would not end quickly.
It might even be long and painful.
Yan Xia would once again witness the death and decay of star systems, and the pain and despair of soldiers.
As for how long this would take, it was likely that it would be when the battleship on the Orion Nebula side reached the Orion Nebula.
In other words, 800 years!
During these 800 years, the Federation and the Civilization of Threads were mainly engaged in defensive and offensive battles, with Yan Xia maintaining a stable strategy. However, on individual battlefields, he displayed some aggression.
Knowing that the probability of losing star systems was high, Yan Xia ordered the Mechanical God to launch an attack on the Thread fleet, regardless of the cost.
To counter the Thread fleet's attacks on star systems, Yan Xia had already installed numerous defensive devices against stellar weapons within the star systems over the previous 1800 years.
The most powerful of these devices was called the "Anti-Matter Dispersion."
This device lived up to its name.
Most stellar weapons were laser-based, as laser weapons were relatively inexpensive and could destroy stars from a great distance. These laser weapons might carry some other particles.
These particles could cause a star's nuclear fusion reaction to pause briefly. This pause not only disrupted the nuclear fusion reaction but also caused some of the star's atoms to escape, causing the star to lose some of its mass in a short time, affecting its gravity. By triggering a chain reaction, the star would prematurely enter its red giant phase.
This was a relatively cheap solution.
It might even be less expensive than a single battleship.
Although stars were enormous, it was very difficult to destroy them on a macroscopic level. However, on a microscopic level, it was a different story. Once the relationship between atoms and electrons was disrupted, it was enough to affect the entire star's strong gravitational equilibrium.
In essence, stellar weapons were a way to leverage a small force to achieve a significant effect, causing stars to be born and die due to gravity.
Since it was predicted that the enemy would use laser weapons, or electromagnetic weapons, anti-matter was an excellent counter to electromagnetic matter.
The "Anti-Matter Dispersion" device used anti-photons. When the Federation entered the anti-matter era, it was discovered that most laser beams released energy primarily in the form of photons.
The so-called anti-photons, according to their properties, were no different from photons, or they were photons themselves.
These particles were also called Majorana fermions or Majorana bosons. Since photons were bosons, they could be considered the latter.
Photons and their anti-matter, when photons and photons meet, they annihilate each other.
However, this phenomenon is rarely observed in low-energy photons. Only when photons reach a certain energy level do they begin to frequently annihilate each other, and even then, it is challenging to observe.
Because when photons and photons annihilate each other, the result is still photons and photons.
Photons themselves are energy carriers produced by the annihilation of many positive and negative matter particles, which is the difference between photons and other particles.
So, you can say that photons can be annihilated, but photons cannot be annihilated.
The former is the process of annihilation, while the latter is the result, which remains unchanged.
Therefore, this defensive weapon is called "Anti-Matter Dispersion" and not "anti-matter defense" or something similar.
The last two characters, "dispersion," actually mean scattering and shifting, causing photons and photons to annihilate each other and produce photons and photons moving in different directions.
And what is the macroscopic result?
You can see a laser beam hitting a barrier, and then, like a mirror, half of the beam flies off in another direction.
The "Anti-Matter Dispersion" device prevented the Civilization of Threads from destroying star systems at a minimal cost. They could choose to use more powerful weapons, but if they used nuclear or gravitational weapons, the cost of destroying a star would be very high.
It might not be one battleship but 1,000, 10,000, or even 100,000.
For example, the gravitational weapon of Star City, according to Ella's judgment, the entire energy of Star City could only support 28-30 super-gravitational weapons. This weapon was very powerful against stars, but it was useless against battleships. It could be considered invincible against stars, but it was also very limited.
If a civilization did not rely on star systems, then Star City's super-gravitational weapon would be ineffective.
After all, unless your gravitational weapon is at the level of a neutron star or higher, it is difficult to destroy a battleship.
The Civilization of Threads weighed the cost.
Their subsequent choice was to launch a direct, close-range, and complete offensive, entering the interior of the star systems.
At this point, the Mechanical God would follow Yan Xia's orders and launch a suicide attack, which became the primary method of destroying Thread ships during these 800 years.
Under this strategy, more than 200,000 Thread ships were destroyed.
However, despite all these judgments and strategic victories, the Federation's border was completely penetrated by the 600th year, and the Federation's border ceased to exist.
The Federation also lost 8 giant ships and more than 150,000 biological warships, a significant loss.
In the following 200 years, Yan Xia ordered the fleet to engage in guerrilla warfare, slowing down the Thread fleet's progress.
Finally, another 200 years passed.
The 800th year had officially arrived!