The Fearless Fleet was a special fleet that enjoyed the title of being invincible in the Federation.
Ever since it was first established in the Great Magellan Galaxy, it had never lost a single spaceship, not even a single crew member.
But now, it had lost more than 100,000 battleships. Although this number was nothing compared to the five fleets, it was still the first time in the history of the entire Fearless Fleet.
However, the Republic of Seras was even more miserable. As the first to set off before the Republic of Salamo, they had suffered heavy losses in the past ten hours. The number of battleships destroyed was close to the five billion mark.
But in any case, even if it was because they had not fought a large-scale war for tens of thousands of years and the extremely unfavorable terrain at the mouth of the ocean current, they gradually established the embryonic form of a bridgehead after the continuous arrival of reinforcements.
At this moment, close to 100 million battleships of the Seras Empire had gathered at the mouth of the ocean current, and the casualties of the Fearless Fleet had also increased dramatically. From no losses in the first five hours, to more than 100,000 battleships in the last five hours, especially in the last hour, the number of losses reached 80,000.
In order to deal with this situation, Lin Kexin had to order the fleet at the first line of defense to retreat to the second line of defense. At the same time, because the second line of defense was two AU away from the mouth of the ocean current, Lin Kexin also threw the remaining three reserve fleets into the hemispherical encirclement that was many times larger.
The five galaxy clusters, together with a large number of firepower support platforms, immediately suppressed the signs of the Seras Empire's counterattack. But this … was only temporary. The rest depended on when the Netherworld Fleet's reinforcements would arrive.
"Commander, I suggest using zero-point missiles to clear out the enemy's bridgehead!"
"It might not be effective, but we can try. Prepare ten zero-point missiles and fire at the same time!"
"Yes, Commander!"
Lin Kexin shook her head and said.
After all, the new Fearless Fleet had been tested after the change of equipment, and the results of the test showed that the dark energy shield could completely withstand the bombardment of zero-point missiles. In order to destroy a battleship with a dark energy shield, at least five zero-point missiles were needed.
However, the enemy's battleships were constantly arriving. Not to mention whether the zero-point missiles were effective, even if they were, were they going to keep firing them for a few days or even dozens of days?
Even if the Federation had a lot of zero-point missiles, they could not withstand such consumption!
The most important thing was that the enemy might not necessarily resist. Not to mention the enemy civilization, even the Federation itself had several methods to prevent the zero-point missiles. The simplest method was to directly interfere with the hyperspace engine so that the zero-point missiles would not even have a chance to hit!
"Commander, the zero-point missiles, to launch!"
"Launch!"
"Yes, the zero-point Missiles have been launched!"
He arrived in Jerez about five hours ago. It was precisely because of his arrival that the chaos of Sareth's fleet finally ended, allowing them to have a unified command and gradually build a bridgehead at the ocean current.
"Although the enemy has retreated by one AU, they can invest more warships in the encirclement, and the fleet doesn't have to stay together like before. Overall, we will still be in a passive situation for a long time."
Wilvis's expression did not look good. The erroneous information had led to a sharp increase in the number of casualties, which had far exceeded their initial expectations.
Before they set off, Wilvis, as the commander of the vanguard fleet, had already deduced that even if the level-7 biological civilization and level-8 technological civilization were to guard the ocean current node together, he was confident that he could easily take it down without losing more than a billion warships.
But now, the situation was completely different. How was this a Tier 8 technological civilization? It was clearly a Tier 9 civilization. Even if the other party only had five billion battleships, it was impossible for him to completely take down Jerez without leaving behind tens of billions of battleships!
And this … was based on the fact that the other party did not have any reinforcements!
"General, it has been detected that the enemy has opened ten hyperspace windows, and the scale is miniature!"
"Hmm? Not good, immediately turn off the dark energy shield and switch to the phase shield. At the same time, inform all warships except the outermost ones. Move quickly! "
Wilvis, who suddenly thought of something, had a drastic change in expression and immediately roared at his adjutant.
After all, they had obtained some information about the enemy from the Purgatory, so they naturally knew that the humans had things like zero-point missiles.
Although this kind of thing was not much of a threat to a level-9 civilization, the problem was that all the fleets of the Seras Empire were now crowded together. If they were to be bombarded with zero-point missiles, the dark energy shield would not be able to withstand it.
Just as Wilvis's ship had switched to the mutual shield, ten zero-point missiles had already shot out of the hyperspace windows and directly exploded in the fleet of the Seras Empire.
The first to be hit were the warships that had turned off their dark energy shields but did not have time to activate their phase shields. In just an instant, they were swallowed by the powerful energy and turned into cosmic dust.
Then it was the turn of the warships outside the formation that did not turn off their dark energy shields. After all, it was impossible for all the warships to turn off their dark energy shields. Otherwise, if everyone turned off their dark energy shields, who would be able to withstand the waves of attacks from the humans?
Therefore, Wilvis did not let the warships outside the formation turn off their dark energy shields from the beginning.
Although the dark energy shields also had excellent defense against zero-point particle energy, they could not withstand the concentrated bombardment of too many zero-point missiles. After resisting for a few seconds, the dark energy shields on all the warships were broken, and countless warships were destroyed one after another.
Although this wave had not been counted in detail, at least 20 million warships were destroyed. This made Wilvis, who was in a different phase, feel like his teeth were about to burst.
He had clearly received information that the other party had such weapons, but why did he not respond in advance?
Was there nothing he could do?
No, he had at least ten ways to prevent the humans from using such weapons in advance.
However, he did not do anything!
At this moment, Wilvis wanted to slap himself.
In fact, it was still the same sentence. The Seras Empire had been at peace for too long and had not fought a large-scale war. In terms of interstellar war experience, the Seras Empire was still too lacking.