Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1328 Unplanned
Judging from the parameters on paper, the combat effectiveness of the Black Shadow Alliance Fleet is not on the same level as that of the Prudolad Civilization and the Silver Heart Civilization. If they were to fight under normal circumstances, the latter would surely win with a huge advantage.

But today's starry sky battlefield is full of natural wormholes. The Shadow Alliance, who are familiar with the terrain, use wormholes to travel through and then create a situation where they have more people against fewer.

They divided 120 billion battleships into several fleet clusters and distributed them in all corners of the starry sky. Then, during the battle, they escaped or transferred through wormholes to avoid the fleet of the Pdorade civilization, or gathered a hundred times more troops than the enemy to besiege it.

During this process, they deliberately avoided the Pudolard and the Galaxy, and adopted the tactic of attacking the weak first and then the strong. They first concentrated their superior forces to destroy the fleets of the Dou civilization, Feiyu civilization, Sides civilization, and Stayu civilization in the Great Voyage Organization at the lowest cost, and then deal with the fleets of the Daya civilization, Alan civilization, and Medamo civilization.

After completing the actual annihilation of these civilization fleets and effectively weakening the opponent's manpower, we will concentrate our absolute superior forces to deal with the most difficult fleets of the Silver Heart Civilization and the Pdorad Civilization.

The whole process was very planned and the level of tactical command was very high.

The multiple fleets consisting of 120 billion warships seemed to have become the arms of their commander. They could really hit whatever they pointed at, and they would carry out sacrifices without hesitation.

Judging from the efficiency of the command system and the speed of battlefield response, the Shadow Alliance did better than the other side. It's not that the Pudolard Civilization and the Silver Heart Civilization and other civilizations are not good, but that when they get together, each civilization is its own general command circle, and they can't achieve "one command" like the Shadow Alliance.

For example, although the Silver Heart Civilization is the representative of several civilizations participating in this war, if they ask the Alan Civilization fleet to sacrifice itself to lure the enemy, the leader of the Alan Civilization will definitely not agree.

The Galactic Center Civilization and the Pdorade Civilization also command their own fleets.

This is a common problem in coalition warfare. Even in the interstellar age, this situation is bound to occur as long as there is not completely unified command.

In fact, the Black Shadow Alliance also had this situation, because they were also a multi-civilization alliance, but under the pressure of life and death, they all compromised.

All these factors combined allowed the Shadow Alliance, with its T5-level combat power, to drag its stronger enemies into a - tie at the beginning of the war.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. After the Pdorade civilization and the Galactic Center civilization launched a battlefield cleansing strategy, their terrain advantage disappeared.

The balance of victory began to tilt towards the coalition forces, and then with the efforts of the Pudorad civilization, it became unstoppable.

Although at this time, the fleets of civilizations like Feiyu Civilization, Stayu Civilization, and Doulei Civilization were almost gone, but the coalition forces still gained an overwhelming advantage under the leadership of two special technological flagships.

The casualty ratio changed from 0- to : or even : in an instant. It can only be said that the conventional combat power of the Pudolard civilization is worthy of T strength. If the fighting continues like this, the Shadow Alliance will definitely lose.

However, the Shadow Alliance demonstrated the tenacity of interstellar civilization. They indeed could not defeat the coalition forces, but they did not continue to fight hard. After the battlefield became one-sided, its commander-in-chief immediately ordered the remaining fleets to disperse in all directions.

They would flee in scattered groups or in regular fleet sizes. After leaving the battlefield, these warships would continue to gather together to form fleets, and then resist the coalition forces in a guerrilla manner.

Of course, even in guerrilla warfare, the coalition forces of Pudolard and the Silver Heart Civilization could defeat the Black Shadow Alliance with fewer troops.

Logically speaking, after the victory of the great battle, the coalition forces would enter the stage of pursuit, but they found that the fleets of the Black Shadow Alliance that fled into the starry sky seemed to be intentionally luring them to a certain star field.

As the saying goes, every failure makes you wiser. Having suffered a loss in the interstellar tunnel war, the coalition forces are somewhat wary.

The Pdorade civilization has been in the Houqi Galaxy for 30,000 years, but they have spent most of their time collecting intelligence from various civilizations. They are not as familiar with the various star fields in the galaxy as the Shadow Alliance. They know the situation in large areas, but they are not clear about areas as small as a star system.

Another situation is that there are many natural wormholes in this galaxy. These natural wormholes are long and short, but who knows whether the Black Shadow Alliance will connect them into one.

It is feasible to open a wormhole within the technological scope of a level six civilization, but it would require a huge amount of work.

After this battle, the Pudolard civilization couldn't help but wonder that if the Shadow Alliance had started this project before their arrival, it might not have been impossible to complete it.

Before this battle, the Pudolard civilization actually knew that there were many natural wormholes in the Post-Qi Galaxy, but they always felt that as a civilization that had once embarked on a great voyage, the Dark Shadow Alliance's ambition was still to make that voyage, rather than actually stop and manage this galaxy.

But now it seems that they have done something to prepare for a rainy day.

"Could it be that he knew that his special technological creation, which he got from nowhere, was going to be scrapped, so he prepared a backup plan in advance?"

Looking at the Shadow Alliance fleets fleeing into the depths of the starry sky, the great leader of the Pdorade civilization fell into deep thought. He was really worried that after he divided his troops to chase them, these guys would gather again through a wormhole and be defeated by his fleets one by one.

It has been more than three hundred years since this battle. Judging from the result, the coalition forces won, but the victory was not complete, and it is even possible that it was within the plan of the Black Shadow Alliance.

Now, there are only about 50 billion main battleships left of the Black Shadow Alliance, and they are divided into more than a dozen fleets and fleeing in all directions. On the coalition side, the Pudolard civilization suffered the least losses, with only more than billion of the more than billion conventional warships left, representing about % of the losses. The Great Sailing Coalition led by the Silver Heart Civilization has been reduced from billion to million. Among the million conventional warships, the Silver Heart Civilization has about million. The remaining fleets of the Medamo civilization, the Alan civilization, and the Daya civilization, and the fleets of other civilizations have been completely wiped out.

At first glance the loss seems huge, but after so many great voyages, all the major civilizations have become accustomed to it.

As long as the main body of the civilization is still there, the fleet can be rebuilt if it is gone. If the personnel on the battleship die, they can either be replaced from the main body of the civilization or resurrected using the great memory resurrection technique. Some civilizations even directly use other races to fight for them.

The Shenju civilization hates this kind of behavior, but there are still some civilizations that do it.

Of course, it still takes a long time to train a fleet of warriors. In fact, if it is not like the Silver Core Civilization, which trains a subordinate race for a long time, the cost is really not as good as using the intelligent life of one's own race. After all, even if it is other Level 6 civilizations that are captured, they must first crack their gene locks, and then ensure that they are loyal to themselves, and finally conduct various targeted training. Therefore, in general, the method of resurrection by memory is the lowest cost and the preferred method of most civilizations.

Having said that, the Pdorad civilization feels that the development of the situation has exceeded their expectations, so they are still hesitating whether to continue to join forces with the Silver Heart Civilization to pursue the Black Shadow Alliance fleet and then annihilate it completely, or to kill the Silver Heart Civilization first and then deal with the Black Shadow Alliance themselves.

He felt that he could definitely win, but he had different thoughts on the issue of priorities.

"Great Leader, according to our simulation, there is a 30% chance that the Shadow Alliance will make a strategic retreat."

On the Pdorade, a staff officer pointed to several star regions on the map of the Post-Apocalypse Galaxy on the holographic screen and continued, "Here, here, and here. They used to be the production sites of the Black Shadow Alliance's warships. In the past few hundred years, our exploration fleet once approached these star regions and fought with them. We successfully infiltrated one of the star regions and found that they were indeed still manufacturing warships."

"As expected, those warships that were manufactured later must have been organized into a fleet. They are likely to transfer through some long-distance wormholes or artificially connected wormhole channels to form an absolute advantage over our pursuit fleet."

"In general, the Shadow Alliance used the terrain advantage to speed up the deployment of their warships to the battlefield, thus narrowing the gap between their combat power and ours. Their familiarity with the starry sky terrain also enabled them to escape through some unexpected wormholes."

"We concluded that if we want to pursue them, it is best to focus on one fleet instead of destroying them all at once like in a battle. Up to now, they have successfully dragged the war into a protracted war. Admittedly, we will win the final victory in the protracted war, but we must not only destroy the Black Shadow Alliance, but also the Silver Heart Civilization Organization. We must destroy them at a smaller cost."

"As for the Silver Heart Civilization," the military staff pointed at the Galaxy and the Silver Heart Civilization Headquarters on the star map and continued, "This battle proves that they still have some combat power, especially the Galaxy. If they are prepared, our Podorad may not be able to destroy it. So I think we should continue with the previous strategy and gain their trust first before taking the initiative."

"In terms of war potential, the Silver Heart Civilization Group is still good. They have built a new fleet in the past few hundred years. With the addition of the new fleet at our headquarters, I think we can join forces to complete the plan to wipe out the Black Shadow Alliance first!"

"Great leader, colleagues, the 'preemptive strike' strategy is the key to our acquisition of the unique technology of the Silver Core Civilization. We must proceed around it, and the premise for the success of this strategy is to gain the trust of the Silver Core Civilization. The premise for the Silver Core Civilization's trust is obviously to fight side by side and get the spoils we promised."

"I know some of my colleagues think we lost out, and judging from the proportion of the coalition's warships, that's true, but it's all worth it. And the most important point is that in the process of gaining their trust, even if they want to do something bad to us, we are not afraid. The Galaxy's attack method is not enough to threaten our Podorad. With this alone, we are already invincible, so I don't think there is anything to worry about."

Inside the Pudolard civilization, its combat staff gave an analysis to a group of senior officials and then gave their opinions.

After that, they had several more rounds of discussions and finally decided not to take the risk of alerting the Silver Heart Civilization. They should continue with the original plan, mobilize new warships to replenish the damaged fleet, and then continue to conquer the Black Shadow Alliance.

This process will take some time, which is a good opportunity to explore the wormhole cluster in the Houqi Galaxy.

As for the Silver Heart Civilization and other civilizations participating in this war, they were also very dissatisfied that they were beaten like this by an alliance whose combat effectiveness was much lower than theirs. At the same time, they also wanted to enjoy the fruits of victory, so they agreed to the proposal of the Pdorad civilization.

Taking advantage of this time, the Galactic Center Civilization also began to use their expertise to detect wormholes in the Houqi Galaxy.

As a result, the protagonist of the war between the two sides temporarily changed from the battle of main battleship clusters to the confrontation of peripheral forces. In the following period of time, the Post-Apocalypse Galaxy almost became a battlefield. Various types of warships fought as soon as they met, and the battles between exploration teams were even more fierce.

It is normal for stars in the starry sky to be destroyed. In order to detect a wormhole, some stars may encounter each other while traveling through the wormhole, and then break the wormhole and be shattered by the turbulence of space.

In this process, the Galactic Center civilization once again demonstrated their sharp exploration capabilities.

The Pdorade civilization discovered that the Galactic Core civilization's perception of battlefield information was even more acute than their own. They could actually provide detailed and important information about many things that they themselves had not even detected, especially the wormhole routes within many star fields.

It was the powerful performance of the Silver Heart Civilization that enabled the coalition forces to start their pursuit of the Black Shadow Alliance much earlier.

Such exploration efficiency and accuracy caught the Shadow Alliance off guard. They realized that their geographical advantage over the opponent was shrinking rapidly.

However, what was even more unexpected for the Black Shadow Alliance was that the hidden microcosm that they had prepared long ago to store the "Escape Plan" fleet was actually discovered by the coalition forces during this process.

To be precise, it was discovered by the Galactic Center civilization.

This time the Shadow Alliance was really anxious.

This hidden microcosm was built after the Black Shadow Alliance stopped, and it contained a fleet of long-distance structures that they had carefully built. The existence of this microcosm allowed them to give it a try without any worries, and if they couldn't win, they could just run away unexpectedly.

After the Shadow Alliance completed the construction of this hidden microcosm, they started the "Wormhole Link Project". For their own safety and survival, they invested a huge amount of money.

But no one expected that the hidden microcosm would be discovered at such a critical moment.

The "escape plan" had not even had time to be launched, because the Shadow Alliance felt that they could still hold on for a while with the advantage of the wormhole.

Originally they planned to use this time to complete the preparations for the "escape plan", which was to quietly move the main bodies of various civilizations into the small universe, let them all board the escape spacecraft, and then, in the process of the fleet fighting with the other side, embark on the road to leave the Houqi Galaxy.

However, now, after receiving the news, the coalition forces of Pudolard and the Silver Heart Civilization have turned their spearheads and pointed directly at this small universe.

(End of this chapter)