Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Tang Ding emptiness pinched a fingerprint, immediately appeared in the deep star map with a large number of golden lines, crystal clear starship structure diagram.

Ten years ago, the claw fleet belonging to Night Lane was attacked from behind by a Federation fleet led by Timbell in pursuit of the Firefly, and the whole army collapsed.

During that war, the Federation captured a number of Imperial soldiers and, as a result of their interrogation, received a great deal of information about the Black Wind Fleet, which in turn fell on the Firefly, giving people in exile a general understanding of the power of the Black Wind Fleet.

“The technological power of the Real Human Empire is higher than that of us and the Federation of Stars and Glows, but it is not so high as to be invincible, because there are 'technological bottlenecks’ in everyone. ”

Tang Dingyuan said, “For 10,000 years, the technological peak of human civilization was the era of the Star Sea Empire, which is said to have been assisted by three volumes of the Book of the Seal of Heaven during its development. Almost instantly, it developed a brilliant civilization like the Big Bang.

“After the sudden collapse of the Star Sea Empire, the entire human civilization became stardust debris, and then all civilizations kept catching up with the altitude of the Star Sea Empire, and the closer they approached the altitude of the Star Sea Empire, the slower they developed and the more bottlenecks they encountered.

“This is true of our Republic of the Stars and the Real Human Empire.

“Although the Real Human Empire has made great strides in all areas over the past millennium, the overall level of civilization has not been much ahead of us, and has stagnated almost even more in recent centuries.

“The Federation of Stars and Glows is different. It leaps from a single world civilization to seven thousand world transstar sea civilizations, and it has acquired a great deal of technology from the ruins of the Kunlun of the floodplain civilization. The Federation has gone through a period of golden development like the Big Bang over the past 100 years. To this day, even though it is a little behind the Empire, it possesses the ability to revolve around each other completely. It is like the difference between a bronze and steel knife, backward is backward, but it can also kill the opponent!

“This is how the forces of both sides compare today - the Black Wind fleet has a higher starship rank, more firepower, more strong men on board, and is a deep exotic battle, an attacking party, more diverse tactical options, without any apprehension or baggage, apparently fully mastering the battlefield initiative.

“But they have a fatal weakness, a lack of a strong enough rear, a lonely expedition, deep into the enemy, with no possibility of supply other than local burning and looting.

“Ultimately, the Black Wind Fleet was misinformed. When they set out a hundred years ago, they thought they were simply going to conquer and explore the barbaric world of their own galaxy, unable to even fly out of it, but did not expect to encounter such a tricky 'prey’ as the Federation of Stars and Glows that might bite back!

“The Black Wind Fleet is unlikely to fight a sustained battle. One of their starships is less than one, and one of the stronger ones is less than one, completely incomplete! Even if all the blood of the Federation was slowly dried up in the protracted war, they themselves were exhausted - and that was by no means the result that the Black Wind Fleet Commander wanted to see.

“So for the Black Wind fleet, the most likely strategy is to jump unexpectedly to the Federation's hinterland and capture one of the Federation's seven largest worlds in an electro-optic, thunderous atmosphere.

“With a world that serves as a strategic fulcrum and logistics base, with the Black Wind fleet above the Federation and our military might, we can continue to refine more starships, arm a large number of slaves, gather sufficient resources, sustain them in their constant erosion, force the Federation's main force into a strategic showdown and win the first battle! ”

“It's almost inevitable, but it's also a risky strategy, because the moment you jump from hundreds of light-years away to the heart of the Federation is the most fragile moment of the Black Wind fleet - if anyone doesn't understand it, imagine a huge, unfriendly cosmic dinosaur crossing a rough, narrow canyon.

“As long as this‘ cosmic dinosaur 'passes smoothly through the canyon, hunting and massacring can be carried out with impunity.

“But when it gets stuck between the raging stones and the gap in the canyon, when it's hard to move forward, it's when it's weakest, even if it's weaker than it is, and seizes the moment, it can kill it!

“This is our only chance with the Federation!

“For its part, the Federation does not really want to fight a protracted war and unify its centuries-old frontiers into a scorched earth. After all, the Black Wind Fleet is only an expeditionary army of the Real Human Empire. Even if the Black Wind Fleet is eliminated, it may face new threats that follow.

“The Starlight Federation must retain some strength in order to have the leverage and the Real Human Empire to play the next game and keep the Empire from sending a second Expeditionary Army.

“Cleanly settle the Black Wind Fleet in a quick-fighting battle and get plenty of Black Wind Fleet starships and supplies to complete a new upgrade and truly own the bottom line of dialogue with the Empire - the most perfect outcome, I'm afraid, as the Federation envisioned it.

“With all the Federation's current military power, there is still hope to accomplish this strategic goal if we can predict to which world the Black Wind Fleet is going to jump to and make a devastating blow in the course of the star jump against each other!

“So simplifying this impending war is actually a game of 'seven picks and one’, where the Federation will bet that the Black Wind Fleet will appear in one of the seven great thousand worlds and send all the elites to this great thousand world to lay low beforehand.

“It's true that when the Black Wind Fleet makes a star jump, the Federation has a good chance of winning the final victory if it ‘hits it half way’ and destroys the other party in the ripples of four-dimensional space!

“Wrong bet, let the Black Wind Fleet successfully jump the stars, complete the battle formation and even occupy a thousand worlds, which is equivalent to ‘cosmic dinosaurs’ crossing the canyon, the Ancient Landing Army successfully established ‘beachhead positions’, the Federation will surely lose! ”

Tang Dingyuan spoke here and took a pause, reaching down: “Excuse me. ”

A senior professor from the University of the Stars and a senior member of parliament asked: "In that case, is it possible to block all the loopholes by laying on seven separate tracks, simultaneously in seven thousand different worlds? ”

Tang Ding smiled slightly and shook his head: “Never. We and the Federation's military might have been weaker than the Imperial Expeditionary Army. The soldiers were divided into seven paths. That would have made them weaker. They couldn't resist the enemy at all. They would only be eaten by the Black Wind fleet, one by one.

“Don't say the soldiers split the seven ways, even if they split the elite forces in half, it will not be possible to accomplish the strategic goal of interception and encirclement. Only by bringing all the elites together and pinching them into a fist will it be possible to crush the jump and unfold of the Black Wind fleet! ”

The professor frowned deeply: "Seven thousand worlds in the Federation, the Black Wind Fleet can pick any one of them to jump, and we can only choose one of them to lay low, seven to one, it seems like a pretty bad situation for us! ”

“Not necessarily. ”

Tang Dingyuan manipulated the light screen again, showing the basic overview of the seven great thousand worlds of Starlight Federation, a colorful planet presented to everyone, "Gentlemen, although Starlight Federation has seven great thousand worlds, not all of them are suitable to serve as the main battalion of the Black Wind Fleet.

“This is the tree sea boundary, the native tree starfish is covered by the pristine large forest, the level of exploitation is low, there is not much industrial foundation for the refining and resource collection of magic treasures, the locals are excellent beasts, they are good at fighting with spiritual beasts, but they are of no use to the Black Wind fleet.

“Even with the occupation of the Tree Sea, it is difficult for the Black Wind Fleet to gather sufficient resources to strengthen itself in a short period of time and instead to be trapped in pristine forests.

“So the tree sea boundary can be ruled out.

“This is the crystal world, a world with a considerable wealth of crystal resources, the problem is that few other resources are produced locally except for crystals, and the home planet is a vast desert with no view, and even the most precious water resources are extremely scarce!

“Water is the foundation of everything, often even more important than crystal stone, so the crystal boundary has vast crystal resources, the level of civilization is still low. When the Federation of Stars and Glows discovered it, the natives of the crystal community struggled in severe drought, almost joyfully joining the Federation in exchange for crystal stone resources.

“While the Federation has been improving the harsh environment on the ground over the past decades, it has not been possible for the desert to be completely governed into good land and to develop an industrial base sufficient for the use of the Black Wind fleet for three or five decades.

“The Crystal Realm can also be ruled out unless the Black Wind Fleet masters the magic of casting a magic treasure with gravel.

“Not to mention the underworld, a world where resources are exhausted, full of radiation, suitable only for ghost repair. After all, the Black Wind fleet is mostly made up of living people, occupying such a dark wind formation, a world of ghosts and spirits, is of no use to them. ”

“In the three core worlds, the blooddemon world follows the path of biochemical technology, refining the facilities of all kinds of biological and chemical warcraft, skeletal warships, and the industrial foundations required by the Black Wind fleet are incompatible, and the native people of the blooddemon world are naturally strong, and there is a lot of expertise in drilling the earth. A hundred years ago, there was a strategic preparation for 'scorched-earth resistance', which really occupied the blooddemon world, and faced a lot of problems such as guerrillas and rebels with cow hair.

“Of course the Uranus world is good, but as the capital of Starlight Federation, its own defense is also the strongest of the Seven Kingdoms, difficult to occupy in a short time!

“To sum up, there are only two targets left that are best suited for the Black Wind Fleet to jump, the Star Realm and the Tianhuan Realm!

“With two inhabitable planets, Iron Plains and Spider Nest, both planets have developed a pretty good industrial base in the past hundred years. By the way, Spider Nest has one of the largest cosmic observatories in the Federation. It has great military value and captures the star world. It not only helps the Black Wind Fleet to rapidly increase its strength, but it also severely weakens the Federation, which is mutually reinforcing and holds the ticket!

“The Tianhuan World is the last world to join the Federation, which has been building the Tianhuan World for less than three decades and has a relatively weak influence on the ground.

“It also boasts a large orbital dock from the time of the Star Sea Empire, offering everything the Black Wind fleet needs to enhance or refine the Black Wind fleet in a short time!

“So maybe we're not facing a game of 'seven picks and one’, but 'two picks and one’, and we have to guess where the Black Wind Fleet is coming from, Starfleet, or Tianhuan! ”