Chapter 425 Exposed Weaknesses

A few days later, the Imperial Fleet, which was cruising at sublight speed, was about to approach the exit of the new route. Ten million Tiger Shark-class warships in the fleet suddenly dispersed into the sea of ​​asteroids.

The remaining distance allowed the Tiger Shark-class warships to use their small bodies to flexibly move between asteroids.

The three main fleets of the Empire continued to move forward with huge energy-gathering disks to attract the enemy's attention.

Although the multinational coalition fleet waiting outside the channel found that the unknown fleet had begun to slow down, it did not arouse their vigilance.

Because in their view, it was normal for warships to slow down when they knew that a battle was about to take place.

These people did not know that they were gradually surrounded by the Imperial Fleet.

Just behind them, tens of millions of warships were sailing out of the asteroid belt.

A few days later, the slowly advancing Imperial Fleet was only one step away from the exit of the new route.

The atmosphere in both the Imperial Fleet and the multinational coalition fleet ambushed outside began to become tense.

Li Mingze immediately descended on the Empire's expeditionary fleet after Sith dealt with some important matters.

"Long live His Majesty!" In the flagship of the First Fleet, Lei Ming saw Li Mingze walking into the bridge and hurriedly saluted.

"Where is our Tiger Shark Fleet currently?" Li Mingze nodded gently and sat on the command seat in the middle of the bridge.

"The Tiger Shark Fleet is all in place, and now they are hiding behind the asteroids waiting for orders." Lei Ming waved at the holographic screen, and a hologram of the current star zone appeared in front of Li Mingze.

The green dots representing the Empire Tiger Shark Fleet in the hologram have all been hiding behind the outermost asteroids.

The multinational coalition fleet outside the asteroid sea was unaware of this and continued to defend the entrance to the new route.

"Are the natives in the asteroid sea also restrained by their IQ because of the asteroid sea? This asteroid sea is not solid." Seeing the enemy so "straightforward", Li Mingze couldn't help but start to worry about the enemy's IQ.

"Order the Tiger Shark Fleet to attack. Wait until all the multinational alliance fleets that are in ambush turn their warships around before we attack." Li Mingze ordered Lei Ming on the side.

"All Tiger Shark warships attack, form an encirclement formation to surround all these enemies!"

"The First, Second, and Third Fleets of the Empire wait for His Majesty's orders before intervening in the battle!" Lei Ming handed over all the command to Li Mingze after giving the orders to the First, Second, and Third Fleets.

All the Tiger Shark-class warships that received the flagship order ignited all their thrusters and rushed out from behind the asteroid.

The many alliance fleets that were originally focusing on the entrance to the new route suddenly found countless red dots behind their fleets on the radar.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! A large number of enemy ships have been found behind us!"

"We have been fooled. The warships in the channel are their decoy! Turn the bow and prepare for battle!"

With a series of orders issued by the commander of the alliance fleet, the warships began to turn their bows in a panic, trying to aim the main guns of the warships at the imperial warships behind them.

At this moment, countless Imperial warships rushed out from behind the huge body of the Imperial Energy Concentrator.

When the Imperial battleships (pre-dreadnought class) rushed out after the cruisers and destroyers.

Many soldiers and officers of the multinational alliance swore that they had never seen such a huge warship in their lives. The huge ship body of 10,000 meters long was like a mountain pressing on their hearts.

Their battleships of more than 2,000 meters long were like babies under the battleships of the Empire.

"The Imperial Army is invincible!" The information broadcast from the Imperial fleet reached the ears of the officers on the bridges of the Alliance warships.

Everyone's eyes were full of fear. Whether it was the tens of millions of warships behind them or the tens of thousands of meters long behemoth in front of them, they all showed the strength of this empire.

"Retreat immediately! All warships retreat immediately!" The Alliance commander soon found that their fleet was in a disadvantageous position.

If the Imperial fleet was allowed to attack from the front and back, it was likely that these warships would be hit in the thrusters after just a few rounds of exchange of fire, and become targets suspended in space for slaughter.

Being attacked from behind is a taboo in space warfare. After the shield is broken, the armor at the front of the warship can still play a protective role, but the thrusters at the rear of the ship are not protected by any armor and are extremely fragile!

Rather than staying here to fight a battle that is doomed to fail, it is better to retreat to the rear while the shield is not broken and join the large forces that are being assembled by various countries!

All the warships of the Alliance broke out before the Tiger Shark-class warships were completely surrounded.

Only a small number of warships were destroyed by the weapons of the Imperial Fleet. By the time the Tiger Shark-class warships arrived within range, the Alliance fleet had already entered sub-light speed and left the battlefield.

This is not the fault of the Empire's fleet. Although the Asteroid Sea countries that focus on sub-light speed flight have not developed super-light speed technology, their technology in thrusters is much more advanced than that of the Empire.

All the countries in the Asteroid Sea have tilted their technology to how to increase the speed of warships.

The faster the speed, the stronger their mobility between star systems.

All civilizations in the Asteroid Sea have completely distorted their technology trees.

In addition, the secret fighting in the Asteroid Sea is constantly going on, and the upgrading of various weapons and technologies is also very rapid. The countries in the Asteroid Sea are only one level weaker than the Empire in various combat technologies.

Generally speaking, the fleets of the Asteroid Sea countries are weaker than the Empire Fleet in combat effectiveness, but their ability to sail at sublight speed is far stronger than the Empire Fleet.

After the Alliance Fleet entered sublight speed flight, the Empire Fleet, which was nearly 30% slower than these Alliance warships, was left far behind.

When the shadow of the Empire Fleet could no longer be seen, the commander of the multinational alliance suddenly found that he knew where the weakness of the Empire Fleet was.

That is, at conventional speed, these Empire warships could not catch up with their own warships.

What does this mean?

This means that he can use the tactics of flying kites to slowly grind down the Empire Fleet, which is much stronger in quantity and quality!

Thinking of this, the Alliance Commander showed a smile of confidence on his face.

At this time, Li Mingze also realized that the weakness of his fleet at conventional speed may have been discovered by the enemy.

If he can't think of a way to solve this weakness, the enemy may use the tactics of flying kites to deal with his fleet.

If he didn't want his fleet to be bled to death, he could only withdraw the fleet from the Xiaoxin Star Sea!

This was absolutely impossible. The Imperial Fleet would never leave the territory that had existed "since ancient times" just because of these weak "ants"!