Force field overlay!

Intelligence on the battlefield is not in the usual sense, such as the movement of the opponent's army, logistics, etc., but real-time information on the battlefield, such as how many ships are left in the battle, their strength, their current position, their next attack direction, their means of attack, etc. Even the trajectory of a shell fired by the opponent, its energy level, the damage it can do to their ship, etc., is part of the real-time intelligence on the battlefield. Even the trajectory of a shell fired by the opponent, its energy level and the damage it can do to one of our ships are also part of the real-time battlefield intelligence.

The real-time battlefield intelligence was collected through the monitoring satellites scattered around the battlefield. In terms of real-time battlefield intelligence processing, Hawke was undoubtedly far superior to the other civilisation. This was an ability unique to the combination of intelligent beings and electronic systems that no one could replicate.

In the beginning, it was through this ability that Hawke had won the war against the Lizardmen. Now, with this ability, Hawke hoped, once again, to defeat the Lucan civilisation.

This ability would be on full display once both sides entered the close combat phase.

After each side sent out their energy weapons, it took less than thirty seconds for the energy weapons to get close to the other fleet.

Due to the presence of over-range communications, Hawke began his dodging manoeuvres in advance. The result of the dodge was that four hundred and thirty-two ships were destroyed, including, among others, three prefectural ships.

"The other party's energy weapons, faster than mine and more powerful than mine, are really worthy of being a level three civilisation." Hawk was secretly shocked.

"But, I guess my battle results won't be lower than it, after all, I did give them network coverage." Hawk pondered, setting his eyes on top of the opposing fleet.

Hundreds of thousands of energy cannonballs wavering with a ghostly blue glow swiftly killed the opposing fleet, and Hawke saw that there were dozens of energy cannonballs that hit an opposing ship the size of his own country class at the same time, and the moment these energy cannonballs made contact with the ship's energy shield, they exploded with a loud bang, and immediately, the Lucca civilization ship's shield erupted with an intense flash of light. Hawk even keenly saw a gush of smoke rising from the rear of the country-class ship.

"Is it the energy supply system supporting the energy shield that was burned up?" Hawke made a dark guess.

The energy shield required a constant supply of energy, which Hawke was unable to create at the moment, but that did not stop Hawke from analyzing it. Hawke knew that after an attack that exceeded its energy capacity, the energy supply system would burn up due to overload, and at the same time, the energy shield would dissipate, which meant that the energy shield was broken.

Obviously, this country-class ship was hit by dozens of energy cannons at the same time and had its energy shield broken. After losing its energy shields, there was only one end left for it, and that was to disintegrate in the massive energy fallout.

This was the first Country Class ship to be destroyed by Hawke. After the explosion of this country ship, Hawk saw that a county ship was hit by more than 300 energy shells at the same time, and also exploded with a burst of white light. The aftermath of its explosion destroyed both of the village-class ships next to it.

"Well done!" Hawke couldn't help but let out a cheer.

In total, Hawk had fired more than 30,000 energy shells of varying power, so that each enemy ship, on average, would be allocated forty of them. But because Hawke had fired them according to the network coverage, most of the shells would have been wasted. Even so, in the midst of this encounter, Hawk had destroyed over a hundred of the opponent's ships, which included three county-level ships.

"In this encounter, two percent of my ships were destroyed, and the other side, one and a half percent of my ships were destroyed! That, already, can be considered a victory!" This result of the battle encouraged Hawke greatly. After all, the ships at ε Eri c were only one-fifth of Hawke's power.

The exchange of energy cannonballs would be the last round of long-range attacks from both sides. The start of the energy barrage was a sign that the two sides were about to enter the close combat phase. The close combat phase is where the ships will suffer the most damage. It was also the stage where the two sides would decide the winner.

Hawke had no hope of winning. In Hawke's plan, ε Eri c was to be the first line of defence, a drain on the opponent's forces. ε Eri b and the asteroid belt, as well as the solar sails and the ε Eri a home base, were where the opponent would be destroyed.

The distance between the two sides is only 60,000 kilometres. In the middle of space, this distance can be crossed in just a few seconds.

This meant that the two sides were going to truly enter into the most brutal, fierce close-quarters killing phase.

Hawke was in high spirits and was all set.

The exchange of energy shells continued, with ships disintegrating and exploding into a cloud of ash. Each side had set up a net in space, and there were at least tens of thousands of satellites from both sides present in the area. Beyond the frontal battlefield, these satellites are engaged in another battle of the dragons.

That is, the battle for concealment, the battle for intelligence gathering, the battle to detect and destroy the other satellite first, that is, the battle for ... combat power.

Hawke found that he was at a disadvantage. Because these satellites under their own arrangement, in order to concealment will have to sacrifice the volume, sacrificing the volume is the same as sacrificing an adequate energy supply, their own satellites, does not have the ability to attack, but only the ability to gather information.

But the other side's satellites, while maintaining concealment, actually had the ability to attack! In the midst of this flanking war, Hawke was at an absolute disadvantage, constantly having his own satellites discovered and destroyed by the other satellite.

This represents a much more efficient way of using energy. This was a technological gap that Hawke could do nothing about, except to divide up some of his ships to deal with the opposing satellites, and to speed up the production of satellites in his internal factories, launching new satellites on a constant basis to barely maintain his intelligence gathering capabilities.

Amidst the exchange of shots from the ghostly blue energy shells, the distance between the two sides, only forty thousand kilometres remained. At this distance, Hawke suddenly sensed that something was not right.

The temperature of his own ship, the outer shell, suddenly rose, and, inside the ship, sparks began to burst out, as if the wiring had short-circuited.

"What's going on?" Hawke immediately began his research. The result of his research made Hawk gasp in shock.

"This, this is the attack method of a level three civilization? How is it possible? How could there be such a perverted attack technique?"

Hawk sensed that there was a special force field emitted from above the other party's flagship-class ship, enveloping an area of tens of thousands of kilometres in circumference.

It was field force, like a magnetic field. As Hawke's ship continued to move within this force field, a burst of inexplicable energy was born from the ship's shell, which then spread throughout the entire ship.

It was as if it were a generator, a generator on Earth, cutting magnetic lines with a conductor, and a constant flow of electricity would be generated. Here, Hawke's ship cut the magnetic lines of the opposing force field and this inexplicable energy was generated.

Hawke did not understand the nature of this energy, but the consequences of this energy were already evident.

Already, the shells of hundreds of village ships had been heated to red, the internal wiring had been damaged by the heat, and even the fusion reactors had been affected, and Hawke saw that five village ships had exploded into pieces with a bang.

Hawke finally understood why his own torrent of bullets had failed to hit the other side in the first place. The opponent's fleet was enveloped by this strange force field, and the torrent of bullets moving at high speed entered this force field, and because of the excessive speed, the energy accumulated very quickly, so they were quickly detonated the nuclear bombs inside the bullets, and exploded before they could hit the opponent.

Yet, Hawke saw that the other ship was still flying freely through space without being affected at all.

"What kind of technology is this? How can we still fight this battle?" Hawk cursed and thought sharply.

"No matter how godlike the technology is, it cannot go against the most basic physical theory. My ship, and theirs are within the same force field, it doesn't make sense that my ship would be under attack and theirs would be immune. At the moment ... there are only two possibilities, one is that their ship is made of a material that is immune to force field attacks, but that seems unlikely, or two, that their ship's energy shield is insulating them from such force field attacks. That's a strong possibility... Damn, this is bullying me for not having energy shield technology."

"Something has to be worked out to counter ... otherwise, one movement and my ship will be affected, which is a sure defeat for me. Is the flagship? Are the shields tough? Then let you taste it, my newly developed weapon."

The largest ship on the other side was 1,500 metres long, 400 metres wide and 50 metres high. It was a truly gigantic ship, even a little bigger than Hawk's largest ship, the Columbia.

One can only imagine how abundant the energy supply is for such a huge ship. The abundant energy supply meant that the energy shield was extremely tough, but Hawke was confident that he could break through it and destroy his ship.

Because Hawke had a sure-fire, killer technique.

That is, the teardrop shell fragment!

"Energy cannon improved, one hundred cannon bursts!" Hawk gave the order.

Through the method of firing energy weapons, a single energy fragment could reach ten times the original maximum power of an energy cannonball. A hundred cannon burst was to fire all of the one hundred pieces of teardrop shell fragments that a City ship was equipped with, all at once.

How powerful would this be? Hawke had not tested it, so Hawke did not know. But Hawke believed that it should be possible for two City ships to use a hundred cannon burst together to break through their flagship's energy shield.

"Let's play a big game." Hawke was determined, "ε Eri C, six armed satellites, twelve energy weapons in firing position, fire together! To bring down their flagship first and break this force field!"