Frontal battlefield!

Hawke could almost imagine those dreadful aliens in a state of anger.

With the technology of gravitational lensing, Hawke would no longer fear any of their means of concealment. Because, in Hawke's technological plan, it would be impossible for Hawke to master the technology of shielding the gravitational lens after hundreds of years of development at normal speed, and those aliens were only ten years ahead of Hawke.

This means that even if they use mass disruption again and hide themselves again, Hawke will find them and continue to harass them continuously and constantly. And after more than a hundred years of being harassed by Hawke ... they could be harassed to extinction.

Hawke's mood, unusually happy.

After the hydrogen bomb explosion, there was a brief silence above that planet, and after ten minutes, countless powerful radar beams and laser beams were released, sweeping through space in all directions.

But in the first wave of the attack, Hawke had only thrown a single hydrogen bomb, and they were doing nothing more than that.

Hawke simply turned on the detection and reception equipment to maximum power, without releasing any radiation himself. Hawke was like a ghost in the darkness of the night, silently watching the increasingly frantic enemy, waiting for their demise.

The outer planet's all-encompassing defences ceased after two days. Then, after another day, Hawke's second batch of nukes arrived.

The second batch, of twenty nukes, exploded fifteen, and five were intercepted.

This time, their all-encompassing defences lasted five days.

When their all-round defence means had stopped, the third batch of nukes arrived.

Watching the other side being teased by their own means, Hawke let out a vicious breath in his heart.

Hawke was almost laughing. Hawke could almost imagine a scene of sadness on the outer planets to come. Or, as they now lived, all shifted underground to radiation-proof bases, languishing like a groundhog.

Hawke made an estimate that if it were humans, under such a blow as his own, he would have caused the death of billions of humans as of now, the desolation of fields, the contamination of water sources, the widespread plague, and the collapse of society, which could no longer continue to maintain a normal social order.

In other words, in such a situation, humanity is not far from the end times.

Of course, the situation of these aliens might be better than that of humans, after all, their current technology was much more advanced than that of humans back then.

While watching each other, Hawk began to work intensely on the development of new types of weapons. Existing weapons had their limitations, such as the interstellar missile, which could only travel at speeds of a few thousand kilometres per second, which was too slow in space, where millions of kilometres could be counted. And although they are powerful, they are easily intercepted by laser cannons. Until new materials are developed to defend against laser cannon strikes, interstellar missiles are not practical.

Next, there are the various laser weapons. This type of weapon has its limitations: it consumes a lot of energy and has too small a strike range. But it also has its own advantages, which are that at this stage, in space, laser weapons, are almost indefensible.

The beam emitted by a laser weapon is not visible in the usual sense, but an extremely high frequency of invisible light, so its not reflectable by mirrors. The only means of defence is to cover it with something to keep it from shining directly on the hull. This means of defence is of no practical use to Hawke.

But the enemy was an entire planet, and the situation was different from Hawke's. Hawke did not expect to use the laser cannon to destroy the other side, so the hope of destroying the other side would still have to fall on the nuclear bomb.

Hawke silently did his calculations, calculating what his opponent's next move might be, and how he would react to his opponent's next move.

"They should have sensed that I have the means to find them out, so their next step should be to find me out, no matter what the cost, and then, start a massive head-to-head battle ..." Hawke pondered. "A head-on encounter would put the high velocity machine guns to good use, well, first get ready in advance!"

The three largest ships, the Sun, the Voyager, and the Sky Court, while serving as the core of the fleet, also took on duties as weapons processing plants, equipment repair shops, and so on. Thus, within this period of time, Hawk's various equipment was in full swing, and a steady stream of arms supplies were produced and equipped within the gun chambers, ready to be fired at any time.

At the same time, thousands of detection satellites were also produced by Hawke. These satellites, extremely small in size, were extremely simple in function. The reason for their small size was to facilitate concealment, and the reason for their simplicity was that they only had to perform the function of detection, and Hawke did not expect these satellites to strike the enemy. In the event of an interstellar war, these satellites would become Hawke's eyes, collecting all kinds of intelligence on the battlefield for him.

In addition, Hawke had modified a large number of small missiles, which were made of highly concealable materials, they were only a few hundredths of the size and mass of a star missile, and they used conventional high explosive munitions in their combat sections. This means that they will be far less powerful than hydrogen bombs, but will be extremely stealthy and flexible, and cheap enough to be manufactured in large numbers.

The intermittent nuclear strikes continued for a full six months, and finally, as if the outer planets had had enough of Hawk's harassment, they finally used their ultimate tactic when they could not stand it any longer.

Massive, all-sky, no-death-angle detection! Under such detection means, it was impossible for Hawk to continue hiding his form, so Hawk simply stood out on his own.

"Finally choose to fight hard? ... Come on, I've been waiting for a long time!" At this moment, Hawke's heart surprisingly felt a bit hot.

Hawke could already surmise that before, the other party's battle plan had come. They had originally planned to hide themselves and then consume Hawk's strength in secret, and then choose to fight Hawk hard after his strength had dropped to a certain level. In this way, they would be able to take down Hawk without any risk.

But things went exactly the other way around. Not only did they fail to find Hawk out, but they were discovered by him, and were so overwhelmed by his hundreds of nuclear bombs that they had no choice but to choose the path of a hard fight.

After all, if they do not fight hard, perhaps ... they will lose the ability to fight hard with Hawke.

The previous harassment that lasted for half a year, Hawke could be sure that he had caused them great damage, otherwise, they could not have made such a desperate move to fight hard head on to.

The fact that he could force the other side to make such a move meant that Hawke's chance of winning this battle had increased by at least thirty percentage points compared to before. This was the benefit of hiding in the shadows.

Hawke saw their Starfleet for the first time.

Hawke's ships, for the most part, had a butterfly or circular structure, which allowed the ship's hull to be evenly stressed and not be destroyed by powerful overloads. However, the other side's ships were different from Hawke's.

Their airships, with their triangular structures, were a little smaller in length, volume, etc., than Hawke's.

"Perhaps, they have a tougher material as well as a force-bearing structure." Hawke thought.

The reduced size meant greater flexibility, and accordingly, range and firepower had to be diminished. Each had its own advantages, so to speak. Space frontal warfare was not something Hawke feared.

There were more than 500 ships in this outer space fleet, including a flagship ship half the size of a county ship, two ships the size of Hawke's county ship, and the rest, smaller ships than village and township ships.

He led the remaining 800 or so ships, with their fusion engines fired up, towards the front.

The two sides were 30 million kilometres apart and were approaching at 200 kilometres per second. In about forty hours, the two sides will meet head-on.

In twenty hours, the two sides will be fifteen million kilometres apart. Hawke unleashed his probe satellites and stepped out into space ahead of the others.

A large-scale war in space would be unlike any war of its kind on Earth. Because its battlefield was extremely large, possibly occupying hundreds of thousands of kilometres of space in all directions, and in three dimensions, it would be impossible to rely on the detection capabilities of a single ship to gather intelligence in such a situation. That is why the presence of detection satellites is a must. This helps Hawke to grasp the various situations in the whole situation of the battlefield, so that he can better command the battle.

This was the most reasonable way of space warfare that Hawke had deduced after tens of millions of simulations.

Thirty hours later, the two sides were eight million kilometres apart. At this position, the Sun, the Voyager, gradually slowed down and led the escort of over one hundred village-class and country-class ships away from the main force. All the remaining ships, flanking the Sky Court, charged towards the battlefield in a murderous rush.

It was impossible for Hawke to commit all his forces to the battlefield at once. These ships, when war broke out, would become Hawke's rearguard.

Thirty-five hours later, the two sides were four million kilometres apart. The first wave of engagement, was about to come.

A large number of small missiles were launched by Hawke. These missiles were extremely fast and extremely stealthy, causing them to be difficult to intercept, and it was a good deal to use these small missiles to consume the other side's fuel reserves.

Forty hours later, with the two sides half a million kilometres apart, the high-velocity machine guns, specially modified by Hawke, began to fire. The bullets began to rush towards the front. These bullets had extremely high muzzle velocity and were much smaller, basically not much different from ordinary bullets on Earth, so they would be impossible to intercept.

These bullets rely mainly on extremely high kinetic energy to produce their destructive power. This, at this stage of interstellar warfare, will be the most common and most abundant weapon.