All the weapons on the battleships were warmed up, and the entire defense line was in a state of high tension. These few minutes felt like centuries, and it was almost suffocating.
"It's coming out!"
In the command center, as a loud shout came out, Lampard could not help but become nervous as he stared at the surveillance image in front of him.
In the next moment, a round object emerged from the ocean current. From its appearance, it was impossible to determine what it was.
Its size was about the same as an ordinary orbital assault ship, but its surface was abnormally smooth and flat. It really looked like a big iron ball!
"How do we look at it? Can we scan what it is?"
"No, commander, there seems to be some special energy blocking all our scanning methods. We can't determine what it is at all!"
The soldier in charge of the scan shook his head and replied.
This gave Lombard a very bad premonition.
With the armistice agreement guaranteed by a super civilization, logically speaking, the White Tiger Empire should not dare to act recklessly, but what if?
"Commander, we detected a strange energy fluctuation from this unknown object, and it is rapidly spreading!"
"Don't wait anymore, inform the fleet on the defense line to immediately attack and destroy it!"
"Yes, commander!"
This thing was simply too abnormal. In order to ensure that the defensive line was foolproof, Lampard decided to destroy it immediately so that he wouldn't regret it if something really happened.
However, he did not know that if he ordered the fleet to destroy the object the moment it appeared, it would not be too late, but now …
It was too late!
After the frontline fleet commander received the order, he immediately ordered to fire without any hesitation.
However, even after ten seconds, not a single warship in the fleet had opened fire.
Then …
A large number of emergency reports were sent to the flagship of this fleet. Without exception, all the weapons systems of the battleships had malfunctioned!
Of course, this kind of important matter was immediately transmitted to the interstellar fortress behind.
"What did you say?"
"All the weapons systems of the battleships have malfunctioned for unknown reasons?"
"Yes … All of them?"
Lampard's eyes widened as he asked in disbelief. He wanted to confirm again that he was not hallucinating!
The Moi Organization was a level 9 technological civilization. The battleships built by them, other than necessary maintenance, would not have any problems even if they were not used for thousands of years.
Maintenance …
For advanced civilizations, this was a term that would almost never be used.
What's more, tens of billions of battleships malfunctioning at the same time?
That was impossible!
"Yes, Commander Lampard. The weapons systems of the tens of billions of battleships at the frontline are all malfunctioning!"
"Damn it, it must be that metal ball. There must be something strange about that thing!"
"Commander, the abnormal energy fluctuations in the ocean currents have been detected again. According to our judgment, there are a large number of things passing through, and each of them is the size of a main-force warship!"
Just as Lampard was vexed by the malfunctioning weapons of the billions of warships on the defense line, another piece of news was suddenly reported to him!
"A large number? Can you give me a rough estimate? "
"Commander, we can't get an accurate number, but according to the energy waves, there are at least hundreds of billions of objects the size of the main battleships!"
Hearing this, Lampard's heart skipped a beat.
His own fleet had lost all combat power, and the ocean currents warned him that a fleet of hundreds of billions of battleships was about to arrive.
Wouldn't the 50 billion battleships on his defensive line all become live targets?
"Quick, order the fleet immediately. Even if we can't use our weapons, use our warships to ram it. We must destroy that iron ball before the enemy's main fleet arrives!"
"Yes, Commander!"
Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Lampard knew very well that the strange iron ball was the key to everything.
Then, since weapons couldn't be used, then ram it!
If they couldn't destroy it before the enemy's main fleet arrived, then their entire defensive line would be lambs waiting to be slaughtered!
At the same time, the frontline command on the defensive line had received Lampard's order and immediately sent out a few warships that relied on their sub-lightspeed engines to boost their speed to the maximum and directly crashed into the iron ball ahead.
This was a race of time. Even if they knew that they were going to die, the crew on the Moi alliance warships still did not hesitate. At this moment, they all knew that if they did not destroy that thing, everything would be over!
Two minutes later, the first warship crashed into it at 0.22 times the speed of light. Without any hesitation, a fireball instantly appeared in the void.
"How is it? Did it work? "
In the command center of the interstellar fortress, Lampard asked anxiously after seeing his own warship crash into the iron ball.
"The target … the target is there!"
"Impossible. That's a main fleet crashing into it at 0.22 times the speed of light. How can it be ineffective?"
With such a large mass, such a fast speed, and the enemy not having a protective shield, how could it fail?
But that was the truth. Just as Lampard's deputy reported, the enemy … was still there!
"Damn it, what the hell is this?"
"Order the fleet to retreat immediately, get out of that thing's range of influence!"
Lampard looked at the set of numbers displayed in front of him. It was the countdown to the arrival of the enemy's main fleet, and there were less than three minutes left!
Under such circumstances, if the fleet continued to stay on the defensive line, then when the enemy's main fleet came out of the ocean current, these tens of billions of warships would definitely become live targets.
Therefore, when the remaining time was insufficient for another attempt, Lampard decisively decided to retreat and give way to the ocean current.
This was a last resort, and it was the only feasible plan at the moment.
The powerful defensive line that had been set up for thousands of years was abandoned at this moment without even fighting a battle.
Lampard's heart was bleeding, but there was nothing he could do.
Next, after losing the defensive line at the ocean current, the Moi alliance fleet no longer had the ability to stop the enemy's main fleet from descending. They could only choose to engage in a battle of equal terms.
This was definitely a heavy blow to the Moi alliance fleet.
After all, although the White Tiger Empire's warships were not as far apart as the Moi alliance fleet, they were still stronger.
Once the two sides began to engage in a battle of equal terms, the Moi alliance fleet would definitely be at a disadvantage.
"Immediately send the information here to General Larnas, we …"
"It's dangerous!"