Chapter 273: The Might of the People's War

This…… this is impossible!!

Lang Xiaotian looked at the star map; the forces emerging from all directions, whose number even exceeded his own massive fleet, left his mind blank.

Intelligence! The intelligence is wrong!

According to the intelligence given by the Biteen Empire, the Yanhuang Civilization's main fleet, at most, does not exceed 500,000 ships!

But what is this before our eyes?

Three hundred million? Or four hundred million?

Where did these fleets come from?

"A rabble!"

After the initial shock, Lang Xiaotian was quickly overwhelmed by endless anger.

He forcibly suppressed his unease and roared at the entire fleet.

"Take a good look! These are nothing but riffraff cobbled together by the Yanhuang Civilization!"

"They are the eliminated trash civilizations! No matter how many, they are just a bunch of moving targets!"

"Issue my orders! Maintain the defensive formation with the central fleet! The 'Wolf Fang' fleets on the left and right wings, launch an offensive! Tear them apart!"

"Let them see just what unbridgeable chasm exists between a high-level Third-level Civilization fleet and these riffraff!"

With his order, about twenty million of the most elite 'Wolf Fang' warships from the wings of the Sirius Fleet broke away from the main formation.

They were like two extremely sharp wolf fangs, actively advancing to meet the Interstellar Liberation Vanguard Army's fleet that had come around to flank.

On the countless ferocious wolf-head-shaped prows, the terrifying 'Spatial Annihilation Cannon' began to charge slowly.

The destructive space fluctuations frenziedly converged at the muzzle, as if in the next second they would completely tear apart this starry sky.

However, facing the enemy's proactive attack, the Chief Commander of the Interstellar Liberation Vanguard Army, Mao Xinyang, issued an order that left all Sirius Fleet commanders baffled.

"Comrades!"

His voice echoed inside every vanguard warship: "Our mission is not to clash head-on with the enemy! The instructor taught us to unleash our subjective initiative and use every favorable condition to strike the enemy!"

"All fleets, open fire freely! After shooting, run! Absolutely no frontal positional collisions with them!"

"Our mission is to harass! To wear down! To use what we do best,

to drag this pack of arrogant wolves to death in the vast ocean of people's war!"

"Yes! Commander-in-Chief!"

The battle instantly ignited!

The twenty-million-strong 'Wolf Fang' fleet surged forward with fierce momentum.

They quickly discovered that it felt like punching a ball of cotton.

Those Holy Hall warships and those oddly shaped miscellaneous fleets simply refused to engage in positional combat!

They were like a bunch of slippery loaches, using their familiarity with the terrain of this chaotic star field to shuttle back and forth between the asteroid belt and unstable space rifts.

"Boom!"

Behind an asteroid belt, suddenly over a hundred Holy Hall warships surged out, unleashing a concentrated volley of space-cutting fire at a Wolf Fang squadron.

Before the Wolf Fang squadron could react, adjust the gun muzzle.

Those over a hundred Holy Hall warships had already made a short-distance space jump, vanishing without a trace.

"Report! In sector C-3, one of our patrol units was ambushed! Lost seventeen warships!"

"Report! In sector F-9, detected a large enemy fleet! Requesting support!... Wait! They fled!"

"Report! Our logistics supply ship was ambushed by a silicon-based fleet that came out of nowhere! They fired a few space-cutting shots and fled!"

Although the Wolf Fang fleet's Spatial Annihilation Cannon is immensely powerful, each firing consumes a huge amount of energy and requires a long charge time.

They are like a strongman swinging a heavy hammer, yet unable to hit the annoying flies buzzing around them.

Instead, their own fleet continually suffers losses amid the enemy's endless, unstoppable harassment and sneak attacks.

On the bridge of the Greedy Wolf, Lang Xiaotian watched the rising loss numbers on the battle damage report, trembling with rage.

For the first time, he felt the frustration and helplessness that the silicon-based primary brain once felt facing the Star Sea Divine Cult's guerrilla tactics.

The feeling of having strength nowhere to use, like punching at empty air, almost drove him mad.

"Trash! A bunch of trash!"

He frenziedly roared into the comms channel: "Chase after them! Scatter the pursuit! Get me to hunt down those damned mice,

from their holes, one by one, and crush them!"

Under Lang Xiaotian's strict order, the originally fairly disciplined 'Wolf Fang' fleet began to disperse, forming countless small pursuit units that rushed in all directions.

But this played right into Mao Xinyang's hands.

"Comrades! The enemy has taken the bait! They've dispersed! Our opportunity has come!"

Mao Xinyang's voice, tinged with excitement: "Learn the essence of the instructor's 'sparrow warfare'! Concentrate superior forces, divide, encircle, and then eat them up one bite at a time!"

On the battlefield, classic guerrilla tactics began to unfold in succession.

Several vanguard army decoy squads lured a Sirius pursuit formation of over a thousand warships into an area of extremely chaotic gravity field.

When the Sirius formation's speed was forced to drop due to the chaotic gravity,

Tens of thousands of silicon-based warships and the support fleet of a Second-level Civilization, lying in wait in the surrounding asteroid belt, suddenly surged forward!

The dense barrage poured down like a torrential rain, instantly submerging that isolated Sirius formation.

On another front, a Holy Hall fleet, using stealth technology, silently slipped behind another Sirius pursuit formation,

launching a saturating attack on their engines.

By the time the Sirius formation turned around, they had already vanished.

In just a few short days of battle.

The Sirius Fleet's twenty million elite 'Wolf Fang' forces suffered losses of nearly thirty percent!

And the allied forces' losses were minuscule.

The loss ratio actually reached an astonishing one to nine!

The Sirius Fleet lost nine warships, while the Yanhuang Civilization side lost only one!

This result left Lang Xiaotian and all the Biteen Empire high-ranking officials watching the battle through long-range observation devices feeling deeply incredulous.

They could not understand how a fleet composed of 'small fry' could, with some 'unsavory' tactics, beat their proud elite forces to the point of having no power to fight back.

"This... this is the 'People's War'?"

Inside the Biteen Empire's observation room, a senator muttered to himself, his face full of confusion.

Lang Xiaotian finally realized that if this continued, his twenty million elite troops would be worn to death by these 'small fry' before even seeing the Yanhuang Civilization's main force.

His eyes turned blood-red, and reason was completely consumed by anger.

Thus he made a crazy decision.

"All fleets! All fleets, hear my order!"

He roared into the communicator: "Abandon defense! Abandon those damn flies! Target—straight ahead, those hundred thousand Yanhuang main force ships!"

"Concentrate all our firepower! Spare no cost! Smash them for me!"

"Capture the leader first to capture the bandits!"