At this moment, that planet was positioned behind the Pegasus Civilization’s first defensive line, at a distance of less than five million kilometers from it. This already counted as the edge of the battlefield. Large numbers of Pegasus Civilization ships were active here, and the Blood Blade Squad’s ships had no way to approach, and correspondingly could no longer harass the Pegasus Civilization’s supply routes.

One could say that by this method, the Pegasus Civilization had completely resolved the insecurity of its supply routes. Moreover, how large is the defensive range of a planet. Near this planet, Xiao Yu did not even dare let Blood Blade Squad ships attack other targets such as interstellar fortresses and interstellar turrets.

Planetary shields were comparatively not very tough. Their defensive coverage was ultimately too large. In a large-scale battle, dispatching hundreds of thousands of ships to attack for a while could break them. But behind the defensive line, Xiao Yu had only a few hundred Blood Blade Squad ships, and that number was absolutely insufficient. Although the Blood Blade Squad was formidable, on the frontal battlefield they had not reached the point of one against a thousand.

Xiao Yu truly felt the pressure. After the Pegasus Civilization moved its capital planet to the front, he found that the attacks from the Pegasus fleet had become much more ferocious, to the point that his own fleet showed a trend of barely holding on. This was, after all, the Pegasus Civilization’s home field.

“I cannot retreat. Retreat would mean the advantageous situation I painstakingly created would completely collapse, and the situation would become irretrievable. But if I continue to grind like this, I do not have enough strength to reverse the situation. Then what should I do.”

Xiao Yu split off some computation power and silently pondered this question. In the supreme military conference room, the Military Committee members were also arguing, discussing how to escape the present predicament.

While Xiao Yu and the committee members were straining their minds, suddenly Xiao Yu’s heart jolted.

“What happened to the Thailand. Where did that attack come from. How could it have such power. What is going on.” Xiao Yu was secretly shocked.

Previously, the Thailand was leading a combat detachment and entangled with a Nation-Class ship of the Pegasus Civilization and several Province-Class ship formations. Although the battle was intense, the Thailand still held the upper hand. But now, out of nowhere appeared an exceptionally powerful strike. This strike instantly grievously wounded the Thailand, causing many instruments inside to fail and even black smoke to begin billowing. It could be imagined that without the Four-Dimensional shield, this one blow would have deprived the Thailand of combat capability.

Fortunately the Thailand still had a bit of maneuverability. Using that last mobility, Xiao Yu controlled the Thailand to hurriedly withdraw from the battle and fall back to the rear for maintenance.

This was a Nation-Class ship equipped with a Four-Dimensional shield. With just one shot, a single strike, the Thailand was heavily damaged and had to leave the fight. What a formidable weapon.

The power of this weapon even matched the force of a full-power spatial rift fired by the Asia. But how could the Pegasus Civilization have something like a space weapon.

“Where exactly did the attack come from. Hm, the attack type is negative matter. It seems a super high-powered negative matter cannon struck the Thailand. A negative matter cannon of such enormous power is unlikely to be installed on a ship, not even on a Continent-Class. Then it can only have been built on a planet.” After a brief thought, Xiao Yu understood. His gaze once again settled on that planet which had come to the rear of the frontline, providing powerful support to the entire battlefield.

Several Blood Blade Squad ships quickly approached the planet, risking being locked on by numerous warships at any moment. They conducted a probe there. Through the faint red planetary shield, highly sensitive optical detectors together with negative matter detectors and high-magnitude energy detectors all began to operate. After more than ten minutes, Xiao Yu reached a conclusion.

“I detected a huge convergence of negative matter tachyons here, with a very high-magnitude energy reaction occurring. Hm, the three-dimensional reconstruction is complete. Then this image should be the appearance of that high-power weapon. It seems my guess was correct. On this planet they built a weapon of such vast power. A weapon like this can already influence the situation of the entire battlefield.”

This super negative matter cannon already counted as a strategic-class weapon, akin to nuclear weapons in Earth’s era, possessing the capacity to change the situation of an entire battlefield. At present, Xiao Yu did not have the technology to construct a negative matter cannon of this magnitude. It was foreseeable that this technology was yet another unique technology of the Pegasus Civilization.

“This Pegasus Civilization is indeed an old Level 5 Civilization with unfathomable foundations. Just when I thought I had pushed them to the limit, they could still produce such a thing. This truly exceeded my expectations. First there was the Galloping Pegasus, able to reach the Europe’s level without relying on a Four-Dimensional shield and space weapons. Now there is this negative matter cannon. This Pegasus Civilization really is something.”

Xiao Yu murmured to himself. For the first time, he realized that he had somewhat underestimated this opponent before.

At the same time, the current condition of the Molian Civilization’s capital planet also sparked a bit of speculation in Xiao Yu.

For the first time, Xiao Yu discovered that a planet could be modified like this.

“The Pegasus Civilization’s technological level is still a little lacking for now. If the Pegasus Civilization’s technology were a bit more advanced, could they make the planetary shield’s defensive capability even stronger, reaching the level of a Continent-Class ship. Combined with planetary engines and this super negative matter cannon that is equivalent to a strategic-class weapon, and combined with a considerable escort fleet, my heavens, what kind of existence would that be. This seems worthy of being called a war star.”

A battle fortress transformed from an entire planet. What a colossal endeavor. Xiao Yu had never imagined that the Pegasus Civilization’s final trump card would be this.

“Such an immense project would likely take no less than several thousand years to complete. It seems that several thousand years ago, the Pegasus Civilization began this work. They installed planetary engines on their capital planet to provide propulsion, installed a planetary shield to provide defense, and installed a super negative matter cannon to provide offense. Because it is a planet to begin with, a fleet centered on this war star would certainly not lack material supply. With an appropriate escort fleet, this force would be truly terrifying.”

In this respect, the Pegasus Civilization had given Xiao Yu another surprise. But it also opened up Xiao Yu’s train of thought and made him think of many things.

The planetary war star before him was imperfect. Because of technological limits, this war star’s defense was too low, its mobility too poor, and most importantly, it could not conduct curvature flight. The technology to make a planet enter curvature flight was something Xiao Yu did not have at present. Perhaps a Level 6 Civilization would, but not Xiao Yu.

But what about after Xiao Yu’s technology advanced. How great would the benefits of constructing a planetary war star be. They could hardly be counted.

Upon seeing the Pegasus Civilization’s capital planet, Xiao Yu quickly made up his mind that when the time was ripe and his technology advanced, he would definitely build such a war star.

“First let us resolve the present matter.” Xiao Yu gave a slight sigh and drew back his thoughts. “Although this Pegasus Civilization planetary war star is imperfect, it is still extremely thorny. A negative matter cannon at this level poses a great threat even to my Continent-Class ships. Nation-Class ships basically must withdraw after taking a single hit, and as for Province-Class ships, they are instantly slain. Fortunately, this super negative matter cannon seems to require a very long preparation time and cannot fire rapidly. But even with such slow firing, I cannot endure it. I must think of a way to eliminate it.”

“If only we could take down its planetary shield. As long as the planetary shield is brought down, the space weapons installed on the Blood Blade Squad’s ships can directly attack targets on the planetary surface. Destroying their planetary engines and even the super negative matter cannon would be very simple. But because of the Pegasus fleet’s obstruction, my main force cannot get through. So how can I destroy the planetary shield.”

Xiao Yu thought rapidly. The Military Committee members, operations staffers, and even some core scientists were all tensely pondering this problem.

Time passed bit by bit. After more than five hours, the super negative matter cannon on that planetary war star fired again. This time the target was the Asia. The Four-Dimensional shield of the Asia flickered violently from that strike, and even Xiao Yu, situated in the ship’s central computer, felt the power of that blow.

“This cannot go on. But what method should I adopt.”

At that moment, aboard the Home, a young scientist connected to Xiao Yu’s communications line.

“To resolve the present predicament is simple. Ram it. Ramming will do.” the young scientist said.

Xiao Yu knew his name and was very familiar with him, because he had always monitored him without the least relaxation.

His name was Xu Junpo.