In fact, the firepower of the Empire's Special Heavy Battleships could not even compare to the firepower of the Empire's main warships.
However, they had abilities that the main warships could not compare to. It was because of this ability that the Special Heavy Battleships were known as the special warships for dealing with high-order Insect Kings.
A few years ago, before Wei fully developed the spatial migration technology, the last project he worked on was called …
Multilayer Spatial Shield Technology.
This was a concept that Wei came up with after studying the captured Class 3 Insect King and several of his insect guards.
Although the Class 3 insect guards had basic spatial attacks that could cause fatal damage to spatial shields, their attacks were not of the penetrative type or area of effect type.
In other words, this attack could only destroy the spatial shield. If they wanted to destroy the warship, they would need to launch a second attack.
Since that was the case, why not cover the warship with multiple layers of shields and recycle them?
This was Wei's idea, and it was because of this idea that the Multilayer Spatial Shield Technology was born a few years later.
The Special Heavy Battleships had weak firepower because most of their space was used to install multiple layers of shields and multiple sets of core energy systems.
After all, the Three-Eye Empire did not have an energy source like zero point energy. They could only rely on more energy cores to support the huge energy consumption of the entire warship. As for the weapon systems, they could only compromise and reduce the number of installations.
Just as the first wave of attacks against the Special Heavy Battleships ended, on a battle planet behind the defense zone, Mu was nervously looking at the data he received.
At the end of the day, no one could say for sure how effective the specially-equipped fleet would be against the Type 3 Zerg King before the actual battle.
Mu heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the heavy-duty fleet withstanding the first wave of attacks and coming out unscathed.
Well, it could not be said that it was completely unscathed. There were a total of five layers of shields on the special heavy-duty battleships, and these five layers of shields were damaged to a certain extent. Most battleships lost one or two layers, and some unlucky ones lost three or four layers. But no matter what, the battleships were indeed unscathed.
Moreover, one should not assume that the Multilayer Spatial Shield only had five layers of shields. If that was the case, it could not be called a special warship for dealing with high-order Insect Kings.
The only thing that was truly amazing about this system was that the shields could be recycled.
To put it simply, if two shields were broken in a wave of attacks, then in the next wave of attacks, there would still be three shields that could be used, and the previous two shields would be restored after recharging.
In the end, the five Spatial Shields could be used in a cycle. Unless it was continuously attacked by the Class 3 Insect Guards, it would be difficult to kill it with ordinary large-scale attacks.
Of course, this kind of technology was not without its shortcomings. The main shortcomings were in two aspects.
On the one hand, it required a huge amount of energy. Just the spatial shield alone was already a huge energy user, not to mention the five-layered spatial shield. In order to meet such a huge energy demand, the battleship had to install multiple independent energy cores to supply energy separately. Only then could it barely meet the needs.
On the other hand, due to the installation of multiple space shield systems and multiple sets of independent core energy sources, even if the warship was built into the size of a heavy-duty battleship, space was still tight. This led to constant compromises in the weapon system. In the end, the firepower was only half of that of an ordinary battleship.
"Very good. Let the regular fleets on the defensive line work together with the heavy-duty battleships to push forward and kill the two Class 3 Insect Kings!"
"Yes, commander!"
Seeing the heavy-duty battleships' amazing defense, Mu did not hesitate and decided to seize the opportunity to try and kill the Class 3 Insect Kings directly.
After the order was given, the entire 38th Defense Zone went into action. They, who had been passively defending, suddenly wanted to counterattack.
The sudden change, without any warning, caught the King Zerg that was controlling the swarm off guard and was caught off guard.
The powerful Gravity Cannons constantly let out angry roars in the swarm. Swarms of Zergs instantly fell into the spatial tearing effect caused by the irregular gravity, and were torn to shreds.
In the two most critical areas of the battlefield, which were the areas directly facing the two Class 3 Insect Kings, four heavy-duty battleships were fending off the attacks of the Insect Guards while moving closer to the two Class 3 Insect Kings.
Of course, while the multi-layered Spatial Shield system was powerful, it was not invincible. If they were attacked too many times in a short period of time, the five shields would not be able to circulate in time and there was a possibility that they would be destroyed.
"Commander, the heavy-duty battleships are still 20 million kilometers away from the Insect Kings. We have lost over 3,700 ships."
"Mm, this loss is acceptable. Once they are within 15 million kilometers of the attack range, don't wait for orders. Take down the Class 3 Insect Kings immediately!"
"Yes, commander!"
Mu clenched his fists tightly as he stared at the huge tactical projection in front of him. Success or failure depended on this!
However, this special heavy-duty battleship did perfectly counter the attack of the Class 3 Insect King Guards. Mu seemed to have forgotten that the Class 3 Insect King Guards weren't the ones he was fighting. It could even be said that the Class 3 Insect King Guards were just small fries.
Heniye, who was in command at the rear, naturally saw the changes in the frontline.
Although she was surprised by the heavy-duty battleships deployed by the Three-eye Empire, she did not panic. After all, the multi-layered Spatial Shield was only meant to counter the Class 3 Insect Guards and not all high-level Insect Kings.
Most importantly, Heniye, who had communicated with Alba earlier, had also sent her Class 2 Insect Guards and the two Class 3 Insect Kings to the frontline.
Just as Alba had said, after becoming a Class 1 Insect King, she would no longer be interested in the Class 2 Insect Guards. She might as well send them to the frontline and end the war faster!
Here was her chance!
She immediately sent the order to the frontline through the Insect Race's spiritual network.
"Commander, the two Class 3 Insect Kings have retreated …"
"Damn it. Calculate immediately. If we continue to pursue them, how much will we have to pay to kill them?"
"Yes … According to the calculations, if the heavy-duty battleships pursue them at their fastest speed, it will take at least five minutes to catch up and get within range. However, because they are too deep into the swarm, even if we successfully kill the two Class 3 Insect Kings, the heavy-duty battleships will lose at least half of their battleships!"
The adjutant reported to Mu after running a simulation through the mainframe.
On the other hand, Mu frowned and was somewhat hesitant.