The first sign of danger on the track is the sudden failure of the communication system, which isolates the connection between different battle groups.
Although nominally, Losa was the general leader of the coalition fleet, he did not have the power to directly command other team ships, and when the technicians tried to solve the sudden loss of contact, Losa was distracted by the threat of approaching orbit from the darkness.
A small and powerful fleet, no matter how many troops it had, rushed towards Pai Shangxing.
The patrol frigates and destroyers were the first to discover the oncoming enemy ships. In the case of poor communication, the destroyers used their navigation lights to exchange basic information, ignited the thrusters and drove away from their original orbit. The detection device of the boulder fortress was also activated and scanned space.
A few minutes later, they discovered twelve enemy ships.
Then, under the command of Lothar, the Eternal Loyal flashed the signal lights at the patrol fleet - lined up to prepare to launch the torpedo.
The boat rushed forward with amazing technology and precision, speeding up the attack.
Under the deck, the orderly thrusts into the launch tubes, while on the bridge, the ordnance officer enters the course and speed, and the target orientation and coordinates for the weapons on the ship.
In less than five minutes, the ships sent out a signal of preparation.
When the patrol troops enter the best torpedo range, the signal is sent: For the Emperor - fire all torpedoes.
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When the Black Legion's battle group reached the vicinity of Pai Shangxing, the patrol troops had already prepared, and no less than 15 enemy destroyers and frigates formed three squadrons to form a standard crescent formation.
Subsequently, the Black Legion battle group also began to change its formation.
The three main battleships of Wuxiu Resentment, Red Glory and Immortal Steel are in the front, the two cruisers, Sacred Corrosion and Wild Howling, form the rest of the flanks, while the Scarlet Slayer's other strike cruiser is behind the main line.
Meanwhile, a bloated battleship with the Iron Brotherhood logo broke away from the formation and activated the huge engine and jumped in the dark.
Within minutes, the fully armed assault ship accelerated its speed, reaching its limit speed before the destroyer formation reached its limit range.
The Brotherhood of Steel has participated in many blockade battles, and their experience in this area prompted them to create a strange ship called the "Siege Ship".
The ship was transformed from a cruiser and was equipped with a super-spec engine, allowing it to accelerate to a striking level in a short period of time. What is even more distinctive is that it is covered with four layers of armor, and it is also designed with an anti-torpedo belt very rarely, while its weapon array is deployed under armor.
The concept of this ship is very simple. It takes damage in exchange for the destruction of its enemies. It will never fire before receiving the enemy. After the armor absorbs the first wave of fire concentration, it will attack the enemy at close range.
It is actually not very meaningful in conventional naval battles, but it will perform strange results when breaking through the blockade.
Ten minutes before the battle begins, the patrol suddenly accelerates, and as Irongrasper expected, the small ships opened their bow tubes and fired a series of deadly torpedoes at the oncoming cruiser.
More than a dozen huge missiles rushed towards the reconnaissance squadron in huge arcs, each of which was powerful enough to blow a destroyer-sized spacecraft to pieces.
The siege ship rushed directly over.
At the same time, the small warships in the fleet also set up as widely as possible to avoid the upcoming torpedoes.
They formed the first air defense net, and the laser cannon emitted scorching light, piercing the torpedo's shell and detonated the huge fuel tank.
The huge explosion flashed angrily in the darkness, and the blazing gas and debris quickly dissipated in the airless void, almost half of the torpedoes were destroyed.
The artillery on the battleship filled the vacuum in front of the boat with a veritable wall of fire, and the light spear passed through the burning arc in front of the cruiser, mixing together to form a boiling area composed of metal vaporization and radioactive gases.
Five torpedoes slid through the large vortex, and they passed through the remaining space to reach their target in less than a second, and when the small warship's near-defense guns fired, they turned into a smaller cloud of bombs.
But three still hit the ship, one of which hit the bow of a plundering ship. The plasma warhead of the torpedo tore the light armored destroyer apart, instantly turning them into expanded gas clouds and debris.
Siege ships passed through the residual gas of the intercepted torpedoes, and surveyors stared at their telescopes, searching for the engine's spiders and horses in the stormy disturbances.
Soon, the range and vector are calculated and transmitted to the torpedo, which feeds data into the fatal attack.
The patrol fired a second wave of torpedoes, this time focusing on the siege hull because it was too close.
The torpedo approached, but she was still moving forward.
Soon, the warhead hit the deck, burned through the armor with a ball of plasma, and threw the molten metal into the void.
But the ship was still advancing. Further behind, the Star Knight's warship had already left the orbit of the Pai Shangxing Star and came to intercept the enemy along the long orbit, while the boulder was still in its original place.
The flames exploded on the bow and back of the siege ship, shocking her already injured shell, but she was still moving forward.
Realizing that the other party was close to an incredible distance, the destroyer began to turn away from the burning warship.
At this time, the armor of the siege ship was almost completely destroyed, revealing the hideous truth of weapons.
The next moment, she opened fire.
The destroyer's shield disappeared under the torrent of the macro cannon shells. In an instant, the hull melted and the reactor exploded.
Although the outer hull is still burning, the ship has broken through the blockade line and roars towards Pai Shangxing.
The rest of the empire's fleet rushed to intercept the warship, which seemed to be crazy bulls, but it had accelerated to its limit, like a cluster of burning arrows falling from the night sky, pounced on the planet of death and opened fire at any blocked ship, and the wreckage of various substances rolled behind it like the tail of a comet.
On the command of the throne, the commander of the Black Legion fleet watched as the planet gradually grew larger in front of the bridge's observation deck.
“Speed up.”
Irongrasper looked at the update of the combat situation and issued further orders.
They are now very close to Pai Shangxing, but they are about to enter the range of the weapon array of the Boulder Fortress. For this space fortress filled with the secrets of the Dark Angel, it is not too much to estimate the power.
When the Ultimate Resent reached its maximum acceleration, Irongrasper felt the rumbling of the thruster echoing on the deck, the battlecruiser and its flanking large cruisers used wedge formations, and most of the enemy's firepower had been concentrated on the siege ships, allowing other ships to gain valuable seconds to approach effective range.
Another minute later, Irongrasper issued a new order.