The Nether Dragon, which had lost its head, seemed to have been cast into petrification magic and was frozen motionless in the void.
However, its severed neck area emitted bright purple light, and the light became more and more intense.
Wang Chen, who had just successfully beheaded him, suddenly felt a creepy feeling.
Without thinking, he controlled the Ares mecha to fly backwards, increasing the power of the four engines to the maximum!
At the same time, the Nether Battleships and Ghost Fighters scattered around the Nether Dragon fled away as if the doomsday was coming, and some even collided with each other.
The pilots on the Imperial Army's side also realized that something was wrong and retreated one after another.
Just a few seconds later, the headless Nether Dragon sprayed out streams of purple light from all over its body, and then exploded.
This airspace seemed to have detonated a 10-billion-ton nuclear bomb. The shock wave generated by the explosion swept across both the enemy and ourselves who were unable to retreat indiscriminately, submerging them in an extremely violent energy storm.
Wang Chen retreated the fastest due to his timely reaction, thus avoiding the first wave of the Nether Dragon's self-destruction.
Although it was swept away by the energy aftermath, it was able to survive with the force field shield.
But his comrades sacrificed a lot.
This is also something that can't be helped.
Due to the fall of the Nether Dragon, the situation on the battlefield was even more biased towards the side of the Imperial Army.
Wang Chen took the opportunity to retreat into the engine room of the cruiser Glory.
The missiles of the Ares mecha have been burned out and the ship-cutting knife has been damaged. These need to be replenished and replaced.
After the fierce battle ahead, the Glory suffered considerable losses, with its power and defense reduced by more than 25%. However, under the cover of many destroyers and frigates, it still poured powerful firepower into the Netherworld Legion.
Since there are no Titan battleships stationed in the Iron Lion star cluster's space fortress, apart from a few super-large-caliber main guns, this fortress has the strongest firepower.
After a short period of ammunition replenishment, Wang Chen drove the Ares mecha into the vast space again.
However, the situation of the war at this time has completely tilted towards the side of the Imperial Army.
The destruction of the Nether Dragon was undoubtedly a heavy blow to this Nether Legion, and the former's sudden self-destruction also dragged many of the same clan's armed forces into the bottomless abyss.
The battle losses of the Nether Legion have exceeded one-third, and more than half of the previously released ghost fighters have been shot down. Not to mention destroying the space fortress and occupying the star gate, whether they can go back now is a question.
The Nether Tribe is not a life form without emotions and fear. Realizing that the outcome of failure is irreversible, they have withdrawn to the Star Gate area, trying to escape by leaping with the power of the Star Gate.
However, how could the imperial army, which had already gained momentum, watch the remnant enemy escape safely?
A fierce pursuit begins!
Since the Nether Battleship's jump requires time to prepare and cannot succeed once it is interfered with, the two fleets of the Imperial Army dropped a large number of space torpedoes into the Star Gate area.
These powerful space torpedoes do not directly target the Nether Battleship, but interfere with the stability of the stargate space through explosions and prevent the latter from jumping.
Facts have proved that this tactic is very effective. Except for a few Nether Battleships who managed to escape by leaping under the cover of their companions, most of them were lost under the encirclement and suppression of the Imperial Fleet.
Some Nether Battleships tried to rush into the Iron Lion Star Group and use the cover of the planet to escape.
But the Imperial Army had long been on guard against their attacks, and used their strength to sink them one by one without letting any one escape.
The battle around the Star Gate came to an end after an hour.
Wang Chen returned to the Glory again.
He handed the Ares mecha to the logistics personnel in the battleship for maintenance, and went to the main cabin on the upper level.
Although they had just won a great victory and almost wiped out an entire Netherworld army, few of the crew members of the Glorious cruiser had smiles on their faces.
Because in this battle, the seventh fast anti-ship fleet suffered heavy losses.
Because Wang Chen is a glorious noble and a dragoon pilot, he has the authority to retrieve combat data.
Understanding losses is easy.
In this Stargate battle, the Seventh Fast Anti-Fleet Fleet that came from afar lost a total of five destroyers and thirty-seven frigates, as well as hundreds of assault ships.
As for the armed mechas, the battle losses exceeded four digits!
The total number of casualties has not yet been calculated, but it is estimated that it will not be less than 70,000 people - just the number of sacrifices!
Although the cruiser Glorious was generally intact, many of the pilots who launched the mission never returned.
The crew also suffered some casualties.
In such a situation, how can one be happy after winning?
After Wang Chen rested in his cabin for a while, he uploaded his battle data through the internal network.
Each mecha of the Imperial Army is equipped with a dedicated recorder, which can accurately record the results.
This is how merit is determined.
Wang Chen's greatest achievement was undoubtedly the Netherworld Dragon. Although it was not his sole credit for destroying the Netherworld Tribe's strongest weapon, it was no problem to account for 60 to 70% of it.
This single achievement is enough for Wang Chen to be promoted from major to lieutenant colonel.
Coupled with the ghost fighter planes and ghost battleships he shot down, it is estimated that he will be able to upgrade even two levels without any problem!
Although Wang Chen doesn't care much about it.
A few hours later, the reorganized 7th Fast Anti-Fleet Fleet completed the search and rescue work and docked at the base of the Battle Fortress.
Although the battle is over, there is still a lot of follow-up work, and the seventh anti-ship fleet also needs to replenish warships and personnel.
But these matters had nothing to do with Wang Chen, and he didn't want to be "confined" in the fortress base, so he applied for temporary leave to the superiors.
The application was approved the same day.
So Wang Chen left the space fortress and went to Lionheart City, the capital of Iron Lion Star, for vacation.
Iron Lion is a very unique planet with life. Its land accounts for 75% of the planet's surface area, and the Gobi Desert and Rust Plateau account for 75% of the land area. The habitable area is not very large.
However, Iron Lion is extremely rich in mineral resources. More than 98% of the currently known minerals can be found on this planet. Some of the special minerals have very high reserves and are of very good quality.
Therefore, the empire invested huge manpower and material resources in the development of Iron Lion, which led to the booming economy of this planet.
The population of Iron Lion is only 2 billion, mainly concentrated in more than a dozen large and super-large cities. Among them, the capital of Lion City has more than 300 million permanent residents.
With such a large population living together in a livable zone, crowding is inevitable, and the scale of the buildings is the largest and densest that Wang Chen has ever seen.
Lionheart City can be called a super modern cyberpunk city!