Chapter 1411: Chapter 531: The Might of the Empire’s Number One Powerhouse (Part 3)

The other people, upon hearing this, all smiled and nodded.

"It seems everyone has reached a consensus. I actually think the same. Since that’s the case, pass down the order and start the preparations. In two hours, the rear fleet will ignite their engines, begin to tighten the net, and give Earl Red Blade no chance of escape, using this Dust Seven Black Hole as his burial ground."

Fudin issued the pre-battle orders.

Next, he personally repeatedly reviewed the plans provided by the military operations system, cross-referencing them in his mind to prevent any omissions.

As for other commanders under the Pakuiao Pirate Group, holding 15% of the Alliance Army’s total forces, they were doing similar things, though each memorizing their respective detailed plans.

The other four families of the Five Elder Clan and commanders from other participating pirate groups were largely doing the same.

Though everyone spoke arrogantly, their bodies were honest, fully focused with twelve parts attention.

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Two hours passed, and the net began to tighten.

With the rear fleet’s engine mediums fully activated, the previously unguarded Second Red Blade Expeditionary Army finally sensed the lurking danger and began to react.

The many warships of the Second Expeditionary Army started to individually adjust their speed, gradually converging from a line formation into a sharp cone, accelerating instead of slowing down, preparing for a forced rush forward.

In space navigation, turning a whole fleet around isn’t easy; instead of forcefully turning and losing speed, it’s better to keep charging ahead—it might provide a glimmer of hope.

This is a conventional reaction, mundane but anticipated by the Alliance Army.

Almost simultaneously, hundreds of thousands of large warships began to read data support provided by military-grade powerful radars to inertially lock onto Red Blade Fleet’s warships.

At the moment when inertial locking was completed, one Information Flow Interference Bomb after another exploded in space, attempting to disrupt Red Blade Fleet’s counter-locking.

Subsequently, long-range missiles of varying performance, produced or bought by various pirate forces, were launched one by one, heading straight for the distant Red Peak Fleet.

A shout rang out from Fudin’s staff department, "Interference failed! The opponent’s radar performance is extremely strong, completing counter-locking during the short time our missiles were locked, and has launched missiles! Overall locking precision exceeds 80%!"

Fudin remained composed, "All ships deploy full-function interference bombs, adjust the reflection harmonic frequency to the third band. All ships move laterally ten kilometers. Lateral interception fleet formations continue thickening."

Meanwhile, over at the Red Peak Fleet, since the current interference source is only at the information flow level, the ships here can still use silicon chip computers, and since they are relatively close to each other, radio communication remains open.

Ying Zhenshan promptly ordered another change of formation at high speed, first letting fifty thousand medium warships hidden at the rear of the formation and ten large warships use their maneuverability to speed up to the front for intercepting the opponent’s long-range missiles and preparing for the upcoming assault.

"Fortresses return to the formation interior, open deployment bays, and release small interference devices and reconnaissance devices, activate large anti-gravity fields at maximum power in half an hour to cover fleet formations comprehensively to resist any missed missiles."

After giving this directive, Ying Zhenshan thought to himself that the opponent’s first wave of attack could absolutely not be merely frontal.

The subsequent events were indeed as he expected; half an hour later, the large gravity fields released by fifty fortresses intercepted missiles sweeping in from above, below, left, right, front, and back, like dense rain showers.

Thank goodness they were prepared, the Red Peak Fleet suffered virtually no casualties.

On the other hand, the missiles launched by the Red Blade Fleet demonstrated astonishing self-guided enemy-seeking capabilities at the end, with over 30% of them evading interference bomb effects, re-locking the enemy, and destroying thousands of enemy ships.

Nearly two minutes later, wave after wave of explosive lights flickered in front of the Red Blade Fleet like stars.

This first round of probing saw the Red Peak Fleet, caught off guard, gain a little advantage.

But everyone knew, this was only the beginning.

Yet Ying Zhenshan was not discouraged, aware of where the true win condition for this battle lay.

It resided solely in Ren Zhong displaying the might of the Empire’s strongest.

Indeed, though the Red Blade Clan remains but frontier folk, after reviewing Ren Zhong’s dossier, Ying Zhenshan and these professional commanders had firmly come to believe Ren Zhong was undoubtedly the Empire’s premier strong man.

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