The intertwined high-energy beams look so slender against the background of hundreds of kilometers of huge lightning that appears from time to time. Compared with traditional battles where explosions were frequently required, the current battle was like scraping each other's skin. We went back and forth for seven or eight rounds, but no starship exploded.
The Moon Fleet wanted to move to high orbit, but the Lightyear Fleet stayed in low orbit, and Phil, who was bent on annihilating the enemy, had no choice but to stay. At this moment, the communication channel is filled with extremely noisy current noise, and no matter how advanced the shielding system is, it cannot withstand the terrifying power of the storm clouds. Everyone on the channel is trying their best to raise their volume in order to drown out the noise.
Phil's dedicated channel was relatively quiet, but there was a voice that echoed over and over again.
"Commander, the three Champion Knights have moved."
Nonsense... Phil thought to himself, how could they drive here if they can't move?
"Commander! The champion knight opened the gun emplacement armor!"
Pretending to be quite similar... Phil deliberately didn't look at the champion knight, lest he couldn't help but dispatch the fleet to focus the fire.
"commander!!……"
Phil suddenly felt a little annoyed, but this was a command channel and couldn't be turned off. He thought disapprovingly: "It's just three target ships, what's there to make a fuss about?"
"Commander! The Champion Knight's main gun starts charging!"
Phil was suddenly shocked! It can also charge energy. This is too realistic... No! This is a real gun!
When Phil finally reacted, three turbulent high-energy beams were shot at one of his own destroyers that had been seriously injured. Although the power of the main gun was severely weakened, the destroyer did not guard against the three Champion Knights at all. As a result, the weak parts of the hull that had been severely damaged were hit continuously, and the hull was finally penetrated!
A large number of equipment and personnel were thrown out of the ship, and then instantly ignited by the ion storm, turning into several gorgeous fireworks, burning until not even slag was left. Immediately afterwards, dozens of rescue capsules were sprayed out of the ship one after another. Without exception, all the rescue capsules were ignited and turned into ashes in an instant.
The people in the follow-up rescue capsules have seen the fate of the people in front, but they can do nothing but watch their rescue capsules float out of the ship, and then be engulfed by the irresistible light and heat.
These crew members all operate equipment in a closed environment, and the workroom itself can be used as a rescue cabin. This was originally the safest position, but now it has become a reminder of death. The rescue capsules automatically popped out of the ship one after another to avoid possible explosion dangers inside the ship, but ended up rushing into the storm clouds.
One look at the champion knight's firepower, and Phil naturally knew that this was not a real champion knight. A true champion knight's firepower is much more ferocious than this. But it would be nice if he were a real champion knight, at least he wouldn't be fooled like this.
Phil assessed the battle situation, calmly put the three Champion Knights aside, and continued to maintain the current focus of fire. The three Champion Knights are still intact, and their firepower is no stronger than that of other light-year starships. Of course, the rational approach is to ignore them first and cripple the targets that have already been defeated.
It's just that it's painful for Phil to stay sane.
The fighting continued, with the two sides going back and forth in an extremely harsh environment, almost hand-to-hand combat. In the continuing battle, Yuelun still had the upper hand, and after a while, he finally succeeded in destroying a light-year destroyer, and the result was even. And the next thing to be blown up will be the light-year starship. Although the Lightyear Starship has almost reached the pinnacle of single-ship tactics, using armor on various parts of the ship to spread damage, the total firepower is still far behind the moon wheel, so as time goes by, the disadvantages become more and more obvious.
But Phil has a little doubt, why is Chu Jungui gritting his teeth and holding on instead of retreating? The mobile fleet is the most important. Without the mobile fleet, any planetary base or orbital base will be a lamb to be slaughtered.
His questions were quickly answered.
Throughout the battle, the Lunar Legion did not notice that the storm clouds below were rolling more and more fiercely, and gradually swelled, and finally formed a bulge higher than the surrounding area. Within the clouds, the flashes of light became increasingly dense and frequent, as if something was about to break out of the cocoon.
Finally, someone noticed something was wrong and shouted: "There is a huge surge of energy below..."
Before he finished speaking, the bulge in the storm cloud exploded suddenly, bursting out hundreds of terrifying lightning bolts, some of which even reached hundreds of kilometers! The bottom of the battlefield instantly turned into a forest of lightning, encompassing both warring parties!
The dazzling lightning struck the fleets of both sides mercilessly, with infinite power. The Moon Fleet was originally numerous in number and had a large hull, so it naturally suffered much more lightning. These lightning strikes can split the shields with one strike, causing the light cruiser's armor to collapse and the destroyer to be seriously damaged. Only the heavy cruiser can barely withstand two more attacks.
In the lightning forest, a huge shadow seemed to flash past...
Moon Wheel's three starships suddenly lost power and exploded immediately! Phil also lost his calmness and wanted to issue mandatory instructions, but no orders could be issued in the terrifying ion storm. He could only scream desperately: "Climb up and get out of here!"
The flagship burst out with powerful power and struggled to gain altitude, trying to escape the Lightning Forest. Fortunately, the other starships in Yuelun were well-trained. Although there was no order, they all automatically followed the flagship up, which made Phil relieved.
But before he could be happy, the stationary orbital station opened its armor at some point, and then a terrifying high-energy beam shot out, hitting a heavy cruiser!
The heavy cruiser was hit by two lightning bolts in a row, and then took such a shot without any defense. This shot directly hit the damaged hull and dug a large hole ten meters in diameter in the hull!
Even in the raging lightning storm, this shot made the energy sensor of Phil's flagship jump out by a number. The energy reading recorded instantly was 45,000!
The energy readings adopted by the Federation are not absolute units, but are linked to combat power. For example, the power of a standard heavy cruiser is 10,000, and the power of the main guns of the heavy cruisers led by Phil is 15,000. In other words, the shot just now was equivalent to an ordinary four-ship heavy patrol fire. Even measured by Yuelun's new heavy cruiser, it is equivalent to 3 ships.
The attacked heavy cruiser lost more than half of its power and its speed dropped sharply. It struggled desperately to escape from the Lightning Forest. But there is also the Lightyear Fleet that is eyeing Dandan next to it.
Phil closed his eyes and said after a minute: "Let them surrender and tell them that we will come to rescue them soon."
Phil cast a sharp look at the orbital station that had fallen silent again, memorizing all its features. Finally, the remaining fleet regrouped in high orbit. The entire fleet lost one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers and six destroyers, most of which were destroyed in the Lightning Forest.
The Lightning Forest went away as quickly as it came. By now it had almost disappeared, and the Lightyear Fleet also reappeared. Phil was shocked to find that there were only three destroyers missing in Light Years!
(End of chapter)
