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Chapter 1327: Space Fortress, Ilxia Offensive Operation (2)

Fleet gun battles look very exciting, but if you actually try them out, you’ll find that you’ll completely lose interest after firing a few shots.

The main reason is that the artillery firing distance is too far. After you fire a shot, it takes one or two minutes to see in the sight whether it has hit the target. The ballistic computer then automatically calculates the shooting parameters based on the position of your previous shell and roughly marks the lead time for the next shot.

In other words, it is difficult to have any emotional positive feedback in fleet gun battles, and it will soon become a boring mechanical operation.

This situation will change as the distance gets closer, but it's still similar.

The fleet of the Xuanshui Federation encircled the fortress and the enemy fleet from the left and right sides. This would reduce the density of firepower in the same direction, but the advantage was that the two firepower points would allow the Red Maple Republic fleet to focus on the front and not the back.

The Red Maple Republic, on the other hand, adopted a formation that clearly relied on fortresses for defense. Although it was attacked from both sides, it was still able to concentrate its forces to deal with it.

The two sides engaged in an artillery battle for nearly an hour from the time the first shot was fired. The distance was indeed shortened and the accuracy of the artillery fire was indeed improved, but the losses on both sides were still very few.

That’s how a large fleet gun battle works. It’s not big news even if it lasts for a few days.

The Swan, which had been following the Fifth Fleet, had not fired a single shot because it had not received the order to attack from the cruiser and mobile carrier formations. It was just hiding behind the main fleet of the friendly forces.

Li Chengxi was so bored that he started counting the water ripples on each key on the keyboard before the Swan finally received the order to advance from the fleet commander.

Including the Swan, about fifty cruise ships, more than forty mobile aircraft carriers, and armored transport ships further behind separated from the main fleet.

With the attitude control nozzles fully activated, they descended rapidly and separated from the rear of the main fleet.

The main fleet of the Red Maple Republic was entangled by the fleet of the Whirlpool Federation. The mission of the Swan and the cruisers was to capture the space fortress Ilsha.

It continued to descend until it was completely out of the enemy fleet's artillery depression angle, and then the Swan followed the cruiser formation and changed from a descending posture to level flight.

At this time, the space fortress Ilxia had already arrived diagonally above the bridge porthole. It looked like an irregular, diamond-shaped meteorite.

In fact, it is not accurate to describe it as a meteorite. Scholars believe that it is a large piece of debris broken by the impact of a celestial body, which escaped the gravitational capture of the galaxy and flew to a wandering celestial body in the dark star field.

However, when it was discovered, its location was very good. It was initially used as a forward base for exploring more distant star regions, and was later transformed into a military fortress.

This huge celestial body, which would definitely cause mass extinction of life if it hit the earth, is mainly composed of pure gold and a small amount of other metal mixture.

The appearance is still the same as the original celestial body, but its defense is extremely strong and its interior is hollowed out, so it can provide supplies for three fleets.

Originally, the fortress was equipped with a large number of artillery pieces, and even ion cannons for the fortress, but these things were blown up when the Whirlpool Federation Fleet evacuated, and the Red Maple Republic only got an empty shell.

The Red Maple Republic repaired it during this period, but there was not enough time. Even if the Red Maple Republic had superhuman infrastructure per capita, it would not be possible to restore it to its pre-war state within a month.

The cruise ship formation led the way in front, and directly above was the firing line of intensive exchanges between the main fleets of both sides. The ion beams and physical shells that were almost invisible to the naked eye almost set this star field on fire.

Alyssa stared at the distance to the fortress on the monitor. At this time, An Yun reported:

"A large number of signals have been detected, and the enemy's space fighter units are dispatched." The Swan was luckier this time, because the Red Maple Republic's cruiser formation went to intercept the cruiser formation of the Rotating Water Federation's Third Fleet. They had a limited number of cruisers, and when faced with enemy forces approaching from two directions, they could only intercept one. If they divided their forces, they would not have enough combat power.

But intercepting only one does not mean ignoring the other. The space fortress Ilxia can certainly launch a large number of space fighters.

And after An Yun's report, rows of ion beams and physical shells from the direction of the space fortress diagonally above also covered the cruiser formation where the Swan was located.

A blue shield appeared, protecting the Swan from direct fire. Alyssa glanced at the screen:
"A new route has been set. We will advance along this route and conduct targeted elimination of the defensive firepower on the surface of the fortress."

Then she connected the hangar's communication and said to Fang Lanyin who appeared on the screen:

"Let Hall and Li Chengxi go. The firepower network ahead is too dense. For now, we can only get this close."

Fang Lanyin nodded, and after hanging up the phone, she asked the mechanics to hurry up and perform the final flight check before departure.

Hall was already in the cockpit when she heard the combat alert. She even sat there for more than an hour to make sure she could attack at any time.

She covered her left chest with her hand, trying to calm her heart which was beating violently due to nervousness, but because she was wearing a heavy void protective suit, the effect of this operation was not obvious.

"Don't be nervous, just be yourself as usual."

This time, Li Chengxi did not run away on his own initiative. He said to Hall:
"If you feel unsure, you'd better fly a space fighter."

The reason why Hall was nervous was that this time she decided to attack in a Silver Tornado instead of her usual space fighter.

After Hall joined, Vilania had completely become a communicator and she hardly touched Silver Tornado anymore.

Originally, Villania was not a pilot. She piloted the Silver Tornado only to make up for the shortcoming that there was no one to guard the Swan after Li Chengxi's attack. With Hall, she was naturally not needed.

Now to her, Silver Cyclone was just an interest, but Hall was very interested in Silver Cyclone.

The Storm Kingdom is preparing to replace its old space fighters with magic mechas. This cutting-edge weapon is likely to become popular in the future.

Pilots are also technical personnel. If they do not maintain a learning attitude, they will soon be eliminated.

Whenever Hall had time, she would use the Silver Tornado simulator for training. In particular, the data she used for training was from when Li Chengxi was flying the High-Mobility Zaku. It can be said that Hall has become very skilled in operating this 18-meter-level humanoid mecha.

But the first time I actually drove it into the battlefield, I was definitely nervous.

Every time this happened, Hall was very envious of Li Chengxi. He seemed to have no tension at all and was as calm as if he was sitting on the sofa at home.

Her intuition was correct; Li Chengxi was indeed sitting at home.

(End of this chapter)