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Chapter 1330: Space Fortress, Ilxia Offensive Operation (5)

"Reconfirm the waypoints, we may have gone off course."

In an intense battle, the route needs to be confirmed repeatedly. After all, the fleet is dynamic. Once it deviates too much and becomes alone, it can easily become a target.

Alyssa immediately started the ship broadcast:
"Attention all anti-aircraft gunners, sporadic enemy aircraft have launched torpedoes."

Behind cruise ships like the Swan is a mobile aircraft carrier, and behind the mobile aircraft carrier is an armored transport ship. Void torpedoes still pose a threat, so cruise ships also need to take on air defense tasks.

The anti-aircraft radar and scanner detected vague signals, and Long quickly divided the anti-aircraft gunners into anti-aircraft areas while the main gun was being loaded.

Alyssa leaned in the captain's seat, frowning.

Their mission was to escort an armored transport ship close to the space fortress Ilsha, but now they were blocked outside and their progress was slower than expected.

Turning his head to look at the information sent by the fleet commander, he found that the clearance rate of the Red Maple Republic's firepower points on Ilsha was only 30%. Although the original weapons of the fortress were blown up during the evacuation, some of the artillery built and repaired by the Red Maple Republic during this period still posed a major threat to the cruise ship.

If it were the main fleet, it would be easier to shoot back, but the main fleet has to deal with the main fleet of the Red Maple Republic. Now it can only rely on the cruise ships to fire back shot by shot to open a path for the armored transport ships.

After thinking about it for a while, Alyssa connected the hangar communication:

"Have Hall and Li Chengxi ever come back?"

"Hall came back once to restock the ammunition, but Li Chengxi hasn't yet."

After hearing Fang Lanyin's report, Alyssa thought that Li Chengxi was quite persistent this time. In the past, when he drove the Lionfish, he would have to come back every twenty minutes on average.

It was obvious that the endurance of the new mecha played an important role. Alyssa roughly understood why Li Chengxi had to consume a lot of energy to do it.

Apparently, Alyssa didn't know how dangerous Li Chengxi was carrying...

As the captain, Alyssa didn't actually care what vehicle the pilot was driving, but since Li Chengxi never came back, it meant that the resistance of the Red Maple Republic was extremely fierce.

After all, she knew how capable Li Chengxi was in fighting. Even with him around, they couldn't break through the blockade of the fleet. The Red Maple Republic had obviously arranged a large number of space fighters and pilots in the Ilsha Fortress to make up for the lack of manpower.

Now the cruise ships cannot break through the fire blockade, and the carrier-based aircraft cannot break through the interceptor blockade. The situation is not necessarily bad, but it will slow down the progress of the operation.

A major feature of a pincer attack is mobility, which requires speed. If the enemy's retreat cannot be cut off quickly, the enemy will not only have time to retreat, but may even cooperate with friendly forces in the rear to attack from both sides.

It is unlikely that the main fleet will be able to determine the outcome in a short period of time, but the cruiser formation needs to escort the armored transport ship to the space fortress Ilsha as soon as possible and seize control of the fortress.

While Alyssa was thinking about countermeasures, An Yun reported:
"A new ship target appeared on the radar, coming out of the fortress."

"Do they have reinforcements?"

"The signal shows that it is of the size of a cruise ship, but the signal is severely distorted."

According to the intelligence provided by the Xuanshui Federation, there should be no more enemy forces on the side of the Space Fortress Ilsha, unless there was a major mistake in the intelligence.

But the signal showed that a ship similar to a cruiser was leaving the fortress...

"I see. It must be an armed merchant ship."

Although nearly one-third of the Red Maple Republic's military forces were not annihilated due to Operation Meteor, they are now unable to return to the rear for redeployment.

In other words, the Red Maple Republic is currently facing the risk of insufficient troops, and there is no way to immediately withdraw troops to support the Ilsha Fortress on the supply line.

Since there are not enough ships, we have to think of some crude solutions.

For example, converting a cargo ship that transports supplies into a warship.

This operation is like transforming a courier box into armor and wearing it outside. It is a last resort. Needless to say, the performance of this thing is not as good as the weakest battleship cruiser in terms of firepower, protection and maneuverability.

But the number is really not small.

Soon, Alyssa confirmed her guess through the optical sighting equipment. Indeed, a large number of armed merchant ships were sailing out of the base.

These modified warships may only have one or two guns, and the guns used may have been transported from the rear. They were originally intended to be installed on the space fortress Ilsha, but Alyssa and the others arrived too quickly and there was no time to continue modifying the fortress.

There is indeed a threat. After all, a cannon is also an anti-ship ion beam. However, the cargo ship's energy transmission pipelines, reactor power, and onboard computers are not prepared for combat. It takes a long time to recharge after firing a shot, and the shots are often off target.

The Xuanshui Federation sent two fleets to capture the fortress, while the Red Maple Republic Army defending the fortress only had one fleet plus a reinforced supplementary fleet.

The latter is equivalent to the supplementary force of the former and cannot be regarded as a complete fleet.

This meant that they could only send a patrol ship formation to intercept the patrol ships of the Third Fleet. The Swan followed the patrol ship formation of the Fifth Fleet to clear the fire points on the fortress. The Red Maple Republic Army must have been really out of options, so they sent out armed merchant ships to take the blame.

But as I just said, armed merchant ships do pose a certain threat, especially since cruise ships are not very strong.

Alyssa estimated that the fleet commander would have new orders.

Sure enough, after confirming that it was an armed merchant ship, Alyssa received new information from the fleet commander.

"The route has been updated. The target has been switched to armed merchant ships. Destroying them is a priority."

Long immediately recalibrated the shooting parameters, and Carlos also made a turn, preparing to sail along the new route.

Just as the Swan was about to turn, Alyssa suddenly saw a bright blue flash appear diagonally above the bridge.

"Emergency stop maneuvering! Sink and evade immediately!"

At the critical moment, Alyssa no longer cared about the regulations that prohibited random emergency attitude control when sailing in formation. Carlos immediately stopped turning the steering wheel and pushed it down hard.

The attitude control nozzles all over the Swan were instantly lit up, forcing the Swan to sink rapidly.

Almost in the next second, the azure light ball reflected on the bridge glass suddenly exploded and turned into an extremely long and thick beam of light that swept towards the cruise ship fleet of the Rotating Water Federation.

Note that it is sweeping, not shooting.

This means that its attack surface is very wide.

Alyssa could clearly see the friendly signals disappearing one after another, and a large number of warships were instantly melted in the azure light beam.

Finally, the beam swept over the Swan.

It felt like something physical was sweeping overhead, and the shield collided with the energy emitted by the beam, transmitting a rumbling, dull bass sound to the bridge.

If the Swan had not sunk urgently just now, it would have been at least half melted.

However, after passing over the top of the Swan, the beam immediately broke and did not cause any further damage.

Seeing this, Alyssa lifted her mask:

"They actually repaired the fortress cannon!"

This is obviously not good news.

(End of this chapter)