There was no time to hesitate.

"Send word to the Brown Bear Fleet!"

Wells' voice was like steel that had been tempered.

"At all costs, launch a full-scale assault on the Uranus fleet's defenses!"

I want to see the seventh jump point cleared within five minutes!

"But Commander, the Brown Bear Fleet's four heavy cruisers have been severely damaged!"

"Then let the Firefox fleet send their heavy cruisers up with them!"

Wells' eyes were blood red.

"Tell Major Aston Colby that if he holds back, everyone will die here once the Union encirclement closes!"

The order was delivered in desperation.

The three "Fortress-class" heavy cruisers of the Firefox Fleet.

They began to break away from their main force, engines at full power, and accelerated toward the Uranus fleet's defensive line.

They joined up with the four heavily armored cruisers of the Brown Bear Fleet, forming a pure spearhead of attack with seven of the most heavily armored and shielded Imperial starships.

These ships abandoned all sophisticated tactics and maneuvering evasion.

It even reduced the strength of some areas of the shield, transferring all the saved energy to the engine and frontal armor.

Like seven rhinoceroses driven to the brink of despair, they lowered their heads and used their heaviest skulls to ram into that thin defensive line.

On the bridge of the Iron Spine, Zhao Rui looked at the seven rapidly approaching high-energy signals on the sensor screen.

He grinned.

It was a smile that was a mixture of madness and desperation.

"Finally...it's coming."

He spoke in a low voice, as if talking to himself.

On the main tactical screen, the distance readings were rapidly decreasing: 150,000 kilometers, 95,000, 50,000...

"commander!"

The artillery sergeant's voice trembled with excitement.

"Only our main guns can effectively penetrate their frontal armor!"

The escort ship's firepower could only cause minor scratches at best!

"Then use the main gun."

Zhao Rui said calmly.

"Target: the leftmost Firefox-class heavy armored ship."

Three rounds of fire, all aimed at the same spot.

I want to see if its armor is thicker, or if my gun barrel is harder.

"clear!"

The main gun turret of the Iron Ridge began to make minor adjustments to its angle.

This 15-year-old battleship groaned under the strain of continuous high-intensity combat, but its gun barrels remained steady.

First volley.

Two energy beams accurately hit the bow of the target ship.

The frontal shields of the Firefox-class heavy armored ship flickered violently, and the armor plates melted and vaporized under the high temperature, exposing the underlying structural layers.

But the ship did not stop, and its speed did not even decrease significantly.

The second salvo.

This time it hit almost the exact same spot.

The armor breach widened, exposing internal pipes, and electrical sparks darted through the hole like snakes.

The target ship finally slowed down, but it was still moving forward.

The third volley.

An energy beam was poured deep into the breach.

The explosion occurred from the inside, and the bow of the entire heavily armored cruiser was torn apart as if by an invisible giant hand, with metal fragments and plasma gushing out.

The ship began to spin out of control, but it did not stop.

Inertia propelled it to continue crashing towards the Uranus fleet's defenses.

Meanwhile, the other six heavily armed cruisers were less than 50,000 kilometers away from the defensive line.

"All ships, listen to my command!"

Zhao Rui connected all the communications with his fellow ships, his voice eerily calm.

"Prepare for impact formation."

All shield energy was transferred to the bow armor.

The engine...maintains minimum operating power.

He paused, his gaze sweeping over every face on the bridge.

"I know that some of you have families and loved ones."

But today, we are soldiers.

A soldier's duty is to stand where he is, without ever retreating.

"If we absolutely have to use our ship to hold them off, then..."

"Use the ship's hull."

Commands are conveyed.

There were no objections, no hesitation.

The remaining ten starships of the Uranus fleet, including two cruisers whose shields had been reduced to dangerous levels, began to adjust their attitude.

They no longer pursued firing angles or considered evasive routes, but instead aimed their thickest bow armor at the charging Imperial heavy fleet.

Like a row of spearmen ready to meet a cavalry charge with their chests out.

Knowing they were doomed, they still stood in formation.

On the bridge of the Indomitable, Yang Shao stood in front of the main tactical screen, his face solemn.

The battlefield situation is clear: ahead, the Uranus fleet is using its flesh and blood to block the Imperial heavy fleet's desperate charge.

Behind him, his main fleet was rapidly closing in.

flank……

The flank was completely deserted.

"Where is the Pluto fleet?"

Yang Shao suddenly spoke, his voice filled with suppressed anger.

Where is Qin Beiwang's fleet?

According to plan, they should arrive at the same time as us, flanking the Wells fleet from the left flank!

The communications officer quickly operated the console, then looked up a few seconds later with a grim expression.

"Commander, we are unable to contact the Kunlun Mountain."

The quantum communication link is working properly, but the other party is not responding.

The last confirmed location was... twenty-seven minutes ago, when they were rushing to the seventh jump point at full speed.

"Twenty-seven minutes?"

Yang Shao's brows furrowed into a tight knot.

"It will take them at most twenty minutes to get from their last position to the seventh jump point."

They should have arrived long ago!

On their way to the third jump point, Qin Beiwang informed them that the Wells fleet was going to escape from the seventh jump point.

Given the opponent's previous achievements, Yang Shao chose to trust them unconditionally.

To everyone's surprise, while the other fleets arrived, the Pluto fleet was nowhere to be seen.

We can't even get in touch with them anymore.

He looked at the seven Imperial heavy ships on the tactical screen that were rushing towards the Uranus defense line, and saw that the distance reading had dropped below 30,000 kilometers. He took a deep breath.

Never mind.

Order the entire fleet to open fire immediately!

"Target: the Poison Spiders and the Ranger fleet! First, cripple Wells' rear!"

"That Uranus fleet..."

"I believe in Zhao Rui."

Yang Shao's voice was low.

"He can hold on. He has to hold on."

The order has been issued.

The Indomitable's main gun was the first to light up with a bright white glow as it charged.

Immediately afterwards, more than 49 Federation main starships simultaneously unleashed their first salvo at the rear of the Imperial fleet.

In deep space, light shines like an inverted Milky Way.

But Yang Shao's heart sank.

Because on the main tactical screen at the edge of his line of sight, the 14 blue dots representing the Pluto fleet still hadn't appeared in any of their expected positions.

Qin Beiwang, where are you?

The Iron Spine, at the very forefront of the Uranus Fleet, was only 28,000 kilometers away from the Imperial Heavy Assault Fleet.

This distance is practically hand-to-hand combat in space warfare.

Suddenly, a strange spatial distortion occurred in the void where the seventh jump point was located.

It wasn't the smooth ripples of a normal transition, but rather like a piece of cloth being roughly kneaded by an invisible giant hand.

The lines of latitude and longitude in space are twisted, broken, and reassembled within a visible range.

The light across the entire sky began to bend, stretching the light of distant stars into bizarre arcs.

Immediately afterwards, the flashes of the fifteen jumps, like fifteen supernovae igniting simultaneously in the void, exploded with a deafening roar at the precise coordinates of the seventh jump point.

The light was so intense that it instantly overloaded the filtering systems of all the optical sensors on the Ironspine's bridge. All that remained outside the observation windows was a blinding white.

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