Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1366: Chapter 516: Breaching the Golden Hound (Part 3)

Those decoys, originally only the size of small ships, unfolded their folded structures after being deployed. Their external dimensions kept swelling, rapidly morphing into the appearance of Armed Battleships, with identical size and length; to the naked eye it was hard to tell real from fake.

The only difference between these decoys and the real Armed Battleships was the lack of stealth coating.

But this was precisely Zheng Tian’s psychological tactic. Beverly would assume that the invading enemy, feeling certain of victory, had grown careless and dispensed with stealth. Of course, if Beverly wanted to talk himself into it, he might also think the Expeditionary Army’s stealth gear had a cooldown period, and they were now forced into visibility.

After releasing the decoys, the eight hundred Armed Battleships quietly dispersed.

Among them, a hundred ships led by Vincent Fanhuoyi took a long detour as a surprise detachment, heading for the far side of the star.

The seven hundred Warships under Zheng Tian’s command veered to the right, bringing all the vertical launchers on their port side to bear on the front.

The decoys kept closing in; everything seemed calm and peaceful.

Suddenly, powerful radio radar scans locked onto the eight hundred decoys.

At the same time, the Starlight Cannon buried under the Golden Dogs’ garrison astral body burst out of concealment and began firing in rapid succession.

Watching the decoys being continually shot down and torn apart, Zheng Tian sighed inwardly: "Just as expected. According to our intel, this kind of large main gun used to be deployed in space. Our long-range Missiles’ autonomous target acquisition should have been able to lock onto it, but clearly they struck empty air."

This radio radar also caught her off guard.

Obviously, once they realized that information-flow equipment was completely useless, someone on the Golden Dogs’ garrison world had urgently developed radio equipment and brought it up to combat standards in just over ten days.

Their lock on the decoys was extremely precise, and the Starlight Cannon was practically hitting with every shot.

After one round of intense bombardment, the eight hundred decoys were instantly cut down to half.

Next, a large number of medium Warships suddenly appeared from the orbital track behind the garrison astral body, turning into a torrent that lunged forward.

Before they even closed in, those medium Warships had already begun emitting high-power electromagnetic interference and modified neutrino strikes ahead of them.

Theoretically, these two types of weapons could inflict severe damage on the Expeditionary Army’s silicon-chip intelligences.

If the targets had been real Armed Battleships, they might already have fallen into dire straits.

Under enemy fire, the decoy ships in front immediately went dead; first they lost propulsion, then the force field shield on their surface quickly went dark.

Immediately afterward, the Golden Dogs’ medium ships unleashed a round of low-power Beam Cannon saturation fire.

Originally, those Beam Cannons would never have been able to break the Shield, but now they all landed solidly on the surface of the decoy ships, blasting them into continuous explosions and spraying showers of sparks.

That was not all. Following the Beam Cannon barrage came the ferocious impact of those medium ships themselves, culminating in thunderous self-detonations.

Only then did the Expeditionary Army’s intelligence branch discover that the enemy’s medium ships were actually modified from large ground-to-deep-space Missiles—kamikaze self-destruct platforms by design.

At last, when the final wave of explosions died away, this battle, on the surface, had already come to an end.

The Golden Dogs had "won a great victory."

Unfortunately, once your side finishes its song, it’s our turn on stage.

In the next instant, Zheng Tian’s seven hundred Armed Battleships simultaneously opened their vertical launch bay covers.

The stealth coating’s effectiveness was reduced, and the seven hundred Warships revealed their true forms on the enemy’s radio-scanning radar.

In a flash, as many as a million Missiles of various sizes were launched at once.

After the first salvo, the seven hundred Warships rapidly reversed course in place, and then millions of small, bouncing boarding-attack spacecraft were fired like Missiles.

As the first wave of Missiles was just making contact with the astral body’s surface, the Shuttle Ships and Eye Ships that had long been Lurking nearby gradually dropped altitude, using small Missiles and photonic weapons to lay down blanket fire on enemy ground targets.

Those ground targets had originally been very well concealed underground, but when Beverly mistook the decoy ships for the real enemy, they had already been exposed.

Now, they were all living targets. The million Missiles were aimed at the enemy’s large and medium ground fortifications, while the Shuttle Ships, Eye Ships, and bouncing boarding-attack spacecraft locked onto the small and medium ground fortifications instead.

The entire course of the war was completely under Zheng Tian’s control. The frenzied bombardment lasted a full seventy-two hours.

Finally, Zheng Tian received the battle report from Vincent Fanhuoyi.

The Special Forces, composed of super-tier Professionals, had successfully boarded Vincent’s flagship and captured the enemy’s Command Ship bridge.

The Golden Dogs’ king, Beverly, notorious throughout the Shattered Star Ring, had been taken alive.

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