The battle, or rather the one-sided escape, lasted half an hour.
The intensive anti-aircraft fire gradually subsided until the mecha operators were exhausted.
At this time, the operators realized that their group had gathered together again.
Some of them have realized that this is a trap set for them, but there is nothing they can do about the current situation.
In the previous anti-aircraft barrage, two Dawn mechas and one Dusk mecha were destroyed, and several other mechas suffered varying degrees of damage.
Now the Li brothers and sisters no longer have the desire to test the waters; they only think about how to evacuate safely.
As for the three mechas that were left behind, two of their pilots were blown to pieces without even having the chance to parachute. Although the operator of the last Dawn mecha managed to escape, his escape drifted towards the alien fleet.
"Use the public frequency to send a signal to them, demanding their surrender."
Lao Li gave the order again.
He didn't believe the other party couldn't understand what he was saying. Even if they didn't reply, it wouldn't delay the decoding of the signal.
As long as the other party can understand what you are saying, then persuading them to surrender is half successful. The remaining half can be made up with the gun barrel.
But unexpectedly, there was no response from the other side to the signal sent by the fleet.
More than twenty mechas stood quietly there across 30,000 km.
Old Li guessed half right.
The Double Corona Empire had indeed deciphered the signals sent by Dolap a long time ago and established a relatively complete translation system through the information recorded within it.
At least there is no problem in achieving basic communication.
However, this news was not passed on to the combat troops on the front line. The true meaning of all the messages sent by the aliens was sealed among the top leaders of the empire.
What the front-line troops received was actually false intelligence that had been tampered with.
Including the mecha's bases in space, they are also under the direct control of the Imperial Military.
However, the mechas in space had no means of analysis, and the information sent by the Dolap fleet sounded like a series of meaningless garbled codes to them.
Although there seems to be a pattern in the waveform, that's all there is to it, and there is no way to know its true meaning.
Old Li, commanding the patrol fleet, was naturally unaware of the Twin Corona Empire's troubles. He was gazing expectantly at the two mechas, one red and one blue, wondering if capturing such a large toy would earn him some military merit in exchange for it in the First Fleet.
A kind of ice cream has recently become popular within the Alliance Army. This ice cream is mixed with trace amounts of death ambergris. Although it is artificially synthesized, its texture and taste can kill other conventional foods in seconds.
However, this ice cream, made with special ingredients, was a military special, and ordinary people couldn't buy it with just quantum coins. For a temporarily recruited outsourced fleet like theirs, they had to earn military merit in exchange for this special ice cream.
"It's moving! Lao Li!"
Dolap patted him on the shoulder, interrupting Lao Li's wild thoughts.
The 24 remaining mechas were actually divided into two formations with the red and blue mechas as the center. They were loosely arranged and rushed towards the patrol fleet at full power.
"What's wrong with you?"
Old Li was shocked by this sudden reversal. He really couldn't understand why the other party was unwilling to talk to him.
Even if you don't accept surrender, there's no need to fight to the death right from the start, right?
He quickly ordered the start of the second phase of the plan.
The two aircraft carrier destroyers that had been waiting for a long time activated their own jumping knife devices.
After a flash of light, the two spaceships appeared less than 150km behind the mecha formation.
After landing, the two destroyers immediately turned around and chased in the direction of the mecha formation. At the same time, they opened the partitions on both sides of the spacecraft and released the densely packed drones inside.
These drones were equipped with electromagnetic pulses and stasis beams. The former could disable the enemy's electronic equipment, while the latter could disrupt the curvature of surrounding space, forcibly reducing the target's speed in this universe.
After being hit by a round of anti-aircraft artillery fire, these mechas did not use propulsion to accelerate, but separated one by one, maintaining a certain distance between each other to form a loose formation, trying to disperse the anti-aircraft firepower.
However, this just gave the drones an opportunity to take advantage of.
In the cockpit of the Dusk Squadron's flagship, the Brilliance, Li Yiyi was nervously directing the entire squadron's formation.
Including the Dawn, a total of 24 mechas are all he can command now.
He had just received instructions from Deep Space One to the Imperial Command, requiring him to lead the entire team to destroy the alien fleet outside the absolute defense line.
When he first received the mission briefing, he thought it was an easy task to complete.
Judging from observation reports from the front line and radar detection in the rear, the enemy has suffered heavy damage from the attack of three nuclear bombs.
Then, as the circular array advanced, it did not encounter any obstruction until it reached a distance of 50,000 km.
But what happened next was far beyond his expectations.
The dense anti-aircraft firepower network made the entire army run around like a headless fly.
After the artillery fire finally died down, Li Yiyi immediately organized his troops to launch a counterattack.
He wanted to take advantage of the moment when the enemy was replacing ammunition to make an effective breakthrough.
Combining the previous intelligence and the artillery density just now, he believed that he had fully understood the enemy's firepower configuration.
Most of their firepower and protection were concentrated on the large ship at the front of the fleet.
The rest of the ships basically only have a few scattered automatic turrets.
Therefore, as long as the distance is close enough, most of the alien fleet's artillery will be trapped in a blind spot due to the obstruction of the spacecraft itself.
At that time, the mecha troops can fully utilize their mobility advantage to harvest other spaceships and even complete boarding operations on the flagship.
As an elite soldier of the Empire, Li Yiyi was absolutely confident in the mecha's close combat capabilities. He believed that if these large and bulky ships were to get close to the mecha equipped with plasma ship-slashing blades, they would be like fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of the enemy.
This kind of thing happened countless times during the Imperial Unification War.
With the dual advantages of mechanics and materials science, the giant humanoid machines of the Twin Sun Corona Empire are invincible on the battlefield.
However, he never expected that Dolap's fleet was not fish, but an inflated pufferfish.
Only two small spots of light flashed in the distant fleet, and the next moment the alarm in the cockpit sounded rapidly.
Li Yiyi turned around in astonishment, his pupils dilated with shock reflecting the overwhelming drones.
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