Looking at his father's gloomy face and the elite men of sacrifice who had followed him for decades in the darkness of the pathway, the eldest son understood everything.
He nodded his head and grabbed the storm bolter on his waist, walking away quickly.
Song Bugui lowered his head and did not say anything. He did not try to open the door of the meeting room to discourage the complacent generals, ministers, and chairmen, either.
Besides, it was already too late even if he wanted to waste his breath. After receiving Song Lixing's direct order, even the flagship below their feet accelerated abruptly and joined the rushing troops, charging at Lei Chenghu's battle formation at full speed.
For a moment, the entire Turnaround Fleet was split into almost five shining blades. All the branch fleets accelerated to the highest speed, with no room to maneuver at all.
"Two million kilometers, a million and a half kilometers, a million kilometers. We'll meet the enemy in five minutes!"
All the starships were running their power units hard and exploiting every drop of energy inside every crystal. The spiritual shields that covered the shells of the starships and the cores of the magical equipment inside the turrets were burnt orange. At first glance, they were glittering like billions of meteoroids that had broken through the atmosphere, or like a furiously burning tide that was about to sweep across and crush the vulnerable towns on the coast.
Inside the assault cabins of the large warships, the Exos who had been prepared for boarding and charging were even roaring in excitement. The eyeballs of every noble were almost transparent because of the burning, as if they were holding 'God of War' Lei Chenghu's head in their hands!
It was true that, compared to their crazy dash, Lei Chenghu's battle formation could only be described as' ragged '.
The broken starships, which were already riddled with holes and scars, had to brake and turn 180 degrees in order to establish a solid battle formation while they were fleeing at a high speed. It was more than impossible to change the mentality of all the soldiers from 'running away' to 'fighting to the death'!
The fuel of the starships had been supplied to the power units and could not be transferred to the defense layer for the time being. The spiritual shields that they managed to raise were extremely lackluster. It seemed that one round of bombardment would be enough to shatter them. The sparse battle formation and the disorganized arrangement of the starships further indicated Lei Chenghu's panic and helplessness.
Moreover, at the end of the battle formation, several starships were running toward the back of the fourth planet despite Lei Chenghu's orders, trying to enter the jump state by force!
It suggested that Lei Chenghu's control over the fleet had hit rock bottom. Perhaps, one charge would be enough to completely disperse his fleet, and it would be impossible for them to regroup again.
It would be an out-and-out massacre!
"Five hundred thousand kilometers, four hundred thousand kilometers, three hundred thousand kilometers, two hundred thousand kilometers, the last hundred thousand kilometers!"
The speed of the Return Fleet was higher and higher. Aggressive roars were echoing in the bridge of every starship.
When the distance between the battle formations of the two parties was only the last fifty thousand kilometers, the Return Fleet let out its battle roars first. Billions of pillars of light that were a hundred times thicker and brighter than before immediately dyed the entire space white. All kinds of bullets mixed with intense electromagnetic waves were raging like meteoroids from the deepest level of hell. A lot of Crystal Suit and space shuttles followed them and marched forward bravely like wild bees!
The incomplete battle formation that Lei Chenghu managed to establish could not resist such an unstoppable attack at all. The shield starships, the interferential starships, and the last batch of comprehensive supply starships in the front immediately exploded. The super large crystal reactors that were hit finished the whole process of burning, expansion, explosion, diffusion, and obliteration in only several seconds like destructive bombs, turning into debris that was revolving at a high speed.
Under the cover of the debris, Lei Chenghu's incomplete battle formation managed to counterattack with tens of thousands of feeble pillars of light.
However, such scattered and weak firepower was not enough to break through the defense of the Return Fleet at all. Not only could they not stop the enemy, they even filled the Return Fleet with a hundred times more confidence and courage. They were exactly the kind of people who did not have the courage to fight lions and tigers but could not help but be filled with all their courage when faced with a drowning dog.
"Let's go and show the wretched traitor what we are made of!"
"Lei Chenghu's head is mine. Nobody is going to compete with me for it!"
"I am the God of War of the new generation. Let me make the final call and crush Lei Chenghu's flagship once and for all!"
The two fleets both maintained the highest speed that the starships could bear. It took only one moment for them to pass each other from a hundred thousand kilometers away. However, during the moment, about ten percent of the starships under Lei Chenghu's command were blown up. More than twenty percent of the starships lost their spiritual shields and momentum and could only hover on the spot as live targets. The remaining seventy percent of the starships were also damaged to varying degrees. They had completely lost the concept of battle formation. They were more like "wriggling desperately" in the space that looked like a black desert than fleeing in a hurry.
On the other hand, on the Heaven Returning Fleet's side, although the branch fleets that belonged to the major families were all acting on their own, they were still able to maintain the most basic battle formation. They had enough ammunition and fuel, too. Their morale was higher than ever, too. Their situation was a hundred times better than that of Lei Chenghu's remaining troops.
More importantly, through the white blade charge, not only had they minced Lei Chenghu's remaining troops, they had also intervened between Lei Chenghu's remaining troops and the jump point of the fourth planet, cutting off Lei Chenghu's route of escape.
That was the most important thing.
"Lei Chenghu's remaining troops are indeed vulnerable. The eagle of victory is already hovering above our heads!"
On the flagship of the Heaven Returning Fleet, the military geniuses of the four families and the candidates of the next God of War all thought so.
Many of them were even looking at Song Bugui, who was craning his neck at the door, in disdain. "Did you see it? The enemy is so weak. He was really trying to run away just now. If we had been more careful as Vice Commander Song said, we would've missed the opportunity and allowed the tiger to return to the mountain!"
Song Bugui did not say anything. Even the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes did not move at all.
He only sighed very softly, very softly, and retracted his head again.
The Heaven Returning Fleet continued moving forward.
Having just finished a high-speed sprint in the middle of the barrage of billions of cannons, the group of starships still maintained a rather powerful momentum. They had to circle back for at least a million kilometers before they could turn around and launch the second, and perhaps the last, charge.
At this moment, they were still moving forward along the synchronous orbit because of the interaction between their inertia and the gravitational sphere of the fourth planet.
With the enormous mass of the fourth planet, they could 'throw' themselves out with the synchronous orbit as an enormous' gravitational slingshot ', thereby reducing the consumption of fuel and increasing the speed of the fleet to a higher level. It was a regular operation in a space battle.
In the meantime, a lot of agile Crystal Suit and space shuttles had stalled Lei Chenghu's remaining troops and bought the critical time for the troops on their side to gather and sprint.
They had reached the stretching limit of the 'gravitational slingshot' and were about to be thrown out brutally to vent their fury and killing intent.
At this moment, 99% of the people in the Heaven Returning Fleet no longer doubted the inevitable victory. It was only a matter of time, whether it would be an hour or a minute.
Their entire fleet, on the other hand, had reached the back of the fourth planet without them knowing it.
Then, they saw the scimitar.
The saber, which was as thin as a cicada's wing, as curved as a crescent moon, and as glittering as if it could cut off the tail of a comet and cut a planet into halves, was blocking their sailing route.
"No …"
The nobles looked at each other in bewilderment. It was not until a long time later that somebody realized that it was not a real saber but a small fleet, an assault fleet made of thousands of assault warships and destroyers that looked like the teeth of wolves. They were so close to each other that they were almost crashing into each other. Thousands of exhaust flames were completely condensed. At first glance, it looked like the aura of a saber that was cutting through the waves.
In such a way, the silent assault fleet reduced its reflection waves to the minimum. With the shadow of the planet, the broken debris on the battlefield, and the twisted space ripples, it miraculously avoided the scanning of the Heaven Returning Fleet!
Right now, the assault fleet that had been compressed to the minimum was expanding and spreading its brilliance quickly, like the aura of a saber turning from the dangerous whiteness into the even more dangerous color of blood!
The most dangerous saber in the entire sea of stars had been unsheathed.
"This is … Bai Xingjian's fleet!"
Finally, a few nobles who were knowledgeable saw through the crazily surging data and screamed like pigs being butchered.
What shocked them was not just Bai Xingjian's fleet.
However sharp Bai Xingjian's saber was, it was only the scale of a few thousand destroyers. It was not enough to reverse the situation of the battle.
However, behind Bai Xingjian's fleet, in the shadow of the fourth planet, in the mysterious mist of war, something that looked like a pearl necklace was glittering and forming an almost perfect circle.
Around the 'pearl necklace', there should have been stars, but they were now the deepest black, as if a part of the entire space had been dug out of nowhere. Or rather, one, ten, or even a thousand gates leading to the edge of the cosmos had been dug out.
"It's — it's a space gate. It's an enormous space jump beacon. Something has jumped over. Countless super massive objects have jumped over!"
On every starship of the Heaven's Return Fleet, the cheers of excitement a moment ago were replaced by the screams of shock and devastation.
The alarm system that was used to monitor the super massive objects and space ripples was shrieking so miserably that it almost broke the eardrums of all the nobles.
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