The droid swarm and Amantir's garrison forces were in a melee.
The minions of the Mad Lord were at a loss. Although they had fought the droid swarm two or three times, their commanders still could not adapt to the sudden appearance of these cold machines. In thousands of years of war, they had always faced the fleet of the guardian giants. They were used to long-range artillery bombardment, flanking maneuver force harassment, and giant artillery bombardment. But the emergence of the droid swarm had brought them a new challenge.
The droid swarm could not carry out long-range artillery bombardment, and there were almost no fortress artillery. They would use the extremely advanced battlefield warp ability to quickly cross the entire battlefield, appear right in front of you, and then bombard your face with their rapid artillery. If your anti-air firepower was strong enough to shoot them down in time, they would fall directly on your head and self-destruct.
These cold mechanical lifeforms were like a swarm of insects, directly running to the nearest place and attacking as a group. Most heavy cannons would be useless against these things. Once they closed the distance and engaged in a dogfight, the performance of the giant battleship was even worse than a mutated beast waving its tentacles.
So the festered battleships with powerful firepower and long-range radar systems were the first to be forced to retreat. Only some battleships stayed on the side of the battlefield to fight against the guardian giants, while the rest of the festered and the droid swarm fell into a temporary stalemate.
"It has entered a stalemate. The enemy's heavy firepower units have retreated, but the number of light firepower units and high mobility units has at least doubled. Our droid swarm is just enough," the MDT said while reading the battle report. "The Naqdal has attracted attention. I have found an enemy force approaching."
Hao Ren nodded. "Don't worry. The modified shield can withstand attacks for a long time. Keep moving and bombard when you reach the target point. "
They were now not on the bridge of the Petrachelys but a command station on the Naqdal fortress. This was a newly built facility with a data connection to the control center, but its architectural style and size were more suitable for the needs of ordinary humans. Staying here would not be as oppressive as standing in the temple of the guardian giants because of the huge facilities around them.
The structure of the command station was similar to that of the bridge of the Petrachelys. In the center of a circular platform was a giant holographic projection generator. At this moment, the holographic projection clearly showed the scene of Amantir approaching.
A steady stream of festered armies was still pouring out of the huge fissure and tangling with the droid swarm in space. The guardian warships were moving forward under the cover of the droid swarm. Finally, they barely occupied a position tens of thousands of kilometers above the atmosphere and began to carry out fixed-point bombardment of the planetary fortress. Orange-Red and bright white beams of light burst out from the railguns below the black warships and splashed on the surface of the muddy rust-colored planetary shield of Amantir. The point of contact between the artillery and the shield burst out a large burst of light and ripples. At the point where the ripples were the densest, the shield had obvious ripples.
The turbid shield was an important barrier of the Amantir fortress. It protected the filthy land below, but a breach at one point would not cause the entire shield to collapse. The technology of the guardians was quite advanced in the field of shield force fields, and they had developed the Force Field Variable Frequency Disassembly Technology. This technology allowed their shield to be divided into countless effective zones. When a single effective zone was breached, the shield force field would immediately reset to ensure that the force field in other zones remained intact.
But all Hao Ren needed to do was to penetrate a small part of the shield.
Salaman's holographic projection stood next to Hao Ren. The giant commander took this opportunity to introduce the situation of the Amantir fortress. "The battle three thousand years ago caused irreparable damage to both sides. When Naqdal was destroyed, it was activating its doomsday weapon. The core of the fortress was filled with energy, which caused great damage to everything on the battlefield. Part of the shield of the heart was pierced by the Apocalypse Torrent, and the Denizens of the Stars paid a great price to repair it. Agodal's energy system was hit, and almost all conventional weapons stations were burned and the energy core was damaged. The freaks of Amantir were not much better. The energy core of Naqdal hit Amantir and tore a wound on its equator. Unfortunately, it dodged in time and absorbed most of the impact. Otherwise, the fortress would have been cut in half. "
"How did the monsters replenish their soldiers?" Hao Ren frowned as he looked at the festered army coming out of the rift on Amantir's equator. "And it seems that this fatal wound has been transformed into a military station. How many monsters can they hide in there?"
"We have not been able to find out. Their soldiers seem to be endless. No matter how many they destroy on the battlefield, they can always be replenished after a while." Salaman shook his head. "The speed and quantity of replenishment are beyond the resources they can collect on the battlefield and Amantir's own production capacity. We suspect that they have set up resource collection points in other parts of the sacred land, or even outside the sacred land. But these are only speculations. We are trapped in the center of the sacred land and cannot send out reconnaissance troops. "
"Probably not from the outside." Vivian shook her head gently. "We came from the outside. Now our drone swarm has expanded the detection range to more than half of the galaxy and found no other nests of the festered monsters. And there is a divine storm in other parts of Star Cluster X. These monsters can move freely in the festered environment, but not in the divine storm. "
Hao Ren scratched his chin. "If possible, we need to investigate the rift."
At this time, Salaman seemed to have heard a report from someone beside him. He turned back to talk to someone before turning to look at Hao Ren. "The target area is about to be penetrated. Do you want to proceed to the second phase?"
Hao Ren looked at the large holographic projection. He saw that in the place where the guardian legion was concentrating their bombardment, the Amantir shield had shown a very obvious interference noise. The pale chaotic ripples looked like the snowflakes on an old-fashioned TV, covering a large area hundreds of kilometers wide. In this area, the energy circulation of the planetary shield was almost stagnant, and it was about to be penetrated.
The counterattack fire from the planet's surface was fiercer than before. The festered had realized that the invaders were determined to drill a hole in their shield, so they had diverted most of their energy to the giant anti-air cannons on the surface. The guardian starships on the bombardment mission were under fire far beyond the ship's design limit. Although a large number of drones were helping them to block the anti-air fire from the planetary fortress, one black battleship after another had withdrawn from the battle.
The corner of Hao Ren's mouth curled up slightly. The timing was just right.
"Guardian fleet, retreat. Enter the Naqdal. Proceed to the second phase. Operation code: Best Actor."
The black fleet in space immediately began to retreat, and under the cover of the droid swarm, they flew away from the anti-air firepower without looking back. To the defenders on the ground, it looked like they could not withstand the anti-air firepower of Amantir and were fleeing in panic.
But the retreat of the black fleet did not mean the end of the battle. Because a more powerful firepower monster rushed out from the rear of the battlefield and filled the gap left by the black fleet.
The Naqdal fortress entered the bombardment position and began to use the various giant cannons installed on the base of the fortress to bombard the planetary shield. The area of clutter on the Naqdal shield was gradually shrinking, but when the new bombardment came, it immediately stopped repairing itself and expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"To tell you the truth, I really think you came up with this code name with your molars." In the command station of Naqdal, Lily stared at the scene of the anti-air weapons firing while wagging her tail. "I was thinking of Operation Troy."
"The method of sneaking in is secondary. The most important thing in this operation is acting. Do you understand acting?" Hao Ren glanced at the husky maiden. "And you'd better find a place to sit down like the others. The tremors will not be small."
"Tremors are nothing!" The husky maiden put her hands on her hips confidently. "I am the King of Siberia! Not to mention tremors with my physical fitness — "
Before she could finish, the entire Naqdal fortress shook violently under the impact of the anti-air cannons, and the entire command station rang with alarms.
The husky maiden, who was still in high spirits a second ago, immediately let out a howl, scurried back to the chair, and fastened herself with a seat belt.
The entrance of Naqdal had obviously put more pressure on the festered, and the slowing down of the attack of the drone cluster on the battlefield gave the festered a chance to adjust their firepower. Almost in an instant, countless anti-air cannons of all sizes and the defense railguns in the nearby space pointed their muzzles at the eye-catching Naqdal fortress on the battlefield.
Countless ripples appeared on the shield surrounding the entire floating continent amid the intense barrage.
But the Naqdal fortress had no intention of retreating. Instead, it continued its bombardment mission against the anti-aircraft fire and landed on the clutter-infected area on Amantir's shield. Around it, countless drones began to attack at the same time. It looked like they were ready to storm the shield.
"The defenders of Amantir are going crazy …" Hao Ren sighed as he looked at the countless flashes on the surface of the planet.
In an idle channel, the fairies' exclamations almost blew up the entire communication link. "Ahhhhh, we're going to die, we're going to die, we're going to die!!!"
In fact, this group of fairies had been chattering away for a long time … but no one paid any attention to them.
In any case, even if they yelled about dying, they could still control the various subsystems in the fortress.
Vivian reminded Hao Ren, "Don't go overboard. If the festered judge that the Naqdal fortress is no match for us, they may detonate the entire Amantir and die with us."
"Don't worry, it's not that bad. It would be a joke if the minions of the Mad Lord were so easily scared to death," Hao Ren said with a grin. "And look, isn't the opportunity here?"
Under the bombardment of the anti-aircraft fire from the planet's surface, the convoy of drones around the Naqdal fortress exploded into brilliant fireworks in the universe. An unprecedentedly large dark-red pattern gradually emerged on the surface of Amantir, and in the center of the dark-red pattern, a blinding light was about to burst out.
The MDT immediately screamed, "Warning, ultra-high energy signature, ultra-high energy signature!"
"Shift all energy to the shield and prioritize the protection of the survival zone," Hao Ren said as he adjusted his posture in his seat. "Get ready to blow up the island connection belt."
The large weapon on the planet's surface had been fully charged, and a huge light cluster gradually enlarged in the field of vision.
"This is a crazy plan, but I believe you will succeed …" Salaman's image became blurred in the energy interference, and his voice was intermittent until it was completely cut off.
The huge dark-red light cluster finally hit the Naqdal shield. In an unprecedented explosion, the shield shattered like a glass shell, and the entire Naqdal space continent also erupted in a series of explosions. In the continuous chain of explosions, it split into two, and the additional southern island completely detached from the main body.
But no one noticed that the moment the shield of the space continent shattered, two smaller, more hidden transparent shields lit up on the main body and the island respectively. The anti-aircraft cannons of Amantir had only destroyed the outer shield of the space base, but it was not directly hit at all.
The Naqdal fortress, with its shield destroyed and "severely damaged" in a series of "chain explosions," immediately began to climb and gestured to escape the battlefield. The detached island seemed to have lost its momentum, with thick smoke and flames all over it as it plummeted toward the surface of Amantir.
It crashed through the zone of clutter on the planetary shield, which had long been worn out. In the process of impact, it rolled violently and broke into three pieces, big and small, before falling into the thick atmosphere of Amantir and disappearing in a flash.
"If I didn't know the 'script' in advance," Salaman stood on the bridge of his flagship and said to his adjutant next to him, "I would have thought that they were shot down."
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