Xu Teng was still a little hesitant, saying, "There are only ten thousand Shang People and ten thousand Haidagong here."
"My Airships have quite a few Electromagnetic Cannons. If I fire them all, I can at least eliminate half of them."
Xia Chujian didn't waste time arguing with him, immediately saying, "This is only a portion of the Shang People and Haidagong."
"There are at least fifty thousand Haidagong and forty thousand Shang People troops behind them. Are you sure you want to rely on your five thousand Starry Sky Marines to fight them?"
Xu Teng really didn't know there were more Shang People and Haidagong who hadn't entered the field.
Knowing this, he immediately said, "I'll do it right away, let's retreat together!"
They agreed that Lin Xiaoxiao's five Interstellar Airships and Xu Teng's five Interstellar Airships would take off together.
But just then, they discovered that there seemed to be a problem with the engines of their Airships.
"First Lieutenant Xia! Something's wrong! Our Interstellar Airships can't take off!"
This was Lin Xiaoxiao's terrified voice.
Xu Teng's voice, filled with shock and anger, also came through: "The engines of my five Interstellar Airships are all clogged with something unknown!"
Then they heard him shout, "Mecha! Mecha! Everyone, switch to Mecha!"
Seven Lù quickly transmitted the footage from the monitoring cameras on Xu Teng's Airships to Xia Chujian as well.
Xia Chujian only saw a thick layer of white, net-like substance wrapped around the engine outlets of Xu Teng's Airships.
If this stuff could affect the starting and running of the engines, then these Interstellar Airships wouldn't be able to take them back into the high altitude.
Now, Lin Xiaoxiao and Xu Teng couldn't leave even if they wanted to.
They had to fight! But once the battle started, these people would likely be completely annihilated again.
Xia Chujian, in a moment of quick thinking, remembered the battle situation video that Starry Sky Marine Chu Qingchen had sent her.
Those Marine Corps, after almost being completely wiped out, launched a beautiful counterattack by taking advantage of the Shang People and Haidagong's attempt to seize the Interstellar Airships, and blew up their own Interstellar Airships...
Xia Chujian couldn't think of any other safer method at this moment.
To reduce their own casualties, they could only sacrifice the equipment.
These Interstellar Airships would be used as bait to lure the enemy in deep! Anyway, she still had four Starship Airships that she hadn't brought down yet...
Not afraid! Xia Chujian immediately said to Lin Xiaoxiao and Xu Teng, "You've seen the combat strategy of Chu Qingchen's Starry Sky Marines, right?"
"I think you might as well follow suit."
"Abandon all your Interstellar Airships, plant remote-controlled explosives, and let them go up."
"Anyway, the Airships' engine systems are malfunctioning, so they can't fly."
"I'll fly my Interstellar Airships over to meet you."
"If we gather together, we won't have to worry about them breaking through us one by one!"
Lin Xiaoxiao obeyed Xia Chujian's orders and immediately said, "I'll do it right away! This is my coordinate location!"
Lin Xiaoxiao sent her coordinate location to Xia Chujian.
Xu Teng also agreed to this approach and sent his coordinate location as well.
Xia Chujian looked at it, and it wasn't far. At her current speed, she could get there in ten minutes.
She said to Lin Xiaoxiao and Xu Teng, "Hurry up and take action, plant remote-controlled explosives, and fly to a high altitude and hold on for ten minutes, and I'll be there."
"You'll be fine as long as you fly beyond the effective range of rifles and Submachine Guns."
"The Haidagong can fly, but their membranous wings aren't very strong, and their flight speed won't be very fast."
"If you mainly target the Haidagong, you can stop them."
"As long as you hold on for ten minutes, I'll definitely arrive."
Saying that, she cut off the video call.
Then she said to Seven Lù, "Seven Lù, immediately send a message to Sang Yadi and Chen Yansheng on our Starry Sky Cruiser, and tell them to prepare quickly and release the other four Interstellar Airships."
Lieutenant Mao Yonggui and Second Lieutenant Chu Qingjuan should not have reached the Starry Sky Cruiser yet, and are still on their way piloting the Small Combat Aircraft.
Seven Lù quickly increased the signal strength of the temporary base station in the Interstellar Airship, and contacted the Starry Sky Cruiser in the high altitude.
Sang Yadi and Chen Yansheng were very nervous when they saw the message from Xia Chujian, and immediately requested to speak with Xia Chujian.
Xia Chujian thought about it and connected with them, cutting to the chase: "There has been a change here. The Marine Corps of the D499 Starry Sky Cruiser has been basically wiped out."
"Chu Qingchen and his five team members are unaware of the situation, maybe they are gone, maybe they ran away. I am going to rescue them now and integrate the remaining two teams."
Sang Yadi and Chen Yansheng both knew that Xia Chujian was talking about Lin Xiaoxiao's D235 and Xu Teng's D337.
They also each brought five thousand Starry Sky Marines down.
Xia Chujian said: "According to the Marine Corps' information from Chu Qingchen's side, the Shang People and Haidagong on this planet aim to seize our Airships and Cruisers, then attack our Beichen Empire and seize Habitable Planets."
Sang Yadi and Chen Yansheng could hardly believe their ears.
Chen Yansheng said angrily: "No way?! These barbarians with wooden sticks and stones dare to covet our flying equipment?!"
"Captain, don't stop me! I want to go down with them!"
"I'm going to show them what's what!"
Xia Chujian said: "This is what the Marine Corps over there said. Five thousand of them are basically dead. Looking at the surveillance video at the time, we have to believe it."
"And they are not primitive people with wooden sticks and stones. They have our weapons, and they also know how to operate these weapons."
"The first goal of those Shang People and Haidagong is to seize the Interstellar Airship."
"If these Marine Corps hadn't planted remote-controlled explosives in advance, these Shang People and Haidagong might have really been able to act according to their plan."
"And Chu Qingchen's Interstellar Airship was driven away by those Shang People and Haidagong..."
Speaking of this, Xia Chujian said to Chen Yansheng: "Second Lieutenant Chen, I have a mission now, can you accept it?"
Chen Yansheng immediately stood at attention and saluted: "Captain, please give your orders!"
Xia Chujian said: "The five thousand Starry Sky Marines that D499 brought before are basically dead. Even if there are survivors, there shouldn't be many."
"But I don't know what happened to Chu Qingchen and his team."
"Can you find a way to find Chu Qingchen's D499 Starry Sky Cruiser? See if they have returned, or... been occupied?"
"If Chu Qingchen and his team return to their Starry Sky Cruiser, that's fine, but if it is occupied by the Shang People and Haidagong, I authorize you to shoot down the D499 Starry Sky Cruiser immediately!"
In fact, with Xia Chujian's current position and rank, and the Team relationship of this base mission, she has no right to shoot down Chu Qingchen's D499 Starry Sky Cruiser.
But Xia Chujian also knew that in an emergency, one must act expediently.
This is different from the level of discipline in peacetime.
On the battlefield, there is only one discipline, and that is to win the battle!
Everything else can be put aside, as long as there is a war, it must be won!
Because only the winner can negotiate terms.
And this time, it is even more closely related to the survival of all human beings in the Beichen Galaxy.
Xia Chujian felt that this risk was worth taking.
Sang Yadi felt that it shouldn't be so reckless, but Chen Yansheng accepted the mission without saying a word, saying: "I will take a Combat Aircraft to take a look immediately."
"We have the coordinates of the other three Starry Sky Cruisers here."
They came together on this mission with four Starry Sky Cruisers, and they did know each other's positions in Space.
Xia Chujian nodded and said to Sang Yadi: "Second Lieutenant Sang, Lieutenant Mao and Second Lieutenant Chu are on their way back. I originally asked them to bring two Interstellar Airships down."
"Now that the situation has changed, all four need to be brought down."
Sang Yadi immediately said: "Yes, Captain."
She was concise and immediately sent a message to Lieutenant Mao Yonggui and Second Lieutenant Chu Qingjuan's Smart Bracelet.
The two of them were already close to the D1 Starry Sky Cruiser, and they were also very anxious when they learned that the situation below had changed.
After Xia Chujian arranged the mission, she cut off contact with Sang Yadi and Chen Yansheng.
Then she said to Seven Lù, "Turn on the communicators and displays on every level. I'm going to give a pre-battle speech."
She had brought a thousand Marine Corps down with her.
These people had followed her and hadn't really fought much, only salvaged spoils of war with her a few times before.
Those Starry Sky Marines of the First Interstellar Fleet were unlucky, having followed the wrong person, and almost all of them had died in battle.
But Xia Chujian couldn't say that she was a qualified military commander either.
Because she knew that as long as there was war, casualties were inevitable.
A benevolent person does not command troops, and a righteous person does not manage wealth.
She now had to strive to be a qualified military commander.
Soon, Xia Chujian's figure appeared on the virtual displays on each level of the Interstellar Airship.
Her voice also echoed throughout the Interstellar Airship through the communicators.
Xia Chujian was still wearing her Mecha, with her fully enclosed helmet on, and said to everyone, "Marine Corps soldiers, the situation on Senze Star has changed."
"I just received news that the vast majority of the First Interstellar Fleet's five thousand Starry Sky Marines have been killed in action."
The Marine Corps on the Interstellar Airship exploded upon hearing this.
"What?!"
"Five thousand people! Did they have Mecha?!"
"They had Mecha and still died in battle? I don't believe it!"
Sun Jiahao and Li Dali's expressions immediately became serious.
Because they believed Xia Chujian's words.
If Xia Chujian said those people were dead, then they were really dead.
The question now was, what exactly had happened?
Although they had a deep understanding of the planet's harsh natural environment and were somewhat psychologically prepared for the dangers of this mission, they still hadn't anticipated that things would be this dangerous.
Their Marine Corps of the Fourth Interstellar Fleet hadn't experienced this level of combat in many years.
However, when they were in the Fifth Interstellar Fleet, they had experienced battles even more intense than this.
But that was all four or five years ago, and the memories of the past had gradually faded, and even their blood had once cooled down.
Now, following Xia Chujian, they realized that they could still be passionate.
Sun Jiahao raised an arm to stop everyone's chatter.
Then, through the communicator in the cabin, he asked Xia Chujian, "Captain, what exactly happened to the First Interstellar Fleet's five thousand Marine Corps?"
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