Xia Chujian's rectangular Flying Vehicle was insignificant in size compared to the mountain-like Floating Turrets.
The smaller the Flying Vehicle, the more agile its movements.
The rectangular Flying Vehicle suddenly executed a Harrier-type flip, swiftly bypassing a Floating Turret, rapidly descending to hide beneath it.
Boom! The arc of blue-violet light pursued, a characteristic of laser weapons being their straight trajectory.
It couldn't possibly maneuver around the Floating Turret like Xia Chujian's fancy footwork to strike the object directly below it.
Thus, the arc of blue-violet light could only strike the top of the Floating Turret squarely! The beam transformed from blue-violet to silver-white, like the sun's rays, converted into a sharp blade.
It sliced through the air at near light speed, also cutting through the Floating Turret.
The laser beam clearly hit its mark, instantly causing massive destruction.
The Floating Turret's energy shield was immediately pierced, and the outer armor began to melt.
Immediately afterward, a massive fireball flashed from inside the Floating Turret, and with a boom, it exploded the Floating Turret into fragments.
Xia Chujian, hiding beneath it, had already accelerated forward rapidly as the laser beam cut through the Floating Turret, dodging the area engulfed by the massive laser beam.
Because Seven Lù's warning had informed her that the laser beam drawn from near the atmosphere would gradually increase in size from a point to a surface.
By the time it reached the airspace near the ground, the laser beam was terrifyingly thick.
Such a thick laser beam could cut through more than just one Floating Turret! At least five hundred Floating Turrets in that area were all cut and destroyed by the laser beam from near the atmosphere! Xia Chujian relied on her near-limit speed to evade this layer of "cutting."
She couldn't help but rejoice.
This efficiency was promising!
The success of this second "light-drawing" greatly boosted Xia Chujian's confidence.
By the third time, she was already skilled at it.
Xia Chujian disengaged Seven Lù's autopilot, taking full control herself.
Because this kind of provocation against laser defense weapons sometimes required a bit of "excessive" practical operation.
Seven Lù's Mechanical Intelligence was too perfect and high-end; it could always dodge and shield just right.
Xia Chujian felt that it wouldn't achieve the purpose of "enraging" the opponent.
It might even cause them to abandon the pursuit midway.
That wouldn't do.
Under her own operation, her rectangular Small Combat Aircraft carried out an "unprecedented" provocation against the so-called Global Laser Defense System.
She even flew out of the atmosphere once! And she discovered that as long as she flew out of the atmosphere, the laser defense system would give up and no longer pursue her! Indeed, she could escape, but only she, or maybe a few others.
As long as her Flying Vehicle could fit them.
An Interstellar Airship wouldn't work; it was too big, lacked energy, and its speed couldn't match that of a Small Combat Aircraft.
Therefore, she couldn't just take herself or a few confidants and escape; she still had over ten thousand Marine Corps counting on her.
Xia Chujian once again plunged into the clouds from outside the atmosphere, triggering the laser system to erupt from the poles again.
During her repeated "light-drawing," the Floating Turrets piloted by the Haidagong gradually realized the danger and began to dodge.
But no matter how fast they dodged, they couldn't match the speed of Xia Chujian's Flying Vehicle, let alone the speed of light! Moreover, Floating Turrets weren't known for their speed.
Their toughness, resistance to damage, and abundant firepower were their selling points.
This meant that Xia Chujian's move directly hit their weak spot.
Of course, they were unwilling to be destroyed by Xia Chujian in this way, and they even concentrated their firepower to target only the rectangular Flying Vehicle she was piloting.
But Xia Chujian was now practiced enough to evade even the tracking of laser beams, so the Fire Control Radar on the Floating Turrets was no match for her.
By the second time, all five thousand-plus Floating Turrets controlled by the Haidagong had been destroyed by her drawing the laser.
And all of this took only five minutes.
On average, every thirty seconds, she could take out five hundred Floating Turrets with laser beams! While the Haidagong high-level were still discussing a solution, their greatest reliance, the Floating Turrets, had already been systematically wiped out.
Xia Chujian's "flirty" maneuvers in her Flying Vehicle, going up and down, infuriated the Haidagong to the point of wanting to commit suicide on the spot.
At the same time, it caused the Marine Corps anxiously watching from the Grand Canyon in the rear to erupt in thunderous cheers.
To vent their elation and shock after surviving this ordeal together, they opened the public communication channel and shouted Xia Chujian's name in unison.
They couldn't think of any other words to express their feelings, except for this name.
In their hearts, this name already represented final victory, complete redemption, and eternal hope! Xia Chujian heard it and instinctively found it a bit noisy.
But she couldn't bear to turn off the public communication channel.
Because she could tell that more and more Marine Corps, like the five hundred from the Fourth Interstellar Fleet, trusted her without reservation, were willing to listen to her commands, and charge into battle for her!
Xia Chujian looked ahead, where the sky, once densely packed with Floating Turrets like a steel torrent, was now completely clear.
The Triangular Cone Aircraft were also gone.
The sky was gradually turning a fish-belly white; the night was almost over.
The enemy seemed to show no signs of continuing their attack.
Xia Chujian was also tired and was about to return to base.
Suddenly, at the end of the horizon, more Warplanes took off.
Xia Chujian narrowed her eyes.
Seven Lù quickly scanned the Warplanes' shapes and power magnetic field frequencies, then displayed a line of childish graffiti on Xia Chujian's eyepiece display.
[Seven Lù]: Master, they are all Beichen Empire's Harrier-type, Owl-type, and Eagle-type Fighters. Judging by the models and shapes, they are all models that were phased out fifty years ago.
Xia Chujian sneered and said, "So the outdated weapon production capacity that the four countries in the Beichen Galaxy phased out has all been moved here!"
"The insiders of the Haidagong and Shang People in these four countries are really numerous!"
People die for wealth, and birds die for food.
What were those people after, transporting those conventional Thermal Weapons to arm the Shang People and Haidagong? Was it really just for the Longevity Flying Fish?
If the Longevity Flying Fish was their only target, then its purpose was probably much greater than she imagined.
But what exactly was its use? And who was the first to discover the Longevity Flying Fish's purpose?
Xia Chujian was certain that the Longevity Flying Fish only existed on this Senze Star, which was unsuitable for ordinary people to live on.
So how long had the four countries in the Beichen Galaxy been flirting with the remnants on Senze Star?
The Marine Corps and trainees who came here to carry out this mission this time probably didn't know any of this, right?
As Xia Chujian thought, her mind drifted to the trainees and Instructors at the base.
If the trainees didn't know, did the Instructors know?
If the Instructors knew and were still helping the evildoers, even selecting the elites among this group of trainees to send them here to die, that would be terrifying!
Xia Chujian subconsciously felt that the Instructors probably didn't know.
Otherwise, Yu Fei and Yang Ling, those two Instructors, definitely wouldn't agree.
As for Pei Zijing, she didn't know, but Xia Chujian didn't have a good impression of him right now.
Not because she thought he was bad, but because she thought he was stupid.
As the Chief Instructor of such a large Flying Base, he was repeatedly manipulated.
This wasn't a case of "virtue not matching position," but "talent not matching position," and he would still be played to death.
Moreover, it was the kind of situation where one general's incompetence led to the death of the entire army.
When Xia Chujian used to complain about this saying as an outsider, she only felt that this "general" should be dismissed.
But now that she was one of the "army" being implicated and killed, she felt that such an incompetent general deserved to have his head chopped off as an apology! The real battlefield was much crueler than a sports arena; there was no room for falsehood!
Xia Chujian grumbled inwardly, but she also knew that with these light and fast Harrier-type, Owl-type, and Eagle-type Ground Fighters, her "laser diversion" operation wouldn't be cost-effective.
By the time she painstakingly "diverted" the lasers, those Harrier-type, Owl-type, and Eagle-type Warplanes would have long since run away.
And even if they didn't escape, their size was about the same as Xia Chujian's rectangular Flying Vehicle.
Xia Chujian also couldn't hide under these Ground Fighters to avoid the laser beams from the atmosphere, like she could under the massive Floating Turrets!
At that point, she would be cut to pieces by the lasers herself! Was this the countermeasure they had come up with? She had to admit, it was quite successful...
As Xia Chujian thought this, she quickly retreated to the Grand Canyon defensive line in the rear.
As soon as she returned, she gathered everyone for a meeting and explained the situation at the front.
Of course, the video Seven Lù had taken of the densely packed Ground Fighters flying in from the front was also sent to each Starry Sky Fighter.
Xia Chujian said, "This time, it's Ground Fighters. Compared to Starry Sky Fighters, Ground Fighters are smaller and, within the atmosphere, their speed is the same as our Starry Sky Fighters."
The advantage of Starry Sky Fighters was that they could fight both in and out of the atmosphere.
Outside the atmosphere, without the influence of gravity and air resistance, their speed would be much faster.
But within the atmosphere, affected by the planet's gravity system and air resistance, their speed was on par with Ground Fighters.
However, there was no need to worry too much.
Xia Chujian said, "This should be their last resort."
"My radar has scanned three types of Ground Fighters that they've sent. The most numerous are the Harrier-type, with thirty thousand."
"There are twenty thousand Owl-type, and ten thousand of the highest-end Eagle-type Fighters."
"Based on my estimation, this is all they have left."
"The Shang People originally numbered over forty thousand, but they mainly piloted Triangular Cone Aircraft, of which over ten thousand were destroyed by us, so they should only have a little over thirty thousand left."
"These thirty thousand Shang People should be piloting the Harrier-type Warplanes."
"The Haidagong originally numbered over fifty thousand, but in the previous five thousand Floating Turrets, assuming four operators per Floating Turret, there were about twenty thousand Haidagong, which I also destroyed."
"So the Haidagong should have about thirty thousand left."
"The Owl-Class Fighters and Eagle-type Fighters they've sent this time total only thirty thousand, but they are higher-end than the Harrier-type Warplanes, so the Haidagong should be piloting them."
Xia Chujian's analysis was logical and well-founded, and everyone was convinced.
In fact, at this point, even if she made up some data, no one would question her.
Because when trust reached its peak, it became blind faith.
But as the commander, Xia Chujian couldn't just issue orders based on her own whims or intuition.
This is the second update. There's another update before this, don't forget to read it, my dearies!
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