Charlotte decisively issued a series of combat orders: "The T3 Blizzard will proceed directly toward that T3 Arkham at full speed, with the bow cannon on standby.
Main cannons and secondary cannons, target all T2 starships within weapon range. Close defense cannons, prepare to intercept enemy offensive firepower.
Stellar missiles, enter launch-ready status."
"Yes!" Secretary Aili immediately began relaying Charlotte's commands.
On the bridge, the starship crew members were all busy at work.
Even facing an enemy fleet hundreds of times their size, these crew members showed no fear at all.
Is that all?
Compared to when they charged through a million-strong swarm before, this was nothing.
They had already experienced such thrilling and dangerous battlefields—this was just a minor scene.
The T3 Blizzard began accelerating. From the initial few dozen knots stellar speed when leaving the planet, it reached over a hundred knots stellar speed in just a few breaths, and was still continuously increasing.
"What is that T3 starship trying to do?" The Fire Lizard commander stared in surprise at the T3 starship charging straight toward their Fire Lizard fleet, finding the move utterly baffling.
"Could it be trying to break through head-on? Executing a decapitation plan?" The Fire Lizard adjutant beside him speculated about the enemy's intentions.
"Decapitation plan? With just a single medium interstellar cruiser?" The Fire Lizard commander burst into laughter, tears welling up in his eyes. "I've only heard of medium interstellar cruisers carrying out missions like interception, sniping, or harassment.
I've never heard of anyone daring to use such a starship for a decapitation plan.
What? Does it think our many starships are just for show?
Does it think my T3 Arkham here is just for show?
Ignore it! Let it charge over. I was just thinking earlier that if it tried to escape, our starships might not even catch up.
Now it's delivering itself right to us.
The wreckage of a T3 interstellar warship like this could sell for a lot of money later."
The Fire Lizard commander stuck out his long tongue and licked his lips.
The adjutant beside him didn't think much of it either. After all, according to the database, this was just a medium interstellar cruiser.
Its fragile starship armor couldn't possibly withstand the bombardment of so many starships, let alone with the T3 Arkham-class medium starship battleship stationed right here.
Soon, the T3 Blizzard, having accelerated to 210 knots stellar speed, charged into the Fire Lizard fleet's "encirclement" with its forward star shield raised.
The surrounding Fire Lizard T2 and T1 starships opened fire one after another.
But something unexpected happened.
This so-called T3 medium interstellar cruiser actually displayed an extremely terrifying interception capability.
The seventy-two medium close-in defense guns mounted on its ship hull continuously fired, intercepting the attacks from the Fire Lizard starships, primarily targeting the assaults from the T2 Fire Lizard starships.
The interception rate against T2 Fire Lizard starship attacks reached as high as 90% at one point!
As for the interception rate against T1 Fire Lizard starship attacks, it was less than 50%.
And the attacks from these T1 Fire Lizard starships, when they landed on the hull of this T3 medium interstellar cruiser, only managed to chip off a bit of paint?
"Strange... There's something off about this interstellar cruiser's starship armor." The Fire Lizard commander keenly sensed something amiss.
At that moment, several T2 Fire Lizard starships' attacks struck the hull of the T3 medium interstellar cruiser.
The result was merely small craters left on its surface, with depths estimated to be less than twenty centimeters!
"This isn't the hull armor strength a medium interstellar cruiser should have!" The Fire Lizard commander finally realized something was wrong.
"Report! Detected cluster laser-type weapons charging on the enemy ship's bow cannon!" the adjutant reported.
The Fire Lizard commander's expression darkened. This starship was strange! But now there was no room for choice—the T3 medium interstellar cruiser had already entered the engagement range of both sides' starships.
Coupled with the enemy ship's astonishing speed...
This was an unavoidable confrontation.
"I refuse to believe that a mere T3 medium interstellar cruiser can outmatch my T3 Arkham!" the Fire Lizard commander said in a low voice.
The next moment, he ordered his T3 Arkham's bow cannon to fire!
It was also a cluster laser weapon. A red beam laser shot out, directly striking the star shield on the bow of the T3 medium interstellar cruiser.
"Let's see how long your mere medium interstellar cruiser can withstand my bow cannon's attacks!" Just as the Fire Lizard commander sneered, waiting for the T3 medium interstellar cruiser to suffer the consequences...
The enemy's bow cannon also struck. A blue beam laser collided with the star shield of his T3 Arkham.
One red and one blue beam laser shone in parallel, each attacking the other starship's star shield.
The scene was, admittedly, quite spectacular.
"Alert! Alert! Alert! Star shield under attack, star shield under attack..."
The starship shield system's voice sounded.
At first, no one paid it much attention.
After all, when a mere medium interstellar cruiser and a medium interstellar battleship exchange bow cannon fire, it's easy to guess whose firepower is greater.
But soon, the situation changed.
"Something's wrong! Something's wrong, Commander! The rate at which our starship's stellar shield energy value is dropping is very abnormal!" the adjutant shouted in panic.
The Fire Lizard commander also noticed this.
Their starship's stellar shield energy value was dropping too quickly—unexpectedly fast!
"Based on this attack value, the power of the enemy's bow cannon surpasses that of ours! That's no T3 Hummingbird-class medium starship cruiser! It's a stellar battlecruiser!" the adjutant exclaimed in shock.
The Fire Lizard commander widened his eyes. "But even if it's a stellar battlecruiser, how could it... compare to the bow cannon firepower of an interstellar battleship?"
This had always been common knowledge to them.
But at this moment, it was overturned.
T3 Blizzard · Bridge
"Warning! Warning! Our ship's star shield is under attack, our ship's star shield is under attack..."
Charlotte listened to this alert with an unchanged expression, watching the red beam laser flashing on the star shield.
A disdainful smile curled at the corner of her lips.
The T3 Arkham-class medium starship battleship was equipped with nothing more than a T3-class medium cluster laser bow-mounted cannon.
But their T3 Blizzard-class light interstellar battlecruiser was equipped with a T3-class heavy cluster laser bow-mounted cannon.
Putting aside the technical gap between the two bow cannons themselves, just the sheer scale isn't even in the same league.
If the Fire Lizard commander were to hear this news, he would surely curse: What kind of light interstellar battlecruiser installs a heavy cluster laser bow-mounted cannon? This is blatant 'fraud'!
"Prepare the four-unit stellar missile launch silos. Target the T3 Arkham with stellar missiles. Execute six volleys, totaling twenty-four stellar missiles!" Charlotte commanded.
The four-unit stellar missile launch silos of the T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser opened, and four Blizzard Light Stellar Missiles were launched.
Trailing flames, they began hunting their 'prey'!
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