"Order the Mammoth and Dire Wolf Fleets to hold fast, stabilize their positions, and pin down the enemy head-on!
Iron Curtain Fleet, all units, abandon defensive formations.
Switch to Assault Array, engines at full power, full speed ahead!
Target, the flank of the enemy main fleet directly ahead!"
"We will seize the opportunity while they are divided and their main weapons are absent to crush this Pluto Fleet main force in one fell swoop!
Then, we'll mop up their remnants and those two isolated 'superweapons' at Langkawi Star!"
She could already see the trajectory of victory.
In her view, Qin Bei Wang's strategy of dividing his forces had become a fatal mistake.
The massive Iron Curtain Fleet, like a shield wall finally baring its fangs, began to accelerate with a thunderous roar.
With an aura intent on crushing everything in its path, it surged toward the Pluto Fleet main force that had just completed its ambush and emerged from the planetary shadow.
Isabella Marlow's orders were still echoing in the encrypted channel, not yet fully transmitted to every ship of the "Mammoth" and "Dire Wolf" Fleets, when the tide of destruction surged forth.
The Pluto Fleet's reaction was faster than imagined.
Targeting the heavily damaged and disordered Mammoth Fleet, over twenty capital ships within the Pluto main fleet almost simultaneously completed fine-tuned targeting.
Their objectives were highly unified.
The battleship "Mammoth," still struggling, its right side ablaze with raging flames and thick smoke.
Before the volleys of beams and missiles arrived.
Five "River"-class Tier 4 battleships at the forefront of the array, their signature triple-mounted quadruple heavy plasma accelerator turrets, roared first, shaking the void!
Twelve house-sized, high-density plasma spheres, constrained into incandescent orbs by powerful magnetic fields and roiling with destructive energy, broke free from their acceleration tracks.
Trailing brilliant, deadly contrails like twelve scorching comets, they tore through the darkness, striking the Mammoth almost simultaneously!
The first sphere hit the edge of the scarred breach on the Mammoth's starboard side. The ultra-high-temperature plasma instantly vaporized the already molten armor further, widening the wound.
The second and third spheres struck the adjacent main armor belt in succession. The thick composite armor, under the terrifying high-temperature ablation lasting several seconds, melted and disintegrated like ice under sunlight, exposing the fragile structural layer beneath.
More plasma spheres accurately slammed into the Mammoth's bridge area, the outer walls of its main energy compartment, and the bases of its still-operating thruster arrays!
The Mammoth's remaining shields couldn't hold for even a second, utterly annihilated amidst the shriek of overload.
What followed was the complete collapse of armor and structure.
In areas directly struck by the plasma spheres, the armor didn't just melt—it sublimated, transforming into violently expanding metallic vapor.
The hull structure twisted, softened, and fractured under extreme heat.
Internal compartments were exposed to the vacuum. Crew members who hadn't escaped, equipment, and conduits were instantly vaporized or scattered into space.
Continuous explosions erupted from deep within the leviathan's hull, each blast causing the massive starship to shudder violently. Breaches spewed forth torrents of flame and debris stretching for kilometers.
Finally, in a blinding internal detonation that illuminated nearly half the battlefield, the mammoth vessel "Mammoth" completely fractured at its midsection!
The forward half, carrying the burning bridge, tumbled away into deep space, while the aft engine section transformed into an ever-expanding ball of destruction amid uncontrolled energy release.
The flagship of the Empire's "Colossus" Fleet, along with its yet-unleashed ferocious firepower, was thus tragically and brutally reduced to expensive debris among the stars under the coordinated heavy strikes of five battleships of the same class.
Almost simultaneously, another slaughter was unfolding.
Over a dozen Federation Gale-class High-speed Cruisers, like sharks drawn to the scent of blood, engines blazing with piercing blue light, surged forth from the Pluto Fleet's formation at astonishing acceleration, charging straight toward the "Dire Wolf" Fleet on the other side, which was attempting to reorganize its formation!
The Gale-class was not renowned for heavy firepower, but they possessed top-tier speed among cruisers and fearsome railgun arrays.
Closing to medium-close range, these high-speed warships revealed their "wolf pack" nature.
They nimbly weaved through, evading the hastily organized interception fire from the Dire Wolf Fleet, their bow and broadside multi-barrel railguns firing in sequence!
"Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom—!"
The dense, rhythmic sound of railgun fire filled the communication channels.
Each hypervelocity alloy projectile carried terrifying kinetic energy, easily tearing through the relatively weak shields and armor of destroyers, leaving horrifying holes clear through their hulls or triggering chain explosions of internal systems.
Several destroyers on the periphery of the Dire Wolf Fleet were practically turned into sieves upon contact, silently disintegrating.
A few cruisers that attempted to move forward to provide cover also had their shields overloaded and armor shattered under the coordinated crossfire of the "Gale" pack, one after another transforming into burning scrap metal.
The Dire Wolf Fleet's flagship, Gray Wolf, was a T4-Class Battleship famed for its ferocious assault capabilities.
Witnessing his subordinates being slaughtered in such a manner, the captain's eyes nearly burst with rage.
"Main cannon charging!
Aim at those leading Gale-class ships!
Take them out!"
He roared.
Gray Wolf's massive main turret began to rotate, its muzzle gathering dangerous energy light.
However, just as its targeting system was about to lock on.
That familiar, pale-white, star-piercing heavy particle beam once again tore through the void from the distant rear of the Pluto Fleet's formation!
The "Kunlun Mountain - Modified," Qin Beiwang's flagship, had never left this main battlefield.
It had remained silently hovering at a safe distance, like a calm sniper, using its terrifying main cannon to punctuate this ambush with one deadly period after another.
The beam struck with precision just below the base of Gray Wolf's charging main turret!
There was no explosion, only extreme penetration and annihilation.
The particle torrent melted through the armor as easily as a hot knife through butter, piercing into the ship's interior, following the energy pipelines downward all the way to the core reactor area!
Gray Wolf's hull suddenly stiffened, all external lights and engine glow instantly extinguishing.
Then, an indescribably blinding light erupted from within.
The entire warship swelled and deformed from within like an overinflated balloon, then vanished completely in a super explosion far surpassing that of the Mammoth, sweeping across a small section of the battlefield.
All that remained was a slowly expanding cloud of metallic debris mixed with high-energy radiation.
When Isabella Marlow's Iron Curtain Fleet stormed into this combat airspace at maximum battle speed, this was the hellish scene that greeted them:
The Mammoth, flagship of the "Behemoth" Fleet, was broken in two, its wreckage still burning and exploding.
The Gray Wolf, flagship of the "Dire Wolf" Fleet, had vanished without a trace, leaving only a deadly radiation cloud.
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