Starting from the Planetary Governor-Chapter 817 - 447, Iron Horse Naval Battle_2

Chapter 817: Chapter 447, Iron Horse Naval Battle_2

However, the plan failed.

The small boat that had been following their trails didn’t jump at all; instead, on this side of the Star Realm Tunnel, another small boat was watching them from a distance.

It didn’t matter if our boat was small, having many could do the job.

If you can’t catch up, can’t hit, and can’t shake them off, then that’s the only option.

At first, Zhong Jihua just found it annoying but didn’t feel it was particularly dangerous.

Let them watch.

What can you possibly do to me?

At worst, they are only afraid of spying on him. When he actually wants to do something, these small boats have no way to stop him.

However, by now, he was starting to feel something was wrong.

A long surveillance could be overlooked, but the wizards on his ship had repeatedly provided him with intelligence, informing him that a large number of ships were shuttling through the Star Realm Tunnels around Tie Dong II.

What do they want to do?

Ambush me?

It really seemed like it.

If a fight was to break out, a fleet with three cruisers as the main force and a total of more than a hundred ships against a lone Retribution-class Battleship, who would win?

That’s not easy to say, the latter’s chances of winning might not be more than twenty percent.

Before, he thought the so-called ‘Alliance’ wouldn’t really fight him to the death.

If they defeated him, what then? The United Fleet would have to pay with the loss of at least more than half of its ships, most of which were likely to be cruisers.

Is such a high cost worth it?

You are still at war with the Green Skins.

Indeed, Zhong Jihua was aware of this information.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have come here.

It was precisely because the Alliance was in a state of war, and this war appeared to be extremely fierce, that he had come to this place.

What he wanted was indeed just as Gu Hang had guessed: the Gene Seed of the Phoenix.

The Ashen Dead Squad was a group of deserters from among the Phoenix who were born after turning to the Chaos God. Back then, people like Zhong Jihua thought that the Phoenix was doomed to destruction, and staying would have been meaningless, only to die with the Battle Group.

It was all the Empire’s fault. The Phoenix were fighting for the Empire, and it was the Iron Armor who were traitors. Yet in the end, they were betrayed by the Empire, sentenced to the Penitent Crusade, and doomed to a fate of certain death on that expedition.

So, they rebelled, they turned to the Evil God, and named themselves ‘Ashen Dead’.

From the ashes of the burned-out Phoenix, the dead returned from hell with a fire of vengeance.

Such was the meaning behind their new name.

But who could have imagined that the Phoenix hadn’t died at all?

Not only did they not perish, but in those years, with the support of that ‘Alliance’ that had emerged from who knows where, they had grown stronger and even began to show signs of returning to their former glory.

How could Zhong Jihua and his ilk accept this?

Was our choice back then wrong?

That’s impossible!

To prove they weren’t the wrong ones, Zhong Jihua led his War Faction to the Eastern Cosmos Domain, the Dragonhawk Star Domain.

Here was the opportunity to expand the scale of the War Faction. This place held the Gene Seed they had long desired, kin of their own blood; they also looked for opportunities to destroy this human power spanning nearly a hundred worlds.

Solely with their power, that was of course not feasible.

But weren’t there the Green Skins?

As long as sufficient chaos was caused in the rear, it could be done.

Hence, the incident aboard Iron Horse I-3 occurred.

Through the wizards, they corrupted the captured Alliance spies, delivering false intelligence, and sent down two teams of Phoenix.

Those two teams of Phoenix, totaling twenty individuals, ended up with a predicament that was anything but delightful.

Although the fighting capacity of the Phoenix was undoubtedly strong, the Ashen Dead were all veteran soldiers. It was a classic case of the prepared versus the unprepared, a tenfold force effortlessly overwhelming the new Phoenix recruits, that they couldn’t even send a message out was only to be expected.

Sadly, the so-called Alliance’s response speed was still very quick.

They could only run.

They had thought they could easily escape on their big ship, but it seemed that wasn’t possible.

But even now, Zhong Jihua couldn’t quite bring himself to believe that the Alliance really dared to deploy their precious fleet to besiege him.

However, he wasn’t unprepared for this.

The corresponding orders were given; the “Wraith Spike” continued its course toward Border Horse IV.

If the Alliance’s fleet didn’t dare go to war, they could swagger away; but once the battle began… bring it on.

Firstly, the “Wraith Spike” would be capable of blowing up almost half of the Alliance’s fleet;

Of course, the “Wraith Spike” would also be done for.

But what of it?

They were Interstellar Warriors!

In battle, they could let the “Wraith Spike” charge and smash its way towards the clustered Alliance ships. When asked what the most powerful weapon on the Retribution-class Battleship was, it probably was not any Light Spear Array, nor any oversized Colossal Cannon, but rather the ancient “ram” mounted on the prow of the ship.

Using its massive bulk, a Retribution-class Battleship’s charge would smash any smaller vessels to bits; and it itself, protected by the ram, would suffer no harm.

Of course, this wasn’t any kind of conventional weapon, and no one used this thing as the decisive weapon in a real sea battle. The so-called “ram” served mostly a decorative purpose.

However, if the battle really did break out below, Zhong Jihua didn’t intend to have the ram act as pure decoration.

Both cannons and ram could be put into action.

And after the ships drew near each other, the “Ashen Dead Squad” could apply their biggest tactic: the Boarding Tactic!

Whether it was through boarding ships after closing the distance or simply through direct Subspace Transmissions by the former Think Tank, now the War Faction Wizard of the battle group.

Once on board the enemy’s ship, they could take control, use the War Faction Wizard to summon Chaos Divine Power, and rapidly corrupt the crew.

In a very short time, they could “hijack” the ship.

Then they could continue fighting.

Using such tactics, they could be executed multiple times in succession.

How many ships did the Alliance have to be taken from them?

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Each success for them meant one less ship for the Alliance and one more for them; wouldn’t that make up for the Escort Ships “Wraith Spike” was lacking?

If what they captured were the Main Cruisers from within the United Fleet, the situation would get even worse.

In short, for Zhong Jihua, if there was to be a fight, so be it!

And indeed, the whole situation developed just as he had anticipated.

When the “Wraith Spike” approached the Star Realm Tunnel jump point leading to Border Horse IV, a fleet jumped out from there.

At the same time, from the jump point at Iron Horse I, a group of Alliance ships also appeared.

They belonged to the same group, a pincer strategy, also devised by the Fleet Commander, Major General Yelisia.

Maintaining a distance from both sides, and avoiding concentrated attacks by the “Wraith Spike,” they prepared to carry out an encircling move.

In this situation, Zhong Jihua no longer considered any other factors.

He issued orders again, informing all members of the battle group:

“Prepare for battle, let us have a glorious fight!”

And his brothers gave him a clear feedback: “Roar!”

He shouted again: “Blood for the Blood God!”

The communication channel immediately echoed: “Skulls for the Skull Throne!”

Amidst the high morale and bloodthirsty cries within the Ashen Dead, the distance between the two sides grew ever closer.

The “Wraith Spike” opened fire first.

Its range was farther than any other ship in the Alliance.

And this caught the Alliance fleet somewhat by surprise. A ‘Silver Sword-class’ Escort Ship was hit.

The X-grade Light Spear Array instantly melted the Silver Sword’s energy shield, and the force of the blast punched a big hole in the ship.

Immediately, the Silver Sword lost power, spinning in space; then after half a minute, a more violent explosion occurred inside the Silver Sword, turning it into a fireball in the void.