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Chapter 1027: Chapter 557, The Battle of He Yang_2

This is his real body, hidden beneath the red and black robe, a mechanical body that has long been transformed beyond recognition.

At this moment, his scarlet eyes gazing up at the stars, were, of course, also modified. He didn’t need any device to directly observe the current battle situation near Earth’s orbit.

The Alliance’s attack came too suddenly.

Just as the Alliance guessed, they were indeed buying time. Promising to ’relocate’ was purely to fool the Alliance.

Of course, they also considered the possibility that the Alliance might not be deceived.

Whether on the planet or the orbital starports and space stations, they maintained a loose exterior but tight interior, always ready for the Alliance to strike directly at any moment.

However, the speed of this ’face slap’ was really a bit too fast.

A moment ago, the Alliance’s fleet was still at the periphery, quietly staying outside the range of the orbital defenses, just like the past few days.

The next moment, all the ships suddenly started to move at full speed, rushing towards the orbital system.

The orbital defense system of Heyang VIII was not bad, with a star fortress and a fortified starport. They had to pay a heavy price if they really wanted to attack forcefully.

However, the star fortress and the starport could not fire immediately to stop the Alliance’s ships.

They were boarded.

Through teleportation technology, the Phoenix jumped directly to these two places.

The Alliance’s teleportation technology truly exasperated Boreson.

Normally, psychic teleportation needs a coordinate. For short distances, tens or hundreds of kilometers, it’s fine, direct teleportation is not a big deal; but in interstellar warfare, teleporting thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers is a different story.

For such long-distance teleportation, ships usually need to shoot torpedoes carrying teleportation coordinates to the target location.

Since it only needs to hit the target and not cause damage, teleportation torpedoes can be made particularly small, hard to intercept.

But there still needed to be something of the sort.

However, the Alliance’s teleportation shamelessly needed none of these.

A tear opened directly in the real world, and then the Red Armored Phoenix emerged from it.

To achieve this, there are two ways: either there is some advanced teleportation device that could skip this stage. Some rare devices, unearthed through archaeology, that cannot be mass-produced, can do it. It is said that the Blood Shark has this method.

The other way is if the hosting Psychic has a special talent, and their psychic strength is particularly high.

Which type is the Alliance?

Boreson was pondering carefully.

He didn’t think about how the battle would go; that wasn’t his concern.

Starports and star fortresses were heavily guarded. The elite knights of the Heyang Knights Group were present. With the strong support of Alfonso, a powerful faction within the Sect of Mechanics, the Heyang Knights Group was not just a bunch of small junk pretending to be sentinel mechas.

Those piloting sentinel mechas were all just squires, utterly unworthy of the knight title; above the sentinel mechas, there were even the squire mechas, much smaller than conventional knight mechas but only a little smaller than the Interstellar Warriors’ Dreadnought Mechs; Ranger Knights were the main force, and there were quite a few; above the Rangers, there were Vengeance-class and Dominator-class, even higher-level knights.

These big guys are genuinely heavy units, yet because they are humanoid, unlike tank-like heavy armored vehicles that can’t enter many complex terrains, they can maneuver in any terrain unless it’s extremely tight.

In Heyang VIII’s starports and star fortresses, designed to defend the Knight World’s homeland, many key places were built large, allowing knight mechas to maneuver within.

Even for Interstellar Warriors, dealing with them wouldn’t be easy.

Perhaps the Phoenix, using the Alliance’s special teleportation methods, had thrown the star fortress and the starport into momentary chaos.

But Boreson believed that the number of Interstellar Warriors who could be teleported over was limited, right? Could just Interstellar Warriors wipe out all the knights stationed there?

He didn’t think so.

Not to mention that the surface had already reacted, and reinforcements were on the way.

As long as Phoenix couldn’t instantly eliminate the knights stationed in the star fortress and starport, then the reinforcements would keep coming.

Boreson continued to contemplate how the Alliance’s teleportation methods were achieved.

And calculate whether there were suitable countermeasures.

The subsequent engagements with the Alliance were likely to be frequent.

If a proper method isn’t found, those Interstellar Warriors who could board quickly, safely, and unnoticed really are a difficult bunch.

The Sect of Mechanics also has some powerful elite units to counter them, like knights, or the Armed Priesthood Battalion comprised of members from the sect above the level of Mechanical Priests. After all, if a Mechanical Priest puts in the effort to extensively modify his body, given his technical skills and the resources at his disposal, he can be highly formidable in battle.

It would be best if the technological source could be cut off…

“Hmm?”

During his thoughts, the scene before him interrupted his thinking.

Above him, Heyang VIII’s only star fortress exploded into a massive fireball in mid-air.

The star fortress… was destroyed?

This…

Was indeed a bit beyond Boreson’s expectations.

His mechanical brain began to quickly calculate and simulate the potential outcomes of the war.

From beneath his robe, a neural link extended and connected to a device in front of him. Without verbal instruction, commands converted into electric signals transmitted everywhere.

Multiple ground-based orbital cannon batteries were also directly linked by him, his powerful computation ability directly controlling at least a hundred cannons, launching an attack into the sky.

With the blessing of this seasoned Principal Sage, the artillery seemed to come alive, significantly increasing in accuracy and coordination.

The star fortress had already been destroyed, the remaining starport must be preserved.

Under his efforts, the suddenly enhanced ground firepower inflicted greater damage on the Alliance. The loss of small ships aside, at least three cruisers had their Void Shields shattered and even the hulls damaged within this short time, forcing them to leave the orbital system and withdraw from the battle.

However, originally calculated to resist the Alliance’s fierce assault for more than two days, the starport lost its Void Shield protection in only the third hour.

That was evidently turned off from the inside.

The starport, after losing protection, would be destroyed in at most two more hours.

Boreson’s mechanical brain paused for a moment again—what to do about this?

If it could hold for two days, then with the combined ground firepower, the cost for the Alliance would become significant, possibly even losing two battlecruisers or a battleship here. If the Alliance didn’t want to incur such losses, they would have to withdraw, preserving the orbital defense system of Heyang VIII.

Trading the orbital system for a battleship would be profitable. Moreover, subsequent ground battles would drag the Alliance into a quagmire.

But as it stands now, there’s no way around it.

Of course, Boreson didn’t cease his control over the ground-based orbital cannon; he invested more computational power to optimize trajectory calculations as much as possible.

The time to give up hadn’t come yet.

Nevertheless, the Alliance retreated.

Days later, the Alliance returned aggressively.

This time, they destroyed all the space stations in orbit; among the ships orbiting, those that couldn’t land or couldn’t make it in time, half were destroyed, and the other half were boarded, their control seized from within, becoming the Alliance’s spoils.

Afterward, the Alliance no longer deployed forces to the ground.

Heyang VIII, although not lost yet, lost all its orbital systems and ships, and so the Alliance could now leave grandiosely. This planet no longer had any capability for active assault.

Boreson remained silent.

He truly didn’t understand how his starport and star fortress were lost.

Even if the Phoenix Battle Group emerged in full force, could a thousand Interstellar Warriors, in just a few hours, break through the defenses of the knights stationed at starport and star fortress and turn off the Void Shields?

Why could they?

Even the Iron Armor Battle Group couldn’t achieve that, could they?

It would at least require two thousand, or even three thousand Interstellar Warriors to accomplish this, wouldn’t it?

Boreson was baffled.

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