Chapter 822: FQ-95 Star Sector Localized War (3)

Another portion precisely attached to the relatively weak side armor and engine exhaust areas of the Barrier and exploded violently!

Boom! Boom!

The massive hull of the Barrier shuddered violently, and several gaps blown open in the armor revealed internal conduits flickering with electric arcs.

The flames from the engine exhausts also became unstable!

"Assault landing pods! Launch!"

The Ashes Commander roared.

Several massive metal spikes tore through the void and nailed into the wounds blown open on the Barrier.

The hatches exploded outward, and a torrent of dark red Lava Power Armor surged out!

The interior of the Barrier instantly sounded the highest alert! "Enemy boarding! Side C Zone, D Zone! Near the engine room! Repeat, near the engine room!"

"Marines! Stop them! Hold the power core!"

The captain's voice roared over the internal channel.

Fengqi's orbital defense soldiers and ship-borne marines quickly rushed toward the breach points, and bloody close-quarters combat erupted instantly in the narrow corridors!

And on the right flank of the Fengqi Fleet, Suolun's counterattack was equally fierce!

"Gargoyle Frigate group! Target: enemy Razor formation right flank! Swarm missiles, saturation coverage! Take out their escorts for me!"

Suolun's orders were issued rapidly.

Dozens of small but fiercely armed Gargoyle-class Light Frigates bypassed the main battlefield engagement zone and charged straight at the Razor assault ship detachment responsible for covering the Ashes Fleet's right flank!

"Fire!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!

Countless Swarm missiles, the size of single-person flight vehicles, poured out from the launch tubes on both sides of the Gargoyle hulls.

Their tails flickered with an eerie blue light, their speed was astonishingly fast, and their trajectories were erratic!

The Ashes Razor captains felt their scalps tingle as they saw the overwhelming, ominously blue-flickering dots!

"It's a Swarm! Intercept with everything you've got!"

Close-in defensive fire swept wildly, destroying some missiles, but a large number of Swarm missiles still broke through the fire net!

They did not explode; instead, upon approaching their targets, they suddenly released a sweeping, violent, directional Electromagnetic Pulse!

A silent shockwave instantly swept across the Ashes' right-flank assault ship detachment!

"Razor Seven! All systems down! Lost power!"

"Razor Nine! Engines stopped! Shields offline! We're paralyzed!"

Various reports in the communication channel could not be transmitted.

Several Razors instantly turned into dead, silent coffins floating in the void, with lethal electric arcs jumping across their hulls!

"Opportunity!"

Cold light shot from Suolun's eyes.

"Claw assault squadron reserve! Target: enemy paralyzed ships! Forced assault boarding! Capture or destroy!"

The Fengqi Claw assault troops, who had long been ready, rode in specially made assault landing craft, their engines roaring as they charged at high speed toward those powerless Ashes Razors!

The sharp rams at the front of the landing craft stabbed fiercely into the enemy ship's armor, the hatches exploded, and black figures wearing Night Owl armor, wielding heavy shotguns and Energy Weapon battle axes, charged into the interior of the Ashes warship with vengeful fury!

At this moment, the core battlefield of FQ-95 had completely turned into a boiling Furnace.

Massive Capital Ships bombarded each other violently at a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers.

Thick torrents of Lava main cannons and condensed blue particle beam Spears crossed paths, illuminating the void.

Every hit triggered earth-shattering energy explosions, ripples of shield overloads, heavy armor being torn and melted through, and massive hulls shuddering and disintegrating in the shockwaves!

High-speed assault ship groups wove through the gaps in the Capital Ships' firepower.

They released drones and assault landing pods, delivering destruction into the bodies of the enemy steel behemoths.

The light of explosions flickered one after another on the surfaces of both sides' hulls.

Assault boarding battles were playing out inside countless warships!

Narrow corridors, massive hangars, roaring engine rooms, core control rooms... all had become bloody slaughterhouses!

The dark red of Lava Power Armor and the deep black of Night Owl armor collided fiercely amidst the light of explosions and the glare of Energy Weapons.

Floating in the void were the wreckage of warships, twisted metal fragments, frozen blood ice, powerless escape pods, and the corpses of countless soldiers and crew members.

Suolun stood on the violently shaking Bridge of the Guardian, watching the frantically flickering dots on the star map, which represented the passing of countless lives and the destruction of steel.

The communication channel was filled with emergency reports, requests for aid, and battle damage information from various ships.

"Left flank Barrier reporting! Boarding enemies have breached the perimeter of the D Zone engine room! Our marines are fighting a bloody battle!"

"Right flank! Gargoyle group successfully paralyzed three enemy Razors! Claw has successfully boarded two of them! Currently clearing out remaining enemies!"

"Latest news from the Rock platform! The energy core area corridor is still being contested! Reinforcements have arrived at the perimeter and are clearing out enemy ships, preparing to force a landing to support the platform!"

Hal Jinhun, in his command seat, felt the vibrations of the hull being hit by Fengqi artillery fire.

He watched as the Fengqi Fleet, despite suffering heavy damage, stubbornly maintained its line, and the assault detachment on the right flank had suffered heavy losses.

The lava light in his eyes grew more intense.

"Order the Burning Claw fleet to strike from the nebula shadow zone! Target: rear of the Fengqi Fleet! Cut off their retreat for me! Ashes Envoy cluster, at any cost, nail yourselves to that gap! Ashes warriors, use the enemy's blood and steel to prove your glory!"

The FQ-95 star sector was completely swallowed by the flames of war.

Three months later.

Canaan Star Alliance, Snake Eye intelligence analysis center.

Data streams slid silently past the faint humming of the massive circular star map.

On the star map, the deep blue and dark red of the FQ-95 region collided fiercely, and the energy readings were terrifyingly high.

And the edge of the Fengqi deep blue representing the Silent Valley region was now flickering with a dim luster representing "extreme weakness."

Intelligence Director Ella Venus stood before the star map, the silver snake emblem on her emerald uniform glowing faintly.

Her gaze did not linger long on the carnage at FQ-95, but remained firmly locked on Silent Valley.

"Tuoke, final assessment of the Silent Valley defense status?"

Analyst Tuoke pushed up his glasses and spoke.

"Director, final confirmation. The Fengqi Sentinel Destroyer and its attached Third Patrol Squadron were emergency-deployed to FQ-95 twelve standard hours ago to fill combat losses.

Currently, in the Silent Valley region, there remain only two overdue-service 'Vigilant'-class patrol boats, a small number of orbital automated defense platforms, and the security forces of a civilian mining company.

The fleet coming to garrison the area will arrive in four standard hours.

Defense level: historical low.

The attention and available mobile forces of all high-level officials in the Fengqi Star Alliance are firmly pinned down by the continuous fierce attacks from FQ-95 and the Ash Star Alliance."

A smile appeared at the corner of Ella's mouth; the hunter finally saw the prey step into the trap.

"Historical low..."

She repeated softly, then turned around, her gaze sweeping over all the subordinates in the Command Center waiting with bated breath, and issued a clear order.

"'Gleaner' operation, final phase, execute."

"Order the 'Emerald Blade' task force to immediately lift the 'Green Shade' anchorage silence, activate jump engines, target coordinates: Silent Valley core mining area—'Prism' asteroid cluster.

Rules of engagement: swift, silent, efficient.

Primary objective: control all key mining platforms, refineries, and orbital transport hubs.

Implement 'protective isolation' for Fengqi's remaining personnel and miners to avoid unnecessary casualties.

Throughout the operation, use common frequencies and access regional civilian networks to broadcast the established statement on a loop: The Canaan Star Alliance, in response to the 'emergency security request' from the local 'Silent Valley' management committee and the Canaanite miner community, is conducting 'humanitarian intervention' and 'order maintenance' to prevent chaos, panic, and resource looting caused by the spread of the FQ-95 war."

"Understood!"

Tuoke quickly repeated the order.

"Broadcast message has been generated according to the 'Peaceful Oasis' template and encrypted for transmission to 'Emerald Blade'. Jump countdown... starting!"