Chapter 342

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

Within these 12 hours, the Green Skin Fleet has already lost more than half its warships, and the remainder are mostly damaged.

If the fighting continues, before the Shrimp Clan can act, their own warships will fall apart first.

"Retreat, retreat quickly!"

No one knows who shouted first, but the surviving Green Skin warships instantly scattered in a rout.

They reversed course, fleeing in all directions toward Dolido, actively clearing a path for the Imperial Fleet.

"If the Shrimp Clan wants to leave, let them go; we can't beat them anyway!"

"When they come next time, we'll fight them then!"

Dominic watched the Green Skin warships fleeing in all directions and did not order a pursuit.

"Tally the battle losses," he said calmly.

"Reporting, Adult! One of our Mars-class Battlecruisers suffered moderate damage, its Void Shield Generator is broken and requires major repairs.

Five cruisers sustained varying degrees of damage, one escort ship was lost, and 320,000 soldiers perished," the Deputy Officer reported respectfully.

Dominic nodded, but his face showed no trace of pride.

At such a minimal cost, not only did they successfully break out, but they also heavily damaged the Green Skin Fleet of Dolido — by any measure, a great victory.

Yet he also knew that now was not the time to rejoice.

"Order all warships to immediately change course, proceed at full speed to Kal II! Support the Brevis Expedition Fleet!"

"Yes, Adult!"

The Imperial Fleet quickly reorganized and sped off toward Kal II.

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When Dominic's fleet arrived near Kal II, the battle here was already nearing its end.

Countless wrecks of Green Skin warships floated in space; the gray warships of the Brevis Expedition Fleet maintained a neat formation, unhurriedly mopping up the remaining enemies.

Only seven or eight Green Skin warships still put up a desperate resistance; their hulls were riddled with holes, engines billowing black smoke — clearly they could not hold out much longer.

"That is — the flagship of the raiding fleet?" a Navy officer pointed at a Green Skin warship broken in two, speaking in surprise.

The prow of that warship still bore the Blood Axe Clan's red ghost-face sun emblem; now a massive hole had been blasted open in it, and everything inside had been sucked out into space.

"Yes, Adult." Gus's communication came through, his voice carrying a hint of ease.

"Red Crow was killed by me during the first wave of boarding battle; I originally intended to slowly clean up these remnants and reduce losses a bit."

Dominic looked at those Brevis warships operating with consummate ease, and his heart was filled with myriad emotions.

He had originally thought these seemingly motley expedition fleets possessed little combat power.

But unexpectedly, forty Green Skin elite raiding warships were actually beaten by them until they had no power to fight back, and even their chieftain was beheaded.

And judging by their appearance, their losses seemed negligible.

"For the Empire to have a talent like Keli Feng is truly a fortunate thing," Dominic murmured in admiration.

He turned his head and said to the Deputy Officer beside him: "When this war ends, I will personally write a letter of recommendation and submit it to the Imperial Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Navy."

"We must make those Adults on Terra aware of Governor Kerry's achievements."

The Deputy Officer nodded: "Adult is wise; Governor Kerry indeed deserves promotion."

"Enough." Dominic withdrew his gaze.

"Order all warships: one salvo, eliminate those remaining Green Skin warships!"

"Yes, Adult!"

With Dominic's command, dozens of Imperial warships opened fire simultaneously.

Countless beams and shells slammed into those few surviving Green Skin warships.

In just one salvo, the last few Green Skin warships were all blasted into fragments.

The threat near Kal II was completely eliminated.

……

Two days later, Dolido Planet.

In the temporary command room beneath Big Pot City, Lianggenna paced back and forth restlessly.

His injuries had mostly healed; his severed arm had regrown, though it was still not very agile.

The giant mouth on his belly had healed and was incessantly chewing a large piece of Squig meat.

Yet his mood was terrible.

Two days had passed, and he had received no news from Red Crow.

Neither a victory report of capturing Kal II nor any distress signal had arrived.

Red Crow and his eighty warships seemed to have vanished into thin air.

"What's going on? What the hell is Red Crow up to?" Lianggenna halted his steps and roared at the War Bosses beside him.

"It's been two days, not a shred of news — did he take the fleet and run?"

"Big Boss, that shouldn't be the case," a War Boss said cautiously.

"Red Crow isn't that kind of person; possibly communications are being jammed by the Shrimp Clan."

"Jammed? Two days with no contact?" Lianggenna let out a cold snort, his eyes full of suspicion.

Just then, a communication soldier came scrambling in, his face full of terror:

"B-Big Boss! Bad news, the Shrimp Clan's fleet is back!"

"What?!" Lianggenna fiercely rushed to the communication soldier, grabbed his collar with one hand, and lifted him up.

"What did you say? The Shrimp Clan's fleet is back? How many ships?"

"A lot, even more than last time!" The communication soldier trembled all over with fright.

"They've already broken through our orbital defensive line again, and are flying toward the other side of Dolido!"

Lianggenna threw the communication soldier onto the ground and strode quickly to the star map.

Indeed, on the star map, dense blue light points were moving rapidly on the other side of Dolido.

That was the Imperial Fleet!

And the red light points representing the Green Skin Fleet, only less than sixty remained, and they were scattering in flight.

Obviously, they were completely powerless to resist the Imperial Fleet's attack.

"Trash! A bunch of trash!" Lianggenna trembled all over with rage, fiercely smashed a fist onto the screen star map, directly scrapping the screen.

"Our fleet, now can't even hold out for three hours!"

In less than three short hours, the Green Skins' orbital defensive line was completely torn open.

The surviving Green Skin warships simply dared not engage the Imperial Fleet in battle, scattering to flee in all directions — some hid in the asteroid belt, some flew toward the outer areas of the star system.

The Imperial Fleet did not pursue those fleeing Green Skin warships, but instead came straight to the other side of Dolido Planet.

This was the area not covered by last time's bombing, with large tracts of intact mushroom fields and the Technical Overlord Workshop.

"Order all warships, begin bombing!" Dominic's voice rang out ice-cold.

"Don't be stingy with ammunition!"

A new round of bombing began.

Countless beams and shells once again smashed toward Dolido's surface.

Explosions sounded continuously, the earth trembled, the sky was shrouded in black smoke.

One mushroom field after another was burned to ash, one workshop after another was leveled to the ground.

Lianggenna stood in the underground command center, listening to the bursts of explosions coming from above, his face ashen.

He had no method at all.

His fleet had already run, the ground's anti-air firepower had long been destroyed by last time's bombing.

He could only watch helplessly as his life's work was blown up bit by bit by the Shrimp Clan.

"Yaduoduo!" Lianggenna suddenly roared in anger, his eyes filled with bloodshot.

"Bring Yaduoduo to me!"

Several bodyguards immediately rushed out.

Before long, Yaduoduo was escorted over by two bodyguards.

He still wore that clean leather armor, his face without the slightest panic, as if he had long anticipated this day.

"Big Boss, you looking for me?" Yaduoduo asked calmly.

"You still dare ask what I want you for?!" Lianggenna fiercely rushed before Yaduoduo, his huge palm pointing at his nose, roaring in anger.

"Where's your plan? Didn't you say you could cut off the Shrimp Clan's rear? Where's Red Crow? My forty warships?"

"Now the Shrimp Clan's fleet is back, bombing our remaining mushroom fields, you tell me! What exactly is going on?!"

Yaduoduo raised his head, looked at Lianggenna, and said faintly:

"Big Boss, my plan had no problem."

"It's just that the Shrimp Clan are too cunning, they long ago anticipated we would sneak attack Kal II, and laid an ambush there."

"Plan had no problem?" Lianggenna laughed loudly in rage, his laughter filled with killing intent.

"The result is failure, nothing you say matters now."

In the Green Skins' world, the result is everything.

Even if the plan received Lianggenna's approval, the process was only one move short.

But no matter the process, the plan failed, you deserve to die!