#604 - Chapter 604: Austro-Hungarian Warships Destroyed

Dongfang Chen's three battleships destroyed a village.

This action startled the Mani Sect Leader.

A coincidence?

Or was it deliberate?

If this accident only caused him a trace of suspicion, what happened next astonished him.

Dongfang Chen's two routes on the north side, each with 10 battleships, also gave up the pursuit and almost simultaneously destroyed the two villages they passed.

Two more Elder Halls were destroyed.

This targeting was very obvious.

Dongfang Chen also knew that doing this was definitely not going to work.

So he ordered the three armies to randomly destroy a few more villages.

This finally relieved the Mani Sect Leader.

At the same time, the Egula-Maya Allied Fleet also began the task of clearing the Elder Halls.

They were each responsible for an area, slaughtering villages one by one.

This kind of behavior, under normal circumstances, would be inhumane and depraved.

However, at this time, no one felt guilty.

In their opinion, no one here was innocent.

Since the feigned attack didn't work, the Mani Sect Leader issued an order to defeat them one by one.

The southern line was strained, and there was no time to delay.

Dongfang Chen's 3 battleships were pursued by a total of 60 battleships from Shi Rongchang's and Radh Adan's forces. Needless to say, they definitely couldn't win.

So now they could only escape.

The direction of escape was, of course, towards the Egula-Maya Allied Fleet.

This was a tough battle.

Twenty minutes later, the two sides met and immediately engaged in a head-on confrontation.

The defensive ability of the energy shield also had its limits.

In a one-on-one situation, as long as the energy was not exhausted, the opponent's attack would definitely not be able to break through the shield's protection.

But in a multiple-on-one situation, the result was different.

When the energy shield faced multiple attacks at the same time, it had to divert a portion of its energy to absorb the kinetic energy of the bullets one by one. When there were many points of attack, the shield couldn't cope.

The good thing was that the weapons on the Modo battleships were not very advanced, all bullets and shells.

Although the attack frequency was very high, it was not a continuous attack after all, and the probability of breaking through the energy shield was extremely limited.

So when the two sides exchanged fire, the Maya side also suffered battle damage, but it was not very serious.

On the other hand, with the assistance of the Egula battleships, they could basically destroy a battleship with one strike in a combined attack.

In half an hour, the battle ended.

The Maya side had three battleships destroyed, and the Egula side had no battle damage.

All 60 battleships of the Modo side were annihilated.

This result was simply unacceptable to the Mani Sect Leader.

The almost invincible defense of the energy shield made him feel very frustrated.

"Sect Leader, I think their energy shield can only protect up to 8 attack points at the same time. I think if we can adjust the attack rhythm, it might have a better effect," an elder suggested.

"That's right. Concentrate all the battleships over there, and order the Elder Halls to activate the artillery formations to cooperate with the fleet in attacking," the Sect Leader said.

"Sect Leader, isn't this too risky? If all the battleships are destroyed, then we will lose air superiority," an elder thought it was inappropriate.

"There is no other way now. The southern line is under great pressure. If we don't reinforce it as soon as possible, I'm afraid we will lose the entire line," the Sect Leader said with a frown.

"But if the battleships suffer heavy losses, the southern line will not be able to hold either. I suggest giving up attacking Ulan and Egula and heading directly to the southern line," the elder suggested worriedly.

"But if they attack from behind, we will be even more passive," the Sect Leader said.

"This…" The elder was speechless.

"I think we can order Putian Xiaoyezi to reinforce the southern line," another elder said.

"Okay. In that case, order the remaining battleships to harass the fleets of Egula and Ulan in the form of guerrilla warfare, reducing their destruction of the cities as much as possible while preserving their strength. At the same time, immediately contact Putian Xiaoyezi, immediately destroy the Ok Hiong battleships, and reinforce the southern line," the Sect Leader instructed.

"Yes!"

The elders took their orders and went to issue them.

At this time, the Ok Hiong side had already begun to collectively flee north.

Putian Xiaoyezi had already returned to the fleet and, upon receiving the order, immediately launched an attack on the Ok Hiong side.

The Ok Hiong battleships were just iron shells, without shields or space prisms, as fragile as paper.

They would be injured with a single touch, and destroyed if they were more seriously injured. It couldn't be easier to eliminate them.

Dongfang Chen no longer needed them to attract firepower and allowed them to fend for themselves.

In this way, all 37 remaining battleships of the Ok Hiong side were annihilated within 20 minutes.

After the battle, Putian Xiaoyezi immediately led the fleet to turn south and head to the central part of the border line.

There were still 27 empty ships operated by Dongfang Chen attracting insects there.

Putian Xiaoyezi did not know that there were no people in these battleships, nor did he know that Dongfang Chen was manipulating them behind the scenes. In his opinion, these were Ok Hiong battleships and were also on the list to be eliminated.