Ten T5 Spear-of-Sin-class Heavy Interstellar Heavy-Artillery Ships sailed in a fan-shaped formation up to this Owl Dragon fleet's forward line.
Ahead of them there were none but the T5 King-of-the-Hills and the T5 Chaos-Knights.
And these two classes of warship had, without a sound, already left a gap of attack open for the ten T5 Spears of Sin.
As the heavy cannon fitted upon these ten T5 Spear-of-Sin-class Heavy Interstellar Heavy-Artillery Ships turned slowly and took aim at the Demon Race warships ahead.
Ten dazzling barrages of laser covered, in a fan shape, the Demon Race warships before them.
And though the show of this attack had not the splendor of the T5 Crimson Reaper's before it, these ten T5 Spears of Sin carry the day in the lastingness with which their firepower holds an enemy down.
Leaning upon the pressure of that sky full of gunfire from the ten T5 Spears of Sin, the Owl Dragon fleet advanced little by little.
【Spear-of-Sin-class Heavy Interstellar Heavy-Artillery Ship
Ship type: interstellar heavy-artillery ship
Technology grade: T5
Hull armor strength: 30,000 units – 36,000 units
Star-shield energy value: 3 million units
Cruising speed: 600 star-knots
Warp engine: grade-nine warp engine
Length: 15.3 kilometers
Mass: 21 million tons
Complement of posts: 7,000
Starship weapons: 6,000 Spear-of-Sin-type particle-energy heavy cannon
600 fully automatic high-density six-barrel energy close-in guns】
The dragon-girl Leona cast an eye over these plain figures upon the T5 Spear of Sin, and sighed out, "Six thousand heavy cannon to a single interstellar warship.
"This capacity for putting out firepower comes near to matching a small or middling interstellar fortress-keep."
She has been in the Owl Dragon Legion above a year.
And the dragon-girl Leona knows the Owl Dragon Legion's style: it is the pursuit of the utmost in firepower.
Whatever can be settled by putting out firepower is no business at all!
One round of firepower not enough? Then two rounds more!
When first she came to real fighting with the Owl Dragon Legion, every time she saw the figures reckoned up after a battle for the war's consumption, she felt her heart give a lurch.
Were her younger sister Blanche to see her fight a war after such a fashion.
She would likely be muttering at her back a month together.
Yet it must be said: to fight so is truly a fine thing!
"My lady, is this the guard fleet that takes its orders from the lord Commander direct?" An adjutant beside her, having just finished the work in her hands, saw the picture of the field her lady was watching, and asked it with great care.
"What else? Whose house has power enough to gather three hundred T5 interstellar warships together?" The dragon-girl Leona could not keep from laughing.
Though she has not the whole of the material upon this Owl Dragon Guard Fleet, yet having that document of the new warship classes from before.
The professional conscience of her standing as a commander needs no more than a look at that Owl Dragon Guard Fleet to come by exact figures in the main.
This Owl Dragon Guard Fleet, though it has but three hundred interstellar warships or so, has fighting strength enough… to destroy a hundred times its own number in enemies.
And leaving out of account the business of logistics and supply, it would have the strength to fight even a thousand times its number!
For the array within this Owl Dragon Guard Fleet is truly a sumptuous one.
It gathers together those several classes of T5 interstellar warship already in the Owl Dragon Legion's service, and those several new T5 classes not yet in service within the Owl Dragon Legion besides!
And this battle is the first showing of those several T5 warships.
One T5 Crimson-Reaper-class Heavy Interstellar Strategic Missile Ship;
Five T5 Fire-Qilin-class Heavy Carrier Starships;
Ten T5 Holy-Redeemer-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Heavy-Artillery Battleships;
Ten T5 Spear-of-Sin-class Heavy Interstellar Heavy-Artillery Ships;
Twenty-five T5 Frost-Tyrant-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Battlecruisers;
Fifty T5 Lightning-Wraith-class Heavy Assault Interstellar Cruisers;
Eighty T5 Chaos-Knight-class Heavy Assault Interstellar Destroyers;
And one hundred and twenty T5 King-of-the-Hill-class Heavy Interstellar Comprehensive Strategic Escorts!
To build such an Owl Dragon Guard Fleet — though the dragon-girl Leona does not know what they cost, the cost of construction could by no means be held under 100 trillion.
Which answers exactly to certain rumors she had come by before, some months since.
That the Commander went himself to the Angel Race and signed two agreements of military purchase with several Angel Kings, running as high as some hundreds of trillions of star coins!
And from that time forward the industry of the Owl Dragon Star System began to build interstellar warships with every fire opened.
And in this year's last three months it has broken the records of interstellar warship production again and again!
And by what she understands, the Angel Race's T5 interstellar warships, reckoned to the last, do not come to two hundred!
And after this stretch of fighting with the Demon Race, that number is cut down by no little.
Nor will the Demon Race's T5 warships be too many either — within five hundred, at the reckoning.
And it must be remembered that besides those T5 warships in service with this Owl Dragon Guard Fleet.
There is another body of T5 warships in service within the ten Owl Dragon legions.
And putting the two together.
The sum of T5 interstellar warships the Owl Dragon Legion holds at present is greater even than the sum of the Angel Race's and the Demon Race's together!
Were this word to get abroad, most likely no few would find it past belief.
Yet whoever understands the industrial depth of the Owl Dragon Star System will know.
That this is only the fruit of the Owl Dragon Star System's long developing of its own starship-building industry — a thing long stored up and thinly let out!
And had they not to take thought for the business of the fleet's scale, and turn no little of that capacity to the building of T3 and T4 series warships.
The Owl Dragon Legion's T5 warships in service would be more numerous still!
"My lady, the Commander-in-Chief requires us, upon this present chance, to press harder upon the King-of-the-North Legion's positions!" the adjutant reported at this time.
The dragon-girl Leona looked at the case of the whole field as it now stood.
For the flank had taken that mighty stroke from the Owl Dragon Guard Fleet, the King-of-the-North Legion's line, which had been firm as a cistern of iron, had fallen into great confusion.
A great quantity of the King-of-the-North Legion's fleet had of necessity been moved across to the field upon the stricken side.
Which had this consequence: that upon the other lines their strength was wanting, and their attack was starved.
Those several gaps they had torn open with such labor were now every one filled up again by the Owl Dragon Eighth Legion's fleet, and the ring of encirclement was formed anew.
And now is the very time to squeeze down the King-of-the-North Legion's room to live in.
"We must quicken the pace of our attack.
"The enemy's support may arrive at any moment.
"We must end this battle within five hours, as first planned!" the dragon-girl Leona said gravely.
Three hundred thousand interstellar warships destroyed in five hours — and the Demon Race's picked troops besides, the King-of-the-North Legion.
Let that go abroad, and not many would believe it, at a guess.
But today Ye Xiaotong's Owl Dragon Eighth Legion must prove this very thing.
That they can do it!
These three hundred thousand King-of-the-North warships, and their marshal along with them, must every one of them stay here!