The T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyers had joined the line's battlefield too, but not to deal with those T6 undead creatures.
Their chief task was to destroy the other high-grade undead creatures.
Under the attack of the T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyers, even though the undead host across the way had grown several times over.
It was, of all things, pinned down by sheer force.
Great numbers of the undead armies had their heads forced down under the 'lightning fire' of these T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyers.
Every stretch of line where a T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyer stood guard was as though it had gained a sea-calming pillar.
It was wholly owing to what was special about this interstellar destroyer.
"Wow! So that's the 'Lightning Chain' everyone talks about!" Captain Tao Beibei, beside Zhao Chen, could not help crying out.
The ship she now commanded was a new-model T6 interstellar warship too.
But of her 'colleague', the T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyer, she had so far only heard that this interstellar destroyer had tremendous area-suppression power at short and medium range,
and a remarkable way of putting out fire.
But she had never seen it with her own eyes.
For there had never been so much leisure.
Who would have thought that the first time she saw it would be on a real battlefield?
Zhao Chen raised his hand and opened a pop-up window.
On it was displayed all the information on this T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyer.
【Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyer
Ship type: Interstellar Destroyer
Technology grade: T6
Hull armor strength: 1,000,000–1,300,000 units
Star-shield energy value: 15,000,000 units
Cruising speed: 1,100 star-knots
Warp drive: grade-9.9 warp drive
Length: 10.9 kilometers
Mass: 5,300,000 tons
Complement: 50,000
Ship weapons:
30 heavy medium-range pulse cannon
300 Lord-of-Thunder arc main guns
1,000 electromagnetic rapid-fire secondary guns
2,000 fully-automatic medium electromagnetic close-in guns】
When Captain Tao Beibei saw the data window before His Majesty the Emperor, she looked away at once, curious as she was at heart.
But she knew very well what she ought and ought not to do.
"It's all right; this won't be any secret before long. Every starship under the Emperor's Guard Fleet will be fighting shoulder to shoulder alongside the T6 Lord-of-Thunder from now on, how could you not know your comrades-in-arms? The means of attack you just saw is the T6 Lord-of-Thunder's signature skill. What can be called the 'Lightning Chain'," Zhao Chen said calmly.
In truth that attack was not called the 'Lightning Chain'.
Strictly speaking, it was 'arc projection'.
In principle, it fired electromagnetic energy in a certain special state as its shell.
After striking the first target, the arc would absorb part of the energy, then make a second strike, seeking out the next target by itself, again and again.
Its path looked like lightning.
Everyone who saw it called it the 'Lightning Chain'.
And after each bounce, its power fell off a little,
until it had spent itself entirely.
So when the 300 Lord-of-Thunder arc main guns of one T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyer fired together.
A very peculiar scene would appear in the target area.
Like a thundercloud, with Lightning Chains bouncing about within it without end.
Dealing damage over an area, and over a long time!
At last it achieved the aim of destroying the enemy's interstellar warships.
And its showing in real combat was enough to prove the T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyer's suppressing power in this respect.
Besides this signature trick, the T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyer had other T6-grade weapon modules as well.
The 30 heavy medium-range pulse cannon, for instance, a conventional weapon system, but of T6 grade.
Just now, hardly any T5-grade undead creature could withstand a single soul-piercing shot from this weapon!
The one flaw was that its range was not very long.
The T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyer leaned toward fighting at short and medium range; its hull carried almost no long-range or ultra-long-range weapons at all.
That meant the T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyer was something like a general within a legion, and could not take on an opponent single-handed.
Otherwise it could easily be pinned down by the enemy's medium- and long-range means of attack.
Come to think of it, that made sense: no interstellar warship is perfect in every way.
If you were very strong at short and medium range, and very strong at long and ultra-long range too.
What would other interstellar warships be needed for?
Better just to build nothing but you.
Is that not so?
But to return to the matter at hand,
when Zhao Chen had seen the T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyer's showing, his gaze fell on another interstellar warship.
The T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ship, at this moment like a hunter locking on to its prey.
Perhaps because Zhao Chen was aboard this very T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ship as his flagship.
The first T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ships the Panda-Girl commander sent to the battlefield did not include Tao Beibei's.
So Tao Beibei could only watch her comrades fire the first shot on the battlefield.
On the screen, those ten so-called T6 undead combat units appeared as well.
Every one of them, as it turned out, a T6 Bone Dragon.
It seemed the most numerous T6 combat unit in this undead host must be this T6 Bone Dragon.
Because there was combat data on them from before,
the T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ships were all the more practiced at dealing with this target.
Zhao Chen watched those two T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ships; the ballista-shaped bow guns at their prows had begun slowly to unfold.
This T6 interstellar warship's weapon was very peculiar.
Its main weapon, that 'great gun' at the prow,
was not the barrel of some giant gun, such as one often saw.
It was, of all things, a crossbow!
That's right, a great crossbow.
A crossbow full of high technology.
It was called the 'Seraph Ballista'.
Now both T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ships had made ready for battle, and both main weapons had begun to charge.
Zhao Chen could see on the screen a red 'fletching' appear in the middle of the ballista.
Seen from far off,
it truly looked very like crimson arrow-fletching.
At a careless glance, one might truly have taken what was on the screen for no interstellar warship at all, but a crossbow!
Behind the crossbow, where the 'bowstring' would be, golden light lit up as well.
Just then it was as though Zhao Chen heard a voice by his ear.
"Loose!"