At the same time, great numbers of interstellar drones and interstellar fighters took off, scattering all around like flowers strewn by a goddess,
destroying every enemy combat unit in their path!
The onslaught was like a cosmic natural disaster!
This sudden turn was naturally passed to Chang Liqun's side at once.
"What? The enemy destroyed our T6 Savage-Tiger-class Medium Interstellar Battleship? How is that possible!" Chang Liqun listened to the news in disbelief, unwilling to believe it was true.
How much time had passed, start to finish?
By his reckoning, the hundred thousand interstellar warships he had sent out should not even have engaged the enemy yet, and his T6 Savage-Tiger-class Medium Interstellar Battleship had been destroyed by the enemy?
"Y… yes. The enemy has a very unusual interstellar warship; by its shape it seems to be a rare type, an interstellar long-range hunter-killer ship, with a very long firing range. That's how it could attack our T6 Savage-Tiger-class Medium Interstellar Battleship first, before our T6 Savage-Tiger-class Medium Interstellar Battleship came within range to exchange fire. And we suspect it may be a T6-grade interstellar warship. Because even for interstellar long-range hunter-killer ships, for a few of them alone to destroy our T6 Savage-Tiger-class Medium Interstellar Battleship in an instant, that's the only possibility!" The adjutant's eyes were full of shock and fear.
"A T6-grade interstellar warship? Where did that wench Leng Qian get T6-grade interstellar warships? How could she have the support of T6-grade interstellar warships?" Chang Liqun found it somewhat hard to believe.
But when he began to watch the battle taking place at the edge of the Luohe capital star system, his pupils slowly widened, and his shock at first turned to terror.
For he saw the hundred thousand interstellar warships he had sent over, faced with the three thousand interstellar warships opposite,
collapsing at the first touch; there was hardly any other word for it than a rout.
And the enemy had sent only those three thousand interstellar warships; the woman Leng Qian's own Luohe Third Legion Fleet, a hundred fifty thousand interstellar warships, was only mopping up the battlefield behind them and restoring control over those planets.
Just where did those three thousand interstellar warships come from?
By the look of them, they all seemed to have fighting power no worse than T5-grade interstellar warships.
Wait……
Something seemed not quite right.
Chang Liqun frowned and enlarged one of the images captured.
In the picture were several interstellar destroyers and interstellar battleships charging out in front.
But they were not quite like the great majority of the interstellar destroyers and interstellar battleships around them; their hulls were somewhat larger,
and their attacks fiercer.
T5-grade interstellar warships were hardly a match for these enemy ships, not for a single exchange.
"Those are T6-grade interstellar battleships and T6-grade interstellar destroyers!" Chang Liqun sprang to his feet, unable to believe it.
Besides that, more and more frightening things were set before him.
The blanketing fire strikes of a T6-grade interstellar heavy-artillery ship, for one: that was simply a disaster!
And the breakthrough, cut-through, mobile attacks launched by T6-grade interstellar battlecruisers and T6 interstellar cruisers
were like a blade sharp enough to split a hair blown against it, slicing very smoothly through any interstellar warship standing before those three thousand interstellar warships, leaving no room at all to resist.
Besides that, he saw a sight that made his scalp prickle.
Before this, the interstellar fighters and swarms of interstellar drones the enemy had sent out had already wholly crushed Chang Liqun's interstellar fighters and swarms of interstellar drones, and the enemy had seized interstellar air supremacy,
while at the same time posing a very great threat to his interstellar warships.
But just then
he saw a carrier starship of still more colossal size open its gates and throw out yet more interstellar fighters and swarms of interstellar drones like locusts.
The terrifying numbers of them were beyond anything he could imagine.
Before an enemy like this, his hundred thousand interstellar warships were like children, toyed with easily by the enemy, with no room at all to strike back.
After a brief daze,
Chang Liqun swallowed, his mind turning fast.
In ten-odd seconds he had made his decision.
He decisively gave an order to the rest of his interstellar legion fleet: "Pass on my order: apart from the interstellar fleets now engaged with that interstellar fleet of unknown origin, all other interstellar fleets are to break off at once and withdraw at full speed! I repeat! Withdraw at full speed! Withdraw at full speed!"
That was right: this Chang Liqun chose to retreat.
He gave up the Luohe capital planet that was nearly in his hands, and simply chose to take the remaining two hundred thousand interstellar warships and make off.
As for the hundred thousand interstellar warships left behind, they were naturally reduced to cannon fodder,
cleaned up by the Emperor's Guard Fleet in a few dozen minutes.
As for the rebels of the Luohe Second Legion Fleet who had fled, without the Owl Dragon Emperor's order, Commander Xiong Xiangxiang naturally gave no order to pursue.
General Leng Qian now ordered her own legion fleet to begin retaking the planets in the capital star system one by one, dealing with the rebels on their surfaces one after another and restoring order in the capital star system.
Very soon
the Emperor's Guard Fleet appeared above the Luohe capital planet too.
Here a great deal of interstellar warship wreckage still drifted, and broken fragments of satellites,
showing well enough the battle that had raged here before.
And on the royal capital planet, though the star shield had protected it from attack,
the shock waves of the earlier attacks could still be seen to have caused some natural disasters in many places.
Luckily all of it was still under control, and could be put right in a short time.
Now General Leng Qian opened the video link with Queen Leng Yun again.
At the same time, Zhao Chen's video image appeared beside General Leng Qian too.
When Queen Leng Yun saw the strange man on the other side of the video window, after a brief moment of surprise, she was the first to make a bow to show her respect.
She did not know who this man was, but from what had happened before, it could be seen
that he must be the commander of this super-elite fleet.
Queen Leng Yun too had witnessed everything that had just happened, the fierce battle in which these three thousand interstellar warships destroyed a hundred thousand interstellar warships!
"This is the supreme ruler of the Owl Dragon Interstellar Empire, His Majesty the Owl Dragon Emperor."
The Owl Dragon Emperor?
Queen Leng Yun was taken aback for a moment; plainly she too was now trying to remember these words, at once familiar and strange; she seemed to have heard them somewhere.
"This is our Luohe Kingdom's Queen, Leng Yun." Leng Qian finished introducing the two sides.
Zhao Chen nodded slightly to Queen Leng Yun.
Next, Leng Qian, perhaps considering that her niece might not remember who this Owl Dragon Emperor was,
explained quickly, "The Owl Dragon Interstellar Empire is an empire of a T6 technology civilization; in the battle against the invasion fleets of the Order civilization, it drove back the Devourer Civilization's invasion fleets."
Drove back the Devourer Civilization's invasion fleets!
At these words, Queen Leng Yun at once remembered this Owl Dragon Interstellar Empire.
When she had heard the report before, she had indeed been greatly shocked.
The Owl Dragon Interstellar Empire she might not know well, but the Devourer Civilization's existence could be said to be known to everyone, without exception.
Everyone knew it was a great demon king.
"When I received your call for help before, I set out at once with the Luohe Third Legion Fleet to support you. But on the way, we were intercepted by the Meng family's legion fleet and the Hu family's legion fleet. In that dire plight, it was the Owl Dragon Emperor who led the Owl Dragon fleet to save us, and destroyed a great many of the two family legion fleets' interstellar warships. And… the Owl Dragon Emperor also said he's willing to help us. So I brought the Owl Dragon Emperor and his legion fleet to your support," General Leng Qian explained.
A complicated look flashed in the depths of Queen Leng Yun's eyes.
She was no fool; an interstellar empire of a T6 technology civilization willing to help an interstellar kingdom like hers, about to set like the sun behind the western hills, was surely not doing so without conditions.
She knew very well that no pies fall from the sky in this world.
But for now, Queen Leng Yun still put on a look of gratitude and bowed again, saying, "On behalf of the Luohe Kingdom's royal house, and of the whole Luohe Kingdom, high and low, I thank the Owl Dragon Emperor for coming to our aid this time! Thank you very much!"
Zhao Chen waved his hand and came straight to the point: "I did come to your aid, but not for nothing."
Queen Leng Yun was taken aback; she had not expected him to be so direct.
Now she grew curious inwardly too: what value could a little interstellar kingdom like hers have, to make a T6 interstellar civilization come to her aid?
General Leng Qian meant to speak first and lay some groundwork.
But Zhao Chen spoke again directly: "Do you want to restore the glory of the Luohe Empire? Do you want to recover all the lost lands of the Luohe Star Region?"
These two sentences sounded in Queen Leng Yun's heart like a devil's whisper.
She jerked her head up and stared straight at this Owl Dragon Emperor before her.
To restore the Luohe Empire's glory, to recover the whole of the Luohe Star Region:
this was what Leng Yun, as Queen of Luohe, had always wanted to do; it could be said she was willing to pay any price for it.
"This… this is my life's wish," Queen Leng Yun said in a low voice.
The corners of Zhao Chen's mouth turned up slightly, and he looked at this queen. "Then if our Owl Dragon Interstellar Empire were willing to help you accomplish all this, what price would you be willing to pay?"
Queen Leng Yun bit her red lip lightly, her eyes troubled, but she soon saw it clearly.
She and the Luohe capital star system had survived now, but with enemies coveting them, they were fish on the enemy's chopping board.
Without someone else stepping in, the Luohe Kingdom's fate could never be won by the Luohe Kingdom on its own, by the Queen of Luohe alone.
Queen Leng Yun went down on one knee and said earnestly, "Great Owl Dragon Emperor, Your Majesty. If you are willing to help our Luohe Kingdom, I promise the Luohe Kingdom will be loyal to you forever. I, Leng Yun, am willing, on the day the Luohe Kingdom is restored, to follow at your side and offer all I have!"