"Report. Our T4 Banshee-class Light Interstellar Stealth Scout Ship infiltrated most smoothly. And has successfully penetrated and jammed the enemy's radar system, ensuring that our interstellar stealth-bomber special fleet can slip in among them."
"Report. Every combat satellite at the enemy naval port's outlying positions has been taken by us."
"Report. The enemy naval port is beginning to assemble its fleet. The total number of interstellar warships within and without that port stands at 30,000! Of which those berthed inside the port make up half. Estimated time for the whole to assemble and sortie: 30 minutes."
Charlotte looked at that Black Tiger King Naval Port opposite, ringed about by several burning satellites.
And thought back to those years when her own tribe had been oppressed and ground down by the Black Tiger tribe.
And of this Black Tiger King Naval Port before her above all, which Charlotte would not forget in this lifetime.
Every time the Black Tiger tribe encircled and suppressed the Revolutionary Army, the White-Tiger tribespeople they caught would be brought to the Black Tiger King Naval Port and put to death, and the bodies hung up outside the port besides.
By the count kept, the White-Tiger tribespeople who had died at the Black Tiger King Naval Port numbered 300,000 at the least!
All of it a blood debt.
Today that blood debt would be repaid in blood.
"Notify Commander Zhao Wan'er; have them stop the interstellar warships within the port from getting out, so far as they possibly can!" Charlotte said.
The plan for the lightning strike here this time included, besides Charlotte's Owl Dragon First Legion—
Zhao Wan'er's interstellar stealth-bomber special fleet.
For this was the Black Tiger tribe's First Star System, and their home system besides.
It must be fought quickly and finished quickly.
"Pass my order: the Owl Dragon First Legion is to open operations by the plan as laid down."
Charlotte called up a clock.
60:00
"The enemy in this place must be annihilated within one hour!" As Charlotte's words fell—
this countdown began to tick.
The Owl Dragon First Legion's 3,000 interstellar warships bore down rapidly; with the combat satellites' resistance gone, this stage of the Owl Dragon First Legion's advance went very easily.
While on the other side Zhao Wan'er's interstellar stealth-bomber special fleet began their true mission.
"Report. Sixth Squadron, Seventh Squadron, Ninth Squadron and Tenth Squadron have completed their missions to perfection; every combat satellite has lost its combat capability," a subordinate reported to Zhao Wan'er.
Zhao Wan'er looked at the Black Tiger King Naval Port opposite; she knew the main act was only now beginning.
At this point she received Charlotte's notification besides.
Though without that notification she would have known what she was to do next.
The remaining six squadrons launched their assault from the Black Tiger King Naval Port's four quarters respectively.
Interstellar bombs, one after another, greeted this Black Tiger King Naval Port without the least ceremony, the chief targets of attack being the main channels in and out of the star port.
So long as the interstellar warships berthed inside could not get out, it would be catching turtles in a jar!
Naturally, those Black Tiger tribe fleets originally stationed outside the port could not possibly watch this scene play out wide-eyed either, and all attempted to destroy these assailants who had appeared out of nowhere.
But when they launched their attacks, they discovered in astonishment that these assailants' interstellar stealth bombers were, of all things, fitted with all-round star shields!
Which left them quite unable to take these fleets in any short while.
"Report! At one of the port's main channels, besides being fitted with a local star shield defense system, there are besides great numbers of interstellar frigates protecting the channel. And within the channel great numbers of Black Tiger tribe starships have already come swarming out, among them T4-grade interstellar warships. They are the Warhammer's T4 Ankylosaur-class Medium Interstellar Frigates!" A subordinate reported the message up suddenly.
"And what of the T4 Ankylosaur-class Medium Interstellar Frigate? It is no T4 Paladin of ours. Put our T4 Shadow-Demons up against them; every port channel must be destroyed for me in the least possible time! Of the Black Tiger tribe interstellar warships inside that port, not one is to be let out!" Zhao Wan'er said it with resolve.
"Yes!"
Five T4 Shadow-Demon-class Light Interstellar Stealth Bombers locked onto that channel guarded by several T4 Ankylosaur-class Medium Interstellar Frigates.
The interstellar torpedo, anti-ship missile, and cluster-bomb launch installations upon the T4 Shadow-Demon-class Light Interstellar Stealth Bombers all opened.
Which made those hulls, sleek and black before, seem all at once 'pitted and pocked.'
And with the salvo of 6,000 heavy short-range particle torpedoes, 500 short-range heavy anti-ship missiles, and 500 short-range heavy cluster bombs—
the stubbornly resisting Black Tiger tribe fleet opposite was set alight outright.
Those several T4 Ankylosaur-class Medium Interstellar Frigates were the objects of particular attention.
Strong though their defensive interception systems were, with star shields to protect them besides—
there was nothing to be done: what they faced this time were T4 Shadow-Demon-class Light Interstellar Stealth Bombers.
At medium to long range they might perhaps have had some hope of a fight.
But now they were far too close to these T4 Shadow-Demon-class Light Interstellar Stealth Bombers — so close that the rough outline of the interstellar warships opposite could be made out with the naked eye.
The flame of the blasts set that whole area alight.
And those T4 Ankylosaur-class Medium Interstellar Frigates along with it.
Thereafter the port channels behind them came under attack as well.
The interception weapons, few in number, and the star shields that bore the work of protection—
lasted a bare few seconds before they were broken through.
A T4 Dragon-Knight-class Heavy Interstellar Cruiser in the act of leaving port was blocked outright within the channel, able neither to advance nor to retreat.
At this moment this Black Tiger King Naval Port became the grave of the 10,000 and more Black Tiger tribe interstellar warships within it.
"Report. 95% of the Black Tiger King Naval Port's main channels have now been destroyed; for the interstellar warships inside to clear a channel and get out will take an hour at the least," a subordinate reported to Zhao Wan'er.
Zhao Wan'er raised her head and looked at the scene thrown up by the holographic projection: the star shields about her hull under a furious, indiscriminate bombardment from the Black Tiger tribe fleets.
At which she did not change color, her heart still as water.
She had long grown used to such things.
"How stand the several squadrons? Any losses? What of munitions expenditure?" Zhao Wan'er asked calmly.
"Owing to the enemy's furious bombardment, we have had six T3 Phantom Assassin-class Light Interstellar Stealth Bombers destroyed. The mean star-shield energy of the remaining interstellar warships has fallen to 30% as well. Expenditure of the munitions carried has already reached 80%," the subordinate reported.
"That is near enough. What follows we leave to Commander Charlotte's Owl Dragon First Legion. Pass my order: the whole fleet is to break off combat and go dark." Zhao Wan'er handed down the order.
Owl Dragon interstellar stealth bomber after interstellar stealth bomber began to ply its arts, and swiftly quit the field.
The Black Tiger tribe fleets, shamed into fury, made to pursue.
But at this hour their enemy had changed.
While they had been entangled with that special fleet a moment ago—
the Owl Dragon First Legion had come killing up before them.
The interstellar missile ships had made ready, and interstellar missiles, one after another, came down like a meteoric rain of fire upon the Black Tiger tribe fleets and upon their Black Tiger King Naval Port.