In the initial stages of the battles that followed, the First and Second Main Fleets of the Northern Expedition did indeed meet the requirement of 'fighting to the death'.

Under the command of the two newly appointed marshals, they continued to launch attacks on the positions of the JF-17 Dragon Legion.

This gradually led them into an encirclement by the Imperial Princess Fleet.

In the very first hour, the JF-17 Thunder Corps demonstrated its astonishing annihilation capabilities.

The number of enemy casualties in just one hour exceeded the total daily losses of the Prince Party and Chu Changhe.

An hour-long confrontation.

The JF-17 Legion launched two rounds of carpet bombing with interstellar missiles.

In just these two rounds, 30,000 interstellar warships were annihilated.

In addition, there is a head-on battle on the main battlefield, where 10,000 enemy interstellar warships will be annihilated!

In this way, the Dragon Legion achieved the terrifying feat of annihilating 40,000 enemy interstellar warships in a single hour!

Within the ever-shrinking encirclement of the Imperial Princess fleet, fragments of shattered interstellar warships could be seen everywhere.

One hour later, the casualty rate was 30%!

What a terrifying annihilation capability!

How did the JF-17 Thunder Legion manage to do that?

It's estimated that the commander of the JF-17 Thunder Legion could only give one answer.

money!

Because in just one hour, the Dragon Legion's combat losses reached 30 billion Star Coins!

What does 30 billion Star Coins mean?

Prior to this, Chu Changhe had set a monthly battlefield expenditure limit of just over 30 billion star coins for his legion fleet.

In just one hour, Zhao Chen used up the ammunition value that Chu Changhe would have needed for a month-long campaign!

"Commander, our interstellar missiles can still deliver eight rounds of saturation fire!" Lilith reminded Zhao Chen.

Zhao Chen nodded and ordered, "Annihilate these two fleet groups at all costs in the shortest possible time."

"Yes," Lilith relayed the order.

Zhao Chen sat in the captain's chair, watching the 'brilliant' interstellar battle before him, every minute burning through his coffers.

Before Chu Changhe's 'January Offensive', Zhao Chen had already begun preparing combat resources.

Currently, Zhao Chen has 200 billion star coins at his disposal for combat, which is his total reserves without affecting production tasks.

In other words, Zhao Chen's steel torrent will cease operation once it has exhausted these 200 billion star coins.

Of those 200 billion star coins, Zhao Chen used half to produce interstellar missiles.

Almost 70% of the space on those interstellar supply ships and interstellar transport ships is used to equip interstellar missiles.

As the nightmarish first hour passed, fireworks appeared as the third round of bombardment by the JF-17 Legion's interstellar missiles began.

Cao Jianye and Marshal Lei Dachuan felt like they were about to collapse.

Come again!

Come again!

Just how many interstellar missiles does the opposing JF-17 Legion have?

They're really throwing interstellar missiles like stones.

Meanwhile, the two northern expeditionary fleets on the main battlefield had not achieved anything.

The JF-17 Legion employed a rogue tactic.

The area targeted by the interstellar missiles was not the front line of the two fleet groups, but rather a slightly rearward area.

Such a typical interstellar missile bombardment would result in a gap in the airspace between the two northern expeditionary fleets and the forward fleet.

At this point, the Falcon Legion's interstellar warships will launch an offensive to annihilate the 'protruding' forward fleet.

The vacuum zone created prevented the main fleet from arriving to provide support in the short term.

By the time they arrived to provide support, the entire forward fleet had already been annihilated.

The JF-17 fleet will retreat and continue its defensive posture.

Let's wait for the next round of interstellar missile bombardment before we come up and fight again!

Under such shameless tactics, the two northern expeditionary fleets were like two naked men pinned to the beach, repeatedly humiliated by the waves.

But there was nothing they could do.

The intervals between subsequent interstellar missile attacks gradually increased, instead of bombing once every half hour.

Although Zhao Chen doesn't mind spending money, he can't afford to waste it, right?

The battle lasted until the fifth hour.

Finally, the command systems of both fleet groups completely collapsed, making it impossible to maintain order in the battle.

By this point in the battle, the two fleets had reduced their original 120,000 interstellar warships to less than 30,000.

Of these 30,000 interstellar warships, half are in very poor condition.

In contrast, they destroyed only a little over three thousand enemy ships!

Of these, nearly three thousand were interstellar warships from the Imperial Princess Fleet, while the Dragon Legion had only a mere hundred or so!

Incredible kill-to-death ratio.

This was enough to drive the newly appointed marshals of both fleet groups to the brink of collapse.

"We can't fight! We can't fight! This battle is simply unwinnable."

The opposing Dragon Legion... those... those are monsters!

Not only are they fully equipped with T3 interstellar warships, but every single one of them is incredibly powerful.

Starships can easily destroy our starships of the same class.

The interplanetary frigates can chase after our interplanetary destroyers.

The Star Destroyer dares to confront our Star Battlecruiser head-on!

And...and more than fifty T4 interstellar warships!

Fifty ships! Our two fleet groups combined don't even have twenty T4-class starships!

"Tell me... Cao Jianye... tell me! How are we supposed to fight this battle?!" Lei Dachuan roared hysterically, his face contorted, grabbing his hair with both hands and tearing out two bloody strands of hair.

Cao Jianye opened his mouth, as if to say something.

But he found that he didn't know what to say at that moment, because... he also felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

Cao Jianye slumped into the captain's chair, staring blankly at the interstellar sandbox before him.

They, who had originally held a numerical advantage, were now surrounded in a small encirclement by the Imperial Princess Fleet, which outnumbered them several times over.

"Pass on my order... abandon the attack... and try to break through." Cao Jianye issued the order in despair.

But now, is it really possible to break through?

Cao Jianye dared not voice that answer in his heart, because he knew very well how realistic and cruel it was.

Dragon Legion...

Silently reciting the name, Cao Jianye closed his eyes, feeling the vibrations his flagship was experiencing from the interstellar missile attack.

...

"Report: More than 20,000 surviving interstellar warships from the two enemy fleets! It is estimated that they can be completely annihilated within an hour at most."

During this period, the Imperial Princess Fleet lost more than three thousand interstellar warships.

We lost 109 starships, mainly T3 Triceratops and T3 Wolverines.

There were also 36 severely damaged ships that were ordered to be abandoned.

"Another 267 interstellar warships were completely destroyed, with overall hull damage exceeding 30%, and were ordered to withdraw to the second line of battle," Lilith reported in detail.

Zhao Chen was very satisfied; this was the Dragon Legion he had painstakingly built!

This is the terrifying combat power of a fully equipped T3-class starship.

However, this is also backed by Zhao Chen's terrifying financial resources.

So far, there have been four rounds of interstellar missile bombardment, in addition to conventional combat attrition.

It has already reached 60 billion Star Coins!

Zhao Chen admits he's second to none when it comes to burning through money.