Captain, your ship has exploded again.

Even without the support of Death Star II, Zhang Xun's battleships' salvo bombardment was something that ordinary vassal states could not withstand.

This civilization, whose name Zhang Xun didn't even bother to look at, had an exceptionally tenacious fleet. Even when their warships were about to explode, they would still try to charge at the enemy, hoping to perish together with them.

"Tsk, are these guys out of their minds?"

Wang Ge picked his nose and flicked it contemptuously in the direction of the enemy.

Marcus said with an exaggerated expression, "Hey, you're really dirty. Dude, even though our warship has robots to clean it, you should still be considerate of how the others feel!"

"Damn it, stop pretending. When you had a body, you picked your nose all the time. You were picking your nose back in chapter 617!"

"Huh, how barbaric. I'm not the same person I used to be. This new body doesn't need me to pick my nose at all."

Marcus's face was simply distorted, and his nose became the muzzle of a double-barreled shotgun. However, instead of firing a bullet, the muzzle spewed out two flames.

"Holy crap, a human-shaped lighter? No, is this thing made of butane or methane?"

Wang Ge curiously poked at the metal wires on his armor. By this time, his arm had been successfully re-transplanted. Because the cultivation time was longer than that of Zhang Xun's body, there were no aftereffects.

Marcus slapped the wire in Wang Ge's hand away and said, "What's the difference?"

Isaac, who was standing next to him, had his hands behind his head and was leaning back in his chair, almost lying flat, as he spoke.

"It's very simple. One is an aftermarket product, and the other is self-produced and self-sold. It's just that you feel uncomfortable using the latter."

Wang Ge said helplessly, "Whether it's from behind or from within, it's all disgusting!"

Marcus reacted instantly and launched two flying punches. One was locked by Isaac's telekinetic module, and the other was dodged by Wang Ge's tactical backflip.

However, Wang Ge forgot that some of the things that fly out can fly back. Due to his momentary carelessness, he was hit in the face by an iron fist that flew back with anti-gravity force. On the other hand, Isaac did not experience such an embarrassing situation because of the continuous limitation of the telekinetic module.

Wang Ge wiped his face and said, "Damn it, Marcus, you're really going to betray your brother like this? Zhao Wanyang gave you this new body not so you could stamp it."

The 'super-transformable body' manufactured by the new technology not only possesses some space folding technology, but also takes into account the technology of reusing and combining parts. With a small number of nano-parts, it can almost transform into anything, but only in non-food categories, since Marcus doesn't have much meat to use.

"Disagreeable? Envious, jealous, or resentful?"

Just as the bridge was filled with laughter and cheers, Zhang Xun, who was watching the fire from across the river, suddenly noticed abnormal data.

"An unusually moving asteroid belt has appeared on both sides of the rear of the fleet. There is a 90% probability that it is an enemy ambush fleet!"

Because the enemy's main fleet collapsed faster than expected, the ambush fleet, which was slowly moving through the asteroid belt, would only be able to wait until the decoy fleet was completely annihilated if it were to proceed as planned. The remaining warships of their civilization would then be ravaged by the powerful alien forces.

That's why they risked being discovered and increased the speed of both fleets.

Unfortunately, under Tianwen's monitoring, even the slightest change in speed, let alone such a drastic acceleration, would be detected.

Zhang Xun looked at the control panel, where the disguised meteorite path was completing its encirclement.

"Tsk, it feels awkward to suddenly use something that's already been played with on myself."

This tactic was used when humanity first came into contact with the Guiwu Civilization and the Realized Civilization. Although it gave Zhang Xun a very bad experience at the time, it did not stop him from appreciating the enemy's struggle.

"Let the battleships at the rear of the formation start turning, to give our clever little ones a 'scare'."

Natal was somewhat helpless about Zhang Xun's perverse sense of humor, but compared to the troublesome enemies in the mission universe, she preferred to attack weaker enemies.

"Rear formations 61 and 62, begin turning around, main guns charging simultaneously!"

Since there is no absolute direction in space warfare, the enemy behind you is often not on the same horizontal line as you. This behavior is not only to avoid friendly fire, but also to make it more difficult for the enemy to defend.

However, the enemy forces ambushing behind the fleet were not separated vertically because the surrounding asteroid belt was too sparse, so they could only attack Zhang Xun's fleet on the same horizontal line.

The enemy wasn't stupid; when the last warship in Zhang Xun's fleet began to turn around, they knew they had been exposed.

However, it is clear that the command level of these ambushing enemy fleets is not very high. Apart from some warships discarding the camouflage rocks, most of their warships still charged with rocky hulls.

When Zhang Xun saw this phenomenon, it was as if a strange feeling had suddenly entered the midst of a battle between equals, like finding half a fly in the middle of a meal, which made him feel extremely disgusted.

"I hate people who lack skill but try to show off in front of me. Fighter jets, sortie!"

For this operation, Zhang Xun did not bring any other types of warships. In addition to the fact that his hometown needed to be defended by his team, Zhang Xun also did not believe that this weakest civilization would pose any threat to his fleet.

The battleship's slow turning speed once again forced Zhang Xun to send out auxiliary troops during this surprise attack.

"We have detected 30,000 enemy-launched torpedoes, along with other types of objects approaching."

Marcus's words did not surprise Zhang Xun. Submarine-launched torpedoes are a favorite tactic of raiding fleets. Although they sacrifice speed and maneuverability, their high stealth allows them to get very close to the enemy. Even if the difference between the two civilizations is too great, in the vast universe, tiny particles are not so easy to detect.

"Electromagnetic railgun fires anti-torpedo barrage, close-in defense laser array activated, Tianwen defense targeting assist!"

Deputy Commander Natal's voice remained calm; she would not take even an attack from a low-level civilization lightly.

Natal did not use laser defense immediately, mainly because she was afraid that the enemy would have targeted defensive measures against her attacks.

Such a low-level civilization would not invade their territory without reason. Since the other party dared to do so, it proves that someone was behind it. The anti-beam coating technology is not difficult. As long as it is thickly coated and specifically treated, it is enough to keep submarine-launched torpedoes close to the fleet.

As Natal had predicted, the enemy's torpedoes carried far more explosive charges than normal.

"Damn, did they use an anti-planetary missile as an anti-ship missile? With that head and that power, let alone being hit head-on by this thing, even getting close enough to explode would damage a battleship. Has no one told them that thrift is a virtue?"

Wang Ge strongly condemned the enemy's heinous actions.

Illuminated by the explosion's light, the missiles, painted jet black, finally revealed their true form on the light-sensing monitor. These submarine-launched torpedoes were almost as long as the enemy warships, and with their pure black paint (absorbing 99.99% of light), they would have been unrecognizable on Earth in the old days, let alone spotted.

Zhang Xun was quite surprised by this, after all, this act of blackening the torpedo was very close to his own old trick. If it could be combined with quantum teleportation, Zhang Xun's side would basically be hit due to carelessness.

"To release the aerosol, we need to prevent other enemy attacks."

Aerosols are a detection method developed by Kang Yuanhang. Originally, he wanted to develop a material that could resist impacts, but by a twist of fate, a material with a high expansion rate that could be scanned by a special spectrum was developed in the laboratory and subsequently used to detect and defend against stealth units.

As for the reason for the release of this weapon, it's quite simple: Zhang Xun was fed up with all sorts of stealthy boarding maneuvers in the Warhammer and Hypervariant universes.

What should have been a perfectly good fleet artillery battle was ruined by some clever guys who tried every possible way to get close to the warships, then used their "can openers" to tear open the outer armor of the warships, forcing the fragile captains to engage in hand-to-hand combat with these musclemen.

Don't underestimate these seemingly launched clouds. In addition to using physical means to detect incoming attacks and enemies, they can also use their stickiness to delay the opponent's attack.

Soon, this defensive weapon made its debut and caught its first fly.

A mobile vehicle attempting to destroy a ship single-handedly.

Looking at the mobile suit that was clearly out of step with the target civilization's style, Zhang Xun gasped for breath, feeling a bit of a headache.

"Damn it, these bastards, why do they love to use dirty tricks so much? Can't they just fight face to face? Why do they have to resort to underhanded methods?"

Zhang Xun's sarcastic remarks made everyone on the bridge want to complain as well.

Who exactly resorts to underhanded and despicable tactics? For someone who threatens another's subordinates with their lives, this solo raid and decapitation strike is already considered quite clean.

You're a rotten person yourself, so stop complaining about how others are ruthless, okay?