Captain, your ship has exploded again.

While the four warships were undergoing repairs, the warship's observation system switched to the main battlefield in the distance, where the fighting had already become chaotic.

Because both sides had fighter jets on the battlefield, almost all battles occurred during close-range artillery fire. All of the Allied warships were equipped with shield technology, but the Terran warships had simply too much armor.

Almost every second, warships exploded, and more than half of the Chinese warships were lost, with almost all of the 200-meter-class warships destroyed.

When will the warship be repaired?

"Emergency repairs will take another 21 minutes. We will only ensure the minimum repairs of the shield, observation, and weapons. Other less important compartments will be temporarily isolated."

Looking at the situation on the battlefield, Zhang Xun asked, "Can Natal's four warships still fire their quantum reactive cannons?"

"In addition to this ship, there are two other ships capable of launching. If one of them needs to launch for maintenance, maintenance must be temporarily suspended because there is a risk of secondary explosion."

"Get the other two warships away, and move the other one to the edge of the wreckage with this ship. Conduct repairs and long-range attacks simultaneously. Focus fire on the one with shields."

The four warships then dispersed. Two of the severely damaged ships received all the wounded and moved to the center of the wreckage to hide, while the other two came to the edge of the wreckage to provide long-range attack support.

"The defensive array moves one at a time onto the enemy's main gun track."

Natal said, "The captain's defensive array alone cannot stop the enemy's main gun attack."

"When the defensive array is destroyed, fire the heavy quantum reaction cannon, use the shield to block the remaining attacks, take one shot and return one shot. If the opponent attacks too much, use the defensive array to continue the defense."

The 700-meter-class flagship of the interstellar human race at the rear of the battlefield did not suffer much damage. The attack of Zhang Xun's two warships was quickly discovered by the enemy, because less than 15 seconds later, four heavy quantum reaction cannons had sunk one flagship, and the remaining 27 flagships immediately charged up their main guns to attack.

"High-energy reaction ahead! Expected arrival in 2 seconds!"

"First layer of defense array damaged! Second layer has reached the next attack path! Shield strength has decreased by 12.7% and is currently recharging."

"Second layer of defense failed! The next attack will arrive in 5 seconds!"

"Fight back immediately!"

After three such exchanges, the Starfleet discovered that the enemy had not been destroyed as expected, and that three of its own flagships had been sunk. It immediately adjusted its attack frequency to ensure that each attack was completed within 3 seconds.

Natal detected the change in the enemy's attack frequency through a remote battlefield monitor and immediately reported it.

"Captain! The enemy's attack frequency has changed; we can no longer defend and counterattack!"

"Order another warship to circle around from inside the wreckage zone to the other side and enter the battlefield! All defensive arrays should block the warship's movement and defend against enemy attacks."

"Captain, we need at least 10 more minutes for repairs!"

"Make repairs on the way to the battlefield, use the enemy's main guns to block their attacks while using the positron cannons to attack their cruisers."

Zhang Xun abandoned the two warships that were no longer combat-ready and entered the battlefield, which was full of wreckage. Even in space, where distances are measured in kilometers, various fragments were scattered everywhere.

"How many units of the Combined Fleet are left? How many enemies are there?"

"The combined fleet has 571 responding warships and approximately 30,000 aircraft! The enemy still has 1,200 warships, and the number of their aircraft is unidentifiable!"

The original combined fleet consisted of 2761 ships. After deducting the more than 300 warships of the United States that jumped away, the warships of all countries were almost wiped out. The number of fighter jets was reduced from the original 7 to more than half, not even counting the 2 carrier-based aircraft.

"Damn it, if I ever get the chance, I'll stuff that piece of shit American commander into a cannon and shoot him all the way to the American Capitol!"

Zhang Xun angrily kicked the control panel in front of him.

Natal looked at the control panel that had been kicked into a dent and asked, "If we continue like this, we won't be able to defeat them. What should we do, Captain?"

"Order all Chinese warships and aircraft to use whatever method they can to spread all reactive missiles in front of them and set them to explode and be remotely detonated at 13:15 Kyoto time! Have manned aircraft begin rescuing the remaining personnel on the battlefield."

"Notify the entire combined fleet! All damaged warships shall begin to retreat, in batches. The remaining five intact warships of the five allied nations shall hold the rear, with all shields activated to maximum!"

"Issue communications control over all retreating warships and inform them that a large number of reactive missiles will explode at 13:15."

The order was given and all ships in the fleet began to act accordingly. The Chinese fleet deployed all its reaction missiles at 13:12.

The remaining less than 2 resistance warships slowly retreated, and by the time they approached the effective range of the reaction missiles, the countdown had already entered ten seconds.

"All warships are to retreat at full speed and communication restrictions lifted! All remaining manned aircraft to jump to the rear, and unmanned aircraft to provide cover and intercept the enemy's vanguard. Even if it means ramming them, we must not allow the enemy warships to jump away."

As the combined fleet fled at full speed, the Terran noticed something amiss and attempted to warp in pursuit. Amidst a flurry of white light, over 700 Terran warships were lost, leaving the combined fleet with only about 1 manned aircraft and fewer than 3 warships capable of combat.

At this point, the Terran fleet had less than 500 ships left. Although all the ships except the flagship were damaged, the combined fleet was no longer able to resist. Just when it seemed that the American warships that had jumped away were about to be annihilated, they turned back.

"That bastard came back at the last minute to steal the credit! Announce to the entire ship: counterattack the enemy!"

The American fleet that warped back was basically intact. After releasing nearly 1 fighters, the balance of power on the battlefield completely tilted in favor of the Allied fleet. After leaving behind 5 flagships, the Terran warped away with the remaining 19 damaged flagships.

At this point, 437 of the combined warships remained. The American fleet, which had jumped back, lost 167 ships because it blocked the enemy's escape route. The remaining 183 ships represent the largest number of ships preserved in this battle. The remaining four allied nations combined have fewer than 2 ships, and the remaining dozens of smaller nations have no more than single digits each.

The combined fleet conducted a large-scale search for remaining personnel and repaired warships in the battlefield wreckage area. The battle lasted a total of 5 hours and 24 minutes and resulted in a loss of one million lives.

After a half-day rest, all the warships, carrying everyone, warped back to the Mars base.

The Earth side had been embroiled in controversy over this battle. The initial execution of the plan went smoothly, but the commander's arrogance led to heavy losses for the Allied Forces.

After all the warships returned and docked at the Mars shipyard, Zhang Xun disembarked fully armed, followed by Natal and Marcus, who were also fully armed.

Of Zhang Xun's five warships, only the flagship returned from the battle. Wang Ge and Sun Hui were seriously injured and were receiving treatment in the Bakta Box. Of Mu Fanwu, Huang Hong, and Liu Chuan, only Huang Hong returned.

Zhang found the Howling Sorrow smell at the crew passage of the Mars base, but the height of the passage was not high enough to deploy the back weapons.

Zhang Xun raised his hand and fired a shot in the direction of the opponent, but he forgot that the rifle in his hand had no aiming assistance function. His marksmanship, which was so bad that it was completely off target, finally made an extraordinary performance and hit the opponent's shoulder.

However, because the weapon was not powerful enough, the enemy was not killed. Although Zhang Xun was furious, he could not use powerful weapons in the space base and risk the lives of other personnel.

The coalition law enforcement officers escorting Aisenhaowei immediately pinned him down, and the remaining soldiers with exoskeletons rushed towards Zhang Xun and the others. Almost four or five men held down each of them, and Marcus, with more than ten men hanging from his body, almost blocked the passage.

The other law enforcement officers immediately took Aisenhaoweier through other passages and returned to Earth in small transport planes. The Allied Forces Headquarters understood that Aisenhaoweier might be attacked after this battle, so they dispatched a law enforcement force of nearly a hundred people.

Before boarding the transport plane, apart from Zhang Xun's team, they had already intercepted five waves of enraged soldiers. Zhang Xun's team used the most people because the others were mostly armored soldiers or ship captains. The mobile soldiers had fewer people and suffered more losses, so the first five waves were easy to deal with.