Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1365: Chapter 516: Storming the Golden Dog Pirates (Part 2)

Zheng Tian spoke slowly, her tone soft and even somewhat flippant and proud.

Yet, there was an inexplicable strong confidence hidden in those words.

Only one situation would allow her to receive a perfect final resting place in peaceful old age: the expedition proceeds smoothly in the Shattered Star Ring, enabling the expedition to remain active for at least the next forty years.

While speaking, the star map before Zheng Tian displayed a projection of the star zone near the Golden Dog pirate group headquarters.

Ren Zhong seemed to see the reflection of gallant warriors and a smoke-filled battlefield in her eyes.

After a moment, Ren Zhong nodded and replied, "Alright, I’ll wait for you to return triumphantly on your last day of life."

After arranging all the final matters, Ren Zhong entered cryogenic sleep in the underground base of Red Blade City.

From this moment, Red Blade Star and Source Star temporarily lost their backbone.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye.

The expeditionary army officially arrived at the outer perimeter of the Golden Dog headquarters.

A mere three years was entirely insufficient for Nanxiang’s Earldom to alter the layout in the traffic-inconvenient Shattered Star Ring. Even Beverly had not yet confirmed that their main battle fleet had turned to ashes.

The expeditionary army’s information flow shielding technology remained unrivaled; Zheng Tian simply replicated her tactics, first easily cutting off communication between the Golden Dog headquarters and the outside world, then simultaneously severing their traffic. She swiftly struck before their troops could gather, using super long-range weapons for a round of blanket strikes, causing significant damage.

Subsequently, eight hundred armed battleships approached slightly, rapidly releasing a large number of modified shuttle ships and medium-range fighters in stealth mode, maneuvering for a dispersed attack.

Despite the unexpected disconnection of the main battle fleet, Beverly, although puzzled, had pre-arranged numerous defense measures, positioning layer upon layer of defenses around the headquarters, constructing numerous radars and fixed turrets, forming a Turtle Shell Formation, rare even in the Shattered Star Ring.

These defense structures were scattered across various space asteroids.

With resources supported by Nanxiang’s Earldom, Golden Dog’s radar stations could operate around the clock, scanning and monitoring areas without any blind spots.

Once an enemy was detected, thanks to the old version of the Empire regular army command system given by Nanxiang’s Earldom, regardless of how far enemy targets were, any turret could fire guided weapons in advance, forming tens of thousands of simultaneous fire concentrations.

Additionally, these guided weapons possessed long-range control capabilities. No matter how the enemy dodged and evaded, as long as a radar illuminated the target, the control center could guide the missiles to constantly lock on.

Furthermore, deep within the Golden Dog headquarters were dozens of high-powered super long-range beam cannons with self-aggregation characteristics, known as starlight cannons.

Starlight cannons were theoretically capable of penetrating any force field shield within the Nanxiang Star Cluster, posing a threat to even Empire’s regular army warships—truly a forbidden powerful weapon.

To quickly develop the Golden Dog pirate group, Liu An indeed invested heavily.

If faced with an ordinary enemy, Beverly’s Turtle Shell Formation would indeed be comparable to an Iron Wall, but in confronting the Red Blade Expeditionary Army, these layered defenses turned into mere decoration, comparable to a contemporary example of ineffective defense akin to the Maginot Line.

Against overwhelming information flow interference technology, Golden Dog’s proud all-information command system collapsed instantly.

As for the scanning radar, though theoretically seamless, it became useless against stealthy smaller warships possessing technological gaps.

Invisible shuttle ships easily traversed between space asteroids, coming and going at will.

The opposition often reacted only when the attack was imminent but couldn’t issue warnings due to over-reliance on information flow technology.

Golden Dog’s command central could only helplessly watch as their defensive structures disappeared one by one.

The expedition army utilized an onion peeling strategy, layer by layer tearing apart Golden Dog’s Turtle Shell Formation, never meeting effective resistance even when reaching within five billion kilometers of Golden Dog’s headquarters planet.

From optical telescopes, the surface of Golden Dog’s headquarters planet had already been devastated by heavy super long-range missile strikes.

But Zheng Tian did not relax her vigilance.

She had studied Beverly’s many battle records and understood that the opponent was not a pushover—certainly hiding some desperate means.

Therefore, Zheng Tian instructed the fleet to deploy large decoy targets made from the accumulated metal resources obtained from crushing Golden Dog’s main battle fleet.