From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 544 Intermission
The red 'Holy Shield''s high-speed charge directly smashed the target HCP's head omnidirectional sensor, and at the same time directly caused a large dent in the cockpit armor of the aircraft.

While the opponent's HCP pilot was knocked unconscious and unable to respond effectively, Johnny Ridden used his heavy sword to destroy one of the opponent's mechanical arms and the deployed electromagnetic reconnection cannon at the same time.

Using the reverse thrust of the attitude control nozzle, Johnny Riding created a slight distance and then pierced through the cockpit of the target in front of him with a swift thrust.

The cockpit door, which was heavily protected by the laminated armor, could hardly play a defensive role when stabbed by the plasma heavy sword at almost zero distance - after all, the former was designed to be used for quick "can opening".

Moreover, the prototype of this thing was a tool that engineering robots used to mine on asteroids. It could easily handle the incredibly hard rocks in the asteroid belt, not to mention the cockpit armor which was only a thin layer in comparison.

"Very good, the subcritical reactor and superconducting battery did not explode."

Draw the sword, force the heat to dissipate, and then let the memory metal that makes up the sword begin to repair itself.
Johnny Riding completed this set of operations skillfully, then hid behind the wreckage of the aircraft in front of him and calmly avoided several long-range attacks, and quickly locked onto the next target of attack.

At this stage, he no longer had the fear and terror he had at the beginning, but instead began to become more and more excited.

The other party's subsequent reaction made him laugh out loud.

Looking at the attack formation of four HCPs in the distance, charging towards him under the cover of others, Johnny Riding was even a little "impatient" to meet them.

It was obvious that the opponent's continuous long-range attacks had caused the long-range weapons equipped on the machines to be in the process of re-cooling, cooling down, and recharging, so the four machines that rushed over at this time also drew out their plasma heavy swords, intending to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

This is like playing some classic competitive games, where you use all your skills at the beginning, and then you can only rely on basic attacks while waiting for the CD.
So when Manfred completed the mission and rushed back to support Johnny Riding, what he saw was a red HCP chasing and hacking at some unlucky guy while being "hunted down" by the enemy.

"boom!"

As the heavy armored combat boat's twin main guns blasted an HCP that was suppressing the attack from medium and long range at the six o'clock position and flashed past the expanding plasma fireball, the HCPs that were besieging Johnny Ridden realized that the enemy's friendly forces were coming.

"Yo~ It looks like you don't need my support."

While driving the heavy armored combat boat to cut through the outside of the "spherical formation" formed by the enemy HCP, Manfred, who was a little more relaxed, even made a joke.

"Stop talking nonsense and come help me. My heavy sword has overheated and the deflection field is on the verge of overload!"

Johnny Riding dodged the enemy's slash in front of him, and took advantage of the short acceleration of the plasma propulsion array to kick out a "flying kick" - this was also a "fighting trick" from the Atlas HCP Squadron.

After causing the enemy to lose balance for a moment, the pilot can then use other attack moves such as rapid shooting, thrusting, climbing, and cross slashing, depending on the pilot's skill level.
Johnny Riding also chose the very personal style of "Denglong" without hesitation.

After he split the enemy's shield and cockpit armor in half with one sword, the plasma heavy sword in the hand of the red "Holy Shield" finally completed its mission. When the memory metal could no longer repair itself, it disintegrated into several pieces.

Seeing this scene, several other HCPs around that were originally hesitant immediately accelerated and rushed forward, intending to take advantage of the excellent opportunity of Johnny Riding's loss of his weapon to get rid of this tricky opponent first.

At the moment when the pilots of these HCPs rushed forward, shouting words like "courage" and "glory" to encourage each other.

Manfred completed a large-angle turn from another direction, driving the heavy armored combat boat like a "mud truck" and rushing towards these HCPs. The 30-meter-class MA-01B block5, of course, has much higher energy output power than these 10-meter-high HCPs.

Therefore, the power of the deflection force field generator it is equipped with is also several times that of the opponent.

After Manfred put the deflection field generator into super-power operation mode, the thickness of this "shield" was beyond the imagination of these HCP pilots.

Then, Manfred, who had calculated the route, accurately passed through the advance routes of these HCPs, and then used the activated deflection field to complete a "one-shot hit".

While using huge kinetic energy to injure these HCPs and bounce them off, Johnny Riding also got to appreciate from close range a "space bowling" performance by the heavy armored combat boat and the HCP.

"Full marks!"

The HCP head omnidirectional sensor that popped out from behind the heavy shield recorded this wonderful moment, and also recorded the scene where the HCP that was bounced away was blown up on the spot by a large number of light beams shot from a distance while trying to readjust its posture.

Friendly units finally arrived.
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"Sir, it looks like the battle has been decided. The next step is to hunt down the remaining enemies."

On the bridge of the Infinity, the officer on duty standing next to Randall breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the three-dimensional battlefield situation map that was slowly being covered in green.

"Yes, but we still can't take it lightly!"

Randall, who was also relieved, nodded, then looked at the garrison fleet that had been separated and were fighting on their own, or directly firing white flares to surrender, and continued:

"We will persuade them to surrender on the public channel. Of course, there is no need to waste time talking to those who are unwilling to surrender. Just kill them. In short, let the entire fleet resolve the battle quickly!"

"Yes, sir!"

After Randall's order was issued, the surviving garrison fleet warships in the space domain quickly received a message of persuasion to surrender from the public channel.

This newly rebuilt fleet obviously did not do enough in terms of loyalty building. After the fleet flagship "Balkanist" was sunk by the enemy in a nearly "wall-banging" manner, the morale of the entire fleet was greatly affected.

Therefore, not long after Atlas sent out the surrender message, white flares representing "surrender" appeared one after another throughout the universe.

As for the warships with a relatively high proportion of veteran crew members who refused to surrender, the Third Task Force did not waste time with them and directly sank them one by one in the form of concentrated fire attacks.
At the same time, they carried out a "killing the chicken to scare the monkey" operation on the ships of other garrison fleets, so that the crew members on these warships who were still hesitant immediately abandoned the hesitation in their hearts and surrendered quickly.

Seeing that the battlefield had been completely controlled and the work of receiving the surrendered ships was proceeding in an orderly manner, Randall said to the officer on duty beside him:

"After you control all the enemy warships, lower the fleet's combat readiness level. Then look through the exploration star map left by the engineering team and find an asteroid belt with better output. Let the fleet jump there to rest. I'm going to make a remote contact with the headquarters."

Randall stood up, stretched his stiff body, and continued:
"By the way, send me the casualty report as soon as it comes out. Also, when we get to the safe area, have everyone take turns to rest. This battle may only be halfway through."

(End of this chapter)