Chapter 151

  Fahnle now concentrated the fleet's firepower on Reinhard's left wing, namely the Eichnera Fleet.

  "Yang! Fall back into formation and defend! Try to concentrate your firepower on the enemy's left flank!" This was the order Fafnir transmitted to Ronge Heine Yang.

  At the same time, Fawhnriel ordered Dark's fleet, which had been hiding between Yang and him: "Dark! Make a breakthrough to the enemy's left wing for me! Knock them down with one blow!"

  "Yah! Charge! Blitz! Blitz!" Dark brought his own four thousand high-speed destroyers quickly out of formation, charging straight at Aizenaha's right flank.

  Azyna Khate, who was known for "not speaking", still gave orders by snapping his fingers. He snapped his fingers once, and the chief of staff issued the order: "Right wing part turns around! The entire fleet shrinks to defend!"

  On the other side, Reinhard's own fleet of a million ships was pouring firepower into Yang's fleet, but couldn't reach Feulner's flagship. Meanwhile, Yang's fleet never closed in for close combat and instead engaged in a long-range artillery duel, so even when caught between Reinhard and Attenborough's pincer attack, it showed no signs of collapse for the time being.

  Dahlgren's dash succeeded in inducing a portion of the Confederate fleet to turn, and just as they did so, "All ships advance! This squadron concentrate their fire on the enemy ships turning!"

  Fafnir's orders flowed through the fleet's communication channels, and the massive flagship "Loki" emitted a powerful blue glow from its rear main thruster, accelerating the over-1-kilometer-long warship. At the same time, the beam cannons and railguns on the bow fired simultaneously, and with the flagship's movement as a signal, the entire Fafnir fleet of 12,000 ships launched a magnificent three-salvo barrage!

  In an instant, the Aizenaha fleet burst out with countless spherical light clusters. The one million warships of the Aizenaha fleet were instantly enveloped in a dark cloud, and the numerous lights disappeared in an instant, never to shine again. "Reinhardt still likes to divide his troops, but if he had formed a horizontal array, it would have been even more troublesome. And if he had approached at high speed from the beginning instead of waiting for my attack, Reinhard's fleet would have been defeated by now..." Fafnir said with pleasure, looking at the Aizenaha fleet falling into the abyss in front of him.

  Dahlgren also took advantage of the crazy firepower sweep to successfully charge into Aizinhower's formation, but there was little he could do - Aizinhower's fleet had already begun to retreat, and Silent Admiral had to withdraw and reorganize his troops. He lost as many as 3,000 ships in this one blow, adding to the losses from the previous exchange, which had already approached 4,000. The worst part was that his formation was now scattered and needed to be reorganized.

  Dahlke didn't get much benefit, Eizinha's retreat command ability was quite good, and while continuously retreating, he could also organize firepower to intercept the charging Dahlke. At this time, Yang and Favniel also shifted their firepower to Reinhardt's fleet on another wing.

  Jung now has approximately 4,500 ships remaining, while Favniel's fleet is unscathed. Together they have a total of 16,600 ships, and Favniel is now commanding all 16,600 to bear down on Reinhard's fleet of 10,000.

  Reinhardt was forced to fall back and avoid the gunfire, while asking Beatty's squadron to speed up and prepare for a flanking attack on Yang's fleet. However, this meant that Beatty had to circle around from the gap left open by Eizenhart's retreat.

  Dahlgren again separated from the main fleet, pursuing the retreating squadron of Admiral Aigenzhakh, which had left Yang's flank exposed, but it would take several hours for Beatty to exploit this.

  At this time, Reinhardt's fleet had already begun to retreat under the double firepower of Favniel and Yang's half-moon-shaped deployment in front.

  "Yang! Start falling back, watch your flanks. Be ready to defend at any time!"

  But Fafnir's fleet instead began closing in on Reinhardt's fleet, preparing for a close-range torpedo strike.

  At 8 pm standard time, the battle had severely depleted both sides' strength. The reorganization of the Aizenah fleet was delayed, not only due to Dark's relentless assault but also the cumulative fatigue of the Aizenah fleet soldiers who had been in combat for a long time, making their movements and judgments slow.

  The Reinhardt fleet was no exception, with soldiers exhausted, and the Favniel and Yang fleets were only slightly better off than the Reinhardt fleet, their soldiers equally fatigued. However, due to their numerical superiority, they pressed on with the attack against the Reinhardt fleet.

  "Half of the torpedo boats, launch!" Favonius still gave orders with great spirit, while the energetic torpedo boat pilots had been waiting impatiently. The torpedo boats approached the Reinhart fleet at high speed under the cover of the warship group in front, "Concentrate firepower and attack the passage between enemy warships!" This was Reinhart's order.

  Cannon fire swept through the channels between the vanguard fleet and Fafnir, immediately turning a large number of torpedo boats into space junk. However, many torpedo boats still managed to break through the cannon interception and successfully approached Reinhardt's fleet, launching orbital cannons.

  Just then, Beatty's force arrived on the scene and began a flanking attack on Admiral von Reuter's squadron.

  Yang's fleet conducted a shrinking defense, but the more than 4,000 warships - still exhausted personnel, could not stop Bitdefender's 5,000 high-speed warships at all, and were easily torn open from the side.

  "Also, half of the lightning-fast strike boats are deployed below and above Yang's fleet, waiting for orders! The entire fleet is preparing to rotate clockwise with the flagship as its core!" Fafnir gave the order while looking at the heavily damaged Reinhardt fleet in front of him.

  The Beatty's fleet quickly defeated the Yang fleet, and the black high-speed warship came like a flood.

  But immediately they came under close-range orbital cannon fire from above and below, "Don't mind him! Advance! Advance!" Bitenfeld shouted loudly ordering his subordinates to force their way forward.

  The firepower of the Fafnir fleet once again blocked the advance route of the Black Gunmen, finally forcing Bitenfield to order the fleet to turn towards approaching Reinhardt's fleet. "It's enough, order Yang to gather the fleet, Dark too! We also retreat and break contact."

  The two fleets slowly disengaged, and it was now the afternoon of June 13. After a full four hours of combat, both sides had confirmed that they were unable to annihilate each other, and so disengaged.

  Reinhard's 25,000 warships lost more than 10,000, Aizenah lost 6,000, Reinhard himself lost around 3,000, and Bittenfeld lost less than 1,000, with casualties of approximately 7 million people.

  Fafnir's fleet of 22,000 warships also lost around 5,000, Yang's fleet of 6,000 warships suffered losses of over 4,000, and Dark was very lucky this time, but lost less than 1,000. Fafnir's own fleet suffered minimal losses, with the largest loss being a large number of torpedo boat pilots. Casualties were around 3 million.

  After the second Battle of Marneuf, Reinhard's forces clearly lost the power and courage to subdue the largest divisive force in the Empire. The Fahnern military also did not have the strength to destroy Emperor Reinhard at once, after all, the other side occupied a large number of military industrial factories in the north - the military industry of the old imperial era was heavy in the north, especially with the Valhalla star system as the strongest.

  In the imperial hinterland, medium and small forces were also in a melee. Within just one year of Imperial Calendar 489, the empire's population lost 600 million, almost all of which came from the infighting between medium and small forces - a large number of civilians died.

  "It's time for negotiations." This is a common view shared by both Reinhardt and Favoniel.

  (Rushed out a chapter in WOT to maintain some dignity and avoid consecutive losses in WOT........)