The combat power carried by the five warships was not especially large, but it was far from insignificant. Aside from the Burning Legion, which could deploy and launch multiple units at once, Danner's Son used platform deployment. As many units as its internal platform could hold could emerge when the deck opened, though the interval between the two deployments was relatively long.
The other warships could only deploy one or two units at a time. Thus, at the start of the battle, all the Burning Legion's units were the first to be deployed. From the other ships, units with greater defensive and assault capabilities, such as Black Lily, Getter, and Great Mazinger, were given priority.
Under the Yamato's continuous main-gun fire and the Ptolemaios's missile barrage, once the first batch of units had been deployed, they charged straight ahead and began engaging the Mars Successors' forces. With Luo, Graham, and the others providing close-range protection for the warships, all the units were successfully deployed in less than three minutes.
But the enemies they now faced outnumbered even those from the battle at Amaterasu. Below them lay the surface of Mars, above them stretched endless space, and before them were densely packed enemies in both sky and land. Their task was to eliminate every enemy they could and completely seize the Mars Successors' main base behind its layers of protection.
Once the battle began, the other four warships advanced slowly while maintaining their attack formations. Countless beams and missiles streaked into the distance. There was no need for deliberate aiming—continuous fire and saturation bombardment were enough to relieve the pressure on their own units. There were simply too many enemies; no matter how they attacked, it would have some effect.
But the Burning Legion did not advance alongside the other four