For the Alliance, the attack launched by the flanking fleet led by the Second Archangel and Minerva was something they had to treat with caution, whether it came from battleship main guns or launched missiles. Beam Attacks from the main guns could be nullified with Anti-Beam Flares, but high-explosive missiles posed an enormous threat to their warships as well and had to be intercepted in their entirety.
Whether to intercept the missiles or snipe the flanking fleet, the Earth Force units pulled out for interception, along with the units within the defensive line that had shifted their fire, all began a fierce counterattack.
For a time, both sides traded blows, and the space between the two fleets was filled with beams of every color streaking back and forth. The beams headed toward each fleet ultimately burst and vanished before different warships like splashes of water. Although the Alliance fleet deliberately avoided striking its own launched missiles, the Earth Force focused their fire on them. Just a few waves of concentrated attacks destroyed seventy or eighty percent of the missiles launched by the Alliance fleet.
In a battleship exchange like this, firing missiles head-on and expecting them to hit their targets was truly difficult. Yet after the missiles that were hit exploded, the ones that had not been struck also began detonating one after another. A long row of fireballs appeared almost directly between the two fleets, completely obscuring both sides' vision. However, the beams fired by the warships did not stop. Thick beams passed through the fireballs, instantly tearing spiral-shaped holes through them before continuing toward more distant targets.
At that moment, Mwu looked at the image on the main screen and promptly gave her order. "Bearing one hundred thirty degrees. All missiles, fire!"
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