Yang Xiyi had indeed perfectly reorganized the main force of Yu Lian's fleet, which had retreated from Saide. The New Shenzhou Front under his command was suddenly stronger than ever. He had never fought such a well-supplied war in his life, and with all of New Shenzhou as his rear base, he finally dared to deploy his forces so boldly.
And once again, the facts proved Yu Lian's summary right: "The rise and fall of dynasties is a tale as old as time, and it all comes down to whether people are treated as people." Sometimes, the more you dared to gamble, the bolder you were, the better the results.
After this battle, the Imperial fleet left only a portion of its warships in orbit to keep watch and stand by. The encirclement was then disbanded. In addition, the last Imperial destroyer to withdraw from above Marshal Li Yuangele was ambushed. Caught off guard, the Imperial warship had its ass set ablaze by plasma shells that rose from the near-orbit surface.
As the saying went, the damage was still minor, but the insult was severe.
And yet, this time, the Imperial Army managed to hold back.
"Marshal Li Yuangele still has large anti-air ion cannons?" Yu Lian was astonished.
To hit targets in space from the surface, you naturally needed high-powered launch weapons, which meant setting up artillery positions on the battlefield in advance. But that also made them easy for enemy ships in space to spot, leaving them vulnerable to annihilation raining down from above.
All in all, unless there was a massive difference in numbers between the two sides, artillery deployed on a planet's surface was hardly worth the cost—even if it wasn't entirely useless.
Yu Lian had known all along that the 38th Division and the people