"Lord Viscount, what should we do about our three captured warships?" the adjutant asked cautiously.
"What should we do? They slapped us in the face, so naturally, we'll slap them back!" Viscount Ironwall snorted.
"Tell the flotilla attacking the Solar System to hit them hard! They captured three of our ships, so we'll capture thirty of theirs! Relay my orders: launch ten Dark Thorns. Target... Earth!
"Hmph! They want to kill their hostages, don't they? Let's see who has more hostages to spare!"
Earth: "..."
In the second round of long-range probing, Nie Yun's side appeared to have lost five precious units, but in reality, the Iron Wall Fleet had suffered a loss it could only swallow in silence.
If the invaluable research potential of the three Iron Wall warships was taken into account, Nie Yun had come out even further ahead.
Next, both sides seemed to realize that these ultra-long-range exchanges could do nothing to their opponent. They ceased fire and quietly waited for the enemy to enter their optimal attack range.
Given the distance between them, the Iron Wall Fleet still had some flying to do before they could truly engage at "close quarters."
Meanwhile, the Earth Defense Force and the Iron Wall Detachment Fleet attacking the Solar System were the first to clash...
Just as the Iron Wall Detachment Fleet attacking the Solar System reached the Kuiper Belt, the Earth Defense Force's main fleet of over three hundred ships finally arrived to intercept it, preventing it from driving straight through.
The Earth Defense Force was on the inside and the Iron Wall Detachment Fleet on the outside. With the Kuiper Belt between them, the distance rapidly narrowed.
"Our reinforcements are finally here!"
"Boohoo... They finally made it. Of the millions of brothers in our No-Brains