Aboard the Yunxiao Heavenly Court, Pan Zhen gazed solemnly into the distance at the Golden Armada. He had never seen such an efficient interstellar fleet with such formidable firepower. The Protoss had seemingly fewer ship types than Lieyang, yet each type of warship had nearly reached the pinnacle of its field.
The Phoenixes and Corsairs lacked firepower, but their mobility was unmatched on the battlefield. Lieyang's artillery had great difficulty hitting them, while the Phoenixes and Corsairs could easily kill Lieyang Heavenly Soldiers.
However, Lieyang had deployed over three million Heavenly Soldiers, while the Protoss had only twenty-five thousand Light Ships. Even with mobility far surpassing every other ship class, fighting while outnumbered still put them under considerable pressure.
To ease the pressure, three hundred Carriers simultaneously deployed Interceptors, totaling as many as two hundred and forty thousand. They swarmed toward the Lieyang Heavenly Soldiers. As cannon fodder units, Interceptors lacked Psionic Shields and therefore had weak defenses. Once struck by the Heavenly Soldiers, they were scrapped. But Carriers produced Interceptors quickly; for every one destroyed, another entered the battlefield.
This was especially true for Korolarion's hero-class Carrier. The Interceptors he produced were nearly as capable as Phoenixes.
As for weaponry, Phoenixes used Ion Cannons, while Corsairs used Neutron Cannons. They certainly could not be used against Lieyang's Nine Heavens Heavenly Court, but they were more than capable of fighting the Thirty-Three Heavens Ships.
At the very least, the Phoenixes left them with no choice but to take the hits. Though Ion Beams and Neutron Beams needed dozens of bombardments to pierce a Thirty-Three Heavens Ship's shield, the Protoss's primary attack ships had never been Phoenix formations or Corsairs, but Tempests and Void Rays.
No matter the scale of the battlefield, four thousand five hundred Tempests would surely be one