There was no mistake, these empty shell airships were the gifts that Hawke had prepared for them.
With the addition of these one hundred empty shell ships, Hawke's strength had reached one hundred and eighty village level ships, twenty-three village level ships and the county level ship, the Voyager, bringing the total to two hundred and four.
Based on the battle power that Hawk had shown in the past, these ships were already enough to crush the one hundred ships they had left behind and all their orbital weapons. Moreover, this was the opponent's base camp, so how could they defend against the nuclear bombs that Hawk might launch when all their battle power was crushed by Hawk?
Hawk believed that the painful lesson they had learnt from the nuclear bombs they had fired earlier had definitely not been forgotten by them.
So, a return to help, was inevitable, which Hawke had long anticipated.
As a matter of fact, with a hundred more ships suddenly appearing in the frontal battlefield, the opponent's ships panicked and made some mistakes in their dodging, defensive and attacking movements, and Huo Ke took advantage of the opportunity to finish off three ships.
No one could remain calm when their nest was in danger of being wiped out.
At the same time, some alien ships in the frontal battlefield began to violate the laws of battlefield survival and started to assemble in spite of everything. A hundred ships had gathered urgently and were led by another county-sized ship to make an urgent return voyage.
How could Hawke let them go so easily? Even if it was an act, it had to look like one. So, Hawke manipulated his own ship and began to chase after them, pouring out heavy artillery fire, destroying another twenty ships before giving up the pursuit under the fierce blows of the primary energy weapons equipped on the opponent's flagship.
At the moment, Hawk's side still has 300 small ships and the Sky Court, while the other side has more than 100 ships left, including the flagship.
The balance of victory on the frontal battlefield was already tilting towards Hawke's side. Even if the opposing side's ships were more powerful and their primary energy weapons were more powerful, they were too few in number, only a third of Hawke's ships.
In the frontal battlefield, Hawke could already overpower the other side!
Although, this phenomenon was created by Hawke through trickery. As soon as the battle group next to the outer planet, with the Voyager as the core, and the other side went into battle, the other side would immediately recognise the trick. Faced with the blows of high velocity machine guns, these empty shell ships were not much stronger than paper mache.
"Time is not yet up, calm down, must be calm ..." Hawke silently chanted, closely watching the situation in the middle of the battlefield.
The opposing flagship was still as raw as ever! Each shot from the powerful energy cannon could destroy one of Hawke's ships. Under the opponent's fierce attack, Hawke exerted his precise control that was beyond his opponent's, struggling to maneuver around and take advantage of the opponent's mistakes to cut down one of his ships.
"Voyager is three minutes away from the opponent's return fleet ... Two and a half minutes away from the opponent's base fleet ... Okay, it's about time, sniper flagship plan, start! "
Hawk gave his order over the radio waves. Immediately, half of the ships in the front battlefield abandoned the enemy they were tangling with and took off from the battle with all their might and began to close in on the Sky Court, while the other half, bringing their firepower to bear, no longer caring about damage or ammunition consumption, brought the enemy that half of their own ships had abandoned earlier into the range of their own gunfire.
A seemingly chaotic but precisely controlled change was taking place in the midst of the artillery barrage.
Of the hundred or so remaining ships, at least eighty were being entangled by Hawke's half of the battlefield, while the remaining one hundred and fifty, led by the Sky Court, were rapidly approaching their flagship.
It was a matter of life or death!
Hawk was going to use the 150 ships plus the Sky Court to kill the other flagship!
The muzzle of the alien flagship's cannon glowed, countless blue bolts of lightning streaked back and forth, and as the light grew brighter and brighter, an energy blast was fired, aimed at the Sky Court!
This time, instead of manoeuvring the nearest small ship to fend off the human cushion, Hawke took the shot directly.
The Sky Court was hit by the shot, which made a hole 10 metres in circumference. But fortunately, Hawke's ship did not have a bulky and extremely space-consuming life-support system, and the ship's internal structure was modular, so this level of damage was within acceptable limits.
"Come what may." Hawke mumbled, "I'll give you a taste of my power too!"
Over a hundred and fifty ships, as well as the still combat-capable Sky Court, spewed out their fury at the same time at this moment.
At the same time, hundreds and thousands of miniature missiles were also fired out by Hawke, and the laser cannons and laser guns equipped on the more than one hundred ships also began to fire in unison.
Through all sorts of trickery, Hawke spelled out the loss of a prefect ship, spelled out his energy and material reserves, and finally managed to create a firepower advantage in the area despite the overall situation being at a disadvantage.
In the middle of the main battlefield, more than eighty alien ships were being held back by Hawke's one hundred and fifty ships in a fierce exchange of fire, while the remaining one hundred and fifty ships all joined in the action of surrounding the opponent's flagship.
Near the outer planets, the Voyager had engaged the opposing warships head-on. This encounter was immediately noticed by the other side. After all, those one hundred empty shell ships were of such poor quality that they were only an empty shell, which could be completely pierced by just one bullet, and could not serve any other purpose than to scare people.
The hundred or so hollow-shelled craft were mostly wiped out by stray bullets, and the rest of the smaller ones were quickly wiped out.
These hollow shell ships could not even explode when they were wiped out. This was because they were equipped with only a very small amount of fuel by Hawke.
After the first round of engagement, one hundred hollow-shelled ships ... were completely wiped out!
Hawke believed that at this moment, the other side, even if they were stupid, realised the problem, that is, it was a trap! A very obvious trap!
Then ... combined with the current situation on the frontal battlefield, the opponent should be able to immediately recognize that their real purpose is actually the opponent's flagship!
The hundred or so ships that were originally drawn out to support the main base camp immediately returned.
"How can we possibly let you go when it's come to this?" Hawk laughed crazily and manoeuvred the Voyager, leading the eighty or so ships still remaining and pestering them to death.
Here, Hawke's battle force was more than eighty small ships and one county ship. The other side, on the other hand, had two county-class ships, and two hundred smaller ships!
The performance of the individual airships was inferior to the other side, and the total number was inferior to the other side.
Facing the Far Cry formation, the alien ships had an overwhelming advantage.
"The Voyager, together with these eighty or so ships, can only pester the other side for an estimated five minutes ... then counting the return journey, I only have ten minutes!"
At the cost of one county-level ship, plus a hundred smaller ships, Hawke was able to buy this ten minutes.
Within these ten minutes, Hawke will maneuver the Sky Court and lead a hundred and fifty small ships to take out the opponent's flagship! If the opponent's flagship could not be taken out, then the subsequent plan to exterminate the civilisation would be seriously affected.
"Come on, come on ..." Hawke silently chanted, manipulating the power in the frontal battlefield, frantically surging towards the alien flagship, attacking with all his might.
The situation, had entered a white hot stage. Here in the trap, the Voyager and its formation were being slaughtered by the other side, while in the frontal battlefield, the ships in charge of the containment mission were frantically and bravely pestering the other side's ships, and the ships in charge of the flagship sniping mission were pouring out their fury.
Hundreds of laser cannons were burning fuel, converting it into energy and burning the hulls of the opposing ships, and thousands of miniature missiles, like bloodthirsty locusts, came close to the opposing ships through the rain of bullets and immediately Immediately, countless projectiles, accelerated to a very high speed, exploded and hit the hull armour like a rainstorm.
Hawke had used his full strength! He had used all of his attacking power! If the Sun hadn't been so dangerous, Hawke would have wanted to take the Sun and kill it.
But, at the same time, the other side was also attacking hard. In addition to the long interval energy cannons, the high-powered laser cannons were in full swing, and hundreds and thousands of electromagnetic high-speed machine guns were firing at full power.
In this meat grinder-like battlefield, every minute, every second, a ship exploded, and then the fragments of the ship would join the shells flying around, striking the surrounding area indiscriminately.
In the midst of this intense time of war, Hawke picked up a signal.
"The Voyager, dead."
There in the trap, the starship formation led by the Voyager, had been completely annihilated by the other side, the Voyager formation, completely destroyed.
This was the first time since leaving the solar system that Hawk had lost a county-class ship.
After the Far Voyage's formation was completely wiped out, there was at least one county-sized alien warship in that direction, leading more than a hundred smaller ships, which was heading to the frontal battlefield at full power, to support the flagship, and was expected, in four minutes' time, to arrive here.
"Do I only have four minutes left? That's enough!" Hawke roared inwardly, "The Voyager, it cannot die in vain!"