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The fusion artillery bombardment of the "Marathon" still failed to completely hit the fragment of the Taijing asteroid, and the shell only grazed the edge of the fragment, evaporating a small piece of about 100 meters in volume. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But that's all there was to that blow.

Colonel Tagate was not much discouraged by such a result, or it should be said that he had long expected such a result. Therefore, after seeing that the third shelling also failed, he immediately ordered the fleet to approach the Taijing fragments at full speed, even if they did not really get close to those fragments, and after shortening to a certain distance, it was okay to use fusion cannons to improve the hit rate.

It's just that at a distance of 100,000 kilometers, the optimal range of fusion cannons is within 30,000 kilometers, and they have to fly at least 5 to 70,000 kilometers before they can attack again. It can take six minutes or more, and it's hard to say if there will be any other surprises in this seemingly short period of time.

Therefore, Colonel Tagate gave the order for the fleet to move forward, and at the same time gave the order for the fleet to remain vigilant, and at the same time threw all kinds of disposable sensors along the way, and even threw out some floating mines - these spheres with a diameter of only three meters can detect hostile targets at a certain distance, and then actively approach and detonate them, so as to achieve the purpose of weakening and damaging enemy units. However, again, this is only experimental equipment, and it is difficult to say whether it will have any effect, and Colonel Tagate chose to use them, on the one hand, to use what he has at hand, and on the other hand, to try to consume those flammable and explosive materials that can easily cause internal explosions before the outbreak of possible fierce fighting.

But it seemed that everything seemed to be developing on the good side, and nothing happened until the small fleet approached the fragment five kilometers - nevertheless, the officers of the Iron Eagle's fleet did not dare to slack off, and they did not dare to relax until the battle was completely over, lest they would be overshadowed by the enemy.

As for Colonel Tagate, since there is no enemy at this time, it is better to move on, let the fleet get closer, and try to solve all the problems at once.

But in the end, the Sijing people didn't intend to just watch the asteroids they dragged from nowhere be destroyed so easily by the Iron Eagle Fleet, so when the three sea behemoth-class heavy cruisers approached the 30,000 kilometers of those Taijing asteroid fragments, a new move of the Sijing people appeared.

With the observer's report, more than a dozen large artificial wormholes were opened at a position of 20,000 kilometers near the fleet, but this time, it was no longer the various starships of the Sijing people that flew out of it, but instead of a large number of wind rider combat boats, although the speed was not as fast as the bee fighter, but there was a heavy combat aircraft with shield protection.

The three Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruisers immediately launched an attack on the combat boats that were swarming out of the wormhole-I don't know how long the Sijing people had been hoarding those wind riders, in short, as far as Lin Hai saw and heard, the sensors on the "Leviathan" had already issued a warning sound before they collapsed, and the number of hostile targets detected by the system in an instant had reached tens of thousands!

Dealing with the smaller fleet of Iron Eagle ships, the Sijing people seem to have found the most suitable way to deal with it. In the face of such a number of Wind Rider Combat Boats, the three Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruisers were less than one-tenth of the opponent's number even if they combined all the armaments such as main guns and coaxial guns.

Don't underestimate this number, a sea monster-class heavy cruiser, in addition to an electronic fusion cannon and two pulsed strong laser cannons as the coaxial super weapon of the starship itself, the hull is up and down, front and back, left and right, there are all kinds of main guns, secondary guns, anti-aircraft guns and other weapons, among which as the main weapon of the main weapon of the ship's weapons, the pulse strong laser main gun (much weaker than the coaxial gun in power and range, but it has an advantage in rate of fire) and a 600 mm single-barrel rail gun (the Kodiak class is equipped with six twin 600 mm railguns for a total of twelve guns) has eight sets each.

In terms of secondary guns, there are 12 small-caliber 180 mm twin railguns designed to deal with those small high-speed ships when approaching, and the rest is a unified specification of point defense strong laser close defense artillery group, the number of which is 60 sets, distributed throughout the ship.

In addition to these direct-firing weapons, the Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruiser also has 24 sets of 16 multi-purpose missile launch systems, which can launch a series of guided weapons ranging from cruise missiles to anti-aircraft missiles -- in addition to heavy anti-ship missiles in space, the launch bay is too small, and the number of anti-ship missiles launched can be intercepted by the sea monster class itself, and it is of little significance in actual combat in space, and this missile launch system is used only when fighting in the atmosphere, and at most it is used to launch some air defense missiles in space. After all, the combat distance in space is more than 100 kilometers or 1,000 kilometers, and long-range anti-aircraft missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers in the atmosphere can only be regarded as short-range when used in space.

And because the sea monster class is not equipped with space fighter troops, so in order to make up for the lack of air defense capabilities, sixty sets of point defense strong laser close defense artillery groups look a lot, but after being distributed throughout the ship, although there is firepower everywhere to take into account, but the density of firepower has been affected, one-way air defense firepower is insufficient, once the ship is scarce or single, it is easy to be attacked by a large number of fighters, so one hundred and twenty unmanned interceptors are deployed on the ship.

These spherical drones, which use high-intensity laser close-in defense artillery groups, are controlled by the starship's central computer, and can also be commanded and deployed by humans. This kind of unmanned interceptor, which can be moved and adjusted at any time, can easily establish an anti-aircraft fire network around the hull, or establish a more dense anti-aircraft fire in a single direction of the hull. As a result, the air defense capability of a single ship can be increased several times in an instant. If multiple starships form a dense air defense formation, with these unmanned interceptors, the air defense efficiency is far greater than that of fleets equipped with space fighters.

And now, there are three Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruisers of the same type, and the three starships have a total of 180 sets of close-in defense laser cannons, 360 unmanned interceptors, and a total of 540 groups of close-in defense laser cannons. And the attack group of the Sijing people they had to face, all composed of Wind Rider Battle Boats, had reached as many as 80,000!

This amount has exceeded the pressure that all the air defense systems of this small fleet can bear, and each group of close defense guns needs to shoot down an average of about 150 Wind Riders to destroy or defeat these unmanned weapons.

Fortunately,

"The fleet air defense formation, activate all close-in laser cannons, pulse laser main guns strafe enemy groups, and magnetic rail main guns are loaded with cluster warheads, covering the central position of firing enemy groups." In the face of such a number of enemy planes, Tagate commanded quite calmly, "They came from our right front, and we still have some time to do other things." Ready to adjust the speed ......"

"This amount, if the Sijing people were used against the humans on the earth, they would have won several major battles long ago!" Liu Yan said a little nervously, "Even our ground forces can't beat this number of combat aircraft, right?" ”

"Believe me, I've seen a lot of scenes like this." Tagate smiled at Liu Yan and said, "When we fought with robots, we encountered several times on a larger scale than this one, but we all survived. ”

"But in the past, you had a large fleet with a complete attack and defense, and a variety of starships, but now you only have three ships of the same class. How confident can you be? Liu Yan said suspiciously, "And the other party's flight speed is obviously faster than ours, if we don't run quickly while there is still a distance of 20,000 kilometers with them, we are afraid that it will be difficult for us to get out." Don't forget, Lin Haike is still on the boat. ”

"If we really want to run away, those wind riders will not be able to catch up with us." Lin Hai, who had been watching the screen in front of him, spoke, "The speed is actually about the same as everyone, and the difference between a large starship and a small fighter is only the acceleration time. To enter the same speed, it may take several minutes or even more than ten minutes for large starships, while those small fighters can easily enter the same speed. This is space, but don't forget that some of the laws are different from those on Earth. ”

"Then when we evacuate, don't we need to speed up the process? We don't have wormhole technology. ”

"Colonel, this distance should be enough, right?" Lin Hai didn't answer Liu Yan directly, but looked at Targate, "It's less than 30,000 kilometers away, and with the speed of the fusion cannon, it shouldn't fly anymore." ”

"That's exactly what I mean." Tagate nodded, and then ordered, "The fleet began to decelerate urgently, and after stabilizing the hull, it was ready to use fusion cannons to shoot asteroid fragments. ”

"The fusion cannon isn't fully charged yet, is it?" Liu Yan said, "It will take more than a minute, right?" ”

"Two more minutes, actually." Lin Hai said, "Now that all the weapon systems are activated, especially so many powerful laser weapons, which are large energy consumers, and when all the equipment is used at the same time, there will be some slowness in the charging of the fusion cannon. But it's not too much of a problem. ”

"Isn't that too much of a problem?" Liu Yan said with some excitement, "Don't forget, what we are facing now is more than 80,000 Sijing people's combat weapons!" If you're all going to be here? Aren't you nervous at all? ”

"To say that you are not nervous is, of course, false. In fact, I've been in a nervous state ever since I went to space. Lin Hai said calmly, "It's just that you can't see it, and I can control this state from being exposed." You should also learn some emotional control techniques from those veterans, which will be good for you and others, and at least you won't have to add more unstable factors to the tense atmosphere. ”

"It's not that I can't control it, I just don't understand, obviously in such a tense situation now, why can you still calm down with your temper!"

"Because we're not at the end of our rope." Lin Hai raised his hand and tapped on the small screen in front of him, and then continued, "Don't be intimidated by the false enemy in front of you. ”

"What do you mean?" Liu Yan was stunned for a moment, and then asked with some doubts, "You don't want to say that all reactionary-radical factions are paper tigers or something, do you?" ”

"Of course I wouldn't say that kind of inexplicable thing." Lin Hai replied, "It's just that, as I said, that's exactly what it means. As you just said, such a large number of Wind Rider Combat Boats, if used on Earth, even if they were sent against Commodore Towin's fleet, even if it was a frontal assault, could defeat the armament of any known force. But why do Sijing people never use them? Obviously, if you use them, you can beat us. The Sijing people have fought with us so many times, most of them have been defeated by us, and even the most important battle for the supremacy of the universe, the space fleet battle, and the battle with Brigadier Towin just now, they have not let those wind riders come out to fight. This is not something that can be explained by the fact that they are still gathering forces. ”

"That's true, if it were me, with such a huge military force, and the front line continued to fail, how could such troops be sent, don't look at the more than 80,000 wind riders, but in fact, it won't take too much time to assemble them, those are just drones, puppets that can all move with one command." As soon as he analyzed the matter, Liu Yan's anxious mood quickly stabilized, and he seemed to be more like the kind of person who was easily distracted, "They don't have any good intentions to let us." It wasn't until this most critical moment that they sent out this Windrider Unmanned Combat Boat Legion, obviously because they were also in a hurry, they were really afraid that we would destroy all the fragments, so they had to send this legion to stop us. This shows that there must be some hidden danger and great weakness in that legion, and if we find such a weakness, such a huge legion will be wiped out in an instant! ”

After listening to Liu Yan's analysis, Lin Hai's face was sluggish for a while, and then he said a little helplessly: "Brother, I'm afraid you're just thinking too much." It's not as complicated as you might think. ”

After saying this, Lin Hai directly sent a piece of analysis data to Liu Yan's screen, and then explained: "Although what we have seen and what the sensor has scanned, those wind riders do have more than 80,000 aircraft, the only problem is that the number value is constantly changing, more or less, and the error data is more than 1,000 aircraft. At first I thought it was just because the rear body was blocked by the front one, but then I found out that the wind riders were so dense that there were some undeserved collisions, and I sent you one of the videos. You must know that the Sijing people are obviously quite dependent on their drone technology, and even most of their main forces are composed of unmanned weapons, and only a small number of Sijing people will be seen on those large starships. In this case, it is a little unreasonable that their drone swarm will also collide. So I went over and over those videos and came to a conclusion. ”