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"Acceleration is impossible. "Unless they can accelerate to the speed www.biquge.info of light," Tagate asserted, "they won't be able to escape our pursuit." ”

"They don't need to accelerate to the speed of light, they just need to accelerate to one-fifth of the speed of light." "As long as there is that kind of speed, the fusion cannon will not hit them." ”

"But I still can't dodge the laser cannon fire." Lin Hai raised his hand and stopped the two of them from talking, "Although the direct destructive power of our laser cannon against that asteroid may be a little insufficient. But Colonel, it's only a distance of more than 20,000 kilometers, so it should still be within the range of our powerful laser cannon, right? Can you stop the two Destroyer gunships from leaving? ”

"Of course, sir." Tagai nodded his head, and then ordered, "Assign a random target, and the fleet will carry out a concentrated attack with strong laser weapons." On the other hand, railguns are used to discourage and disrupt their movements. ”

As the order was given, the high-temperature light that could not be seen by the naked eye immediately enveloped a Destroyer gunship, and the shield of the Crystal Starship was instantly revealed, but it did not quickly weaken and collapse.

"Is it still too far away?" Lin Hai frowned, "The energy attenuation of the strong laser cannon is a bit powerful." Although there are six fusion reactors to provide energy, ordinary secondary guns still can't hit targets that far. ”

"It's a lot better than the Kodiak." Tagate laughed, "If it's a Kodiak-class powerful laser sub-cannon, shooting at such a distance, the energy decay will only be more serious, and their power will not be much higher than that of a flashlight." Although the power of the sea behemoth-class laser cannon has also been severely reduced, it can still cause substantial damage to the destroyer, but it will take more time and consume more energy. ”

"So what is the most suitable distance for the power of the sea behemoth-level strong laser sub-cannon?" Lin Hai asked.

"The data says that it should be within 5,000 kilometers, but extending it to 10,000 kilometers actually has a power guarantee."

"Can we bring the Destroyer closer to 10,000 kilometers?" Lin Hai asked, "The speed of the new ship can catch up with the starship of the Sijing people, right?" ”

"Of course, this can, the reason why the Sijing people were so elusive and came and went like the wind before was not that their spaceships were fast, but that they had wormhole teleportation technology that could shorten the distance faster. Without wormholes to help them teleport, their starships wouldn't be much faster than we wouldn't have traveled. At least so far, the fastest speed we have observed is about 120 kilometers per second. If they hadn't hidden their strength, they would have been able to move in an evasive route without increasing their top speed at all, while we would have been able to pursue them at maximum speed, and we would have been able to weaken them with fire, or it wouldn't be long before we could sink them halfway. ”

"Then let's do it right away." Lin Hai nodded and said, "Although I don't know what purpose they have for fleeing to that asteroid, I always feel that something is wrong, and it is safest to deal with them in advance." Of course, don't forget other things because of the patronizing pursuit, and cause us to be overshadowed. We have encountered this situation before, especially when the opponent is Sijing people, who often use their technical advantages to cause us a lot of trouble. ”

"Yes, sir." Tagate smiled slightly, "No matter how much the Sijing people cause trouble, it's just trouble. ”

Five minutes later, a Destroyer was depleted of its shields by the lasers that struck it, evaporating its armor and eventually disappearing into the universe as a ball of fire.

Ten minutes later, the last Destroyer also lost its shields, and was completely destroyed by the same laser and railgun fire.

The asteroid is less than 100,000 kilometers away from this small fleet.

"The angle is adjusted, the coordinates are entered, and the fusion cannon is ready to fire." Looking at the image of the asteroid that was zoomed in to the largest on the screen, Tagate calmly gave the order, "Tell the 'Behemoth' to shoot after we open fire." The Marathon is responsible for the vigilance and surveillance of the fleet. All sensors are turned on to the maximum power, be careful not to let the Sijing people directly transmit to us! ”

"Sir, the sensor has detected a faint energy response on the asteroid!"

"Weak energy reaction?" Tagate was stunned for a moment, "This should be normal, right?" If the Sijing people want to throw that thing on the earth, they naturally need to exert a force on it. This is probably the engine that the Sijing people installed on it to propel the asteroid, right? ”

"That's not right." Lin Hai looked at the screen in front of him and shook his head, "That's Taijing's energy signal." ”

"Tae-jeong?" Liu Yan was surprised, "Isn't that a crystal?" That thing also has an energy response? ”

"Everything can have an energy reaction, not to mention that Taijing itself has a slight radiation reaction, but it is quite weak, and it needs special detection equipment to be found at close range." Lin Hai explained, "It's just that, under normal circumstances, at such a distance, no matter how advanced our equipment is, it is impossible to detect the Taijing radiation signal above." Now that kind of radiation energy signal will be discovered by us, it can only indicate the number of Taijing on that asteroid, and it can even be detected by our equipment at a distance of nearly 100,000 kilometers. ”

"So......" Liu Yan tapped the screen, and then asked, "Can you make the image clearer?" The brightness also needs to be turned up a little more. ”

"Oh, did you find it?" Lin Hai asked.

"I'm afraid that as you said, that asteroid does look like something is wrong." Although the image can no longer be enlarged, and the clarity can only be repaired with the computer, at least the brightness of the image has been improved a lot, and people can already see that the originally dim asteroid is turquoise, "Now it seems that the asteroid is either 'planted' by the Sijing people A large number of Taijing crystals are on it, or the entire asteroid is composed of Taijing." ”

"Once such a thing hits the earth...... Lin Hai took over with a solemn expression, "In addition to causing great damage, those Taijing will also drift away to other places with the hurricane and shock wave generated by the impact, and the whole of Japan...... No, maybe most of Asia could become like New York! ”

"Then we'll have to intercept it here." Colonel Tagate said solemnly, "Just smash it here, and not a single fragment will fall to the ground!" ”

"The fusion cannon is ready to fire at any time." The weapons officer duly reported.

"Fire!" Colonel Tagate immediately ordered.

The fusion energy was shot out instantly, and at one-tenth of the speed of light, it swooped down on the Taijing asteroid that was flying in the direction of the Earth 100,000 kilometers away!

The three-second flight time passed in the blink of an eye, and the fusion energy cluster hit the Taijing asteroid with no ability to resist. The huge energy forcibly restrained by the strong magnetic field burst out in an instant, and the Taijing asteroid was blown into two pieces of similar volume in this explosion, one continued to fly towards the earth, and even the speed was accelerated in the explosion, and the other was slowed down by the explosion and flew to another angle.

"Half the battle." After Colonel Tagate said this to Lin Hai, he continued to command, "Order the 'Behemoth' to fire and shoot at that asteroid fragment that flew towards Earth!" Let Marathon prepare for the fusion cannon to fire! While charging the fusion cannon, the ship is on alert! ”

"That piece of shard is not easy to fight, is it?" Liu Yan said with some concern, "Its current volume is only less than a kilometer in diameter, and it is so far away from us, can the 'Behemoth' successfully hit it?" ”

"There will be another hour before the debris falls into the Earth's sphere." Lin Hai looked at the time for a moment and replied, "Although that fragment will shorten this time faster because it was accelerated by the explosion, we are not without a chance at all. The fire control system is the same, there is no reason why our side hits, and the 'Behemoth' can't hit, right? What's more, we have Marathon as a reserve team, and Leviathan is also doing recharge. An hour is enough for us to fight two more rounds of fusion cannons. The chances of success are still quite high. ”

"The Behemoth has fired!" The observer shouted, and at the same time there was a flash on the second main screen of the bridge, and a white light of energy appeared on the first main screen, and a few seconds later swept over the fragments of the Taijing asteroid.

"Didn't hit the target." Tagate looked at the image for a few seconds and said, "Just brushing it by." Inform Marathon, it's time for them to go! How is the ship charged? ”

"Just finished 10% charging, and it still needs nine minutes to recharge!"

"Cut, it's still too slow!" Tagate shook his head, "Dr. Kane will have to come up with a better charging device or a new reactor to solve these problems!" ”

"It's not something that can be studied in a moment." Lin Hai said, "Doesn't the Sea Behemoth class still have two coaxial pulse laser cannons as a supplement to the firepower of the fusion cannon?" Couldn't it be used at this time? ”

"The problem is the same as those strong laser cannons, the target distance is too far, and even the coaxial pulse laser cannon is difficult to play an effective role at this distance. What's more, the characteristic of laser weapons is penetration, and what we need at the moment is a weapon that can shatter those Taijing asteroid fragments. In fact, at this time, the missile is the most destructive to those fragments, and the railgun with a special warhead can also be used, but it is also because of the distance, it is difficult for the missile to catch up with the asteroid, and the same is true for the railgun, after all, the acceleration of our railgun shell has not yet reached the point where it can be called sub-light, at best, it is only how many, how many times the supersonic speed. ”

"Contact Brigadier General Towin and ask how the battle is going on on his side." Lin Hai suddenly said to the communications officer, "If his situation is okay there, then let's close the distance between those two pieces before attacking." ”

"If we get too close to the asteroid fragments, it means that we are too far away from the main fleet, and in that case, if something uncontrollable happens, it may be difficult for us to get out." Tagate reminded, "After all, don't look at the fact that we've been defeating the fleet of the Sijing people now, but in fact, we are still in a state of disadvantage overall. ”

"Of course I do." Lin Hai replied nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter, even if we jump out of the new Sijing fleet to trouble our small fleet, it's a big deal that we rush back to Earth and hide in the atmosphere." At our speed in space, we can completely hide in the area where the Obiya base is located, and use the planetary defense base to fight against the fleet of the Sjings. Our feet are on our own legs, can't we run if we can't beat them? Isn't it true that Sijing people have always run away immediately after discovering that they can't beat them, and we can learn the same way. Anyway, we have a thick face, and running away will not hurt our dignity. ”

"I thought you were going to say we could 'turn in.'" Liu Yan complained, "But there is no problem with your statement." The space is so big, as long as the fleet of Sijing people is not so large that it blocks all directions, we can escape. ”

Lin Hai pointed at Liu Yan and made a "look" gesture.

"I see." Seeing that Lin Hai already had an idea, Tagate naturally had no objections, and he had always held a dismissive attitude towards escaping if he couldn't defeat the enemy, and there was nothing in this place that they had to hold onto, as long as they could destroy those fragments and escape or something, it would not be a matter for him, "Connect to Commodore Towin's main fleet and retrieve EVA combat data." After the Marathon fires, if we still can't destroy the pieces, we'll get close to the pieces and deal with them with our guns. ”

"Sir, there has been some disruption in communications with the main fleet, and communications are being restored in the process of removing the interference." The communications officer was quick to respond, "It will take one to three minutes, though." ”

"Interference?" Lin Hai frowned, "Could it be that the Sijing people have researched any new technology that can interfere with our communications?" We're supposed to be using quantum communication, right? Can it also be disturbed? ”

"I'll leave that to Dr. Kane." "Since we can't contact our allies yet, we'll either wait a while and wait until the interference is cleared up; Or you need to change your tactics immediately! ”

"You're the fleet commander." Lin Hai looked at Colonel Tagate, "It's naturally up to you to decide what to do, we're just here to help and provide some advice." Don't forget, we don't know anything about space warfare, but we don't know much about it, and you're the expert. ”

"I see." Tagay nodded, and then ordered, "Maintain the previous order, after the 'Marathon' fires, if it doesn't work, the fleet accelerates, approaches the fragments and destroys them with naval guns!" ”