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While a lieutenant colonel of the M Army, who commanded the small fleet, was already considering whether to retreat, he had discovered that their naval guns alone could not defeat the enemy in front of them unless they had other reinforcements in the event that the Harpoon anti-ship missiles were ineffective. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Whew! Whew! "Two missiles fell from the sky, one was successfully intercepted by the laser point defense system in mid-air and exploded in the air, and the other pierced through that exploding fireball and exploded after hitting a trimaran battleship.

The entire hull of the trimaran battleship that was hit by the bullet shook a little, proving that the power of the missile was not small, but its speed was not reduced, and it also proved that the destructive power of the missile to the hull was not enough.

When the flames of the explosion dissipated, a large hole with a diameter of about one meter appeared in the armor plate on the right side of the superstructure of the trimaran battleship, which was completely penetrated, but from the small flames that came out of it, it was inferred that although the missile penetrated the armor plate, it did not cause much damage to the internal structure.

A forward-swept and canard-wing fighter - without a cockpit, a Sky Knight-type drone - appeared over the battlefield and fired two missiles at the trimaran battleship again. The two missiles failed to produce the same results as the previous two companions, and were intercepted and destroyed in mid-air.

At the same time, the trimaran battleship that discovered the appearance of this fighter also immediately returned fire with anti-aircraft missiles, and the effective killing range of their laser point defense system could not reach the height of the unmanned fighter, but they still had other means of air defense.

Naturally, the drone could not avoid the attack of the anti-aircraft missile, and was shot down by the missile in the blink of an eye. But more UAVs of the same model appeared over the battlefield and on the radar screens of all sides.

These UAVs have been sent by the "Hive" UAV carrier received under the name GDI to support the M fleet. After discovering that the land had not calmed down and that there was another big fight at sea, the drone carrier, which had been scheduled to receive the evacuated troops of the Defense Regiment, discovered the battle here when it used satellites and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to monitor the situation in the sea around the ship.

Although the M army did not apply to GDI or Iron Eagle for support, it was impossible for the GDI side to sit idly by and watch all the theoretical friendly forces be wiped out, not to mention, judging from the course of the attack fleet, after destroying the M fleet, if it continued to advance, it would come into contact with the "Hive", not to mention that the other party might be coming for the "Hive", and the "Hive" itself did not have even one escort ship.

Originally, when the "Hive" was in the establishment of the M Army, it naturally had enough frigates by its side, but since the ship was "abducted" by GDI, the M Army naturally eliminated it from its own ship sequence, and even monitored it -- while the four Burke-class destroyers accepted the ground attack support mission, why did they not take on the order to monitor the "Hive"? Maybe they also received a secret order to sink the Hive under special circumstances.

However, the GDI side doesn't know, or doesn't care at all what the people of country M will think, and the temporary commander of the "Hive", who also has the average standard moral level of ordinary people, was ordered to recapture the captured drone carrier from the Japanese, and the clone commander of the assault force who was ordered to recapture the occupied drone carrier ship from the Japanese, very simply sent the drone to support the M fleet, on the one hand, out of friendly considerations, on the other hand, naturally because there is no frigate, the safety of the "Hive" can not be well guaranteed, UAVs can't deal with all contingencies, they do need some "escorts with knives", even if it's only temporary, but GDI itself currently doesn't have a single surface combat ship except for the "Hive".

Therefore, supporting the M fleet and saving them, so that they can willingly become the frigates of the "Hive", naturally becomes the most suitable option for the "Hive" at present - they will not expect the Space Fleet to send ships to escort the planetary surface ships, which is called putting the cart before the horse.

The only problem that plagues the "Hive" now is that although there are a large number of unmanned combat aircraft, it is difficult for them to break through the air defense and interception firepower of the Japanese secret fleet when they use missiles to attack targets. In particular, those laser point defense systems, although the effective killing range is only one kilometer, their extremely accurate interception efficiency makes it difficult for incoming missiles to break through their firepower network and hit the battleship.

The anti-aircraft missiles launched by the Japanese secret fleet can easily shoot down those drones that still need to be remotely controlled by someone - because the reception time is too short, the Iron Eagle has not had time to upgrade those drones, so that they have considerable autonomy, because at present, among the drones carried on the "Hive", there are only a few drones with automatic judgment ability, and most of them have been lost in various previous battles (snatching the mothership, being shot down by the Iron Eagle, and being shot down by the Japanese). Most of what is left for GDI is just drones that need to be manned.

Seeing that the Japanese secret fleet was entangled by the drone swarm, the two Burke-class destroyers immediately turned without hesitation, and then quickly sailed towards the friendly ship that could only maintain a speed of three knots.

And at this moment, the ship with a diameter of 400 meters in the shape of huge petals suddenly began to speed up, and the two trimaran battleships that were originally guarding in front of it immediately gave way to the channel, allowing the strange ship that could be called a giant ship to pass through the position between the two ships.

Then, the giant ship opened fire, and the two quadruple main guns of more than 300 mm caliber on the left and right "petals" fired eight shells with a blue glow at the M destroyer! The shells flew at extremely high speeds over the distance between the two fleets, leaving a blue afterimage in the air before finally landing on their destination.

Six thick columns of water rose almost together on the surface of the sea, and along with these columns of water that were blown up by the shells, there were two fireballs that were taller than the water columns—a Burke-class expel was hit by the shells of the giant ship, and in an instant it exploded and burst into flames, breaking into three pieces.

The distance between the two fleets was more than thirty nautical miles, but the giant ship hit a Burke-class class in just one round of fire, which only proved how advanced the fire control system of the giant ship was, and how high the hit rate was.

Seeing that the friendly ship was destroyed in an instant, the people on the last Burke-class destroyer completely lost their will to fight, and even those comrades who fell into the water did not care about rescuing them, and fled directly into the distance at full speed.

However, the giant ship did not intend to let go of the last destroyer, and the huge main gun with no shooting dead ends quickly turned, corrected the angle, and headed towards the Burke-class destroyer that was fleeing at full speed, preparing to finish off the last M battleship with extremely accurate shelling once again, and then complete their other missions.

"Electromagnetic acceleration weapons." In space, through the drones hovering over the battlefield, after Lin Hai and the others saw the firing of the weapons of the giant ship, Colonel Tagate judged the type of weapons used by the enemy.

"But it's far inferior to ours in terms of performance." Lin Hai nodded, although he was not an expert in technology, but after coming into contact with electromagnetic orbital acceleration weapons, he could also see what it was, "I just don't know if it was developed by the Japanese themselves, or if the Sijing people provided technical help." ”

"Either way it's not good news." Liu Yan said, "The former proves that the Japanese are more technologically capable than we have learned in the past, and the latter proves that the cooperation between the Sijing people and the Japanese is higher." Like that giant ship of the sea, it has never appeared in our intelligence data before, not even a small piece of relevant information. ”

"Intelligence gathering has always been our weakness, and it was indeed our mistake to fail to discover this giant ship in advance, but this is not a too serious mistake, after all, in the Star Sea Era, no matter how powerful the surface ship is, it will not have any advantage in the face of space warships." Lin Hai chuckled lightly, and then ordered, "Order the 'Hive' to give up supporting Army M, retreat immediately, and retreat in the direction of the mainland to avoid the enemy fleet." Colonel, transfer a starship and take out that Japanese petal ship with railgunfire. ”

"I thought you'd send our own secretly assembled surface fleet to deal with that strange ship." When Tagate went to arrange a ground attack mission, Liu Yan continued, "I didn't expect you to directly use orbital bombing. ”

"Where did we get our surface fleet?" Lin Hai sighed and said, "Although there have been such plans before, and even preliminary preparations have been made, but because our air transportation capabilities are too strong, the demand for surface transportation and escort capabilities is not large, and other more important things are involved, so the formation of the surface fleet has been postponed, and it is meaningless to form a surface fleet until the space fleet is out." The drone carrier is just an opportunity to expand the power of GDI, but now that we plan to form a GDI space fleet, the demand for the GDI surface fleet will also decrease, and maybe even if it is GDI in the future, there will only be a surface ship like the 'Hive'. ”

"Unlikely, sir." "A large military organization like GDI, which has a similar structure to our Global Defense Force, needs to operate and deploy on a global scale, and has to face a variety of different situations, so it will use a variety of equipment that will be used in different situations, and surface ships are naturally among them." You've probably heard other senior military officers say that even if the GDF already has a large space fleet, it still maintains a sizable surface fleet, and that's for that reason. Orbital bombardment is not always possible, especially if the target is our home planet. ”

"I know that too." Lin Hai waved his hand and said, "The way to deal with that battleship with orbital bombardment is just because it is now at sea, and there is no one on the nearby coastline, even if the orbital bombardment creates any phenomena such as tsunamis, it will not cause any accidental damage, and it can naturally be used." As for whether it will cause any long-term geological damage to the earth, I don't think even we can afford to do it with a starship, right? As for why GDI may not have a surface fleet in the future, it is because I don't want to continue to invest too much in surface ships at all, and what we have to deal with in the future is another alien fleet, and if we spend the resources used to make starships on the surface fleet, can we deal with those space fleets? When it is necessary to fully expand the space fleet, what is it necessary to invest funds and personnel in the surface fleet? ”

"I see." Targate nodded in satisfaction, "Since you know this so well, then even if I am too talkative." ”

"Don't talk about this nonsense that you don't need yet." Lin Hai didn't say goodbye, and sighed again, "Let the 'Hive' send all the drones out to attack that petal ship." Before I destroy it, I want to see what the hell it is. Anyway, the drones on the 'Hive' are all backward models, and it doesn't matter if they are all consumed, and then we will equip it with the unmanned fighters we produce." ”

"They're already doing it." "To cover the last M destroyer, they used drones to storm the Japanese giant warships, and even drone ramming tactics. The laser point defense system used by the Japanese warships has limited power, and it is okay to intercept missiles, but it is somewhat insufficient to intercept this kind of drone developed by Future Technology Company. I haven't seen those drones yet, and while anti-aircraft missiles can shoot them down, lasers with insufficient power seem to attack much more effectively. I just saw that there are drones that fly to a distance of less than 100 meters from the battleship with laser cautery and are destroyed by lasers, so now they are just constantly intercepting drones with anti-aircraft missiles. ”

"Anyway, it's just involved, and the task of destroying it still has to rely on the starship." Lin Hai said as he sat back in his seat, "Give me the image of the scene." ”

Immediately, the image of the battlefield on the sea reappeared on the main screen.

The battered Burke-class had sunk, and it was sent to the bottom of the sea by the giant ship with a single shot. Only the last Burke-class destroyer was still on the run, and with its faster speed than the giant ship, the strange petal-like design of the giant ship, it was impossible to catch up with its target even if it had enough power - it still had a chance to escape.

And the two trimaran battleships, which were originally guarding giant ships, did not continue to follow behind the giant ships, and had already accelerated their pursuit of the Burke-class destroyer at this time, after all, compared to the giant ship, the speed of these two trimaran battleships could catch up with the fleeing M destroyer.

At this time, the giant ship stopped, and then turned in place, but the direction it was facing was the direction of the evacuation of the drone carrier "Hive", it seems that it is going to deal with the "Hive" that constantly releases drones to attack it, but with its strange design, of course, it is impossible to catch up with the "Hive", even if the "Hive" is also a 60,000-ton ship.

So, after adjusting the direction of the bow, the giant ship suddenly rose from the sea......