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"General, the situation in the city of Gorgon has changed, and the situation is not in our favor." Soon after getting up early in the morning, Lin Hai, who was eating breakfast, was startled by Vatujing's words, because the battle situation was quite stable, and he also believed in the ability of these veterans with rich combat experience, so he did not stay at the command headquarters to watch the progress of the operation, but he didn't expect that in just one night, the situation came to a big reversal, how is it hard to believe.

"Tell me about it." Putting down breakfast, Lin Hai wiped his mouth casually, and walked towards the headquarters, and Vatujing explained the situation to him as he followed.

"The Yanger tank company suffered heavy losses in the counterattack in the city, losing half of its tanks, and thus the counterattack failed. In their zone of control, the Sijing have built six defenses called the Storm Pillars, which are ground generators that can create plasma storm masses. Yu Qian and Zhou Yi destroyed four of them before they could run them, but the last two were successfully started by the Sijing people. The Sijing people used the lightning attack of the two newly generated plasma storm clusters to break through our defense line with Wang **, and successfully occupied three-quarters of the area of Gorgon City. "Therefore, our battle in the city of Gorgon is currently on the verge of defeat. ”

"What's going on?" Lin Hai walked to the holographic map and opened the map of Gurgon City, which had been marked with a situation map in advance, a quarter of the city was still blue, which meant that it was still in the hands of Iron Eagle and the kingdom defenders, and the other three-quarters were all replaced by red, "Hasn't the technical department found a way to break through the plasma storm to destroy its internal generator?" ”

"Not yet." Vatujing shook his head and said, "Zhou Yi and they have tried several schemes, but they have not succeeded. Now Lieutenant Colonel Sun Dahai is rushing to produce a batch of 380 mm solid armor-piercing shells, preparing to use this batch of armor-piercing to try again to see if it can break through. ”

"Where's the laser cannon?" After a moment of silence, Lin Hai suddenly asked, "Don't we still have a secret base near the city of Wesley in Alvinson?" And it was built according to the standards of a planetary defense base, and Wang Hammer told me before that this base has weapons that can intercept ballistic missiles and railgunboats! The city of Gorgon is a short distance from the city of Wesley. But the planetary defense base can attack targets in outer space, so there should be no problem in terms of range! Even if the construction of the secret base is slow, at least some of the weapon systems should be operational, right? ”

"General, about the planetary defense base......" Vatutin held a data board. "Previously, due to funding problems, the construction of the base was suspended and slowed down, although the funding problem was partially alleviated, but it did not completely solve the problem. As a result, the construction speed of the base has not been fast, but the construction speed has been kept to a minimum. However, due to the fact that there was no threat of space strikes in a short period of time, the weapons and facilities of the defense base were only prioritized to equip them with defensive weapons in response to ground attacks, while in terms of anti-space weapons, large railguns could not be manufactured and assembled due to technical authority problems, and large laser weapons have only been installed and equipped with one large laser cannon so far. So. With only one laser cannon, we can't be sure if it's effective. And laser weapons have the disadvantage of being affected by the weather and the environment, you know, the plasma storm is very dense and the color is also very dark, so the effect of laser weapons will be greatly affected by interference in terms of technology, and it will not be able to exert its maximum power. ”

"The most important thing is," Vatutin paused and continued. "Once the laser cannon of the planetary defense base is activated, whether or not you can destroy that damn planetary assault mothership, there is a good chance that the entire base will be exposed. That's going to make us lose more than we gain. ”

"But we must end the operation as soon as possible." "We are under a lot of financial pressure. Win or lose. In this battle, we are actually out of our own pockets, and the Kingdom of Alvinson will not give us a penny. They haven't even paid off what they owed. And now we don't have a lot of money, and every time we fire a shell or a missile, it's our own money that is spent. Although the cost of weapons and ammunition is relatively low because of the fact that we produce it ourselves. But we can't stand the high consumption, just yesterday's one-day shooting, we used up nearly 20 million worth of ammunition, and this is not counting the loss of heavy equipment, just the planes, we lost one Auger attack aircraft and one Skyhawk, and the tanks are now according to what you said, we also lost seven or eight vehicles, so if you count it again, it will be nearly 100 million dollars. You see, if you add the attrition of Obia's battle, how much money did we spend in less than a week? How many people were lost? ”

"But we can't get straight out of the battlefield in Gorgon."

"Of course not." Lin Hai said with certainty, "Once we do this, then the reputation we have built up with great difficulty will rot." Whoever flees first is the most despised. So we have to find a way to end this increasingly inexplicable battle. ”

"It's not easy, and we haven't found a way to deal with the plasma storm cloud so far. It is because of this plasma storm cloud that we have been unable to open the situation for a long time, otherwise the problem would have been solved long ago. Speaking of this, Vatujing said with some anger, "That Wang ** is really useless, it is completely useless, every time it is because their defense zone is broken, so we can only retreat!" If we weren't understaffed, we wouldn't have let them go up at all! ”

"It's not a matter of a day or two that we're running out of manpower. Those kings are useless, and we have known for a long time. Lin Hai said indifferently, "It's really not good, let's give up the city first, and after we solve the planetary assault mothership, there will be no problem in the city, even if only a small number of elite troops are sent, it can be solved slowly." Now, our biggest problem is still the planetary assault mothership! His hand hammered heavily on the holographic map that represented the Planetary Strike Mothership.

At this time, the data board in Vatutin's hand rang slightly, he glanced at the screen, and then said: "Well, the first batch of Colossus special 380mm solid armor-piercing shells has been installed, and it will be shipped to Alvinson in three hours." ”

"Three more hours?" Lin Hai sighed, "EVA, connect the king hammer for me, I want to confirm again, use the large laser cannon of the planetary defense base to attack that planetary assault mothership." How feasible it is. ”

As soon as he heard Lin Hai's question, Wang Hammer directly shook his head and denied: "As Major Vatujing said, the effectiveness of laser weapons will be greatly reduced when used in such an environment. According to the data we have observed so far, the laser beam will lose seventy percent of its energy in the plasma cloud before it touches the target, and because the plasma cloud sleeps at its own high temperature, the laser has no effect on the plasma cloud. And the remaining energy, according to our analysis, cannot cause any major damage to the planetary assault mothership, and even if it does, it will take an extremely long time to continue to irradiate. And we, just don't have that much time. ”

"But are you sure that the armor-piercing bullets made for the Colossus work?" Lin Hai asked again, "As you said, the temperature inside the plasma cloud is very high, so when the cannonball breaks through." Can it withstand the high temperatures caused by the friction with the air when flying at high speed and the high temperatures inside the plasma cloud when it penetrates? And also after the breakthrough, there is still energy that can cause enough damage to the planetary assault mothership? ”

"Based on the data we have so far, yes." Wang Hammer said with a very affirmative expression, "Our special armor-piercing projectile, in addition to the design of the shell-piercing projectile, when fired, in addition to the propellant in the shell, the electromagnetic orbit of the Colossus itself can also provide it with an acceleration. Therefore, in order to cope with this high elastic velocity, we use G-type alloy as the main component of armor-piercing projectiles, and cover with a layer of ultra-high-temperature resistant high-density ceramic as a thermal insulation layer. The two layers of material are connected at the molecular level to prevent what happens to the two layers of material when the projectile flies. Although the plasma cloud of the planetary assault carrier is 10 kilometers thick, it only takes 3 seconds to pass through at a speed of Mach 10. Based on our calculations with EVA, the shell material can fully withstand those high temperatures. ”

"Since the people in your technical department are also optimistic about armor-piercing bullets, then I'll take a look first. If not, you can only use the large laser cannons of the planetary defense base. Since there is only one large laser cannon in the defense base, I hope to have a second large laser cannon online during this waiting time. ”

"That's fine." Wang Hammer said. "Although the construction of the planetary defense base has not been completed, some important facilities and materials have been prepared, and an additional large laser cannon can be assembled in three hours. However, I don't think it's necessary. Our new armor-piercing projectile is more than capable of this task, so equipping an additional large laser cannon is just a psychological comfort. ”

"It's better to be like this." Lin Hai glared at Wang Hammer, who let this guy talk too hard, if the armor-piercing bullet can't have any effect, then it's really fatal, you can't get a nuclear bomb by yourself to put it, "How many shells have you prepared this time, is it enough for the colossus?" ”

"This time, due to the rush of time, we only had time to make 600 rounds of the first batch of shells, and each of the 20 colossi was only enough to fire 10 salvos. But the second batch we are producing will have 3,000 shells. ”

"The last question, these armor-piercing shells, since they are all solid bullets, do not have the power to explode, so, can the planetary assault mothership be destroyed just by the kinetic energy that these armor-piercing shells carry when they are launched?"

"According to our analysis based on the prisoner's confession, the planetary assault mothership is a very important weapon of the Sijing people, and its level is one level higher than the destroyer warship, so the Sijing people must not allow even one of these motherships to be in danger. This is also why the planetary assault mothership, after it appeared, stopped in place and did not move. In addition to containing our air force, there is also the fact that the Sijing people dare not risk it. As long as our weapons can do some damage to it, we don't even need to actually destroy the planetary assault mothership, and the Sijing people themselves will let the mothership leave, because they are not afraid of letting it be destroyed. And as long as the planetary assault mothership leaves, then the Gorgun base that comes from the air hand will naturally have enough ability to clean up those guys in the city. At least I don't think those storm pillars can be as strong as motherships, and they will be fine with a few armor-piercing shells. According to the captive's confession, not all of the ground buildings of the Sijing people are protected by a protective force field. ”

After thinking about Wang Hammer's explanation, Lin Hai hesitated for a while before nodding: "Okay, that's it for now." For the rest, wait until you've tested your armor-piercing rounds. By the way, one more thing. Just as he was about to end the communication, Lin Hai remembered something, "The two listening vehicles we sent to the city of Gorgon, which were destroyed by a group of unknown people, but we have not received this notice, and the EVA has not reminded us, what is going on?" Is there a problem with the EVA system? ”

"I know that." Wang Hammer replied, "The two under-the-wall monitoring vehicles are our export products, and they are ready to be sold to country Z, because we know that they will be bought back by country Z and dismantled and analyzed, so we did not install the enemy-friend vision system and positioning system on them, so the EVA system did not log in to these two ground listening vehicles." However, because I needed it urgently, I borrowed it temporarily. So when it was destroyed, we didn't find out in time. Now we've swapped our own use, so it won't be the same thing as before. ”

Relieved, Lin Hai complained a little: "You should send a remarks to this matter, otherwise everyone will think that there is something wrong with EVA." ”

"I'm sorry, sir, but it was a mistake on our part!" (To be continued.) )