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The distance in space is too wide, even though the fastest speed of human warships can reach 100 kilometers per second, but the range of hundreds of thousands of kilometers is not just talked, not to mention the maximum speed of the mass-produced Higra-class destroyers is only 60 kilometers per second.

It took an hour for the two alert fleets to assemble alone, and even the fleets directly under the General Headquarters entered the converging area during this time. And the Sijing fleet, perhaps in the last asteroid interception operation, the Iron Eagle Fleet impressed the Sijing people by firing at the wormhole and destroying the wormhole generator at the other end, so this time, the Sijing people opened the wormhole teleportation fleet at a location far away from the expected engagement area, so their fleet will also have to fly for a short time to enter the engagement area, especially when the speed of the two sides is about the same.

So don't look at the fact that the two sides have already discovered each other's targets, but there is still a period of more boring time to spend to enter the range of the weapons of both sides, which is why Lin Hai and Tagate are obviously about to enter the battle, but they still have the leisure to say something else.

There are still some differences between space warfare and ground warfare in terms of the concept of time.

"It's finally getting started." Yawning, Lin Hai saw that the electronic map showed the convergence of his fleet, and after the Sijing fleet also entered a relatively close position, he slapped his face twice to sober up, "How much time is left?" ”

"In two and a half minutes, the fleet of the Sijing people will enter the range of the forward fleet composed of the A-7 and A-9 fleets. Our own words......" Targate looked at the screen and mentally calculated the time, "Although we will also fire in three minutes, it is not too late to get closer to fire in order to improve our accuracy." ”

"We don't have to worry too much about our ships, I'm worried about the Higra class, and this is their first real fight. If the exchange ratio is too ugly, there is no way to get those countries to accept the Higra class, and they will have more reason to ask us for other types of starships. ”

"The battle damage won't be too bad, if all we need to face is the fleet of Sijing people in front of us." Tagate replied calmly, "I don't think Dr. Kane will design a weapon that is more figurative than practical. ”

"Because he disdains." Lin Hai smiled, calmed down a little, and rechecked his seat belt, "The next moment is to witness the results." ”

Two and a half minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and the forward fleet consisting of two old Kodiak-class battle cruisers and eight Higra-class destroyers fired first: a large number of large-caliber alloy projectiles were fired by the railgun, directly covering the area where the Sijing fleet was located - different from the speed of light of directed energy weapons such as lasers, even in space, the speed of kinetic energy weapons is absolutely impossible to compare with lasers with current technology, and they are better than laser weapons, that is, after being launched, the attenuation of energy is lower, Theoretically, as long as it is not affected by the strong gravitational circle or does not collide with other substances, it can fly forever without limit.

Therefore, the forward fleet fires with kinetic weapons, even if all the shells may be dodged by the Sijing starship due to the problem of bullet speed, it can also interfere with or even affect the operation of the Sijing fleet.

However, the Sijing fleet did not evade the shells that covered the route of their fleet, and of course, because of this relationship, the original plan was to cover the direction of the entire fleet, including the shells where they might evade, and only two or three lucky ones could really hit them.

The GDI Forward Fleet didn't expect the first wave of artillery bombardment to achieve results, especially the clone officers who were responsible for commanding the Advance Fleet, they knew very well how powerful the 450mm railgun of the Higra-class destroyer was - the 600mm railgun of the Kodiak-class battle cruiser could not destroy the enemy with one shot, and those 450mm were naturally even more impossible, and it was impossible to let the 450mm railgun shells destroy the Sijing starship with a shield, without firing a dozen or dozens of rounds.

The smallest destroyer gunship of the Sijing people is more than 400 meters long, which is a big circle larger than the 300-meter-long Higra class, and the two Kodiak-class battlecruisers that can really destroy the Sijing starship in a short period of time have to be those two Kodiak-class battle cruisers, even if they are old models, but the power of the 600 mm railgun and the coaxial pulse laser cannon is still quite good.

Sure enough, the results brought by those two or three lucky ones after hitting the Sijing Starship were just to make its shield appear under the high-speed impact, and then disappear in an instant, at most it only consumed some of the starship's shield energy.

The forward fleet was not discouraged, the fleet maintained the highest retreat speed while methodically firing a second wave of artillery bombardment, and at the same time, the eight Higra-class destroyers also fired their most powerful weapons at the incoming Sijing fleet, each ship had four space torpedoes - can also be called super heavy anti-ship missiles - a total of thirty-two, two Kodiak-class did not fire such weapons, they just continued to fire long-range fire with magnetic rail guns and medium laser cannons, and led the destroyers to retreat at a constant speed.

The Sijing people also opened fire, which was fired by three planetary assault motherships, several beams streaked through space, and several fires lit up - the space torpedo that the Higra-class destroyer had just launched was destroyed by the beam and exploded.

However, unlike in the past, the beam was swept through the torpedo group, and in the past, thirty-two heavy anti-ship missiles would have been intercepted by at least a third under such an interception, but this time, a few beams appeared, and only a few space torpedoes were intercepted in advance - the torpedoes strengthened by Dr. Kane were no longer targets that could be easily destroyed.

With thickened shells, high-temperature resistant materials, mirror treatment on the surface of the projectile body, and upgraded engines, the new space torpedo is bigger, heavier, faster, and more costly. These 30-meter-long, so-called torpedoes, can only carry 12 of these Higra-class missiles, three at each launchport, and the loading is very slow, and it basically takes three minutes to complete the reloading with automatic loading equipment.

However, these new super-heavy missiles, which seem to have a good effect, in addition to not being swept away by the beam weapons of the Sijing people, most of the losses are carried out, but also at a speed of almost 60 kilometers per second, and finally after five seconds of acceleration, the speed is constant at 300 kilometers per second before the acceleration stops, and fly towards the Sijing fleet by inertia.

So the destroyer gunship also fired, just like the previous forward fleet covered the route of the Sijing fleet with kinetic energy shells, a large number of plasma clusters also covered the route of the space torpedo, the hit rate of the plasma weapon may not be as accurate as the directed energy weapon, but the fire control system of the Sijing people will definitely be more advanced than the human one, so these space torpedoes, in the process of breaking through, were still destroyed one by one on the way.

However, the purpose of the forward fleet has been achieved, they are not here to fight hard with the Sijing fleet, their role is only to provide trouble for the advance of the Sijing fleet.

Just as the Sijing people had intercepted all the space torpedoes, a pillar of blue light swept over their fleet—the orbital ion guns deployed in the other direction had already adjusted their firing angles and fired at full power into the planned area.

The three Destroyer gunboats were swept by the pillar of light, and the shield was instantly overloaded, and after the hull emitted a fierce firelight, it exploded into three huge fireballs!

A planetary assault carrier was also swept by a pillar of light, and after a few milliseconds of a shield that was slightly more powerful than the Destroyer gunship, the same overload disappeared, and the hull of the ship was directly exposed to the ion beam, and the parts covered by the beam were also evaporated in milliseconds!

The pillar of light disappeared, and even if it was fired at full power, the energy output of the orbital ion cannon could not last long, and like the pulsed laser cannon, the energy was released instantaneously in a very short time. Once the energy is released, the shooting will naturally stop.

Although the planetary assault carrier that was swept by the ion cannon did not completely explode, it was not much better, almost half of the front body of the entire hull had disappeared at this time, the engine had stopped working, a large amount of golden liquid wafted from the broken fracture, and large strands of flames erupted from the cabin - even if it was not destroyed on the spot, this planetary assault mothership was equivalent to the end.

Under this blow, the Sijing fleet lost nearly half of its combat strength, and the GDI forward fleet that had just retreated, at the same time as the artillery bombardment ended, stopped retreating and began to accelerate forward, and at the same time, more fierce artillery fire continued to beckon towards the half-crippled fleet of the Sijing people.

Two Destroyer gunships rushed to the front of the fleet at high speed, blocking the human artillery fire for the half-hulled planetary assault mothership, while the other Destroyer gunship stuck to the half-remnant planetary assault mothership, seemingly intending to pick up the survivors from the starship.

And the other two intact planetary assault motherships began to cast the unmanned fighters they carried - the human fleet, especially the Iron Eagle fleet, the air defense capability is quite strong, the laser artillery fire is accurate and ruthless, and it is difficult for the Sijing people's bee light unmanned fighters to break through its fleet air defense network to attack the human starships, even if they finally succeed in breaking through, the light combat power with heavy losses is powerless to cause significant damage to the human starships, which is why the Sijing people did not dispatch those light numbers at the beginning, However, the firepower is seriously insufficient light unmanned fighters to attack the GDI forward fleet.

Now, though, they need to sacrifice those light fighters to buy them the opportunity to pick up the crew of the damaged starship.

And how could humans give them that opportunity? As soon as they saw the movement of the Sijing people, the forward fleet simply concentrated its long-range firepower on the half of the planetary assault mothership. Although it has two Destroyer gunships to use as shields, the two Destroyer gunboats will not be able to buy it much time after the forward fire is concentrated, and they will be destroyed together.

At this time, it seems that even if the fleet directly under the General Headquarters does not participate in the battle, the forward fleet alone can achieve victory.