16. Fortress VS Fortress (42)

There's a classic saying in aircraft design – as long as you have enough power tubes, your desk can fly at supersonic speeds.

This easy-to-understand sentence actually extends to other fields as general, especially energy weapons, as long as the power and support system are powerful, even if it is a planet or a star, it will be cut in two for you.

Of course, the "super particle cannon" with the special unicorn cannot split the entire planet so exaggeratedly, and it will be given the prefix of "super", because it is more powerful and more efficient than the particle cannons installed by the previous mobile weapons, and it is not detached from theoretical common sense in essence. But it is still an out-and-out weapon for shelling fortress strongholds, to put it bluntly, this is a fortress cannon used by individual soldiers, and it is not a problem to bury a large warship with one blow, and according to the angle of shot, it can even destroy the entire fleet. It can be called the strongest artillery weapon that the MDS can carry.

With such incredible power, the amount of energy consumed is also staggering. A single blow can drain the large power furnace carried by the MA, and a conventional MDS requires at least a small team of airframes to meet the needs of a single launch. Such an astonishing amount of energy consumption is naturally not a continuous shot, and coupled with the long time required for procedures such as cooling and recharging, there is only one chance to launch in actual combat, and it is completely uncertain how effective it will be. In the end, only a prototype was made, and the relevant research and development work was frozen.

Now this prototype, which should have been sealed in the warehouse of the General Armament Department, waiting to be dismantled or placed in the museum for viewing in a few years, released a flood of energy towards the Second Cruiser Detachment.

"Evade!" Full speed on both sides! 30 on the left side! 20 degrees up!"

Almost as soon as Roland opened fire, Parsifal let out the loudest roar since he joined the army.

As a young officer who admired rational thinking and disdained "mental combat power", Parsifar had always dismissed the word "intuition". When watching detective dramas or reasoning, whenever there is a joke about solving a case with intuition, he can't help but complain with a poisonous tongue, just like an awkward child. Of course, this did not prevent the boyish young officer from asking the cohabiting orc woman for another cup of black tea with brandy so that he could "sleep peacefully".

Parsifal doesn't trust intuition.

If the officer's instincts are correct, all cases should be closed reasonably.

If the military man's instincts are correct, all battles should be won.

At the end of the day, "intuition" in areas other than logic and theory is not an area that Parsifal understands and excels at.

However, as a pinprick chill pierced through his spine and brain, Parsifal obeyed his instincts and gave the order faster than ever.

The helmsman slammed the steering wheel to the ground with all his might, and the Lund Bell quickly pulled upwards, and the ship that followed closely behind, even though they did not understand the significance of the flagship's emergency maneuver, did so, and they were able to save their lives.

After absorbing all the mana stored by the unicorn and converting it into charged particle energy, after eight stages of constriction and acceleration, the energy torrent is liberated and burst out from the magnetic field constraints.

The battlefield around the white body was instantly painted a blinding blue-white by the glare, and the scorching rush passed by the fleet, and the scattered particles and fragments hit the surface of the armor, leaving mottled red spots.

"Missed?"

The deputy captain's voice was nervous and obviously relieved, as long as he was not hit, no matter how powerful it was, it was meaningless.

"No...... right"

Parsifal rejected Lieutenant Colonel Edelman's statement in an even more anxious voice, and without waiting for the first mate to ask further questions, the whole battlefield was stunned.

The one-meter-diameter pillar of light swept past the starboard side of the fleet and did not disappear, and the continuous illumination of the pillar of light tore through the air and ablated the earth, and the pillar of light connecting the sky and the earth pressed towards the fleet that was maneuvering to evade.

"This isn't a particle cannon...... Is it a beam saber?"

In response to Parsifal's exclamation, the huge blade with a total length of 7 kilometers cut through the air and the earth, and the continuous high heat caused the air to expand and explode, the hard ground turned into lava, and the rising and explosive hot air formed turbulence, and the two squadrons surrounding the "unicorn" did their best just to get rid of the turbulence and not fall out of control. The originally airtight encirclement network fell apart in an instant. But no one has time to pay attention to these trivial matters.

"Avoid! Avoid!"

"It's too late!"

"All ready to take the impact!"

"Sound the collision alarm!"

The Second Cruiser Squadron had lost its unified command at this moment, and the coordinated maneuvers had turned into chaos in which each could escape as best they could. Finally, the strict training and sanity on weekdays are still in play, and no one panicked and crashed headlong into the ship, or abandoned the ship with an umbrella bag on his back to escape.

But in the face of what happened next, these bright spots seemed insignificant.

A 7-kilometer-long straight line, as long as one end of the line moves 1 degree, the other end will also draw a huge arc. The light cruiser prides itself on its high speed, but at this moment, the captains only feel that the battleship running at full speed under their feet is as sluggish and slow as a snail. Their eyes widened in horror as the blue-white light pressed against them.

Flashes of light burst out one after another, and after a full 3 seconds of irradiation, the beam of light quickly depleted and finally disappeared. Leaving only a bunch of floating light cruisers with smoke in their tails slowly falling to the ground.

The Lund Bell was the only ship undamaged, and the beam of light was just as close to hitting the stern of the squadron's flagship ship, at which point the energy ran out. The crew members who were scared out of a cold sweat only had time to breathe a sigh of relief, and the joy of the rest of their lives was immediately washed away by the damage report from the wingship.

Starboard armor is broken, airtight leaks - this is still within the predicted range, and in the face of high-heat particle beams, carburized armor steel is nothing more than papier-mΓ’chΓ© stuff, and it is a pipe dream to hope that it will be safe and sound. Only one side of the armor plate was ablated and damaged, and the airtight structure leaked, which was already an extraordinary luck under the care of the mother goddess.

The next report brought the atmosphere of the entire bridge to the bottom.

- The ships were unable to steer and requested an emergency landing.

The starboard steering gear of the four light cruisers was so badly damaged that it could not be expected to continue the formation battle, and the Lund Bell alone could not form a barrage sufficient to force the enemy ships to deviate from course.

The 2nd Cruiser Squadron was already in a state of collapse at this moment, and in the face of the unsightly and miserable situation in the rear, it was as strong and steady as Lieutenant Colonel Edelman, and it could not help but fall into terror and could not extricate itself.

"How could it be ......?"

"The intelligence work was insufficient, the courage and technology of the enemy were underestimated, and it can be said that the defeat was not unjust at all. ”

Parsifal dusted off his hat and put it back on.

"Order all ships to seize the time to carry out damage management operations and restore navigation capability as soon as possible. In addition, urgently contact the Iserlohn Battery Command and ask the battery garrison to immediately prepare for the infiltration of airborne and small forces. The enemy is about to begin the final phase of the battle. ”