Chapter 722: A fierce battle is in full swing
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You must know that in this era of interstellar civilization, the faster-than-light warships equipped by various civilizations, generally speaking, in order to fully guarantee combat effectiveness, the warships usually do not make the size too large, so as to avoid many drawbacks such as lack of maneuverability. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
But even so, in order to carry a large number of indispensable combat systems and equipment, a faster-than-light warship usually needs to reach the scale of thousands of meters long and hundreds of meters wide and high.
Those powerful interstellar civilizations with relatively high technical strength and sufficient experience in the design and production of warships can fully tap the potential of warships, and the warships they are equipped with are generally thousands of meters long, nearly thousands of meters wide and high, and sometimes even tens of thousands of meters of warship length is not uncommon.
After all, under normal circumstances, as long as the design and production are reasonable and the drawbacks caused by the excessive size of the battleship are avoided, the warship of the same technical generation will inevitably follow the basic logic that the larger the battleship, the stronger the strength, as long as there is no great disadvantage in speed and size, generally speaking, the larger the battleship, the more combat effectiveness.
The larger the warship, not only can it be equipped with more necessary equipment and equipment, but also can be loaded with more fuel, pills, consumable parts and other materials that are indispensable for continuous combat, and at the same time, they can also carry a larger number and more powerful attack weapons, more advanced, higher power, and larger scale auxiliary combat equipment, etc., these all-round advantages, in exchange for a more powerful and offensive combat power, not only strong combat effectiveness, but also the ability to resist attacks will be more powerful.
The space-time jump ship of the Earth civilization is relatively not too large a warship, but the length is also three thousand meters long, the limit width and height have reached the level of two thousand meters, and the average width and height are also nearly a thousand meters long.
Such a battleship size, converted into the battlefield environment between the current earth battleship and the steel battlestar, even if the full protection of the energy shield is lifted, and the attack with a penetration level of about 100 meters is attacked, even if it is shot in the most critical part, it is easy not to kill the earth battleship with two or three attacks, and as long as the battleship is not injured again after being injured, it still has a chance to retreat and correct.
This fully illustrates how weak the attack power of the Earth Battleship's faster-than-light cannon is in the current battlefield environment.
But if you change the speed of light attack weapon of the Iron Battlestar, the result is a completely different situation, if the Earth Battleship is lucky enough to avoid the attack of the Iron Battlestar, it will be fine, once it is hit, the result is simply miserable, it is really a death and bruise, none of them can be slightly injured in the line of fire, the slightly better ones are moderately disabled, and the serious ones are directly exploded, and most of the Earth Battleships that were directly attacked were dragged to the rear with more serious damage.
The reason why under the same level of technology, the Earth Fleet's faster-than-light attack weapons are so weak and powerless, even attacking warships of the same scale is not lethal, and it doesn't hurt to hit the body of the Iron Battlestar, and can only cause some small piercing injuries below a depth of 100 meters, while the Hyperluminal Weapon of the Iron Battlestar hits the body of the Earth Battleship, but it is full of power, but the biggest reason for this is because there is a huge difference in the size of the faster-than-light cannon between the enemy and us.
The space-time jump spaceship of the earth civilization is quite limited in size, the length of the battleship is only three thousand meters long, and the specifications of the corresponding superlight cannon equipped on it are naturally strictly limited, and the tonnage of the battleship, energy supply efficiency and many other aspects limit the power of the superlight cannon, and it is impossible to make the power of the superlight cannon exceed the upper limit.
But relatively speaking, the restrictions of the Iron Battlestar in this regard are too small, the Iron Battlestar is a super behemoth, the size is not much smaller than that of ordinary planets, and the mass is several times that of ordinary planets, although a battlestar has millions of faster-than-light weapons installed on the surface of the star, but because the battlestar is too large and has a great carrying capacity, each faster-than-light cannon can still be designed and manufactured in an open way.
In terms of size alone, the faster-than-light cannon on a steel battlestar is more than ten times larger than that on an Earth battleship, and this difference in power is naturally a natural thing.
Just like the same black powder weapons, those early front-loading guns only have a range of a few hundred meters, and a shot may not be able to kill people, but the artillery that uses black powder can have a range of several kilometers at every turn, and it can make people fall apart and die in an instant when they hit people, and the coastal defense guns with huge calibers can have a range of more than ten kilometers.
Therefore, it is actually a very normal thing to say that the power of the superluminal cannon of the earth battleship is insufficient, and it is not a crime of war at all! The steel battlestar superlight weapon of the same specification is actually not superior to the power of the earth battleship at all.
But things on the battlefield are always based on the effect, and no one cares how many reasons you have behind it.
At least in terms of the battle situation between the two sides at this moment, the Earth Fleet is solid and has the upper hand.
Although the two sides are fighting back and forth, the Iron Battlestar is not losing strength, even if it has endured countless attacks, but the energy shield has to be held up again and again but has to be converged again and again, although the surface of the Battlestar has to be damaged again and again because of the energy shield's inability to defend from time to time, resulting in the alloy armor having to withstand damage again and again, but in general, the Iron Battlestar has always only suffered a little skin trauma, and has been consumed a little energy and insignificant resources.
Even because of the armor alloy smelting production line inside the battlestar, while fighting with the earth battleship, the steel battlestar also calmly dispatched a large number of maintenance robots to repair some battle-damaged potholes on the surface of the battlestar in a timely manner. Although even with this continuous repair, there are more and more damaged potholes on the surface of those Battle Stars, but this is a fact that the foundation of Iron Battle Star has not been damaged.
It can be said that as long as the battlestar is given a little time to recover, this steel battlestar can easily repair all the damage it has suffered by consuming some of its reserve resources.
However, the camp of the earth civilization on the other side, in order to confront the Iron Battlestar, consumes the most precious and expensive super combat equipment every moment, and countless space-time jumping ships are like mosquitoes sprayed with insecticides in the face of the continuous super-light attacks of the Iron Battlestar.
In a short period of time, a wave of attacks is the casualty of several space-time jump spaceships, but after a little time, batches of damaged warships are superimposed, and the number is by no means a small number, hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of ships have to fill in the bottomless abyss of the battlefield in batches, but the steel battlestar has never changed much, it is nothing more than a fine pockmark, which is not painful at all, it is simply chilling.
It can be said that under this constantly sloping battlefield pattern, the Earth Fleet will only suffer more and more serious damage under the constant and consistent artillery bombardment of the Iron Battlestar, and finally the Iron Battlestar will occupy a comprehensive combat advantage and create more huge casualties.
You must know that it is precisely by virtue of the superiority of the number of fleets that the Earth Fleet can continuously consume the energy of the steel battle star, so that the battle star must maintain large-scale shield support on the one hand, and on the other hand, it must constantly form wave after wave of faster-than-light counterattack.
If there is not enough numerical superiority, so that the energy loss of the Iron Battlestar is greatly reduced, the Iron Battlestar will only draw more energy, forming a larger-scale faster-than-light attack, causing more huge casualties to the Earth Fleet in an attack wave, once the scale of casualties becomes larger, entering a vicious circle, even if the Earth civilization continues to increase new reinforcements on the battlefield, it will be consumed sooner or later.
It can be said that under such a combat situation, the earth civilization consumes a huge price, and loses a large number of space-time jump spaceships every moment, and the biggest result is actually just a little delay for the battle star, and does not let the battle star launch the space-time jump at the first time and break into the territory of the earth civilization.
This is one of the most unbreakable truths in this cruel universe, a weak civilization and a civilization with poor technical means often have to consume dozens or even hundreds of thousands of times more than the cost to be able to achieve a little bit of success if they want to fight against a more powerful and high-end civilization.
In this extremely treacherous jungle of cosmic civilizations, weak civilizations may fall into decay or even destruction for various reasons every minute, and only by becoming stronger can they have more living space and development opportunities.
Just a steel battle star, with its own serious flaws and insufficient escort fleet, can easily contain hundreds of thousands of space-time jumping spaceships of the earth civilization, so that the earth civilization is almost helpless against it.
This is the powerful demeanor of the ancient universe-level scientific and technological civilization, even if it is only a chess piece left over from a long time ago, it is enough to make the earth civilization stand by and dare not have the slightest carelessness!
It has been a few months since this swish, and the battle between the Iron Battlestar and the Earth Fleet has been stalemate and stalemate in the back and forth, and the battle situation has not changed much, even the combat mode between the two sides has not changed much, although the subtleties of the battlefield can be called intrigue and ever-changing, but in the entire range of combat mode, the two sides have never changed much.
In the middle of the war, because the local civilization that the Iron Battlestar had attracted had gathered a considerable part of its strength, the time for the Iron Battlestar to jump into the interior of the Earth civilization was gradually ripe, and as these local civilizations concentrated too much power in the core sphere of influence of the Resistance Alliance, this unstable factor was also attracting more and more attention from the Earth civilization.
The earth's official interest in this force is getting stronger and stronger, which makes many forces within the resistance alliance feel very uneasy, and they have sent messages to the Iron Battlestar, wanting to let the Iron Battlestar come to the past as soon as possible to take the lead, otherwise, there is no Iron Battlestar, these local civilization forces are just some chickens and dogs in front of the earth's civilization, once the earth civilization really starts to act, this force that the Iron Battlestar has finally pulled out will not last long at all, I am afraid it will soon disappear!
In view of this, Iron Battlestar tried to exert heavier combat pressure on the Earth Civilization Fleet, and destroy the invading fleet of the Earth Civilization as soon as possible, so that it could also complete the charge as soon as possible and carry out the long-prepared space-time jump operation.
Therefore, Iron Battlestar once tried to change the combat mode with the Earth Civilization Fleet, and concentrated more offensive forces on a small number of Earth ships, so as to complete the rapid elimination of the Earth Fleet, after all, it is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers, Iron Battlestar still understands very well, rather than wasting a lot of energy on playing hide and seek with the Earth Fleet, it is better to relax the uninterrupted pursuit of some Earth ships, concentrate energy on some ships, and destroy this part of the Earth Warships first.
If this tactic is more effective, then it will undoubtedly end this battle as soon as possible, allowing Iron Battlestar to speed up the mission.
In the previous battle, Iron Battlestar had discovered that the Earth Fleet was not a strong threat to it, and slightly relaxed the pursuit of some ships, and Iron Battlestar thought that there should be no problems.
However, this idea turned out to be extremely wrong.
It is true that under the concentrated fire attack of the Iron Battlestar, the casualty probability of some Earth Battleships was immediately greatly increased, which greatly accelerated the speed and position of the Iron Battlestar to collect the battle results.
But the attack on some of the Earth warships was relaxed, which, in turn, caused huge losses to the Iron Battlestar.
You must know that the long-term confrontation with each other before, which made the Earth Battleship also collect a large amount of relevant information about the Iron Battlestar, and the Earth Civilization Fleet also analyzed some possible weaknesses of the Iron Battlestar, but because it was chased by the Iron Battlestar too much, the Earth Battleship had not been able to draw enough strength to complete the countermeasures against the Iron Battlestar.
However, as the Iron Battlestar changed its tactics, more and more of the Earth Battleships were set on fire, which liberated some of the other Earth Battleships, and the Earth Civilization Fleet also took the opportunity to complete a part of the counteroffensive against the Iron Battlestar.