Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 818 Battle!

The Black Fleet drove until it was only [-] kilometers away from the No. [-] Fleet - this is basically the final cordon. According to the regulations of the Ark Fleet, if a non-friendly target enters the fleet station without permission Within [-] kilometers, the captain of each ship has the right to decide whether to fire or not.

This is also to prevent the command center from being disturbed and the order not being delivered in time, causing the fighter plane to be delayed... The distance of [-] meters is already quite close for a battleship, and the plasma fired by the plasma cannon can only exceed [-] meters. It's just a blink of an eye.

Yeager had just approached his mothership "Betelgeuse" when he saw another Raven-class high-speed fighter numbered 017A flying out of the mothership's hangar.

It was Hans' landline.

Hans wasn't flying fast, and when he was heading towards Yeger, the signal light on the nose of the aircraft flashed rhythmically a few times—it was a signal to apply for laser communication.

Yeager let go of the joystick, switched the fighter to hover mode, and shot out a beam of red communication laser, which was connected to the opponent's receiver.

"The situation is worse than we expected." Hans said straight to the point, "Using that Chinese proverb, it means that those who come are not good, and those who are kind don't come..."

"What did the captain say?" Yeager asked, Hans was dispatched so late, obviously he should have communicated with the captain of "Betelgeuse".

"The captain said, don't fire unless you have to... Once you fight at this distance, even if you can win, it will be a miserable victory." Hans said.

"...Captain, isn't he confused? The other party has already opened the interference field to force us in the face. Is there still a possibility of peace talks?" Yegel frowned.

The main engine of the night owl-class high-speed fighter is powered by energy crystals, and the fuel for the external thrusters is hardly consumed. As for the ammunition, except for the hundreds of cannon shells used to straf the ground and the black fleet Except for the unguided missiles that were "exploded", there was basically no loss-Yeger simply didn't plan to return to the hangar for resupply, and stayed outside. Once the situation changed, he would react faster.

(Here is something I want to explain to everyone. I also wrote about the term "missile" before, and then some readers asked me in the comments if I was from the other side of the island. I didn't realize it at first, but then I I checked on the Internet and found out that we are called missiles here, and missiles are called missiles on the island... Here I solemnly declare that the author is not from there. As for why the missiles appearing in the article refer to missiles It uses a rocket propeller to drive the warhead warhead, a rocket without a guidance system, and a weapon similar to an RPG.)
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Inside Yagunaktor, "Frontline Supply Base".

"What? An unknown fleet?! And there's an unrecognized aircraft carrier and battleship?" Due to his busy work, the Hound didn't have time to eat lunch until three o'clock in the afternoon, and directly put aside most of the leftover lunch in his hand. He jumped down from the chair with eyes staring like copper bells.

He supported the table with one hand, turned over from behind the table and jumped to the front of the table, grabbed the shoulder of Zhuoligetu who ran in to report the news: "What's going on?"

"Four and a half minutes ago, Fleet Zero reported that there was a radio interference field covering the entire airspace, all communications and radars were affected, and fighter jets were sent in the direction of the estimated interference source for reconnaissance... As a result, a Raven A missile casually launched by the Raven-class exploded a stealthy approaching fleet... If the pilot of this Raven-class hadn’t discovered the anomaly, I’m afraid the opponent would have already driven right under our noses.”

"What about now? Has there been a fight?!" the hound asked.

"not yet."

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Outer airspace, where Fleet Zero is stationed.

More than a dozen cruisers lined up, all energy shields deployed, and various medium and long-range weapons are ready to go - as long as the black fleet gets closer to half a kilometer, a fierce exchange of fire will immediately erupt between the two sides.

"It seems that fighting is unavoidable." Yegel sighed, and suddenly lowered his voice a little, "Hans, you will find an opportunity later, you can retreat to the back, and then find an opportunity to leave the battlefield... ...Anyway, all radio communications have been cut off now, you can make up any reason after the war, those guys should not come to hold you accountable..."

"What are you talking about?!" Hans' annoyed voice sounded in the one-on-one laser communication channel.

"I have observed the configuration of this black fleet at close range. Not only is the number and level of warships a bit stronger than ours, but even the warships of the same level are more stable than us... If the big guy in the rear can't participate in the battle, we will fight No win." Yegel didn't say the remaining half of the sentence - even if "Yagunaktor" joined the battle, before that, the Zero Fleet was estimated to have suffered heavy losses.

Once the battle starts, at least half of the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Zero Fleet will die here.

Hans fell silent, and the communication channel fell into silence.

Yeager thought he had successfully persuaded Hans, and continued to persuade: "Fleet battles of this level are all confrontational bombardments, and the energy shield will collapse first, and the armor will be pierced first... let alone We are old-fashioned fighters, and even the cutting-edge variable flying mechs can’t play any role in this kind of battle, and they can only be used as cannon fodder if they stay.”

"Then why don't you run?" Hans asked back.

"I'm the captain of the air combat unit of 'Betelgeuse'. If I run away, who will command the others to fight? Besides, didn't you just get married last month? I remember your wife was just pregnant, right? Do you want you Is the child born without a father?" Yegel asked.

"Stop talking." Hans said firmly, "I will not be a deserter. If you say anything else, I will report it to the captain."

Hans, who was sitting in the cockpit, glanced at his old partner's landline 300 meters away with complicated eyes—he knew that Yeager was doing it for his own good, but this matter still broke his bottom line...

If it doesn’t work, I can only choose to put Yeger in a confinement room—as long as the "Betelgeuse" is not sunk, there is a high probability that Yeger’s life will not be in danger. As for the post-war military court trial, at least not [-]% sentenced to death.

This matter can be big or small. If it is small, it will be "issued wrong instructions to subordinates" at most.

But no matter what the situation is, it is better than driving the "Raven-class" to the opposite black fleet-Yeger is right, in this scale of combat power, their air combat troops are cannon fodder.

Even if the opponent's battleships turned off their energy shields, the Raven-class weapons could not penetrate the solid armor of these battleships.

At this moment, the aircraft carrier battleship headed by the Black Fleet suddenly fired a series of colorful signal bombs into the air.

"This is..." Yeager glanced at the flares and was stunned.

This is a communication method invented by the Ark military. When radio, sound wave and laser communication are all unavailable, and semaphore or other communication methods are also restricted, signal flares can be used to communicate with distant friendly troops. Simple A single single-color signal flare can mean "attack" or "retreat", and multiple signal flares of different colors can also piece together some short words and sentences.

"The meaning of this sentence is..." Yeager murmured, looking at the colorful trajectory of the flare in the sky.

"In our next operation, if the Zero Fleet chooses not to intervene, we will not launch an attack on the Zero Fleet." Hans continued Yegel's words-he especially liked it during his business hours. Studying this kind of thing will naturally read the meaning of the signal flare faster than Yegel.

"The next action? Let us not interfere?" Yegel looked at the Black Fleet, and then he looked back suddenly as if remembering something, "I see! Their target is not us, but It's the big guy we're guarding!"

This black fleet is heading for Yagunaktor.

In the next second, Fleet Zero launched an attack on the Black Fleet first!
The opponent's intentions are very obvious, and the purpose of the Zero Fleet since its inception was to protect "Yaguna Ketor". "I" was handed over to this mysterious and unknown fleet.

"Back quickly! Get behind the mothership! Be prepared to withstand the impact!" The experienced Yeager immediately shouted in the team channel. To the tail of "Betelgeuse".

But because of communication interference, only Hans heard his command, as for the other fighters, they still hovered around "Betelgeuse" in a daze.

Most of the pilots who fly these fighter jets are rookies who have just graduated from the Air Force Academy. They were added to Fleet Zero not long ago. Not to mention combat experience, even the number of flying hours is pitifully small.

Just when these recruits didn't know what to do because they couldn't receive orders from their superiors, the Black Fleet's counterattack had already arrived!
More than [-]% of the fighter jets were directly vaporized, and the remaining few "lucky ones" were swept in by the aftermath of the explosion, lost their balance, and slammed into the energy shield of the friendly warship, turning into A firework blooming in mid-air.

In the first round of bombardment, the air combat unit of the "Betelgeuse" cruiser, except for Yegel and Hans, the two captains and deputy captains, the rest of the fighters were wiped out.

"Alas!" Yegel angrily punched the armrest of the seat. He and Hans avoided the wave of counterattack by hiding behind the buttocks of the battleship—and those rookies who lost their lives didn't know at all. In this kind of warship battle, how insignificant is one's own fighter.

No energy shield, light armor, weak firepower... The air combat units deployed on the battleship are only used to perform low-intensity tasks such as reconnaissance or clearing a small number of indigenous creatures on the ground. On this battlefield, their presence is simply insignificant .

The reason why the aircraft carrier of the Navy in the old era was deterrent was because the nuclear warheads carried by the carrier-based aircraft had the ability to strike destructively at a long distance. It was enough to level a metropolis with hundreds or even tens of millions of people... This extreme imbalance between the spear and the shield disappeared after the energy shield was discovered.

A military expert on the Ark said that if there is a "modern war" between human beings now, it will probably become a war of attrition on the "energy level": the weapons of both sides bombard each other's energy shields, which The side whose energy shield is the first to be unable to withstand the bombardment will be defeated.

Because of the rebalancing between offensive and defensive forces, the combat mode has become more primitive compared to the middle and late period of the old era.

It's like returning to the cold weapon era overnight.

The Raven class that Yeger and the others drive is equivalent to the most "worthless" militiamen in the cold weapon era - no armor, no mounts, and the weapons are just wooden spears and short bows with extremely weak penetrating power , and those knights who are called "iron cans", even if they stand still and let the militiamen cut them down, the weapons of the militiamen cannot cause any damage to the knights through the plate armor.

To kill a knight, only the heavy lance and all-metal warhammer in the hands of the enemy knight, or big killers like bed crossbows and trebuchets.

"Yeger, are we... going to fight?" Hans asked. Although he had firmly stated just now that he would not be a deserter, after witnessing the tragic situation of other fighters, his heart was shaken a little.

Yeager was right, they stayed on this battlefield, they could do nothing but lose their lives meaninglessly.

Moreover, in the absence of radio communication with the mothership, they cannot obtain command from the mothership at any time on the battlefield, and everything can only rely on their own judgment.

In this way, the risk factor will be multiplied-not only must they avoid enemy fire, but they must also always pay attention to indiscriminate attacks from behind.

One's own battleship will not stop attacking just because friendly fighter jets are within the attack range.

"Let's wait and see..."

Before Yegel finished speaking, a dense black shadow rushed out from the black battleship.

Yeager quickly recognized that it was the enemy's remote-controlled drone, and each drone carried a large number of crystal energy bombs.

These drones have only one purpose, which is to hit the energy shield of the battleship.

"It seems that we have work to do so soon." Yegel sighed.

Although he didn't know how the other party controlled the drones under severe interference, since these things came out, they had to be dealt with by their air combat troops-the close-in defense guns of the battleship could indeed clean up these things. Self-detonating drones, but if the near-anti-aircraft guns want to sweep down these drones, they must first turn off their own energy shields.

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