Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 86 Heavy Turret
"Reporting to the commander, the Bazadi Empire's fleet has divided its forces and sent 20 destroyers and 200 frigates back to defend the capital. It should be the fleet from the Rock Republic that is attacking their capital."

"Are there 20 destroyers and 200 frigates missing..."

Qi Zhengxi thought for a while.

So now the opponent only has 80 destroyers and 400 frigates left.

But this was still a fleet number that they were almost impossible to defeat.

Even with the shield invalidation of Pulsar and the assistance of Bechi War Fortress, there is still an order of magnitude difference.

In the command room of the fortress of Beqi Space Station, Qin Xu, who had been standing next to him, lowered his head and thought for a while before saying.

"Commander, I have an idea."

It was rare that Qin Xu put forward his own ideas for the first time, and it was also the first time Qin Xu gave an "order" to Commander Qi Zhengxi.

Perhaps Qin Xu didn't even know that the suggestions he made at this moment were actually orders to Qi Zhengxi.

Qi Zhengxi said to do what he thinks is right and not to be disturbed by outsiders, but at the moment what he thinks is absolutely right is what Qin Xu wants to do.

So whatever Qin Xu's will is, Qi Zhengxi's will is also his.

"Go ahead."

"I want to convert all the turrets in the space station into heavy cannons."

Before Commander Qi Zhengxi could speak, the soldiers below immediately shook their heads and said.

"This is impossible, Captain Qin. Maybe you don't know the difference between heavy and light turrets. The attack power of light turrets is indeed not as good as that of heavy turrets, or even much worse. But heavy turrets have an absolute flaw. When the square fleet approaches and moves around, our heavy forts will be completely useless. No matter how powerful the attack power is, if it cannot hit it, it will still be..."

However, Qin Xu had no special expression on this, and just said lightly: "The range of heavy turrets is much longer than that of light and medium turrets, right?"

Qi Zhengxi looked at the other party seriously and nodded.

"Yes, the range of a heavy turret is three times that of a light turret, and twice that of a medium turret."

"If I remember correctly, destroyers can only carry medium-sized turrets at most, right?"

Qin Xu asked.

The light, medium, and heavy turrets here are different from the main guns and secondary guns mentioned before.

The main battery of the frigate is still a light battery, while the secondary battery is the lightest of the light.The destroyer's main battery is a medium battery, and the secondary battery is a light battery.

This increases upwards.

Qi Zhengxi said: "That's right."

"So that means that the moment the enemy fleet appears, our heavy artillery here can directly hit the opponent from the space station across half the galaxy. And the main gun on the opponent's destroyer cannot reach it at that time us."

"Yes."

Qi Zhengxi still said

The soldier interjected: "But even so, our heavy artillery can only fire three or four rounds at most, and then the space station will reach the attack range of the opponent's destroyer. And then the opponent starts to circle around, and it is difficult for our heavy artillery to catch up. It increases the opponent's circling speed, and the hit rate drops significantly. So what if these three or four rounds of attacks are ahead of the enemy? It is difficult to hit at such a long distance, and it becomes even harder to hit when you get close."

However, Qi Zhengxi had automatically filtered what the soldiers said.

He looked at Qin Xu with a serious expression, as if he had already guessed what Qin Xu wanted to say next.

Qin Xu looked at him and nodded, then looked at the soldier and said.

"What if all our space station-level heavy main guns are hit by these three or four salvos of preemptive attacks?"

"All, all hits?" The soldier was startled by Qin Xu's words, and for a moment he didn't dare to think whether such a situation would really happen.

The space station is much more powerful on paper than the ship.

The most important point is that the space station is large enough to accommodate enough turrets, armor and shield generators.

In this way, the space station becomes a super war fortress with high attack power and thick health.

But the most important reason why space is looked down upon by others no matter how high its combat effectiveness is is that the space station cannot dodge.

In a space war, the most powerful thing is precisely how to hit the opponent. This is also the fleet's advantage over the space station fortress.

A large group of frigates can kill a space station countless times more powerful with almost no damage.

The space station can only knock out a few in the first salvo, and then it will be in a situation of being passively beaten.

However, if the first round of heavy turret salvos from the space station were all hit, all this would be reversed.

To put it simply, the only difference between the current Bech Space Station and a battleship is that the space station cannot move.

All configurations of the space station were configured according to their final vision of a battleship class configuration.

After a brief hesitation, or not hesitation, but just a brief excitement, Qi Zhengxi immediately issued an order to everyone——

Fully remodeled Betsey Space Station.

Remove all light and medium turrets on the space station and replace them with heavy blue laser cannons.

Under the final concept, Beqi War Fortress will abandon the shield and be fully armored.

Because in the pulsar environment, all shields are invalid.

And because the shield is ineffective, laser weapons can also be used to their full potential. Lasers have an additional 50% efficiency bonus when attacking armored defenses, and can deal 150% damage.

At this moment, the Bechi War Fortress was all replaced with heavy laser cannons.

Looking around, on the entire giant war fortress, thick cannon barrels were pointed in one direction. That was the only hyperspace exit from the Fate and Alpha systems to the Bechi system.

"You can't go in."

"Let me in, I must go in. I am the chief engineer of Beqi Space Station and the person in charge here. Why can't I enter?"

Suddenly, there was a loud noise outside the command room of Beqi Space Station.

Hearing the familiar voice, Qin Xu looked up and saw Fu Guodong barging in.

Seeing Qin Xu's appearance, Qi Zhengxi knew that Qin Xu knew him, so he waved his hand and asked the soldiers to let him in.

"Commander, Commander Qi... Are you Commander Qi?"

Fu Guodong walked in a little crazy, and after a few steps he knelt on the ground. Looking at Commander Qi Zhengxi, tears flowed down again.

"it's me."

Qi Zhengxi was a little confused. The other party seemed to be particularly excited when he saw him, but he felt that he had done nothing.

"Commander Qi Zhengxi was probably the first to release the news for us to evacuate. For this reason, he was imprisoned for violating military discipline. Unfortunately, in the end, I still couldn't save my two unworthy and unfilial ones. The son was rescued..."

Fu Guodong said, his voice choked with sobs, but he really couldn't lose his temper with the person in front of him.

It would be better to say that the other party was the one who almost saved them, but it was a pity that his two children never paid attention to this matter and kept putting it off until the end and never came out again.

(End of this chapter)