From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 223: Stop the fight (6000 chapters, the battle is over)
The importance of electronic warfare in combat in this era is self-evident.

Whether it's a conventional battle on the ground or a fleet battle in space.

Electronic warfare is a very important part of combat.

Therefore, whether it is the Federation or the Star Dragon Empire, even if it is a business alliance that focuses on trade activities and remains neutral for a long time, it spares no effort to develop the electronic warfare capabilities of the military.

In addition to conventional means such as electronic reconnaissance and electronic countermeasures, electronic warfare viruses with adaptive and independent offensive capabilities are also one of the most active electronic warfare means currently.

In view of the extremely offensive and dangerous nature of electronic warfare viruses, all parties have also imposed control on electronic warfare viruses at the same level as thermonuclear weapons.

Taking the Federation as an example, the G series and T series electronic warfare viruses most commonly used in the military are strictly sealed and absolutely prohibited from leaking out.

And in order to prevent these electronic warfare virus samples from being captured by hostile forces, we can find ways to defend or even crack them based on their compilation characteristics.

These military electronic warfare viruses have the ability to self-destruct.

Once the attack instructions are completed, or if an abnormality is discovered in the environment, these electronic warfare viruses with certain intelligence will immediately destroy themselves, leaving not even a byte behind.

Amidst the curses of the Timler family pilot, the blue beam swept away the small gravel and flew into pieces. At the moment when 'lock lost' popped up on the screen all over the sky, the HCP It jumped out from the back of the asteroid rubble.

But a real third party.

Most of the HCP pilots' attention was attracted by Amber just now.

"Damn it! Hit me!"

Even the HCP pilots who were chasing Amber felt a hint of envy in their hearts.

A Dragon Knight from the HCP squadron of the Timler family destroyer was firing continuously with an electromagnetic rifle and the electromagnetic reconnection cannon and charged particle cannon on the weapon rack on its back.

It is precisely because of the strict defense of the military in various countries in this regard that civilian armed forces do not have decent electronic warfare viruses at all.

Even if a commander occasionally picks it up, they only perform some basic routines such as electronic fraud and electronic countermeasures.

Then he continued to maneuver in the complex environment of the asteroid belt, maneuvering with ease, avoiding his attacks as gracefully as a dance.

A set of electronic warfare antennas has been deployed on the large backpack on the side of the main propulsion array on the back of the experimental MK1.

"Did we hit the wrong person?"

During the teaching process, he was so meticulous that he almost chewed up the techniques and fed them to them.

Because the ghostly HCP had reached his back hemisphere at some point.

But the ever-changing battlefield did not allow them to think too much.

Some private companies have also developed electronic warfare viruses, but they have no use at all in front of military ships and military equipment.

At this time, a terrifying thought occurred to the commanders of both fleets at the same time.

Using the cover of these small and medium-sized gravels, they appeared and disappeared in the fire control lock box of the enemy HCP's all-circuit screen, constantly changing positions.

In the eyes of the reconnaissance-type pilot, his teammates were like wolves among sheep, rushing into the interception defense line hastily formed by the enemy HCP.

The Timler family pilot's eyes had become irrational. He was shooting wildly, with blue beams and high-speed orange projectiles that penetrated the rod constantly sweeping across the area.

After all, who wouldn't want to be like him, riding a horse as strong as a thousand, 'flying' in the enemy's formation as if he were in an uninhabited land?
But they seemed to have forgotten that Amber was just the first punch of Atlas' attack.

Although the constant temperature system of the heavy-duty hydraulic anti-gravity suit was operating at full capacity, sweat still gathered in beads on his forehead and slid down his cheeks.

Unfortunately, in the fierce battle, there was no time for him to regret his mistake.

So at this moment, the Atlas pilots flexibly shuttled through this area densely covered with asteroid rubble, as if they were back at home.

So when they once again maneuvered to the upper hemisphere of the fleet and spread out their formations according to their usual training, preparing to use crossfire for defense, Atlas's HCP had already reached them.

His pupils dilated under the tension, his abdominal breathing rhythm was completely chaotic, and his whole body was constantly taking deep breaths.

Even the dullest pilot can learn a thing or two in 'Amber's Little Classroom'.

When intensive firepower struck from the zenith and quickly sank a destroyer on both sides, they finally realized that this fleet that suddenly appeared was not someone's reinforcements.

So when Amber drove the experimental MK1 and ran rampant between the warships on both sides, no ship noticed that he was quietly implanting electronic warfare viruses on them.

But the techniques for fighting in asteroid fields are universal.

Over time, in the battles of civilian armed forces, electronic warfare has gradually become a link that has been forgotten in the corner.

When the first round of fire strikes from the Atlas battleship ended, the HCPs from the two squadrons rushed down like bright comets dragging long tail flames.

"Fuck! Bastard!"

It wasn't until the combat auxiliary AI reported: "The energy storage of the superconducting battery stack has dropped to the critical point and is being recharged" that he realized what a stupid mistake he had made.

In the cockpit, the fear on the face of the Timler family HCP pilot was clearly visible through the transparent mask on his helmet.

Lilith, which is more dangerous than the military electronic warfare virus, is extending her 'tentacles' to the surrounding warships through this set of antennas.
And Amber also attracted almost everyone's attention because of his crazy behavior of running rampant on the battlefield and his extremely flamboyant body painting.

These skills summarized by the players in the game, or the ACEs who will appear in the 'future', were taught to these Atlas pilots by Amber without any secret.

In particular, the electronic warfare virus protection capabilities of battleships are simply not something that private forces can handle.

As a series of high-speed penetration rods smashed the propulsion array on his back to pieces, the dragon knight also stopped moving due to the collapse of the energy circuit.

The pilot watched helplessly as an Atlas HCP, which had been locked by the fire control system, hid on the back of an asteroid rubble the moment the charged particle beam swept past.

At this moment, the Atlas pilots finally understood Amber's good intentions in letting them train hard in the asteroid belt.

No two asteroid belts in this world are exactly the same.

But these Atlas pilots, under Amber's constant 'brainwashing', have already developed a good habit of last-hitting.

Even though the Dragon Knight had stopped moving, the Atlas pilot still rewarded it with a shot from the electromagnetic reconnection cannon.

The anti-HCP warhead, which carried huge kinetic energy, exploded immediately after hitting the target, directly blasting the dragon knight's torso into parts.

Seeing the human tissue floating out from the pile of debris quickly turning into 'popsicles' in the cold space, the Atlas HCP, which had completed the crash confirmation, once again dragged away its tail flames.

Scenes like this kept happening in this combat area. Atlas pilots who had learned in Amber's "Master Class" efficiently turned one enemy HCP after another into plasma fireballs.

The enemy pilot's desperate cry before his death echoed over the entire battlefield through the communication channel.

However, this did not stop Atlas's HCP attack squadron from sweeping across the battlefield like a scythe of death.

At the same time, Lilith, who had completed infiltration of the target ship, also activated all electronic warfare viruses without mercy.

On the surviving enemy warships on the battlefield, the warning sound of the shipboard control personality sounded at the same time.

"Warning, electronic warfare virus has been detected and countermeasures are being carried out."

At the same time that they issued the alarm, they fell into a confrontation with Lilith's specially designed electronic warfare virus.

In order to prevent these never-before-seen electronic warfare viruses from infecting the entire ship.

The shipboard control personality had to reallocate computing power and built a barrier in the virtual space.

In doing so, they also lost the ability to monitor the various subsystems of the ship, and even the gunners lost the AI ​​bombardment correction in high-pressure situations.

Unfortunately, neither the shipboard control personality, nor the captain and fleet command who are fighting the electronic warfare virus know that this resistance is futile.

Even if the shipboard control personality concentrates the computing power, it will only delay it for some more time.

"Report! Received instructions from the Boss's dedicated machine! Sent to the captain's seat!"

Just as the Atlas fleet continued to close the distance and was about to start the second salvo, the flagship Hermes received a message from Amber.

Hearing the tactical information coordinator's voice, Cleaves immediately opened the new message that popped up on the virtual screen.

"Before the opponent fully reacts, attack quickly!!!
The original battle plan remains unchanged!

Let the HCP squadron take out the last two frigates.

Our warships give priority to focusing fire on the opponent's remaining destroyers, making them lose their ability to counterattack.

After closing the distance, release the heavy assault cabins and armored assault boats to attack the enemy light cruiser!

Tell everyone, especially those marines, that the reward plan formulated before the war is still in effect, and the reward for capturing the light cruiser is doubled! "

After reading the information, Cliffs had a deeper understanding of his boss.

Everyone was dancing on the line of fire, and there was still time to assign tasks.

"It's so scary, this guy."

Of course, Cliffs sighed, he still resolutely carried out Amber's orders.

Soon, the latest combat instructions were quickly issued through the communication devices of the five warships.

Compared to Amber sending commands directly, it is obviously more appropriate to let a higher-power battleship-level communication unit do this.

As the lights on the entire ship went out for a moment, and the ship's hull also trembled, the Atlas fleet's second salvo ended.

In this round, in addition to the main gun fire of the five warships, the two Dragoon-class destroyers with more sufficient energy supply also fired five consecutive rounds of electromagnetic reconnection cannons.

A few seconds later, a series of fire burst out in the distance, followed by two huge blue-white fireballs that lit up the universe.

This shows that this round of salvos killed two more destroyers of the opponent.

Since the warring parties in the distance were still struggling to fully react, they still faced the attack direction of the Atlas fleet with the top deck of the battleship.

Without the protection of a deflection force field, the battleship's armor structure can only withstand weapons such as charged particle cannons and high-energy lasers.

Even the most wealthy military and shipyards still have to consider costs when designing ships.

The omnidirectional 360° defense with no blind spots is called a battle fortress.
And even in a battle fortress, due to the existence of the plasma propulsion array, it is impossible for the deflection force field to cover the location of the propulsion unit.

That's why the designers placed almost all defenses on the bow of the ship as the 'attack surface'. In this direction, the projected area of ​​the battleship is also smaller.

In this case, they faced the near-vertical strike of the heavy penetrating rod fired by the electromagnetic reconnection cannon, as well as the firing of the battleship's main gun.

There is no way the top armor can be removed. After all, this place was not designed to resist artillery.

"We were fooled"

On the bridge of the Financial Freedom, Antonio looked gloomy.

Even the most obtuse person will realize this after being attacked by a third party that appears out of nowhere.

Especially when this sudden third party is beating the two parties currently fighting together.

"It's too late." Raven beside him said suddenly.

"what?"

"I said we discovered it too late, or that the other party was too patient and waited until now to start taking action."

Listening to Raven's words, Antonio looked at the five approaching destroyers on the holographic projection platform and fell silent.

The fleet's reconnaissance unit has identified the models of these warships. Although these ships are from the empire and some from the federation, at least they are all models currently in service with the navy.

Unlike the fleets of them and the Timler family, there are also many ships of the previous generation mixed in.

In particular, the two Dragoon-class destroyers marked as purple high-risk targets have crushed all ships on the field except light cruisers in terms of firepower projection.

"It's not the time to give up just yet." Antonio took stock of the units on the field that were still fighting, and said:

"This light cruiser under our feet is the biggest turnaround point."

But before he could finish these words, the bridge of the Financial Freedom suddenly fell into darkness.

All the lights and screens were turned off, leaving only the faint glow of the emergency lights on the entire bridge.

And this only means one thing, that is, the entire ship has been paralyzed by the electronic warfare virus.

"How can this be?!"

On the Timler Glory, which was also in darkness, the family fleet commander Ron Schneider was also confused.

However, when he used the weak light source of the emergency lights and saw that the crew members on the bridge and CIC were looking at him, he forced himself to calm down.

"Eighty percent of the shipboard controller's personality has been contaminated, take out the core and conduct physical isolation!

Try to switch to the backup system, enable the backup power supply, and switch all subsystems of the ship to manual operation mode!

Notice and let all surviving warships do this! "

"But sir, our internal and external communications have been cut off." The communications soldier said with some confidence.

"Then why are you still sitting here? Run to each cabin to notify! As for other warships, try using light signals. I don't know if they can complete the translation in time."

"Yes! Your lord!"

Just when the CIC crew members were preparing to physically go to each cabin to notify the order because the electronic equipment in the ship was temporarily disabled.

The main screens on the bridges of all surviving battleships on the battlefield lit up at the same time.

A text message also appeared on the screen.

The white text on a black background looks extremely eye-catching in the dim environment.

“Dear friends, I regret to intervene and interrupt the fight between you.

Because your battle area is in our company's exclusive mining area, your fighting has seriously affected the safety of our mining operations.

At the same time, because of your fighting, the mining environment in the asteroid belt has been severely damaged, and our company's mining progress this quarter has also been greatly affected.

Based on the above two points, our company will take coercive measures against units in the warring area. We hope you will give up resistance and not engage in unnecessary resistance."

After reading this message and seeing 'Atlas Public Relations Department' written at the end of the message.

The fleet commanders on the two flagships laughed angrily.

But before they could laugh a few words, they heard several dull 'dong-dong' sounds coming from other areas of the ship.

This was followed by a crackling explosion.

The crew members with more combat experience on the ship immediately recognized the sound of the heavy assault cabin crashing through the outer armor plate and using shrapnel to clear the interior of the impact area.

They were fooled by each other.

However, for the crews on the two light cruisers of the Timler family, this was not the first time they encountered gang jumping in this battle.

Because they were given special attention, the two light cruisers had been bumped into by several assault cabins of the combined fleet.

Until the entire ship was captured by the electronic warfare virus, the defense forces on the ship were still fighting fiercely with the other party's Marines.

"It's good now, we can watch dog bite dog."

Some older crew members with a bigger heart had such funny thoughts popping up in their minds at such a critical moment.

It's a pity that the performance of the Atlas Marines is destined to 'disappoint' them.

"Up, up, up!"

"Mengton! Press them down and beat them!"

The muzzle flash and the continuous ballistic trajectory illuminated the dim internal passage of the ship.

Pulling the heavy shield connected to the fixed bolt behind the shoulder to the front and back, Telak looked at the position of the enemy ahead through the infrared imaging observation window on the shield.

On one hand, he held a firearm that was larger than a human weapon and fired.

The strong hand muscles and the assistance of the exoskeleton allowed him to easily complete the operation of pressing the gun with one hand.

Even with this fully automatic shotgun, there is no need to consider shooting accuracy too much at close range.

Behind him, Monton was carrying an electromagnetic machine gun and pouring firepower directly forward.

Since it was the first time to engage in actual gang-hopping combat, and the tactical goal was to suppress the enemy ships as quickly as possible.

Therefore, the Roma Marines did not carry cold weapons and adopted "traditional gang-hopping" close-range hand-to-hand combat.

Instead, he went straight to powerful weapons.

The 'Crazy Crocodile A1' combat exoskeleton they wore was carefully designed by Eugene. In addition to providing full protection, it also added an electromagnetic clinging function to the foot walking device.

In an emergency situation when a hole is opened in the battleship, these marines can be firmly fixed on the floor of the passage and will not be carried out by the escaping airflow.

At this time, corpses wearing exoskeletons were floating around them.

Judging from the markings on the exoskeletons, these people are Yaoguang Defense mercenaries and armed personnel from Mary Bay Industries.

After completing the gang-hopping, it took almost no time for the Roma people to kill these enemies who were attacked from both sides after entering the interior of the ship.

Then relying on the superior firepower, the Marines, who were the ship's defense force, were also suppressed behind the mobile shields and bunkers.

Such a scene was happening on three light cruisers on the battlefield at the same time.

Their strong physiques, extensive tactical training, and excellent equipment made these Roma attacks extremely efficient within the ship.

Although everyone in the bridge was unable to grasp the battle situation inside the ship in time after the ship's electronic system was offline.

But the approaching gunshots and wails also let them know that their defensive strength might not be able to hold on for long.

While the Atlas Marines launched an offensive inside the ship, the HCP attack squadron on the battlefield was not idle either.

When the enemy HCPs were paralyzed one after another under the attack of the electronic warfare virus, this battle no longer had any suspense.

The pilots of the HCP squadron who had been captured by Murat and Louis were currently doing the same job as their squadron leader - using carbon fiber ropes to pull back the enemy HCPs that were about to drift out of the battlefield one by one.

At this moment, the asteroid belt, which was a mess just now, became extremely quiet.

Under Lilith's unreasonable wide-area electronic warfare virus attack, enemy units on the battlefield were trapped in a dilemma where their systems were forced offline.

The close-range firepower jointly commanded by the air defense commander and the adaptive fire control system has also been silenced.

This battle seems to have entered a stage where Atlas combat units are waiting to clean up the battlefield.

"Master! I found an abnormal electromagnetic signal!"

When Amber controlled the experimental MK1 to patrol the battlefield, Lilith's serious voice with a hint of doubt rang in his ears.

"Where?"

"The precise position was not captured. The signal just appeared suddenly and then disappeared. If the electromagnetic wave detection array on the asteroid base had not been put into use some time ago, I might have missed this signal."

Lilith's words made Amber frown. At this juncture, the sudden appearance of the electromagnetic wave signal was not a good sign.

"It's okay to have an approximate location. I'll go over and take a look. The experimental MK1 is also capable of long-distance and high-speed navigation."

"Received! Master! The approximate direction has been synchronized to the aircraft navigation system. The straight-line distance should be about 20,000 to 30,000 kilometers!"

"Understood. Send a warning to the fleet to keep them on alert."

After saying this, Amber pressed his body tightly against the special driving seat, and several fixing devices stretched out from behind to secure him firmly.

Immediately afterwards, the experimental MK1's main propulsion array and the two auxiliary propulsion units on the legs completed deployment again and exposed more thrusters.

The Atlas combat unit, which was on alert, only saw their boss's aircraft suddenly pull out an extremely exaggerated trail, and then quickly turn into a ball of light in the distance at an outrageous speed.

(End of this chapter)