The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 294 The real space battle (2)

As the distance gets closer, the disposable radar detector structures that were launched before have almost reached their positions. At this time, they are activated one after another under the control and command of the space synapse structure.

The first active radar wave reverberated, and the enemy ship that carried out probabilistic cloud maneuvers based on targeting interference at the optical and infrared signal levels immediately found itself nowhere to hide. Lin Yi, who received the echo signal, determined its current position.

In an instant, the most saturated firepower poured out - before that, Lin Yi specifically asked all the main stars to temporarily cease fire in order to seize this fleeting opportunity and pour out the maximum firepower like now.

On the side of the main star's body, four X-ray laser secondary cannons installed at the ends of specialized appendages fired first. The four high-energy beams were focused on one point and shot towards the enemy ship at the speed of light.

Immediately, the X-ray laser main cannon, which was arranged along the central axis of the body and fired at a position equivalent to the mouth in a sense, followed closely behind and fired simultaneously in the direction of the four secondary cannons.

Almost instantly, plasma bloomed on the surface of the enemy ship's Whipple-like shield spaced armor. It was emitted by the four secondary guns focused on one place. Although it was slightly inferior to the main gun, it was enough to destroy this layer of spaced armor. damage.

Then, there was no obstacle, and the high-energy X-rays fired by the main gun drove straight in, shining directly on the main armor part of the enemy ship. Immediately, another ball of plasma bloomed, but this time, it was more gorgeous.

Plasma and shock waves raged inside the main shell of the enemy ship, causing horrific damage. In an instant, the enemy ship was severely damaged. It could basically be judged that it had lost its combat capability, which was no different from being destroyed.

Since the technology to defend against the plasma instantaneously produced by directed energy weapons has a certain similarity with the technology to defend against the high-temperature metal jets of armor-piercing projectiles, it means that the means developed by later human civilizations for this defense technology also have certain merits. place.

Faced with the increasing use of gap or grid armor and explosive reactive armor on tanks, those anti-tank weapons that used armor-piercing warheads in later generations basically chose two response methods.

The first is "top attack", which is generally used for missiles and rockets with guidance capabilities or simply launched from the air. That is, the top cover of the tank is not protected by reactive armor and the armor itself is the weakest, causing damage.

But this tactic is completely inapplicable now - the trajectory of directed energy weapons is completely straight, and missiles equipped with nuclear warheads probably will not have such flexible direction changes, and it is unrealistic to attack weak points.

However, the remaining response method has a certain reference value - the tandem armor-piercing warhead, which consists of two armor-piercing warheads, one large and one small, with conical metal covers connected in series.

The smaller armor-piercing warhead in front will be responsible for triggering the reactive armor or hitting the gap armor, destroying this layer of obstruction in advance and clearing the way for the subsequent larger armor-piercing warhead. Then, the larger armor-piercing warhead will cause Kill.

Just like the tactics used by Lin Yi now, the four directed energy secondary guns were the first to fire concentratedly, followed by the main guns. The secondary guns opened holes in the layer of armor similar to the Whipple shield, and then the main guns fired. The emitted X-ray beam penetrates the hole and causes damage to the main armor layer of the enemy ship.

And it turns out that this tactic is effective. In just one salvo, the results were greater than the sum of all previous results. The enemy's originally dense fleet immediately became a little sparse, and the probability cloud also became sparse. However, after a short salvo, the enemy's counterattack came immediately, but it was not aimed at the main star cluster, but poured firepower towards the exposed disposable radar detector structures.

Due to different design concepts, the enemy ship's turret-type secondary battery is more responsible for the task of long-range active defense. At this time, it happens to pour firepower across these disposable active radar detector structures.

Once the active radar is turned on, there is absolutely no possibility of continued concealment. Those detectors only had time to send out another round of radar signals before they were blown up by the intense firepower of the enemy ships. Groups of plasma exploded along with scattered fragments.

Under Lin Yi's control, the main star cluster in the rear fired another two-stage salvo at the moment when these detectors had the last chance. The secondary battery firepower and the main gun firepower fired successively, almost hitting the target. a little.

Another group of enemy ships burst out with dazzling plasma clusters following the main force's salvo, and were immediately severely damaged and lost their combat effectiveness. The remaining enemy ships cannot even form a complete cluster to ensure sufficient hits and damage.

The enemy's firepower became sparse as the number of battleships further decreased, but now, Lin Yi has almost lost all of his disposable active radar detector structures. At this time, the launch of the second round of detectors may not necessarily be able to make achievement.

The battle situation once again returned to the traditional probability cloud maneuver mode. The two sides were still shooting at each other from a considerable distance. However, this time, Lin Yi had fully adopted the two-stage shooting tactics, but the opponent began to dodge further.

If everything goes well, the enemy fleet will soon be annihilated by Lin Yi. But he knew that this was just a lucky victory achieved by using unexpected tactics. If the opponent reacts and adjusts his tactics slightly, the situation can be changed.

At the rear, the vision of those hidden detectors showed that more enemy ships were still approaching the star system. On Lin Yi's side, the two super-class fleets of each department-level fleet were also preparing to face the enemy.

The battle has just begun. He has reason to believe that the opponent's learning ability will soon make all kinds of trickery no longer effective. At that time, the battle will be transformed into a true competition of the fleet's hard power.

But now, there are more important things waiting for Lin Yi to deal with - if conditions permit, he needs to send a group of pioneers to recover as much as possible the wreckage of the enemy ship that has not been completely destroyed.

A detailed analysis of the structure of these enemy ships will play a great role in the subsequent battle, and may even determine the direction of the battle. After all, Ezki's battleship Lin Yi only saw the image data and never obtained detailed information.

What's more, this is a newly improved version of the Ezki battleship with technologies such as Whipple-like shield gap armor layers. It will undoubtedly bring more inspiration to Lin Yi, even if not, he can obtain more enemy weapons. Weaknesses are also excellent.

After thinking about it, the plan began to be implemented - in the rear, a group of star bugs that had been waiting for a long time were immediately preparing to enter the star system, cooperating with the main star bug cluster in front, preparing to study the various debris left behind.

(End of this chapter)