Earth Invasion

Chapter 444 Big War! (2)

The soldiers on the battleships in the space circle felt a sense of relief after hearing their commanders order to enter the first level of combat readiness.During this long and arduous pursuit, it was already their hope to catch each other and fight fiercely.If it weren't for this hope, they would have fallen into hysteria of depression in the silent and lonely space and the spacesuit that looked like a sealed can.

When the red light representing the combat alarm has been turned on, the entire CIC began to blackout.All power will be concentrated on the firepower and defense systems, power will be cut off in unnecessary places, and the superconducting batteries of non-combat units will be drained to reduce possible secondary damage.All the soldiers in the entire large fleet are gradually entering a state of fanaticism-various techniques and tactics that are usually honed and honed began to operate at an efficiency of 120%.

Collins is very satisfied with this atmosphere. Modern warfare is all about calculations, but those who have been on the battlefield understand that warfare is not linear, and sometimes changes due to some inexplicable things.

Uhtred Nakajima, who had completed the virtual inspection of the entire fleet, floated out of the virtual cabin.Judging from the expression on his face, he has successfully forgotten about the matter of Gliding No. [-]'s forced entry just now.From this point of view, he is not a disqualified commander.At least from the point of view of regulating mood is qualified.

The so-called virtual inspection is to enter the command information link of the fleet, and then project the internal situation of all warships into the virtual warehouse of the flagship through virtual reality means. Road procedure.

"What do you think of that phalanx in NATO?"

Collins sat upright on his command seat, and his spacesuit was already connected to the seat.He didn't look up when he asked this sentence, his eyes were fixed on the image on the screen.

"Is this clearly a dense mass?" Nakajima floated behind Collintz, and glanced at the enemy search image. It came out after combining the infrared channel and the ultraviolet channel. It looked like a large group. Can't tell.

"Where's the radar image?" After carefully identifying it and finding it was futile, Nakajima stopped tossing about the poor infrared image and started to scan using the visible light band.And the other party obviously didn't forget the visible light band. Those visible light band jammers called disco flash balls buried the entire fleet in a ball of white light.They did not activate optical camouflage. During high-speed combat, the electric fields formed by power stations, capacitors, thrusters, and main guns can be clearly imaged on the anti-ultraviolet equipment. Optical camouflage does not work at all.Moreover, the use of optical camouflage will interfere with the firepower of the battleship.Now that it's almost time to open up the posture and officially start practicing, it will be useless to hide it.

"The opponent is using an electromagnetic wave cancellation device for blocking interference. I can't see anything clearly." General Collins nervously inserted a large Smith & Wesson revolver into the side of his spacesuit.Although a pistol using gunpowder as a propellant is useless in a space war, Collins still insists on wearing this thing on his body, because in this way, he has the feeling of war.

Holding a mouse and a volumetric light feels completely different than holding the handle of a pistol.

"Why did they do this?! Is it just to prevent us from aiming?" General Nakajima looked a little puzzled.

"Probably to cover each other. After all, they are smaller in number, and a fool was killed by a pirate ship just now. Leave him alone for now. In this kind of confrontation between large fleets, conspiracy and tricks are useless. As long as we If the firepower is more efficient, then the opponent will lose!"

Ratcliffe undoubtedly understood what Collinz said.If it was just an ordinary addition and subtraction, then Ratcliffe was undoubtedly doomed.Because in the encounter on the outskirts of the Assyrian planet, the damned Assyrians returned to the fleet and caused a lot of damage to their destroyer fleet, and they have not been able to recover until now.

But space battles are not a game where one plus one equals two. The weight of destroyers and frigates is pitifully small compared to the cannons of large ships and cruisers, which is basically the fate of toilet paper.So, at first Ratcliffe wasn't worried.

But the destruction of CA-66 is a problem.The Alpamayu class is definitely a very important part of the battle line. The large fleets of both sides are configured with nine cruisers.But now, I only have eight ships left.It is equivalent to opening a hole in one's own battle line.

So he did use Phalanx for the reason that Collins judged, but not just that.The reason he did this was partly prompted by the return of the Assyrians to the fleet.

In Assyria’s lunar orbit, after the NATO expeditionary fleet was sternly slapped by the returning fleet’s high-speed warships under the containment of the large space fleet, Racliffe has been thinking about a problem—about the protection The question of the fleet's status in the Grand Fleet Showdown.

Now there is an all-heavy argument in the military circles, which believes that the main battleships in the future should abandon ships below cruisers and divide the army into two types: paramilitary forces and heavy forces.Paramilitary forces continue to be equipped with destroyers, while heavy forces should all be equipped with heavy warships to kick destroyers out of the large fleet.

For this trend of thought, Ratcliffe was a little unclear whether he opposed or agreed with it.There was something wrong with this one-size-fits-all approach.However, he had no facts to test this claim.

The method of the Assyrian return fleet's high-speed squadron raids gave him an inspiration.So, he also plans to give it a try.

Therefore, the second reason for his dense formation is the total number of his own battleships to hide.He organized 80.00% of the frigates into a guerrilla fleet.After battleships and cruisers are arrayed, the infrared and ultraviolet fields generated will make it difficult for the opponent to distinguish the general elements of their own battleships.At this time, your own guerrilla fleet will activate optical camouflage after a certain amount of acceleration, and then outflank it from the flanks.According to Ratcliffe, this is a way to effectively use his frigate fleet.

The distance between the two sides is slowly approaching, and the battle formations of the two sides are constantly changing during this period.The box-shaped formation in the space circle gradually turned into a concave formation. Except for the cruiser on the central axis and the two capital ships at the apex, the distance between all destroyers and frigates began to increase.Because except for the cruiser and capital ship in the center, the remaining destroyers and frigates have no possibility of resisting the violent beating of the two capital ships in the center of the opponent.For this reason, the remaining destroyers and frigates of the NATO fleet on the front also began to shrink back, hiding in the shadow of capital ships and cruisers.The original dense formation soon became a shuttle formation.

"The contact time counts down to tens of seconds!"

The voices of the tactical staff rang out from the bridges of the Storm Shadow and the Flare at the same time!

10、9、8……3、2、1
The countdown returns to zero, and the entire airspace becomes a world of light!

The battleships on both sides emitted a wave of light almost simultaneously like a supernova explosion!The energy of nuclear fusion is absorbed by heavy metal particles, constrained by a directional magnetic field, and then stabs his opponent with the thunderous momentum of Zeus!

The deflection electric fields of battleships and cruisers are in full swing!On the front lines of both sides, a light curtain composed of electric grids rises and falls one after another!
If someone calculates it, they will find that the energy generated by the large fleets of both sides at this moment has exceeded the sum of the power generation of human beings before entering the space age!

Ratcliffe and Collins stood on their command seats, staring intently at the ocean of light, and the fleets of both sides were like small boats sailing on the ocean. fight!
At this moment, human beings are finally comparable to nature for once!
In this kind of war, it is impossible to avoid casualties.The battleships of both sides are relatively resistant. In the first round of terrifying salvo, the battleships of both sides almost took over 50.00% of the firepower!The flagships of both sides, the Violent Shadow and the Flare, were overloaded respectively!He had to start spraying liquid helium to force heat dissipation, and then retreated, letting his deputy, Doom and Prominence fill in the vacancy!
The bombardment tactics of the two sides are exactly the same. While using almost half of the firepower to suppress the opponent's capital ship, the other warships began to select their own targets of the next level!

For example, the focus of the fire in the space circle is an Alpamayu class on the left wing of the opponent's battle line, numbered CA-71 "Friedjof Nansen".But the NATO people concentrated their firepower on the ACR-21 "Divine Comedy" in the middle of the opponent's right wing!

Here you can see that the names of the two sides are different.Although the warships of the NATO fleet are used uniformly, the ownership belongs to each member country.For example, the CA-71 that was set fire this time is a Norwegian warship.Relying on deep-sea fishing and some precision manufacturing, this Nordic country built two cruisers to show its status as a developed country.However, this time sending a baby lump to perform a mission 6000 light-years away still made Norway sweat.

However, the warships in the space circle are all named after some famous literary figures or literary works.

The two sides are now about 9000 kilometers away in a straight line, and are at the far end of the heavy particle cannon's shooting range.It takes three seconds from launch to impact.Even with differential speed compensation and advance, the hit rate of this shelling is not very high.In many cases, it is necessary to use crossfire to focus fire.

The Nansen was lucky. While maneuvering at high speed and being very close to the Spanish battleship "Juan Carlos I" next to it, it was shared some firepower. In the end, it was only hit by 6 rounds. Although it was a bit overloaded, there was a problem. not big.

But the fate of the Divine Comedy is not so good.Because our side is a box-shaped formation with a large distance, several cruisers on the other side focused their fire on us from both wings!More than ten shots were hit almost at one time!

The unlucky Divine Comedy was blown off its starboard side!Two of the three heavy particle cannons were destroyed at one time, and two of the three electromagnetic reconnection cannons on the right were also destroyed.The remaining combat power of the entire battleship is less than 40.00%.

(End of this chapter)