The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"That's good..." Oregana nodded, and connected to another communication, "Kruse, can you launch it?"

[Not yet, Legion Commander. 】The mask commander was also very nervous, his fingers tapped the metal plate next to the console nervously 【The gravitational disturbance zone is too large, it is impossible to aim now! 】

The Tin Woodman showed an irritable expression. She put most of her thinking threads into the control system of the second-line artillery group, and said:

"Tsk...then we can only weaken them as much as possible first."

So far, the best way to fight against an enemy of this size is naturally to use ATA, but as a weapon with relatively large limitations, ATA is not easy to use anytime and anywhere.Generally speaking, it is feasible to use ATA to load 'shotguns' to bombard the 'landing field'. When an enemy target enters the field, a shotgun hits the face, and the missile rain directly blows a big hole in the formation and severely damages the opponent. There is no problem at all.

However, the enemy in front of him cannot be directly bombed.

The gravitational disturbance it caused when it entered the field was unprecedented, and it was impossible to deploy any space cracks in the surrounding area for firepower projection or other space operations including jumps.This kind of operation is equivalent to smashing a dimensional anchor under one's feet at the moment of appearance, which inadvertently blocked the ATA's projection channel.

Of course, ATA can open the door and bombard it outside the range of the 'Dimensional Anchor', but at that distance, there is no guarantee that the shells that fly out can hit the target accurately.If the number of ATAs is large enough—for example, there are more than 200 doors in hand—you can still play a round to try the effect first, but if you fire randomly now, it will be a waste of nothing.

And the old sun pigeon in the back, his space projection cannon is even more affected... The attack that shoots out the internal matter from the inside of the star through space projection to the outside is indeed very strong. The closer the door is opened, the more powerful it is. Far away.In this regard, it's a weapon that attenuates more than a blaster (proportionately).

In this way, it is necessary to annihilate those warships that are released to fly around as much as possible first, because once those warships leave the disturbance zone first, they will point at Midzildah and start burning glass or smashing walnuts-it cannot be expected to destroy After entering the mechanical world, the battleship will stop. There are shipboard AIs here, not toy cars. Killing the control terminal will not make them stop.

However, can these temporary artillery groups really withstand those thousands of warships?

I didn't have much confidence in the first place, and after the mechanical world began to join the battle, everyone even less confident——

Everyone has seen how terrifying the power of an energy weapon powered by a fortress-level power furnace can be, and today they have seen something powered by a larger power furnace...

Heavy artillery built on planets is usually only used for orbital defense, and the targets they need to fight against are warships that are lowered to high orbits for orbital bombing or airdropping troops.In other words... a large anti-aircraft gun, roughly something like this.However, what is equipped in the mechanical world is what can be called a 'main gun'. The so-called main gun is the strongest firearm used by combat units to shoot at each other to destroy other combat units of the same level.

The main gun on the planetary warship must of course have the firepower to destroy the planetary warship.In other words, it is the output of the doomsday weapon level...and there is usually not only one main gun on a conventional battleship...

It took three seconds for fourteen white-hot beams to gallop from 90 kilometers away, piercing the joint shield of the defensive artillery group.The shield, which could stand upright under the continuous bombardment of the flagship artillery, collapsed in just an instant.The light beam tore through the shield, and the surrounding space seemed to be churning in an instant.All the turrets, electronic warfare devices, and control towers protected by thick tungsten carbide armor within the coverage area were all burned in the torrent of light.

The artillery beam passed through the defensive position, bringing up a series of large and small explosive light spheres, and then disappeared into the depths of the universe behind.

"The No. [-] artillery group was annihilated."

The staff officers of the Space-Time Management Bureau were all pale. Before, everyone felt that the battle situation was stable and could withstand the enemy's attack. As long as they worked harder, they should have a chance to counterattack.And after that round of volley just now... no one thought so, and even felt a little scared.

But in Oregana's view, this matter is different.

In long-term battles, Tartarus has never shy away from deploying super weapons on the battlefield, and there will be titan ships in any large-scale battle.why is that?Of course, because of the powerful performance of the Titan ships, they can lead the fleet to victory.However, large battleships with good performance are not deployed on the battlefield in every civilization and every historical period-only when resources are abundant and logistics are good, and there are no worries, expensive super warships can go on the battlefield without worry. Shoot the enemy to blast the battlefield.

If you are worried that the ship will be damaged beyond repair during the battle, and once lost, it will not be able to be rebuilt in time or at all, or the supply of resources will not be available, the super warship will stay in the port as a fleet (or a nest that cannot play any role) As a hotel in the port) to protect the ship to avoid the war.

And when even this kind of 'hotel' has no choice but to go to the battlefield, it means that the fire is imminent, and there is no other way.That is to say - the end of the road.

In the long period of time, half of the planetary warships were lost in the solemn agreement, so that all planetary warships were parked in star fields far away from the battlefield, and the fleet was deployed to the battlefield only through the seized hub.The reason for this is simple, because conventional fleets can be built as much as they are damaged, and they don't feel bad if they blow up, while planetary warships have to lose, and the Suzheng Agreement cannot bear such losses.

But now, they chose to face this danger directly and attack with all their strength.The reason for this is probably very simple - after receiving a familiar signal, he came here because of a certain ultimate instruction rooted in the core of his thinking.What are they against?

Is it the Space-Time Administration that can be suppressed only by waves of conventional fleets?Obviously not, even if the hub is lost, it will only prolong the war. Once a method is found, the Space-Time Administration will have to face all the fleets that exploded during the time of finding a way. It is impossible to force the Suzheng Agreement to this level.

Are you here to fight against the evil Latiman, the wrathful sun that brings disaster?This is also impossible, because even with the use of planetary warships, they cannot successfully crusade against a star. If they can be killed, they will be killed early, and there is no need to stay until today.For the Suzheng Agreement, this star is probably just a ghost thing floating in the star map marked with a skeleton, and it hurts to watch the processor sit there.

In fact, the answer is very simple... The last time Latiman's psychic energy fluctuations were caused was the invasion of this universe by the dark worms.And after such a long time, this signal came on again, and the response of the Suzheng Agreement was amazing-they squeezed out their last strength and rushed here to fight against nothing else, but to follow this signal The dark worm that came together.

But there are no dark worms here, only a home planet of the enemy in the purification war, and various defense facilities established by other forces.

If the thinking is normal, I am afraid that this will be regarded as a trap, and there is a high possibility that they will choose to retreat immediately.But the Suzheng Agreement chose to continue to attack... why?

Oregana couldn't figure out the machine's train of thought, so now she could only focus on how to fight against these armies.She scratched her head:

"Look... we're all starting to regret the anchor turret, it's useless - it's like putting a biscuit in the path of the steamroller." She shrugged and turned to the radar operator and asked "now How long does it take to get out of the gravitational disturbance zone?"

"It's advancing in a conventional way, not fast," the operator replied, "but it's accelerating, and it will leave the gravitational disturbance zone in about four or 10 minutes. The forward of the fleet is faster, at most 2 minutes."

The forwards of the fleet are afraid that they will jump out of the disturbance zone, so they can only expect to be attracted by the outside of the fleet... If their purpose is to annihilate, they should still be attracted by the counterattacking warships.

I don't know what the situation of the opposite AI is now... I can only follow the routine, and then see the tricks.

"Calculate the effective range of the main guns of the enemy's planetary warship, and keep the fleet outside to deal with the enemy's mobile fleet." She ordered loudly, "Nymph-class formation, shoot with all your strength! Commander Moderas, Commander Hackman, Let your troops move to Midzirdar to intercept any serious warships entering the defense line. Contact the star and let him provide fire support immediately-if you can't hit the planetary warships, attack the regular warships, fast!"

Chapter 868Chapter 780: A turn on the offensive?

This battle is very different from the past.

The tactics commonly used by Tartarus are to advance and advance again. Attack is more important than defense, and the purpose of 'defeating the enemy' is to carry out ferocious combat.In addition, the commander of Tartarus did not take the battle damage seriously, which made Tartarus's attack as fast as the wind, invaded like fire, and moved like thunder, shortening the battle time to a minimum. Words like 'containment' and 'circle' do not match the impression of clone warriors.

But now, when the fleet of the Japari Chapter faces an enemy that it cannot defeat, it is using itself as a bait to fight against the opponent.Chapter Commander Xiaobao uses the Eternal Destroyer-class command ship "Aurina" as his flagship, and he integrates the entire fleet to form a semicircle in a rather wide space area, almost enveloping the enemy in a wheel shape. At first glance, it looks like a big ship. Like a bowl, their formation is terrifyingly sparse, and they are constantly maneuvering in a small area.

At a fairly long distance, the long-range railguns and missiles concentrated on the serious battleships in the gravitational chaos area from the top, bottom, left, and right.This is just containment, the distance between the enemy and us is far beyond the usual combat distance, almost close to the limit range of the weapon.The first few Suzheng warships that rushed were attacked from all directions, their armor was pierced by orbital bombs, and they burst into dazzling light clusters.But the AI ​​will not be afraid or shaken, and the battleships in the rear sail out one after another, and start to attack the pinning fleet.

This made Xiao Bao heave a sigh of relief.

What she fears most is that the opponent concentrates its firepower to break through to the middle point - the current number of her own is not enough to block the tactics of a single point breakthrough, and once she is broken through, she will actually be surrounded.In this way, although I can let the fleet make a tactical leap and leave the battlefield, and redeploy the fleet while letting the stealth bomb the enemy fleet, it is not clear what the enemy will do when the fleet is redeployed.

But now, the enemy chooses to attack from the front, and they attack each squadron of Japari with the dexterity unique to the AI ​​fleet, and their actions are straightforward.In the next moment, a Pengkun-class battleship was locked on by more than thirty naval guns. A moment later, the entire port side was smashed, and its damage immediately broke through the limit of the damage management system. The hull broke in the internal explosion and became fragments Splashed away as a shotgun.

Sure enough, the opponent was targeting combat units!Of course, it is unstoppable with this kind of force, but there is still a way to contain it.

"Fleets, keep a distance from the enemy ships, and pay attention to maneuvering." In the battleship with amazingly thick armor, Xiaobao said loudly in the communication, "The observation data connection is complete, Commander Aweiyi!"

Commanding the rear bombardment fleet was the commander of the Fist of Tartarus, Aweiyi.As a new battle group, the Gapari Chapter has not experienced many battles. In order to make up for its lack of experience, a small number of experienced commanders or veterans from other battle groups are temporarily deployed in the Gapari battle order to help them For 'teaching' purposes.Aweiyi is such a commander. As the first soldier to join the Fist of Tartarus, her experience and combat skills are respected.

At this moment, the enemy army has stepped out of the 'bunker', and it's time for the troops in her hands to play.With his hands behind his back, Awei stood on the bridge of the command ship 'Mokra Mbembe' and said in a deep voice:

[Understand——The fire control system is connected, each ship is ready to shoot according to the assigned target—three, two, one... launch! 】

Nymph-class battleships unfolded the armor plates of the bows, and ominous red lights were flashing in front of the space projection systems on both sides of the bows.Subsequently, the shooting of the No. [-] ship "Invisible Vision" kicked off the prelude to the support bombardment.Green cannon beams erupted from the bow, as if the entire battleship was a huge rifle, and the diameter of the beam with a low converging rate reached hundreds of meters—usually, this kind of shelling would dissipate quickly , but the space delivery system delivered it to the enemy before it dissipated.

The sudden shelling on the battlefield stopped the Suzheng fleet from advancing. The particle beams containing powerful energy collided with the armor made of solid alloy at an alarming speed, and then both sides were wiped out together.In an instant, the torn hulls filled the space, and the locked battleships exploded and flew around, or broke into two pieces and tossed in the universe. Silence alone.

However, when technology has not yet formed an absolute advantage, the number is still terrible violence.Although under the command of Xiaobao, the maneuvering posture of the fleet is as dexterous as a dance, but in the face of the organized blocking fire of thousands or even more naval guns, the result of superimposing the hit rate at the end is that no matter how many times they jump horizontally, in the end Still get hit, the evasive maneuver is just an effort to prolong being sunk.

Then, the support shelling from the allies finally arrived on the battlefield-it was not a conventional 'shelling', but an astronomical phenomenon called 'needles'.

The so-called needles refer to the dynamic plasma jets from the photosphere of the star upward at [-] kilometers per second, with a diameter of about [-] kilometers. A typical needle can extend to [-] or even [-] kilometers above the photosphere. km height.Although the speed is not as fast as the previous core injection, it far exceeds the former in terms of scope. After the Super Flash Carapace Cocoon finally succeeded in figuring out the comparison of the battlefield data provided by Tartarus, it adopted this method to support the frontline. .

The reason for not using the powerful core ejection is very simple - under the mutual extrusion of huge mass and energy, it is not stable to open a space channel inside itself, and the delivery position is okay within the orbit of the fourth planet. The local time deviation will be terribly high.And deploying the space channel outside the photosphere, although the power will drop a lot, but the advantage is that it is convenient, fast, and low-consumption, and the more stable channel makes the accuracy higher. This method is suitable for a large number of fleets.

When ten 'needles' appeared on the battlefield, the dazzling light was simply indescribable.It is like a tree—the legendary giant tree that supports the sky and the earth. They grow rapidly in the dark universe, stretching out the branches and leaves of light and heat, and wantonly blooming their own power to burn everything.It wasn't the first time for Oregana to watch the spicules up close. During the last crusade against the feathered dark worms, she led the fleet to fight in the periorbital orbit, but at that time these small prominences were not as breathtaking as they are now.

It took her a second or so to figure out why... probably because of its anomalous nature.It's like a rushing river, although it is magnificent, but it is not impressive, but if the river is changed to another location - for example, it is changed to a desert, and it is about 300 meters above the ground, it becomes a deafening roar hanging in the sky. ’, pouring jewel-like droplets while running, the feeling is completely different, right?

Seeing the scene where the stars burned the sky and turned the involved battleships into ashes, Oregana couldn't help but want to chant a poem:

"...Fire trees and silver flowers gather, star bridge iron locks open. The dark dust goes with the light, and the angry sun breaks through the sky."

Liu Lizi shook her tail, with a surprised expression on her face:

"Change the Tang poem describing the Lantern Festival to this... The atmosphere is completely different. It always feels obedient to use 'Star Bridge Iron Lock Open' to describe the hyperspace strike."

From the source, it can be considered that this child who grew up in the ruins came here to learn something other than combat and business.Do a lot of poetry, and it feels pretty good to be a leopard with literary talents.However, Liulizi seems to have mastered the six arts of egg man before mastering the eight elegant things of "Qinqi, calligraphy and painting, poetry, wine, flower tea".

Oregana turned her head and raised the corners of her mouth:

"It's very suitable, isn't it? Before, there were people who used 'Dongfeng night puts flowers and trees, blows down, stars rain' to create a scene like a split warhead entering the atmosphere."

"emmm..." Liu Lizi scratched her ears, and said, "Then...'My back will condemn Dahe Yegengxiaolu to wet my lapel' can be used to describe what happened on Captain Okita's expedition to Iskandar What about things. For example, carrying an injured child to Yamato or something..."

It seems that this leopard has also read the Manyoshu.

"I don't know if it happened during the expedition to Iskandar, but this kind of thing really happened during the crusade against the White Comet Empire."

Oregana said.I always think this kind of "using the past to describe the present" is quite interesting, but if I have to say which sentence I like the most, it really is Lu Fangweng's "The firewood in the stream is warm and the felt is warm, and I will not go out with the raccoon slave"...

As she thought about it, she checked the damage of the enemy fleet—the fiery trees and silver flowers bred by the stars are indeed powerful, but because the enemy warships are far away from each other in order to pursue the scattered Gapari fleet, plus the breadth of the battlefield, Its effect is not as good as expected.However, one-fifth of the opponent's number was blasted away in one blow, which was enough to show the powerful combat effectiveness of the super-shining carapace cocoon.

[The space fluctuation is too serious, the next one of this size will have to wait at least 10 minutes. ] Latiman seems to have entered the state. He is on the Nestor-class battleship 'Oscillation', using this information receiving terminal to carry out wide-area bombardment.Compared with the dark worm, the shining carapace cocoon is not good at fighting, and its space manipulation method is rougher than imagined, and this is a battle that cannot let go [continuing to project will cause space fluctuations to exceed the standard, I do not want to have Something leaked out. 】

"We don't want it either, just keep the rhythm, don't panic," Oregana replied, "There is only one mechanical world coming in now, don't try your best too early. Our weapons can't shoot continuously, and we must ensure that we can counteract them at any time." It is a high-output means of attacking in the mechanical world."

【I see. 】Latiman replied【Can you arrange a gravitational well closer to me now? 】

"Well?"

Oregana showed a strange expression. There is no problem in arranging false jump points very close to the stars, but being very close to the stars means that the distance to Midzildah is also very close. This is not a problem of gravitational disturbance (because If it is arranged on the reverse extension line of Midzildah, the star, it will not cause gravitational disturbance enough to affect Midzildah), but at such a close position, the opponent may step out of the gravitational disturbance zone fleet Just ride Midzierda's face directly.

This is a very risky arrangement method, but on the other hand, Latiman proposed this method because he understood something in the battle just now——

[The combat method of shelling by space projection is too inefficient for me, and it will only increase casualties if it continues like this.I just thought of a fighting method... The opponent will evade my attack, but you have a way to induce the opponent to end the transition position, right? 】He said seriously 【If the distance between the second mechanical world and me is so close that no space projection is needed—such as five light points, or even closer, I can destroy it within 1 minute... Counting the waiting time It is 6 minutes. 】

"Shoot directly with an attack at the speed of light?" Oregana's eyes widened. "Is there a way to hit it?"

Latiman replied honestly:

[I can't say it myself, but if I have your assistance to calculate the orbit... I think there should be no problem. 】

This guy obviously has a big move, but the range is not long-no, if you look at it as a naval gun, it is quite amazing to snipe targets beyond five light points, but it is not enough for a planetary system level battlefield.As a fixed unit that cannot move, Latiman has to use some extraordinary means to use this ultimate move.Although she didn't know what he wanted to do, Oregana chose to trust him.

If it was only 6 minutes, the opponent would not even have time to deploy the fleet.Judging from the current strength of the troops, it is necessary to try it - the Gapari battle group has been fighting for less than 10 minutes, and the battleship has lost more than one-third. If it is against the second one, I am afraid that it will not even be able to contain it. Living.

"I understand, go to the designated area immediately to set up the gravitational well!"

This doesn't take long, and the feature of the warp disruption force field generator is that it is easy to arrange.When an industrial ship floats by, several of them can be laid out in a few minutes like a duck laying eggs.

The voice of CIC sounded nearby:

"The target is about to leave the gravitational chaos zone! It has reached the position where it can be bombarded! - But it is starting the jump engine, and the space chaos is starting to rise!!"

"Jump engine?! Where does it jump?"

"I don't know, but from the waveform point of view, it is two different space operations - it is preparing for projection and jumping at the same time. The energy response of the shield is also rising!!"

With just three shots reducing three stationary batteries to ashes, the mighty starship pushed forward without fear.

These small things in front are nothing more than ants that can collapse at the touch of a touch. Although the prominence jets are spectacular, they are only bright fireworks after all.Now the defender's attention has been focused on this battlefield, and now the striker only needs to make an action to engage the defender.When the mechanical world reaches outside the interference area, the warship can be deployed near that planet through the delivery system, burn it and then go away by itself—as for the conventional warships lost in the process, they are just cannon fodder.

As long as it is in this gravitational interference zone, although the planetary battleship will not be hit by those strange hyperspace strikes, it will not be able to deploy the fleet, so it is necessary to take a risk.Just once is fine.

It strengthened its own defense with the maximum output, drove into the dangerous area, and planned to carry out a strong attack that it did not know how familiar it was.

"This is to play a big game with us." No matter how dull he is, he can realize that there is only one chance.Oregana held the communicator and shouted loudly, "Kruse! Attack!!"

【Yes!Select delivery coordinates!Launch in ten seconds! 】

Over the past few dozen hours, it can be said that the record for launching ATA has been broken.The five ATAs sent out a total of 48 calls in [-] hours, which never happened in actual combat.While lamenting what kind of enemy this is against, Kruse ordered after the countdown ended:

"emission!!"

On the other side, the planetary warship that had not yet reached the predetermined position sensed the space distortion in front of it, and then five shots that could hardly be called 'cannonballs' flew towards it. After the AI ​​judged it to be an attack, it raised the shield's defense capability to the peak, but before this action was even completed, there was already a fierce conflict with the 'cannonball'.

Because it was a space channel that was opened at an almost limit distance, two shells deviated slightly, brushed across the mechanical world from thousands of kilometers away, and disappeared into the distance.The other three hit the shield with astonishing momentum.

If someone is standing on the surface of the planetary battleship at this moment, looking up at the sky in the direction the shells are flying from, they will probably see quite an astonishing picture - white light bursts at the point of the bullets, and circles of ripples spread around. Spread across the entire planet in seconds.There were three impact points, and the three ripples collided and interfered with each other. The shield that originally exuded a calm light suddenly became like a kaleidoscope, and lights of various colors spread their teeth and claws above the sky.