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Volume 210 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] The Seventh Enemy Dare to Initiate an Attack!

As time went by, Hong found that the sect began to move more and more.

This is a bit strange, because according to the current situation, Tukeka's strategy is to use their more and richer star systems to develop sufficient industrial strength, and then form a quantitative advantage over the cat alliance in the long run.

The cat alliance's strategy is to use their higher production efficiency and the high-level civilized warships in their hands to form a sufficient quantity and quality advantage in a short period of time, thereby encroaching on the church's territory and reducing the enemy's productivity , to increase the productivity of one's own side, one will ebb and flow, and finally form one's own long-term quantitative advantage.

Obviously, in this process, the cat alliance is actually the party that has the offensive pressure, and the religious order only needs to guard the planet that connects the two star fields, that is, the amino habitable planet that is far away from the cat alliance , and wait for productivity to gradually increase.

However, judging from the current observations of the Cat League, the religious order has an abnormal desire to take the initiative to attack—this is undoubtedly a very unreasonable phenomenon. After all, the reason why the Cat League cannot attack now is because the religious group has two complete heavy fortress.

Once they break away from the protection of the fortress and seek field battles, the current cat alliance fleet can completely defeat the opponent, with a fleet of about 7 million tons on one side and 8.2 million tons on the other. Even if the opponent's technology is slightly higher, it is difficult to overwhelm it There is a hard gap of 1.2 million tons.

Not to mention that because the Cat League is a system with strong AI commanding all unmanned ships, the improvement in overall combat efficiency brought by it can completely cover up the weak performance advantages of the opponent.

In addition, Hong's side is not yet a complete field environment - during the period of occupation, Hong has already moved his own fortress through the wormhole. Fortress, it is easy to offset tens of millions of tons of fleet.

Judging from the previous behavior, the other party actually knew this, otherwise, he would not have been avoiding the battle and developing all the time-to rule out the possibility that the other party suddenly lost his mind, and suddenly made such a big strategic change, which must be There is something tricky.

Why on earth did they suddenly decide to take the initiative to attack?

Hong couldn't understand it.

But no matter what, the reality is here, the current order is loading the fleet with offensive kits, and it looks like it is about to launch an attack.

Of course, Hong will not retreat. After all, it was hard to break through the blockade of the wormhole nuclear air mine + fortress, and arrived at the enemy's star field. The planets developed to a certain degree were given to each other for nothing.

In addition, there is also a fortress stationed here, and its combat power is almost the same as that of the fortress in the rear, so there is no reason for Hong to retreat-no matter what kind of tricks the opponent is hiding, this will definitely be the best place to deal with it.

"The opponent's fleet is ready to go." The high-definition image captured by the telescope was displayed on the big screen, and the red hands crossed his chest, looking a little serious, "According to the calculation, the number is not much different from our estimate, so the total The mass is only about [-] million tons, it cannot be more.

"It will take about half a month for them to arrive in our star field, so during this period of time, I hope everyone can use their imagination as much as possible to guess why the other party dared to attack."

"Yes, Your Excellency!"

The officers saluted together.

Yes, use your imagination instead of speculating from a military point of view—with Hong's abilities, she doesn't need a cat alliance officer to provide her with tactical guesses.

What Hong needs is for everyone to use their unrestrained imaginations to provide her with possible inspirations. For example, it may be because the other party's subspace creatures will come down to beat up their fleet in person, or it may be because the other party develops Out of subspace weapons and so on.

As long as it is logically reasonable, she can speak freely - this is the only thing Hong can do, after all, considering the known military level alone, she can't imagine the reason why they dare to take the initiative to attack.

After about 9 days of voyage, the main fleet of the church finally arrived at a position about 5 kilometers away from the fortress-walking about [-] kilometers further, it will enter the range of the main gun of the fortress.

At this point, war is already inevitable, and even if the order returns immediately and decides to evacuate, its engine maneuverability is not enough to allow them to reduce the radial velocity to 0 before entering the range.

What's more, the behavior of the religious order to launch a combat formation and gradually correct the orbit to a circle clearly shows that the opponent not only has no intention of running, but even wants to start a long-distance head-to-head artillery battle with them, rather than trying to get closer The distance increases the combat effectiveness of the electromagnetic gun.

Using a mixed mid-range and long-range fleet to fight a long-range battle with a fleet like Maomeng, whose indicators from top to bottom are specialized in long-range artillery battles—Red is now very sure that the opponent must be tricky.

Could it be that a long-range laser shaft gun with stronger performance was suddenly developed?

But in the past few years, most of the opponent's ships have been under her full surveillance. She can say with certainty that the opponent has never carried out a large-scale main gun replacement on the capital ship.

Hong couldn't understand it.

But she believes that she will soon know the truth.

"It is detected that the enemy ship is launching electromagnetic shells, and the Huso-class fleet is preparing to counterattack."

Soon, the initial tentative firepower of both sides began to work—although at such a long distance, even against a fortress with extremely poor mobility, the hit rate of electromagnetic shells can basically be calculated as zero.

But it doesn't matter, they didn't intend to hit it in the first place, this is just a conspiracy of the two sides to consume each other's refrigerant reserves.

As long as the power is limited to a level that can be solved perfectly by radiation heat dissipation alone, this attack method is almost non-destructive except for fusion fuel. On the contrary, the opponent needs to consume a little less working fluid to change orbit—— Even with such a long distance, it only needs a little working fluid to easily dodge, but that is a real waste after all.

"It is confirmed that the combat effectiveness of the opponent's electromagnetic gun has slightly improved compared with the previous data." After fighting back and forth for a few minutes, Hong came to such a conclusion, "It seems that their engineering technology has slightly improved. progress."

"Is it a big influence?" Stuart was a little worried.

"Hmm..." Hong calculated slightly, "The impact on the winning rate is less than one in a million, basically negligible."

"That's all right."

After all, this just made the muzzle velocity and rate of fire of the electromagnetic gun a little faster, and it didn't have a significant impact on the hit rate or power-in fact, Hong could also increase his electromagnetic gun to such a value , but it is not necessary.

Hong has never pursued the combat power of a single ship. She pays more attention to the overall cost-effectiveness ratio. This is also the reason why the cat alliance is very strong in engineering technology, but the combat power of a single ship and the same tonnage are often inferior to other civilizations.

With the same productivity, other civilizations built 1000 million tons of high-end warships, which can reach 1200 million tons of mid-range warships—however, under the ingenious design, she was able to use the same productivity and orbital capacity to manufacture 1500 million warships. Tons of mid-range warships.

In contrast, if a high-end warship with the same performance is built, Hong may only be able to build 1100 million tons. The combat power of a single ship and the same tonnage have increased, but the total combat power has decreased.

The biggest highlight of Maomao's single push human level is its insane cost-effectiveness—she is not the strongest, nor the most cutting-edge, but she is always the most efficient. A warship that reaches an optimal solution in time.

"The enemy is about to enter the range of the main gun of the fortress, and the target has been locked."

A large number of reconnaissance equipment has almost no dead ends to firmly lock the first batch of warships of the opponent in the sights of the main guns-as heavy lasers that do not need to make compromises with the size of the warships, they have powerful firepower and a longer range. It has reached a full 3 kilometers, which is 8 kilometers farther than the main gun of the glory class.

Since ancient times, any warship trying to line up with shore-based heavy artillery has had a hard time ending up well—space is no exception. If you want to pass through the firepower network of the fortress and push the front line into the range of the fleet, you have to pay Quite a price for that.

"Ready...fire!"

At the moment Hong gave the order, the 16 main guns of the fortress opened their thick baffles at the same time, revealing the rear laser lens in front of everyone.

Accompanied by it, there are 16 ultra-high-energy pulsed lasers invisible to the naked eye.

The high-energy lasers containing the equivalent of nearly a hundred tons of TNT are galloping in the boundless starry sky, rushing towards the enemy they are aiming at at the speed of light-this is the fastest speed allowed in the material universe. In the era without super-light speed, A weapon that travels at the speed of light means that it cannot be dodged.

The moment you observe it, you've been hit.

About 0.25 seconds after the launch, suddenly, bright flames erupted from the enemy's leading warships.

"The first round of shooting worked well, let's make persistent efforts."

Looking at the armor plate on the opponent's battleship that was blown away by the pulse laser, Hong nodded in satisfaction.

After several rounds of scientific and technological progress, with the continuous increase of the range, the delay brought by the speed of light has gradually become obvious-for the main gun of the fortress with a range of 3.8 kilometers, from firing it to hitting the target, even if Even the speed of light would take about 0.125 seconds.

Moreover, it takes at least 0.125 seconds for the light from the other party to reach their telescopes. This round and round is a delay of at least 0.25 seconds.

Whether it is used for aiming or for judging where the opponent was hit, this time will not change.

Although this has not yet affected the point of view and aiming, and within a few tenths of a second, the speed change of the spacecraft is basically negligible. Hong only needs to predict according to the current speed of the enemy when launching.

But it is conceivable that if the future range develops to the level of light seconds, and the two sides start to shoot each other with laser pointers at a distance of a few light seconds, the delay of the speed of light at that time will not be negligible-even if there is a superluminal detection that can Obtaining the opponent's position in real time, the few seconds from the firing of the laser from the muzzle to the hit cannot be reduced.

Therefore, according to Hong's estimate, no matter how advanced the laser weapon is, its limit may be within the range of a few light seconds to a dozen light seconds. The efficiency drops rapidly to the point where it is similar to the current electromagnetic gun-this is undoubtedly unacceptable.

It can be said that if there are no superluminal weapons, the scope of the battlefield can only reach this point at most, and this does not take into account the proliferation of weapons such as lasers and particle beams.

As for the electromagnetic gun, even the laser that strikes at the speed of light is the same, and the electromagnetic gun that is far below the speed of light is even more impossible to see.

"The enemy is expected to enter the range of the fleet in 45 minutes." After calculating the trajectory of the church, Hong made such a prediction.

In order to avoid being too prostituted by red and white prostitutes, except for the electromagnetic gunships that throw shit at long distances, the main fleet of the religious order basically converges the cooling plates under the external armor, presenting a posture of charging head-on-this is indeed a wise choice , although the number of main guns in the fortress is not large and the rate of fire is not fast, if it is fired for a full 45 minutes, its lethality cannot be underestimated.

"I didn't expect that there would be a day when we could use the range of the fortress to prostitute for nothing." Looking at the vanguard fleet that could only be beaten in vain, Hong was very happy, "After fighting for so many years, this is the first time that we can Fight under the cover of your own stronghold."

The time of humans is not counted. After all, the Gibraltar Fortress is a logistical fortress, and its combat effectiveness is very high. It doesn't even have a main gun.

Although charging with the heat sink reduced their losses, this situation cannot be maintained forever. After all, in order to prevent them from attacking immediately when they enter the combat distance, they must move the heat sink a certain distance in advance. Expand.

Considering the time it takes to deploy the radiator plates and activate the coolant circulation, this is enough time for the Garrison to deal a heavy blow to their vanguard.

Range is the truth!

"The enemy's cooling panels have been fully deployed and are about to enter the range of our fleet."

After more than 40 minutes of unilateral prostitution by the fortress and the glory-class flagships, the church fleet finally stood in front of the Cat League and obtained the right to fight with real swords and guns.

The real battle is about to begin.

"The soaring power of the enemy's infrared radiation was observed, confirming that it is charging the main battery."

After discovering that the enemy was about to launch an attack, Hong naturally began to recharge her main guns - in her dictionary, there was no such thing as being beaten in vain.

It's time for the Cult to see the true firepower of the Cat League.

"All warships, prepare..."

Almost at the same time when the enemy's cooling power reached its peak, Hong also gave the order without hesitation.

"Fire!"

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Volume 210 The Road to the Cat League: Chapter [-] Eight Beheading Plan

Almost in an instant, thousands of brilliant flames erupted from the vanguard fleets of both sides.

This battle is by far the largest battle within the known scope of the cat alliance. The total number of warships invested by both sides exceeds 15, with a total tonnage of [-] billion tons. If you count the auxiliary and logistics ships outside the battlefield, Then the total number of ships in this star field is enough to exceed [-].

Looking around, there are dense spots of light everywhere in the starry sky.

Since the number of missiles on both sides is not large, they did not choose to release large-scale missiles for assault at the first time, but tacitly reserved them for the endgame in the middle and late stages.

Without the dazzling light of nuclear bombs, there are only X-ray lasers and ultra-high-speed artillery shells that cannot be seen by the naked eye in the universe, making the entire battlefield quiet for a while. At first glance, thousands of warships on both sides seem to be They were just looking at each other quietly, except for the momentary flashes of fire that bloomed on the surface of the hull from time to time, there was no feeling of fighting at all.

However, under this seemingly calm water surface, there are turbulent undercurrents hidden.

This is the first time that Hong has commanded such a large-scale fleet to conduct real combat. After all, in terms of "practical" experience or "resume" of a large-scale fleet, she is not as good as the other three civilizations that are still in a state of border friction .

It has been 44 years since the last war Hong experienced. At that time, the Cat League had just been established, and the entire alliance had a fleet of only 5000 million tons.

Today, their total military fleet has a tonnage of 8.2 million tons and more than [-] combat ships, and the entire army has never experienced even a real battle.

But no one would think that the cat alliance's army is an empty shelf, the so-called "talented soldiers who have never been on the battlefield". On the contrary, all civilizations agree that their large-scale fleet clusters are definitely better than any existing civilization. The fleet must be stronger.

Nearly no delay and absolute fidelity of battlefield information transmission, combined with the powerful computing power of the supercomputer array, ensures that this completely unmanned fleet can operate at a speed and accuracy unimaginable by conventional civilizations. It is not that other civilizations do not know how to use This kind of cost-effective warship is the best way to improve the overall combat power, but they know what they know, but at most they can only learn some main ideas from the cat alliance's thinking, and cannot completely copy their tactics.

The situation of each civilization is different. The Cat League can reduce the number of single-ship combat power enhancements based on the fully unmanned intelligent fleet. For strong AI, command 100 warships and 1000 warships. There is no essential difference between warships. As long as more supercomputers are used, these 1000 warships can easily show their theoretical strength, and even show stronger tactical flexibility.

However, organic civilizations cannot do this. For them, the more warships there are, the more difficult it is to command. A fleet with a single-ship combat power of 5 and a total of 1000 fleets will always be inferior to a single-ship combat power. 10 for a total of 500 fleets.

If they could choose, they would rather choose a fleet with a single-ship combat power of 45 and a total of 100. Although the paper combat power is 10% less, both the actual effect and the difficulty of maintenance make it more suitable for organic civilization Some.

"The strength of the opponent's firepower is slightly higher than our previous calculations. It seems that they also have hidden clumsiness before."

After the first few minutes of tentative firefights, combined with the opponent's firepower and defense data, Hong came to this conclusion.

"About how much?"

"Large ships are slightly higher, small ships are slightly lower, and the overall increase is about 4.4%."

"4.4%..." Stuart did some calculations, "The combat power of the same tonnage is about 9.6% more than ours?"

"En." Hong nodded, indicating that the data is no problem.

"It's a lot less than we thought."

Not only Stuart, in fact, after hearing this number, everyone present thought so.

According to Hong's calculations, even if fortresses and defense platforms are excluded, and all kinds of bonuses brought about by strong AI command are ignored, and the fleet's combat power on paper is only seen, the opponent must at least make the same tonnage of combat power comparable to cat alliances. 17% more, just enough to tie the game.

If you consider fortresses and defense platforms, you need to exceed 30%. If you consider the strong AI command bonus, this percentage must reach 35%, or even break 40% to tie. If you want to win, you need to exceed this figure.

A mere 9.6%, to put it bluntly, does it deserve it?

Originally, Hong and the members of the Cat League believed that the other party had secretly upgraded the combat capability of the warship and raised its combat power to an appalling level. Launch an active attack.

However, it seems that the possibility of this guess cannot be said to be completely non-existent, but it is already almost close to zero.

Obviously, it was impossible for the opponent not to fight hard, and the captain of the transportation team did not play like this.

Therefore, after basically ruling out the possibility of a secret leap in fleet strength, the probability is clearly concentrated on two elements.

Or, the enemy's subspace creature that called itself the "Voice of the Highest" had some unknown conspiracy, such as learning the codec back then and coming to her for a one-on-one fight, or fighting in person.

Or, it is the strange ancient civilization relic whose specific effect is temporarily unknown on the other side - even though in the first contact before, the other party only used that relic to prevent their nuclear air mine ambush by unknown means, it seems to be a pure defense/ A relic of evasive nature, but what other uses does Baoqi have?

Hong is more inclined to the latter, because if it is the former, it means that the victory of the battle depends on the strength of these two subspace creatures, so when they first meet, the other party should immediately come to fight.

After all, due to the particularity of Hong and Li, even if they don't have to do anything, their strength is slowly increasing. Instead of coming to one-on-one when they are weak, wait until she becomes a little stronger and learns basic offensive and defensive skills. again?