Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

Except for those command ships and some unlucky ones, most of the other warships "lost" were only soft battle damage, that is, the heat sink was almost completely destroyed, and they lost their conventional combat capabilities. However, this does not mean that they have completely lost everything. fighting ability.

Under the battered and dilapidated hull, there is still a heat reservoir that can support the warship for about six to seven minutes in an overload state. Compared with a serious undamaged warship, it must be very short, but it must not be tolerated. underestimate.

In the previous space battles, due to the large number of missiles, this kind of warships that have completely lost their conventional combat capabilities are usually used to strengthen the air defense of the fleet. Basically, a round of missile attacks will consume nothing.

Those who are lucky can be repaired by the winning side after the war to quickly replenish their combat power. Unfortunately, they will directly eat nuclear bombs today, and then be sent to the factory to dismantle and recycle raw materials-in short, there is basically no chance of being able to survive the endgame.

But this time, things have changed.

Due to the extremely large scale of the battlefield this time, and the fact that the Cat League has the advantage of being backed by the fortress, Red chose to let the soft-damaged warship destroy most of the heat storage, leaving a small amount of capacity for changing orbits and leaving the main battlefield. Carry out emergency repairs and fuel injection around the fortress, and come out to fight again after recovering combat power.

On the side of the religious group, they chose to silence all the weak warships, and did not make any unnecessary actions except to maneuver with the fleet. Even if the main fleets on both sides had already started to overload and fight hand-to-hand, they did not move at all. It seems that the projectiles and beams flying across the side have nothing to do with them.

Therefore, after discovering that the other party had consumed several times more energy than before but had not moved at all, Hong began to be highly vigilant against these "large controllable space junk" that was following the fleet's inertial navigation.

After all, this is already one of the few anomalies in the enemy fleet. After knowing that the power obtained by the opponent's sacrifice must be realized by the battleship of this space, Hong has no reason not to be vigilant against it.

What might the other party do?

Since they chose to let these weak warships continue to follow the fleet, instead of leaving the battlefield for maintenance after quickly finishing the heat storage, it means that the church must want to use their hundreds of shots to do something.

If it is a normal war mode, these warships must have run away to hang out with the logistics fleet long ago. In this way, some warships that are relatively simple to repair can have a chance to return to the battlefield before the end of this battle. Second, In case of defeat, you can still run back to the next line of defense with oil on your feet, leaving the green hills there, and you are not afraid of running out of firewood.

In fact, this is also Hong's idea—but she also understands that for the religious order, it is completely outrageous to sacrifice more than a billion people and force violent soldiers regardless of sustainable development. There is no way out.

If you win, you still have a chance, if you lose, you are completely finished.

Therefore, Hong can be sure that the remaining heat pool must suddenly attack at a certain critical moment, allowing this group of warships to form a super firepower in a short period of time.

The only question is when exactly the Order intends to use them, and in what way does it intend to create this "perfect timing" for them.

Naturally, Red will not let the opponent continue their rhythm so comfortably - the group of interstellar missiles has accelerated for more than two hours and is passing through the space tunnel of the wormhole, and will soon arrive at the warring star field. Half of the missile swarms arranged on the edge of the battlefield are already on the road, ready to cooperate with the interstellar missile swarm to launch a simultaneous attack.

Although due to the double unfavorable factors of technology and quantity, the combat effect of these missiles must be much worse than when they fought against extinct units, but it doesn't matter. Weak civilizations that have returned to the battlefield.

Now that they occupy the advantage of location and people, these missiles don't need to cause much damage at all--Red just needs them to disrupt the opponent's rhythm and force them to hand in a little more cards.

In addition, the strategic early warning ship equipped with a large-scale observation array is monitoring every move of the enemy fleet with extremely high precision. Warning even a second early.

On the overloaded battlefield where the reaction speed is measured in nanoseconds, every second is a straw worth fighting for - a straw seems insignificant, but sometimes it can just be the one that overwhelms the camel "The Last Straw".

Finally, when Hong's overload time was close to halfway, the nearest missile was about to reach the enemy's range.

The church fleet moved.

The first one to issue the alarm was not the cutting-edge early warning ship specially designed by Hong, nor the large composite observation array on the fortress, but a warship.

When the enemy fleet hadn't made any movement on the surface, Glory, the flagship of Cat League's space fleet, was the first to issue an abnormal alarm.

The content of the alert is very simple.

The warp-disrupting force field that had been covering the entire battlefield until now disappeared.

So, what will happen next is already self-evident.

"Glory, immediately implement plan No. 116, start the warp drive, limit the range, and target XXX!"

Almost at the moment of detecting the disappearance of the stand, Hong's order has been issued through the superluminal communication device-it is normal to be killed by the first sight when he has never seen warp speed before. There is no problem, but if everyone knows this method and can fall into the same trick again, then I'm afraid it can only be described as stupid.

Hong just doesn't want to use the processor when getting along with the cubs, so she looks a bit stupid, but when she really needs to use her brain, she is very smart.

Even before this battle started, when she didn't know that the opponent had the ability to sacrifice, she had already prepared the way to deal with the opponent's hidden warp drive in more than a dozen different situations.

Since the warp disruptor field does not distinguish between friend and foe, according to Hong's plan, if the opponent really has a warp drive, they must first turn off their disruptor field before carrying out a surprise attack, and then wait After the warp is completed, it will be opened immediately to block their possible warp transfer.

However, there is a delay in turning on and off the force field, so even if it is turned on immediately after landing, it will take a certain amount of time for the strength of the force field to reach the standard.Therefore, the best countermeasure that Hong can do is to immediately start charging the warp speed engine when it detects that the opponent's disrupting force field has ceased, so that all warships near the Glory that are within the warp speed range take away.

The distance doesn't need to be too far, just a few thousand kilometers. Anyway, as long as the opponent can't rely on the speed of warp to make a surprise attack first, it is already a definite profit.

The warp speed engine, which was equipped with a special module designed by Hong, is undergoing emergency charging at a much higher speed than before. In less than 30 seconds, more than [-] warships within the predetermined range have been enveloped. Within the range of warp bubbles——now, as long as she sees the opponent's fleet taking off, she will immediately order the fleet to set off in order to disrupt the opponent's combat deployment.

"Have you started charging yet?"

Looking at the opponent's fleet that still does not have any light that symbolizes warp speed preparation, Hong feels a little strange.

Could it be that the other party didn't want to start warp speed now, or that they didn't have a warp speed engine at all, but they just deliberately tricked her, trying to trick them into warp speed?

Although this is indeed not a small possibility, Hong's intuition told her that the matter would not be so simple - the other party must make a big move after holding back for so long.

Not warp speed, what would it be?

Before the supercomputer simulated other possible options, suddenly, the Glory, which was directly connected through superluminal communication, reported an urgent matter again.

"The enemy fleet is all gone!"

Without any warning, the entire fleet that was still fighting with them just now suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Moreover, even in the last 0.01 seconds before disappearing, Hong can be sure that there is no light representing the generation of the warp field from the opponent's fleet.

It's not warp speed.

Almost the moment she realized this, Hong understood the reason why this fleet disappeared without a trace—the energy intensity of the enemy subspace creatures dropped by about 2 at the moment the fleet disappeared. % is almost equivalent to a quarter of the 15 billion souls it swallowed before.

And, at the same time, even though there is no evidence, Hong can "feel" something very clearly.

Something is approaching her from under the "surface of the sea".

Obviously, it is self-evident where this "under the sea" is and what these things are.

Her sensor comes from the wormhole, and the fortress is in front of the wormhole of TKK-1, so although it feels like this fleet is approaching her, Hong knows that this does not mean that the other party intends to come and cut her. Himself—not to mention how dangerous it is to travel through a wormhole faster than the speed of light, even if she had the guts, Na Hong didn't panic at all, and was even extremely happy.

After all, after passing through the Jeffrey II galaxy that has been completely evacuated and no soul can be eaten, it doesn't matter if you go left to the direction of Taralon or right to the direction of Catus good stubble.

Those in charge of guarding these important planets with a large population are not temporary small forts built in this occupied area, but real heavy fortresses with a mass of nearly [-] million tons.

And, more than one.

Hong believed that the opponent's detector must have known the situation behind, and knew that rushing in like this was almost like sending her to death. Therefore, this fleet was undoubtedly aimed at her frontline fleet.

It's just that the direction the fleet is sailing in seems...too straight.

Straight to, completely, it is facing the most dense core fleet of cat alliance warships.

There is no deviation.

Red probably knew what they wanted to do.

"The coordinates are modified, the direction remains the same, and the distance is reduced to 2000 kilometers!" Hong immediately ordered the Glory to reduce the distance of the warp speed, and at the same time let all the remaining missiles start at the fastest speed, and head towards the target location with the highest acceleration. .

This target is nowhere else—it is the core fleet of the Cat League.

46 seconds after the fleet disappeared, just like they disappeared without warning at the beginning, without the slightest light spilling out, the fleet weighing nearly 7 million tons reappeared in this boundless starry sky.

The only problem is, where they appear - there are already people there.

"Enemy ship detected, 185 kilometers away from our ship!"

Bright red alert pop-up windows kept popping up in the battleship's main control computer, and a large number of enemy ships were appearing at a close distance that they had never imagined before—the ones that were far away might be one or two thousand kilometers away, while the ones that were close might only be one thousand kilometers away. Two hundred kilometers, or even tens of kilometers.

This is not the ancient navy of thousands of years ago. In today's interstellar war, only one word can be used to describe the distance of tens of hundreds of kilometers.

face.

"All the battleships of the core fleet, immediately launch near-anti-nuclear bombs, and launch all bombs!"

Almost at the same time, the same order from the Honghe strategic command center was sent to the flagship of the Glory through the emergency link of super-light communication, and then distributed to all friendly troops with the help of the above communication equipment.

Although compared with the classic radio wave communication, the speed of this emergency link is only a little more than a second faster. In normal times, it is just the blink of an eye for ordinary people.

However, at this time, a gap of more than a second is a world of difference.

"Order accepted, all payloads are being launched!"

At the moment of receiving the order, without the slightest sloppiness, all warships with enemy ships at close range opened their missile bays, and the near-anti-nuclear bombs painted in white rushed out of the hull at the fastest speed in their lives. Pull the orange-red tail flame and start charging in any direction where there are enemy ships.

From a distance, it looks like a group of fighter jets launching heat-induced bombs simultaneously, which is extremely eye-catching.

The same goes for the enemy.

"A large number of missiles have been detected, ready to overload the anti-missile laser!"

In just a few seconds, the originally calm star field suddenly fell into extreme chaos. The dazzling tail flames flew in all directions like a peacock spreading its tail. Before that, it had been silent, The anti-missile lasers, which had no effect at all, directly entered the overload preparation, preparing to fight a way for the warship to survive in this sea of ​​​​missiles.

Whether it is the cat alliance or the religious order.

There is no longer any long-range artillery battle.

At the cost of a total population of 15 billion, the religious order finally won a chance to compete on the same stage for all kinds of small and medium-sized electromagnetic guns and missile ships they mixed in the fleet.

There is only one thing they have to do.

Unleash your firepower on everything around you.

"Fire!"*2

Volume 220: The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] The Defeat of the Second Sect

Thanks to Hong's preparations in advance, more than [-] conventional warships and all the small flagships were moved to a safer place, about [-] to [-] kilometers away from the core battle zone on average.

For the laser main gun, two thousand kilometers is actually no different from sticking to the face, but for the near-anti-nuclear bombs using low-specific impulse solid rockets and the low-velocity bombs fired by the turret-type electromagnetic gun group, this distance is enough. Can be called "Sky Moat"

Hong also immediately understood why the religious order had put so many small and medium-sized warships in the fleet, instead of taking the ultra-long-range battle route like the Cat League.

At the cost of sacrificing the ability to exchange long-range battle damage, in exchange for a stronger face-to-face combat ability, this is indeed a feasible solution when you have a means to stabilize the face-riding—not to mention anything else, the No. 2945 ship Ship delivery is the product of this idea, and its combat effect is quite good.

According to Hong's guess, the opponent must have used this method to kill other civilizations for the first time, and succeeded, otherwise the opponent would not be so confident in deploying so many small and medium-sized warships in the fleet that can only be soy sauce in long-range artillery battles .

However, unfortunately, the cat alliance is not completely unprepared for this.

Since being killed by the warp speed of the extinct unit that year, and realizing that there is a means of superluminal speed that can be carried by ships in this universe, Hong has already made preparations for encountering superluminal speed riding one day in the future.

Not only psychological and tactical preparations, but also material preparations - although it is impossible for Hong to give up the idea of ​​​​specializing in long-range artillery battles for this "very small possibility", let alone learn from the religious group There are many small and medium-sized warships mixed together, but within an acceptable range, it is right to guard against this possibility.

Whether it is to add an additional anti-ship module to the near-anti-nuclear bomb that was originally only used for anti-missile, or a side-thrust engine that can provide strong thrust in a short time, a near-anti-turret that is specially designed for possible close-range combat The layout makes the single pusher class far from being as simple as the "long-range laser ship" in its model.

Of course, compared with the real low-speed electromagnetic heavy bombing ships that were born for pure melee combat, the laser ship has a huge inherent disadvantage-but the problem is that the church doesn't have many real melee ships.

After all, it's okay for you to have a few ships, and they can be mixed into ordinary electromagnetic gunships with a little concealment. If you really dare to build a certain scale, wouldn't this be the same as telling Hong clearly, "We have the means to ride your face".

Killing at the first sight The focus of killing at the first sight is on this first encounter. This kind of similar method is most effective when the opponent is completely unprepared for the first time.

Once Red realizes in advance, and directly confronts your fleet to build melee ships, and she builds as much as you build, doesn't it mean that you are back on the road of fighting for productivity, or it means that all previous efforts have been wasted.

Therefore, in order to prevent Red from making targeted arrangements in advance, they had no choice but to let these small warships with "good melee capabilities" make cameo appearances instead of making truly professional melee ships like the 2945.

In this way, although Hong has indeed made preparations and greatly reduced losses, it is definitely impossible to say that he will not suffer at all-in just a few minutes after the enemy landed, the battle losses of both sides began. Like bamboo shoots in spring, the speed was increasing steadily at an unimaginable speed in the past.

And in this process, the battle loss rate of the cat alliance is significantly higher than that of the opponent. The battle loss ratio of the two sides is about 1.75 to 1, which means that for every 100 million tons of fleet lost by the opponent, the red will lose almost 175 million tons or so.

After all the warships that were relatively close to the enemy were damaged, phased combat reports were immediately presented in the strategic command center.

"In the past 15 minutes, a total of 372 single pusher-class warships in our fleet were completely destroyed, 160 warships completely lost their heat dissipation capabilities, and another 172 warships suffered moderate and above damage, and the hard battle damage was 1.1 million Tons, 4800 ​​million tons of soft war damage, 5100 million tons of medium to large damage.

"As of now, about 25% of our warships have been completely destroyed, 32% of the warships have withdrawn from the battle due to loss of heat dissipation, 16% of the warships have been seriously damaged, and the remaining 27% of the warships still maintain good combat capabilities. "

"As expected of an opportunity bought by sacrificing a population of 15 billion, this wave has really knocked out a lot of our fleet." A military scientist turned the digital control pen in his hand, "Your Excellency Red, the enemy's What about the damage?"

"About 10% of the hard battle damage, 40% of the soft battle damage, 12% of the serious damage, and the remaining 38% have good combat capabilities." Hong briefly explained, "In general, because we don't have Due to the small and medium-sized ships used in close combat, the ratio of hard battle damage and serious damage to the enemy is significantly lower.

"However, because we have gained a considerable advantage in the previous long-range artillery battles, even after this wave of face-riding, the enemy's soft battle damage ratio is still about 8 percentage points higher than ours, so although they In a short period of time, the combat power will be surpassed, but the magnitude of the reversal is not large, which is within the acceptable range."

Another military scientist answered.

"Besides, we still have three small fortresses and many defensive platforms. They are also a force that cannot be ignored, enough to tie the opponent's lead."

"Indeed." "Indeed"...

Everyone nodded in agreement.

At present, the other party has made so many arrangements, and it is a special fleet configuration, and it is ignoring the development of a hard explosion fleet, and it is sacrificing more than a billion people. It's just a little bit, and it may be recovered at any time.

And what did the Cat League pay?

They are just carrying out normal production according to the production plan, not to mention the dead, and even the standard of living has basically remained the same. Except for the temporary suspension of interstellar travel to free up capacity, there is almost no difference from usual.

Singing, dancing, and pulling F2A over, he gave the opponent such a huge sacrifice to the hedged Qiqibaba.

The most important thing is that when it comes to the total power of civilization and industrial production capacity, the cat alliance is actually not as good as the religious order-their background is too shallow after all, even though it took them less than 80 years under Hong's overall plan It has taken hundreds of years to catch up with and even overtake other civilizations, and its development speed can make anyone drool when they see it.

However, in terms of background, the cat alliance is still somewhat lacking-they have developed non-habitable planets on a large scale for less than 80 years. Xiao Nao, on the side of the same race, there was no red at all, and it started at least 200 years behind other civilizations.

Due to their own reasons, the civilizations of Locke, Chien, and humans are either too small or have a backward system. Therefore, after the Cat League began to explode in technology and productivity, they were quickly caught up and even overtaken by the Cat League. It seems that the first-mover advantage It's like nothing.

But this does not mean that all civilizations will be like this.

In contrast, the religious order is the first civilization that truly demonstrates the "first-mover advantage" - the colonial stars in the local star field have been developed for at least two or three hundred years, and the oldest star field has even developed an entire For more than 300 years, even if they do not have strong AI, they can still obtain much higher productivity than Cat League through the accumulation of time.