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

They couldn't run away, the warp-disrupting force field was firmly binding them here, and such a deep position also made it impossible for them to run away before the missiles arrived with conventional engines, and the air defense had long been let down. It is enough for the upper echelons to give orders to modify the meaning casually. Coupled with the cat alliance's intentional attack, today's fleet has no way to counter it at all.

Even if the missile experts warn in time, it’s just to let them know that they are going to fight. This war starts from the moment when they decide to repair it casually, and at the same time, they don’t pull the elliptical orbit to extend the sprint distance in order to hurry up. It is already frantically probing on the verge of death.

And at the moment when they entered the warp-disrupting force field, they finally stepped on the ground and fell into this abyss that could not be seen at a glance.

But obviously, no one would care about their justifications—not to mention these things will not affect the stupidity of their actions, even if this is not considered, they also need a back-up man to support this huge strategy Misjudgment to blame.

Unfortunately, they stepped on mine.

If this war can still end in victory, or at least a successful evacuation, they are almost destined to be submitted to the higher-ups, and it will be up to the cake to decide whether these people who have committed "big mistakes" can still live in this world .

Obviously it was the wrong judgment of the leader, he thought that the Cat League was vulnerable and should speed up, so why should they be held accountable!

Just because he is a great leader?

The technical officer's face was a little grim at first, and then suddenly calmed down.

Yes, that's right, because he is the leader.

He can't be wrong, if something goes wrong, it must be the people below them who have made a mistake - isn't this what they already know?

Why be surprised?

Grand Rupert, hasn't it always been like this?

Looking at the operation panel in front of him, for some reason, he suddenly had an impulse.

Although they made a big mistake, there is nothing they can do. The current war still needs their assistance. Therefore, although the cake is very angry, it still does not choose to pursue the responsibility immediately, and even verbally expresses that it will give them a chance to make a crime and make meritorious deeds to stabilize them. , In stark contrast to his stupid behavior as a technical officer.

But obviously, as a senior officer with enough experience, he knew that this was just an expedient measure to stabilize them, unlike those soldiers who really thought that they could commit crimes and make meritorious deeds.

They don't even need to go back to the country. Once the war is over, no matter whether they defeated the opponent and settled in Katus, or were forced to retreat after failing to attack, they would be arrested immediately and handed over to the higher authorities for trial. At the least, they would have to be skinned.

Yes, he was already thinking about failure—although what he did was very pure, but as the Minister of Technology, he also had hard power.

After knowing the true performance of these missiles, the specific impulse as high as 30km/s and the DV starting at at least 60km/s, he understood that this time, they might really be defeated.

It is not the kind of defeat that chooses to actively retreat because the attack is blocked, the battle damage is not good, or it is simply to balance the strength and maintain the tug-of-war.

Rather, it was genuine. Two main fleets were dispatched. In a war where they clearly wanted to win directly and their strength was already in a state of crushing, they were beaten badly and returned home in a disastrous defeat.

Even, a very terrifying idea was born in his heart, even for him, who has already doubted or even dissatisfied with the leader in his heart, and committed a horrible level of thought crime, he thinks it is very terrifying.

Whether it's them or the fleet, the worst defeat in their minds is the one in which more than half of the fleet is lost, and the remaining battleships are all wounded, and they can only barely withdraw to the country.

But will such a situation really happen?

Can they really exchange a lot of battle damage with the opponent after eating so many missiles, and finally allow some warships to escape?

Looking at the group of missiles on the star map that are accelerating faster and faster, and then look at the opponent's warp-disrupting force field with a radius of more than 3 kilometers, and the huge fleet at the center of the force field, and their There are many ferry ships beside him.

hiss.

He suddenly realized something.

He finally understood why the other party had to place so many ferries with their butts facing forward in such a situation where a decisive battle was obviously going to take place.

Everyone thought that this was just a strategic deception to make them think that the Cat League was going to hit and run as before. These deceptions were useless after discovering the opponent's missiles.

Although the current data proves that the arrival time of the missile that got stuck before was just a coincidence, the real arrival time of the missile was an hour earlier than expected, and the position of the fleet when it arrived was also very different, so in the real In some cases, they were actually quite a bit short of the plasma cannon's range when the missiles arrived.

But this is also justified. After all, this strategic deception really deceived them, making them unaware that the opponent was planning to launch a decisive battle until the missile appeared. To a certain extent, it made them believe the leader's nonsense. Underestimating the enemy, the ship rushed forward without repairing the track or pulling it.

But now, he felt that, compared to this model, what he had just realized was the real truth of the matter.

The powerful engines of the ferry are not just for escape, are they?

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PS: This chapter is a big chapter of more than 6000 words!

This chapter was supposed to be a normal update yesterday (19th), but because it was really hard to break, I couldn’t bear to count it as a normal chapter after writing so much, so I dealt with it, according to the rules of adding more, rounding down, six A thousand words is equal to adding 1.5 updates, and because there is one less normal update, it owes +1 update, which is essentially equivalent to adding 19 chapters to the normal update on the 0.5th.

The main reason is that the order is wrong. I should count yesterday’s update as the normal update of the day, and then add the next chapter, that is, this chapter, so that the order looks normal (mainly because I have been thinking about adding as soon as possible. more, I didn’t think about it).

Subsequent updates will pay attention to adding more after the normal update of the day.

Volume 265 Industry and Power: Chapter [-] The anti-aircraft artillery crew is on full alert!

"My leader..."

After another three or ten minutes of waiting, the commanders of the Lupers fleet looked at the red inverted triangle marks on the star map that were only more than 10 kilometers away from them, symbolizing the missile cluster.

Take a look at the list next to these signs, "planetary reference system speed 68km/s" and "relative fleet speed 62km/s", almost everyone is already in a state of embarrassment.

Regardless of the data written above, the speed with Catus as the reference frame is only 68km/s, and the relative speed with the fleet is only 62km/s. It seems that there is no difference from their predicted 60km/s .

But in fact, anyone who knows a little bit about orbital mechanics knows that the two are not equivalent—in a non-deep space environment, the gravity of celestial bodies must not be ignored, or even occupy the most important part of consideration.

Even if the orbital altitude of these missiles at the end of their warp speed has reached about 1 kilometers, compared to the [-] kilometers they are currently in, they are still in a proper low orbit-climbing all the way from low orbits requires the use of A lot of propellant is used to overcome gravity, and the reaction on the missile body is to consume more Δv (Note [-]).

After all, Δv, that is, the concept of speed increment, is supposed to be the theoretical speed increment of a spacecraft in deep space without considering a series of factors such as celestial gravity, resistance, etc., but in reality, these factors Obviously not to be ignored.

Especially because fleet battles always revolve around planets, the influence of celestial body gravity is even more significant.

Therefore, in the case of climbing all the way from the low orbit to the top, the Δv of 62km/s can be increased, and considering that the other party will definitely leave some Δv, then the real Δv of the other party is very likely to have reached the level of 70km/s .

What is this concept?

This is the notion that they might die here!

Although for various reasons, they couldn't express any pessimistic feeling, and it was even more impossible for them to say so to anyone, but they knew in their hearts that almost everyone present thought so.

But even so, the vast majority of people still don't think that their Armada will really capsize in such a gutter. At most, they will be pushed away by nearly half of the fleet at once by missiles, and then the remaining remnants will rush in to fight with them. Both of them suffered losses, and in the end, about one-third of the wrecked ship ran away from the Katus high rail along the track tangent.

In their view, this is already a pessimistic enough prediction-a 30 billion-ton plasma gunship fighting a 12 billion-ton laser ship, and it is still unable to win even though it has successfully rushed into hand-to-hand combat. One billion tons of battered and bruised remnants were collected.

On the other hand, they suffered heavy losses, but they were far from annihilated. Their fleets still had a certain combat capability, and they could defend their home planet with the assistance of fortresses and defense platforms.

To be honest, they think this is already a very outrageous situation-this is a three times faster number advantage!

Although insisting that this is a tie, it is okay for each to take a step back, but it is obvious that 3 times and 1 times, with the triple advantages of technology, quantity and quality, "each take a step back", are you embarrassed to say this?

They can think that when they go back, it is not too much to specify that there will be no good fruit for them, and even all the decision-makers of the entire fleet will be taken down.

Don't say that they are so aggressive because of the order of the leader-who ordered it?The leader didn't give an order, he just made a suggestion based on the intelligence fed back by those of you on the front line, and he didn't let you do it.

Even if the suggestion is wrong, it can only prove that there is something wrong with the people on the front line, and they have fed back wrong information. What does it have to do with the great leader?

Although this kind of sophistry is very illogical, after all, anyone with a brain would not have the face to say "just a suggestion" after reading the lessons learned from those who did not follow the advice.

But he is the supreme and great leader. Do you dare to talk back to the leader and put the blame on the leader?

Losing a war does not necessarily mean death. After all, everyone knows what is going on, and the leader will not tell you the truth.

But if you dare to talk back to the leader, take the blame honestly, or even commit serious thought crimes, you will really disappear.

They can tell which is more important.

"Sir."

Just when everyone was worried about how much damage such a fast and so many missiles would cause them, the adjutant at the side trotted up to the fleet commander and said, "The technical department has reported an emergency."

To be honest, at the moment when he heard the unexpected situation in the technical department, his body really froze all of a sudden.

It's the technical department again!

Last time, I gave them a big baby secretly. The speed of the missile was increased from the predicted value to three times, and the combat effect was more than doubled. What did I give them this time?

"Say it."

He urged anxiously.

The adjutant didn't hesitate, and quickly explained the report of the technical department—in fact, leaving aside the miscellaneous reasons and data, the core idea was only a short sentence.

"Do your best to destroy the other side's ferry?"

Hearing this, he leaned back slightly, looking very surprised.

"why?"

"Because...they think..." the adjutant's face was slightly distorted, "they think..."

After struggling for a long time, he finally uttered a word with difficulty: "They think that we are bound to lose."

"Bold!" He immediately shouted loudly, "How could the Armada of the Great Rupert Kingdom be defeated!"

His expression was very angry, and he quickly asked: "Which daring guy said it? Tell me!"

"Reporting officer, he is still the head of the technical department." The adjutant hurriedly explained, "However, this is only what he and a very few technical department personnel said. I have already questioned it. Most of the other technical department personnel I still oppose this view, and at the same time do not agree with their judgment."

However, such a statement still failed to calm the anger of the fleet commander-and everyone understands this very well.

After all, this is to say that the Grand Rupert Congress is defeated!

It's simply daring to the extreme!

It is not an exaggeration to assign him a traitor immediately!

After expressing their outrage, showing that they didn't think Lupers would fail, the warning was swiftly...taken over and studied.

Didn't they believe the nonsense of these people!

It is only for the purpose of criticism that we have to study it carefully so as to better oppose the claims of these cowardly people!

"So, a few of them think that because the opponent's missile combat effectiveness has improved too much compared to expectations, after withstanding these two rounds of missile attacks, our losses will be very heavy. In the post-melee combat stage, it is still only barely [-]-[-] or even inferior?"

Seeing this sentence, everyone's expressions relaxed a bit—isn't this what they think?

Although due to lack of time, they can only give some rough values ​​for the time being, which are generally lower than their psychological values, but this has not yet fallen below the lower limit, and is still within their acceptable range.

They thought that these people would give out some appalling and terrifying data, or some more terrifying unexpected situation that was not expected before.

The result is just a little bigger loss.

"So, how does such a conclusion deduce that we should do our best to attack the ferry ship, even at the expense of the firepower on the frontal battlefield, so that the battle that could have been split [-]-[-] into a disadvantage?"

There was a question mark in everyone's heart.

After all, if you choose to attack the ferry ship with all your strength, even if its armor and damage resistance are much weaker than that of a serious battleship because it is not a main battleship, they are still behemoths with a length of one kilometer after all.

In particular, the structure of the ferry is such that it is almost nothing more than a super-giant engine with a bunch of connecting structures, so if you want to achieve what they call "complete destruction", not just "loss of function", the bombardment required Not too little.

In addition, the Cat League did not limit the ratio of ferry ships to battleships. In terms of configuration, there are many substitute ships to prevent the situation that they cannot escape after being destroyed. Therefore, if it is as they say, it must be completely destroyed The cost of all the ferry ships of the opponent is really not small. In the close-range artillery battle where every second is precious, such a large expenditure is enough to put them at a great disadvantage.

Generally speaking, the premise of doing this is that they have a great advantage in strength. In that case, it is no problem to destroy the opponent's running things to cut off the retreat and achieve the goal of complete annihilation.

But obviously, today they do not meet this premise.

If you can't even fight, why worry about the other party's escape?

But soon, on the next page of the report, the men finally told them why they thought they should do everything in their power to destroy the ferry.

"Worried that they will take the ferry to chase after us when we retreat?"

Seeing this, to be honest, everyone almost laughed out loud.

"It turned out that they were afraid of this—how could this be possible? It turned out that they were too scared and went crazy."

The commander of the fleet shook his hand and signaled the adjutant to take down the report: "Although the possibility of winning this war is very small, it is not to the point of being completely wiped out.

"We're still afraid that they won't dare to chase them out—if they really dare to take the initiative to pursue them, their local combat advantages, their fortress and defense platform advantages, and their logistics and maintenance advantages will all be gone."

"Besides, due to the orbital position and the structure of the ferry, if they really want to pursue them by ferry, their range advantage will be much smaller than when we attack. After all, the pursuit cannot control the distance very well. If we suddenly Do a 180 and slow down all the way, they can't do the same maneuver with us."

The deputy commander on the side also added.

"Besides, even if you are really afraid of the opponent's pursuit, then you should go all out to attack their mobile fleet and destroy their fleet. If they are not strong enough, they can only hide in the defense network and dare not come out. ——In order to attack the ferry, more of their battleships were left in the end, isn’t that just chasing after the end?”

"really."

Originally, the fleet commander was a little hesitant, thinking that even if those people had very serious criminal records, they were still professionals after all, so it would not be good to ignore the warnings they gave.

But with the approval of several other commanders, he also put aside this last bit of concern—after all, what they said was correct, it was the experience of space warfare in the Great Rupert Kingdom over the years, and The predictions of the few people in the technical department have never been verified, and they can't even come up with an accurate data model.

The most important thing is that he doesn't dare to take any risks now - originally this 3v1 war could be fought as a "one step back" and a lose-lose war was enough to give him a headache. After returning, he decided that there would be no good fruit However, if there is another huge strategic misjudgment, it is really hard to explain, and it is hard to tell.

To be on the safe side, let's implement it according to the original plan.

After convincing himself in this way, he closed the report and threw it aside, telling everyone with actions that they would not follow the suggestions made by these people.

This time, they chose to play it safe.

"Warning, the current enemy missile group is 2 kilometers away from ours! It is expected to meet our fleet in 5 minutes and 40 seconds!"

Although their speed of discussion and decision-making is already fast, the speed of missiles is even faster.