At this moment, in this vast starry sky, with this Tianlong-class space carrier as the center of the sphere, there are various numbers of electromagnetic gun projectiles whizzing towards it from all directions above, below, left, right, front and back. .
These specially designed projectiles not only minimize the impact of space weather factors, but also have extremely high stealth capabilities. This means that the power and effectiveness of active defense methods will be greatly reduced when facing them.
Because the biggest prerequisite for active defense is to be able to discover and locate them in advance.
Of course, this is only for human civilization. For a third-level civilization, even if it is only a rudimentary and incomplete third-level civilization, it is still unknown how much performance these projectiles can have. It's just that human beings have done their best as their abilities allow.
Millions and tens of millions of projectiles came overwhelmingly. Thousands of battleships of all levels were randomly changing their positions in this space, but no matter how their positions changed, they were always staring closely at the enemy battleship at the core.
The starry sky was peaceful, just like it had been for billions of years. But there is a murderous intention hidden in it, and there is an undercurrent surging.
At this moment, the Tianlong-class space carrier, the virtual conference room, the plenipotentiary envoys of various national forces, as well as Lihua, senior commanders and others are all online.
As early as a few months ago, during the Expedition Committee meeting, Commander Lihua had already made a special report on the judgment of the situation in the coming period. She made it very clear that in the next period of time, her side will definitely encounter an ambush, and it is inevitable.
This judgment is of course based on the previously discovered information about the weak third-level civilization that has completed the separation of its combat power from the main body of the fleet. At this moment, their combat power must be hidden in a certain starry sky, hidden near their own route, waiting to ambush their own side.
Generally speaking, after knowing that an ambush is inevitable, one can take some measures in advance to prepare for it, or even directly avoid it.
If this route will be ambushed, is it okay to change the route?
The answer is no. Lihua elaborated on this matter in great detail.
The reason is that the flight trajectory of one's own space carrier cannot be concealed and will inevitably be detected by the enemy. If you change your route, the enemy will also change your ambush location. This makes no sense other than wasting fuel.
In this case, it is better to aim directly at the coordinates of the main body of the enemy fleet - their route is also unobstructed, and pursue them directly.
Therefore, in the past few months, all combat forces in this Tianlong-class space carrier have been raised to the highest alert level. All combat spacecraft are on duty around the clock and are ready to go into battle at any time.
Under this situation, the frequency of the highest-level expedition committee meetings has also increased rapidly, almost every two or three days, to report on all aspects of intelligence discoveries and the progress and status of combat readiness implementation.
This is still the case today. But not long after Lihua started to make her report, a piercing alarm sounded throughout the space carrier.
Numerous electromagnetic cannon projectiles flying from an unknown part of the starry sky violently bombarded the outer armor of the space carrier.
Seven maintenance personnel wearing spacesuits and performing extravehicular operations died unfortunately. Nine extravehicular equipment were destroyed, a signal tower was blown off, and the rest also suffered some scattered losses.
This is just the beginning. Active defense equipment and survey radar cannot find all electromagnetic gun projectiles, but the projectiles that have been discovered can already be determined to come from all directions.
Up, down, left, right, and behind, there were electromagnetic gun projectiles speeding in everywhere. It seems that enemies occupy all directions of this starry sky.
The ambush finally came.
In the virtual conference room, the plenipotentiary envoys were slightly panicked. Only Commander Lihua, the entire surface of her body was covered in pink color representing excitement and madness, and her entire ugly body was trembling slightly.
"Are you here? Are you here? Are you finally here?"
"The meeting is interrupted. I will go on a counterattack mission. Members, just wait and see, hahahahahaha..."
Commander Lihua disappeared from the virtual conference room. The plenipotentiary envoys looked at each other slightly worriedly and could only wait.
After exiting the meeting, in just a moment, Lihua had basically determined the enemy's ambush mode through the few words of battle report information she had collected.
It is the most clichéd, but it can also be regarded as a fully wrapped ambush in space with certain effects.
As the name suggests, this combat mode not only disperses one's own forces to form a sphere, wraps the combat target within the sphere, and launches attacks on internal targets from all directions.
In response to this kind of tactic, not to mention Lihua, even a middle- and lower-level commander clearly understands the standard counterattack procedures when facing this kind of situation.
"Release the communications listening satellite."
"The search for optical counterparts."
"Execute standard defense procedures."
"Ballistic calculations."
…
One order after another was issued in an orderly manner and fully executed.
——This kind of standard procedure can be fully understood and implemented 100% by even a subhuman warrior.
More information on the battle situation is constantly coming in. Among them, there was a piece of good news that caught Lihua's attention.
"How is it possible? Based on the calculation of the rate of fire and material properties, the electromagnetic gun used by the enemy has not yet mastered the 'hypercircuit resonance acceleration' technology? This is an essential technology for level three civilizations. They have all mastered the large-scale production of antimatter. If you already have the technology, how could you not master this technology?”
The so-called "hypercircuit resonance acceleration" technology is a projectile acceleration technology commonly used in electromagnetic guns by Level 3 civilizations. The electromagnetic gun launched through this technology can not only have a higher speed, but also enable the projectile to have certain dynamic properties during the launch process to better resist the influence of the space weather environment.
This technology can greatly improve the power of the electromagnetic gun. However, the enemy's electromagnetic gun does not have this technology?
This is so surprising and unexpected. But it is absolutely good news.
"Could it be that... the enemy fleet has suffered too many losses in materials and personnel, making it impossible to build this kind of electromagnetic gun? In this case, it will be easier to capture them."
Commander Lihua made a more certain judgment.
At this moment, although the Tianlong-class space carrier was being attacked from all directions at all times, Lihua was not at all panicked.
This is because the attack power suffered is low, and the second is because our own side has already made countermeasures. If there are no accidents, through a series of means such as communication monitoring, radar sky search, ballistic reverse thrust, optical counterpart search, etc., we will soon be able to determine the location of the enemy spacecraft. At that time, just command your own combat spaceship and pounce on it.
This even made Lihua feel a little uninterested.
This time the battle is simple, but... I don't know how much of my training requirements can be achieved with such a simple battle.
She was even thinking about whether she should take the initiative to increase the difficulty to improve the training effect if the enemy was too weak.
"It's just that there are still some troubles with the expedition committee. No matter, I am the commander of the expeditionary force, and I am the highest person in charge."
Just as she was thinking secretly in her heart, a subordinate of the Blood Pirates Group hurried in.
"Captain, there are some unexpected situations."
"oh?"
"We can't find any enemy warships! We have used all the means we can, but we still can't find the enemy! We don't know where they are!"
On Lihua's body, dozens of tentacles flickered subconsciously.
"How can this be?!"
This is indeed impossible. Lihua remembered clearly that many years ago, when the bloody pirate group robbed a lone standard level three civilization combat spacecraft, this search system still found its approximate hiding area, and then further searched through spy satellites. Searched and found it completely.
Now, facing a civilization that has not even mastered "hypercircuit resonance acceleration technology", we can't find where they are?
"We did not monitor any electromagnetic wave communication signals!" The subordinate said anxiously: "Except for ours and the cosmic background radiation, there is nothing else! We searched all frequency bands, nothing!"
"It's impossible for the enemy not to communicate!"
Lihua made a decisive judgment. But then she realized what this speculation meant.
The enemy must have communicated. But we can't hear it at all. So...could it be that what the other party was doing was gravitational wave communication? Quantum communication? Space communication?
However, the several communication methods speculated later are all only present in the theoretical predictions of Level 3 civilization, and are communication methods that can only be mastered by at least Level 4 civilization!
Our enemy is a fourth-level civilization?
impossible! Absolutely impossible!
Reluctantly suppressing this thought, Lihua began to think rapidly again.
"Survey radar and optical counterpart searches have not found any macroscopic objects within a radius of 5 million kilometers with our warship as the center."
These two search methods have high reliability. This also means that the enemy's spacecraft must be 5 million kilometers away at this moment.
After a while, Commander Lihua's thoughts gradually calmed down. She has made a more reasonable and certain judgment.
"It must be the automatic activation of the turret from space. Pass the order and execute the random maneuver plan. After a few days, they will stop."
"Yes, Commander!"
