"trap!"
At this moment, this idea appeared in Li Heng's mind like lightning.
Sure enough, you must never underestimate any enemy, and you must never underestimate any civilization!
In such a large fleet, there will always be smart people among it! After eating "the enemy can find themselves, but they can't find the enemy", they also made targeted arrangements!
The enemy's fleet has also learned to maneuver randomly with extremely low power, and also learned to hide in the dark. When its own fleet happens to appear near the enemy, it immediately launches an attack!
This time it was pretty good, after all, there was still at least a few hundred thousand kilometers between the two sides. If the distance is even closer, only hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands, or even thousands of kilometers away, then the blow will come in an instant, and by then, I'm afraid I won't even know how I died!
At this moment, there is no way to escape through random maneuvers alone.
"Prepare mechanical recoil!"
Li Heng immediately yelled.
"yes!"
At this moment, while the spacecraft was performing random maneuvers, the covering steel plate on the belly of the spacecraft opened, revealing three gun barrels that were different in shape from ordinary electromagnetic guns.
The electromagnetic acceleration started again, increasing the special electromagnetic gun projectile to an extremely high speed, and then suddenly rushed out from the muzzle.
However, in another sense, the launch of electromagnetic gun projectiles is actually the same as the plasma beam ejected by the engine, that is, both can act as a working medium to provide reverse thrust for the spacecraft.
The difference is that the plasma beam has extremely high temperature and brightness, making it easier to detect. However, electromagnetic gun projectiles do not have high temperature and high brightness, so they are almost impossible to detect unless they are detected at close range and with high power!
This is a more covert method of propulsion to change one's own course and speed.
Under the action of mechanical recoil, the radiation released by this spacecraft is smaller and more concealed, but the speed is faster than before. With the combination of the two, the spacecraft finally escaped the oncoming enemy fleet again.
But even so, our own spacecraft was hit by an enemy electromagnetic gun projectile, causing a loud bang in the cabin, and some fault codes emerged.
Li Heng took a look and found that these faults were within the range that the emergency repair kit could handle, and he felt relieved.
"After all, we have good luck. However, the enemy has also learned to lurk in secret, hiding this trick in secret, waiting for us to come to the door, but it is very difficult. It will be even more dangerous next..."
I was lucky this time and escaped. But I don’t know what will happen next time. Moreover, even if he can always escape, what about the other spaceships?
At this moment, in this star field, I am afraid that one of our own spaceships has turned into wreckage, and a large number of comrades have probably died...
Li Heng knew clearly that this was inevitable.
There are always sacrifices in war.
This did not create any fear in his heart, but instead aroused a strong fighting spirit.
Looking at the rear of the cabin, the comrades who were tied with elastic ropes were not awakened by the violent acceleration and loud noise at all. They were still sleeping soundly and even snoring. Li Heng quickly floated to the emergency repair kit and put on Put on the space suit and go out for extravehicular operations.
The only thing that made him feel a little distressed was the large amount of energy and materials consumed in the previous mechanical recoil.
"Mechanical recoil is easy to use, but it's just too wasteful. Alas."
At this moment, in the flagship of the fleet numbered C-21 by Li Heng, the commander became angry again.
"How is it possible?! You can escape from such a close distance? Their propulsion power is obviously not increased, otherwise we would definitely be able to observe it!"
"Mechanical recoil? You mean mechanical recoil?! It's even more impossible! Mechanical recoil requires too high a spacecraft operating level and only exists in theory! No soldier can do it in reality!"
As far as he knew, performing mechanical recoil operations would place a huge load on the spacecraft's attitude, engines, weapon systems, etc. A slight mistake would cause overall damage to the spacecraft. The reaction speed, observation ability, and tacit understanding between each other required for this kind of operation are so high that it is impossible for a second person to learn it.
Even if people want to cooperate with each other to perform this set of operations, they must undergo rigorous training for at least ten years, and the success rate is not high. Because of this, in reality, no force would deliberately train combat forces.
But now, apart from mechanical recoil, he really couldn't think of any other means by which the enemy could escape.
"Could it be that our enemies have reached the point where warriors from any spaceship can skillfully cooperate with each other to complete the mechanical recoil operation at an emergency? What kind of group are our enemies? ah……"
At this moment, although we clearly know that the enemy is just a group of guys with backward technology and flying spaceships who can only hide and never dare to conflict with us, we clearly are the predators and the enemy is just the prey, but no Knowing why, he felt a little fear in his heart.
Time passes slowly. In this star field, the brutal battle continues with no end in sight.
The enemy's tenacity, tactical sophistication, and soldier quality exceeded Commander Lihua's imagination and exceeded everyone's imagination.
It seems that the entire universe is full of enemies, but there seems to be no enemies anywhere. We clearly know that the enemy is just a group of weak guys, and they are no match for us in a real fight, but whenever we gather our strength and try to kill the enemy in one fell swoop, we can never find where the enemy is.
It was like I had accumulated strength for a long time and punched suddenly, but it always hit the cotton.
This period of time was actually not without results. According to reports, up to 67 enemy warships have been destroyed by our own forces. In contrast, our own side did not lose even a single spaceship, and none was even seriously injured.
This looks like a big win no matter what. With a battle loss ratio of 0 to 67, who can say it is not a great victory? But, but...
Lihua held a fire in her heart, getting bigger and stronger.
She tried hard to comfort herself: "The enemy has always only aimed at satellites, so go ahead and fight them. We have so many satellites here that you can't finish them in ten years. But your spaceships are limited. If I keep grinding, I will eventually kill you all."
Then, a year later, Lihua received the report.
"Commander, our satellite reserves are low..."
Lihua was startled at first, and then became furious: "Not enough? How could it be insufficient? We have brought so many supplies, so why not build a satellite if we don't have one!"
The total amount of materials carried on this Tianlong-class space carrier is more than 100 billion tons. However, the total mass of a satellite, even a large armed reconnaissance satellite, is only a few tons. Small communication satellites are even smaller, each weighing only 0.1 tons.
Can’t build a few satellites?
The staff officer said bitterly: "A satellite is very small, but taking into account the consumption of the manufacturing process, later delivery, and some precision equipment, on average, the total amount of materials and energy required by a satellite is almost as high as its own mass. Ten times. In more than a year, we have lost nearly a million satellites, and our reserves are no longer sufficient..."
Millions of satellites with a total mass of millions of tons. Even if converted into the total amount of materials and energy, it is only tens of millions of tons. Compared with the total material reserves of hundreds of billions of tons, it is still only a small part.
But the account cannot be calculated this way. A large part of these hundreds of billions of tons of material reserves are other types of reserves, such as water, various gases, energy, food, daily necessities, etc., only a small part of which can be used to make satellites.
A chill appeared in Lihua's heart.
Nearly a million satellites of various types are enough to support a relatively large-scale war...and now, they are just gone?
Not one of our own warships was lost, but our satellites are almost gone?
This, this situation has never happened in the entire Iron Blood Star Cluster.
The craziest military strategist would not have imagined this situation. But at this moment, this situation happened to him.
"Damn, you are a bunch of idiots. You are addicted to shooting satellites, right? You have a grudge against satellites, right? If you have the ability, you can come out and fight warships! What kind of skill does shooting satellites have!"
"Build me a miniaturized, lightweight satellite! Reduce the average mass of the satellite to one-tenth, one-hundredth of the previous one!"
"Commander! The communication satellite can barely do this, but for the rest of the satellites, we have to castrate the satellites' various functions, and it will be useless even if they are built!"
Lihua was extremely angry, but she also knew that this was the truth.
Without satellites...how can we fight this battle?
The results gained so far are all based on a large number of satellites of various types first locating the coordinates of enemy warships, and then our own warships can destroy them. Without enough satellites, it is impossible to find traces of the enemy and build a tight defense network. By that time, even if one of our warships is not damaged, we may not be able to stop the enemy from approaching our mothership!
Thousands of battleships are a lot, but if they are spread out into space, they mean nothing. The enemy's target is so small, and when the time comes, we will be blind and deaf!
However, the target of our own mothership is too big. The enemy does not need satellites and is not afraid of not being able to find it!
This is a natural disadvantage that the defense has against the offense.
Waving her hand to ask the staff member to step aside, Lihua once again fell into thinking.
She realized that this situation could not continue. I must make adjustments to the overall strategy again.
However, does he still have room to make strategic adjustments?
How else can I adjust it?
Could it be that... while the number of satellites is barely enough to support the battlefield strategic system, our side will further break up the fleet like the enemy, and even start to put a single warship into battle?
By doing this, can the tactical literacy of our own soldiers keep up? Especially...will the expedition committee agree?
