Before the battle began, no one would have thought of such an ending - the federal fleet completely annihilated the two strangulation fleets of the Qin Empire except the Inner Circle Sun Flame Review Fleet at an almost negligible cost. This tens of millions of tons The strong collision between the alloys would end in the complete failure of one party.
When the battle that lasted for more than ten galactic standard hours ended, the once arrogant Imperial fleet paid a heavy price for their blind confidence. The three fleets, including Sun Review, left most of their capital ships and almost all small and medium-sized battleships in embarrassment before they could barely escape from the Spear of the Human Alliance. Admiral Shestakov carefully prepared for them. Woven death trap.
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In fact, when the battle just started, Sirigosa, the commander-in-chief of the Qien fleet, still believed that he had a chance of victory.
In his opinion, maybe the enemy fleet can use the huge diameter asteroids in the asteroid belt as cover to avoid detection by gravity detectors. Perhaps the Federation fleet is equipped with new weapons that have not yet been recorded in the Imperial Legion database, but after all, the disparity in capital ship strength between the two sides cannot be smoothed out by these small tactical advantages.
As long as the Human Alliance fleet's position is exposed, each Imperial battleship's powerful firepower, which is enough to wipe out the entire defense force of a colonial planet with a single ship, will make them understand who is the real overlord empire in the galaxy.
And how will a military empire that has lasted for hundreds of years use a slightly rusty but still sharp blade to defend its own dignity in the face of the challenges of the new empire?
When the detector locked on the track left by the Alliance fleet inadvertently when it traveled through the asteroid belt, and when the cold fusion reactor of the Imperial battleship began to charge the large-caliber electromagnetic main gun on the ship, the proud Sirigo Of course, Sa would not think that he would lose, because he could not imagine how the weak human fleet could win.
As everyone knows, Shestakov, who stood with his hands behind his hands in front of the giant star map, was waiting for this moment. He used Sir James and the Kraken fleet to be exposed again in exchange for the enemy's trust, gradually gathering the strangulating power of the Qin Empire. Introduce the planned optimal ambush circle bit by bit.
Siligosa was not a fool, so he simply thought about it and easily figured out that the Kraken fleet was a bait to lure him into taking the bait by actively exposing its whereabouts. But when a piece of bait is sweet enough, or when an angler simply uses himself as bait to catch a murderous monster, the monster will certainly not refuse to eat some appetizers before enjoying the main meal.
For this reason, he was smart enough to let the most powerful Yang Yan review fleet cruise outside, and just let the other two outer ring fleets go to strangle the enemies who were exposed. Even if the quality of the federal navy was better, facing two full The gap between the battleships was more than double. Unless all humans were psykers who could use their brains to calculate the trajectories of electromagnetic cannons, he could not think of a reason to lose.
So when the battle started near a rocky asteroid with a diameter of more than a hundred kilometers, Sirigosa did not even pay too much attention to the battlefield, but kept paying attention to the real people cruising around outside the field like himself. hunter.
The People's Federation can use a valuable assault fleet to fish, and using two imperial fleets as bait, isn't he a clever fisherman?
This good attitude came to an abrupt end with the appearance of a bright fireball in the real-time projection - only five minutes after the battle began, the Never Peaceful Fleet located behind the bombardment position was attacked by the People's United Phoenix who were still watching outside the battlefield. The fleet and the Hydra fleet came with a surprise.
The former flagship of the fleet and the former pride of the Outer Rim Navy, the "Alan Tarata" among the "Alan-class" battleships used its own self-destruction after the war to set the main tone of blood and fire for the subsequent battle.
This two-kilometer-long giant ship has suppressed rebellions on countless imperial colonial planets, and has frequently appeared in major border conflicts. Several fleet commanders before General Arak used it as the flagship of the fleet, until She suffered a serious accident and an explosion inside the ship while she was in port for maintenance. Only then did the newly appointed Arak give up the idea of continuing to use her as a flagship.
In terms of the advanced level of firepower and supporting facilities, the "Alan-class" battleships of the Qin Empire are second only to the "Sisko-Engatab-class" battlecruisers that are still on the drawing design table of the Royal Design Bureau.
Since the prototype and subsequent improved models came off the design stage and were officially put into production decades ago, more than two hundred ships have been in service in the Imperial Navy. From the most basic heavy gunships to torpedo ships and the latest spine-gun battleships, the "Alan-class" battleships have become a symbol of the Imperial Navy to some extent.
So much so that there is a saying circulating in the Imperial Navy, "Fleets that are not equipped with 'Alan-class' battleships are all miscellaneous fleets and do not deserve to have independent fleet designations at all."
Although this is a joke among lower-level sailors and will not be brought to the table by senior officials, it also reflects the unparalleled status of the "Alan-class" battleship in the Imperial Navy. Just like the "Little Roger" class battlecruiser of the Human Federation, a certain type of battleship has become a national spirit.
The fact that a battleship was lost within a few minutes did not make Commander-in-Chief Sirigosa feel too panicked. After all, there were too many surprises in the artillery battle between the battleships. Such emergencies were not unpredictable. Combat computer simulation There have been more extreme situations than this.
What frightened him most was that the firepower that destroyed the "Arantarata" did not come from the human fleet that was having a fierce exchange of fire with the Great Drought Fleet, but from the star that had been ignored since the battle began. It could be said that it was completely ignored. A nonexistent rocky asteroid!
The arrangement of Gubo Shestakov instantly reversed the situation on the entire battlefield. The Imperial fleet, which was lured into the ambush circle, did not expect an attack from behind. The huge battleship cluster of the Never Peaceful Fleet was unable to attack at all. The turn was completed in a short period of time, and General Arak's not very good commanding skills only deepened the chaos of the fleet.
The captains of more than a dozen battleships who received orders to move and fight back at the same time, but did not receive the exact coordinates, suddenly became confused - many of them were outstanding officers with higher military education, but the former fleet flagship was instantly killed. It really made them unable to calm down and give serious command.
Among them, the two battleships close to the "Arantarata" even had their propeller power reduced because they were too close to the explosion point, which made the battleships' already not very fast turning speed even worse.
Until the second battleship in the fleet lost contact, Arak did not figure out what weapon was killing his fleet. If the "Arantarata" had serious safety hazards and old injuries, The weak spot was hit, causing the entire ship to explode. So what happened to the other warship that was still in good condition?
It's a pity that humans, as the enemy, will certainly not answer his doubts, even if the answer is obvious - this is the second new naval equipment that the People's Federation has put into the war, a terrifying weapon called the "disintegration cannon".
Unlike the sluggish Qien Empire, although the People's Alliance Scientific Research Center is not very efficient as Lieutenant General Anya said, its absolute loyalty to the Federation and high overall quality have allowed scientific researchers to explore many practical solutions. Good things, including the previous proton launcher, are the treasures that the federal scientific research center has kept at the bottom of the box over the years.
In peacetime, these technologies would need to be tested and researched top-secretly on the federal secret weapons experimental planet. The pervasive spy infiltration once drove the federal intelligence agencies crazy - they had to work hard to infiltrate the secret weapons from the vast sea of people. While capturing genetically modified spies from all over the galaxy, they have to discuss with the scientific research center whether they can reduce the scale of their growing experiments.
After all, when the crust of an entire planet is melted or even blown into interstellar dust, it is difficult to hide such a big movement from some experienced spies. These guys who are willing to undergo genetic modification surgery to change their own race for the sake of the country are definitely not For ordinary people, any negligence may allow the Federation's top-secret weapons to fall into the hands of other countries.
But now, federal intelligence agencies can take a good rest.
The fragmentation cannon, which can concentrate a large amount of energy to launch high-energy beams, is different from conventional weapons, especially in the way of killing, and is as innovative as the proton launcher.
Beams composed of pure energy can easily penetrate deflection shields also composed of energy and composite armor that is full of holes at the microscopic level, weaken and destroy the molecular bonds between the target atoms, and directly attack the heavily protected ship. The main structure and crew suffered considerable casualties.
Due to the high requirements on energy supply, the lethality of the ship-based cracking cannon cannot meet the needs of the federal navy. But for a huge asteroid, energy supply is naturally no longer a problem.
As many as hundreds of cold fusion reactor units of various sizes are buried under mixed metal rock formations hundreds or even thousands of meters thick, providing sufficient and continuous energy for large-caliber fission cannons deployed throughout the asteroid. Energy to ensure that these "decisive weapons" regarded as treasures by Admiral Shestakov can fight until the last moment.
In order to reduce the possibility of exposure, the Federal Navy, which operates the disintegration turret, is equipped with a large number of Z-1 combat robots provided by the Star Group to assist human soldiers with slightly insufficient manpower in various tasks. The powerful power given to them by the mechanical body allows the mechanical soldiers to They fulfilled their duties perfectly, and the work that originally required a lot of manpower, such as replacing scrapped barrels and gun body parts, was not a problem for these steel-bone warriors.
Using indestructible high-energy beams, the hundreds of disintegration turrets that destroyed two Imperial battleships in half an hour proved to the top federal officials that they were worthy of their favor and investment. The top-secret project that cost countless people has finally come back. cost time.
The "Arantarata" that was destroyed by the weak spot and the other battleship that withstood the firepower of dozens of disintegration guns at the same time were just a small interest before repaying the loss. They were already being attacked from both sides by the Kraken fleet and armed asteroids. The Imperial Fleet is Shestakov's real target.
It was also at this time that Imperial Commander Sirigosa made a decision that was reasonable but also predicted by Shestakov - after getting the two strangled fleets in unsatisfactory positions and being attacked from both sides, He immediately ordered the Yangyan Review Fleet to attack in full, preparing to go somewhere outside the asteroid belt to meet the two retreating fleets.
When necessary, the Yangyan Review Fleet must also enter the asteroid belt and launch attacks from behind the armed asteroids to reduce the pressure on the Never Rest and Great Drought fleets.
He was also a wandering hunter. Since the opponent was the first to lose his composure and throw out his trump card, Shestakov would not miss such an excellent opportunity in vain.
So not long after receiving the approximate coordinates of Yang Yan's inspection fleet, the Phoenix and Hydra assault fleets hiding behind a certain asteroid accelerated away from the shadow that shrouded them at almost the same time, and these three aces The battle between the fleets will also bring the intensity of the battle to its peak since the war between the two countries began.
