"Commander, the target enemy ship is 1.5 million kilometers away and has been locked."
"Commander, the S-type missile has been launched and is expected to hit the target in 380 seconds."
"Commander, the maneuvering behavior of the target enemy ship has been detected. The trajectory is being predicted... The trajectory of the S-type missile has been corrected."
"Commander, it has been detected that our ship is locked, the shield has been activated, and the main gun charging has been released."
"Commander, the enemy frigate is detected to be accelerating..."
"Commander, it has been detected that the enemy's main ship and mother ship continue to turn and maneuver, and the trajectory has been predicted..."
On the second floor of the command center, all the generals have each selected the command channel of an "Eagle" battleship to "monitor" - they will not interfere with any actions of the commanders below who have completely taken over the battleship. I just simply want to be immersed in the scene.
After all, the commanders below... are the most capable air combat commanders in the entire human race. In addition to having rich experience, each of them also has superb technology and a good foundation in science and engineering.
From the beginning, they were not so-called fighter test pilots! But the fleet commander!
That's right, not a ship commander, but a future fleet commander - at the very least, the person in charge of a "tactical team" consisting of several warships.
Today is their first battle, and there is no reason to interfere with them in the middle and let them adjust the muzzle by five millimeters.
Ye Ming was no exception. He just connected to the channel of the Y18 battleship, and then quietly listened to the exchange between Yang Wenzhi and Smil, as well as Aita's report.
Ye Ming's eyes stayed on the holographic projection on the conference table.
At this time, the holographic projection was covered with countless light spots.
The blue light dots gathered in the "cluster" represent the human Auriga fleet. It is obvious that the Y18 battleship has broken away from the formation and is heading straight towards the cluster of red dots ahead at extremely fast speeds.
These red dots naturally represent the "dangerous" Executor fleet. Among them, the darkest and largest one is the mothership, followed by the battleships, destroyers, frigates, etc.
And around that group of red dots, there are many tiny red dots, representing the space fighters released by the Executor - their targets are the small green dots sparsely scattered around the Executor fleet - That's a human detector.
As the fleets of both sides approached, streaks of light also rose from the Auriga fleet, and the first batch of twenty-four rice grains were released one after another like fireworks.
At the initial low speed, the rice grains began to change their attitude under the guidance of the high-dimensional detector and the swarm radar network, and then entered the acceleration stage.
Almost at the same time, the main guns on the opposite side lit up, and almost in an instant, the twenty-four warships of the Auriga fleet all raised their high-dimensional space membrane shields at the same time.
At this moment, everyone's eyes instantly looked at Ye Ming.
Facing everyone's gaze, Ye Ming remained expressionless, but his hand under the desk was quietly clenched.
3.
2.
1. Nod immediately
The countdown ended, and the Executor fleet's light came as promised. Except for the main guns that missed, a few of the main guns that hit were directly submerged in the shield.
After a moment, fierce applause erupted in the conference room, and everyone took a deep breath at the same time, and smiles began to appear on their faces.
"Awesome!"
"Nothing more than that!"
“I feel like I have a great chance of winning!”
"Mr. Ye, what does it mean that the main gun's charge has been deactivated just now?"
Facing everyone's chattering, Ye Ming also exhaled slowly.
The effectiveness of the high-dimensional space membrane shield means that humans at least have a certain degree of initiative on the battlefield.
"The current main gun and shield use the same energy storage system. After the shield is turned on, it will take a while for the main gun to fire, and there is also a vacuum period."
"Will this problem be solved after the new battery comes out?"
"It can greatly alleviate this problem." Ye Ming said concisely and then looked at Director Niu: "Did you notice that the opponent's main gun is faster than the speed of light?"
Director Niu nodded immediately: "The distance just now was five light seconds, and it only took them less than four seconds to hit the target."
"Tachyon polymerization weapons, the faster the speed, the lower the energy." Ye Ming looked at the battlefield projection intently, and after a few seconds of silence, he said softly: "Now, it's our turn."
Along with Ye Ming's voice, twenty-three blue-purple lights rose instantly.
…
In the communication channel of the Y18 battleship, or the "Zhiyuan" ship, Major Smil was yelling.
"Fake! Were we hit just now?"
"Yes." Yang Wenzhi replied in a deep voice, focusing on the data feedback in the battle interface.
"What weapon is it?"
"I don't know, but according to Aita's warning, this thing is faster than the speed of light."
"Fuck Fuck!"
“But it’s not powerful enough—f*ck!” Yang Wenzhi was saying, and he also said f*ck.
In the holographic projection, twenty-three rays of light "swiped" past the side of his battleship.
At this moment, his heart suddenly rose to his throat.
4, 3, 2, 1.
Four seconds later, the hall burst into cheers, and several high-pitched voices rose instantly, ringing in Yang Wenzhi's ears through the headphones.
"We hit the mothership!"
"I hit the battleship!"
"I hit it too!"
Hearing the shouts of his comrades, Yang Wenzhi subconsciously clenched his fists and felt relieved!
Although the "Zhiyuan Plan" was implemented, their ship had to rush into the enemy battleship group at high speed to bayonet, so it had to retain enough energy to complete the defensive approach maneuver, so it did not conduct a coordinated salvo.
But this tactic of concentrating the main guns of several warships to carry out a saturated all-round attack on a certain warship was proposed by him.
Since it works in actual combat, that’s great!
It's just... if you destroy the opponent's mothership like this, won't it look like your own warship rushing over?
Therefore, while being happy for his comrades, Yang Wenzhi even felt a little regretful.
However...the next second, Aita's voice sounded.
"Target not destroyed."
The cheers in the command hall stopped abruptly.
The regret that had just arisen in Yang Wenzhi disappeared instantly, and then turned into tension.
"Aita, report the enemy ship's defense system." Yang Wenzhi said solemnly.
"Commander, it has been detected that the enemy ship has a high-energy particle resistance device. Previous attacks failed to break through the device."
Listening to Aita's explanation, the channel fell into silence.
"It seems that we can't underestimate the enemy." Yang Wenzhi said softly.
"Don't worry, we still have rice grains - look, the rice grains are here!"
Following Smil's voice, several points of light were like shooting stars, approaching from behind.
This is the grain of rice accelerating.
The speed of the rice grains is getting faster and faster, and in just a moment, they are advancing together with the Zhiyuan, which has reached its maximum speed, three thousandths of the speed of light.
Then, without any intention of stopping, they instantly surpassed the Zhiyuan and turned into meteors and disappeared into the vast starry sky.
"Well, let's continue the mission."
During the conversation, the warships of both sides continued to approach, and at this time, the other side's main warship had clearly shown its diagonal steering attitude.
Judging from this posture, there is no doubt that their tactics are similar to the previous battle between the Kerong people and the Tara people - using constant "turning in large circles" to approach the enemy, relying on high-speed travel to avoid attacks, and then looking for Opportunity to fire.
The opponent's "small tonnage" destroyers and escort support ships came towards the human fleet.
…
Time passed by second by second.
Following the first wave of large-scale firefights, the attacks from both sides became tentative. From time to time, streaks of light passed by "sides" that were thousands of miles apart.
"Attack detected, shields activated."
Aita's voice sounded again, which meant that the Reach was once again under attack.
Three seconds later, the shield was lifted, and Yang Wenzhi looked silently at the energy storage system. In just ten minutes, Aita activated the shield three times to avoid damage. Although the shield was only activated for a few seconds each time, it was enough. One third of the stored energy is consumed.
And they are still 700,000 kilometers away from the main force of the local fleet.
"Aita, can I manually control the dodge?"
"Okay, Commander."
"Cancel the automatic shield, and a red full-screen prompt will appear immediately after an attack is detected."
"Copy that, Commander."
"Aita, set the maximum G-force threshold for the spacecraft."
"Copy that, Commander."
"Well, it's a pleasure to work with you."
"Good cooperation, Commander."
As Aita's voice fell, Yang Wenzhi slowly exhaled.
He closed his eyes, and after a moment, he opened them again, stretched out his hand, wiped the sweat from his palms on his clothes, and then held the spacecraft controller accurately - this thing is very similar to a game controller, but it is more advanced than a game controller. I don’t know how many.
“Dude, are you going to manually steer the boat?”
"Yes."
"Will it succeed?"
"I don't know." Although Yang Wenzhi was answering, all his attention was focused on his eyes.
Just for a moment, a red glow appeared in front of his eyes.
Without any hesitation, he directly pressed the spacecraft control.
Almost a second later, a ray of incandescent light passed by.
This time, it was a real brush with shoulders.
"Behave yourself, Aita."
"Commander, please remind me, if it is a similar dodge, my reaction time will be shortened by 170 milliseconds."
"No, Aita, you don't have human intuition." Yang Wenzhi stared at the six destroyers in front of him, which were almost oncoming. His whole body tensed up instantly, and he subconsciously pressed the control.
The next moment, six rays of light passed by again.
"look."
"A good start." Aita's voice was emotionless.
…
On the second floor of the command hall, almost everyone's attention stopped on the battleship Y18.
The Y18 battleship, which was alone in the depths, had arrived at the center of both fleets.
Other human warships began to move in a "snake shape" to constantly avoid damage, and used their main guns to attack occasionally - there was no way, the current main guns of humans were all fixed forward.
Such a design, in addition to greatly simplifying ship design and allowing small ships to have high-power main guns, can also fire on the enemy immediately and seize the opportunity.
But the shortcoming is also obvious, that is, the side firepower is insufficient. Once the opponent implements a spiral close combat plan, it will be very passive.
Time passes slowly, and lights continue to rise in the space, but so far, no battleship has fallen.
"I can somewhat understand why the Kerong and Tara people have been fighting each other for several months."
General Qin exhaled slowly, and then looked at Ye Ming: "If we stay on the defensive, can we easily delay it for a few months?"
"That's the case in theory. But in reality..." Ye Ming's eyes fell on Y18 and he said softly: "Our current energy storage system is not enough to support our high-intensity maneuvers."
After a pause, Ye Ming continued: "Currently, more than half of the warships have only half of their energy storage. If the energy storage is exhausted, they need to exit the rest and wait for the energy storage system to recharge."
"Well... what about the other party?"
"The opponent... we can't judge at the moment." Ye Ming raised his eyelids and looked at the densely packed small light spots in front: "Let's first look at the effect of the rice grains. The opponent's defense system is not our shield, it should be high-density energy. Fields and the like.”
"You mean you can't defend against rice grains?"
"Probably not."
During the simple exchange, Ye Ming saw that the six destroyers that came to "intercept" Y18 fired another salvo.
In just an instant, Aita reported the direction of the attack - if it could be described as a passing by before, then this time it was a passing by with a scalp!
The nearest aggregate particle is less than a hundred meters away from Y18!
After a few seconds of silence, Ye Ming looked at General Qin: "Let the fleet help cover Y18 with firepower?"
"good!"
…
Yang Wenzhi held his breath, and the channel was quiet.
He didn't know what the enemy's destroyers were here for, but judging from their performance...the other party kept attacking him. Hmm... This feeling reminded him of those martyrs who broke into the battlefield alone.
Now, aren’t I doing the same job as the martyrs?
"Man!" Yang Wenzhi called Smil.
"exist."
"Can you help me think about what the other side's ships are here for?"
"…What do I think? What greets us?"
"No...fuck!" Before Yang Wenzhi finished speaking, he saw thousands of rays of light rising from the battleship ahead!
He leaned back subconsciously!
At this time, Smil's loud roar sounded: "Mi Li! They are intercepting Mi Li!"
In fact, Yang Wenzhi knew the other party's purpose without Smil's reminder.
Yes, a ladder-shaped defense array was formed between the opponent's destroyers and frigates and the opponent's battleships.
At this time, all the enemy's warships... opened fire at the same time.
Countless rays of light lit up the entire night sky.
At the same time, Aita's voice sounded.
"The rice grains were intercepted and four grains were lost."
"Six have been lost."
"Eight have been lost."
Yang Wenzhi bit his lip, listening to the reports that kept ringing. He pressed the steering button hard, and his eyes were only on the mothership hidden among the layers of warships.
At this moment, twenty-three rays of light rose instantly, illuminating the night sky behind him.
The voice of a comrade came from the channel.
"Yang Wenzhi, brothers are covering you."
(End of chapter)
