A few seconds later, countless light spots flashed through the left port window of the bridge. Those were the four County-class heavy cruisers and six Starlight-class light cruisers responsible for escorting the fleet, and they were also using their small-caliber kinetic main guns.
Spewed cannonballs at the Imperial battleship.
...Well, that's the good thing about railguns. In theory, the range is unlimited, and even small ships can show their teeth at battleships. Even if it is not powerful, even if it can only play a friendly role, it is still effective.
Better than nothing.
Yu Lian visually observed that the shells were like dense raindrops hitting the imperial warships over there. Until this time, the fleets still maintained their formation and were still trying to complete the fleet movement. But for some reason, Yu Lian could feel
It can be seen that the current performance of the imperial fleet is not that they are calm and composed, but a subconscious reaction in panic.
This may be because his spiritual sense has grasped the panic.
By this time, Yu Lian no longer wanted to pay attention to the reaction of these imperial troops. The imperial fleet under the firepower of his own fleet only had two Flame Dragons. Then, the other four Flame Dragons and the four Immortals
Bird, where is it now?
"Where's the Sky Surveying Eye?" Yu Lian asked.
"The search scope is being expanded... The call is connected. At the nine o'clock direction, Yanlong 4, Phoenix 4, distance 3, it is the imperial fleet. They want to outflank us." Luo Zeshi quickly conveyed the message from the Sky Survey Eye.
Latest search results.
Of course, as the adjutant reported the results, this was actually for the sake of a sense of ceremony. In fact, before he could answer, Yu Lian had already spotted the signal source that popped up on a certain window with the corner of his eye.
Immediately afterwards, the active gravity source radar also gave the same feedback.
"After we formed a barrier with strong photon interference bombs, the imperial fleet immediately began to divide its forces. They wanted to use two Yanlong-class ships to penetrate us, disrupt our formation and fleet operations, and then the main force would outflank us."
The chief of staff analyzed: "They never expected to use artillery battles to keep us and still make preparations to join the gang."
Luo Zeshi also said: "Yes, the superior force is lurking here to attack us. Even if we are sunk, we will not be able to win. At least two or three Lord Gods must be captured to be considered a full success."
Yu Lian agreed, but then pondered: "Maybe there are other reasons. Until now, we still don't know how the imperial fleet arrived in the high seas area. But I still think that all cruises that go beyond common sense are
There will be a price to pay.”
The staff team was lost in thought. Luo Zeshi seemed to have thought of something and motioned to the sergeant next to him to unfold the star map.
"It's not from the Grand Sea Star Region. I said it's from the entire Milky Way." He said loudly.
At this time, Captain Tovey's angry roar sounded again: "Second salvo of rail gun! Fire!"
Nearly two minutes had passed since the Fuxi's first ripple salvo. The Lord God-class battleship once again launched its second salvo. In fact, with the performance of the Fuxi, the main gun fire rate can be much faster. However,
The distance between the warships on both sides has not been extended to the best shooting range, so there is no need to start saturation shooting in advance.
Anyway, until this time, the two Yanlongs within the range have not adjusted their bodies, and can only use their side missiles and secondary guns to counterattack. They also tried to make counterclockwise movements to complete the tactics of facing the enemy from the bow of the ship.
His movements always seemed a bit messy and slow, more like he was coyly avoiding artillery fire.
After another full half minute, Yu Lian saw the lights flashing on the bows of the two giant imperial ships.
Their main gun finally fired, but the timing was extremely awkward. Rather than a counterattack, it was more of a symbolic fist pump to make themselves look less ugly.
But in fact, the experienced non-commissioned officers on the earth's side calculated the ballistics before the shells came.
"No need to evade!" a non-commissioned officer shouted.
The Earth battleship does not need to evade, but the Imperial battleship over there has been forced to the point where it has almost lost all room for dodge.
As soon as the sergeant finished speaking, a series of energy ripples suddenly burst out around the Anguo General. However, before the waves formed by those ripples dissipated, huge flames immediately erupted from the bow of the giant ship.
Cheers suddenly sounded on the bridge of the Fuxi.
"The enemy ship's shields are disabled!"
"Hit in the first round! Hits twice!"
"Hit the front main gun turret and the broadside armor belt!"
All kinds of good news were circulating on the bridge, boosting everyone's morale.
Immediately afterwards, the second round of main gun shells also overwhelmingly covered the front end of the Yanlong-class battleship. The results this time even exceeded the previous ones. Two of the shells caused huge scratches and streaks on the armored belt.
There were a series of explosions, but one more shell shot into the belly of the battleship, creating an explosion even more violent than before.
At this moment, even Yu Lian couldn't help but become excited.
"Well done! The gunners are all qualified to receive sweet potatoes." Yu Lian smiled and said: "Also, Chief of Staff, don't you think the shields and armor of the imperial warship today are too fragile?"
Brigadier General Mkawa was thoughtful. As calm as he was, a hint of excitement inevitably flashed in his eyes.
A minute later, before the electromagnetic energy on the orbital main guns of the four God-class dreadnoughts had time to calm down, the giant ships that had been moving in arcs spit out huge tongues of fire again.
This time, they activated the commander's favorite light spear main gun. In Yu Lian's view, light spear weapons may not be the most powerful energy weapons, nor may they have the highest hit rate or the longest range. Of course, the light spear weapon is not the most powerful energy weapon.
Not to mention the most effective. However, this kind of divine sword that points to the sky and cuts through the sky must be the most beautiful.
Of course, the main guns of the four God-class ships fired in unison at this time, naturally not to respect Yu Lian's aesthetics. In fact, another advanced design of the God-class dreadnoughts is to use separation between the main guns of different properties.
type conduction and capacitance system. As a result, it may bring about design redundancy in the main gun system, increase a lot of unnecessary ship mass, and increase the difficulty of supply and maintenance. However, the alliance has indeed recently made great efforts in energy control science and
There have been a lot of improvements in materials, so this design attempt was made.
Facts have proved that this brand-new design is not the product of whims. At least, during the artillery battle, the separate main gun firing can indeed produce faster, denser, and more rhythmic barrage strikes.
Yu Lian glanced at Brigadier General Mkawa, Chief of Staff. Commodore Mkawa also stayed on the Fuxi for less than half a year, and had fully studied the performance of the ship, so he formulated such an intensive bombardment plan.
The old-fashioned and cautious Chief of Staff Mkawa is not a quick-witted and decisive person, but he is a hard-working, dedicated, and leak-proof type. Such a person, even if he cannot become the top military officer, can only have a reliable
Commander, he will definitely become the best chief of staff.
Of course, this reliable officer could only be considered inferior. Yu Lian held his head high and decided to quibble for a minute or two.
Then, countless light arrows were continuously illuminated on the explosion zone of the Anguo General. In the violent explosion, the bow of this giant ship was ignited by countless fierce fires, and the ship's speed also quickly reached full speed.
"Our side maintains speed and continues standard fleet maneuvers!"
"Adjust the ballistics!" Yu Lian quickly ordered: "Concentrate the attack on the second Titanium City!"
At this time, the sailors on the ship could even see with the naked eye that the Anguo General, as the main ship, was like a scarred beast, and its physical strength was leaving the body along with bleeding. The size of the giant beast was still majestic and terrifying
, but slowly lost the ability to move forward, looking staggering and miserable.
Immediately afterwards, another violent explosion occurred on the Anguo General, and the entire ship was completely surrounded by fire.
However, what is amazing is that she is still alive and well.
"The battleships built by the empire are really tough." Luo Zeshi said.
"As long as it is a dreadnought, it is so tough." Yu Lian sighed: "But it doesn't matter, they no longer pose a threat, and they can't escape for a while."
As he spoke, the Community fleet also readjusted the shooting elements during the fleet movement. At this time, the empire's Titanium City dreadnought had passed over the injured friendly ships and was roaring like a crazy lion. The performance of the entire ship
It has reached an explosive stage.
Following closely behind her were the loyal and fearless Holy Shields and Apocalypse Eagles.
She finally made an effective counterattack, and the bow main gun finally completed a salvo within an effective range.
"The Nuwa was hit by one shot. It did not break through the fluid armor belt."
"Nuwa's report has no impact!"
As a result, although the atmosphere on the bridge was tense, the high morale was still not affected at all.
Immediately afterwards, the fourth salvo of the Lord God class also started. They were now closer to the lonely and brave Imperial Dreadnought, and the shells fired were of course easier to hit the target.
"Three hits!" "Long live!" Another burst of cheers sounded from the bridge.
"Enemy missile approaching!"
"Activate the close defense system! All crew members are prepared for impact!"
In the tenth minute of the battle, the Earth battleship finally began to perform standard evasive actions. The bright particle light emitted from the tail of the ship pulled out twisted light tracks in the dark space of the galaxy, and then completely dissipated after a few seconds.
In the air.
Immediately afterwards, the imperial fleet of hundreds of missiles loaded with various warheads finally entered within the sight range of the close-in defense guns, densely packed like a swarm of crazy wasps.
The empire's warships may have blasted out all the missiles on their sides. When the fighting situation was completely unfavorable, this was the only effective counterattack they could make.
The escort warships responsible for the outer protection weaved a dense network of fire in the starry sky, sweeping through the starry sky like a long whip made of flames, completely destroying the roaring missiles one by one.
Occasionally, there are fish that slip through the protective net, but they are still shattered into pieces on the force field barrier formed by the active deflection shield.
After this round of attack and cracking, only less than 1% of the 500 missiles actually caused effective damage. Among them, the Zeus received two rounds, causing a secondary battery on the side to be destroyed and two gunners.
Die in battle.
This is also the total casualties suffered by the Earth side so far in the war.
As for Yu Lian's flagship Fuxi, it was also hit by one shot, but it was only deflected by the fluid armor belt on the hull.
But in the process, our own warship, which had an absolute advantage, continued to pour out cannonballs, until the poor Titanium City seemed to have an entire row of bows cut off by the fire.
Then, the bow of this majestic giant ship suddenly exploded, and the tapered bow suddenly opened up like a blooming flower, forming a suddenly bright but shocking black hole.
Obviously, it was some energy cluster under the main turret on the bow of the ship that was detonated.
This majestic giant ship turned an awkward corner. Not only did its speed begin to drop sharply, but its hull also obviously lost control.
Immediately afterwards, the destroyer Xizhao No. 6 at the forefront of the fleet advanced a certain distance regardless of military ethics and fired four proton torpedoes towards the large hole that suddenly opened up.
Under normal circumstances, such a powerful weapon whose attack trajectory is extremely easy to predict would not be able to cause fatal damage to an Imperial warship.
But now, one of the torpedoes actually penetrated the Titanium City's hole very accurately. Immediately afterwards, an even more violent shock wave accompanied by blazing flames rose from the black hole.
Yu Lian's eyelids jumped as he watched, feeling that this scene had a sense of déjà vu.
Luo Zeshi said: "We just captured the signal from the Titanium Dragon. Their bridge was destroyed by the proton torpedo."
Yu Lian was immediately astonished. If we were to talk about the damage done to high-ranking imperial officers, this proton torpedo would probably be as powerful as all the previous ones.
"Who is the captain of Xizhao 6?"
"You also want to give them sweet potato fever?" Rozez smiled, and then answered directly without looking at the terminal: "It's Captain Luke Urswalk."
Yu Lian breathed a sigh of relief: "This is worth a ton of medals!"
In short, this flame dragon, which was riddled with holes and lost its command, stood in front of the community's artillery fire like a salted fish on the beach.
"Tsk tsk! What a good target! If it were in the past, we should probably invite the rookies to come over and try out the cannon." Yu Liandao said: "Such a big ship is enough to feed the rookies into qualified gunners."
"Unfortunately, there are no rookies on our ship." Luo Zeshi gritted his teeth and said: "Besides, again, the empire's warships are really strong!"
Yes, the current Anguo General has lost more than half of its power and firepower, and even the bridge and half of the Titanium City have been knocked off. But even in such a state of missing arms and legs, these two dreadnoughts
Still alive.
Moreover, even after losing the battleship, the Holy Shield and Apocalypse Eagle fearlessly launched a charge towards their own side, obviously hoping to close the distance for a lightning strike.
Of course, such behavior is destined to be heroic but meaningless.
"Persistent noble nobles of the empire. Brave noble nobles of the empire. You are brave when you are brave, but unfortunately you are not very smart. I hope we will face this kind of noble nobles every time." Yu Lian looked at it without sadness or joy.
Following the other party's actions, there was no wave in his heart.
Subsequently, two Holy Shields and an Apocalypse Eagle were ignited by the interception fire of the secondary batteries. The remaining boats seemed to have just woken up from a dream, and turned back to rescue the still burning battleship.
"The two Flame Dragons have lost their combat effectiveness. However, to completely destroy them, it may take several rounds of bombardment. Or people may land and blast them."
"Then let's wait until the battle is completely finished and then brew slowly. Now, the entire fleet is full of left rudders, and another group of guys is here!"
Yu Lian looked at the situation map fed back by the gravity source radar. The other four Flame Dragons and four Phoenixes were outflanking his side at the fastest speed.
Based on the speed they showed, if they were three to five minutes faster, they might be able to bring the community's warships within the effective range.
In fact, they had already started firing a salvo. The firepower was so fierce that it was like a star exploding.
However, Yu Lian felt that if used as fireworks, this would be more wonderful.