The second stage of the third volume of Scarlet 698, the salvo of main guns and missiles!

"Communicator, order all warships to immediately assemble Type III heavy crossbow and light crossbow missiles, and after the assembly is completed, they will be launched immediately after a countdown of three seconds!" After giving the order to assemble the missile and prepare it for launch, Dusna continued to stay by the virtual map instrument and ponder, but what she was thinking about was when to launch the beam so that the missile could cover the beam launch. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And the warships that received the instructions from Du Sina also began to load the Type III heavy crossbow and light crossbow missiles in Du Sina's mouth at this time; It is worth mentioning that although the Burning Mosa Heavy Ballista missile is quite powerful, and it can be knocked down by hitting the cruiser class with two shots, the two Zaft fleets only have a total of 64 launches, well, to put it simply, a missile salvo can only fire 64 Type III heavy crossbow missiles.

The time taken to assemble the missiles is not the same, after all, the size of the heavy ballbow missile and the light crossbow missile is obviously not the same, so by the time each warship has loaded the missile, more than ten seconds have passed.

"The missiles are loaded, and the countdown begins...... Three, two, one, launch! ”

A loud second count sounded in the bridge, and when the three-second countdown passed, the commander of the shooting shouted the order to launch the missile.

In the darkness of the universe, the armor on the tail of the Zaft battleship, which had been slowly retreating, suddenly tilted open, revealing pitch-black, deep silos.

At this moment, a dazzling orange-red light suddenly bloomed in the pitch-black and deep silos, and missiles with fiery red tails and thick smoke surged out from each launch port one after another, and in an instant, they had already filled the body of the battleship; The radius of the dense fog emitted by them was extremely large, and it actually enveloped the huge battleship, making the battleship appear looming in the dense fog, like a fairy beast that knew how to swallow clouds and spit fog in the universe.

A total of five hundred and forty-four missiles emitted an even more intense tail flame, and the power it provided sent them flew away from the ship's perimeter and toward the location of the United First Space Fleet in the blink of an eye. Although their speed varies, the slowest missile can travel at 1,400 meters per second, but the distance between the Zaft fleet and the combined fleet is still about 80 kilometers, which means that it will take at least 50 to 60 seconds for them to invade the formation of the United First Space Fleet.

"The whole ship obeys the order, and the main guns of each ship are fired immediately after the thirty-second countdown, and there is no need to reconfirm the order."

Just as the missiles flew out from the perimeter of the battleship, Dusna had already calculated the right time and gave the order; And after receiving the instructions of Du Sina, the captains of the ships began to count down one after another......

Because this time it was a salvo of the main guns of all the battleships (the 1120mm and 720mm beam guns of the Horned-Dragon class battleships were also fired), so each battleship began to prepare for launch as the countdown counted; The armor of the Horned Dragon-class battleship, the Cub Dragon-class heavy cruiser, and the Child-Dragon class light cruiser at the symmetrical place above the bow and bow were all spread, and thick barrels with a metallic texture extended out of the battleship, and after three seconds, all the weapons used by all the Zaft battleships for this main gun salvo were exposed to the universe.

At this time, the ZAFT fleet was like a monstrous beast with its fangs bared, its bloodthirsty eyes staring at the combined fleet eighty kilometers away; Suddenly, cyan particles appeared in the dark universe, as if they were sucked into its 'mouth' and condensed on its already open blood basin mouth, and the cyan light they condensed was bright and dazzling, which attracted people's attention.

When the countdown ended, and with the shouts of the firing commanders of each ship, these long-brewing cyan rays of light broke out of the bloody jaws of the monstrous behemoths, turning into blinding and sharp cyan spears, which shot at its enemy: the United First Space Fleet at speeds ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 meters per second.

Thirty seconds is enough time for the missile to fly about 42,000 kilometers, plus the distance it has already flown, and about 23 seconds after that (the flight time of the beam), it is completely possible to hit the enemy before the beam hits the enemy warship; However, the speed of the beam is not slow, about twenty-three seconds is enough time for the slowest beam to hit the enemy's warship, so on the whole, in fact, the speed of the missile and the beam hitting the enemy's warship has reached a delicate balance under Dusna's calculations, which is a headache for the combined fleet.

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"Addison, do you think we should launch inducing missiles to destroy the enemy's swarm missiles? Or is it better to fire an anti-beam blast area to weaken the beam artillery bombardment fired by the enemy? ”

Stevey's rounded face did not show any expression, and this expressionless appearance had been maintained until now when he heard the enemy raider's report of the enemy's attack; Less than a minute was obviously not enough time for his drunken and somewhat dull brain to come up with a suitable countermeasure, so he chose to rely on his assistant: Addison Leslie as usual.

Hearing Stevy's questioning voice as loud as a bell, Addison did not rush to answer, but twisted his sword eyebrows and pondered.

In Addison's opinion, the ZAFT fleet has really exhausted its plans, and the reason why it chose to retreat is entirely in response to its own ideas, buying time for a second powerful offensive; However, although Addison anticipated the idea of the ZAFT fleet, he did not have a plan to stop it, because his own warships could not match the speed of the ZAFT fleet...... Hawkers, although the zaft fleet also deliberately reduced the speed of retreat.

"Otherwise, how could it have achieved a salvo of the main guns of all the battleships now? It's just that all our ships are covered in range by the enemy...... However, this is not a difficult point, if the enemy only carries out beam artillery bombardment on us, it is a big deal that we can lay a large area of anti-beam lightning explosion and weaken it; However, the difficulty now is that the enemy launches missiles at the same time, and coordinates the speed between the missiles and the beams, so that they can hit our fleet at almost the same time. ”

"What a dilemma...... Whether it is a missile or a beam, its destructive power is not something that ordinary warships can resist, but I don't know how destructive the missile power of the Zaft fleet is? No, the enemy should not be oversimplified, in order to inflict heavy damage on our fleet, the enemy will definitely use the most powerful missiles, and perhaps its destructive power will not even be able to resist the cruiser class. ”

Addison was thinking about it, and the twisted sword eyebrows were even more wrinkled into a king character at this time, which could see how distressed he was at this time.

"Well, why don't you do that? In total, we have about 600 missile launches, so we can completely divide half of the missiles to launch inducing missiles, and cooperate with the cross-fire defense line of each warship, perhaps most of the missiles can be intercepted outside the radius of destruction; The other half can fire reflective beam blasts, mainly defending against Nemolins-class cruisers, so as not to destroy our high-end combat power by the enemy's beam shelling; As for the Bannis-class destroyers and Deshasue-class frigates, they don't care about ......"

Addison thought about it for another ten seconds or so before he spoke his thoughts.

Stevi heard Addison's words, pondered for a while, and nodded in agreement without hesitation. His ideas were not much different from those of Addison, preferring to sacrifice a large number of destroyers and frigates to keep the relatively scarce cruiser class. After all, the armor and firepower of the cruiser class are not comparable to the destroyer class and the frigate class.

With Stevi's approval, Addison didn't say anything more, he turned around and began to give orders: "Order the Deshasyu-class frigates and Banness-class destroyers to load all launchers with inducing missiles at once, and launch them immediately after loading; The Nemolins-class cruisers, Nikosius-class battleships, and Akaron-class carrier-based carriers were ordered to immediately load all launchers with reflective beam blasts, which were immediately projected three thousand meters in front of the fleet's middle formation. ”

"The Deshahu-class frigates, Bannis-class destroyers, and Nemolins-class cruisers immediately deployed all their secondary guns, and once the enemy's missile group came into range, they launched crossfire to form a defensive line to hinder the enemy's missile attack."

After giving the order in one breath, Addison turned back to look at Stevi, and he could see Stevi's expression at this time...... It's still expressionless.

"Don't worry, Stevi...... We are less than 150 kilometers away from our target, and as long as we survive this volley of the enemy, we can completely vent our anger...... At the cost of the life of the adjuster! ”

Hearing Addison's words, Stevi's expressionless appearance relaxed a little, but he still had a straight face, staring at the missiles and beams on the main monitor in front of him without saying a word, which could already be seen with the naked eye......

According to Addison's order, the Combined First Space Fleet launched the loaded inducing missiles and anti-beam blasts in ten seconds.

The target of the inducing missiles is naturally the group of missiles launched by the Zaft fleet, which is about to contact the First Space Fleet, and their speed is faster than that of ordinary ship-based missiles, which can travel at a speed of about 2,000 meters per second; Therefore, before the missile group launched by ZAFT could get close to the formation of the United First Space Fleet, it was already entangled in these inducing missiles that came from the burst.

I saw a red and white firework suddenly lit up in the dark universe, but not long after it was born, another red and white firework appeared in the universe one after another; In less than ten seconds, it enveloped an area of about 10 kilometers in front of the United First Space Fleet like a dazzling aurora, completely isolating the line of sight between the two sides (at this time, the distance between the two sides was maintained at about 70 to 80 kilometers, and the other party could already be captured through an optical scanner).

Although there are a large number of induction missiles launched by the United First Space Fleet, it is obviously impossible for it to completely intercept the missiles launched by the Zaft fleet, so when this dazzling aurora slowly dissipates, Stervi and Addison, who are on the bridge, heard the report of the enemy seeker: "After the calculation of the ship's computer, the inducing missiles intercepted about 240 enemy missiles in total. ”

"In addition, the reflective beam explosion mine launched by our side was affected a lot when it passed through the area where the missile cluster exploded just now, so the number did not reach the value of the initial launch, and after the calculation of the ship's computer, the loss was about 100 pieces; The missiles carrying the anti-beam detonation have already reached the area designated by Deputy Commander Leslie and have spread out, but because of the lack of about 100 missiles, the anti-beam detonation area formed has been reduced to a certain extent, and the current enveloping area is 62 percent of the original value. ”

Stevi and Addison had already expected this outcome, so Addison would have each ship project the reflective beam blast three thousand meters in front of the middle formation of the fleet when he gave the launch order. Now, although the area covered by the Reflective Beam Explosion Area has been reduced by 48 percent, the range it can actually cover still includes all the ships in the middle formation of the United First Space Fleet.

While Stervi and Addison were thinking, the missile group that had broken through the inducing missile defense line had already flown towards the warships at the front of the formation of the United First Space Fleet; There was no need for Stevi to give orders to Addison, when the captains of the battleships at the front of the formation saw the incoming missile group, they gave orders to organize a crossfire network.

The Desa Porch guns, which were equipped near the conning tower, let out a hideous roar as soon as their captain gave the order, and orange-red bullets burst out of the muzzle with a "......bang-bang-bang" sound; Although the firing range of the speed cannon was only 3,500 meters, its muzzle velocity was fast and the rate of fire was high, so the bullets fired from the muzzle formed a series of orange-red lasers in the dark universe, sweeping towards the incoming missile group.

One missile after another was swept by the orange-red lasers, and the missiles pierced by the bullets burst open, bringing a dazzling white light to the dark universe again.

However, at this moment, the beam that pierced through the reflective beam explosion area laid by the United First Space Fleet, passed through the fog generated by the missile explosion, and passed through the heavy shadows of the bullets fired by the speed cannon, and blasted into the formation of the United First Space Fleet like 100,000 heavenly thunders.

They were like thunder, carrying dazzling streamers, and pierced through the Deshahu-class frigates at the forefront of the combined fleet's formation with unparalleled force; Some of the pierced Deshahu-class frigates broke apart from it, some were pierced directly from the bow to the stern, and some were directly submerged in the cyan light of the beam; They burst apart in the swirling arcs of electricity, in the orange-red sparks, in the bursts of piercing roars, and the brilliant light they bloomed made the dark universe seem incomparably brighter at this time.

It was not only the Deshahu-class frigates that suffered, the Banness-class destroyers listed behind the Deshahuu-class frigates were also attacked by beams at this time; Although the beams that pierced through the Reflective Beam Explosion Minefield and the Deshahu-class frigates were weakened a lot, they were still not as powerful as a mere Banneth-class destroyer could resist.

I saw that several large holes suddenly appeared in the hull of the Bannis-class destroyer that was hit, and thick smoke kept pouring out of the big holes, enveloping the already smoke-filled battlefield even more gray; However, in the next instant, the Bannis-class destroyers that had been hit burst out one after another, and the light they produced was more dazzling and striking than that of the Deshasyu-class frigates, and it made the battlefield that had already been shrouded in thick fog shine again.

However, the sacrifice of the Deshahu-class frigates and Bannis-class destroyers finally resisted the beams fired by the Zaft, and when the remaining beams hit the Nemolins-class cruisers lined up behind the Bannis-class destroyers, their remaining energy was no longer enough for them to create a more brilliant record; The beams that struck the armor of the Nemolins-class cruiser exploded and shot out in all directions, only to be lost in an instant.

It's just that before Stevi and Addison, who saw this scene, breathed a sigh of relief, the missile group that could not break through due to the crossfire network composed of Deshasyu-class frigates and Bannes-class destroyers locked on the closest battleships to it because of the lack of battleships in the front of the combined fleet.

With a fiery tail flame and thick smoke, it flew towards the last remaining battleship at a speed of kilometers per second; The battleships that had no time to dodge and crash it were suddenly hit, and the battleships that were hit were lucky, although they were blasted out of a big hole by the missile, but because there were no follow-up missiles to follow the attack, they survived. Unfortunately, it was a tragedy, the battleship that was hit by several missiles exploded into a fiery red firework in the blink of an eye, blooming in the dark universe.

It is worth mentioning that although the missile group finally broke through the fire line of the combined fleet, the few remaining battleships they shot down did not come as much as the beam shelling......

ps: I'm sorry, I've been busy taking care of my children lately, and I have to go to work again, so I forgot to update it for a while...... Please forgive me.