Prologue: The First Battle

With the star that looks like an orange-red fireball 1200 light-seconds away as the background/background, Fengyu's eyes are thousands of spherical floating objects, constantly changing their positions like atomic oscillations, intertwined with white ovoid bands of light, and from time to time one or two brilliant fireworks burst out. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Feng Yu controlled his spherical aircraft to avoid a small area, and at the same time controlled the crosshair on the main control screen, putting on the blue spherical aircraft that were scurrying around, and from time to time he also glanced at a green spherical aircraft located on his right front side, looking at the red light flashing on the guy's pot-bellied waist.

A person familiar with Morse code who saw this scene would surely read a sentence from the flashing red light, "Boys, be careful to avoid it, survival is more important than anything else!" ”

It is hard to imagine that in the era when mankind has fully entered the universe, such a backward communication method will be used on the space battlefield.

But that's just the way it is!

Since the discovery of the R particle in SC0037, the new European Union has dominated the battlefield with this heavy particle that has a strong interference effect on various elementary particles. As long as a certain concentration of R particles is dispersed in space, electromagnetic particles can be completely blocked, and communication can be neutralized. And even photons are affected by R particles to produce random polarization, which makes objects one light-second away have visual deviations, not to mention optical communication.

Based on this battlefield environment, electromagnetic communication has become a thing of the past, and the two almost forgotten antiques of wired communication inside the battleship and external light communication have made a strong comeback.

Although the flashing red light does not need Feng Yu to read it with the naked eye, and its own translation program converts it into text and displays it on the main control screen, he will still subconsciously glance at it.

Because he is a rookie who is only 16 years old, today is his first fight.

This is the DT2 star field located 10 light-years away from Dijing, and it is currently at the forefront of the war between the New Asian Republic and the UAC Federation.

The spherical vehicles on the space battlefield are mobile suit "balls" known as iron balls, and those white oval bands of light are particle beams fired by a 40mm particle beam rifle located at the top of the iron ball.

On either side of the area where thousands of iron balls were glued to each other, dozens of starships of different models were scattered, and from time to time the main gun of the bow sprayed a thick particle beam at the battleship on the other side. Nine times out of ten, these beams hit the target, but not very well. Huge rippled spots of light will appear at the location where the enemy ship is hit, which is the R-particle shield at work.

Unless it is a concentrated fire, under normal circumstances, the shelling of a battleship against a battleship is just a drain on each other's energy. But it's easier said than done. Due to the speed, it is not easy to avoid a single particle beam main gun, but the captain of no battleship would be stupid enough to let the main guns of several opposing ships lock on to him at the same time.

Therefore, the combat mode of the interstellar battlefield is ridiculously back to the combat mode of the Age of Discovery in the 15th-17th centuries AD, supplemented by artillery bombardment and dominated by boarding operations. Mobile Suit is a new type of individual combat weapon born to adapt to this mode of combat, and after the particle beam weapon is weakened by R particles, Mobile Suit carrying conventional kinetic weapons can instead pose a threat to the warship.

Of course, there is absolutely no such cannon fodder as Iron Ball in the mobile suit that can threaten the battleship.

Feng Yu controlled the crosshair in vain, and failed to trap any enemy aircraft for a long time, when a new message came from the main control screen, "Young men, what are you still hesitating about?" Shoot the fuck for me! Leave the damn crosshairs alone, you can't trap the enemy! This is an iron ball, not an MR, our advantage is that there are many people, and playing a crossfire net is what we should do. ”

The MR mentioned by Nagaki is the shortcode of the model shortcode of the long-range mobile suit "MSRAIN" of New Asia. MS stands for "MobileSoldier" - Mobile Suit, which was first developed and named by the UAC Federation, so countries have also used this name.

The earliest mobile suits were humanoid, mainly to adapt to the use of a variety of kinetic weapons, such as alloy sabers and Gauss cannons. It's just that humanoid mobile suits have too many bionic joints, and the control is quite complicated, which is not easy for ordinary people to use, which limits their number and makes it difficult to form a group. Therefore, in response to this problem, the New Asian Republic developed a simplified version of the mobile suit that is easy to control as soon as it came out, which became the darling of the battlefield as soon as it came out, was installed in large quantities, and was copied by various countries.

But the iron ball is a simplified version after all, after reducing the difficulty of control, it also reduces the combat ability, becoming cannon fodder on the battlefield and becoming a consumable, just like the infantry on the ground battlefield hundreds of years ago.

The one who can really dominate the battlefield is still the humanoid mobile suit, such as the MR that Changji just said. In the rear of the New Asian Iron Ball Army, there are several MR 60mm particle beam sniper rifles in one hand and 120mm Gauss guns in the other hand firing alternately. Nine times out of ten, the iron balls that were blown up on the battlefield were their masterpieces, and the Gauss cannon in MR's right arm could directly ignore the R particle shield and directly attack the enemy warship.

Yes, the R particle shield can only protect against particle weapons, and has zero defense against kinetic weapons that use high-energy electromagnetic acceleration of metal projectiles.

Of course, it is not easy to sink a battleship with a 120mm Gauss gun, the external armor of the battleship is not decorative, even a more powerful dual-handed 180mm Gauss gun can only smash a hole in the armor. The best way to sink a ship is to bombard its charged main gun or engine vent in the rear, but it is much more difficult to do this than to trap an enemy aircraft with an iron ball's crosshair.

Changji is right, fantasizing about using iron balls for accurate shooting, unless the enemies are all space meteorites, Feng Yu took a deep breath, and began to pull the shooting trigger with his left hand, while firing, he controlled the crosshair to chase the blue iron ball.

At this moment, a white egg of light came to him, and a piercing alarm sounded from inside the iron ball, telling Fengyu that he was in the firing envelope of the particle beam. He hurriedly manipulated the mech and made a sideways roll.

With a "boom", he still couldn't fully dodge the attack, and the iron ball body shook violently, and continued to roll sideways. The space in front of him seemed to turn into a huge whirlpool, and countless blue and green iron balls in front of him swirled at high speed in the field of vision, making people dizzy to watch. It's just that he has no time to care, and stares at the main control screen for the first time.

"The right robotic arm is damaged, the shell of the body is damaged by 30%, and the right vector spout is damaged by a ......" A series of messages show the current situation of Fengyu's car, and fortunately, the degree of damage to the iron ball is not high, at least not to the extent that it needs to be taken out of battle.

As a newcomer to the battlefield for the first time, he was inexperienced after all, ignoring his own movement evasion while shooting, and actually let the enemy iron ball complete a rare lock.

Calming down from the panic, Fengyu regained control of the iron ball's stance and stopped the dangerous roll.

The right robotic arm is gone, and it doesn't carry any device anyway. However, the loss of the vector spout was a bit of an effect, making it impossible for the iron ball to complete the action of spinning to the left, but it was acceptable.

Fengyu is fine, but his teammates are doomed. Just after he stabilized his body, a green iron ball in front of him was unfortunately hit by the opponent's crossfire, and instantly turned into a ball of fire, filling his field of vision, like an exploding supernova.

There is no way to transmit sound in space, this scene is like a silent movie of the old era in Fengyu's eyes, and the green iron ball blooms quietly in the deep space, becoming one of the fireworks that bloom one after another, and it is as amazing as an epiphany. It wasn't until some fragments of the iron ball hit the shell of Fengyu's car that the poignant silence was interrupted by the sound of "clanging".

In the following time, Feng Yu learned his lesson and focused on evasion and aiming, reducing the distraction of the shooting action, and although the frequency of firing decreased slightly, it became more efficient.