Chapter 6: The Farthest in History

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When the MS squadron guarding the entrance to the Taimei WH wormhole was defeated, although the front of the "Tempest" was not considered a flat river, the Taimei WH Combined Fleet was not able to stop the destroyer from leaving this airspace.

In each wormhole airspace, there will be a pre-demarcated curvature flight starting and arrival area. As soon as the "Tempest" arrives at the starting area, it will be able to leave here without any problems.

The curvature flight starting area and arrival area are control areas that will be set up in some hot airspace, so that ships will not stray into the opposite channel and cause collisions.

Taking Taimei WH as an example, the entrance of the wormhole is connected to the adjacent WA1 star field, and all ships drive on the right side of the ecliptic according to the space system where the WA1 star is the main perspective and the ecliptic plane is the direction. That is, the right side of this line is the curvature flight departure area, and the left side is the arrival area.

Generally speaking, the curvature flight arrival area of the airspace where the wormhole is located is far away from the wormhole, so as to prevent subsequent ships from rear-end collision with ships waiting to pass through the border inspection in front. The departure area is closer to the wormhole, so that the arriving ships can be quickly diverted and traffic congestion can be avoided in the entrance area of the wormhole.

The departure area of Taimei WH is 60,000 kilometers away from the entrance of the wormhole, which is a five-minute flight after leaving the wormhole. In this 60,000-kilometer airspace, hundreds of ships that have entered the New American galaxy through wormholes are flying in a loose dragon-like line towards the departure area, and then one by one they enter the curvature flight in the departure area.

Naturally, the hundreds of warships of the Taimei WH Combined Fleet could not be stationed in the departure or arrival areas, but cruising in the isolation zone between the two areas. And compared to June, only two of the three first-line fleets that make up the combined fleet are stationed in this airspace at this time, while the other has retreated to WA1 for rotation and rest.

Except for a formation stationed 100,000 kilometers away from the mouth of the wormhole, and the MS squadron carried by the previous customs liaison ship was launched as soon as the news came, the remaining 90 warships were far away, all hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, and there was no time to intercept the "Storm".

This formation has lost its mobile suits, and the remaining thirty or so MS are also incapable of threatening the "Tempest" with Arthur, a super fire controller, and they can only rely on the main guns of the battleship to snipe. However, after more than five minutes of sailing, the formation was still more than 30,000 kilometers away from the "Tempest" at this moment, which was not enough to carry out artillery bombardment. Moreover, the "Tempest" is in the queue to the departure area, and there are ships blocking it from the front and back, left and right, so it is very difficult to strike accurately, and it is easy to accidentally injure innocent civilian ships.

So when it saw that it was impossible to do anything, the formation immediately turned around and inserted vertically between the entrance of the wormhole and the departure area, preparing to intercept it. Depending on the location of both parties, this would indeed have stopped the Storm before it reached the departure area.

But this is a theoretical thing, in fact, the magic of the "Tempest" is not only the fire controller Arthur who has the ability to "bloom", but also the chief driver who has the ability to "accelerate" comes in handy at such times.

The Tempest is much larger than the Hurricane, and basically a single "Acceleration" on a ship of this size will deplete mental power, allowing the ship to increase its speed by 30%. As long as three Awoken use Acceleration in a row, and the ship does not turn or perform other actions that may slow down, the Speed of the Storm can be more than doubled. And 9 "accelerations" can increase the speed by an order of magnitude, and the effect is very amazing.

In fact, the "Acceleration" ability is a very common awakening ability, and among the pilots of the "Storm Blue" fleet, there are at least dozens of awakened people with this ability. However, "acceleration" is a kind of technical activity, and the awakened must understand the basic operation and principle of the vehicle they drive, so that they can convert their mental power into overload energy and stimulate the target vehicle to speed up.

Therefore, there are not many awakened people who can "accelerate" the "Tempest", and this time he went out, only bringing two drivers with "acceleration", including the chief driver Dennis, and then Hag can also count one.

At this time, it was the occasion when the "Tempest" needed to be artificially unconventionally accelerated, so Luo Yunxi recalled Haag and asked him to increase the flight speed of the battleship with the two pilots.

After three "accelerations", the Tempest increased to 219%, close to 440 km/s, and instantly stood out from the group heading to the starting area, overtaking other ships along the way. With this momentum, it is completely possible to get into the starting area before that formation.

However, even so, according to system calculations, when the "Tempest" approached the departure area, the distance between it and this formation was 5,000 kilometers, and it had already entered the opponent's high-lethality shelling zone. In the absence of R-particle shield protection, once two or three shots are hit, it is basically a direct sinking. Even if it was only one shot, it would be a heavy blow that would have to be returned to the factory for repairs, and it would be unacceptable for the "Tempest", which had a heavy combat mission in the coming months.

In order to increase the insurance factor, Fengyu asked the "Tempest" to recover the other mobile suits first, and let the "Storm" No. 3 and No. 4 planes take the initiative to meet the UAC battleship formation that was preparing to block the way. On this occasion, of course, the more people to intercept the enemy ship, the better, but it takes time to recover the airframe, and if all 8 mobile suits go into battle, it will delay the "Tempest" to enter the curvature flight, so Fengyu himself contracted this job.

The No. 4 aircraft was one lap larger than the No. 3 aircraft, and its flight speed was not fast enough, not even as good as the "Tempest", which reached a speed of 440 kilometers per second at the moment, so it still stood on the bow armor plate and held the 210mm Gauss cannon for aimed shooting. And the No. 3 machine directly took out a ship chopping knife and faced the UAC battleship.

The aqua blue energy blade's ship slasher is the signature of "Storm", and once it is revealed, there will definitely be a warship that will be unlucky. There are even good deeds who imitate the sentence pattern of the oriental martial arts novels of the old era, and say a sentence that is regarded as a golden rule by "storm" fans, "'Storm' slashes ships, and the example is not in vain!" ”

This is already the consensus of everyone.

No matter how iron-blooded and hawkish this Taimei WH combined fleet is, the captains will still have fear in their hearts when they see the "storm" raise their swords. This formation had only one chance of shelling, and the captain was required to judge and command with great calm and composure, and the consequence of fear was that they lost their due calm.

Each round of firing of the battleship's main gun requires a minute of recharge, and such a long period of time is enough for the "Tempest" to sail more than 20,000 kilometers at this moment, which is equivalent to half the distance from the entrance of the wormhole to the departure area. Therefore, in the case of only one chance to shoot, in order to ensure that the moment when the "Tempest" was perpendicular to the direction of fire from the main guns of the formation, the battleships of the UAC were pre-charged from the beginning and were in a state ready to fire.

This is not good for the main gun tube, but it is better than missing the only chance to fire. However, energy storage is not only bad for the launch tube, but also gives Fengyu a chance to show the super ace style of the stream of consciousness.

When the rational personality noticed that all the main gun launches of the battleships of this UAC formation were glowing, he immediately withdrew from the mental power piloting system of the No. 4 machine and entered the perspective of God. After a few seconds of observation and estimation of ballistic prediction ability, he accurately found the time point and exact location of the opponent's main gun muzzle aiming at the "Tempest", and drew a map of the enemy's ship route in his consciousness.

Then he re-entered the No. 4 psychic piloting system, but because he didn't have to control the movement of the air, he only spent half of his energy adjusting the muzzle angle of the 210mm Gauss Cannon, while the other half of his energy continued to overlook the whole situation from God's perspective.

As the muzzle of the 210mm Gauss cannon continued to be fine-tuned, half a minute later, when the distance between the two sides was shortened to about 10,000 kilometers, the route map of the enemy ship drawn by the ballistic prediction and the firing trajectory map of the No. 4 aircraft finally intersected in an instant.

The advantage of the mental power system is that there is zero time difference in operation, and when the command to fire appears in the consciousness of the rational personality, the 210mm high-speed cannon is fired, and the shooting will not be delayed due to the lag of the body's reaction.

A metal high-explosive bomb that had turned dark red due to the acceleration of electromagnetic heating left the No. 4 aircraft and flew silently in the tranquil universe. Ahead of the shooting envelope, there was a pitch-black void where there was nothing.

The 210mm high-explosive bomb is considered a large caliber, but it is incomparably small in the vast expanse of space, just like dust to the surface of a planet. As the projectile flew thousands of kilometers, the dark red surface was cooled by absolute zero space, returning to its original dark and lightless appearance, disappearing from everyone's view in this starless dark matter space.

Although the captains of the UAC Taimei WH Combined Fleet formation also saw the scene of the No. 4 aircraft firing, neither the optical sensors nor the kinetic sensors of the ship's main system issued an alarm of being attacked. And it seems that it is inconceivable for a mobile suit to shell a battleship at a distance of 10,000 kilometers, even if it is the stream of consciousness super ace "Storm" that fires the cannon.

If Fengyu was a ranged super ace, maybe these captains would pay a little more attention, but no one believes that he can shoot right now. So as the projectile dimmed, everyone subconsciously thought that the cannon had been missed.

The metal projectile of a normal Gauss gun has a speed of 1500 km/s, while the 210mm high-speed cannon reaches the level of a particle beam weapon, that is, 3000 km/s.

Three seconds later, the projectile flew nearly 10,000 kilometers and finally appeared in front of the UAC formation.

At this time, the main system of a supernova capital ship flying at the forefront suddenly sounded a piercing alarm, and the kinetic energy sensor finally caught the dangerous long-range attack.

However, almost at the same instant, a 210mm high-explosive shell hit the ship's main gun launch port and destroyed it. The unrestrained energy entered a state of uncontrollability, spreading and raging in the bow of the capital ship, directly blasting a large crater in the bow fire department, and even destroying the battleship system engine room outside the bridge.

The wall at the front of the bridge was torn open by the ensuing explosion, and air began to be pumped into space. The driver, lookout, and fire controller sitting in the front row were instantly sucked out of the rift and sprayed into space. The commanders, who were located at the back of the bridge, stumbled to the nearest escape pod.

Supernova capital ship, sunk!

This was the longest distance in history of a Mobile Suit Gauss artillery bombardment, and the "Storm" No. 4 machine sank a battleship with one shot!