Chapter 45

Without taking into account Fengyu's true tactical intentions, Lieutenant General MacArthur's order was undoubtedly correct. After www.biquge.info dispersed the other ships at the entrance of the passage, the Tempest could not use the civilian ship as a cover to approach the wormhole.

Assuming that Fengyu insists on breaking through, he will fight with MacArthur's fleet, and this is in line with NO's wishes. Other fleets will be afraid of losses, Douglas. MacArthur II wished that he would go on a killing spree and leave a blood feud for the Earth Federation Army.

However, it is a pity that the goal of the "Tempest" has never been the so-called passage limited by the mines of the Earth Federation military space aircraft, but the proposal to install Moranti, close to the mouth of the wormhole, to chisel through this minefield with a thickness of only 2,000 kilometers from the side.

However, Moranti's proposal is only a very rough direction, and the specific implementation details are the most difficult.

The mines in this minefield are randomly dislocated, with a density of 4,000 cubic kilometers, that is, an average of one mine is placed every 20 kilometers, and a total of nearly 400 million space mines are laid. Each space mine can sense a large vehicle within a radius of 10 kilometers and automatically detonate in a directional manner.

Theoretically speaking, such mines cannot be fully covered without dead ends, and there must be a safe zone in the center of the adjacent four mines. It is necessary to lay mines in the molecular structure of diamond to be a real seamless minefield, but this way of laying mines is difficult, not to mention, more space mines need to be used in the same volume of airspace.

But this safe zone is not something that warships can use. The cruising speed of the battleship is more than 200 kilometers per second, and it takes only 10 seconds to penetrate a minefield with a thickness of 2000 kilometers. The effective straight-line flight range of such a randomly misaligned minefield is only 10 km, after which it must be turned to the next safe zone. To fly non-stop in 10 kilometers of direction, the ship had to be slow enough.

If there is no interference, you can calculate the route in advance, and then spend an hour or two slowly walking through. But here in Taifei, where MacArthur's fleet is 20,000 kilometers away, how can it be possible to leave so much time for the "Tempest". In just two minutes at most, the stealth destroyer will be surrounded by the enemy in a minefield.

If the minesweeper is carried out with the 800mm main gun fire of the "Tempest", it is not easy to hit these space machine mines with a volume of less than one cubic meter, but it is possible to aim slowly. It's just that the distribution of space machine mines is not an absolute standard hexahedron, and it is impossible for you to hit a string of machine mines with one main gun. The minelaying method of random dislocation distribution is to avoid being hit by a string, and in this respect it is even better than the seamless minefield of diamond molecular structure and morphology.

In the 2,000-kilometer-thick minefield of the wormhole entrance channel, from the perspective of a one-dimensional straight line, there are a total of 100 mines in a straight line with a unit area of 400 square kilometers. When these 100 mines are projected onto the same plane, there are basically no duplicate points, which is the random dislocation minelaying method.

Use the main gun to bombard the space machine mine to open the way, even if the time-lapse shot is used, the critical energy that the main gun can activate is 30%, that is, one shot in 18 seconds. Suppose that the firing angle can be used to achieve a single shot to hit two, three, or even four mines at the same time, then it will have to shoot dozens of shots, and it will take about ten minutes to be blocked by MacArthur's fleet.

The most reliable method is mobile suit demining. Whether it is to directly use a particle beam rifle to shoot and detonate a space machine mine, or to use a particle light knife to destroy the gravitational induction fuze, it is the safest and most efficient way to clear mines.

The so-called gravitational induction fuze is to set a threshold by using the mutual gravitational action between objects. When an object with enough mass appears in the surrounding space and this threshold is touched, the spacecraft mine will explode in the direction of the source of gravity.

In the dark matter airspace where there are no celestial bodies, the gravitational induction fuze can even be set at the threshold level of a high-speed ship, which can only be triggered by mobile suits.

Having said so much, it is actually one thing, Fengyu is ready to personally drive the "Storm" out to clear mines.

Based on the distribution of minefields detected by Luo Yunxi's "reconnaissance" ability, the minefield model was restored through the mental imaging device, and the system calculated a passage closest to the entrance of the wormhole. Fengyu only needs to remove a total of about 100 space machine mines in a channel with a diameter of 20 kilometers, and the "Storm" can pass safely.

Theoretically, it is best to do this together with the Awakened pilots of the "Quasi-Ace Squad", which will be highly efficient. 10 Mobile Suits shoot together, and 100 mines are only about 10 rounds.

But now there is a problem there, 10 mobile suits are very fast to clear mines together, but it will take at least two minutes for the "Tempest" to recover them, as long as the MacArthur fleet reacts quickly enough, they can still block the passage from both ends of the tunnel when the wind and they start to clear the mines, and catch up with the "Tempest" before they can recover all the mobile suits.

Some people may say that it is enough to let Fengyu Palace. However, this means that Fengyu will have to fight with the opponent's mobile troops, facing the siege of hundreds of production aircraft, even if he is a super ace, it is impossible to accurately control every attack to be decapitated without hitting the cockpit position.

Speaking of which, a Mobile Suit's head is a very small target relative to its torso, and if it weren't for the avoidance of casualties, decapitation would be a thankless move.

Once Fengyu is stained with the blood of the federal soldiers, NO's wishful thinking will also start.

So after weighing the pros and cons, Fengyu still decided that it was enough to go out alone. Dispatched in the stealth posture of "Storm", he unknowingly infiltrated the minefield, and slowly destroyed the gravitational induction fuses of the 100 or so space machine mines with particle light knives. On the surface, these space mines appear to be intact, but they have lost their ability to detonate. Even if he spent an entire day doing this, he would not be discovered by MacArthur's fleet.

After everything was done, he would return to the "Tempest" without even revealing the "Tempest's" optical stealth ability.

This plan was unanimously praised by everyone, and the optical stealth ability of the "Storm" was officially revealed to the entire crew of the "Tempest".

After MacArthur's fleet cleared the wormhole entrance, the Tempest took advantage of the situation to blend in with the driven merchant ships, bypassing the airspace controlled by the fleet, and flying from the periphery of the minefield towards the wormhole entrance.

The movement of the "Tempest" was observed from the probe, and Douglas . MacArthur II also realized that the other side wanted to force a minefield.

Luton. MacArthur named him after his family ancestor Douglas 200 years ago, hoping that he would become a famous general like his ancestors. Luton has been cultivating Douglas since he was a child. MacArthur II, although he lacked a lot of actual combat experience, he had read a lot of the art of war, and he still had a certain level.

So Vice Admiral MacArthur immediately ordered the fleet to be divided into three, and the two formations continued to guard the passage to prevent the "target" from really having other accomplices take advantage of the opportunity to seize the pass; A formation headed into the passage, ready to block the entrance to the wormhole; The other two formations pursued the shadow area of the Tempest from the periphery of the minefield.

However, the "target" did not stop near the entrance of the wormhole, but kept flying towards space in the distance. After passing the location of the wormhole, there is nothing in that direction, a vast area of dark matter at least a few dozen light-years deep.

After about 10 minutes of pursuit, the two formations had already sailed more than 100,000 kilometers, and seeing that the "target" had no intention of stopping at all, Lieutenant General MacArthur had no choice but to recall the formations and reassemble at the entrance of the minefield.

In his opinion, even if the "target" returns again, they will have enough time to plug the stealth battleship in a minefield.

However Douglas. MacArthur II had apparently made a mistake by ejecting the Storm ten minutes earlier as it passed by the entrance to the wormhole. Feng Yu had already entered the minefield at this time and began to clear the mines one by one.

This trick is called hiding from the world.