Chapter 773: War of Atrition
The toughness of the aliens was a bit unexpected, but everyone was still mentally prepared for this, and there was no tension and riot. ← top novel,
Chong Chong looked at Cheng Cheng with some surprise, "You guessed correctly, aliens are indeed a little more powerful than you imagined." ”
Cheng Cheng shook his head, "I didn't guess correctly, the aliens are a little more powerful than I estimated, and our challenge is a little more difficult." ”
In terms of scientific and technological development, the main energy technology developed by the Wuka Star people is psionic technology.
Psionic civilization is also the mainstream development civilization of this universe.
The empire started late in the psionic field, but the speed was faster, and with the foundation of the Blue Star people, there were still second-level peak psionic civilizations.
An important watershed in the third-level psionic technology is the psionic cannon.
The empire has realized the integration of psionic cannons on psionic mechas, but the psionic cannons equipped on starships have certain difficulties to achieve and are still under development.
In fact, the psionic cannon is not a super difficult thing, as long as His Majesty the Ming Emperor uses his ability slightly, within two or three years, he will definitely be able to produce the psionic cannon.
It's just that it's a wartime state now, and the empire doesn't have time to produce psionic cannons, and it's not too late to develop them when this group of aliens is eliminated.
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After the 10,000 C-class unmanned warships left the Grand Fleet and set off, they soon collided with the Wuka Star Man Fleet that had been gathered.
There is a tactical problem in this, how to fight, and how many ways to fight?
The space environment is three-dimensional, and there is no standard division between up, down, left, right, south, south, and north, and the interstellar gyroscope uses the massive black hole in the center of the galaxy as a reference.
In terms of topography, there are no mountains, plains, lakes, swamps, or deserts, and there is no endless void at a glance.
So, an interstellar war that takes place in space. Except for some areas where a large number of meteorites and nebulae are more complex, and most of the empty interstellar space, the tactics are quite simple.
The Wuka Star people were at a disadvantage in terms of quantity, and they did not have an absolute quality advantage, so for the sake of safety, they did not divide their troops, but instead shrank into a fist, ready to deal a heavy blow to the Tianming Empire.
The Empire was superior in quantity, slightly inferior in quality, and in order to ensure the absolute safety of the fleet. Therefore, there was no division of troops, but a wave of 10,000 C-class unmanned warships, similar to the tactics of adding fuel, to continue to explore the strength of aliens.
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Five days later, a second wave of 10,000 C-class unmanned warships exchanged fire with aliens.
Bang bang bang!
Hundreds of thousands of nuclear torpedoes were launched, like ferocious piranhas, trying to devour the alien fleet.
However, an unexpected scene came out, and the Wuka people had long expected the empire to come to this move, so they were around the fleet. Under the strong electromagnetic interference, most of the nuclear torpedoes could not detonate because the detonating device failed, although the jamming base array was finally destroyed by the nuclear bomb. Of the hundreds of thousands of nuclear torpedoes, only a few thousand ended up in the alien fleet.
Boom Boom!
After a violent explosion, a scene appeared that made the empire dumbfounded: except for three or five alien warships that were destroyed because they could not withstand such a violent explosion, most of the alien warships. All unscathed.
Nuclear torpedo attacks are ineffective.
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Ten days later, 10,000 C-class unmanned warships approached the alien fleet and entered a close-quarters firefight.
Boom Boom!
The Imperial unmanned warship first launched a large wave of nuclear missiles. After these missiles collided with alien warships at high speed, they adopted the tactics of one hundred to one, concentrated on attacking one, and consumed millions of nuclear missiles, and really received a certain effect, destroying thousands of alien main warships.
The commander of the Wuka Star Commander, Solu, trembled in distress, nearly a thousand capital warships, equal to one-tenth of the entire fleet, and more than 18 million Wuka Star people died in this wave of attacks, which has broken through the bottom line of the casualties they can bear.
"Why is this weapon so lethal, and countless times more lethal than our Wandering Star Bomb?"
Heartbroken, the Wuka people were amazed, and they were immediately shocked when they found several unexploded missiles and torpedoes on the battlefield and dissected them for study.
"Hydrogen is the most distributed element in the universe! This element can create a powerful Wandering Star Bomb? ”
The Star Bomb is made of a special mineral, and after reacting with another substance, it can produce an extremely large amount of energy, so the value of that special mineral is extremely high.
However, what I didn't expect was that civilization, after directly stuffing a large amount of hydrogen elements and a small amount of fission heavy elements into the bomb, could produce such a huge power after the explosion?
The Witchers have studied far more psionic technology than material technology, and they know about fission reactions, but they don't know much about fusion reactions...... And because there is no genius scientist like Einstein, he can't deduce the mass-energy equation, and in the end he doesn't even know how the stars keep burning.
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Of course, after the aliens paid the price of nearly a thousand losses, the Imperial fleet naturally did not reap any benefits.
Boom Boom!
The Wuka Star people's psionic main cannon was powerful, and towards the 10,000 C-class unmanned warships, a number of psionic cannonballs were fired, and a large number of psionic particles almost passed through all the barriers of energy in a near-substantial state, transferring infinite momentum to the surface of matter, one atom was loosened, and a group of atoms were loosened...... Finally, under the impact, an incomparably large hole appeared on the surface of a C-class unmanned warship with a diameter of 100 kilometers.
When more than thousands of psionic main cannons are so powerful, one of them corresponds to an Imperial C-class battleship, and a single cannon can open a huge hole.
In just three rounds of attacks, the empire's 10,000 C-class unmanned warships were almost wiped out.
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In this way, on the Empire's side, if small warships are ignored, in addition to 10,000 C-class manned warships, I am afraid that only 20,000 C-class unmanned warships are available.
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Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, flagship. Bridge meeting room.
All the important people are discussing new alien coping strategies.
"There are still about twenty days left, and the main force of our fleet will have a head-to-head confrontation with the main force of the alien fleet, that is, a decisive battle, and we are not sure of defeating the aliens with no damage." A staff officer said.
After two temptations, the real strength of the aliens has been basically exposed.
Very strong, indeed very strong.
In fact, when making pre-war estimates, most officers and staff generally believed that 10,000 C-class unmanned warships could cause casualties to aliens at least about 3,000 of the main fleet.
But it's a pity. After a big battle, the 10,000 C-class unmanned warships of the empire were all wiped out, but only about 1,000 casualties were caused to the aliens, which was significantly lower than estimated.
"The exchange ratio of ten to one is still acceptable for aliens, thinking from the perspective of aliens, to annihilate all the expeditionary fleet of the Empire, they only need to lose another three thousand warships, which will add up to about 40% casualties."
"Judging by the battlefield reconnaissance ahead of us. Aliens do not have very developed artificial intelligence technology, and cannot realize the unmanned operation of spaceships, and on average, there are nearly 20,000 or so crew members on each starship. For every ship they lost, they had to sacrifice tens of thousands of people. ”
"The loss of these personnel may bring a certain mental wavering to the aliens and weaken their will to fight, but the determination to destroy us remains. Perhaps they will fight us to the death, and be prepared to suffer about half of the casualties. ”
"So, the next test we face. It's going to get very serious...... Even if we don't have a single casualty yet. ”
A staff officer said.
"So what are we going to do?"
Lin Mo frowned and said, this group of aliens is not easy to deal with.
"Marshal, I think our next wave should send out all unmanned warships, including 20,000 C-class unmanned warships, to fight aliens to the death!"
An expert stepped forward and spoke in astonishment.
Lin Mo looked at him puzzled, "Why is this?" ”
The expert was not in a hurry, and analyzed methodically: "The reason is very simple, the aliens will definitely not be able to withstand our next wave of attacks!" ”
He walked up to the big screen and said to a dynamic video of the battlefield that was playing: "You see, although the warships of the Wuka Star are advanced, they have several Achilles' heels. ”
"First, their protective shields are not strong, as long as more than 100 nuclear bombs attack the same warship at the same time, they will definitely not be able to withstand such a powerful impact, and finally disintegrate and rupture."
"Moreover, their shields do not last long, and once they exceed 18 hours, they will inevitably dim whether they are attacked or not...... This shows that alien shields are similar to our rune shields, and they also need to provide spiritual power to maintain, but how do they output that spiritual power? I'm afraid it can only be maintained artificially by the aliens of the spaceship. ”
"Second, their psionic main cannon is extremely slow to fire! It can only be fired once every half hour, and although the hit rate is high, it is still like a colonial arquebus, and the rate of fire is surprisingly slow. ”
"I estimate that there may be two reasons for this, one is that firing the psionic cannon also requires a lot of mental power, which can only be provided by aliens; On the other hand, psionic particles are distributed in interstellar space, but the density is so small that it takes at least half an hour to gather the amount of psionic particles fired by a single shot. ”
"So, judging from these two factors, although this group of aliens is strong, it is not that there is no way to restrain them."
"As long as we send out all the remaining forty or fifty thousand unmanned warships, engage in wolf pack tactics, form an encirclement of this alien fleet, and ensure that we will not be completely annihilated by the aliens within 18-24 hours, and then launch a general attack, waiting for the aliens, it will definitely be the result of the total annihilation, because after that period of time, even the most ordinary nuclear bomb can annihilate an alien spaceship!"
"My plan is called 'wolf attrition tactics'"
…… (To be continued......)