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The reaction of the Sijing people may have improved during the years of warfare with the humans, and when most of the conspicuous large buildings in the city with a very obvious Sijing style were destroyed one after another under the railgunfire, the Sijing people also began to counterattack.

Several Sijing buildings, smaller than those destroyed in the first wave of bombing, looked like flattened funnel-shaped facilities from space downwards, and began to rotate, with their thin ends lifted in the direction of space under the movement of the machinery.

He had never eaten pork, but he had seen a pig run, and the commander of the orbital strike fleet was a clone or a veteran of the Space Force who had participated in the war against the robots, and as soon as he saw the movement of those Sijing facilities, he reacted to what it would be.

"Planetary Defense Weapons! Fleet Rise! Ground weapons continue to fire! Target those defensive weapons! Why didn't so many previous reconnaissance of London find those things! ”

The Iron Eagle organization has planetary defense weapons, and it doesn't make sense that the Sijing people haven't learned the truth of education after being bombed by the GDI fleet orbit so many times, not to mention that they have occupied the city of London for a while, and it is not too difficult for a race that can attack targets in low earth orbit in the city to build some weapons that can attack targets in low earth orbit.

The clone officers reacted quickly, and the rotation of those ground anti-orbital heavy guns was not particularly fast, but it would take some time to get rid of the gravitational pull of the earth and get the fleet out of low orbit and regain mobility!

When the funnel-like anti-orbital heavy artillery on the ground was pointed straight into the sky, a dazzling red plasma cluster erupted from the mouth of the thin end of the cannon and flew towards the GDI orbital strike fleet in space!

These masses of plasma flew in the atmosphere at a speed that completely exceeded all human records in the past! According to the original data, the speed of the Sijing plasma weapon in the atmosphere is only Mach 1, but the plasma shot by these anti-orbital heavy guns is contrary to the previous data, reaching a terrifying speed of Mach 30!

While this speed may not be a big deal in the universe, there is basically nothing in the atmosphere that can evade their impact!

As soon as the clone officer in command of the GDI orbital strike fleet saw the data detected by the sensors, they knew that if they wanted to continue to return to high orbit to restore the fleet's high mobility, within a minute, they would be hit! You must know that the orbital strike fleet is only more than 400 kilometers above the ground at this time, and it is still in the afterburner ascending stage, and it does not have much ability to maneuver and evade.

So the clone officer immediately ordered the fleet to stop accelerating and sprint forward at full speed - but they were still in the atmosphere, hindered by the atmosphere, and the speed of advance was far less fast than the plasma rising - the clone officer didn't care how fast the fleet could fly at this time, for them, as long as they could fly forward in less than a minute, a few hundred kilometers was enough for them to dodge the direct plasma.

They successfully dodged this round of anti-orbital artillery shelling, but the shelling of the orbital strike fleet also failed to hit those anti-orbital heavy guns - due to the distance between the two sides, coupled with the fact that the fleet was out of its original firing position at full speed, the previous firing parameters were invalid, not to mention, and the hull itself was violently shaken by the friction between the hull and the air at high speed in the atmosphere, which affected the hit rate of the shelling.

The bombardment of the Orbital Fleet ultimately reduced a large number of non-Sijing buildings in the city of London into useless piles of ruins. They can no longer carry out accurate shelling as before, in order not to cause too much damage to the city's facilities as much as possible, and can only fire densely covering the area where the anti-orbital heavy artillery is located.

"It would be nice if we could use a nuclear bomb." What happened in and above London, no matter how good Lin Hai's eyesight is, it is naturally impossible to see it with the naked eye, when the orbital fleet launched a strike, he was riding with Liu Yan in a command car of the clone force where he was located, watching the live video from the front line in the car, he was both surprised and calm about the anti-orbital heavy artillery of the Sijing people in the city, and his mood was a little complicated.

Like those clone officers, he knew that it would be a matter of time before the anti-orbital weapons of the Sijing people appeared, so he had always been mentally prepared, but when he saw those heavy artillery, the sense of surprise he should have still existed - he knew that the days when the orbital fleet could hit the ground at will without worrying about the ground counterattack were gone, and even if he mastered the control of the universe above a certain area, the difficulty of supporting the ground would also increase, and the future battles would be more fierce and brutal.

"The people of country M are very simple, and they themselves drop nuclear bombs on their cities without waiting for others to propose." Liu Yan said with a cold face, at this time, he couldn't laugh at it, it was not funny that his own space fleet was forced to run around by others.

"Well, after all, London is someone else's capital, and it is also someone else's historical city, and it's normal for people in country Y to want to preserve it as much as possible." Lin Hai didn't care, he could laugh, although the smile was not so bright, "What's more, there are still a lot of treasures in London that our ancestors have been robbed and stolen, just for this reason, we can't just blow up randomly." Although it is said that shelling at high orbits will greatly reduce the hit rate of the shells due to gravity and atmospheric friction, resulting in a greatly expanded range of destruction of the entire city, which is not much different from the direct use of nuclear bombs. ”

"Could it be that you still plan to take advantage of the battle to retake London and get those artifacts back?" Liu Yan sneered and said, "Also, since you said that the effect of orbital bombardment will be reduced because of the use of anti-orbital heavy artillery by the Sijing people, then it is useless to use nuclear bombs, right?" How many nuclear bombs did people from Country M fire at Philadelphia and New York? Ninety percent of Philadelphia's nuclear bombs have been intercepted, and New York has been 100 percent intercepted, so if this continues, won't the orbital fleet only become a pure space battle fleet, unable to provide more support on the ground? ”

"Take back the treasure of the ancestors, this matter is not our business, it is the work of the expeditionary force of country Z, I just reminded them by the way. At present, among the coalition forces of country Y, country Z has the largest number of soldiers, and if they want to do something other than fighting after entering the city, the people of country Y can't do anything about them, because GDI will definitely not take care of it. Lin Hai stretched his waist and said nonchalantly, "As for orbital strikes, don't we still have orbital ion cannons?" Besides, it is possible to replace the warheads of those electromagnetic guns with nuclear warheads, but the accuracy and efficiency are reduced, and it is not impossible to continue to provide ground attack support. ”

"But the Sijing people release anti-orbital weapons to protect their occupied area, which is also a big trouble after all, isn't it?" Liu Yan didn't agree with Lin Hai's relaxed attitude, he reminded his old friend very seriously, "Don't forget, one of our fleets is now being driven everywhere by them!" If we don't find a way to solve this problem, there will only be more and more such situations in the future, and our combat costs will continue to increase! ”

"So what do you think is going to be done?" Lin Hai asked him rhetorically, "Those anti-orbital weapons are all in the control area of the Sijing people, even in the core position, how do you think we can prevent them from deploying anti-orbital weapons?" Just like when we deploy weapons, what can the Sijing people do to stop us? ”

Then, without waiting for Liu Yan to answer, he continued to speak: "If you want the fleet not to face the anti-orbital weapons of the Sijing people, the best way is naturally not to let them deploy, or destroy those heavy batteries before they can be used. But we can't do it yet. To stop them from deploying heavy artillery, we have to be able to concentrate our heavy forces to repel them before they deploy their weapons as soon as they occupy an area, or else when their defenses are completed, we can only forcibly destroy them in a conventional way, or at great cost - of course, if they don't have advanced point defense weapons, then our ultra-long-range weapons can solve them. Unfortunately, they not only have advanced point defense weapons, but also shield technology and advanced stealth technology, and if we want to destroy those things, we must not only have something that can hit them, but also find something about them in a short time. ”

"In other words, these anti-orbital heavy artillery, whether it is a satellite or a space fleet, have not been discovered in advance?"

"Nope." Lin Hai said with certainty, "In order to monitor whether the Sijing people are spreading Taijing in London, we have been monitoring London 24 hours a day, but we have not found the existence of those heavy artillery. This time, the Sijing people hid very well, and it seemed that they not only used stealth equipment, but also used human physical camouflage to hide those heavy artillery well. Look here," Lin Hai said, pointing to a screen, "This heavy cannon is hidden in the shadow of the wreckage of a collapsed building, and it is covered by those building fragments, and if we don't know in advance, we can't even tell if the pile is a city ruin or a heavy turret if it doesn't start." ”

"Then there's nothing we can do about them?"

"So, this is a war of equal strength, not a war of law and order, not a crushing war, don't look at us as if we have the upper hand, in fact, this is just a superficial phenomenon, Sijing talent has the upper hand, with wormhole transmission technology, they are far superior to us in strategic maneuverability, how to fight as we want, even if we deploy gravitational traps with a great burden, we can't stop them from raiding at will. This is the disadvantage brought about by the gap in the technical level, and it is not only the technological breakthrough that is needed to catch up, but also time. ”

"Unfortunately, what we lack most is time."

The orbital strike fleet had just dodged the hypervelocity plasma clusters fired from the ground, and those plasmas dissociated themselves in space, and the turrets on the ground turned again, readjusted the parameters, and once again launched a new round of hypervelocity plasma clusters towards space orbit.

"Wait a minute......" Lin Hai, who was talking to Liu Yan, raised his hand and made a gesture to Liu Yan not to speak, his eyes fixed on the image sent back by the fleet, "It's a little strange......

"What's wrong?" Liu Yan, who was also staring at the screen, asked puzzledly, he didn't know as much about Sijing people's things as Lin Hai, so he didn't see anything wrong on the screen for a while.

"The rate of fire is too slow, those anti-orbital batteries." Lin Hai replied while playing back the previous image on another screen, "In the first round of shooting, each battery only fired once, maybe that's why the plasma they shoot out in the atmosphere can fly so far and fly so fast, those anti-orbital guns may need more time to recharge to fire such shells?" ”

"Maybe it's a weakness that we can exploit." Liu Yan nodded, took out the data board, and began to calculate the success probability of using the slow rate of fire of the Sijing people's anti-orbital weapons.