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Vice Admiral Sheffield saw very clearly that although the missiles and lasers launched by the Kodiak-class starships successfully knocked out the shields of the Destroyer gunship, they had not yet destroyed the entire enemy ship, and due to distance and atmospheric interference, the laser weapons with higher damage to the Sijing Starship were greatly reduced, and they were no longer enough to penetrate the armor of the Destroyer gunship with one shot.

In particular, the Sijing weapon armor has a good defense against energy weapons because they themselves also use energy weapons, and it is even more impossible for the laser cannon to penetrate their armor after being weakened layer by layer. Such a laser cannon is usually used to hit ground fortifications, and even enemy vehicles are not too much of a problem (provided that there is no shield or a target with insufficient shield power, ground targets like the Devourer are not easy to destroy, otherwise there is no need to wait for the ground forces to destroy them), but it is not so effective to penetrate a starship whose armor is thicker than the full height of the ground vehicle.

To deal with targets such as the Sijing Starship, or the current environment where your own fleet is in low-earth orbit and the enemy starship is in the atmosphere, orbital bombardment should be the most effective means of attack for the fleet.

However, it is difficult to say whether the Swiss government can agree to this method, and it seems that it is too late in time, even if they agree, I am afraid that the city will be razed to the ground under the bombardment of the Sijing starship, along with the human troops in the city and the residents who have not had time to withdraw.

However, the operations of the GDI orbital fleet will not be hesitated or stalled by the chaos of the ground command center.

After the first wave of missile bombardment and laser cannon fire, less than a minute later, the second wave of firing came again!

Not all Kodiak-class battlecruisers were completely converted to space warfare models by eliminating missile launch systems and converting half of their large-caliber railguns into pulsed laser cannons. In order to provide ground fire support, there are still some old ships that retain the function of launching heavy missiles, and the flagship of this orbital alert fleet is such a battleship.

After discovering that the power of the laser cannon was severely reduced after passing through the atmosphere, the captain no longer continued to use the laser cannon to attack the Destroyer gunship, but instead attacked the Sjing Starship with all long-range missile weapons. Although the missiles will be intercepted by the Destroyer gunboats, the Destroyer has relatively weak proximity after all, and its shield has been broken, as long as the heavy missiles launched by the Kodiak-class battle cruisers can hit, they can cause great damage to the Destroyer, and twenty or thirty missiles can kill the target.

"I'm more interested in how that thing ended up in Geneva than I am to destroy that destroyer gunship." Of course, Lin Hai is also watching the battle situation in Geneva through the video, but his focus is not on the battlefield command, it is the work of the commanders on the spot, and he has other things to worry about, "Without the reaction of wormhole teleportation, it is obviously impossible for those wormholes on the ground to transmit a starship of more than 400 meters, and the anti-optical stealth sensing equipment deployed on the battlefield has not found anything, and there is our fleet in low earth orbit, and it is too unlikely that this thing will be descended from space." ”

"Probably sneaked in to avoid the working range of our anti-stealth equipment." While busy in front of the computer, Kane interjected and replied, "After all, the overall technical level of the Sijing people is still above us, and it shouldn't be a big problem to know the working radius of some of our equipment, so it's easy to avoid." The problem is that it's strange that they send a starship, knowing that we have a fleet in low-earth orbit to provide fire support to ground forces. ”

"Could it be that they still want to attack our fleet?" Lin Hai turned his head and looked at Kane, "But we didn't just send such a small fleet there, we also had a backup plan to prevent the Sijing people from attacking the fleet, and their attack on our fleet would be tantamount to throwing themselves into the net." ”

"They only need to shoot and run, and if they kill one or two of our ships and retreat, they can also achieve the goal of weakening our military." Kane's eyes were fixed on the computer screen in front of him, and he didn't stop, "The people of country Z were very good at this for decades, have you forgotten?" ”

"Well, well, I'm now treated like the guy who was driven crazy by guerrilla warfare." Lin Hai sneered, and said with a serious expression, "Then again, if a more technologically advanced force like the Sijing people is fighting a guerrilla war with us, then we really don't have much to deal with, and we really need to pay attention to it." On the contrary, the ground forces are the safest, and all our ground bases and army stations have complete defense facilities, and even if the Sijing people want to learn from the guerrillas to attack those places, it is not so easy to succeed. I'm afraid that they will use a big guy like a starship when attacking, except for a few major bases, other garrisons can't cope with a starship's attack. And the same goes for our space fleet. The Sijing people in the fleet gathering place would definitely not dare to attack, but those patrol and alert fleets scattered in the earth's orbit are vulnerable targets! We have to guard against it. ”

"Then we can only concentrate the fleet, reduce the number of small fleets, and expand the size of those patrol and alert fleets, so that the Sijing people can't easily attack."

"But that would create a vacuum in the blockade."

"Anyway, our blockade is not perfect now, and the Sijing people can still enter and exit the earth circle at will." Kane was dismissive of Lin Hai's question, "Instead of engaging in a comprehensive defense full of loopholes like the one now, it is better to concentrate the limited military forces and focus on protecting those important regions, such as Asia and Africa, one is our most important human resource place, and the other is the most important source of resources, focusing on protecting these places, no better than protecting places like Europe that still wears colored glasses to see people, right?" ”

"You're right, it's true." Lin Hai nodded, turned his gaze back to the main screen, and at the same time did not stop in his hand, and secretly issued the order for defense mobilization, "Compared to the European region, which brings us all kinds of constraints, I always feel that I am still superior, Asia and Africa are the regions that we need to care about the most. However, the patrol and alert fleets over Europe and the Americas cannot be completely emptied, otherwise it will be too obvious and too easy for people to perceive that we have the intention of abandoning the Western world. After all, they are also the majority of GDI working capital providers, accounting for one-fifth. ”

"And they're also the main force in the space fleet operations staff, and they have a lot of influence over our plans without them." Kane added, "So this can be done slower, without a trace." In addition, the deployment of garrisons in various places also needs to be adjusted, and the defense of the base must be further improved, but there will be a lot of financial pressure in this way, so it also needs to be slowly planned, the same as the adjustment plan for the deployment of the fleet. ”

"So, where has the plan to share the manufacturing technology of the Higra-class destroyers so that countries can at least build a hull?"

"What a step." Kane seemed to be angry when he talked about it, "It would take those guys more than a year just to read the information we provided, and this is still when we provide a full set of instructions, they only need to make a hull, it will take so long, if we give them more information, then we won't even want to get the hull of a destroyer in five years!" ”

"That's why I said that there is no need to give them any research materials, just help them transform the production line directly, and now we don't have time to wait for them to digest the knowledge slowly, all we want is output." Lin Hai sighed, "But your scientist has a temper, so you have to give them the information on the steps, right?" ”

Before he could say something more, Lin Hai suddenly had a bold idea.

"Isn't it talking about a capitalist society now? We don't really have to go to governments to make hulls. We can go directly to those industrial giants, those business groups to manufacture, just like a government tender project, maybe we can see the results immediately. ”

"But those giants, at least seven out of ten are connected to the Holy Brotherhood, and if we go to them, won't we deliver them to our door?" Hearing Lin Hai's thoughts, Kane stopped what he was doing and looked up at Lin Hai, "What's more, the current safe and clean industrial groups basically can't even eat up the military equipment orders placed by various governments, let alone the starship orders we ordered." You know, no matter how streamlined my design is, there are not many industrial groups that have the ability to build a starship, even if it's just a shell, without compromising performance. ”

"I didn't expect the big companies, and I didn't dare trust them." Lin Hai waved his hand, "But we can concentrate those small and medium-sized enterprises and unite them to form a large, secretly controlled manufacturing consortium to fulfill our orders." After all, for us, what really restricts our production capacity is not equipment, but personnel. We have a huge amount of productivity, but we don't have enough people to operate that equipment. After all, because you are afraid of artificial intelligence getting out of control, all automatic manufacturing equipment still needs to be controlled by personnel, and it cannot be completely controlled by no one. ”

"That's a good idea." Kane thought for a moment and agreed with Lin Hai's idea, "But we don't need to integrate a large number of idle small and medium-sized enterprises, engage in any consortium, and directly expand the dark fire equipment manufacturing company under Iron Eagle, no longer only using clones, but recruiting a large number of workers from outside." The equipment and other equipment are provided directly by ourselves, and those workers only need to make the finished product. Not to mention the lower risk of technology leakage, even if the workers are mixed with spies, they can only do nothing but press the button. ”

"Now that Geneva is over, let's get to work." Lin Hai's eyes were fixed on another screen, which showed a scene in space, where three Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruisers were entering low-Earth orbit in a zigzag formation, heading towards the alert fleet. If the Vigilance Fleet can't take out the Destroyer gunship before the Sea Behemoth fleet arrives, the Sea Behemoth-class fusion cannon will complete the task of firing despite the radiation contamination on the ground.