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Although even the heavy guns on the Seagiant-class heavy cruisers with powerful firepower could hardly attack the Sijing people with their backs to the Sijing fleet, the firing angle of the guided weapons can be called omnidirectional.
As the order was issued, eight large missile launchers on each side of the Chuantuo-class missile frigate accompanied by the Chuantuo-class heavy cruiser as the flagship burst into flames, and a total of 512 large anti-ship missiles flew out of the launch box one after another, and then after turning 180 degrees in place with a jet engine in front of the hull, the main engine was running at full strength, causing these missiles to accelerate to a speed of more than 100 kilometers per second in a very short time, and pounced on the Sijing fleet behind the fleet.
When the missile group flew nearly half a distance, the jet engine turned on again, and the missile group changed course at a 90-degree right angle, flew in another direction, and then after nearly half a minute of sailing, changed course for the second time, changed the course again, changed orbit at a 90-angle angle again, and flew back to the Sijing fleet with a large curve!
When the missile flew over the airspace between the two fleets, the Sijing fleet did not immediately open fire to intercept it. That's because the Sijing fleet is advancing at a high speed, and the missile group is also flying at high speed in the opposite direction, both sides are flying very fast, and the relative speed is higher, at such a high speed, the attack window time will be shorter, and the interception hit rate of point defense weapons will also decrease.
If you want to improve the interception hit rate, one of the parties needs to reduce the speed and provide a more stable combat environment for the weapon system, but in this way, as the pursuer, the Sijing fleet will naturally be thrown away by the Linhai fleet at a longer distance, which is not what the Sijing people want to see, they can only maintain their speed, and prepare to wait for the missile group to get closer, and take a greater risk of being shot to intercept at close range Anyway, because of the extra layer of shield protection, the Sijing warships are more resistant to fighting than human pure armor and pure structure warships.
What the Sijing people didn't expect was that the group of missiles launched by the humans did not crash straight into them, but after flying half the distance, they changed course, made a large circle, and pounced from the direction of their left flank.
Previously, in order to ensure the frontal interception rate, the Sijing fleet was deployed to both wings during the pursuit process to increase the frontal interception firepower as much as possible, but when the human missile group did not fly from the front, but flew from the left side instead, this formation was not conducive to the Sijing people. Only a small number of four or five warships on the left side could reach those missiles with their anti-aircraft weapons, and the intercepting firepower could not even exert two-thirds of the firepower.
To make matters worse, if they wanted to readjust their fleet formation so that more anti-aircraft interception firepower points could be used, some of the ships in their fleet would have to slow down and adjust in order to respond to incoming attacks, which would also cause the humans to delay the Scyclian fleet.
In order not to be held back by the missile group, the Sijing fleet chose the tactic of maintaining the same position, maintaining the speed of pursuit, and allowing the missile group to attack from the left. Such a price is not small, those warships on the left side of the Sijing fleet, there are two planetary assault motherships and three destroyer gunships, accounting for a quarter of the Sijing fleet, even if all are destroyed, the remaining warships can easily overwhelm the Lin Hai fleet. If the goal can be achieved, Sijing people will not care about this loss.
The battleships on the left flank of the Scyclian fleet opened fire when the missile group approached the distance of about three thousand kilometers from the fleet.
A large number of plasma clusters and high-energy rays mixed in them, as well as laser beams, violently strafed the missile group, and from time to time there were explosive fires. However, Sijing people also found that unlike in the past, the success rate of missiles being intercepted was too low and too low for their fire control technology.
Although when the Sijing people fired, those human missiles immediately entered an irregular maneuver and no longer moved straight forward, which made it much more difficult for the fire control system to lock on to the missiles, but it was not a problem. The irregular maneuvering of human missiles had already been seen by the Sijing people when they jumped out to fight with the Iron Eagle Organization, not to mention that the Sijing people were an alien civilization with more advanced technology after all, and such missiles could not be called a threat to them.
As long as it can be locked by fire control, the missile can be intercepted and destroyed, and the laser or high-energy ray is instantaneous, and the lock and destroy those missiles do not reach the speed of light no matter how fast they fly, and even only a little faster than various starships, and they are not targets that cannot be locked.
What surprised the people of Sijing was that these human missiles, even if they were successfully locked by fire control, the lasers and high-energy heat rays that could destroy the missiles with a single shot could no longer easily light off the human missiles one by one as before. Beams and rays of light swept over the missile, and the shell could no longer be easily cut, only one or two scorch marks could be swept on the surface of the shell.
If you want to destroy a missile, you need more than three heat rays or a full-power hit to shoot more than three shots, or a full-power hit to charge energy, it takes two to three seconds, which directly makes the interception efficiency drop rapidly!
It was not only the Sijing people who saw this scene, but the Lin Hai fleet that was running away could naturally observe the live situation of their own missile attacks. Although Kane had already said before that the new missile he had conjured up had not only improved performance, but also improved manufacturing materials, and could even be used to intercept the powerful plasma weapons of the Sijing people, but now that they saw it with their own eyes, they realized how far this so-called improvement had been.
Unexpectedly, the performance of the missiles used by the human starship would improve to this point, and the air defense interception plan of the Sijing people fell behind from the beginning.
Two planetary assault carriers began to release carrier-based aircraft.
In the face of the human fleet with more means of air interception, the Sijing people did not send carrier-based aircraft to attack at the beginning as before, but planned to shorten the distance between the two sides to a certain range, and then dispatch carrier-based aircraft to cooperate with the main guns of each ship to carry out an all-out attack, so as to complete the goal of annihilating the human fleet in the shortest possible time.
But now, in the face of the attack after the sudden increase in the performance of the human missile group, the Sijing people, who knew that they could no longer resist by relying on the defense weapons of each ship, still sent carrier-based aircraft. The role of these carrier-based aircraft is not to improve the firepower of point defense artillery, but to learn from human air defense interceptor missiles, and directly intercept those human missiles by their own impact Anyway, a planetary assault carrier carries 800 carrier-based aircraft, and the number of carrier-based aircraft on the two combined is more than missiles, and the loss of a bunch of carrier-based aircraft is even less than the loss of several starships.
It's just that now, Sijingren's reaction seems to be a little too late.
When the first batch of small carrier-based aircraft that rushed towards the incoming missiles at full speed after breaking away from the pylon, collided with the first human anti-ship missile that broke through the fleet's anti-aircraft fire network and was about to hit a destroyer gunboat in the outermost part of the world, more human anti-ship missiles also broke through the anti-aircraft fire network and attacked the various Sijing starships!
A series of fireballs silently appeared in the universe, illuminating the surrounding universe!
The shields of the three Destroyer gunships on the left flank of the Sijing fleet's fleet disappeared almost instantly, and the light and heat of the nuclear fireball were not the quasi-capital ships such as the planetary assault mothership that had been resisted by the Sijing people as cannon fodder ships that had been resisted, but the Destroyer gunboats did not have this benefit, and the upgrade resources were concentrated on others.
After all, the Sijing people are the descendants of interstellar civilization, don't look at it as a group of wandering remnants, but other people's ancestors are also broad, the destroyer gunboat was attacked by the new GDI anti-ship missile with a nuclear warhead, and it only lost its shield, and the hull shell was somewhat damaged, and it was not immediately blown into pieces. The Destroyer gunship, which has lost its shield, is still desperately intercepting the incoming human missiles with the remaining fire power on its ship.
The Destroyer gunboat, which is an unmanned warship.
The other two Destroyer gunships, which had also lost their shields, adjusted their speed slightly, and pushed to the front, eating all the missiles that broke through the anti-aircraft fire for the two planetary assault carriers.
The so-called new missiles developed by Dr. Kane are equipped with nuclear warheads, although the yield is not too large, only 10,000 tons of TNT equivalent, but the power of the center point of the explosion is not low, if the missile explodes more than ten or twenty meters away from the Sijing starship, it is naturally difficult to cause any damage to its hull, but these missiles only explode after hitting the starship, and the power of the explosion is completely eaten by the hull, even if the Sijing people improve the ability of the shell to resist thermal energy strikes in order to defend against GDI strong laser weapons, There is no air in space to amplify the impact of the explosion, but the optical radiation, electromagnetic pulse, and rays generated by the explosion of the nuclear bomb are still not something that the shell of the Starship can defend against.
There were more than 400 missiles that broke through the anti-aircraft fire network on the left side of the Sijing fleet, and the three Destroyer gunboats held out for six seconds before they were completely destroyed in the scattered fragments of the nuclear flames.
Three Destroyer gunboats were destroyed, and the number of missiles was still more than a hundred, and the advanced navigation chip automatically changed the attack target, and the two planetary assault motherships that were still releasing carrier-based aircraft were the new targets.
The loss of three Destroyer gunboats allowed the other starships in the fleet to gain a firing window, and the firepower to intercept the remaining more than a hundred anti-ship missiles suddenly increased several times. It's just that the distance between the missile group and the two planetary assault carriers is already very close, and even if the air defense interception firepower suddenly increases several times, it is impossible to intercept all the more than 100 missiles that have been maintaining ultra-high-speed maneuvering and changing orbits in just a few seconds.
The first planetary assault carrier was hit by more than thirty missiles with nuclear warheads in a row, and it can eat the new shield of the Codiak-class battle cruiser's coaxial pulse laser cannon, and in the face of such continuous strikes, it is no longer than the destroyer gunboat, and the ovoid shield that completely showed its full appearance under the nuclear explosion quickly dimmed, and then disappeared and no longer appeared, and the next incoming missile covered the left hull of the planetary assault carrier, and the dense fireball instantly made this hundreds of meters long starship, Engulfed along with the carrier-based aircraft it is unleashing!
An even larger blue fireball burst out from the rear of the planetary assault mothership, overpowering the light of the nuclear fireball, and the reactor of the planetary assault mothership exploded uncontrollably during the strike, directly shattering the starship that had not been completely destroyed by the low-yield nuclear bomb, only a small piece of the hull at the front was pushed away by the impact of the reactor explosion to save a large piece of wreckage, and the rest of the body turned into fine debris and flew into the universe.
There were more than forty missiles left, and they flew towards another planetary assault mothership in the left flank area of the Sijing fleet, as if they were planning to eat the entire left wing of the Sijing fleet!
But at this time, a twenty or thirty meter-long fusiform object suddenly ejected from the right side of the planetary assault mothership, and then the entire starship made a big turn on the spot, and regardless of whether it would disintegrate on its own because of such a move, it flew over to meet the incoming missile!