Chapter 67
"About half of them are guarding the fallen colonies, and about half of them are staying on the mainland...... "Ian has already seen the Zeon fleet assembled in front of him." That's the quality of Zeon? There's no formation......"
More than a dozen Msey ships in front of them were horizontally and vertically lying horizontally, pouring fire on the support aircraft, green beams swept past the support aircraft, and many of the shells of the 120-mm anti-aircraft guns hit the fuselage, but they were all blocked by the GN position.
Suddenly, the navigation system began to alarm the people.
"What's wrong?" Ian looked down at the navigation data. "Oh...... It's on the beam axis of the electromagnetic gun. The support plane raised its head at 90 degrees, away from the beam axis of the electromagnetic gun.
"Captain, Lieutenant Commander Ian has left the Ray Axis, but there is still a Zeon fleet on the Ray Axis."
"What about the impact on ballistics?"
"Negligible."
"Then let's fire."
"Understood, all on the impact posture. There is still 5 ...... from launch. 4…… 3…… 1…… Launch! ”
The muzzles of the two electromagnetic guns mounted on the ejection deck of the Dawn Sacred Sword flashed a dazzling arc of lightning, and the armor-piercing high-explosive projectile with a diameter of 6,000 mm burst out of the muzzles at a speed of more than 3,000 kilometers per second after passing through an acceleration trajectory of up to 50 meters.
And the battleship was also affected by the huge recoil, and slowed down sharply. However, it was instantly offset by a thruster that automatically compensated for the increased thrust.
"The speed of the bullet is 3000 kilometers per second...... Are all Lockheed people crazy? On the way up, Ian saw that the bow of a Musai ship was hit by a cannonball, and it was instantly smashed into a pile of fragments, and the huge impact force made the Musai instantly start to spin, and after turning more than 270 degrees, it controlled the flight attitude under the action of the attitude control vent.
Two shells, after a flight of 2 seconds, hit the Colonial Beam Cannon. Both shells hit the Colonial Beam Cannon from the side, and in an instant, the colony side wall was torn off in two, and the shell exploded in the middle of the colony after passing through the outer wall of the colony. The explosion of two shells with a charge of 4 tons of explosives caused a brief flash in the muzzle.
"Worn out? Wrong...... It was the delay in the detonation of the fuse that took too long, and the shell passed through the outer wall of the colony even less than one ten-thousandth of a second. "Ian observed the results of the shelling with long-range telescope." The Dawn Sword, the shells were switched to a bump fuse, and the minimum delay time for delaying the fuse was too long. Forehead...... "Seeing the outer wall of the colony torn apart by the kinetic energy of the cannonball, Ian suddenly felt that it didn't matter what the fuse was.
"Correction, don't change the fuse, anyway, it mainly relies on kinetic energy to kill. It doesn't matter how powerful the blast is. ”
"Understand, the shells remain as they are, the electromagnetic cannon heat dissipation begins, and the battery recharge begins. There are still 5 minutes left until the next shot. ”
"Captain, according to the direction of the debris flight, we found a Federation warship 1500 kilometers away."
"What are the air guards doing?! Only one? The captain of the Msei stared at the Dawn Sacred Sword, which was no bigger than a fingernail in the distant distance.
"Gun Commander, the destruction of the Iwo Jima just now should be an ultra-high-speed mass weapon, right?" The captain turned to look at the gunner.
"Well, most likely, the radar signal exists for less than a tenth of a second, and the radar detection range of our Mtsai-class is close to 300 kilometers, that is, ...... The velocity of that shell was over 3,000 kilometers per second, and no spacecraft could withstand this powerful weapon, not even a space fortress. "The gunner's face is a little pale." Moreover, judging from the frontal projection, it should be an enterprise-class special ship, even if it is only equipped with the usual enterprise-level main guns, then their range is more than 200 kilometers longer than the range of the strengthened Msey main gun, according to the rate of fire of the federal ship guns, even if we approach at the maximum combat speed, we have to carry 2 rounds of salvos to enter the effective range of Msey. ”
“…… It's still this situation, transfer the big snake to two units, isn't the range of that thing claimed to be more than 2000 kilometers? A request for help was sent to CENTCOM, and the patrol fleet could not complete the task of driving away enemy ships. ”
"Captain, an order came from the rear to destroy the enemy ship at any cost, the shelling of the enemy ship just now destroyed the Solar rey ......"
"Isn't Solar rey more than 4000 km in the rear ?? The shelling just now was not directed at us ?! "The captain is a little messy.
"Solar rey is seriously damaged, and there is a danger of disintegration if another shot comes back, and the command orders all nearby combat units to intercept it, leaving the fighter jet alone."
"Got it, got it, contact the surrounding ships. With the ship as the center, the artillery formation was formed as loosely as possible, and "the unknown Captain Msey took off his military cap and took out his spacesuit. "The combat configuration in the ship, all the staff wear spacesuits, and the maximum combat speed of the hull."
In less than a minute, the bridge crew changed into spacesuits.
"Artillery commander, use missiles to attack the enemy first." The captain of the ship stood in the captain's seat.
"However, it has not yet reached the maximum range of the missile...... "The gun commander is a little embarrassed.
"Use inertial navigation to sail and wait for the missile's own radar to detect the enemy ship before starting the engine." The captain hated iron a little. "Didn't you have a snack after being bombed so badly in the Rum Universe?"
The sixteen Mulsey, who were on patrol duty, formed a loose formation and began firing missiles at the Dawn Sword.
"Captain Bled, the enemy fleet is approaching, missiles have been launched, contact with missiles is expected in 3 minutes, and contact with the enemy fleet in 5 minutes."
"Understand, prepare for anti-aircraft battles, as well as artillery battles, retreat the hull, do not touch the enemy fleet before the launch of the second shot."
"Understood."
"Captain, the enemy MS is approaching, it is expected to enter the ship's air defense circle in 2 minutes, the enemy plane is suspected to be equipped with a large thruster, the speed is very fast, it is suspected that it is the kind of Zagu mentioned by the MS team with very flexible movements."
"The main targets of large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery were changed to enemy MS, missile launchers, and aircraft mine groups were deployed on the advance lines of enemy aircraft."
"Understood, machine mine missiles, launched."
The thrusters at the front of the Dawn Sacred Sword began to eject, and the ship's hull slowly accelerated. At the same time, the missile launcher fired 64 medium missiles, the missile casings exploded in a certain airspace, and each missile dispersed 32 anti-MS machine mines.
On the display in front of the deputy commander of the Dawn Sword, a progress bar showing the recharge progress of the electromagnetic cannon is slowly advancing.
"Dali Lucao, the enemy ship has launched a missile, and it is suspected that it is approaching us using inertial navigation, but the radar has not yet detected it."
"Got it, the line remains the same, and the sensors of the missile are enough to find out that with the maneuverability of this high-mobility Zagu, the missile will not hit us." Dali Road is confident in this high-mobility Zagu Regeneration P equipment. "This machine is freer than the hands and feet I lost." Cao Chang, who had his limbs cut off when his hands and feet were healthy, thought to himself.
"Dali Road, the missile should have arrived......"
"Strange......" Dalilu searched carefully with a long-range optical sensor using a sniper on a beam bazooka. Mine swarm! Ficha! Track change, fast! Mine swarm! ”
Four high-maneuvering Zagu quickly changed their orbits in an attempt to bypass the mine swarm.
"The range is too wide! The whole machine retreats! Get around! Dali Road found that the radius of this spherical mine group reached an astonishing 50 kilometers, and it was impossible to get around it in a short time.
"Captain Brad, the enemy plane has made a detour to avoid the mineworks. The computer predicts that the contact time is expected to be extended to 6 minutes. ”
"That's enough." Brad looked at the recharge progress of the cannon. There are 3 minutes and 15 seconds left.
"Missile swarm, approaching, entering the air defense circle in 15 seconds."
"Automatically meet the attack."
Anti-aircraft guns from all over the hull spilled barrages and began to intercept incoming missiles.
"The port barrage is too thin!" There were far fewer missiles left on the right side of the hull than on the port side, and Brad looked very anxious.
"Point Defense Missile Launch!" The chief of artillery decisively activated the missile defense system within 10 km.
Dozens of short-range missiles were sprayed out of the missile launchers, heading for anti-ship missiles that had no anti-aircraft guns for the time being.
Seeing the last missile of the first wave intercepted less than 100 meters from the hull, Brad let out a long breath.
"Second wave of missiles, approaching."
"When a SAM is launched, a single ship cannot form a cross-fire network, and it cannot intercept so many missiles." Brad ordered.
"Understood, SAM launches." The chief of artillery began to assign targets. Subsequently, three 64-pack missile launchers on board the ship began firing long-range anti-aircraft missiles at a rate of 3 rounds per second.
"Chief of Gun, why didn't you use anti-aircraft missiles just now?"
"Forget it, there is no such thing as an anti-aircraft missile on the Magellan class, I am only a reserve soldier below, and I have only received training in the Magellan class, and I only received training in the operation of this ship a week ago."
Seeing that the gunner's mouth kept pressing, and the operation in his hand did not slow down, Brad knew that this was another big guy who was hidden in the city......
"Deputy commander, prepare to shell the ship, after the second round of electromagnetic cannon firing, the hull of the ship turns 90 degrees, and retreats while shelling the enemy ship."
"Understood, helmsman, 90-degree steering readiness, Ott, can you assign the main gun target?"
"The order of shelling has long been set, and we are waiting for orders." The gunner replied casually.
"It's still 3 ...... to shoot. 2…… 1…… Launch! ”
Two blue lights flashed from the muzzle, and the cannonballs flew out, flying towards the colonial beam cannon.
"Enemy ship, high energy reaction!" The cic wails were heard from the bridge of the Msey-class.
"What?!"
The beep of the radar warning flashed.
"The shells fired by the enemy ships flew over just now!"
"It's over!"
Captain Msey brought up the video of the Kilian Guards dispatched to escort Solar Rey.
A shell-class was broken in half by the waist, and the wreckage at both ends spun and flew away, and the attitude control vent futile sprayed flames to try to control the attitude, but the broken hull could not link the nozzles in front and behind the hull to control the attitude.
And the end of the colony, which was directly hit by two shells, a full third of the circular structure at the end of the colony, was torn apart.
"The cannon body overheats, and forced cooling begins." After the chief of gunners finished reading the system self-inspection report, he did not pay attention to the electromagnetic gun. "The enemy fleet is about to enter the range of the main guns, the energy injection begins, the fire control radar, as well as the optical sighting system, locks on to the target. Captain? ”
"The shelling begins, the left full rudder! Free fire of anti-ship missiles. ”
The tail vent of the Dawn Sacred Sword erupted with a huge tail flame, and the first steering vent also ran at full power, twisting the hull.
The eight main guns, which can be pointed to starboard, are firmly locked onto the intended target, ready to fire at any time.
"The target goes into effective range, the main gun fires."
24 beams flew towards 8 mseys.
"Enemy ships fire!"
"It's too early! Avoid! "The Msey-class began to evade maneuvers.
Seconds passed, and the beam swept through the Msai formation. 5 Msai were hit head-on and exploded and sank on the spot.
"That ship, the main gun is wrong, the range is too long, the power is too great, the range is at least 300 kilometers more than the enterprise class, the power is too great, a single hit can sink the Msey class?!" Captain Mse, who had escaped the catastrophe, had a little blue on his face. "Let's go intercept this monster?! The whole ship retreats! Send electricity to the MS team, let them retreat, don't go to their deaths, Solar Rey has already been destroyed. ”
The Mse-class quickly turned to evacuate, and the high-mobility Zagu of the Legion of the Living Dead, after receiving the communication from the patrol fleet, also retreated unwillingly.
"The effect is too good, I thought it would be against the Zeon garrison fleet......" Seeing the Zeon fleet withdraw, Brad took off his helmet.
"No, Captain Brad, we're going to have to fight the Zeon Garrison." The deputy chief sent the image of the remote telescope to Brad. "What are we going to do with the Zeon Garrison Fleet, Captain Brad?"
"Hell knows!" Brad watched as the large formation of hundreds of warships gradually took shape, and his expression gradually collapsed. "Contact Lieutenant Colonel Ian to get him back and instructions on what to do next, and at the same time contact Gabro to inform him of the results and consequences. Now, evacuate in the direction of the First Fleet, maximum ship speed. ”
Brad glanced at Zeon's Grand Fleet again.
"Throw this mess at General Rebil, it's not something a captain like me can solve."
"The Zeon Army is pouring out? Don't want it locally? Ian watched as the ships swarmed out of the various docks, assembled in large formations, and even the legendary Doros-class space carriers drove out three.
"Lieutenant Colonel Ian, please return to the ship as soon as possible, what should we do next?"
"I don't know." Ian looked at the assembled Zeon fleet, and the corners of his mouth twitched. "Bastard of the Zabi family, don't you know to surrender? Contact Gabro and let Admiral Gerp decide that if a fleet of this size merges with the fleet guarding the colony, the First Fleet will not be able to bear it. ”
"So, you directly destroyed Zeon's decisive weapon?" General Gerp was happy. "The big picture is decided."
"But the Zeon fleet is swarming out, and it seems that there is a decisive battle with the Federation." General Gerp's smile froze on his face.
"The size of the fleet includes more than 200 cruisers, more than 40 battleships, three super-large aircraft carriers, and more than 60 transport ships."
Every time General Gepu said a word, his face turned cold. Then turned out the size of the cover fleet for the whereabouts of the colony. More than 150 cruisers, more than 30 battleships, and more than 15 transport ships.
"Send a telegram to Rebiel, bring the interception point closer, and prepare for a decisive battle, Gabro urgently began to process the second Archimedes system, it doesn't matter if it's small, send it to space as soon as possible." General Gerp hung up.
"Zeon bastard, don't you want the native?"