"A1 area, protective layer open!"

As the command was delivered, the dedicated large workship began to charge the nodal energy shield.

In space, a super huge energy light curtain opened. Not just one side, but fifty sides in depth.

A few minutes later, artillery fire from the locust fleet swarms arrived.

In an instant, more than thirty energy light curtains were shattered, and the effect, like thirty layers of glass hidden in the pitch black, suddenly lit up with countless high-heat red dots, and then melted and shattered.

Looking at it from the side with the human senses, it is a moment when thirty layers of light shine at the same time, and then completely disintegrate.

"A1-1 to A1-30 workboats, into the A2 area."

The ships started their engines and moved towards the A2 area.

During this period, the fleet of the outer city-states fired four salvos. The last 20 layers of the energy light curtain are charged.

The second wave of the swarm of locusts arrived shortly after.

At the same time, the main body of the fleet of the outer city-states was already in the car, and it was the Red Stick-class light cruisers that were acting as cover.

A new round of concentrated fire of the locust fleet group directly destroyed the twenty layers of protective shields, and then, the firepower and the defensive shield composed of the Red Stick-class light cruisers were reflected.

In an instant, more than sixty light cruisers on top of the first array were destroyed, and the penetrating heat continued to irradiate the ships into twisted scrap metal.

Since the only thing that needed oxygen in the light cruiser was the brain computer, there were not many open flames and explosions at the time of destruction, and the rupture of the fusion reactor was only a radioactive fuel leak, so the death was not spectacular.

Of course, this is relatively speaking, if the field of view is closer, the ship that is not inferior to the full length of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier will turn into distorted scrap metal in an instant, and it will still look shocking.

At the same time, in the A2 area, additional node shields are being arranged.

Since it is the first time to withstand the opponent's concentrated fire attack, the AI can only roughly estimate its firepower intensity, and it is inevitable that there will be deviations. This was the reason for the fact that the first array, which led to the defense of the fleet, was largely destroyed. It must be able to withstand two waves of concentrated fire, otherwise the cost performance of transferring positions will become very low.

Outland city-states rely on specialized defense arrays to gain additional protection capabilities. Changing places with one shot is like shifting a trench in a positional battle.

The locust fleet swarm, on the other hand, is tantamount to launching a charge against the target, relying on strong firepower and sufficient numbers to rush through the death zone.

Destruction, which is happening in the locust fleet, if they want to get a good salvo, then the fleet needs to be deployed so that as many ships as possible have a shooting horizon, not their own ships' butts.

Although they had adjusted their formation as much as possible, turning depth into a plane, turning the fleet into a thin curtain instead of the original long snake, in order to reduce the utilization rate of the opponent's attack (there were only one or two chances), there were still nearly 100 ships destroyed in the first round of strikes, including 16 huge ships.

The reason for this is that many of their ships are in poor condition, and it can be said that they are fighting with injuries, which reduces the ship's tolerance and maneuverability to a considerable extent.

Of course, they have 20,000 ships, and the loss of 100 ships is quite bearable.

Soon, though, they realized the problem.

Judging from the intensity of the opponent's last few rounds of artillery fire, it is still in a state of full fire, especially the light spear, which is still 643 at a time, which is very easy to identify.

With the density and intensity of your own firepower, there shouldn't be such a situation where you can't exchange one! But this is the case, it can only be said that behind the invisibility caused by the force field masking, there is another article.

It wasn't long before they noticed that the other had shifted direction and was launching a new round of strikes from their diagonal left.

The Leopard Man quickly figured out how to play the Outland City-State, a large curtain that was constantly adjusted so that it was always facing its own side, divided into nine parts, used the curtain to defend, and then constantly adjusted the position behind the curtain to get a better shooting angle.

That's true.

The opponent's fleet is in an array of curtains, so shooting from the diagonal side of the curtain, rather than the front, obviously gives you more chances to hit (more than two), of course, how oblique it is a matter of angle, which is even negligible in terms of the distance between the two sides at the moment.

However, constantly changing positions can also nullify the opponent's blows.

This is the advantage of the outer city-states, the number is small, and it is concentrated, the ship is small and easy to turn around, and it is flexible enough.

On the other hand, the locust fleet is difficult to make such adjustments.

So they chose the original method of the alien fleet, and rushed!

The ships of the Locust Fleet are slightly better performers, and they take less time to accelerate.

In less than an hour, the speed was again close to 8 million kilometers per hour.

Faced with this situation, Xu Changqing said that nuclear shells can be used, and we will have an advanced version of 'Yang Lime. ’

As soon as the speed increases, the flexibility of dodging is greatly reduced, but it is only a matter of thruster arrangement, and there is also a question of whether the ship can withstand torsion.

Pushing forward fiercely, and at the same time pressing downward, the intersection of the forces in the two directions will bear a huge torque, which is definitely a test for the ship in the state of hollow radish.

Therefore, it is fast and moves up and down, left and right, and such a space ship, at least with the technology of the three warring parties at present, cannot do it.

Against this background, a nuclear artillery shell with a speed of 36 million kilometers per hour will be on board.

The detectors of the locust fleet swarm have been annihilated in large numbers, their eyes are not bright, they can't see far enough, and they are a little blind, and when they notice the nuclear shells, they will react, and it will not be easy to dodge.

Win by quantity, with a large coverage, 1.2 nuclear shells were fired in ten seconds.

As a result, for more than an hour, the leopard people also amazed Xu Changqing.

The rain of nuclear shells was heated and deformed in an area less than 100,000 kilometers from the locust fleet swarm.

The high-temperature force field shield has completed the continuous force field coverage of the entire fleet group for 100,000 kilometers at such a high speed, which is very sharp.

A large number of nuclear artillery shells have lost their nuclear explosion ability due to heating and deformation, but the speed of 8 million per hour and the collision speed of 36 million per hour are much more exciting than Mars hitting the earth.

The final assessment showed that the total number of damaged ships exceeded 500.

Well, yes, you can still come!

Launch again!

At this time, the distance between the two sides was already less than 50 million kilometers, and the best shooting distance for the main warships of the outer city-states was approaching.

Over the next hour or so, the fleet of the Outlander city-states did the following.

The first is to shoot out all the nuclear shells.

Although this kind of weapon is not bad, Xu Changqing believes that in fact, participating in such a battle situation, it is still a little low-end.

A very important reason is that most of the ships on this side of the outer city-states are small crispy, really small and poorly protected.

Such a ship fights with the ships of the locust fleet swarm, and that is to seek death.

The spiral nuclear electromagnetic rapid-fire cannon is a melee weapon, don't look at its name, the projectile speed is tens of thousands of kilometers per second, but in the vast universe, such a speed is still not enough.

From the point of view of hit rate, 10 seconds of 'let the bullets fly for a while' time is relatively long, after all, 10 seconds can still do a lot of things, but 10 seconds of nuclear artillery shells can only cross 100,000 kilometers, this distance is really too close, the two sides are close to this distance, it is already a white war, God knows that before this, ships with rapid-fire guns have been beaten several times. And it won't be long before the two sides pass by.

It's not impossible to turn the cannon body like a fire hose to chase and shoot, but there is one problem to consider, fleet warfare.

Shooting back and forth, friendly forces are likely to pay for stray bullets.

If it's not high or low, it can be used as a meteor shower, and it can cause a little damage.

In fact, it is by no means a point, the nuclear artillery shells have caused the destruction of more than 5,500 ships of the locust fleet swarm, and the injuries are even more, especially the damage of the giant ships, which makes the leopard people very distressed. They really have too many fleet tactics to use such giant ships as the backbone to support the field.

The second thing a ship that has shot nuclear shells does is to get into the racks that have been prepared for a long time.

These price points look a lot like an enlarged version of the heavy fighter carrier that was handed over to the Republic of Mars, but in fact it is a rudimentary version, with only shelves and nothing.

And now, the largest number of light cruisers, act as propulsion equipment for these shelves.

So who are these shelves for? Battleship.

In the later stage, the relevant operation began, and the shelf, under the joint impetus of many light cruisers, slowly approached the battleship, and finally put the battleship that was still firing in the shelf.

The head and tail of each other are exactly opposite, Type 69, except that the battleship is the 9 in the middle, and all around it are 6s.

Relying on this arrangement, each battleship, in the process of evacuation, can still continue to attack the locust fleet swarm with the light spear of the bow gun.

From the two sides approaching within 30 million kilometers, the fleet groups of the city-states in the outer regions began to fire their cannons while withdrawing, and the group of snakes pulled the dragons, and the maximum speed was only 1.3 million kilometers per hour.

But the account should be calculated like this: if the locust fleet wants to run 30 million kilometers, it will take almost 4 hours.

The fleet of the outer city-states can travel 5.2 million kilometers in 4 hours, so the locust fleet swarm needs to take nearly 1 hour more to catch up with the fleet of the outer city-states.

Moreover, the Red Stick-class light cruiser is actually a frigate, a nodal energy shield, and it can also provide additional protection capabilities for the battleship.

As a result, when the distance between the two sides was narrowed to less than 20 million kilometers, the giant ships of the locust fleet had been completely destroyed.

More than 500 huge ships were consumed before they could effectively play their offensive role.

This made the leopard people extremely angry, because at a distance of 20 million kilometers, the giant ship has a very powerful heavy energy cannon, which can be used in a row.

Now, they can only compete with each other for long-range output with the ships that make up the highest percentage of the total fleet.

Truth be told, their ships were slightly superior to the warships of the foreign city-states.

However, no scout provides firing parameters, which reduces accuracy. The damage also reduced the combat capability to a certain extent.

On the side of the outer city-states, the dedicated multi-layer energy shield system is still trying its best to operate, constantly collecting scattered node balls, and then matching the rhythm of the fleet's strikes, stretching out the defensive shield, and weakening the light spear power of the locust fleet swarm as much as possible.

In addition, the node shield supported by six Red Stick-class light cruisers also has a very good defensive power, and it is not easy to destroy the Mingcheng-class battleship.

Under the advantages of one or the other, although the outer city-states are on the inferior side in numbers, they have a bit of a hob meat posture, which is extremely difficult to kill.

Of course, even so, there are still warships that continue to fall behind because of one kind or another.

For example, if the frame is destroyed, or other light cruisers are broken, this leads to the fact that the battleship can only continue to fly backwards by inertia, and cannot be moved when it needs to be moved, and it will get out of the queue.

Fortunately, these ships are also covered with newly produced organic armor shells, which can be replaced inside and out, and it is difficult to destroy them.

The distance between the two sides was reduced to less than 10 million kilometers, and the locust fleet was already very close to the position established earlier by the outer city-states, and the working ships that supplied the nodal shield and the blocking force field were scattered and fled, and the leopards were angry and destroyed the ships as much as possible with their light spears.

Against this background, 60,000 MAs, which had been on standby nearby, moved forward and launched an attack on the fleet group, which was already less than 7,000 in number.

And before them, there were strikes by 400 missile destroyers, each of which released 10,000 missiles per wave, and three waves, a total of 12 million missiles, which were so close that they would not need half an hour to make contact with the target.

When the missile destroyers opened fire, they were naturally discovered, and the locust fleet frantically opened fire on them, and soon these missile destroyers were destroyed one after another.

But the missiles have already been launched, and it is very difficult for the locust fleet swarm to get through this difficulty.

And the MAs attacked from their diagonal front flank, and almost as soon as the rain of missiles passed, these MAs arrived. Because the locust fleet swarm always maintains a high speed, this is bound to be a short pass, but the design of the MA determines that it can play more tricks than missiles at that moment......

(End of chapter)