After two years, the locust fleet is back.

But this time, humanity is far less flustered than last time.

In fact, in the past two years, the production capacity of the foreign city-states has surged, and the technology has taken off, which is not the same as before.

For example, the current new warships.

Ultra-high-speed space battleship with a maximum combat cruising speed of 10 million kilometers per hour.

THE BATTLESHIP HAS A TOTAL LENGTH OF 1200M AND A 36-HOLE LIGHT SPEAR GUN ON THE FRONT.

It looks like a conical pine fungus, and the honeycomb thruster on the tail makes people dizzy to look at.

Due to the layout of the thrusters, when it is in inertial motion, only the edge thrusters are used, and then the nozzles can be controlled by the posture on the hull, and the flight trajectory can be adjusted relatively quickly, and even sharp turns can be made.

In the design of this second-generation Mingcheng-class battleship, Xu Changqing chose an extreme plan.

The interior cannot carry personnel, but is replaced with a nanobot factory, and different types of nanobots can be needed to repair the ship as needed.

Due to the use of high-temperature force field shield technology, close defense guns and the like have been banned, and only some hive missile launchers remain.

In fact, such an extreme ship is more suitable to be called a high-speed gunboat suitable for one-hit evacuation, and it deviates from the design structure of the original Mingcheng-class ship by more than 50%, and it is already another new ship, but Xu Changqing wants to call it willful, and no one can control it.

The total number of new warships is not much, and 1000+ have been built in two years.

But another kind of gunboat was built for 1 million+.

There are so many of them that such ships do not have a name but are numbered, and people generally call this kind of ship by the nickname, 'wolf's eye flashlight'.

It has firepower second only to the Shinmyashiro class, and it also has 36 light spears as the bow gun.

The difference is that it is a casemate, not a monolith.

The turret type is like a locust ship, the head can be moved, and the internal light spear exciter also has a certain amount of room for adjustment, and the combination of the two can strike targets in large cone-shaped areas even if they are not displaced, especially if the target is far enough away.

However, the hull of his ship, compared with the new famous city class, can be called the difference between a beggar and a rich man.

If you use its turret as a base, it will look like an honest signal relay tower.

There is no sense of disobedience, it is like that, a long tapered iron shelf, on which are mounted in eight directions, from front to back, with posture control nozzles.

The tail is the thruster module, which looks like a signal claw, or fork head with a cross layout, which is stuck on the ship in a sleeve and can be detached for easy replacement and reuse.

It must be said that its appearance is not at all shipy, and if it weren't for the impressive impressive light spear turret, it is estimated that its nickname would be electric fork or iron centipede or something.

Even so, the reason why this kind of ship can be mass-produced is also very related to the further improvement of superconducting organic matter technology.

It is precisely because of the low cost of mass production of this superconducting material that there are millions of ships.

Of course, there is another important reason, which is that Xu Changqing's thinking has changed.

After experiencing two spaceship battles, Xu Changqing understood that it was sealed, missile-bearing, manned, and multi-weapon, which was actually a pretending mentality.

In the case of the city-states in the outer regions, then playing is an evil way, or rather, there is no freedom from the shackles of old ideas or feelings.

In a way, war is a game of smashing the opponent's big toys. If it is destined to be destroyed, why be beautiful and comprehensive? As long as it's simple and functional.

Fighting with an opponent who wins by quantity like alien creatures and leopard people, and waits for work at ease, and the fool has all the weapons in all directions, and he is afraid that the value is low, and people will not be happy to fight?

Like this wolf-eye flashlight, the attack ability is sharper than the previous Mingcheng-class battleships, and the 36-hole light spear salvo is absolutely unambiguous. And what about the cost of construction? That is, a little more than half of the Red Stick-class light cruisers.

It should be like Bitcoin mining back then, the chassis is not needed, the graphics card is integrated with the motherboard, and then it is distributed layer by layer like a large warehouse shelf, and on the shelves is a working assembly machine, and then it is dry.

So there are these wolf-eye flashlights.

That's right, this thing can't run fast, it doesn't have much defense, and if it is rushed into the array by a team of fighters, it can kill corpses all over the field.

But only if you can rush in.

36 million light spear salvos, how many fighters can fill this hole?

Of course, it is necessary to make reasonable use of this kind of weapon with a single performance, and it is indispensable to cooperate with other auxiliary equipment.

Considering that since it was a positional battle to be played and waited, Xu Changqing felt that it was feasible for the node energy shield frigate to take on the defense work exclusively.

Such attempts have been proven in the last war, and there is no reason not to do so.

If fifty layers of defensive shields are not enough, then build a hundred, three-hundred, full-time shield protection.

In addition, investment in group occlusion to prevent prying has been strengthened.

A group of light curtain generators, building one occlusion area after another. Unless a detector passes through the light curtain, you can't see what's going on inside.

The ships inside can't see what's going on outside, but it doesn't matter, the entire solar system is covered with eyes, and the map is already fully lit without them being intuitive. This is another benefit of having to work at ease.

After the last war, Xu Changqing summed up the reasons for the loss of the Leopards, one of the most important of which was 'blindness', and it was precisely because of blindness that they could be pitted by MA and missile destroyers.

The leopards are not unscouting, and they have released several detectors, but they have all been destroyed. Later, when they enter the ultra-high speed, they cannot be released, because the speed of the detectors is not as fast as their own, and they cannot achieve the effect of going ahead to detect before themselves.

Suffer a long memory. Judging from the jump point, the way of propulsion, and the number of giant ships chosen by the leopard people for this invasion, the last locust fleet group sent campaign intelligence to the rear, so there are these targeted layouts, so reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance must also be the focus of their attention in this campaign.

Fortunately, he is also prepared in this regard, there is a special mothership to do this kind of work, once necessary, it can spit out thousands of interceptors at once like a fish spawning, these interceptors are specially designed to deal with detectors, codenamed starfish, long like starfish, spherical, long spines on the outside, are energy exciters, and in the gap between the long spines, there are posture control nozzles.

The Posture Control Nozzle is located at almost all angles, super flexible, and the laser cannon is also spread at almost all angles, and it can even twist the body with full firepower, so that it can form a laser cutting area without dead angles in the range of airspace in a short period of time, and can strangle multiple targets within the fire range at the same time.

Once the firing range is detected, the radium rays enter a super-attenuated state and quickly disperse. This is also the result of new research, and this technology ensures that sea urchins can be quantified and used, otherwise they will be thrown into a certain airspace in groups, and they will also wipe each other out.

The locust fleet was advancing steadily this time, not very fast, and chasing the planets, always keeping the planets between the fleet and the sun, and then approaching closer.

At the same time, a large number of detection devices were launched.

So this time, there is finally a little bit of war, not a decisive battle that will be directly studed as soon as it comes up.

The Outland city-states mobilized their artillery fleets into suitable combat positions while sending specialized ships to deal with the large number of probes.

The two sides fought in the Kuiper Belt, and the large number of probes launched by the locust fleet swarms destroyed many of the stealth probes placed in the area by the outer city-states.

Although the main function of the leopard man's detector is to detect, it still has combat effectiveness, this wedge-shaped aircraft can be understood as a drone, although it does not hang a missile, but in terms of combat effectiveness, it is enough to hang F22 or F35, and its size, similar to the 6 masters of the Celestial Empire, of course, has no wings.

When these flying tacks were fired in tens of thousands, the flying scene was far more spectacular than the aircraft duel in the Heaven and Earth Counterattack War, and the aircraft duel in Ender's game could not be compared either.

It's just that with space as the background and the large fleet as the background, they are like water lice in front of the fish, which is a little worthless.

It was this fish-like flying machine that encountered an equally large number of sea urchins and broke out in a fierce battle in space.

Despite the depth of the starry sky, at that moment, from the perspective of any flying machine, there was a feeling that there was nowhere to escape, as far as the eye could see, front, back, left, right, and up, everywhere there were intertwined radium rays and exploding light, as well as debris flying in all directions.

Those radium rays are all emitted by sea urchins, and the radium rays of the leopard man aircraft are still the type that cannot be captured by normal vision.

The firepower, flexibility, and striking effectiveness of the leopard people are not as good as those of the sea urchins, they mainly rely on speed, and the torrent is generally pushed over, and there is a sense of déjà vu for some military ants to cross the river, and the outer layer is constantly destroyed, while the inner layer continues to move forward.

Compared to them, the speed of sea urchins can also be understood as a stationary state, so there are not many opportunities left for them to hit the target, and they can often see the start of strangulation, which is the main reason for the interweaving of laser light.

From a more macro perspective, a mothership carrying a large number of sea urchins is like a big fish that excretes while swimming. They have the same trajectory as the Leopard Flyer, but they always fly in front of it, so that the Leopard Man has to constantly deal with the sea urchins it scatters.

And behind the leopard man aircraft, there is a mothership to contain those surviving sea urchins, preparing for the next wave of use.

When the leopard people saw that the way the fish were advancing was not feasible, they let the probes scatter.

The mothership will not be too deliberate to chase, the outer city-states have long divided the inner solar system into regions, and there are corresponding ships in charge, especially now that Neptune orbits the area, it can be called negligent but not leaky.

Because the MA did not meet the needs of the war, no more was produced, and the current number is about 43,000, which are distributed in various places.

Instead of MA, the one specifically designed to capture the detector is the Horn Snail Drone, which also resembles the Horn Snail, with a floating node shield and a small laser cannon, and excellent dog fighting ability.

The floating nodal shield is also a new technology introduced a year ago, through the magnetic effect, the nodal ball and the hull are always kept at a relative distance, the nodal ball is movable, and the binding energy can be charged to it, and it can establish a protective shield.

This is one of the applications brought about by the great abundance of superconducting materials, and the shell of the snail is the superconducting material, which is the basis for always maintaining the magnetic effect between the shell and the node sphere and charging it at any time.

If the sea urchins form an all-round interception array, then the corner is the pursuit of the evil star. A large number of leopard people detectors were killed by them.

The discovery of these detectors depends on the three-dimensional network constructed by the reconnaissance ship's high-signal radar device and the passive detectors arranged like mines in the area.

These passive detectors are the targets destroyed by the leopard detectors, and when they find the leopard detectors and send information to the reconnaissance ship, they are often captured by the leopard detectors and destroyed, and the reconnaissance ships are responsible for trying to fill this loophole.

Although this battle is miniature, but fierce and cruel, the leopards have fully seen the degree of human control over the inner solar system, they realize that the last time their own fleet group, the loss is not wronged, the opponent is stared at to death, naturally every knife can be stabbed with great accuracy, and the knife is not far from the point.

Although the results achieved in the investigation have been poor, they have not been without gains.

The outer city-states used light curtain blocking technology to cover many invisible areas, which in itself was equivalent to three hundred taels of silver here. The only thing to consider now is which occlusion is true and which is false.

(End of chapter)