Chapter 67: The Battle of Lanaya (1)
In the Third Fleet, there is a special type of ship called the strategic heavy cruiser, which is actually no different from other heavy cruisers, and plays the same role as other heavy cruisers in peacetime operations. But the only difference is not just his name, but the fact that he actually carries high-yield nuclear weapons.
When Kelrigan inspected the fleet, he found seven strategic cruisers loaded with nuclear weapons, and his heart was filled with anger. Herssel's purpose in bringing the strategic heavy cruiser to the battlefield was obvious, and he was afraid that the ground forces would suffer too many casualties, so he was already preparing to use nuclear weapons to clear the blue star.
This kind of nuclear weapon is many times more advanced than the nuclear weapons on the earth, not only is its power more powerful than the nuclear weapons created by the earth's technology, but also the nuclear pollution it causes is extremely weak, so Hersel dared to use nuclear weapons in the blue star. In line with the principle of treating others the way they would be, Kelrigan loaded all twenty-four high-yield nuclear bombs into the battleship USS Liberty, and the scene just now appeared.
How powerful are twenty-four superpolar nuclear weapons? If you look at the military port that has almost been flattened, you can see that the entire military has a size of more than 70 square kilometers, but now it has been flattened by more than half, leaving only the dispatch room and a few ports that have not been affected, and the entire military port has been completely destroyed by this blow.
Half of the more than 100 warships moored in the harbor were also swept away, and the other part was only partially wounded and did not hurt the roots, so after the explosion, the battleships hurriedly opened the power furnace and energy shield and fled away from the military harbor, which had long been a piece of metal floating ruins.
Several battleships in the battleships that were lifted off basically had no major problems, and when the staff in the battleship reacted, they also controlled the direction of the battleship and began to sail away from the gravitational range of Lanaya, preventing the battleship from crashing to Lanaya. In short, this attack cost the military port nearly 30 heavy cruisers, frigates, and submarine hunters. The battleship was equipped with Luna alloy armor, so it didn't do much damage.
Kelligan, who had observed all this clearly through the centenopus, sighed that it was a pity that none of these warships would be able to escape if the Liberty entered the harbor and exploded, and all armor was a puffy cloud under the terrifying power of the nuclear explosion center. It's a pity that Jungang discovered her plan in advance, otherwise the next battle would have been much easier.
Now, although more than 30 warships have been destroyed at one time, the entire Lanaya fleet has not been harmed. There are only more than 100 ships stationed on Lanaya, another 100 ships are in the military port of Polivier, and there are 100 warships stationed in the major military bases of the A77 star system or patrolling outside, once they regroup, they will form a terrifying and huge fleet with nearly 300 ships.
However, this is not the time to think so much, now that Lanaya Star has been destroyed with the military port, the entire Lanaya Star defense system is equivalent to being destroyed by half, and this is the critical moment for the Zerg to take the opportunity to take Lanaya Star. Thinking of this, Kelrigan began to control the fleet of the Zerg and make space jumps......
Admiral Gladys was the commander-in-chief of the first detachment of Lanaya's fleet, and he was stunned on the Independence Day before he could understand what was going on. And when he woke up, he was surrounded by a group of subordinates chattering non-stop, although his brain was still a little confused, but through this group of subordinates who reported to him the situation he still learned a shocking news. That's when someone attacked Lanaya!
How many years have passed, since a skirmish with the Kugusian Federation broke out here two hundred years ago, Lanaya has not experienced a real war for two hundred years, and now there are really people who dare to openly attack Lanaya in defiance of the alliance agreement.
While Gladys was thinking about how to deal with this matter, a messenger hurriedly came to him and said: "Your Excellency General, the commander-in-chief is in an emergency, and the entire A77 star system has entered the state of first-level combat readiness. All the warships leave the military port to assemble and destroy all warships that are not part of the A77 star system! ”
"What's going on?" Gladys rubbed his temples and said tiredly.
"According to the command, it was the Third Fleet that mutinied. Join forces with alien creatures to attack the A77 galaxy. The correspondent said with a strange expression. It's no wonder he has such an expression. The Third Fleet, as the only seven main fleets in the Elsa Free Territory, can be regarded as the essence of Elsa, and I dare not say that 100% of them are soldiers loyal to Elsa, but they can't just mutiny like this......
"Third Fleet mutiny......" Gladys repeated a few times and then suddenly said: "It turns out that there was a problem with the battleship that entered the port just now, I said how could there be such a big movement, they must have stuffed a nuclear bomb into that battleship!" "Because he was unconscious at the time of the big bang, he didn't know what was going to happen next. It's good to guess this with a little bit of information. But what was difficult for him to understand was why these people of the Third Fleet were so crazy and used such a method to end up together?
At this moment, another officer hurriedly came to Gladys's side and said, "Report to the general, the battleship light brain has found violent space fluctuations, and it is suspected that an unknown spaceship is using fleet-level space jumps!" ”
"Assemble the First Fleet at once. Keep an eye on the space jump location! Gladys knew that it was not time for him to continue to faint, and that he had to reassemble the scattered fleet and organize a formation to defend against the enemy. It is impossible for the command to be unaware of the movement here, he believes that it will not be long before the other two detachments will come to support, and when the entire Lanaya fleet converges, what are you afraid of?
I saw that the space 7,000 kilometers away from the Lanaya spaceport suddenly trembled, and a huge black hole slowly opened, and then a hideous Leviathan quickly passed through the wormhole, but the wormhole did not close but continued to expand, and then one after another Leviathan drilled out of the wormhole.
The Zerg don't use fleet-level space jumps, so these Leviathans are fleet-level space jumps done through the Third Fleet's technique. Forty-nine Leviathans emerged from the wormhole in less than five minutes, and the first detachment of Lanaya hadn't even set up their formation, and the constant signals from the Independence Day showed that they were still making up for the retraction of the fleet.
Taking advantage of this period of time, the Zerg Leviathan fleet has completely detached itself from the space wormhole and completed the space jump, while the scattered Lanaya First Squadron has only fired a few shells at the Leviathan that is jumping in space, and the weak artillery fire can't even penetrate the protection of the magic barrier.
And when they found out that these monstrous behemoths were able to open their energy shields while jumping in space, they stopped the useless shelling, and they knew that unless the fleet was assembled for a salvo, it would be impossible to hurt these terrifying behemoths with high shield values with such scattered attacks.
"It's really an alien invasion...... In this universe, besides the Mullan Empire and the Blue Bloods, there are such powerful intelligent beings......," Gladys said self-deprecatingly. When the "Ethel Theory of Human Superiority" was prevalent, almost the entire human race in the Luoyun Star Domain believed that the Ethel humans were the most noble intelligent beings in the entire universe, and the other intelligent beings were inferior races.
The origin of this argument comes from the fact that since mankind entered the age of the universe, there has been no race or civilization that can confront humans. However, when they encountered the blue-blooded people in the process of exploring the Luoyun Star Field, the number of people who believed in this theory was greatly reduced, because they found that the blue-blooded people not only had a low level of technology than humans, but also a little higher than humans.
And the subsequent invasion of the Mulan Empire slapped the person who wrote this book hard, but there are still some people who believe in this theory, after all, the theory of racial superiority has a market in any race and civilization, and Gladys is such a person who believes in the theory of human superiority.
"General, they have completed the space jump, and now they are forming a formation, are we going to attack while they are not on a firm footing?" An officer had just recovered from the Leviathan's hideous image and entered the state, no matter what, they were all on the battlefield, and the Leviathan's appearance was terrifying enough, but it didn't directly make them lose their combat effectiveness.
"No, their shield value is too high, such a scattered attack is useless, and our formation is not well arranged, isn't it? We are no far from them, and the longer we delay it, the better it will be for us, and if we can delay the arrival of reinforcements from the commander-in-chief, we will be halfway to victory. Gladys said.
His idea was very simple, what was here now was only a part of Lanaya's fleet, and from what he had just observed, it seemed that the combat effectiveness of these monstrous behemoths must not be low, and even if they attacked now, they might not be able to gain an advantage. And the movement here is so big, it is impossible for the headquarters to be unaware, once the headquarters sends reinforcements, he will be more sure.
It can be said that there is really nothing wrong with his idea, and it is not wise to attack Leviathan at this time, but Kelrigan actually doesn't care about his so-called reinforcements. Now that the Zerg have come here, they are here with the intention of fighting a tough battle, and Kelligan believes that with the current strength of the Zerg, they can completely defeat the Lanaya fleet.
Because now the Zerg rely on more than just these forty-nine Leviathans to fight in space, and the large number of troops used by the Zerg for space operations can make mankind completely desperate! (To be continued......)