Volume 1: Destruction and Rebirth Chapter 59: The Battle of the Sixth Ring

"Weasel, this is Hurricane VI, report your status."

"Hurricane VI, I'm a weasel, I'm close to the fleet's maximum alert distance, and no enemy ships have been found."

"Keep searching, Weasel, good luck!"

"Roger, Hurricane VI, good luck to all of us!"

This miniature reconnaissance boat, codenamed "Weasel", is one of the countless reconnaissance boats released by the Alliance fleet after jumping into the Silla Song Star Circle.

After taking control of the Hermes Stargate for the first time, the fleet detected a massive take-off from one of the satellites of Novorosson, but by now, 24 hours had passed, and the fleet had disappeared as if it had disappeared into the vast expanse of space.

After the routine briefing, the Weasel reconnaissance craft conducted another mid-range mass scan in the vast space of the fifth hexagram limit, and in the echo, several unusual noises were found.

The noise is so faint that the AI in the radar system directly attributes it to stellar radiation interference.

But the captain of the Weasel was an experienced veteran radarman, and his intuition told him that there could be no such regular noise in this direction.

So he did a quality scan of the noisy area in the fifth hexagram again.

Noise is still present and seems to be more intense.

"Wait a minute, report the anomaly to the fleet, and prepare for battle!" The captain then gave the order.

The whole ship immediately sounded the first alarm and sent the information of the suspected enemy to the fleet command center at the first time.

However, by the time all the starships of the Alliance's Eleventh Fleet were ready for battle, those eerie noises disappeared as if nothing had happened.

This is the ninth time in a day of fleet time that this situation has been in this situation.

In this hasty expedition, the combined fleet composed of the 11th and 17th fleets of the alliance was not equipped with area control ships, which led to the fact that the alliance fleet was always weaker than the Xinluosong rebels with a land-based radar network in terms of deep space detection range, which is why the vanguard of the 11th fleet always maintained the maximum detection distance and carefully searched and advanced.

The high level of tension in the battle, coupled with several inexplicable enemy attack alarms in a row, left the entire fleet in a state of tension and anger.

An hour later, the Weasel's long-range quality radar again detected a dozen unusual noises, and the captain did not dare to take it lightly, sounded again, and uploaded the radar data to the fleet command center along with his own analysis.

A young staff officer on duty in the command center received the battle information uploaded by the Weasel, and he was distraught by the repeated fake enemy information, so he just pouted and deleted this message directly along with a large number of invalid information.

This move caused the Alliance's Eleventh Fleet to miss the best opportunity to detect and deal with the enemy in the first place.

Ten minutes later, the captain of the Weasel noticed that the noise had not disappeared, but had become more pronounced.

Finally, the onboard AI analyzed and identified the true information of these faint noises - it was a squadron of eighteen "Hustle" attack aircraft!

The Weasel sounded the first-class battle alarm again at the first time, and once again sounded the hostile attack alarm to the fleet command center. At the same time, while releasing the jammer, slow down with all your might.

The staff officers of the command center of the Eleventh Fleet finally decided to take a look at the contents of the information after receiving the alarm message from the Weasel again.

But he didn't open the message, because the message terminal was filled with more than a dozen messages with the same content in an instant.

Enemy attack! This time it's true!

The staff officer on duty who had been aggrieved all day exhaled heavily, and those loach-like enemies finally appeared, and there were more than a dozen attack squadrons, according to the number, this should be the maximum combat effectiveness of the local fleet of Silla Song in one sortie!

So he sounded the first-class battle alarm of the whole fleet with his hand, which was a little trembling because of the mixture of excitement and nervousness.

At the same time, the Weasel reconnaissance boat, which did not have time to slow down, finally entered the attack range of the "Hustle" squadron.

The Weasel, which was barely equipped with any anti-fighter weapons, was hit by two high-speed N2 missiles in an instant, and the semi-armor-piercing warhead directly penetrated the multi-layered armor of the pocket dinghy, which was less than 100 meters long, before bursting in the core area of the reconnaissance boat.

The violent explosion tore the entire reconnaissance boat apart in an instant, and the flames engulfed the entire hull.

But in the silence of space, the destroyed reconnaissance ship did not make any sound.

The "Hustle" squadron swept through the wreckage of the Weasel at high speed and rushed towards the frigate line behind the reconnaissance net.

When it was far from the outermost air defense circle of the fleet, which was composed of "shield guard" class frigates, these more than 10 squadrons of attack aircraft finally encountered a decent counterattack, and the well-trained soldiers of the alliance fleet organized an effective protection system as quickly as possible, and the hundreds of high-speed N2 missiles launched by the squadron, after flying a distance of several hundred kilometers, crashed into the heavy fleet kinetic energy barrier, bursting out a series of silent sparks.

For the Eleventh Fleet of the Alliance, it was a great shame to allow the enemy's squadron of attack aircraft to close to a distance of hundreds of kilometers in order to barely organize a decent defense.

The alert range of the alliance fleet is mostly measured in 100,000 kilometers, and even if it is suppressed by the opponent's land-based mass radar, it is still an insult to be exported by someone like this, which completely angers everyone in the Eleventh Fleet.

After fending off the enemy's first attack, the enraged fleet commander sent all his fighters on duty to four times the enemy's strength, bypassing the protective net formed by the frigates, and delivering a devastating blow to the group of aircraft that were about to retreat after missing a single blow.

Hundreds of warplanes kept catapulting into space from the mothership in the core area of the fleet, rushing towards the enemy planes without thinking about completing the formation, and these air superiority fighters had stronger maneuverability and weapons specifically aimed at other fighters, and the "hustlemen" were caught off guard as soon as they saw them.

Under the frantic counterattack of the angry fighter pilots, the "Hustle" suffered heavy losses, and in less than half an hour after the engagement, more than half of them had already been lost, and the remaining fighters left the battlefield in a hurry.

After pursuing some distance, the coalition fighters were far behind by the faster enemy planes and had to return to the mothership for resupply.

Of course, the commander of the 11 th Fleet was unwilling to exchange dozens of reconnaissance boats for the enemy's dozens of fighters, and since he had found clues about the enemy, he should of course take advantage of the victory to pursue the attack, and then find the main force of the enemy's fleet and make a quick decision in order to achieve the strategic goal set by General Chief Chen.

After repeated communication, the main force of the Eleventh Fleet, separated from the main body of the coalition fleet, pursued in the direction of the escape of the "Hustle" fighters.

The entirety of the Seventeenth Fleet, and the logistical supply detachment of the Eleventh Fleet, continued to advance in the direction of the planet Novorosson.

The main force of the Eleventh Fleet of the Alliance, after following the "Hustle" for several days, finally discovered the main force of the local fleet of Sila Song in the ring of the sixth planet of the galaxy.

The commander of the fleet gave the order to attack directly, and at a distance of less than 10,000 kilometers, the two fleets began to engage head-on.

Due to the lack of numerical superiority, the commander of the 11th Fleet launched an all-out attack at the very beginning of the battle, and at a distance of less than 10,000 kilometers, the missile trail and the light pillar of the starship's main gun pulled out a straight or curved curve between the two fleets. If there were a bystander to this battle, he would have seen the parallel lines like countless strings intertwined between two piano columns.

Because neither side had enough saturation in their attacking forces, most of the battle losses in the first four hours of the battle were fought by fighters swimming in the vast airspace in the middle of the battlefield, and it was not until four hours later that the Eleventh Fleet achieved a real victory.

One of the Hypercube-class destroyers of the Alliance Fleet, under the cover of the kinetic barrier provided by the two frigates, quietly stepped forward from below the battlefield and fired a retribution missile at the densest area of the Silasson fleet.

This weapon with a small reflex engine is capable of carrying the body of the projectile for an ultra-close reflex jump, and once successful, there is almost no trace of trajectory, thus effectively avoiding the enemy's interception net.

But this weapon is easily interfered with by mass jammers and is forced to abort the jump, so the sides rarely use it directly on the front.

But the captain of the destroyer keenly spotted a hole in the defense of the enemy fleet - due to the limited number, the commander of the fleet of the Sillason had to throw all the frigates into the front of the battle, and under the entire fleet, there was a large gap.

The ship's ballistic computer quickly confirmed that his battle plan worked, and the destroyer made a detour nearly 1,000 kilometers below the battlefield and fired a retribution missile at a calibrated target, a mothership.

After gliding silently for hundreds of kilometers, the missile finally locked onto its target, suddenly leaped into the interior of the mothership, and detonated the fusion bomb in the warhead inside the mothership's massive hull.

The mothership turned into a brief but dazzling star in the icy dark starry sky in an instant, and a huge nuclear fireball reduced the entire mothership to ashes along with its thousands of crew members.

After the loss of one mothership, the Silason fleet finally began to shrink its front, and under the cover of frigates, the entire fleet began to withdraw from the battlefield in an orderly manner.

The commander of the Eleventh Fleet ordered his fleet to move forward at full speed, ordering all fighters to penetrate the enemy's defensive lines as much as possible, entangled those enemy forces who were preparing to leap and retreat.

But they were still a step too late, and watched most of the enemy ships turn into a streamer of light in the starry sky, only surrounding the frigates that were still holding on to the rear and intercepting at the end.

At a distance of hundreds of kilometers, the coalition fleet surrounded the frigate, which had not been able to escape.

The weapons of the frigates are mostly used for interception, and they can hardly do much damage to the main ships of the coalition fleet.

After ensuring that the enemy frigate could not escape, Vice Admiral Li Qizuo, commander of the 11th Fleet, issued an ultimatum to the lone ship: "I am Li Qizuo, commander of the 11th Fleet of the Alliance, and I order the opposite Shinrasong frigate to immediately turn off the weapons and kinetic barriers, extinguish the engine, surrender and accept the reorganization of the Alliance Fleet." ”

But all he was waiting for was silence to death.

The enemy ship had no intention of surrendering in the slightest, and although it had stopped firing, it still did not turn off the kinetic barrier and engines.

"Something is not right," a staff officer on the flagship of the Eleventh Fleet frowned, as if thinking of something, but did not catch the flash of inspiration, "what do they want to do?" ”

In the encirclement, the tail engine ring of the frigate suddenly lit up with a blue-white fluorescence.

"Quick, wreck it!" The staff officer suddenly thought of something, and didn't care about any overstepping the command, so he rushed to the command platform and shouted, "Hurry up and fire!" ”

The destroyer of the Union fleet, which was the first to react, fired a main gun at the frigate.

But the plasma shell was bounced off by the magnetic field on the frigate, grazing the hull of the ship.

A mothership, located directly opposite the frigate, began to attack the stubborn battleship with all its weapons, but most of the ammunition was neutralized by the passive energy barrier.

The fluorescence of the frigate's tail ring is getting brighter and brighter, which is a sign of the start of the reciprocal engine.

However, in the mass interference field built by the alliance fleet, it is difficult for it to enter the fold smoothly.

The frigate deflected slightly, and the bow of the ship was facing the mothership that was frantically pumping out to it, turning into a streamer.

The streamer crashed into the mothership in an instant, and with the blessing of the tremendous speed, the kinetic energy barrier of the mothership was as vulnerable as papier-mΓ’chΓ©.

The two starships collided directly into each other, becoming the last silent fire in this battle!