Chapter 342: Ambush
Giant shields, frigates, small aircraft carriers, and the triple attack of the twin stars suddenly made the wormhole defense line on the earth side look precarious!
In order not to be defeated by each one, the Earth side chose to form a defensive line, with two warships defending the floating fortress.
This is just like in a naval battle, in order to defend against the enemy's air attack, a fleet will often choose to form a relatively dense formation and cooperate with each other to organize a tight anti-aircraft fire network.
Therefore, in addition to the minefield, most of the current attacks on the Earth side come from one direction, which makes it possible for the opponent's shield defense tactics to be realized.
On the other hand, according to the original prediction, the damage output of the suppressive fire is not related to the location of the attack, whether it is a joint group attack or a scattered attack into three nodes, the damage dealt to the enemy per unit time is fixed, so there is no need to risk being grabbed by the enemy and punched in multiple directions.
However, I didn't expect Gemini to use this kind of shielding way to make themselves passive.
In fact, this is also a targeted arrangement made by Gustav because of the weakness of insufficient troops and dare not divide troops on this side of the solar system.
But despite the surprise, the firepower advantage on the Earth side still exists!
The shield can only defend, the small mothership is basically ineffective, and now it can only fight soy sauce, the mecha and the fighter have not yet entered their respective attack ranges, and the only frigate is very reluctant to even defend, and it is not able to send out many attacks.
So the current situation is basically a group fight!
Although the dispersion of shields caused the hit rate of the Earth side to plummet, it also exposed the frigates and small aircraft carriers in the rear.
Nie Yun did not disperse his firepower to attack the mecha and warplane group that seemed to be the most threatening in the middle of the desperate approach, but concentrated all his firepower on that frigate for the first time.
The frigate had significantly strengthened its shield, and the tortoise's shell was unusually thick, and it took a full 2 minutes for its shield to be broken, and then exploded into a pile of cosmic junk under a few beams of light.
In less than half a minute, the small aircraft carrier, which had lost all cover, followed in its footsteps!
Gemini lost two ships in exchange for a fleet that had been completely dispersed.
This kind of exchange is not about who wins or loses, just like exchanging one's own cannon for the opponent's horse in chess, and who takes advantage in the end, that is, the benevolent and the wise see the wise.
In addition to the 200 Wanderer mechs, zoomed-in footage of these fighters was also captured by exploration equipment on the Earth side.
Outwardly, this fighter looks a bit like a quadrangular nail with a streamlined shell, right! It's the kind that is used to tie tires......
The bump at the tip of the fighter is a high-energy laser cannon, while the three bumps at the tail form a bizarre triangular thruster.
This thruster has more flexibility than traditional single- and double-engine thrusters, and from the images observed by Nie Yun, the rolling and redirection maneuvers are excellent, and they can almost make continuous lightning-shaped maneuvers.
In the case of high-precision radar locking and light-speed attacks, this flexible maneuverability can achieve more difficult disorderly evasion and escape from the radar lock of enemy warships!
Of course, multi-vector redirection systems require smarter heading and balance control, at least for now, the Earth is still a long way off.
These fighters move almost in unison, no matter how the shield in front of them moves, they can roll and follow closely in sync, straight and neat like an artistic performance.
"Hmm...... Triangular thrusters? Could it be that the development direction of the future space fighter thruster is a qualitative change caused by quantitative change? "Our Captain Nie has already pondered the next generation of five-pointed star-shaped super thrusters in his heart......
The group of aircraft is advancing steadily, and with the density of firepower on the earth side, if you want to attack a group of "chickens" that are flexible and mobile behind the "hens" from a long distance, it is basically a cannon to fight mosquitoes, and it has little effect.
Nie Yun thought with his toes, and he also knew that the reason why the other party did not continue to send warships over was that he wanted to wait for this group of planes to approach and start harassing the positions on the earth side, so that he could take advantage of the opportunity for his own side to take care of himself!
With a fleet of thousands of aircraft, including 200 mechs that pose a considerable threat, if there is only one fortress and two frigates on one side of the earth, it is almost inevitable that these little things will break through and disrupt the defense line.
They don't even need to attack, they just need to constantly attack and harass, which is enough to give their side a chance to "seize the beach and land".
The 54 squads were like 54 poisonous snakes, swimming along the lines of defense that were gradually approaching the side of the earth.
Although from time to time, unlucky "chickens" step on mines or are hit by attacks, but compared to the huge number of aircraft, this loss is completely painless.
They are like greedy snakes, crashing into dark thunder, the front row falls, the back row is on top, sparks and lightning all the way, and the momentum is fierce towards the earth's defense line.
No matter how big a man's mind is, it can't be as big as the vast universe, and the hundreds of thousands of kilometers of minefields laid by Nie Yun are already quite ferocious, which can be said to be far beyond the pre-war prediction of Gemini.
At a higher cost than originally planned, the Gemini fleet finally broke out of the minefield, and then quickly narrowed the distance between the two sides while doing evasive maneuvers!
"Interception squad 1~4, attack immediately!" Seeing that the other party was about to enter the firing range and threaten his own defense line, Nie Yun finally issued an order and opened the first hole card first!
The next moment, not far from the side of the forward route of the Gemini group, from a wandering asteroid bunker, the four groups of planes flew out of the group like a ghost, quickly approached and merged into a group, and rushed towards the Gemini group at full speed.
Each fleet has 100 mechs, which adds up to 400 units, all wanderers!
"It's not good, the other party has an ambush!" The front-line commander of the team leader couldn't help but change his face suddenly when he saw the dense red dots that suddenly appeared on the radar.
The graviton radar they use can only detect gravitational fluctuations emitted by objects, and if a flying object is close to another flying object, the radar will default to an object, just like an airplane uses ultra-low altitude to avoid radar waves.
Therefore, a vehicle docked on a celestial body cannot be captured by graviton radar.
In fact, before the war, Gemini had already guessed that this group of "rebels" might have arranged some back-up on those wandering asteroids, arranged some fixed weapons and even ambushes, but they subconsciously thought that the other side only had two warships, and how could the ambush pose a threat to their huge fleet of aircraft?
Now, however, the situation on the battlefield has taken a sharp turn!
For example, if the mecha is the heavy cavalry in space warfare, then the fighter is the light cavalry, one focuses on the integration of attack and defense, and the other focuses on flexibility!
The situation was now that 400 hoplites were rushing in a dense array of 200 hoplites and 1,000 light cavalry.
Gemini's skirmisher shield charge tactics to evade the dense firepower of the fleet on the Earth side are immediately passive in the face of new threats.
What's even worse is that they don't dare to assemble and confront at this moment, because the firepower of the other party's fortresses and warships is eyeing each other.
This is equivalent to a life-threatening artillery unit in the rear, if you dare to assemble, the opposite side will definitely be dozens of Italian guns without saying a word!
This ...... Things are more awkward......