Chapter 324: Pre-War Escalation

Of course, compared with the two main fleets of Duke Yadan's Golden Ring and Shenwu, there is still some gap in combat power. After all, in service with the main fleet are all new types of warships. And the garrison navy of the Meijiaer star system, 45 of the warships are old models. This is the interior of Monya, and there is no great enemy like the Charles Federation. As for the Garcia Resistance, there are nearly a thousand warships there, with space-based defense platforms, as long as they dare to come, don't think about going back.

With a population of 1,000 full dragons and corrupters, this not only means that this will cost all the gas savings, but also the original combat units of the Zerg base must be slaughtered, so the loss is too great. Moreover, even if he can pull some damaged units to the system space for repair, fight a war of attrition, and finally win this war, I am afraid it will be a pyrrhic victory.

Now with the addition of the Iron Crow, the improvement of one's own combat power is by no means as simple as 1+1, if you take the right time and use reasonable tactics, Hugh said that the Lector Navy, even if you eat the reinforcements that Bruno came later, it is not impossible to eat it in one bite.

In order to minimize the wear and tear of your own units, it is best to upgrade the Air Force Tech. The "Covid Reactor" and "Durable Materials" in the Science and Technology Room of the Star Harbor Attached Pendant can increase the energy of the Iron Crow and the endurance of the automatic cannon and the fixed-point defense target aircraft, as well as the instantaneous automatic tracking in the engineering station, which can make the weapon systems of the automatic cannon, missile tower, planetary fortress and fixed-point defense target aircraft more accurate and longer-range, once these items are upgraded, it will undoubtedly improve the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the Iron Jay.

The "Cardugius Reactor" and the "Stealth Stand", the former increases the energy of the medical transporter, and the latter gives the Banshee fighter stealth. This space war is of little significance, and there is no need to rush to escalate.

In addition, Tang Fang once again set his sights on the spire of the Zerg base, in the previous upgrade, Tong Guò upgraded the two items of "Air Creature Attack LV1" and "Air Creature Carapace LV1", and the Wyvern and the Corruptor gained the ability to rival small and medium-sized frigates and destroyers. Since the Zerg base has climbed to 2, after upgrading the "Air Creature Attack LV1" and "Air Creature Carapace LV1", LV2's "Air Creature Attack" and "Air Creature Carapace" have also been unlocked, but because the resource consumption is 50 times that of the game, he is not willing to upgrade.

At the moment, in order to achieve absolute air superiority, a second upgrade is necessary.

"I can't bear the child's wolf." With a ruthless heart and a stomp of his feet, he added the "instantaneous automatic tracking" of the Terran Engineering Station, the "Covid Reactor" and "Durable Materials" in the real room of Xinggang Technology, and the "Aerial Creature Attack LV2" and "Aerial Creature Carapace LV2" in the Zerg Spire to the upgrade sequence.

In less than a minute, these upgrade projects were upgraded one after another, and looking at the resource value that had fallen back to "12862905, 52945", Tang Fang was not as painful as before. He came to "Sigma" not only to unlock the annex building technology room of Starport, but also to expand the amount of zero element resources.

As one of the pillar enterprises of the shipbuilding industry in the dukedom, "Sigma" has abundant zero element resources, which may not be comparable with refineries and military energy supply stations, but it is definitely more than ordinary heavy factories. Since you have made up your mind to be a thief, you must bankrupt the government to steal everything!

Looking up and scanning the copy progress bar on the center display, it has reached "83"

"Emma, send me the route map from here to the energy warehouse."

In the blink of an eye, a navigation map popped up on the visual interface of the harsh environment protective suit.

"Commander, the navigation map has been delivered."

"I see." Tang Fang nodded: "By the way, after upgrading the 'Aerial Creature Attack LV2' and 'Aerial Creature Carapace LV2', what changes have been made in the combat effectiveness of the Wyvern and the Corruptor?" ”

Previously, after upgrading the "Aerial Creature Attack LV1" and "Aerial Creature Carapace LV1", Emma analyzed that the Corruptor could match the Thresher destroyer with a body length of 160 meters according to the model calculation, but she didn't know how terrifying the combat power of the Wyvern and the incubator would be with this upgrade.

"COMMANDER, THE 'AIR BIO-CARAPACE LV2' GIVES THE CORRUPTOR A MORE POWERFUL BIO-CARAPACE, WHICH IS ENOUGH TO WITHSTAND THE TIGER SHARK-CLASS DESTROYER'S MULTI-LINK 220MM CALIBER RAIL CANNON, EVEN IF IT IS LIKE THE WHITE SHARK-CLASS CRUISER'S TWIN 600MM CALIBER OR SINGLE 900MM HEAVY RAIL CANNON, AS LONG AS IT CAN'T HIT THE VITAL PART, IT IS DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE A ONE-HIT KILL."

"'Air Creature Attack LV2' increases the attack power of the Corruptor by up to 30, and combined with the 'Corruption' skill, it can deal lethal damage to the Tiger Shark-class destroyer."

THE 220MM CALIBER MAGNETIC RAIL CANNON THAT CAN WITHSTAND THE TIGER SHARK-CLASS DESTROYER, AND EVEN THE 600MM CALIBER MAIN GUN OF THE WHITE SHARK-CLASS CRUISER CANNOT KILL WITH A SINGLE HIT. YOU MUST KNOW THAT THE THRESHER DESTROYER CLASS DESTROYER HAS A TOTAL LENGTH OF 160 METERS, AND THE TIGER SHARK SERIES DESTROYER IS ABOUT 250 METERS LONG, ACCORDING TO EMMA'S ANALYSIS, DOESN'T IT MEAN THAT THE CORRUPTER CAN LAUNCH A FATAL BLOW AGAINST THE TIGER SHARK-CLASS DESTROYER WITH A 220MM CALIBER RAIL CANNON.

In other words, after upgrading the "Air Creature Attack LV2" and "Air Creature Carapace LV2", the Corruptor's combat power is almost invincible in the destroyer class.

The Corruptor of more than 40 meters against the Tiger Shark-class destroyer of the 200-meter class made Tang Fang have a strange feeling of a little monster overturning Ultraman.

Immediately afterward, Emma reported on the situation of the Wyvern, a Zerg unit known for its mobility, which was even faster and more agile than Viking fighters in extreme flight conditions. Generally speaking, the standard weapons equipped with Imperial ships cannot keep up with the Wyvern in terms of rate of fire and rotational speed.

Even if the Wyvern's carapace is not as thick as that of the Corruptor, if it misses the target, every qiē will be in vain. You must know that in Interstellar 2, a group of flying dragons is enough to shoot down the battle patrol, and it is definitely the rhythm of punching the master to death. After upgrading the "Aerial Creature Attack LV2", the combat effectiveness of the Wyvern can be regarded as reborn, not to mention frigates and destroyers, in the face of cruisers, battleships and other behemoths, once the hordes of Wyverns get close and find the weak point of the armor to break into the ship, the consequences can be imagined.

With today's human ship weapon system, there is a tendency to return to the giant ship cannon doctrine in primitive naval warfare. After all, with the advancement of zero-element-related disciplines and the continuous innovation of armor materials, the heavy weapons that aircraft carriers can carry play a smaller and smaller role in space warfare.

On the other hand, due to the continuous wars between various countries of mankind, military science and technology such as radar, guidance technology, close defense interception systems, induction weapons, and force field applications have flourished, and the supremacy of guided aircraft carriers has been shaken. As a result, cruisers, battle cruisers, battleships and other heavy ships gradually returned to the battlefield and slowly became the main combat units capable of competing with aircraft carriers.

However, compared to the Terrans of the StarCraft era. Nowadays, human science and technology are in a very embarrassing situation in the field of naval artillery.

The old generation of artillery, missiles, rapid-fire turrets, and other shipborne weapons can hardly pose an effective threat to targets in a battlefield environment where the universe is often hundreds or thousands of kilometers away.

The large-mass projectile fired by the electromagnetic railgun is very easy to be interfered with by various force fields that keep pace with the times, and it is not easy to hit the target. As a result, today's Star Wars either thundered and rained, and the two sides fought terrifyingly, but they could confront each other for a long time, fire two shots at each other and go home.

Either it is a real melee combat, because only in this way can the ship's various weapons exert their maximum power, and they will not be easily affected by the combat distance, protective force field, and the interception system of the opponent's ship as in the case of long-distance bombardment. Such hand-to-hand melee battles are often fought very fiercely, not only testing the command ability of the fleet commander, the performance of the ships, and the number of troops, but also a certain element of luck in them.

Once the two fleets get into this state of melee, it will evolve into a situation of non-stop.

At a time when the warp speed jump mechanism is not yet perfect, performing a retreat at close range and selling your back to the enemy is tantamount to saying like the opponent: "The chrysanthemum has been washed, the pants have been taken off, COME, ON, BABY!" "Therefore, as long as it enters a melee, unless one of the fleets is destroyed, the battle will continue forever, which is one of the factors why the number of soldiers killed in a general battle can reach tens or millions, and it is also the main reason why the imperial aristocracy treats civilians and soldiers as livestock.

Of course, the development of new bullets, the use of different materials of the core, shell, shielding coating, can reduce the interference of the force field, but this is not the solution after all.

In fact, various countries are trying to develop new weapons in order to improve the combat environment, such as lasers, plasma beams, charged particle cannons and other directional weapons, the rate of fire in a vacuum is close to the speed of light, and it is difficult to intervene with ordinary force fields.

As long as such weapons become the mainstream configuration of warships, this kind of hand-to-hand combat similar to the era of cold weapons will be greatly reduced, and the fleet only needs to open up the formation to shoot at each other, even if there is damage to the ship, as long as it is not hit by the opponent's main gun, or encounters dense fire, it can retreat to the rear of the fleet and save the lives of the crew.

When the commander confirmed that his side was defeated, the situation was irreversible, and there was still plenty of time to start the warp engine and return to the rear front.

However, after all, the time for mankind to enter the cosmic civilization is still short, and weapon systems such as lasers, plasma, and antimatter have been developing rapidly, but there are still many unsolved problems in energy harvesting, miniaturization, conversion efficiency, heat dissipation, and so on.

The warp engine that humans have come from the Ipsi Dragon technology copycat has a complex structure and a large size, which occupies a large part of the space in the ship, which undoubtedly compresses the space for the placement of weapon systems. Don't think that building a larger ship will solve this problem, the larger the ship, the greater the warp force field required for jumping, and the size of the warp engine will increase accordingly. Moreover, it is not necessary for a large warp engine to have a large warp field that can be used to drive a super battleship.

Behemoths like Sigma and Twin Star Ports, even if they built a warp engine as long as 10 kilometers, would not be able to take them to play a game of interstellar travel.

Not to mention the preparation efficiency of antimatter weapons, cutting-edge equipment such as laser weapons and plasma weapons, which have been assembled on space-based defense platforms and some warships, also face two important problems in their application, conversion efficiency and energy supply.

Just like the use of fission energy by human beings at the beginning, laser weapons and plasma weapon systems have a strict waste of resources, and the level of transformation is very low.

The roof leak happened to rain overnight, and the boat was late and the wind hit the head, this sentence to describe people's bad luck is very appropriate here. Under the premise of low energy conversion rate, energy supply is also a big problem.

The warp engine is an essential part of the warship, which is made of zero elements, and it is bulky and expensive. Laser weapons and plasma weapons are not gadgets, they are still big stomachs, and the conventional ship design concept is the integration of energy supply.

Use zero elements to power laser cannons and plasma cannons? What a joke, this is simply burning money. At a time when the zero-element refining technology of human countries is generally not up to standard, the zero-element element refined from the zero-element ore is stretched thin just to supply the military fleet for interstellar voyages, and you still want this useless loser weapon system to also get a piece of the pie? The military's energy department will say "To hell with it!" ”

If you don't use zero-element energy supply, you can only turn to nuclear energy. Fission energy is radiant and not very productive, but fusion reactors are strong enough to provide powerful energy, and they are clean and have a wide range of raw materials. However, it is a pity that it is a copycat product like the warp engine, and it cannot be miniaturized in a short time.

If a warship is equipped with a warp engine, a fusion reactor, and directional weapons such as laser guns and plasma guns, it will never be able to do so without a volume of several hundred meters.

Hundreds of meters larger...... Ships above 400 meters are battleships and flagships, and 700 meters are already mainstream aircraft carriers. If you add the crew compartment, bridge, radar system, internal life support system, restaurant, reserve warehouse, and other battleship modules, what kind of journey will it be? Even if such a warship is produced, it is a tasteless weapon that is discarded and has no practical value.

To sum up, it will take dozens of hundreds of years for a warship equipped with laser artillery and plasma artillery to become the main body of Star Wars. Of course, the direct guards of some princes, princes, and princes are different, after all, the lives of the great nobles are much more important than zero elements. Therefore, even if this is an extremely money-burning thing, some nobles are still happy to do it, and anyway, this money will eventually become a harsh tax and fall on the civilian slaves. Being generous to others and benefiting oneself is always a sure-fire deal.

Back to the issue of Wyverns and the Corruptors. In StarCraft, against a mobile, flexible, and small Zerg unit like the Wyvern, the battleship's close defense gun caliber is ineffective, and the speed and rate of fire cannot keep up with the large caliber, and the aerospace fighter like "Thunder Wings" is facing the Wyvern who has upgraded the "Air Biological Carapace LV2" and has the "Tissue Regeneration" skill, and it is a compliment to say that the mantis arm is a car.

At the time of the counterattack, 15 Viking fighters slinged 48 "Thunder Wings" under the rain of missiles in the sky is still vivid, there is no armory, and the Viking fighters that cannot upgrade their attack and defense power have such power, what about the flying dragon that has been upgraded 2 times in a row?

In StarCraft, the weapons that human battlecruisers use to deal with wyverns are laser cannons, and only they can pose a real threat to these monstrous Void Hunters. But now, the Rector Navy does not have such a powerful warship, and the "Thunder Wings" are far from being the opponent of the Wyvern, as long as they survive the attacks from the few remaining space-based defense platforms, once the Wyvern group breaks through the enemy ship group, what kind of scene will be staged next can be imagined with your ass.

"Commander, the reproduction work has been completed." At this time, Emma's voice came to my head. Tang Fang looked up and saw that the copy progress bar on the central display had reached the end.

"Emma, a qiē is acting according to the plan." After saying this, Tang Fang got up and walked out of the room, his thoughts moved slightly, and his whole body entered a state of invisibility.

At the same time, the zealots who were confronting the guards in Area A of "Sigma" vanished at the same time as ghost.

Some of the soldiers who survived by luck breathed a sigh of relief, although I don't know why those gods of death disappeared out of thin air, but, fortunately, their lives were saved, how did they come here, and how did they go, such a question makes those damned officials and old men have a headache.

At the same time, on the transportation line of the space station, some of the defense planes drawn from Area S were being transported to Area A, ready to give the madwoman who wantonly killed a little color. However, the train had only reached the halfway point when a sharp ...... of gold and iron rang out.

Countless flying sparks flew from the two magnetic tracks of the train, and the guards and the guards on standby fell to the ground in the carriage.

Fortunately, the braking performance of the train was excellent, and the safety aspect was excellent, and the driver suffered only minor injuries. However, when he got up from under the console and looked out, he was startled by the scene in front of him.

It's dark, it's dark, and the only source of light for the entire transport route is the emergency lights on the walls on both sides.

"What's going on? Who cut off the energy supply to the transport lines? The commander looked dazed.

What he didn't know was that it wasn't just the transport lines that were plunged into darkness, but all areas of the 40-kilometer-long Sigma space station were plunged into darkness. From afar, it looks like a space graveyard.

The Sector A operations command room was similarly dim, and the dim light of the emergency lights shone on Coverdale's old face, which looked like a bloodthirsty beast with teeth bared from a certain angle.

Communication with the outside world was cut off, and he could also use the most primitive method, with two legs, with emergency intercom equipment. The closed-circuit surveillance network was paralyzed, and the movements in the quarantine area and the computer room could still be relayed, and then the general operational policy was issued.

But TM that kid...... He actually cut off the power system of the entire space station, and even shut down the nuclear fission reactor, which is independent of the computer network and is used to provide energy for important departments such as the combat command room and the equipment control center during the special period. R1152