Chapter 151: "Meteor Shower"
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Let's turn our perspective back to the battle-fighting fleets of Kazran and Eun on the frontal battlefield. Just when the stealth warships that had been scouting in advance discovered the true size of the space building, the Kazran fleet, which was attacking the Eun fleet that had significantly weakened after the overload of weapons, gave up the opponent in front of them at the first time. At the same time, when the forward fleet learned of the situation reported from the rear, the whole fleet fell into a slight confusion. It can be clearly seen that many small detachments lined up in dense formations began to turn almost simultaneously without any command at all, and the warships in the detachment were almost connected together from head to tail when they crossed over, and even several battleships were directly hit by head and tail because they were not well controlled, causing light or heavy damage.
However, this damage to the battleship caused by the chaos is only a small part of it. Even more lethal was the fact that the turn of the Kazran fleet was carried out under the guns of the Eun fleet. Although the attack power of the Eun's fleet has been significantly weakened after overloading, it is still not to be underestimated. What's more, almost all the warships in the Kazran fleet that are turning around are facing the enemy with their engines, coupled with the panic of hurriedly turning, most of the Kazlan people are flawless at this moment to attack from behind, and many of the Eun warships are destroyed under the chain reaction caused by the engine being hit by the enemy. The most dangerous are the warships that are preparing or have already charged the Eun fleet because they see their advantage. They are closer to the Eun fleet than other ships, making them easier to target. As a result, none of the warships that broke through the Kazlan Line in the probe's field of vision were able to return intact, and the lightest ones lost at least one engine.
"It seems that the previous overload attack was completely arranged by the Ewens, they already knew that the space building would be able to reach the predetermined position almost when the overload was over, and those ships that were slightly damaged by the overload would not be counterattacked by the opponent at all." When Atlas reported to Zhou Xin that Commander Kazlan was ordering the fleet to retreat in some panic, Zhou Xin and the others turned their attention back to the battlefield. Seeing the chaotic scene in front of him, Zhou Xin sighed slightly: "I really didn't expect that even at this point, the Youen people would still have a chance to change the situation of the battle. β
"Commander Kazran's vision of the big picture is still lacking." Dart stared at the battle situation on the screen in distraction, "If the commander of the Kazlan fleet was me at this time, then I would have chosen to order everyone to continue the attack." The fact that the Euns chose to overload the weapons system before the Kazlan discovered the space complex rather than after it was discovered shows that they had already calculated the return time of the Kazran fleet. At this time, the Kazran fleet simply could not stop the fall of the space complex, and caused unnecessary losses to them because of their rash return. If the Kazran fleet persists in attacking the Eun fleet, which has lost most of its combat effectiveness, it may not be long before they can crush the fleet, and then they will have a chance to attack the mainland of the Eun Empire, and even possibly make up for the damage caused by the space complex. It's a pityβ" Dart exhaled deeply.
"There aren't so many ifs in this world. Now that Commander Kazlan has made this choice, they can only swallow the bitter fruit. Zhou Xin replied philosophically, "Actually, I can guess a little bit of his thoughts. Since the Eun fleet has chosen this method of attack, they may have already considered the countermeasures they would choose if they insisted on attacking. Even if the Kazran fleet managed to defeat its opponents quite smoothly, the fleet itself would not be in good shape after withstanding the previous overload attacks. In this case, if the Eun Empire had arranged any traps in the rear that they did not know about, perhaps the entire Kazran fleet would also be destroyed. β
Zhou Xin then explained his thoughts, "From the previous battles, it can be seen that this commander of the Kazran fleet is a conservative person, so it is not too strange that there may be similar thoughts and such a decision as I said before. Of course, I think the best option for the Kazlans in this situation is to crush the opponent and abandon the pursuit, so as to inflict heavy damage on the enemy and avoid falling into an unknown trap. As for why the commander did not choose this more advantageous approach, I think it can be seen from the panic when he gave the order to retreat after learning of the attack on the mainland, and directly ordered the retreat without considering whether it was feasible, and at the same time, the battleships below also carried out the order with obvious panic, and the combination of the two led to the current rout of the fleet. β
"There are better options." Dart's tone was also full of regret, "The Kazlans can even let some of the warships be behind and some of the warships back to defense, so at least it won't cause such a big loss." But he didn't expect that the commander actually chose the most wrong decision. One of the few advantages in this war for the Republic of Kazran was thus destroyed by an order. β
Just when Zhou Xin and the others felt sorry for the Kazlan fleet, the Kazlan fleet, which had lost more than 200 warships, finally completed the U-turn with difficulty and began to accelerate towards the mainland. However, at this time, the Eun fleet behind them did not want to let them go at all, and followed the Kazran fleet to continue the pursuit. In this case, the Kazlan fleet still did not organize effective resistance, or the panicked Kazlan people did not organize resistance at all, and could only allow the Eun fleet, which was now much weaker than them, to pursue at the tail of the tail, and from time to time you could see the bright light that burst out when the battleship was destroyed.
However, at this time, Zhou Xin's eyes did not stay on the Kazlan fleet, which already knew the ending, but turned to the direction of the falling space complex. The data on the screen showed that the space complex was falling at more than four times the speed of sound at this moment, and the stealth fleet that had attacked them before had long been left far behind them. Although the probe's footage can still see the stealth fleet behind the space complex that still hasn't given up the pursuit, and many warships are even firing various ammunition at the space complex in front of them, but this is obviously in vain. The distance between the two sides was rapidly widening at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the ammunition fired by the battleship could not catch up with the high-speed falling space buildings, and could only helplessly turn into explosive lights behind them, as if they were sending the space buildings off. As for the Kazran fleet, which was the first to return to defense, they hadn't even completed half of the distance now, and they could see that the entire fleet was too late without Atlas's calculations.
Fortunately, after the previous stealth fleet spared no effort to attack, at least part of the space buildings in the complex have been completely destroyed, leaving only various fragments of various sizes. Some of the space buildings have not been completely destroyed, but the overall structure has been severely damaged. Judging from the picture, there are only three intact space buildings left. But not to mention three, even if only one intact space building is left and successfully falls on the surface of the planet, then the harm to the Republic of Kazlan is extremely huge, not to mention that it also includes a large number of building wreckage of more than 100 meters.
Zhou Xin and the others turned their perspective back to the space building complex, and now it can be said that there are not a few minutes on the wreckage group, and the wreckage group led by the three complete space buildings is in contact with the atmosphere of the star. The most obvious is the side of the space building facing the planet. At first, a faint dark red glow appeared on that side, and as the space structure continued to fall at high speed, the dark red light became brighter and brighter, and finally turned into a bright red, which looked like an inverted burning torch. Under the influence of the high temperature, the scene coming out of the hot air began to become shaky, and through the distorted picture, Zhou Xin and the others saw that some parts of the space building were exploding, and it seemed that the residual energy inside was also affected by the high temperature. However, on the whole, the structure of the three space buildings is still relatively intact, and this air resistance has no way to stop them from falling.
At the same time that the space buildings turned into "space torches", the large and small debris fragments that followed them in contact with the planet's atmosphere began to slowly burn in order of near and far. Many of the large wreckage of the structure, which had been visibly damaged, even broke apart as it burned, and it didn't take long for a large amount of burning debris to appear in space. It looked like an extremely spectacular meteor shower had appeared, but although he couldn't see the reaction of the Kazlan people on the surface of the planet with his own eyes, Zhou Xin could also think that he was afraid that everyone on the northern continent was not idle to enjoy this meteor shower at this moment. Because for them, most of the "meteors" that make up this meteor shower will probably take their lives in the near future.
Although air resistance does not prevent large pieces of debris from falling, the impact on smaller debris is relatively large. Within minutes of the entire debris coming into contact with the planet's atmosphere, the deceleration of the small debris was significantly greater than that of the large debris. Slowly, the whole group of wreckage was roughly divided into several parts. The wreckage of more than 100 meters bore the brunt of the front, barely slowing down, approaching the end of the trip at high speed with a fierce firelight. Immediately behind the large wreckage were medium-sized wreckage of about a few tens of meters, which was glowing red almost all over its body, and looked like it had just been cast into a metal block. After that, there are the wreckage that is only a few meters long, and looks basically indistinguishable from the medium-sized wreckage. At the end were the wreckage that was no more than a meter long, perhaps not wreckage anymore, just falling metal fragments. The smallest of these fragments were never able to reach their target, and were only halfway through to dust in the star's atmosphere. All these debris can leave behind is the dark red trail of fall left in the atmosphere.
Looking at the picture on the screen, everyone in the command cabin fell silent. In this way, a few minutes passed, and the large wreckage that originally looked not small in front of the lens of the probe slowly turned into small red dots in the field of vision, and those smaller fragments could not even be seen by red dots, leaving only the trails of falling in everyone's field of vision. At this moment, some of the red trails suddenly lit up unusually, and some even flickered. If it weren't for Zhou Xin's attention all focused on the screen, they wouldn't have noticed these changes at all.
"The nearest wreckage is only a dozen kilometers from the ground." Just as everyone was seeing the flashing bright spots, Atlas reported, "The Republic of Kazran's near-ground defense has been activated, and the remnants of the defenses remaining on the mainland are attacking the falling wreckage." As she spoke, she switched the screen to the lens of the ground-based probe.
Looking at the fallen wreckage from different perspectives, Zhou Xin and the others also had different feelings in their hearts. It was the first time they had observed such a large-scale fall from this perspective, and almost at the same time, four words came to their minds - the end of the world.
That's right, it's the end of the world. It wasn't that Zhou Xin hadn't seen a meteor shower on Earth before, but even if it was the largest meteor shower he had ever seen, the number of meteors that appeared in the entire sky at the same time would not exceed ten. But now, just within the probe's field of view, countless debris can be seen rushing towards the ground, and even the shape of the larger debris can be discerned by the naked eye.
Of course, in addition to these visually shocking feelings, the sound received by the detector in the area is also transmitted along with the picture. Even though Atlas had weakened all the sounds, it still couldn't hide the screams of the wreckage rubbing against the atmosphere of the star, and in Zhou Xin's opinion, those sounds were somewhat similar to the sound of fighter planes flying by at an extremely close distance, and even more shrill and harsh than that sound. And, unlike the loud noises of the warplanes, which could only be heard for a moment, the screams they heard were constantly poured into everyone's minds from all directions. Behind the screams, Zhou Xin and the others faintly heard a series of explosions.
In addition to the countless debris fragments that fell at high speed and the huge screams that did not know when they would subside, the objects that Zhou Xin could see in the footage transmitted by the probe were missiles scattered in the sky......