Chapter 296: The Upgraded Corruptor
"All personnel turned off their helmets and went into a wartime state. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć As the sirens sounded on the radio, the crews of the warships buckled up their helmets and fixed themselves in place with their magnetic boots.
Immediately after, the fleet's originally tight formation dispersed, and the warships of both sides rushed towards each other.
"Ten minutes to get within range of our side! All battleships ready! ā
"Five minutes to go!"
"Get within range of our side, all ships fire!" Li Mingze ordered loudly after seeing the red circle in the hologram representing the range of his fleet trapping the Corruptor battleship.
A full sixty million mass-accelerating shells flew like a wall towards the Corruptor fleet.
Seeing the oncoming cannonballs, the Corruptor fleet did not panic, and many of the Corruptor frigates moved out of the way, allowing the hammer-type destroyers behind them to push forward.
Countless hammer-type destroyers were densely packed into a massive shield wall, and the hull of the ship, several times larger than the Corruptor frigate, kept the remaining Corruptor frigates and flagships in its back.
The mass-accelerating cannonballs that had already flown rained down on the massive shield wall of the Corruptor destroyers, and then burst into a powder mist of fragments of the shells.
A few minutes later, as the Corruptor fleet advanced, the powder haze that shrouded the Corruptor fleet lifted, revealing a shattered wall of shields.
"It works well, the supply ship is resupplying! Get ready for the next salvo! Li Mingze breathed a sigh of relief at the broken shield wall of the Corruptor fleet, it seemed that this shield wall was not as strong as he expected, and he was startled.
Ammunition supply ships flew out of the rear of the fleet and flew to the battleships to begin disassembling the shell storm launchers that had been fired out of the air.
At this time, the Corruptor destroyers that originally formed the shield wall scattered one after another, revealing the Corruptor frigates behind.
"Huh? What's going on? Li Mingze couldn't help but be confused as he watched the unreasonable actions of the Corruptor fleet.
"Your Majesty, a large number of unusual energy fluctuations have been detected in the Corruptor fleet!" Tianyi suddenly reminded in a loud voice.
"Lei Ming, Yi Yun, Wang Rongtao! Immediately lead your fleet out for an irregular maneuver! Li Mingze seemed to suddenly think of something, picked up the intercom and shouted.
As soon as the four Imperial fleet's warships dispersed, more than 10 million round cannonballs flew out of the hole in the bow of the Corruptor frigate, and they were shooting towards the Imperial fleet with a thunderous force.
"Damn, I know!" Li Mingze slammed the console and ordered the battleship pilot to control the dreadnought and start to make evasive maneuvers.
However, it was clearly too late, and the Imperial fleet, which had not begun to accelerate in advance, was caught off guard by the blow of the Corruptor.
No one expected that the Corruptor battleship, which specializes in melee combat, would evolve a ranged weapon for its own battleship!
A cannonball flew out of the Corruptor's fleet and slammed into the Imperial fleet's shields, causing ripples.
Although the Imperial fleet's shields are much stronger than those of the Corruptors, they cannot withstand the attack of more than 10 million aiming shells.
The Corruptor's surprise attack hit a staggering seventy percent! That is, as many as nine million shells hit the Imperial ships.
Seeing the dreadnought's shield in front of him flickering, Li Mingze felt that the muscles on his face were constantly twitching.
"Report the battle damage!" Li Mingze saw the ripples outside the dreadnought disappear and hurriedly shouted.
"Your Majesty, in that wave of attacks just now, the First Fleet of the Empire lost 2 battleships, 12 cruisers, and 431 arsenal destroyers!"
"The Second Fleet lost 3 battleships, 11 cruisers, 354 arsenal destroyers!"
"The Third Fleet lost 4 battleships, 10 cruisers, 512 arsenal destroyers!"
"The Imperial Praetorian Guard lost 2 battleships, 13 cruisers, 327 arsenal destroyers!"
"We've lost a lot!" A sad look appeared on Tianyi's face.
"How long will it take for the dreadnought's main guns to be recharged?" Li Mingze's tone was a little angry.
"Your Majesty, the dreadnought's main guns only need ten minutes to be charged!" Sky Wing returns.
"All battleships in a salvo!" Li Mingze gritted his teeth and waved his hand.
More than 50 million rounds of mass acceleration cannons flew towards the Corruptor fleet again, and the Corruptor fleet, which had lost its shield wall, saw that the Empire fired another salvo, and simply continued to move forward, blocking the attack with the destroyer that had been damaged in front.
Just give them another thirteen minutes to recharge, and the second wave of cannons will be able to fire again! When the time comes, it will be able to sink a large number of Imperial warships.
After this wave of shells took away more than 100,000 Corruptor destroyers, the Corruptor's fleet did not pause at all, and the battleships behind directly crashed into the wreckage of the Corruptor destroyers in front of them, and continued to rush towards the Imperial fleet.
The Imperial fleet, which had already run out of shells, could only stare dryly and wait for the ammunition supply ship to refill the launchers on the battleship.
Ten minutes passed slowly, and every minute and second of these ten minutes was torment, Li Mingze could only watch the fleet of the corruptors approach quickly, while his own fleet could not make any moves.
"Your Majesty, the dreadnought's main gun is about to be fully charged!"
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ā1ļ¼ The main cannon is fully charged! With the officer's shout, the main gun firing panel in front of Li Mingze had turned green.
"Aim for the center of the Corruptor Fleet and launch!" As Skywing slipped the center point of the Corruptor fleet into the sight, Li Mingze pressed the launch button heavily.
With the sound of machinery running, the heavy armor in the middle of the bow of the dreadnought slowly opened to the sides.
As a piercing siren sounded inside the battleship, a huge gun muzzle with two trapezoidal cross-sections on top of each other protruded from inside the dreadnought with the help of a robotic arm.
The one-kilometer-long barrel sticks out only the tip of the iceberg of its volume, and in the belly of the USS Michigan dreadnought, there is also the main gun body three kilometers long, one kilometer wide, and one kilometer high.
As a burst of electric light flashed on the barrel, red lines of electric light appeared on the wall of the barrel, and small red dots of light appeared around the muzzle.
In the center of the main gun in the main body of the dreadnought, a red ball was wrapped in a magnetic stand and sent to the middle of the launcher.
The firing mechanism composed of thousands of circular accelerators also began to rotate non-stop, and as the red ball was pushed into the accelerator, a dazzling red light shot out from the main body of the main gun, and after the acceleration of the kilometer-long barrel, a huge red ball of light at the muzzle of the dreadnought's main gun rushed towards the Corruptor fleet.
The Corruptor Commander had a bad feeling as he looked at the red ball of light, but he couldn't do anything about it now.