Chapter 153: Shuttle Out of the Ranks (Part II)

Although the D21 orbital fleet is a bit ruthless by the swarm, it still has a good reconnaissance system in the defense area, and when the garbage war bugs are close to the shooting range with the new species, the high-definition images of the new bugs are obtained.

The Pan Wen fleet, which was winding the line, naturally also got this information.

From the appearance, the new bug actually doesn't look like a bug at all, the gray-white body of the streamlined spindle has some protrusions that I don't know what, and the shape is cut into a polygonal shape, which is a bit of the anti-radar shape of a human warship.

This bug has two or two very special organs, which are very noticeable.

One is located on the head, which is similar to the bow of a ship, and there is a lid-like object larger than the normal section of the main body, as if the head is being picked up by a three-legged starfish. This organ is obvious at a glance, because the ship of the human in the early days of interstellar colonization had this structure, called the dust cover, and the plastic sheeting on the ground has a name, but the type used in space is to protect against celestial dust, until the bow armor is integrated with the dustproof ability and the ease of maintenance is significantly improved, it gradually withdraws from the stage. Having a dust-proof organ can be a good indication that the new species of bugs already belong to the interstellar travel class of bugs, and since bugs can have superpowers, this kind of bugs are likely to have hyperspace jumping abilities.

The other organ is a flat hexagonal sheet, according to the position, if the bug is a human ship, it should be a relatively rough hangar door, and the missile ship can be a side-firing device, but the bug seems to move back and forth, and there is no internal space behind it, which is very unusual.

It's a pity that even if it's a high-definition dynamic picture, you can only see these two more obvious parts, and it is still impossible to tell what type of attack the new bug uses, but since it was filmed in the shooting area, the results were very fast.

Larger bugs are added, and it seems that the bugs seem to have more advantages, but the new bugs are almost the same size as patrol ships, which happens to be the type of main attack of human warships, and under the premise of being prepared in terms of reconnaissance, the advantage that bugs are difficult to search cannot be brought into play, and as a result, the defense distance of the D21 defenders has been lengthened.

At the beginning of the battle, Pan Wen's fleet had just completed the adjustment of the direction of inertia and was approaching the direction of D21, about 700,000 kilometers away from the swarm troops and 600,000 kilometers away from the D21 orbital station.

Sharing the information from the Kareda command ship in real time, after watching the battle for a while, Pan Wen commanded the fleet to adjust the direction slightly, intending to go down in an arc, and in case the orbital fleet could not take it, he would attack the swarm from the upper and rear positions.

The reason that stimulated him to change the route was that there were too many insects and moths, and the new variety of patrol ships was the size of a patrol ship, and the defense capability was simply outrageous!

It turned out that the hexagonal sheet on the side of this girl turned out to be the spare parts of the head dust cover, which seemed to achieve the effect of a shield by inputting energy into the dust cover, using the alternation of spare parts and dust covers, and the battle started for a few minutes, and only a dozen or so insects were killed - there were more than twenty frigates over there.

Of course, Pan Wen is not presumptuous, and he will not see the performance of the insects and think that they can really reach the level of a frigate with this size.

Now the new variety can withstand the attack because the distance between the two sides is still nearly 400,000 kilometers, and it is difficult for directed energy weapons to be fully hit when taking dynamic defensive actions, and most of the ships under the shareholders of the orbital fleet are ordinary crews, and the performance of the ships is only factory data, and it may be slightly lower. Ships with senior crews and captains will try to ensure the accuracy of hits and reduce the frequency of fire in group battles where the level is obviously uneven, so the overall level of firepower appears to be lower.

So in terms of defense, the new bug is probably comparable to the new medium-sized patrol ships in the last ten years, and it is very limited to be stronger, so that it will not be like the player who takes a broken ship and modifies it indiscriminately, and even the main gun can't be penetrated.

In terms of attack, for the time being, they have no means to make a counterattack at this distance, it is purely a unilateral strike by the D21 orbital fleet. Of course, not being able to fight back does not mean that the orbital fleet can easily clean them up, and the satellite environment of the Hymer Star can ensure that they will be close to within 300,000 kilometers without losing too much, and it will not be too late to show their attack power at that time. According to the standards of various human weapons, in addition to live ammunition and missiles, high-energy weapons generally follow the principle that the shorter the range, the more powerful they are, so as long as the new bugs do not continue to use plasma masses, there is always a chance to perform.

In fact, after the insect swarm was attacked, it successfully obtained a safety of nearly 50,000 kilometers in more than three minutes by using a satellite passing by in the E circle as a cover.

When it resurfaced, the new breed of bug finally attacked when it was attacked again.

The weapon is a dense plasma beam with a high degree of frequency.

In human society, only mechs and fighters will use plasma weapons, and other space warships and ground forces are not used, this thing is not as directional as other types of particle weapons when attacking at a long distance, and it is easy to be interfered with by magnetic fields, and the advantage is that it only needs very little energy to launch an attack with good results.

However, the use of insects is somewhat different, and the new varieties of insects emit a very short plasma beam jet, but the emission density is quite high. According to the information obtained by the reconnaissance network, it seems that they deliberately use the characteristics of the plasma beam to interfere with the high-energy beam to a certain extent, causing divergence to the directional energy.

In short, the characteristics of the plasma beams, coupled with the influence of the D21 magnetic field, have diverged before reaching the synchronous orbit, but their interception has led to several rounds of artillery bombardment by the fleet, and the average round of cleaning up is only two or three!

It seems that the current distance is still not the main weapon strike range of the new breed of bugs, but depending on their interception mode, it is likely that the main combat state will also use plasma attacks. If it is a plasma attack, the range will not be too far if there is magnetic field interference, but unfortunately humans have never made plasma weapons larger, and I don't know what kind of attack the size of the warship can hit.

There were no other satellites of the Hymer Star in the remaining distance between the two sides, and after the bugs continued to approach tens of thousands of kilometers despite the losses, the formation changed, and the superpower accelerator worms began to release plasma masses with higher release speeds.

There were probably nearly 10,000 plasma balls in this wave, and as they approached the interception range, the new breed of bugs used ranged weapons for the first time.

…… Unexpectedly, they used lasers!

260,000 kilometers, almost the same as a new type of medium-sized patrol ship.

To clarify, lasers are beam weapons, but not all beam weapons are laser weapons, light/small fighters will use lasers as their main weapons, and warships are generally only used as interception systems. It's not that lasers are bad at long range, they behave like other beams, but they have a slightly worse energy-cost/attack ratio.

The weapon part of a laser weapon is very small, and it is indeed suitable for long-range attacks by living organisms, because by partially crystallizing the weapon or even embedding "stones", it can achieve higher accuracy than the organism itself.

After the actual firefight, the fleet commanders seemed to be relieved, and over the next few minutes, they adopted a large number of formations that the human fleet had adopted during the firefight.

As mentioned earlier, what people are most afraid of is the unknown, and now the offensive and defensive capabilities of the new breed of bugs are similar to medium-sized patrol ships except for dense plasma interference, so they can be dealt with as a human fleet. As for the seventy or eighty thousand garbage war insects around these bugs, no one took it seriously, that is, the intensity of the previous routine harassment was twice as strong, and the metal balls that pulled the plasma were arranged on the track, so they were not too close, and the flight speed of the plasma group would not be too big.

After getting Kareda's confirmation of the safety of the situation, Pan Wen canceled the support, waved his hand, and changed the target to the group of bugs in E7!

This time the bugs won't do anything to the orbital fleet, it can't explain the problem at all, the important thing is that the group of mutated big bugs only took twenty hours to give birth to more than a hundred new varieties that can only be used for combat, and those big bugs were also killed by Pan Wen. What if the previously unmutated natural growth reaches the mature stage, what if the sequence is produced? Needless to say, the rest of the time is enough for them to give birth to two or three thousand!

Two or three thousand patrol ships! Even if Pan Wen takes the Gold and one or two Cam X, the limit will be a sneak attack on more than a hundred ships, not to mention that the orbital fleet is mainly based on frigates, and more than half of them cannot meet the standard of heavy ships!

Because of this potential threat, Pan Wen decided that even if he took a little risk before the stone arrived, he would have to disgust the pile of bugs from time to time, and in any case, he should not let it hoard on its own.

After changing the tactical purpose, the combat method of the fleet led by the Golden has also changed, from not fighting big bugs before, to whether it is outside or inside, as long as the bugs can be targeted, they will be swept away, and the bugs will continue to fight without sending groups out to pursue.

There are more than 10,000 insects chasing and running away and coming back, and if they don't, they will continue to fight, and the dead skin and face fighting style not only caused great pressure to the weapons maintenance personnel of the Pan Wen fleet, but also made a certain fat insect in the center of the swarm physically and mentally exhausted in less than ten hours.

Don't think that only human beings suffer, after the arrival of the dead-faced guy, the fat worm is also facing a great dilemma, and many problems are grouped into one, that is, resource allocation.

There is no doubt that the space worm mother, which has been transformed into a mature body in advance, has a strong manufacturing capacity, and the addition of shuttle worms has indeed allowed the bugs to get rid of the situation of being basically one-sided in battle, but now the number is still a little less. However, whether it is to create shuttle insects, to protect the mother worm from being killed by hooligans, or to provide the normal development of the remaining thirty or so worm mothers, a large amount of essence and organic matter is required. However, the Phantom Worm itself, which can quickly cross the supply line from the ground to the low orbit, also consumes a lot of essence to use its acceleration superpower; At the same time, if the production capacity of the ground is to be expanded, it will also consume a large amount of essence and organic matter, and the supply to the outside world will inevitably be reduced or even interrupted in the process.

Just like human beings need to use money everywhere, but ATMs only spit out 1 ticket at a time, and when they spit it out, they have to deduct a little deposit as a handling fee!

Maybe if the fight starts half a year later, the insect swarm can drain all the essence of the surface of the earth's crust in dozens of hours, even if it is a whole garbage war bug, get hundreds of millions, and heap up to kill that group of humans. But now that the human side has even used the dead-faced tactic, it is obvious that they have realized the threat, and the Fat Worm-kun has also guessed that they will not give himself too much time, he must get at least one real space worm mother out in the shortest possible time, otherwise even if he runs to the next planet, I am afraid the result will be the same.

If any bug suddenly evolves into the "only" level and kills this hooligan guy, so that he can hoard the bug for dozens of hours, maybe he can continue to mess around on this planet. But this is just to think about it, in the face of the rogue king's step-by-step pressing, the fat insect king feels that it is difficult to keep the balance of resource distribution, while the cover is still complete, in addition to the precocious space insect mother, the insect swarm will supply the essence of the growth of other space insect mothers to make adjustments, barely keep the other space insect mothers will not automatically precocious, as much as possible to concentrate on the supply of the fat insect monarch under the seat.