Chapter 136: The Art of the Swarm (Part II)
After entering the isometric detour stance, the minutes passed, but the swarm did not show a more aggressive reaction, which is a bit interesting.
The swarm had made a tactical formation move before, and it was 100% proof that they had found warships such as the Golden One, and from the perspective of the tactical formation, even if it did not have a group command center, at least it was intelligent to a certain extent. Now that he was in a state of peace, Pan Wen didn't dare to expect the insect swarm to be friendly.
"Doudou go get some drinks for everyone." Pan Wen spoke suddenly, but did not express any tactical opinions.
The command to Doudou was issued, and a drink selection interface popped up on all consoles in the bridge control room, and some crew members did not react for a while, and issued a "Huh? "Huh?" and so on.
The overall number of insects in the atmosphere is really a bit large, Pan Wen does not plan to take the initiative to attack, and decides to observe more, and the drink is just to let everyone relax.
Ten minutes later, the robot entered the control room with a plate in hand, and everyone drank their favorite drink, most of them unable to figure out what the captain was waiting for.
Half an hour later, the Golden had already moved about 7,000 kilometers in high orbit, and Pan Wen's wait finally had a result - the density of insect swarms in the point directly opposite the Golden was really high, and the defensive zone would change with the position of the Golden Engine.
"Drop ten conventional missiles and attack the swarm directly." Pan Wen decided to give it a try.
Conventional missiles do not carry out a direct attack around the field, and there is not enough acceleration process, which increases the possibility of being intercepted, but the density of gas molecules in a considerable range outside the atmosphere is much higher than that in outer space, and it is easy to cause the conventional missiles dedicated to space warfare to overheat or even break down in advance, and they cannot be used at high speed.
Ten missiles seven meters in length and less than one meter in diameter emerged from underneath the Golden and accelerated in the direction of the swarm.
The missiles are getting closer and faster, but the basic formation of the swarm has not changed much, and it is not until the missile reaches a distance of 30,000 kilometers and a speed of more than 1,500 kilometers per second that some spherical plasma is sprayed out of the swarm.
When a conventional missile is launched at a short distance, it directly enters the penetration attitude, and although the acceleration is low, it is difficult to intercept the relatively fast plasma. In fact, spherical plasma is not suitable for intercepting missiles, and even if it has a certain tracking capability, the effective strike time of a point attack is almost zero, and the threat that can be made in the face of a terminal maneuvering missile is very limited.
Hundreds of slurries passed, only two missiles were destroyed, and the rest is getting faster and faster.
Suddenly, as if hitting an invisible net, the missiles all detonated at the same height!
"That's one of those little bugs."
Even with observation satellites and spherical ultra-limited mechs in front of them, they are limited by the low light intensity and cannot capture images of the insects moving quickly from a distance.
From the height of the missile explosion and the height of the large insects, there is a drop of almost 1,000 kilometers, and the previous partial static map can be seen that the small insects are distributed within 300 kilometers near the parent body, almost at the same time as the plasma. It can move seven or eight hundred kilometers in just twenty seconds, and the speed of the enlarged small insect is almost as fast as the patrol ship's cruising speed in normal outer space, and this only happens in a very short time from the static start of acceleration.
It is really strange that a group of creatures on the ground in the main activity area will actively evolve to such an outrageous space movement force, not to mention that according to the information from their teammates, there are superpower-type bugs inside.
A superpowered bug with bizarre acceleration, a monster bug that can create bugs to provide missile defense for planets and other bugs. Of the remaining two, there is one that has a lot of them, and they are the ones who released the plasma just now, and they should be miscellaneous soldiers. The last one didn't move just now, it was sparsely distributed, and its size was obviously not qualified to provide offensive and defensive help for the swarm, even if it had superpowers, compared to the superlimited mecha, it would be impossible to know the range and strength of the mecha, if you guess its ability, Pan Wen felt that it should be the command system of the swarm!
After a few missiles, the Golden did not continue to attack, and the bugs did not seem to have any intention of leaving the low orbit to fight, and the two sides were at a stalemate again.
"Eloan, can you start this one?" Pan Wen marked a dot in the swarm image and asked his boss-level fire controller.
"It's so small, I'm sure the trajectory will sweep it, but there's no guarantee of an attack."
"Well, Eloan, you can try it with the second main gun, and return to your gun position after one attack."
"Yes."
The super cannon is a neutron railgun, and the No. 2 main gun is an electron cannon, which has a faster ballistic speed and more opportunities to strike small targets multiple times at a distance of 100,000 kilometers.
"I can hit the boss too, let me do it myself." There is an extra female voice on the internal channel, which is the famous chatter in the control room, the second main gun fire controller, and Gina, who holds a rare license.
Gina may have felt that there was no tension in this tentative battle, and she didn't care about the captain's prestige at all, and asked herself to handle the gun.
"......" The corners of Pan Wen's mouth tilted and he was silent for a moment, considering that Gina has a license for tactical knowledge, the success rate of prediction in the jet is indeed not much worse than that of Eloan, but he still agreed, "Okay, Gina attacked the target just now, Eloan went to the No. 3 main gun position, and I will assign you another target." ”
Pan Wen is still very good at talking sometimes, as long as he does not delay the combat arrangement, the current situation is relatively deadlocked, but there is no need to show his face.
The angles of the two main guns were adjusted separately, because there was no pressure of firing time, and the target was indeed a little smaller, and the preparation time was slightly longer than usual.
Two pillars of bright blue light rushed out, almost instantaneously penetrating the insect's position, and the two suspected command insects that were targeted were hit, and the peculiar thing is that both of them did not vaporize on the spot when they were swept over for the first time, and they disappeared after being continuously attacked during the continuation of the main cannon jet, and there seemed to be the kind of bugs that accelerated with superpowers on the way trying to use their bodies to help resist.
The attack power of the main cannon of the expert boss is no joke, and the size of the insect itself can't accommodate too much defense structure, and the superpower bug is almost vaporized directly under the light pillar of the main cannon.
The attack of the main cannon finally blew up the swarm, and the bugs that could release the plasma mixed with some superpowered bugs that could suddenly change speed swarmed towards the gold, and the swarm had just started to approach from the low orbit, and the plasma balls of various colors sprayed unwanted.
"Prepare to intercept. The Super Cannon attacks in normal mode first, and when he is sure, Aloan decides when to activate the Super Mode. ”
After arranging a few words at random, Pan Wen could only sit in his seat and wait to see the effect of the interception.
The plasma ball of the bug is very small, only a few tens of centimeters in diameter when launched, but the highly compressed plasma will gradually grow in size over time, and the movement speed of the plasma ball is only about one-half or even one-third of the speed of the missile's terminal penetration, so it is reasonable that it is not difficult to intercept with a beam cannon. In fact, there is a bit of a gap, these ghosts are highly repulsive to alien energy, and often deformed and bounce off the beam of light, and can only be effectively hit when the direction of the beam sweep corresponds to the direction of its ejection. The good news is that the high-energy beam will immediately destroy all the ballistic properties of the plasma, causing them to escape directly, but there is no situation where they cannot be knocked off.
Welcoming a wave of plasma, feeling that there was still redundancy in interception firepower, Pan Wen no longer cared about the safety of the ship.
"Doudou, search for this kind of insect in the attacking troops." Pan Wen still marked the shadow of a suspected command bug.
"Nope." The second host had considered the auxiliary processing of galaxy scans when it was customized, so Doudou's graphics processing function was used for insects that were far away from the celestial bodies, and it would undoubtedly be very fast, and Pan Wen had a result in three seconds after asking the question.
Sure enough, it's a command-type bug, without a command bug, the swarming swarm of bugs is obviously a little disjointed, the distance has moved less than a third, and the super accelerated one is already obviously in front of the team. In addition, the attack formation was not as uniform as the previous defensive formation, and a significant black shadow was generated in the battleship's own imaging system.
After thinking about it, he connected to Bernice, the captain of the Oversized Mecha team, to his personal channel.
"Bernice, are there any people in your team who have been shot, and how is the protection?"
"Ahh You scare me! Bernice didn't know what to focus on, so she yelled before answering the question, "I just saw that thing seems to track metal, and I leaned over and touched two of them, and I don't think it's a big problem for the mech to deal with it." ”
"Okay, now you get closer to the ship, and when you deal with bugs, you pay attention to cover each other, and the ship will try to eliminate the kind that will accelerate suddenly."
After a short period of information processing, Pan Wen noticed that the kind of bugs with the largest number of insects except for small insects were really not good, and the overrun mecha could be completely killed one by one, and the attack efficiency might be second only to the fourth and fifth beam-type main guns, since the swarm seemed to have lost its command system, it should take advantage of the high firing frequency of the overrun mecha.
The main gun did a few rounds of fire, and the swarm was almost closer, and the short contact battle officially began.
The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, and Pan Wen treats the swarm that rushes out of control as an enemy of the same level, and even uses the firepower of the overrun mecha team and the super mode of the main gun. The results are self-evident, the insects of all sizes, which were originally only conventional fighter levels, faced the giant battleships with a huge resonance bonus of the expert-level BOSS, and every time the main gun shot could draw a blank line in the swarm, the number decreased geometrically every second, and tens of thousands of bugs turned into ash without even touching the edge.
After a short period of clearance, Pan Wen was not very happy, because after all, this group of insects without a command, the formation problem caused the time/energy utilization rate of the main artillery to sweep is very high, and under the premise of command, it must be necessary to mobilize some secondary artillery to participate in the attack, which will reduce the interception force. The interception power is reduced, and under the scale effect of the number of bugs, the shield of the gold will not be very reliable.
There is also a problem, even with the Golden's various seductions and direct strikes, the swarm in low orbit still protects the interior of the atmosphere well, and it seems that it does not intend to give humans a chance to drop missiles.
After a while, the scene came to a stalemate again, the bugs did not continue to attack, and Pan Wen did not get the answer he wanted.
The swarm has tactics, there are command bugs, but the brain-dead command style and the unprotected leader don't look like a group with a highly intelligent core, but rather like a natural migration after waiting for the density to be too high. Now the only evidence that can support the conspiracy of the swarm has become the newly identified command bug behavior - the command pattern of the swarm in the entire low orbit is highly convergent.
Tactical command inevitably requires a high degree of intelligence, and high intelligence means that individual thinking is easily differentiated by the subtle differences in information access, that is, personalization, and the result of personalization is that after a long time of synchronous action, differences will occur and the differences will gradually expand. However, the difference does not appear in the low-orbit swarm command, then there are only two possibilities: they are unified thinking, or there are more powerful, intelligent and controlled bugs hiding behind the scenes!