Chapter 146: Worm Ball
"The new species of bugs are growing rapidly, and they have grown in size to two thousand times when they were discovered, and I suspect that it is a very bad thing to fully appreciate it, if you can, Lord Pan Wen will try to attack from the side."
Two thousand times? That's a lot of money.
In the information sent back, the size of the shadow of the new worm is larger than that of the small worm, the length is about 100 meters, 2,000 times the volume, which can make it become a giant with a length of more than 1,000 meters, which is bigger than the Golden Number! And by density, there could be more than a hundred!
"Well, I'll go and see, and if not, I'll join you again."
The convergence means that all shareholders will be aware of the existence of the Golden Number, which is likely to affect the right to speak in future resolutions.
Kareda looked at Pan Wen for a moment through the picture and nodded: "Got it." ”
What prompted her to agree to the convergence was not only the objective situation that was now suppressed by the E7 bugs, but also the long-term cooperation, which made her no longer care so much about the deterrent effect of the strength of the Pan Wen fleet to other shareholders.
A strong ally is reassuring and frightening in certain moments.
Kareda understands that her development plan is not a scam that will be abandoned by her allies, and that she needs to tie a bunch of people to herself to form a community of interests that can resist external forces. Unless Pan Wen wanted to snatch the property alone, he had no reason to attack her, and from the observation of him and the remaining fleet during the cooperation period, he had not contacted any shareholders alone, and his fleet did not take the opportunity to lay a network during the residency period, and he was a basically indifferent guy.
Now that D21 is facing a difficult situation, the orbital fleet has suffered a lot of losses, and if he can use his fleet deterrent power to regain the confidence of allies, it will be easier to keep the team stable, otherwise if a certain number of shareholders withdraw, it will be troublesome to find allies to maintain the size of the fleet. The remaining shareholders are certainly unwilling to share the dividends with the newcomers on the same terms, and the development will inevitably form a small interest group, which is not conducive to the long-term development of D21.
What did Kareda think about Pan Wen didn't think about it, and he didn't mean to let all shareholders see the Golden Number, it was purely out of tactical considerations. The Haimer Star Halo is not suitable for high-speed flight, starting at the same speed, the gold due to the large size and high weight, the acceleration will be correspondingly lower, and when it is necessary to retreat, there is no doubt that the D21 that is close at hand is the best choice, especially the E7 movement to this day, the fire coverage of the allies can occupy almost half of the safe distance between the two stars, and it is almost just a matter of changing the angle with E7 as the center of the circle to ensure safety.
It's not that he's stupid and doesn't know how to fight openly and secretly, it's just that he doesn't want to put his mind on that, he can't live without strength in this world, let alone want to do something else.
At Pan Wen's order, the Golden took the Ensign 1 and the Heavy Hammer in a small half circle, switched angles, and approached E7 with its back to the star.
The vision of insects hundreds of thousands of kilometers away is unreliable, and their sensing organs are more or less affected by stars, otherwise they really can't be treated as living organisms.
In the process of approaching, Pan Wen did not forget to look at the latest information that had just been synchronized, and at the same time, the information was also handed over to the tactical group, and the picture and size of the insects, speed and other information were provided to the fire controllers.
The target's current posture is a ball wrapped in bugs, the bug ball is not static, occasionally some bugs will go in and out, and when the new bug grows too big, it also needs to be separated to allow more bugs to join in to form a larger ball, these two actions will occasionally expose the position and situation of the guy inside in a short time.
The shape of the new worm is very different from that of the early sources, in the early days it was a multi-legged arthropod trunk, and now the "torso" is C-shaped, holding a spindle structure, and occasionally there are clear photographs that show that the extra part has more organs than the "torso", giving people a bit like the ovipositor of ants.
The information obtained so far is sufficient, the growth cycle of the new insect is too long compared to the war insects that can be piled into the ocean, such a large one without obvious positive section reduction, it is definitely not used for direct combat, what will it produce?
Another part worth paying attention to is the garbage war bugs that are now being produced unscrupulously, after the production capacity has been doubled, the observed pictures clearly show that the larvae of these things are actually those bugs with superpower acceleration to put them on track, and the bugs that were suspected of being in the command system before only occasionally lay one or two eggs, and what hatched were super acceleration bugs.
This systematic mode of production, who dares to say that it is a natural mutation, must be and beaten. Even if you compare it with the swarm creatures, bees or ants, they are the same mother, and the mothers of these insects are simply several things.
The observation satellite he left in the orbit of the Haimer Star has not been knocked down by the bugs, providing so much useful information, and it is not surprising, the observation satellite is basically driven by gravity, without any radiation representation, and the style that Pan Wen bought does not have a light energy plate, there is no occasional strong reflection, unless the bugs cover the entire Haimer star area, otherwise they will not care about that thing except for accidents when passing by.
There are still 700,000 kilometers to go from E7, and the bugs outside the atmosphere have not reacted at all, but their own fleet may have been discovered.
The insect colony seems to have expanded the warning area of E7 after gaining the advantage, and there are bugs on the periphery orbiting at different heights, and the area is too large to cause a limited number of bugs to detect at a low density, but it is precisely because of this that the human detection system may miss these individual floating bugs beyond the interception distance. Pan Wen is accustomed to making bad plans first, so he asked the tactical team to carry out the tactical dismantling and arrangement after the premise that the fleet has been discovered.
With the intention of trying it out, at a distance of 700,000 kilometers, the fleet released fighters and oversized mechs and began to prepare for the attack.
"Ensign No. 1 and Heavy Hammer are required to maintain a speed of more than 200 kilometers per second."
The main reason for the separate actions is to consider the outrageous number of insects, the two ships in the fire have a slightly poor self-protection ability, and it is not easy to become the first target when the location is biased, anyway, the detection system can still be used when the bug group is moving, and it is not afraid of being copied.
"The super-cannon is prepared, the selected target is pre-aimed, and the navigator pays attention to stabilizing the hull."
Pre-aiming is rarely used in conventional combat, and ultra-long-distance combat makes the main gun require very high aiming accuracy to hit, during which whether it is a sudden change in the relative acceleration of the battleship or a change in the attitude of the ship, etc., will make the pre-aiming calculation fall short. However, it is the insects that are being dealt with in front of them, and after the previous contact and various materials, the detection of the insects is to ignore the anti-radar coating, and there is no need to pay so much attention to whether to release the main gun in advance.
When the situation is coordinated, the accuracy of the main gun can be corrected by releasing the main gun in the rear side of the cover armor when the gun is not fired, and the deviation of these accuracy is not a mechanical deviation, it is produced by ordinary maintenance, which will lead to the accuracy of the main gun in the two battles is not completely consistent, and the gap is so small that it can almost be ignored when fighting at a distance of 20-400,000 kilometers, and it can be repaired continuously by firing a little farther away, but there is no opportunity to do a second alignment when attacking a fixed-point target at an ultra-long distance. Even the slightest differences should be avoided as much as possible.
After receiving the order, Zhengtai Fire Controller Eloan carefully corrected the trajectory, hoping to improve the starting hit effect as high as possible.
The next thing is to wait until ......
"Captain, the bugs are moving, the target bunker is shrinking, some bugs are approaching the bunker, and it will be in place in a few minutes."
"Huh!? So good? Pan Wen was quite surprised.
I don't know what the command of the bugs thinks, but the reaction of the bug swarm now not only did not work, but helped the Panvin fleet!
The target is something with a length of 1,300 meters and a minimum of 400 meters in the narrowest place, even if it is an ultra-long-distance attack, in the hands of a fire controller of Eloan's level, the hit rate of a direct attack on the target will be very high. However, there is a layer of insect shells outside it, the situation is different, Pan Wen has not moved, because it is impossible to confirm the specific location of the target insect in the insect ball, after all, there is some space inside, it can be on the left or on the right, that weight cannot be determined by gravity and light curvature, and if you really fire, the hit depends on faith.
Once the insect ball shrinks, it helps, no matter how you install it, something one kilometer in size moves with some garbage insects seven or eight meters long, no matter how you move, you can judge the approximate location through the signs of surface movement. As for the increased defense of the extra bugs...... If they can be stacked solidly, the Super Cannon will blow them up inside! The volume expansion of living organisms caused by the vaporization of elements under the strike of high-energy weapons is a bit powerful.
It may be that the distance is relatively far, and the bugs' movements are not very urgent, some of them go to cover the worm balls of the new bugs, and some of them are separated from the low orbit and move towards Panvin's fleet.
"It's so orderly." Pan Wen looked at the reconnaissance footage sent back by the overrun mecha a few seconds ago, and his brows furrowed.
Orderliness is not what Pan Wen wants, even if the density of insects increases, too good order will obviously increase the difficulty of accurately locating large insects.
"Why don't you scare them with a shot?" Deputy Captain Nadezhda obviously paid a lot of attention to Pan Wen, he didn't speak loudly, and there was an immediate reaction from there.
Hearing Nadezhda's suggestion, Pan Wen's eyes lit up: "Yes, they have a command, maybe they don't realize that they cannons can be fired at this distance." ”
Although the insects fought to the death with the D21 orbital fleet for a few days, the orbital fleet is not a fairy, and it is impossible to fight some bugs with a positive cross-section of only a few square meters to fight at a long distance. It is indeed possible that the command of the bug did not realize that the Golden could make a precise attack at a distance of about 600,000 kilometers at this time.
"The No. 3 main gun selects target C and fires immediately, just hit the worm ball; The second main gun is aimed at Target C, and if there is a chance to lock onto the giant fire, the controller will fire at his own discretion. ”
The second main gun is a twin-mounted cannon, and if the new worm has no other protection, it is still possible to inflict heavy damage.
What the? Is it possible that the new worm has the protective power formed by superpowers, and it will not move at all? That possibility doesn't exist, and if the new bugs could use their protective abilities now, they wouldn't be surrounded by so many bugs for protection.
Less than ten seconds after the command was issued, a bright blue pillar of light broke through the pitch-black space and rushed towards E7.
The huge and basically immobile insect ball did not evade any action in front of the main guns of these special warships, and was directly hit by the blue light with a diameter of more than thirty meters on it, and the effect of organic matter vaporization was obvious, and some insects around the hole seemed to be impacted by the air current, and a few even flew out from the insect ball.
It's a pity that the attacked insect ball didn't leave more flaws, and the bugs quickly sealed the hole, not letting the big worm inside show its head, and the No. 2 main gun did not find a chance to fire.
The people on the ship stared at the reconnaissance system and the reconnaissance type overrun mecha sent back the picture, and the effect of this cannon finally showed after nearly twenty seconds, all the bugs approaching the insect ball significantly increased their speed, and the surface of the rushing ball was also chaotic, as if it was rearranging the structure of the defense layer.
"Captain, I found it!" The voice of the second host Doudou sounded, and two balls appeared on Pan Wen's desktop, and a large number of lines and data intersected at a certain point in the two balls.
…… Of course, this kind of calculation cannot be handed over to the tactical team to do, only Doudou can keep up with the needs of the battle, and in the face of a large number of bugs, Pan Wen's fleet may not have much chance to open fire and will run away.
"Eloan, fire when you're ready." Pan Wen said, pointing the data to the first gun position.