Chapter 445: War of Atrition
"Roan! Report fleet losses! ”
Virginia shouted through gritted teeth.
"Commander...... A total of one hundred and ninety-eight ships were destroyed, and another one hundred and twenty ships were damaged to varying degrees! ”
"Damn, the enemy's main artillery is so powerful." Virginia clenched her fists and said, "Order the whole fleet to disperse immediately, and the distance between ships must not be close to within five hundred meters!" ”
Previously, the 3,000 warships of the Federation fleet were arranged in a staggered formation to form a thick defensive display, so that the advantage of this array was that each battleship could be shelled freely without being afraid to attack because its own warships blocked the attack angle. However, in the face of the enemy's main artillery bombardment, this formation method has become the most fatal point.
After the main gun beam penetrated the first battleship, the strength of the GN defensive position was simply not enough to withstand the shelling of the mother ship, and after a dozen battleships in a row, the energy weakened to the extent that a GN defensive position could withstand it.
However, if this formation is immediately abolished and the whole ship is dispersed, the losses caused by the main gun shelling of the mother ship will be minimized.
"Look, Commander!"
Just when Virginia was thinking about the gains and losses in her heart, Luo An's surprised voice suddenly sounded in her ears, and Virginia immediately looked up, and her pupils suddenly shrank.
I saw that on the big screen, the MS teams in front of the front line had already melried with the enemy's small fleet, and 300,000 MS squads spraying red particle beams and silver flying saucers had converged.
"Damn, how did they get close to the MS team? The number of flying saucers on the opposite side is not dominant at all! How did they rush over? ”
Soon, a video of the engagement reached Virginia's command screen.
Through this video, Virginia saw that in the combat zone where GN particle beams were flying all over the sky, the enemy's flying saucers were as steady as a bell, and they attacked the Federation MS unhurriedly, while the numerically superior Federation MS team dodged in all directions.
Why is this happening?
Virginia clenched her fists.
Because every small flying saucer is covered with a looming protective shield!
Rao is the federal MS team has an absolute advantage in numbers, but with the existence of protective shields, the light and heavy weapons in the hands of the MS team cannot damage these flying saucers at all. However, these small flying saucers were free to attack the MS, and for a while, there were flames of explosion everywhere. Fortunately, the protective shield of the small flying saucer has a special effect on energy weapons, but it seems to be a little weak against physical attacks.
A crippled melee MS with imminent destruction under the control of the pilot slashed a small flying saucer next to the GN sword statue made of E carbon in its hand one second before it exploded. Originally, the unwilling pilot just subconsciously made such an action, but who expected that this batch would directly break the protective shield on the outside of the flying saucer, and at the same time split the flying saucer in half.
Such a scene was watched by the surrounding pilots, and immediately, the melee MS pilots announced to each other and began to use GN swords to attack the enemy planes, which barely managed to recover the ugly battle loss ratio.
But the melee MS is limited after all, only 40,000 or 50,000 units, and the flying saucers on the opposite side have been pouring out of the mothership and the mothership, the number has broken through the 100,000 mark and is still growing, Virginia can't afford this kind of consumption.
Just when the two forces were fighting happily, no one noticed that a small flying saucer mixed in the flying saucer group quietly entered the mothership through the passage under the mothership.
"We can't go on like this, otherwise, sooner or later, our defensive front will have to be broken through."
"Shang Qiyan, how long will it take for you to get ready?"
"At least forty minutes or so, the power of the solar furnace on Starship Rose is too great, it takes a lot of time for the particles to be compressed to 300% and stored, and since Starship Rose is not equipped with a timing system, it ...... Only one shot can be fired. ”
"Is it just a shot?" Looking at the chaotic war zone ahead, Virginia gritted her teeth: "One shot is fine!" Fight! ”
"However, the main angel team didn't get in, now is a good time."
"Don't worry, he's already in it, let's wait patiently, if it'...... If the virus works, we don't have to suffer from the shield. ”
"That's all there is to it."
Looking at the small flying saucers that kept pouring out and the few falling Federation mechs, Virginia sighed
After about ten minutes, a request for a video call suddenly popped up in Virginia's operation window, and Virginia opened it to see that there was an empty cab opposite, and there was no one, but the voice of Xiao Shi, a member of the main angel team, came.
"I'm sorry to tell you that the system programs inside the mothership are not as backward binary as in the movies...... This system is more than a hundred years ahead of your federal government. ”
Xiao Shi's robot-like voice came: "In addition, there is a special harvest. Do you know why there are so many small flying saucers hidden in motherships or motherships? Just look at this. ”
After speaking, the camera turned, and the perspective changed from the original cockpit perspective to the scene captured by the sensor outside the flying saucer.
I saw that the interior of the mothership was filled with countless blue-purple swirling whirlpools, and small flying saucers were constantly rushing out of this blue-purple whirlpool and surging towards the entrance of the mothership below.
"Space-time portal!"
Seeing this, Virginia couldn't help but let out a low sigh, the blue vortex was obviously a space-time tunnel that could be used to travel through time and space, so was the end of the space-time tunnel the base camp of this alien army?
I'm afraid this is no longer a battle, because Virginia's fleet is not facing an army, but an alien civilization, and at the same time, it is also a powerful civilization with more than a hundred years of technology beyond itself!
"General Roan!"
Virginia thought about it, and her plan for the future was to delay as much time as possible, and delay it until the moment when Shang Qiyan finished it.
Then, defeat the enemy with one blow!
"Order all MS teams to withdraw and conduct escort battleship operations, and at the same time, the battleships will begin to mop up the enemy aircraft group! I don't believe that these small flying saucers have as much rain cover as a mothership! ”
"Yes, Commander!"
Roan, who received the order, immediately issued an order to retreat to the MS team as Virginia intended.
These pilots, who were fighting on the front line, were relieved and immediately turned around and retreated.
In less than ten minutes of this melee, nearly 10,000 of the Federation army had already been reduced to cosmic garbage, and they could not afford such a war of attrition.
The MS team began to retreat, but those small warships were not willing to let them go easily, so they naturally stuck behind and refused to let go.
However, when the MS team began to retreat and vacate the firing angle, the battleships on the battleship defense line roared in unison again, and the GN particle beams with a diameter of about a few tens of meters thick rushed into the small flying saucer group like wild beasts.
As Virginia expected, the shields of these small flying saucers really could not withstand the shelling of the battleship, and they were naturally swallowed up by the thick particle beams.
With the support of the battleship's artillery system, each MS team quickly left the battlefield and returned to their respective battleships for escort operations, while some seriously damaged MS immediately entered the battleship and used spare parts for emergency repairs to ensure that the combat effectiveness was improved at any time.
However, while the withdrawal of the MS brought convenience to the shelling of the Union warships, it also brought the opportunity for the thirty-six sub-motherships on the opposite side to shoot.
The main guns of the mothership began to roar again, and the huge beam cannons with a diameter of more than five hundred meters greeted Virginia's defensive line mercilessly. Since the battleships on the front line were already far apart by 500 meters, the main guns of the mother and daughter ships could only destroy at most one battleship.
But the thirty-six motherships continued to shoot, although the losses were not too difficult to accept, but no one could accept this wild bombardment if it continued like this!
"Attention all MS pilots, return to the cabin immediately to change melee gear! Repeat. ”
At this moment, the voice of the chief captain of the Federal MS Mobile Force resounded through the eardrums of each pilot, and there was almost no hesitation, and the pilots returned to their respective ships, and some of the pilots who had lost their original ships joined the ships that were missing their pilots.
Since there are a large number of spare materials on the battleships, the remaining armaments and materials of each battleship are enough to arm the remaining 280,000 MS into melee mobile warriors.
"Attention MS squads, prepare for a sweep operation."
The voice of the chief captain sounded again in the communication system. The pilots knew that such a decision would be made at the top, because only when they were in a melee with a small group of local warships would the guns of the opposite mothership stop. None of the pilots felt that their lives were more precious than a battleship, so they weren't surprised by this kind of cannon fodder fight. It is the duty of soldiers to obey orders, and even if they are asked to die, they will have to stretch their necks for you to cut off.
As a result, the group of cannon fodder who had changed their equipment rushed out again and rushed towards the flying saucer group that was crushed by the powerful firepower of the fleet, and at the same time, the large warships that were frantically venting their GN particle beam cannons also stopped shelling one after another in order to make their own MS agitated troops rush forward.
While the MS mobile unit and the UFO group were once again scuffling, the opposite mothership also stopped shelling. This interstellar war has officially entered the stage of a war of attrition!