Chapter 86 & 87: Hunting Down the Tranquility (10, 11)
The Accelerated Fluid Circulation System strives to maintain temperatures that humans can tolerate. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoPeople wake up in forced hibernation, many people are blindfolded and don't know what happened for a while. Only those who saw the opportunity quickly, ignored their companions, and swam desperately to the nearest exit.
It's a pity that some are late. The circulatory system finally failed, and the accelerator was heated to a state close to vaporization by the powerful impact and colossal energy, but under the tremendous pressure, the vaporization phenomenon was abruptly stopped. The seemingly normal orange liquid has actually become a boiling soup, and thousands of people, after a moment's struggle, have become a part of the soup, and can no longer distinguish each other.
The terrifying attack came from the Imperial battleship Jiaolong. Its appearance came as no surprise to anyone, so much so that the Tranquility was unprepared for it. The destructive power of the 4600 mm caliber railgun is far from being comparable to that of the 450 mm gun of the Eagle. If you don't use 10 450 mm, you can use it as 1 4600 mm.
The ultra-hard armor plates, which were difficult for the strike detachment to deal with, only played a role in mitigating damage in front of the Jiaolong's main guns. A single blow can break the power of the capital ship, and only a large hole is opened in the surface of the hull under the cushion of multiple layers of armor plates. Directly underneath, of course, the 11th district, which protects 100,000 refugees, was affected in a way that no one expected.
The bald head was pale, Edred's expression was solemn, Avina wanted to cry without tears, Max looked annoyed, and Ivan seemed calm, but his hands reverently clasped together on his chest betrayed the formal thoughts of his heart.
"Are you still sticking to your strategy right?" Jasmine's voice was very harsh, she was the only person on the Serenity who could fully understand the last moments of the 100,000 refugees. The little girl's voice no longer had the usual enthusiasm, but had an element of indifference.
"The losses in the implementation of the plan are within the acceptable range...
"Wait a minute, what is the acceptable range. 100,000 lives are nothing in front of you, so what kind of loss is unacceptable?! ”
Jasmine rudely interrupted Fang Hushan. It contains extreme anger, and the suppressed tone that erupts at any time makes people get goosebumps when they hear it.
"The refugees can only be regarded as goods, although they have lost nearly half, but this will not have too bad an impact, after all, legally, they have lost their citizenship rights."
Teeth can be heard chattering, and dangerous electricity flows around the Tranquility, as if a substantial killing intent is released through the ship's equipment.
Liao Fan even suspected that if he continued like this, Jasmine would take advantage of controlling the starship and take Fang Hushan's life.
"The starship is alive, there are still 150,000 refugees, we need to persevere, now is not the time to make trouble!" , the bald commander intervened to silence Jasmine.
The actual commander of the Tranquility, Liao Fan, is deserting. He has the illusion that he was born outside. The video of the refugees' last moments was brought up on the monitor, staring blankly, hearing the low screams of the people around him, and he had no sympathy or anger or guilt. Just indifferently watching everything happen. If it weren't for his habit, he might have given up his job as a conductor and become a spectator entirely.
He sensed that this phenomenon was abnormal, but he didn't know how to deal with it. Angry like Jasmine, running away like a man-bear, and showing all sorts of frightened looks like everyone else around him, he couldn't do it.
What the hell happened to him? Isn't the tragedy in front of us enough? Is his heart really that hard? Why did he still feel heartache when the old Tranquility (cruiser Tranquility) had an accident, and now there is no more at all? Some time ago, Jasmine was in danger, and the manic anger that she hadn't felt for a long time filled her body, and now where did that anger go?
Fang Hushan: "It's time, it's our turn to launch." ”
Manred: "We owe a lot to the refugees, and if we can break out, we must establish the Starship regime." ”
Jasmine: "Enemy battleship, it's right next to me." I know I should leave the fuel guarantee to break out, but I want to fight back and let them know that we are not easy to mess with... ”
Avina: "The hull is in an unusual position, and I can't guarantee where the Tranquility will go in this direction." ”
Max: "Fire, give me the right to fire control, I want to fire... ”
Staff Officer A: "It's over!" The Draco-class battleship also has two 1500mm secondary guns, and we will be finished with the next blow! ”
Staff Officer B: "The enemy cruiser is approaching, what do they want to do?。。。 They're going to take on the broadside, is Natalie there? Where is Natalie? The Marines are ready to meet the enemy... ”
There was a lot of noise around, and he knew that a decision had to be made, and everyone's future depended on their own decisions. But why can't you get up?
"Xiao Liao, don't be affected, do what you have to do, and I will take any responsibility. Anyway, when the spaceport fell, everything was already out of control, and now try to save people and leave, one more is counted as one. ”
Grayfaman's voice revealed an unusual calmness. That's the kind of calm that only people who have given up hope and are close to madness can show, and they return to the light.
He had heard this voice before, and it was in this tone that the brother who had pushed him into the life jacket before the destruction of the Old Serenity had said goodbye to him. It was strange that he knew everyone on the Old Serenity, so why couldn't he remember who spoke to him last?
The lateral acceleration once again caused chaos in the command headquarters, and some people were shouting that the hull was broken, that so-and-so was out of function, and so on. He seemed to be separated from the outside world, and everything was so unreal.
"Liao Fan! Liao Fan, what are you thinking, what should we do now? We can't wait to die like this! ”
I don't know who it was, but I pushed him on the shoulder, and he seemed to drill out of the diaphragm head-on, and the sounds, alarms, roars, and tremors around him suddenly became clear.
He took a deep breath and exhaled again, and he felt alive again.
"Don't dwell on attitude, jump engine and prepare to overload." The cold and cold tone that seemed to freeze the soul appeared in the headquarters of the Tranquility again, and the chaos on the scene froze. The familiar ruthless will that everything is under control once again took control of the scene.
"But if the posture is not corrected, the risk is too great." , Edlaide argues against it. Under Liao Fan's cold tone, he was one of the few people who dared to directly contradict him.
"It doesn't matter, we're desperate right now, and overloading itself is another name for getting out of control. It's a big deal, everyone is finished together. Jasmine, overload jump engine, don't worry about the life of the hardware equipment, you can improve the performance as much as you can, expand the danger area as much as possible, and it is best to pull the Tianlong class in. We fight! ”
"Humph! I'm going to pull this Dragonbreaker on it, I'm going to see how bad it looks like when it's broken into a few sections! ”
Jasmine's cursed words spread through the communication network, sending chills down the back of the nerves of the people on the Serenity.
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"Sir, the cruisers of the strike detachment have rushed up, and we cannot continue the shelling. They just want to take credit, you see if we want to send marines... ”
The words of the combat staff officer were still in his ears, Shi Yuan listened noncommittally, he squinted his eyes slightly, looking at the enemy ship 200 kilometers away.
In order to surprise the enemy ship and prevent the enemy from escaping, he risked a short jump. After consuming nearly one-third of the reserve energy, the Jiaolong successfully crossed a distance of 40,000 kilometers, and suddenly appeared at a distance of 200 kilometers from the Tranquility.
The fire from the main guns, combined with the continuous fire of the secondary guns, the Brande battlecruiser was visibly heavily damaged.
It stands to reason that the victory is now in hand. According to his character, he did not take credit for the cruiser, and besides, they discovered the enemy ship from the beginning, and he took such a big risk to stick to it, and now it is his turn to give the final blow, no matter how you look at it, he is grabbing the merit.
The reason why he didn't give the order to retreat was not because his subordinates thought that he was dissatisfied with Ozawa's behavior of rushing forward in a hurry, but because he felt dangerous. This is a special feeling that has been running on the battlefield all year round and cannot be explained by normal logic, and the abnormal behavior of the enemy ship and the various previous manifestations have revealed strangeness.
He very much agrees with Tada's cautiousness, although the hot-blooded faction represented by Kawakawa has a lot of criticism about the captain's cautious arrangement, but he agrees, in case he catches the path of Brand's technology and is severely injured by a group of weapons, then who should he go to.
"The Marine Corps is on standby. The ship continued to approach and maintained a distance of 50 kilometers from the enemy ship. Watch from the sidelines. ”
Shi Yuan's order was very simple, and it ended the nagging of the combat staff officer very simply. The staff officer, who was familiar with his character, was unwilling to shut up.
The battleship Jiaolong, with a huge body of 26 kilometers in length, seemed to be slow, but in fact it was approaching the Tranquility very quickly.
Also a giant ship, the Tranquility looked slim and slender beside it. For a capital ship of this level, 50 kilometers is the length of the two hulls, which has long exceeded the safe distance between the giant ships sailing, and can be regarded as a close battle.
Five Eagle-class cruisers, nailed to the hull of the Tranquility like leeches, and the Jiaolong was eyeing the sidelines. Anyone who looks at the Brande battlecruiser has come to the last moment.
A bright blue trail flashed on the side of the Serenity. Since the beginning of the approach battle, the battle cruisers, which had been stationary until the beginning of the approach, suddenly launched.
Ozawa's landing force had just come into contact with the hull of the enemy ship and had not yet had time to blast. The battle cruiser swung violently, and even the five cruisers nailed to it were driven to rotate 90 degrees.
The sudden change of attitude was a disaster for the landing soldiers. Many people are thrown into space too late to fix themselves. In order to deploy the force as quickly as possible, the Onikure-class troop carriers sent by Ozawa had no time to dodge, and were either destroyed by the Serenity or collided with his own cruisers.
A large amount of spilled gas, fragments of armor plates, and the wreckage of the transport ship, began to be created around the Tranquility.
There was chaos in the communication circuit of the strike detachment, and there were scenes of wailing and swearing. Ozawa also panicked, just like this, the loss of the Marine Corps was already nearly half. And that's not even counting the damage taken by the starship. He had already begun to regret what a good fight with the battleship was.
Even if he repented, there wasn't much Ozawa could do, and the Marine Corps had already begun, and he had to bite the bullet and continue to launch the broadside battle.
Ten coarse lasers of light were emitted from the Jiaolong, aimed at the working Tranquility attitude control engine. There is no defensive magnetic field, and the speed of light shines directly on the surface of the ship's hull, leaving a striking dark red mark on the armor plate as it swims at the speed of light. Soon the dark red vanished like melting snow and ice, and the armor plates returned to their normal color again.
"It didn't work. Stop the laser shelling. Carrier-based aircraft squadrons attacked. The close-range weapon system is ready to fire in support of broadside combat. The reguided launcher is warmed up, and the sky-splitting strategic weapon is prepared. Shi Yuan was not affected by the sudden change, and after a series of orders were issued, he continued to stare at the enemy ship close at hand and think. What are the means of the enemy? The Empire still knows too little about Brand's technology, and this situation of waiting for the enemy ship to come up with a killer weapon is really not a good experience. He didn't want the feeling of getting out of control, and in the bottom of his heart, he just hoped that the battle situation would not deviate too far from expectations.
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"Alright! At this point, you have to be more careful. Who is the enemy? What is the personality? What is the purpose? Without even knowing it, rashly launching a broadside battle is a mistake caused by your recklessness. I won't say anything about you now, try to minimize the damage to the troops, and come back and think about your punishment. ”
On the other end of the communication loop, Tada's words made Ozawa's face pale. He understood that even if he succeeded in capturing the enemy ship, he would not escape punishment. Why did I think of a broadside battle just now?
Thinking about it carefully, Shi Yuan is not a person who can fight for merit at all, and even if he doesn't fight, the benefits of the strike detachment are indispensable. Now not only did he lose his troops, but he also offended Shi Yuan. Fortunately for Ozawa, Shi Yuan did not fall into the well. The battleship Jiaolong was now completely capable of launching an artillery bombardment of enemy ships regardless of the life or death of the strike detachment marines. After all, this is a duel between capital ships, and I don't care about the life or death of small ships. In extreme terms, Ishigen could even ask Ozawa to send a cruiser to block the enemy's deadly attack for him. Now it seems that Shi Yuan put down the figure of the capital ship and took the initiative to help him with his butt, Ozawa is grateful, and respects Shi Yuan, who is younger than him, more and more.
Almost half of the landing force successfully got on board, and the rest of the roads were in extremely poor condition. Either floating in space, or having been destroyed along with the troop carrier. While directing the rescue of the wounded, Ozawa ordered the commander of the landing force, Kobayashi Shaosa, to quickly complete the work of stabilizing the advancing position. In order to reduce the punishment as much as possible, it is necessary to take the enemy ships, otherwise the strike detachment will become the laughing stock of the whole fleet.