Chapter 384: Confrontation

The rapid battle alarm of "doodoo ......" sounded throughout the command center, and with the sound of rattling footsteps, the crew members who had left the command center for a few days rushed over from all corners of the formation at the fastest speed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The sound of info passwords, calls, and reports sounded in all corners of the command center. In just five minutes, a relatively perfect operational command system was established.

According to the regulations, the command center will be kept at full capacity twenty-four hours a day only in the case of first-level alert. In the course of navigation and operations in peacetime, the command center only serves the functions of navigation and overall dispatch. To accomplish these tasks, the command center only needs to ensure that key positions are manned.

Since the Golden Crow Formation entered the Nantianweng 1208 system, although local wars have continued, no real large-scale operations have occurred. Moreover, even in local battles, the battlefield is more than a thousand light-years away from the star field where the formation is moored. Therefore, the command center is still in a four-level alert state, that is, a state where personnel are left behind in key positions.

The battle sirens sounded very suddenly, and many people did not react, until long after entering the combat mode, they finally figured out what was happening. And by this time, the battle 750,000 kilometers away had already come to an end. Under the towing of two jackal-class destroyers, the Xiangyu destroyer, which had lost power, was slowly towed to the edge of the formation, and was immediately surrounded by several light destroyers.

Landing craft shuttled back and forth between the Xiangyu and the 117th fleet, transferring the wounded and prisoners. Unfortunately, Captain Shanwin-Quinn was one of the captives, and although Captain Quinn struggled to the death during the battle, he still failed to do so, and Quinn received nothing but more wounds on his body.

"Order, order all the fleets that are out to rush back as quickly as possible. At the same time, withdraw the few fleets that were warning outside the second line of defense. The enemy has jumped to the core defense circle, these guys haven't even found the shadow of the enemy's battleship, and after this battle is over, they have to check it carefully, if they find that someone is derelict in their duties, they will be severely punished" Zhuge Wushuang said indignantly.

"The analysis team led by Antonio analyzed the latest hyperspace scans, and the results showed that the enemy was approaching the formation through the stargate. Moreover, these gates are so cleverly constructed that each gate is hidden until it is activated, and even hyperspace scanning cannot detect any traces.

These gate systems are supposed to be used exclusively for military purposes, they are not opened in normal times, and each gate is locked with a complex key. The entire gate system will only be activated if the gate is unlocked with a specific key. This is also the reason why we don't know anything about these stargates, even if the civilization within this galaxy has not reached a certain height, we don't know anything about these stargates," Elaine's image reported from the side of Zhuge Wushuang and Zhang Zheng.

"Stargate technology is only at the level of a sixth-level civilization, can't our hyperspace scan find even a trace?" Zhuge Wushuang asked with a strange face. As long as the stargate exists, it will cause disturbance in the spatial structure, like an apple that has been eaten by insects, and even if it is shiny on the outside, the cavity inside can still be detected by ultrasound.

"The system's native civilization is truly unique in the construction of the stargate system, and they use a technology that we don't know much about to obscure these spatial differences. During the first two scans, our hyper-space radar did not detect these gate networks.

Moreover, the attention of the previous formation was mainly focused on the Zerg, and they did not pay too much attention to this aspect, which is why we did not perceive these star gates," Elaine gave a more reasonable explanation.

"Didn't the 117 fleet capture one of the captains of the other side, and asked Li Xiang to bring people over to see if he could pick out some useful information. Remember to warn you, don't kill it, maybe this captain will have some role to play when you negotiate with the other party.

In addition, let Hagrid send a few people to analyze the giant bird battleship, see the performance of the opponent's weapons, and focus on analyzing the weaknesses of the opponent's battleship, so that if there is a real conflict, we can target the enemy.

Then tell Sheldon to send a few teams to go deep into the opponent's warship to see if they can find some useful information from the opponent's shipboard host. Communication protocols, star maps, battleship parameters...... Find out everything that is useful," Zhang Zheng turned back to Elaine and instructed. Since the other party is coming violently, maybe the war will come in the next moment, and Zhang Zheng will definitely not fight a war without preparation, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare more before the war.

"A high concentration of neutrino radiation was found 1.6 billion kilometers away, and it was determined that the location of the hidden stargate is located," the radar officer reported.

"It's close to fifteen light hours, it's out of range of the expulsion formation, do you want to send the fleet up, as long as we block the stargate, the attack and defense of the stargate below will be much easier. I'm sure that with only five fleets, I can block the stargate for at least fifteen hours, even if the other side has more fleets, it can't rush through," Wilson assured confidently.

"It should be difficult to seal off the entire battlefield, although I don't know how many stargates there are, but there is definitely more than that. It doesn't seem like the previous Giant Bird battleship came out of there. In this way, there is no point in blocking the stargate in front of you, and if the formation is adjusted, the formation will be disrupted, which is not conducive to the next battle.

And we don't intend to fight for territory here, and there is no point in fighting a large-scale positional war with the local natives. Surrendering without a fight is the best policy. In this way, the integrated fleet of another corps will be deployed around the formation, and it will not be possible to show off the muscles without a fight, and the necessary tactical deterrence is absolutely indispensable," Zhang Zheng ordered.

"Understood!"

In the hive mother ship carried by the No. 1 Matryoshka ship, the heavy armor plates slowly moved away, revealing the deep and vast starport inside, and the integrated fleet swarmed out from the starport, forming a spherical defensive formation according to the defense plan assigned by Elaine, and protecting the vast space of 1.5 million kilometers around the formation impermeable.

In the distance, fifteen hours of light away, the space was agitated. The blue light suddenly lit up in the dark and empty starry sky, and then turned into a huge circle of light, rippling quickly like water ripples around. Inside the aperture, a dark and deep hole appeared, and the diameter of the hole rapidly expanded to both sides, until the bow of the first battleship came out of the stargate.

"Whoosh ......" followed, and more warships came out of the stargate in groups, and then began to slowly accelerate away from the stargate, opening up space for the follow-up fleet.

At this time, if Zhang Zheng sent two fleets to fire a salvo, it would probably be difficult for even one-tenth of these fleets in front of him to survive. In the process of passing through the Star Gate, the riotous spatial turbulence greatly weakened the shields of these warships, and the current enemy ships were almost defenseless for the Golden Crow Formation.

The opponent did not attack at the first moment of appearance, and the weapon was not immediately charged, but opened the shield of the battleship to the greatest extent, forming a tight defensive formation, and carefully guarded against it.

The communications officer even monitored the communications of the opposing formation, and it could be seen from the communications of the other party that the other party absolutely underestimated the strength of the Golden Crow formation before setting off. After passing through the star gate, I suddenly found that the other side of the star gate was not a sheep, but a tiger. The size of the human fleet really caught their commander off guard.

The warships that appeared on the other side were of the same system, all of them were like giant birds, the difference was only that they were a little huge, and the length of the largest battleship reached a terrifying 200 kilometers; Some are small, and the smallest is only a few tens of meters in size. The most massive battleships are even twice as large as the A-type battleships that the Golden Crow Formation has withdrawn from, and the smallest is comparable to the Peregrine-class individual fighters, and even to some extent, the performance of these individual fighters is even better than that of the Peregrine Falcon-class.

Compared to the Peregrine Falcon-class individual fighters, these tiny fighters look like graceful white swans. The elongated nose of the fuselage was an ellipsoidal soldier cockpit. The cockpit is made of transparent metal, and from time to time a large amount of data flows through the front of the cockpit.

Unlike the writing of the Golden Crow formation, which flows from left to right, the writing of these civilizations flows from top to bottom. It looks like a waterfall of light. Behind the cockpit is a slender neck, more than two meters long, followed by a flat ellipsoidal fuselage, with a fat belly, equipped with an on-board energy cannon and a large cargo compartment. It was expected to be loaded with air combat weapons such as hedron bombs or torpedoes.

The fuselage is flanked by two thick wings with a wingspan of five meters each. This is where the fighter engines and missile bays are located. The wings can be rotated freely, and even the angle can be adjusted up and down flexibly. With the adjustment of the wing angle, the Flying Bird can dodge and turn in space with great agility, and its turning radius is even smaller than that of the Peregrine Class.

"If you really can't underestimate any civilization, the consortium composed of so many sixth-level civilizations still has merit in some technologies" Looking at the images taken by the remote sensor, even Zhuge Wushuang was very appreciative of some of their creativity.

But that's all, the weapon of individual fighters is now even called for its complete abolition in the Jinwu formation. Because to a certain extent, the newly developed Octopus missile can completely replace the functions of individual fighters, and the cost is lower and more flexible. Just like these individual fighters of the enemy in front of you, you can easily deal with them with just one Octopus missile, and nothing is missed.

"Are we going to have a salvo? Even if most of them are missed, it would be better to destroy only a small part of them, so that deterrence should be more effective," Bernard suggested, looking at the fleet that was still spewing out of the stargates.

"Radar officer, how many fleets have appeared on the other side now?" Zhang Zheng turned around and asked.

"20,000 ships, about ten integrated fleets. However, at this rate of force deployment, in five minutes, the number of opposing fleets will triple, and in an hour, the opposing fleets will reach the size of two legions," the communications officer reported.

"Keep an eye on it. Communications Officer, send interstellar communication code"

"Yes!"

“……”

"Report, no response"

"Order the corps commander, all the main guns of the battleships begin to charge, and the 117th fleet cruising on the periphery will fire a salvo 20,000 kilometers to the left of the opponent's formation!"

"Understood!"

"Boom!" Tens of thousands of blue energy cannon beams swept through the pitch-black starry sky and rushed towards the vicinity of the star gate, quickly slashing across the left side of the opponent's formation.

The beams of light shone like neon after rain, and for a moment, the entire starry sky seemed to be lit up. The opponent's formation briefly became chaotic as the artillery fire swept by, and the blue energy shield became even more dazzling. At the front of the formation, the energy level of the energy cannon's muzzle began to rise rapidly, and the dissipating energy decorated the muzzle like a colored lantern.

"Report! The opponent's main cannon is starting to charge! ”

"Level 1 alert!" (To be continued.) )