172, dead line
In the cyber war 160 years ago, the jump missile was undoubtedly the most dazzling weapon, and these weapons that could directly deliver powerful warheads to the enemy's eyes and even inside from a distance of several light-years or even thousands of light-years have undoubtedly changed the pattern of space warfare.
The position of space aircraft carriers on a par with space battleships has been broken, and the huge number of aircraft carriers' attack aircraft groups carrying jump missiles has basically eliminated the main position of space battleships in space operations.
But in fact, at the very beginning of the Cyber War, the Jump Missile was used as a bomb-carrying platform by the starcruiser. Today, after a century of development, interstellar cruisers equipped with jump missiles have become an indispensable type of human space combat force.
Combining flexibility, high firepower and sufficient information combat capabilities, such a high level of comprehensive multi-purpose combat capability allows starcruisers to be active in the armed forces of mankind.
As carriers of jump missiles, human interstellar cruisers, even the spear-throwing cruisers, which are the first generation of first-generation interstellar cruisers, have a detection range of up to 1,500 light-years, capable of tracking tens of thousands of targets at the same time and guiding warheads to attack 3,600 targets at the same time.
Although there will be a certain degree of difference and fluctuation due to the target and subsequent upgrades, even so, it can still be seen that the combat power of this kind of warship is extremely strong.
And now, although the Lanzhou is a supercarrier built before the Cyber War, the interstellar cruisers escorted by the Lanzhou are all second-generation cruisers except for a few first-generation cruisers.
The second-generation cruiser is equipped with a more powerful jumper missile in terms of jump missiles, and it has a greater leap forward than the first-generation cruiser in terms of electronics and information systems. Its one-time trackable target is almost the same as a one-time guided target, but the detection range and warning range have been more than doubled, and the accuracy has also been improved.
Therefore, theoretically, it really only takes a dozen cruisers to suppress a target of hundreds of thousands. Even if the Confederate fleet used their best efforts to interfere with the tracking of the UNSF starcruiser in various ways at the beginning, when the Confederate fleet was only five seconds away from the Lanzhou aircraft carrier battle group. No matter how hard you try, there is no point. The detection and active defense system, which surpassed the Confederate fleet for several eras, locked down all the battleships that survived the attack of any attack aircraft group.
Fire fire fire fire fire!
When the Confederate fleet was only three seconds away from the Lanzhou aircraft carrier battle group, that is, they only needed to jump for another three seconds to directly attack the human fleet, whether it was the captain of the Lanzhou or the captains of other starcruisers, they all shouted this order.
The moment they received the order, the shipboard AI faithfully carried out their order.
The jump missiles that ejected from the missile bay encountered the Confederate fleet that rushed out of the flames of battle and explosions the next moment they entered the jump channel, and the Confederate ships that were only one step away from the human fleet at the very front were reduced to scrap metal or even debris at that moment.
It is as if a steady stream of jump missiles enter the jump missiles from the dark gray space with spatial ripples, and then because the speed is relatively not very fast, they can complete the attitude adjustment at a very short speed. The next moment it rammed into a part of the Confederate fleet that was trying to evade it.
In the optical cameras of the Lanzhou aircraft carrier battle group, this bleak and almost invisible barren space was as calm as ever, except for the location of the dozens of cruisers that became a point of light illuminated by the jump missile engines because of the continuous firing of jump missiles.
But in the jump passage that can be said to be close to this universe, countless Confederate warships rushed out of the flames one after another and rushed in one direction at the maximum speed, even if they had just been bombed and suicidal by a wave of attack aircraft of the Lanzhou aircraft carrier battle group, and still had to face a large number of jump missiles after breaking out of the explosion range.
After just ten seconds, the captain of an interstarcruiser looked at the simulated images of his own attack and Confederate assault on the light screen, and let out a long sigh of relief: "They don't have a chance. ”
In the stereoscopic simulation, the red blob representing the enemy is rushing towards a white line at a speed visible to the naked eye. The red distance of the big lump represents the blue logo of the Lanzhou aircraft carrier battle group, which is only a line away on the screen, but the "line" that is less than a little thumb width seems to be unable to be broken.
The captain of the starcruiser suddenly remembered a scene from a war on a terrestrial planet he had passed by on a mission a few years earlier. Countless "heroic" men with cold weapons charged at the army lined up in three rows with primitive gunpowder rifles that needed to be manually loaded.
The charge of the side with cold weapons was so powerful, but the line was like an impassable wall of sighs that could not be crossed, and those "warriors" with cold weapons all fell on the line of fire fought by the "soldiers". In just a few minutes, the troops with cold weapons were crushed. First there were signs of retreat in one corner, and then it spread over the course of tens of seconds. Everyone was scrambling to retreat, and those who were retreating in front clashed with those who were still charging in the rear. Followed by. When the cavalry on the "soldier's" side charged, it was like the last grass that crushed the camel's camel, and the cold weapons side was completely routed.
This scene was also played out on Earth hundreds of years ago. And now the battle between the Second Fleet of the Second Attack Wave of the Confederate and the USS Lanzhou aircraft carrier battle group is like that.
The only difference is that the Confederacy seems to have lasted longer.
As the number of ships in the charging Confederate fleet dwindled, the pressure on the human side decreased at a rapid rate. And when at 6:04, an emergency return attack wave of the Lanzhou burst into the jump channel where the Confederate fleet was located with all the ammunition, and the outcome was completely decided.
"Ten light-seconds away, spatial fluctuations were discovered!"
Space alarms sounded among the combat ships of the USS Lanzhou aircraft carrier battle group. But no one was nervous.
A few seconds later, ten light-seconds away, a five-kilometer-long spindle-shaped battleship burst out of the jump tunnel. It was followed by several Lanzhou attack planes that were still armed
The black striped bulges on the ship's hull, which might have looked hideous, were now in tatters, and several huge holes in the internal structure that could be seen, as well as a large amount of stripped armor, made the ship look very miserable.
It can be said that the reason why the spindle giant ship has been able to maintain such a shape is because its keel and infrastructure have fortunately not been fatally damaged.
It "staggered" towards the Lanzhou aircraft carrier battle group, and the few turrets on the hull that still existed fired a "difficult" salvo in the direction where the Lanzhou was located. The huge recoil caused the miserable battleship to retreat several kilometers, and the originally crumbling keel was completely fatally broken.
With the sight of metal tearing, several attack torpedoes fired by attack aircraft burrowed into the spindle battleship, and then a blazing fireball engulfed the entire battleship. (To be continued.) )