175. Engagement in normal space
This voice was made by a radar squad operator next to the radar officer, although the radar officer of the Lanzhou covered his mouth at the first time, but many people in the huge war room of the Lanzhou heard the news.
"Urgently recall all attack waves and speed up replenishment operations for attack aircraft groups and cruisers. The fleet immediately underwent a tactical maneuver at the first combat rate. ”
The Rear Admiral, as the captain, said in a calm and powerful voice, he could have sent orders directly through the light screen in front of him, but in this case, it would be even better to say it.
Indeed, the members of the fleet, who had recovered from a brief period of shock and subconsciously continued to work, calmed down after hearing the voice of the fleet commander.
The simulated image displayed by the processing of the detection information shows a large number of red "balls" that have broken through the line representing human hyperspace firepower.
Then the optical camera played five light-seconds away, the same image from five seconds ago - just like when the human attack aircraft group appeared, a large ripple appeared from the dark universe, and then countless clumps of creatures jumped out of the jump.
Most of the units of the Interstellar Zerg do not look hideous, because hideous also means relatively complex structures or appearances, and in the face of maximizing efficiency and population survival as the first element, hideous appearance is not a very necessary option.
Many of the staff officers present had heard of a research conclusion that the interstellar zerg may have had a lot of very hideous appearances a long time ago, but after being defeated by humans in large numbers, they chose a simpler appearance very quickly. The reason is that the surviving interstellar Zerg brainworms believe that their main threat: humans, is concerned. A hideous appearance is not a favorable factor that will allow them to overcome the threat. In other words, if the psychological shock is gone, then the hideous appearance is not a "solution" that satisfies the population after all.
As a result, the usual cosmic unit of the interstellar zerg is formed in an elliptical or circular structure. And the surviving interstellar zerg will definitely not be limited to any creature or machine, and most of the Zerg units that have escaped from the jump have the feeling of being a hybrid.
When these zerg units appeared in large numbers in the universe, on the picture given by the optical camera, the moment these guys appeared, clusters of fireballs appeared in the middle of these insect swarms in an orderly manner.
The starcruisers, which had been relieved of their weapons security restrictions and possessed hyperspace faster-than-light detection capabilities, first spotted the swarms that were about to jump out of the transition state, so in the next moment, the close defense weapons and six sub-light railguns on the outermost starcruisers began to enter combat mode.
When the faster-than-light radar determined that the Zerg were about to make the leap, the starcruiser used a sub-light railgun to conduct dozens of rounds of predictive fire.
ALTHOUGH THE SUB-LIGHT SPEED RAILGUN EQUIPPED ON THE STARCRUISER IS NOT VERY LARGE IN CALIBER, IT IS BASICALLY A 425MM RAILGUN. Basically, it cannot be compared with the last advanced interstellar battleships now in service with the Planetary Defense Force's orbital fleet, but its ultra-high rate of fire meets the needs of modern hyperspace operations in terms of active defense.
But this does not mean that in terms of attack on ships, the combat power of these sub-light railguns, which are not very large, is not strong. The large number of warheads, ultra-high rate of fire and higher accuracy make these small-caliber railguns also have good firepower, and in fact, any kind of artillery shell can exert "devastating" power when accelerating to sub-light speed.
Unsurprisingly, the location of these zergs out of the jump tunnel is roughly the same as predicted by hyperspace probes and computers. So there is no doubt that the same large number of human sub-light projectiles hit the swarm that emerged from the jump tunnel. The sub-light projectile easily tore through the bodies of countless Zerg units and exploded when the kinetic energy was basically exhausted, and a huge fireball appeared that was no less than the internal temperature of the star, and easily reduced countless bugs to ashes.
In the face of a large number of enemies, ordinary kinetic warheads can easily kill them if they hit. But it's clearly not very cost-effective.
HOWEVER, THE NUMBER OF STELLAR WARHEADS CARRIED INSIDE THE FLEET IS LIMITED, AND ALTHOUGH THE 425MM SUB-LIGHT RAILGUN IS AN OUT-AND-OUT BEHEMOTH FOR A PERSON, IT IS ACTUALLY FLEXIBLE IN ITS STEERING AND ALMOST AS FAST AS THE PHALANX SYSTEM IN SURFACE SHIPS.
It's just that the rate of fire is fast, and there are troubles about the rate of fire. The ultra-fast rate of fire is a good hand at consuming ammo, so in the beginning, the captains of the starcruisers would never have asked them to fire at full speed.
In just five seconds, when the footage from the optical camera was just transmitted back to the ship. Millions of Zerg have disappeared into the universe, but round balls of flesh keep coming out of the leaping passages in all directions. And at a very high speed, it approached the Lanzhou aircraft carrier battle group.
At this moment, the close-range defense system has also been used, and the high-energy lasers and pulsed lasers that are not worried about the ammunition problem are fired at the swarm at the first time along with sub-light orbital projectiles. The five-second speed of light delay allowed countless Zerg to dodge their attacks, but a large number of Zerg units were still killed under the enemy's massive base.
It's like shooting at a charging enemy with a heavy machine gun in World War I.
The close-in laser arrays carried by dozens of cruisers and interstellar frigates were set up and completed the data exchange under the coordination of the Lanzhou aircraft carrier battle group, and then in the next moment, a dense laser network appeared silently in the universe.
Many of the insects that were moving at high speed suddenly appeared in small spots of light, and then they were instantly cut into sections, and some were even directly vaporized.
However, cosmic creatures are very resistant to high temperatures, so even though the power of the UN starship's close-in laser is very huge, it can still be seen that there are many relatively large Zerg units that reduce the damage of the laser to themselves by rolling or in various ways.
All of a sudden, a large number of "smoke" from reflective beams appeared around the Lanzhou aircraft carrier battle group.
However, the huge number of insect swarms still advanced "slowly" in the direction of the human fleet under the laser and artillery bombardment, and when some Zerg broke through the firepower into the range of two light seconds, strong lasers shot out from some Zerg units towards the expected advance range of humans, and more seemingly smaller Zerg units rushed towards the Lanzhou aircraft carrier battle group.
Taking the Lanzhou as the origin, a cloud of blood mist suddenly appeared on the side of the insect swarm that was advancing against the fire under the Lanzhou, or a lot of limbs were lost in an instant.
After several maneuvers, the group of fighters that had previously guarded the first and second attack waves also began to attack the charging swarm. (To be continued.) )