It's not that the Theron warships can withstand their artillery fire, on the contrary, although the Theron battle fortress is also protected by several meters thick armor plates, but under the powerful mass effect main gun fire on the expedition team's side, these battleships with no kinetic energy barrier, large internal space and no electromagnetic armor protection are like paper paste, and they are directly hit by the artillery fire of the expedition fleet.

However, it is precisely because they have no protection against Mass Effect weapons at all that the vast majority of the hypervelocity projectiles that hit their ships do not experience any noteworthy resistance, and therefore do not release the destructive kinetic energy they carry when breaking the defense.

These projectiles easily pierced the Theron battle fortress as easily as a hot knife slicing through butter. But because of this, the velocity of these projectiles as they leave the hull hardly changes, and most of the kinetic energy is still retained on the projectiles that fly out!

As for the enemy ships hit by these projectiles, the projectiles that smashed through the hull produced a harmless effect, leaving only a large hole in the opponent's hull with a diameter of several meters, which could only be regarded as a minor injury for a Theron battleship with a length of nearly two thousand meters.

A round of main artillery fire from more than a dozen battleships failed to blow up the opponent's two battleships! This was really unexpected by the expedition. Therefore, although this round of blows punched a lot of holes in the two battle fortresses that the opponent had started, which greatly challenged the Theron people's imagination of space warfare, and frightened them into immediately stopping the advance of the formation, Shen Chao still felt that this round of blows was a failure.

He then ordered several of the capital ships in the fleet to continue firing at the two damaged Theron ships, while the other ships were responsible for suppressing the other Theron ships. Due to the experience of losing the first round. During the second round of artillery fire, they started jet-lag shooting.

In other words, instead of concentrating their fire on the same battleship at the same time, they will stagger the time of fire from nearby friendly forces and fire the shells in their own barrels after their shells have hit. This allows for a continuous artillery strike with friendly ships.

After this adjustment, the two Theron warships, which had been bombed first, were quickly unable to hold up, and finally, the second minute after the battle began, one of the battleships, which had been beaten into honeycomb coal, could no longer withstand any more artillery fire, and a large explosion occurred due to the damage to the reactor.

The explosion had blown the battle fortress's hull in two, and the other Theron battleship next to it didn't last long. After about half a minute, it was also blown up. Until this time. The battle lasted only the third minute.

Seeing the loss of two battle fortresses in such a short period of time, the few remaining Theron warships in the distance also had the idea of retreating. However, they were not ready to flee now, because they still had the illusion that they would be able to change the tide of battle when their group of fighters rushed closer.

The war has been waged until now. The space fighters they had released earlier were already on the verge of being within effective range of attacking the enemy. According to their estimates, the firepower carried by nearly a thousand space fighters is enough to blow the strongest warship to slag. What's more, they have now launched the second group of fighters. At this time, they had already released thousands of warplanes on the battlefield.

Even if their fleet doesn't turn the tide of battle right away, at least it will help them hold the enemy's attention, and their companions in other systems will be able to come quickly. There will always be a way to defeat these enemies when the time comes. That's what the people of Theron think.

But alas. Just as Shen Chao had wishful thinking before the war began, believing that the Theron people would contact him before fighting again, this beautiful idea was just wishful thinking on the part of the Theron people. The first group of Theron warplanes did quickly reach the defensive circle of the expedition's fleet, and then they were hit by heavy close-in artillery fire.

Unlike the main artillery division, the weapons of the secondary artillery division, although the muzzle velocity of the projectile fired was much lower, but the caliber was not small relative to their target, so the Theron fighter group was hit hard as soon as it came into their range.

Every second, Theron fighters are destroyed by melee cannon fire, but the Therons, as a mechanical race, have a toughness that most human armies lack. Easy suffered a blow that far exceeded expectations, but the Theron group in charge of the attack did not flinch in the slightest.

On the one hand, they spread out their formation to avoid being overwhelmed by the close fire force, and then regrouped after dodging a round of artillery fire and launched bombing strikes against the ships in the fleet formation. Among them, there are several squadrons of Theron fighter jets that are particularly eye-catching.

They organized a tactically successful assault on one of the expeditionary frigates in the formation. They first formed a formation of more than a dozen fighters, escorting the bomb-laden fighter in the middle to rush to the frigate.

When the escort plane attracted artillery fire and suffered huge losses, the Theron fighter in charge of the attack successfully completed the close-range bomb drop and hit its target without any suspense. A tactical nuclear weapon with a yield of 50,000 tons shines brightly immediately after hitting the target, which can be called a textbook perfect strike. But the effect of this blow was not as rosy as the Theron had hoped.

"We were hit by an enemy nuclear weapon, the shield dropped by 0.5%, etc., the shield has been restored to full power......" This is the response of the damage management department in the battleship after being hit. Other departments are still as usual.

Although the people inside the battleship felt a shaking that was not obvious, only the main gun department that was about to fire complained that the shaking of the hull affected the accuracy of their calibration of the main gun, and the others either didn't care, or they didn't know that the battleship they were on had just been hit by a nuclear bomb at close range.

In this way, although the Theron warplanes caused a certain harassing effect on the expedition's fleet, and although tactical nuclear weapons constantly hit the expedition's warships, they were far from attracting the fleet's attention. The ships on the expedition's side continued to pour fire on enemy ships in the distance with their main guns. The secondary artillery department is responsible for driving away the flies-like Theron swarm.

After another 5 minutes, 3 more Theron ships were destroyed, and the Theron finally couldn't hold on. At this time, the situation on the battlefield is already quite clear to all participants. No matter how scattered the Theron warships were, they could not escape the fate of being destroyed.

Although the third wave of Theron fighters had arrived at this time and joined the front line of the assault battle, and the number of Theron fighters over the battlefield reached an unprecedented 2,000, the Theron people who participated in the battle knew that this would still not cause any substantial damage to the expedition's fleet.

They just hope that these groups will help them hold out a little longer, only for a short time, because their follow-up fleet will be able to jump over in no time. Finally, when only 3 of the Theron's warships were left to move, their reinforcements arrived!

Thirty-two Theron Battle Fortresses jumped into the system in a two-minute interval. They were far outnumbered by the expedition ships, and as if they had learned their lessons, these battle fortresses began to unleash all the space fighters they were carrying in full force as soon as they jumped over.

Their move had a huge impact on the tide of the battle, as they unleashed nearly 10,000 space fighters before they could reach the range of the expedition fleet's main weapon, and the huge group of fighters and ships advanced together.

Although none of these space fighters could pose a threat to any of the ships on the expedition's fleet, when their numbers became so huge, the shape changed completely......

"12,645, wait, it's 13,019 fighters, and it's still increasing." All of them are equipped with tactical nuclear weapons...... "the electronic warfare department of the Budapest nervously reported. This situation is not in any of the plans they have prepared.

Although the expedition had prepared many plans for the Theron before coming, it had never envisaged a conflict of this magnitude because it had always had hoped for peace with the Therons. Shen Chao also had a headache when he saw the dense targets on the hologram.

It was also the first time he commanded a space battle of this scale, and it was at this time that he realized that his command level of space warfare was not as high as he imagined. Otherwise, he wouldn't be as confused as he is now. He had never been overwhelmed by the heat of the battle when he was fighting various ground battles.

Thinking of this, Shen Chao forced himself to calm down and reconsider. The first is the analysis of the current situation. The total number of weapons mounted on the large group of aircraft that the Theron people were advancing towards them was undoubtedly very dangerous. If the fleet waited for this large group of aircraft to come and bomb them, many light warships in the fleet really might not be able to hold up.

However, if you release your own space fighter to fight, it should have some disruptive effect, but it will not fundamentally change the situation of the battle. After all, the number of pilots in his own fleet is limited, and the shield of the space fighter is several orders of magnitude weaker than that of the battleship, and there will definitely be casualties against the opponent's large fleet, and the casualties will definitely not be small.

"What resources should be taken from the rear?" Thinking of this, Shen Chao couldn't help but shift his attention to the large number of military reserves he had prepared in the rear. He hadn't had this kind of problem before because he was very well prepared for every battle.

But after thinking about it carefully, the war resources he reserves are mainly for land warfare in the low-tech plane, and the main force of the fleet that can conduct this kind of space warfare has been pulled out and put here by himself. If he can't use the resources at hand to win, he won't be able to use what is in the rear.

"Should I order a retreat?" Shen Chao hesitated, in all fairness, he was not willing to sacrifice every soldier under his command for the sake of those ungrateful and unprincipled guys in the fleeing fleet. (To be continued......)

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