158 Ranged Strikes

The time limit for contact between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and time seems to freeze, and every second is as long as a century, overwhelming people.

All officers and men were ordered to rest until the great battle approached.

Nie Jianrong couldn't sleep at all, and forced himself to lie down for eight hours, but the bloodshot in his eyes did not decrease at all.

No matter whether you look forward to it or resist it, the pace of time never stops.

The countdown is three hours, the three-level combat alarm, all the participants are in place, and each department conducts the last system self-check.

With a two-hour countdown, the chain of command is officially wired, and a massive stream of data flows out of the supercomputer housed in the Holy Sword Fortress, connecting all combat units into a single unit.

With an hour to countdown, a secondary battle alert, and the distance between the two sides is close enough to see the bone mound with the naked eye, and the combined fleet is all ready. All accompanying ships are centered on the Holy Sword Base and are in a protective formation.

Thirty minutes into the countdown, the combined fleet officially entered the combat state, and Nie Jianrong gave an order, and all carrier-based aircraft took off.

Fighter planes took off from the battleship one after another, densely packed like locusts in transit, or in a zigzag oblique formation, or in a herringbone formation, one by one spread out like flower petals, and the Holy Sword Fortress seemed to be transformed into a stamen.

In this battle, the Chinese Celestial Force invested all eight aviation fighter divisions, as well as 22 air force fighter divisions and 14 naval aviation fighter divisions, with a total of more than 3,700 F-440 fighters. There were also eight bombardment divisions and twelve assault divisions.

In addition, there are more than 40 aviation reserve divisions, whose pilots are retired and assault training civil aviation pilots, of which retired pilots account for only more than one-third, and most of the retired pilots fly the newly rolled off the production line F-440; The rest of the personnel can only fly the previous generation fighter F-411, which was mothballed after being retired from active service.

The total number of fighter planes invested by the Chinese side alone is approaching the 10,000 mark, excluding helicopters that cannot conduct space operations.

The total number of fighters invested by the United States and Russia is similarly different, and with the fighter jets sent by other countries, the total number of fighters in the United Fleet exceeds 40,000!

Such a powerful aviation force is enough to destroy the earth dozens of times repeatedly, but the task of the aviation force is to contain the Outer Skeleton spacecraft as much as possible...... No one dared to put the hope of victory on the fighters, and all the pilots who participated in the war knew that this was a mission from which there was no return, and self-deprecatingly called the international aviation death squad.

Before the war began, the name gave the aviation a tragic color.

With a countdown of twenty minutes, all the commandos were in place, and the landing craft was ready to break away from the battleship at any time.

It's hard to say whether it will be a commando or not, and even Nie Jianrong doesn't know the bottom in his heart, so he does this just in case.

Fifteen minutes into the countdown, the aviation units are in place, with the Holy Sword Fortress as the center, distributed in a vast space 50,000 kilometers away, and the hideous nuclear bombs in the bomb compartment are the confidence of all pilots.

Ten minutes into the countdown, a level 1 battle alert, everything is ready, just waiting for the battle to start.

Admiral Nie Jianrong stared at the countdown tightly, only ten minutes of time, in the past, it was just a flash, but now, it was as long as ten centuries.

After a minute of countdown, General Nie, who was well-groomed, suddenly ripped open his neckline, and the injured beast gasped heavily: "The laser cannon is ready, the reconnection cannon is charged, and the fire control system assigns the target!" ”

When the order was given, countless hatches immediately bloomed on the surface of the Holy Sword Fortress, and a laser cannon like a bundled umbrella rose from the inside, and from the outside, it looked like a metal jungle suddenly grew on the bare armor plate, and then the laser cannon with a diameter of twelve meters unfolded, and in an instant, it was like a sea of metal flowers blooming.

The accompanying warships unfurled their weapons one after another, and the most eye-catching was the giant whale ship formation, each with two twelve-meter laser cannons.

The 12-meter laser cannon is currently the most advanced laser weapon with the strongest firepower and the longest range. In order to cope with the big war with the Outer Bone Man, the Chinese side made all its skills public free of charge and provided them to all the participating allies, but the battleships could not be modified if they wanted to, and most of the battleships did not have the conditions for modification at all, so they had to install laser cannons on the back of the battleship.

All the ships were assigned a target, but on average, a hundred laser cannons would take one target!

Thirty seconds into the countdown, all the battleships were aimed at the target, and a very small number of modified battleships had to shut down some minor systems due to lack of power and in order to save electricity.

Five, four, three, two, one......

Nie Jianrong smashed his fist on the table: "Shoot with full power, fire!" ”

In an instant, countless unrecognizable pillars of light flew towards the enemy army ten light-seconds away, and some of the pillars of light were blocked by the icy asteroid, and the huge energy instantly vaporized the asteroid, and a large number of gas molecules were quickly dispersed in the vacuum, revealing countless parallel pillars of light.

Heavy artillery followed, and dense shells rushed out of the muzzle and flew towards distant enemy troops.

Five seconds later, the laser cannon fires at full power for the second time...... After four consecutive salvos of laser cannons, the beam of the first shot hit the target, and thanks to the precise calculation of the advance by the unified fire control system, 20 percent of the lasers successfully hit the target – the distance is too far away, and such a hit rate is already very rare.

Waves of firepower continue to pour into the enemy, but the effect can only be counted through the optical system, the ship of the Outer Skeleton Man is not a steel structure, even if destroyed, it will not explode, it looks like all the blows have no effect.

A minute later, a bright fire suddenly erupted from the surface of the huge bone mound, and all the officers and soldiers who witnessed this scene were invigorated.

It was a cannonball fired from a heavy cannon that hit the bone mound!

Although the shell was only 7.4 grams, the speed of the discharge was as high as 60,000 kilometers per second, and the optical system clearly captured the image after the hit, and the place where the bone mound was hit happened to be the top corner of a small triangular airlock, which was directly blown off by the explosion.

The alien battleships flying near the bone mound were originally in order, but the sudden attack caused all the battleships to be in chaos.

That little loss is only a drop in the bucket for the huge alien fleet, and what confuses the Aliens is the striking distance of human weapons!

Ten light seconds, even one light second, the weapons of the alien battleship are out of reach.

Nie Jianrong's brows were deeply twisted, the speed of both sides was not slow, the speed of the combined fleet was about 1,000 kilometers per second, the speed of the bone mound was about 1,500 kilometers per second, and the distance of ten light seconds only took twenty minutes to encounter, once it entered the range of the enemy's firepower, the numerical shortcomings of the combined fleet would be exposed, and the enemy must be eliminated as much as possible before the distance is closer.

A resolute glint flashed in his eyes: "Y-shaped missile preparation-"

If the bone mound is a watermelon, then the holy sword is an orange at most, and the gap is too big, however