Chapter 49: On the Melee

Although the ships and technology are a cut behind, the combined fleet of the Shata clan is three times the size of the halo, and it has a home field advantage, and the fleet will jump in at any time.

After just looking at it for a while, Li Qing could conclude that it would be difficult for Halo to succeed in this operation.

But now the problem is that the Halo can't succeed, their strength is not as good as the Halo team, and they definitely can't succeed.

And the aura came first, the news of the war had already spread, which would estimate that enemy support was already coming, and if the aura retreated, they would have to retreat as well.

He can think of this, Yu Yuefei and others can also think of this, and soon Ye Xiao said in the command channel:

"I think we can cooperate with Halo to take it, this giant settlement station belongs to one of the several cores of the Shata Tribe United Civilization in the Southern Province, and it is home to nearly a billion people, even if we cooperate to divide it, it will be enough to plunder enough people."

Luo Taiyuan also nodded and said:

"I also agree, the enemy's defenders are much stronger than we expected, the aura can't beat us, and only cooperation can win-win."

It was not stupid people who were present, this simple situation could be understood, and it was quickly decided to cooperate with Halo with a majority vote.

The aura side was not stupid, the first time to respond, agreed to cooperate, and didn't even have time to decide on the distribution of loot, Yu Yuefei immediately ordered the fleet to enter the battlefield, and from the other side cooperated with the halo fleet to besiege the defenders of the Shata civilization.

Li Qing's task has not changed, attacking with Ding Youran, or assisting in the operation.

Li Lie and Li Qi's fleets were all under his command, adding up to a total of 17 cruisers, 42 destroyers, and 197 frigates.

In the vast starry sky, countless dazzling beams of light traversed the starry sky, and each huge fireball splashed represented the sinking of a battleship.

A huge fleet was thrown into battle, stretching a distance of more than 100,000 kilometers from left to right.

By the time Li Qing's fleet met a fleet transferred from another race, it had already been an hour after the advance battle.

When he saw that the enemy fleet had 1 battleship, 31 cruisers, 67 destroyers, and 500 frigates, Li Qing's expression was slightly solemn, and he quickly simulated the strength of both sides in his mind, as well as the capital he had, and then had an idea, and said to everyone in the channel:

"There's a battleship, and I'm going to perform a decapitation tactic and sink that battleship first."

Li Lie said in the channel:

"What do you say?"

"I am going to divide the fleet into two parts, half of Li Lie's fleet will be under my command, and all the modified aircraft carrier cruisers under Li Qi's command will be temporarily incorporated into Li Lie's fleet, and when I and Li Qi's fleet are engaged with their main force, Li Lie, you will lead the fleet to raid the enemy battleships around the rear, and use the space fighters of the aircraft carrier cruisers to surround and kill the battleships."

The so-called aircraft carrier cruiser is to replace the cruiser's giant cannon and salvo modules with hangar modules, which can be equivalent to a small aircraft carrier and generally rely on the space fighters in the hangar module to fight.

In addition to frigates, both destroyers and cruisers and battleships can be converted into small aircraft carriers.

After the conversion of the standard cruiser, the bow can accommodate 10 hangar slots, the central core can accommodate 20 hangar slots, and the stern can accommodate 8 hangar slots, a total of 38 hangar slots, and a total of 36 space fighters in each hangar, exactly one squadron, adding up to a total of 1,368 space fighters.

The modification of an aircraft carrier cruiser is actually not very expensive, it is expensive in space fighters.

A fifth-generation deep space ghost fighter costs 5 million, with 1,368 units totaling 6.84 billion star dollars.

However, although the aircraft carrier is strong in combat, the loss of space fighters is also large, and generally an aircraft carrier-type cruiser will be equipped with a large hangar-type industrial ship, which is equipped with a large number of spare fighters, and when the space fighters lose too much after a tragic battle, they can replenish and maintain the combat effectiveness of the warship at any time.

It can be said that a standard cruiser to a small aircraft carrier needs to consume more than 10 billion star dollars from scratch and logistics.

Li Lie and Li Qi are each equipped with one, and they are reluctant to fight in small-scale battles in peacetime.

This time, in the face of a strong enemy, they could not be reluctant, and the two small aircraft carriers were incorporated into the fleet and broke away from the main force and went around, while Li Qing led the fleet to face the alien fleet head-on.

"Line up, face to head!"

The size of the enemy's fleet was not much larger than theirs, and it was a big threat from a battleship, so Li Qing did not temporarily avoid the edge, but directly attacked it.

"Boom!"

The main guns of battleships with a range of up to 5,000 kilometers lit up sharply, and a dazzling particle light spear blasted out through the battlefield, and a destroyer was hit by a light spear, and the thick energy shield was directly broken, and the armor was instantly melted through to the hull of the ship, blowing out a huge hole.

The battle damage was uploaded to Li Qing as soon as possible, and looking at the tragic projection of the attacked destroyer in front of him, Li Qing's eyelids picked slightly, and ordered:

"Destroyer No. 18 retreated and stepped up repairs, and the fleet maintained a constant pace."

Just the most basic particle light spear can almost kill a fully equipped destroyer in an instant, and if the configuration is almost replaced with a level 4 shield and armor module, this cannon can directly kill a destroyer in an instant.

Particle Spear: A heavy-duty energy spear that fires high-energy particles that melt armor.

Type: Instant, Energy.

Damage: 35000-55000.

Rate of fire: 150 sec/round.

Hit: 90%.

Firing range: 5000 km.

Fixed: -25% shield damage.

Fixed: +25% armor damage.

This is the power of the battleship, the absolute main battleship, and its X super-large slot main gun is extremely terrifying, as long as the cannon is fired, there will be damage.

The only thing to do is that it has a slow rate of fire, and it takes up to three minutes to re-cool and recharge each shot.

Taking advantage of this time, the warships of the two sides quickly closed the distance and quickly entered the range of the main gun of the L large slot, and Li Qing's side relied on the 20% range bonus of the psionic to charge the muzzle in advance.

"All the main guns are all on fire to mark the destroyer!"

With Li Qing's order, a round of fierce artillery bombardment blasted out, tearing a Shata civilization destroyer into two and paralyzing it in the void on the spot.

After a round of shelling, they also entered the range of the opponent's large weapons, and after two rounds of dazzling firelight, the two frigates rushing in front turned into two fireballs and were blown to pieces, and nearly 300 million star dollars were gone.

Without blinking an eyelid, Li Qing re-marked the new target, another destroyer, and then ordered the fleet to adjust the angle of attack and recharge the weapon.

Compared to the enemy's attack target is a frigate, the target he sets is a destroyer.

The reason is very simple, the destroyers are the fastest among the four types of warships, and they have their own technological advantages, if they can destroy the opponent's destroyers on a large scale, when their scale is small to a certain point, they can occupy the speed advantage and have the absolute initiative.

Everyone knows what it means to get the initiative on the battlefield, to attack and defend.

The only variable was the battleship with a very long range, but the battleship had two cruiser carriers to deal with, and as long as they were willing to pay a sufficient price, a single battleship would still be easy to deal with.

Three minutes later, another thick particle light spear pierced through the void, and the target destroyer was attacked by a certain amount of attack in the previous firefight, and the shield energy was insufficient, and when the particle light spear hit the hull, it melted through a huge hole in the center of the hull on the spot, causing a brilliant explosion.

They did not hesitate to bombard a destroyer again with their colors.

The Shata Civilization Fleet followed the example of a round of fire, and once again exploded two frigates, and another 300 million star yuan was gone.

At the same time, the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and they soon enter the battle distance of the frigate, and completely enter the battle stage.

At this time, if either side wants to retreat, it must abandon a part of the fleet to support the rear.

The two sides went back and forth, each of which meant that a destroyer and two frigates were bombed, and at the same time, every two rounds a destroyer was killed by the battleship's main gun, and in general, their side was at a disadvantage.

However, this disadvantage began to reverse after Li Lie circled around the enemy's radar detection range and took position, and the two cruisers, a total of 2,736 fifth-generation deep-space ghost fighters, were all released outside the radar detection range, and then the sky fighters flew straight at the battleship.

At this time, their fleet had entered a state of full-scale engagement, and most of the battleships were pushed forward to engage Li Qing's fleet, although there were still a small number of escort fleets around the battleships, but the number was too small.

The technology level of the key Shata clan alliance is between the third and fourth generations, and most of the weapons and accessories used by these conventional non-main fleets are third-generation technology, and under the suppression of the two generations of technology, the interception firepower is difficult to pose a deadly threat to the aircraft group in terms of power, rate of fire and hit.

Li Lie, who has experienced a lot of battles, has an extremely accurate grasp of the battlefield situation, and when the huge group of aircraft enters the battlefield, he immediately activates the active effect of his talent.

Firepower First (Blue): This naval commander believes in the supremacy of firepower.

Passive attributes: +20% attack and +10 accuracy for all ships under your command.

Active Effect: Activate the skill effect, all ships under your command have +30% attack power, +20 hit, last for 30 minutes, and have a cooldown of 10 days.

Active and passive effects stack for a total of 50% damage bonus and 30 bonus hits.

Then, instead of going straight to the battleship, the group swooped down on the side of the battleship, consisting of a group of 40 frigates.

Li Lie stood on the bridge of the command ship, and on the empty bridge in front of him was a huge battlefield projection, his hands were turning on it, and the battlefield projection also changed angles as he manipulated his hands.

Although Li Qing's order was to behead the battleship, how to decapitate it depended on his actual operation.

Able to fully obey the commander's orders and fully execute them, this is a qualified commander.

But if you want to become an excellent commander who can stand alone, you must not be able to execute orders mechanically, you must have your own insight, not only to be able to perfectly execute orders and complete them, but also to do better on this basis and be able to execute orders flexibly.

In his opinion, a direct attack on a battleship could indeed interfere with the battleship's operations and make the frontal battlefield less stressful.

However, if you directly attack the battleship without ignoring the escort fleet, with the thickness of the battleship's shield and armor, even more than 2,000 space fighters will not be able to destroy it for a while and a half, and at this stage, not only will the attack of the escort fleet cause a lot of damage and losses to the aircraft group, but the enemy will also calmly transfer warships from the front to support.

But if you attack the convoy with all your strength first, you can sink the frigate in a short time with the firepower of the air group.

At this time, the battleship became a lonely man, and it was inevitable that a large number of fleets would be transferred from the front line to escort it, and at this time, not only the pressure on the front line plummeted, but the battleships on this side were also the turtles in the urn.

It is not so easy to transfer the fleet over in a melee, the front line is not advantageous in the first place, once the battleship cannot be supported by the main guns, and a part of the fleet is withdrawn to leave, the front line will immediately collapse, resulting in the collapse of the whole line.

That's what he thinks, and that's how he implements it.

As soon as the talent was opened, the firepower of the group instantly skyrocketed by 50%, coupled with the increase in hits, the effective firepower almost doubled directly, and all 40 frigates were destroyed by dense space fighters in less than five minutes.

Li Qing, who was on the frontal battlefield, immediately felt the weakening of the enemy's offensive, and then saw that part of the fleet was fighting and retreating, and the other part of the fleet, which was obviously cannon fodder, was pulling away to expand the depth of the battle.

He immediately contacted Li Lie, and soon learned of the results of the battle over there, and immediately ordered:

"Everybody has it, bite them to death."

At the same time, he said to Li Qi:

"You take destroyers No. 6, No. 7, No. 8, No. 11, No. 14 to 19 and frigates No. 144 to 194 semi-out of the battlefield, and if the main enemy forces retreat, immediately follow up and intercept."

At this point, Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief, unless there was a fleet to support from other battlefields, otherwise this battle was stable.

He counted the losses, and in less than half an hour of fighting, his side lost a total of 11 destroyers and 31 frigates, and the losses were very large, with 1 cruiser, 5 destroyers, and 18 frigates seriously damaged.

It can be expected that the enemy will lose some warships in his dying struggle and dying counterattack later, and the total losses are estimated to exceed 10 billion.

But as long as you can win, the post-war harvest will definitely be extremely rich, and you will definitely be able to make up for all the losses and still have to earn.

Four minutes later, as he expected, a part of the enemy fleet began to withdraw, and Li Qi, who had prepared earlier, immediately led the fleet out of the battlefield and followed up with the interception at a faster speed.

When this side could not get out, more than 2,000 deep-space ghost fighters on the other side attacked the battleship wildly, and the huge battleship had no power to fight back, so it had to start withdrawing to the battlefield on the other side.

The firepower of the battleship is extremely fierce, but all of them are L large weapon slots and G missile slots, this kind of high-power weapon is good to hit the battleship, it is impossible to hit the small, super-fast and agile space fighter.

It is equivalent to a Tyrannosaurus rex in the face of a group of blood-sucking mosquitoes, and generally has no way but to be beaten passively.

As soon as the battleships withdrew, the remaining enemy ships already had a tendency to lose because of the retreat, which would be even more demoralized, and with the sudden withdrawal of several frigates, it would lead to an even greater rout, and a complete rout in an instant.

Li Qing restrained his fleet to pursue for a distance and then retreated to clean up the battlefield, harvesting more than a dozen weapon blueprints, 3 frigate blueprints and 1 destroyer blueprint.

The loot on the regular battlefield is higher than that of wild monsters in terms of explosion rate and quality, after all, the battlefield is so risky, how can the rewards not be generous.