Chapter 69: Catching Fire
The remaining forces left in the center of the orbital defense system and the planetary weapon platform of the Skycurtain Empire are nothing at all, although those combat robots are cut off the net and Jelly cannot be directly controlled, but in the face of the empty team Zero and the Eight Divisions, that little power is not enough at all.
After two hours of fighting, the orbital defense system and the planetary weapon platform have completely fallen under the control of the revolutionary army, and Jelly will connect herself into the control core of these two systems, although then she will not be able to participate in the next battle of Xiao Ming.
But Xiao Ming's strength has reached this point, and Jelly is no longer of much help to him in terms of pure combat effectiveness, but with the continuous evolution of Jelly, her tactical and strategic abilities have skyrocketed.
In fact, that's where jelly is really powerful.
"The enemy has entered the Witch Star Domain, and the reconnaissance fleet has discovered space distortion!" Jelly has completely replaced the central light brain of the Witch Star, not only controlling the orbital defense system and planetary weapon platform, but also the Skynet of the entire Witch Star System has been completely taken over by her.
With Jelly's ability, she has at least increased the ability of the entire Witch Starlight Brain System by more than three times, and this is still in the absence of external terminal resources that are 100% suitable for her.
In Jelly's own words, if she is given a month to transform, she can increase this stat to 700%. Even if Qiandapo heard this data, it was a shock.
The Darkmoon had stopped at the Witch Star's planetary weapons platform, and the two were simply connected to form a single unit. This increases the effectiveness of the planetary weapon platform by 80%.
Of course, there is also a weakness, that is, the Darkmoon, which is much larger than the planetary weapon platform, is a good target when it is completely immobile.
In order to cope with such a situation. Jelly dug up all the starships and space fighters of the entire Witch Star. Even those land-based models have all been transformed. These things are tasked with protecting the Darkmoon and planetary weapon platforms.
Strictly speaking, the defense of the Witch Star is seriously insufficient, and no matter how powerful the mothership and planetary weapon platform are, without the cooperation of a sufficient number of fleets, it is not an opponent of a large-scale fleet.
The loss of the Witch Star in the Sky Empire is equivalent to losing its foundation, and the other two star fields are not suitable for being a base camp at all, not to mention, once the revolutionary army has gained a foothold in the Witch Star, it can be allied with the Academy. The alliance of the Principality of Xiyao will come together with the outside world, and even if the Tianmu Empire pulls the gang of bandits in the Central Star Domain into its chariot, it can only be a tragic result.
Therefore, for the Witch Star, unless the Skydome Empire has a new foothold, they must take it back. Now the coalition forces are also marching in to support, but their speed is definitely not as fast as the Skydome Empire, so the Witch Star must block the Skydome Empire's attack before the reinforcements arrive.
And for the revolutionary army on the Witch planet, the only thing they can rely on is the orbital defense system and the planetary weapon platform. There is also a certain degree of slingering in the Skydome Empire - as long as the Skydome Empire still wants the Witch Star, it is impossible to use a devastating planetary weapon.
on the Darkmoon.
"I always feel that something is wrong!" Tifa looked worriedly at the holographic map in front of him. This is a map of the entire Witch Galaxy.
The Witch Galaxy, with a pair of twin stars, sixteen companion planets, and two asteroid belts, occupies an eight-light-year galaxy that is actually quite young.
It is extremely rare for galaxies with twin stars to coexist peacefully, as the gravitational distortion produced by most twin stars tears all the planets within their gravitational range to pieces. It is not until the twin stars are divided and one is swallowed or torn apart by the other that there will be a real companion planet.
But the Witch Galaxy is special, and the twin stars of this galaxy are like real Gemini, and their gravitational pull reaches a delicate equilibrium, forming a gravitational field as stable as a single star system.
At this time, on the bridge of the Dark Moon, in the huge map projected, red dots representing enemies appeared on the outer edge of the galaxy one after another.
Tifa pointed to the map and said, "These fleets are not in the right place. None of that is a hop point. The other party does not seem to have come by a jump, but directly from outside the galaxy. ”
"What's wrong?" asked Irty, puzzled.
Tifa explained, "If I were a high-ranking member of the Skydome Empire, I would be in a hurry to reclaim the Witch Star at this time. Then all actions will be carried out in the fastest way while ensuring efficiency. One of the largest hops in the Witch Galaxy is here, XF357. It's only three light-years away from Witch Star, and you can do your first Concentrated Fire Strike after the Leap. ”
"But the other party didn't choose this one place! Why is that?" said Tifa, puzzled.
"Because they know that we control the planetary weapon platform, and they are afraid that they will be beaten as soon as they appear!" said Ilti of course.
It was an absolute tragedy to be hit by a planetary weapon platform just after the Migration. Even if there are only two planetary platforms on Witch Star, they are all A-level (8 million to 12 million energy levels are A-level platforms, and 15 million to 30 million are S-class platforms) platforms.
"No way, look here!" Tifa gestured to one of the points of light, which quickly zoomed in and expanded into a holographic scan.
"Oh, the Eternal-class space defense ship. What a big deal!" Zhuge whistled every day.
The Eternal-class space defense ship, a large starship designed for stability and defense, is capable of parsing and simulating the brood nest of the swarm, specifically for those who are hit by the concentrated fire of a planetary weapon platform after a space jump.
"The Eternity-class space defense ship is a new product, there are not many Xiyao Principalities, and the Skycurtain Empire has only been compiling three of them, and now there are two of them here, which shows that the Skycanopy Empire attaches great importance to this attack, but this makes people even more confused, why don't they move here?"
"Then I can only ask the people of the Skydome Empire!" Ilti shrugged.
The idea of the violent woman is very simple, the enemy is coming and fighting. The strategic direction is insulated from the Violent Woman.
"Previously, we deduced that the Sky Curtain Empire was controlled by the swarm through the hands of Luo Tang, but now it seems that something is wrong. Will Rodtang cooperate with the Society? and the Skydome Empire and the Association are in this series of processes. Although it can't be said that it was a mistake. But there is definitely no such thing as Rodtang's smoothness. A flawless style!" Feng Daopei muttered.
"In other words, either the other party has made another stupid move, or it is a huge trap!" Zhuge Tian concluded.
"Looks like we need to be more careful!" said Gandharpo with a nod.
At this time, the skynet of the entire galaxy was already in full swing, and the scene at the edge of the galaxy was projected onto the bridge holographic system of the Dark Moon.
What appeared before the eyes was an iron-gray chaos: the edge of the Witch Galaxy was filled with aerosol-like clouds of heavy metals and unstable compounds in many places.
These clouds are neighbors of the Witch Galaxy, the smallest being several light-years in size, and the largest covering almost half of the southwest sector.
Because of their composition, these clouds all have an odd iron-gray color, like a haze with a lot of metal.
In the midst of these iron-gray clouds. A huge fleet painted in fuchsia is like a steel beast on patrol, and they are so numerous that there are currently more than six armies.
"My God, has the Sky Curtain Empire transferred all the troops on the front line back?" Looking at the huge formation formed by hundreds of motherships and thousands of large capital ships, Zhuge Tian was dumbfounded.
The speed of these fleets is not fast (relative to space parameters, but in fact it is more than a few tens of hertz), because they are adjusting their attack formations.
"These fleets have come from another hop point, and it's not far from the outer edge of the Witch Galaxy. Strange, is there such a large hop near the Witch Galaxy?"
"Didn't they work with the bugs? maybe the bugs' mother nest opened the way?" said Irti in amazement.
Everyone looked at her in amazement.
"How. What's wrong? What did I say wrong?" Ilti was looked at by everyone, a little weak. She also knew that her brain was not good at thinking about this kind of problem.
"My dear senior sister, you are really genius. Gu Qiusha sighed.
Gandhara also nodded a little excitedly: "If that's the case, then it's indeed possible." And I can think of where the other Eternity-class space defense ship is!"
Indeed, it seems that this is the purpose of the other party. Feng Daopei said in a deep voice: "Attract our attention with frontal troops, and then use surprise troops to raid in places we don't expect!"
Speaking of this, he smiled bitterly again: "It's a pity, our current troops, even if we know this, we can't do anything!"
"At present, we can only see walking!" "Gandharpo was also helpless. No matter how powerful the commander is, without troops in his hands, he can only watch the enemy stare dryly. As far as this little remnant of the fleet on the Witch Star is not enough for defense, don't expect to be able to divide troops to defend against surprise troops.
The only hope for the revolutionary army now is to hold on until the reinforcements arrive. Optimistically, it will take at least 10 hours for the support troops to enter without any hindrance at all. And because the other party will directly participate in the battle, it is impossible to move in, but will enter from the outer edge like the current Skydome Empire fleet, so this time will be longer at any time due to the obstruction of the Skydome Fleet.
As he spoke, the fleet of the Sky Canopy Empire had already encountered the first defenses of the Witch Galaxy—it was an airspace mine, and when not activated, these things were exactly the same as all the wandering objects in the galaxy, it could be an asteroid fragment, it could be some kind of space junk.
These things can be found at every angle of the galaxy, and even the safe passage can see these guys. Because if they are not activated, these things are like truly harmless asteroid debris and space junk, and even holographic scanning can barely be completely distinguished.
So in the defense network of almost any galaxy, the first line of defense is these little things.
It's no fun to deal with medium and large starships, but against assault ships with thin skin and little blood, as well as fighters, it will be killed. In particular, these little things can't be distinguished at all when they are not activated, but after they are activated, they can be killed from any unexpected angle at any time.
Under normal circumstances, the fleet will carry out an early fire attack when attacking a galaxy to clear the suspicious objects in the channel, and the Skycover Fleet does the same, but it is impossible to completely clean up this method, so there are still many assault ships and space fighters that have been blown into space slag.
There are too many of these deadly airspace mines, far beyond the normal constants.
And the irony is that these airspace mines were laid out by the Skydome Empire itself.
"Reading the main energy reaction, the other party is ready to set fire to the planetary weapon platform!" Jelly sent an alarm to interrupt the conversation between Ming and the others about the speculation of the Skylight Empire's actions, and the red light on the bridge flashed for a moment, and it entered a combat state.
The large shield of the planetary weapon platform has been opened, and the Darkmoon seems to be motionless, but in fact, its shield was opened earlier, but this Titan starship, which has been changed beyond recognition by Jelly with the black technology of the Golden Empire, if the opposing fleet dares not to concentrate fire, it will dare to take on three armies alone.
"The other party is attacking!" Tifa stared.
The first concentrated fire arrived, but at this time, the distance between the two sides was about seven .6 light years, and even the attack of the planetary weapon platform would have a great decay, not to mention the starship's main gun. However, this does not affect anything, and the other party's fire still has a lot of effects.
One is to clear the airspace mines on the fairway, the other is to test the defense system of the witch star, and the last one is a kind of psychological oppression.
With the other party's concentrated fire, among the countless lights, there are still small black dots rushing out, these are assault ships and space fighters, they have ultra-short-range transition engines, under the guidance of the mother ship's autonomous transition engine, they can directly jump to a distance of forty astronomical units from the witch star.
This distance is called melee combat in space warfare.
The mission of these assault ships and space fighters is to disrupt the rhythm of the defense of the Witch Star Revolutionary Army and provide assistance for the concentrated fire attack of the main fleet behind.
"It seems that the other party has decided that our fleet can't take the initiative to attack, and plans to gather fire all the way to push it over!"
"We're not without the power to react!" Jelly snorted proudly, "The planetary weapon platform is ready to be in place, and all of the Darkmoon's main guns are ready to be in place." Let's say hello to the vanguard of the opposing side first!"
Just as the assault fleet and space fighters on the Skydome side ended their ultra-short jump, the planetary weapon platform and the Darkmoon fired simultaneously. The timing is exquisite, as if the two sides have rehearsed countless times.
Jelly's ability to fight against the sky is fully demonstrated at this moment, and only a super light brain like her can calculate the time and coordinates of the other party's migration in an instant.
At the beginning of the design, the planetary weapon platform was designed to fight large starships, and even to fight planets. Even if it is a B-class planetary weapon platform, the smallest caliber heavy proton cannon loaded on it can tear a large starship without a shield into cosmic particles with a single shot.
Everyone knows that in the face of planetary weapon platforms, without a strategic-level shield system, then there is no need to think about resistance at all.
Of course, the weakness of the planetary weapon platform is also obvious, that is, the launch speed is not fast, and the weapons carried by the entire platform are added together, and after firing one by one, the first energy cannon fired is estimated to have not completely cooled down.
The planetary weapon platform itself is designed to be a strategic weapon, which requires a large number of fleets to work together.
This time, there is only one division of the fleet on the side of the revolutionary army, and they are all near-field models (the design target is the type of the planetary defense system, whose combat range is less than a hundred astronomical units), and in the face of such a half-crippled fleet, the Tianmu side seems to have absolute confidence.
But their first attack, they were slapped in the face by jelly.
The assault ships of the two regiments and a thousand space fighters were named by the only two B-class planetary weapon platforms on the Witch Star and the Dark Moon like a space monster when they had just finished their leap and before they had time to exert their might.
If one does not fall, the whole army will be destroyed.
Jelly uses the BUG's computing power and control ability, and a wave of attacks annihilates the opponent's vanguard, and the scene is as if the opponent is sincerely cooperating.
"Well done, jelly!" Pierce couldn't help but cheer loudly. (To be continued.) )