Chapter 19: The Tigris at Sunset

Shortly after the Tumen Star Task Force completed the deployment of Commander Alexander, the glowing plants of the Sunset Mountains lit up with a faint glow, and the ocean shimmered faintly blue, like a vast galaxy falling in it.

The 4th and 5th squadrons had already left the base and scattered into the reckless deep forest. At this time, on the top of the naval base in the Sunset Mountains, the hangar door hidden under camouflage made a dull sound, only to see that in the slowly opening hangar, a huge battleship slowly rose, the whole body is black, the hull is flat from a distance, and it is nearly 15 meters high at a close look, the upper part is provided with a take-off and landing platform, as well as the carrier-based hangar hatch, eight secondary guns are located at both ends of the head and tail, four main guns are located on both sides of the upper hull, and the two sides of the hull are densely covered with various small and medium-sized naval guns. The bridge is located at the bow of the ship, with a full crew of 500 people and a capacity of 60 aircraft.

At dusk in the Sunset Mountains, under the orange-red sunset, it entered between the second and third squadrons, which had long been in the air and were on standby, and completed the formation.

It is the flagship of the task force, the United Empire of Mankind Navy's Winter-class light sail, the Tigris.

At this time, the Sunset Mountain Naval Base only retained a dozen or so personnel left behind, and all equipment was shut down, and the whole base entered a state of silent standby.

On the Tigris, Alexander, dressed in a combat flight suit, issued a combat mission to the entire fleet from the captain's command position, that is, to launch an all-out attack on the advance force of the Tuckers, who were eyeing the atmosphere with all their might, and if possible, to completely destroy the enemy at all costs before the main force arrived. The Tigris formation at this time consisted of about fifty warships in total, which was on par with the enemy.

I wanted to introduce the Tuckers into the atmosphere to fight, but the enemy was surprisingly calm, although the two squadrons were waiting at high altitude for a long time, the enemy was still not lured, which cast a layer of gray in Alexander's heart, it seems that the intelligence level of the Tuckers is not below that of humans.

The formation flew out of the atmosphere in the setting sun, and the glowing flora and fauna of the Tumen star flickered incessantly.

......

Soon, the Tuckers made a move, and their ship released a dense mass of crimson flesh with two small wings, covering the airspace in front of the entire fleet, like a barrier.

The Tigris instantly captured this anomaly, and in the fleet command room of the flagship bridge, Alexander looked at the strange gadgets in the picture, and his scalp was numb. Everyone is speculating about what these things do.

"Is it a drone similar to ours?" Vice Admiral Green, deputy commander of the task force and vice-captain of the flagship, guessed with his chin rubbed.

"But it looks like it's alive! The ball of flesh was wriggling. Chief of Staff Sergei magnified the two-winged ball of flesh in the picture, and everyone could clearly see that the ball of flesh that looked like biological tissue was constantly wriggling, and there was a blood-red viscous secretion on the surface. Looks disgusting.

"Can you scan it?" Alexander asked.

"Tried, the scan results are conflicting, this unknown object has no signs of mechanical modification, but it is indeed under the control of the Tuckers, as we can see, the analysis of the biological scanning system is that it may be an unknown species, similar to the characteristics of bee colony organization." Chief of Staff Sergei said with a headache that it is really a bit tricky for the unknown.

"Order the squadrons, prepare for battle!" Alexander is no longer entangled, today he has made up his mind to fight against the odds, where else can he care so much.

As a result, the entire formation began to switch to an attack posture, and the fire control of all ships was locked on standby.

At this time, the combat computer of the flagship Tigris emitted a piercing alarm!

Everyone was shocked, hurriedly checked, and found that the shipboard combat computer was being hacked!

"Quick, turn off the combat computer, the whole ship will be transferred to manual mode, and all gun positions will be immediately transferred to manual control!" Before Alexander could speak, the perceptive Chief of Staff Sergei shouted hoarsely.

"Yes!" The officers in the war room urgently cut off the combat computers of the whole ship, and the mechanical emergency activated the manual control mode.

Alexander entered the captain's authorization key on the main console, and the whole ship quickly began manual control, and in the driver's seat, several pilots who had just taken place were urgently debugging various parameters and instruments.

After a slight shaking, the ship's attitude gradually stabilized.

"Can we counter the enemy?" Alexander turned his head to look at the computer engineer in the war room.

"There's nothing we can do, the enemy's ships are biologically modified, and we don't know anything about how they control the ships." The sweaty engineer shook his head helplessly in reply.

Hearing this, Alexander's hammer-like fist slammed down on the console, and the feeling of powerlessness made him angry.

"Commander, we are about to fly out of the atmosphere, are we the first to fire?" Deputy Commander Green asked.

"Be the first to fire! The fleet was ordered not to scatter and concentrate fire to penetrate the enemy. The carrier-based aircraft group can prepare for battle! Alexander quickly regained his mood and replied calmly.

Deputy Commander Green gave orders to the ships.

Soon, the flagship Tigris, which was the first to sail out of the atmosphere, opened fire directly, and the four main guns and eight secondary guns roared at the same time, and the energy cannon and live ammunition cannon mercilessly poured towards the densely suspended small ball of meat.

The rest of the ships followed suit, firing one after another.

Just as the task force fired, the little balls of flesh released by the Tuckers began to move, raining down on the human fleet. It's like a big net, trying to wrap up the fleet.

The second squadron on the left flank of the formation, which discovered the situation, quickly reacted, and the whole squadron broke away from the formation and broke through to the flanks to prevent the fleet from being trapped.

The flagship also noticed this situation, and those small things moving at high speed were even faster than their fighters, so they quickly turned on the anti-aircraft fire of the whole ship, and ordered all the carrier-based aircraft to take off to meet the battle.

At this time, Alexander seemed to sense that something was wrong, he frowned and looked at the real-time picture outside, and some of the wriggling meat balls seemed to be getting bigger! It's a subtle change, but it's been keenly captured by Alexander.