Chapter 764: Terror Range
In the face of this tragic casualty, the entire Earth fleet was shocked by this wave of powerful attacks from the Iron Battlestar!
In just this wave of attacks, the Earth Fleet has completely lost dozens of warships, and the number of warships that have suffered a certain amount of damage is even hundreds! You must know that the frequency of the Iron Battlestar's faster-than-light cannon attack is very fast, and a wave of attacks can be completed in five minutes, and if the Iron Battlestar's attack is still so sharp and the hit rate is still so high, then I am afraid that when the Earth Fleet completes the cooling work of the space-time jump engine and can gradually start to evacuate, the entire Earth Fleet will not have many troops left.
At that time, the Earth Fleet wants to have a containment effect on the Iron Battlestar to a certain extent, and it will be completely bankrupt.
It must be known that although the earth civilization has basically completed the defense arrangement of several directly subordinate star fields at the forefront now, and is confident that even under the attack of the Iron Battle Star, it can still ensure the basic safety of these forward defense lines, but for the time being, the Earth civilization still only has defensive power, and does not have enough troops to strike a sufficient blow against the Iron War Star and the Resistance Alliance.
Therefore, now the earth civilization still needs this earth fleet located in the star field of the resistance alliance, which will have a restraining effect on the steel battle star to a certain extent.
As long as it can hold the hind legs of the Iron Battlestar, so that the Iron Battlestar cannot unscrupulously launch a large-scale attack on the starfield directly under the Earth civilization, ensure the integrity of the starfield directly under the front line to the greatest extent, and ensure the safety and smoothness of the relevant wormhole channel, then wait for a while, and wait for a large number of combat fleets in the rear of the Earth's civilization to increase its troops in time, and then the Earth civilization will be able to launch a general attack on the Iron Warstar and the Star Domain of the Resistance Alliance.
Once the new main battle fleet of the Earth Civilization comes over, even if it is a strategic-level civilization heavy weapon like the Iron Battlestar, no longer think about being able to pose a subversive threat to the Earth Civilization.
Even if the main fleet of the earth civilization cannot effectively destroy the Iron Battlestar at that time, but to kill in the rear of the resistance alliance star field, completely subvert and destroy the most important logistics support base of the Iron Battlestar, so that the Iron Battlestar will no longer be able to use the deep foundation and rich resources of the local civilization to stir up the wind and rain in the meteorite star sea, which is still not a problem for the main fleet of the earth civilization.
You must know that the earth civilization has been crisscrossing the meteorite star sea for nearly a thousand years, it is not only the expansion of the territory, but also the growth of science and technology, which is also quite huge, and the achievements involve all aspects of the entire industrial system.
It's just that these new generation of main warships have been stationed in the rear native areas of the earth's civilization before, and they are still too far away from those remote star fields directly under the front line that exist all over the starry sky, and if you want to rush over and participate in the battle, even if you take a shortcut through the wormhole channel, it still takes a considerable amount of time.
When the earth civilization first learned a lot of news about the steel battle stars, these new generation of capital warships have always served as the main defense force in the rear of the earth civilization. Planet, in order to prevent the raid of the Iron Battlestar, has activated the combat readiness material depot to upgrade the security and defense system around it at the highest level, and these new generation of main warships, as the most powerful security force, it is impossible to transfer to the frontline area to participate in counterattack operations.
You must know that the large rear star field of the earth civilization, although it is not within the distance range of the first ultra-long-range space-time jump of the Iron Battlestar, but after the Iron Battlestar enters the Star Domain of the Resistance Alliance, the large rear area of these Earth civilizations will enter an extremely dangerous state for the first time, and the Iron Battlestar can immediately enter the rear of the Earth civilization with a long-range jump, and can launch an extremely dangerous surprise attack on a large area including the capital star field.
If the security and stability of these regions are shaken, then the loss of the earth's civilization really does not know how big it will be.
Even in order to ensure the development of these earth civilizations, a large number of military forces are trapped in the rear area of the earth civilization, and it is difficult to move a little.
It wasn't until later, as time passed, under the reckless investment of huge military resources, the security system of each star field in the rear of the earth's civilization was strengthened and forged little by little, and it was assessed that even under the ravages of the Iron Battlestar, it would not lead to the disaster of the fall of a large number of star fields, that these new-generation main warships were able to get out and were sent to the frontline area of the front line for the first time, ready to launch a counterattack against the Iron Battlestar and the Resistance Alliance.
The core combat forces of these earth civilizations have now spanned a long distance of thousands of light years through the transmission of wormhole passages, and there is only a little distance left from the frontline battlefield.
It's just that in order to achieve this, the most basic premise is that the Earth Fleet must be able to maintain the size of its fleet and be able to pose a huge threat to the Star Domain of the Resistance Alliance.
In this way, even if the Iron Battlestar chooses not to entangle with this fleet and directly launch an attack on the star field directly under the Earth civilization, as soon as the Iron Battlestar leaves a little, the Earth Fleet can rush into the Resistance Alliance and launch a strike on those important facilities and core areas.
If the Iron Battlestar does not want to resist the alliance and be dealt a devastating blow by the Earth Fleet, so that the production facilities in the most core star field are destroyed, then no matter how much success and breakthrough it has achieved in the battle between the front line and the star field directly under the Earth civilization, it will have to return to the Star Domain of the Resistance Alliance under the threat of this Earth Fleet, before the situation reaches the worst time.
Undertaking such an arduous task, it is conceivable what kind of security threat the Earth Fleet will face, and the Iron Battlestar regards it as a thorn in the flesh, which is simply normal, once the Earth Civilization Fleet shows such the ability to turn over the river and the sea, then the Iron Battlestar will inevitably use a hot hand again, only possible to weaken the size of the Earth Fleet to a minimum, so that the number of ships in the Earth Fleet can be reduced to a permissible range, and this is also something that the Earth Civilization Fleet tries to avoid.
It can be said that the size and number of ships of this earth fleet are the most critical factors directly related to whether its combat mission can be successfully achieved, so the previous earth civilization will try its best to draw out tens of thousands of space-time jump spaceships to supplement this fleet when the frontline combat power is the most tense.
At that time, the earth civilization did not fail to see the huge role and significance of this fleet, but the reason why a larger reinforcement was not carried out was that the front-line combat power was indeed too tight, and once the number of warships directly under a certain star field was too large, it was very likely to form a defensive hole.
On the other hand, it is also afraid that the number of reinforcements will be too large, which will cause the Iron Battlestar to be unable to tolerate it, so as to launch an attack on this Earth fleet in advance, and then clean up this fleet in advance, so that its later diversion effect cannot be maximized.
After all, for Iron Battlestar, it's not really that it can't destroy such an Earth fleet, and the core reason that affects its actions is only that the threat of this fleet is too great.
Once this fleet is too large and threatening to be destroyed by Iron Battlestar at any time and cost, there is no doubt that this fleet will be eliminated by Iron Battlestar in advance.
It is precisely because of these considerations that the Earth Civilization Fleet, an armed force that roams around the Star Domain of the Resistance Alliance, has been maintained at a scale of about 200,000 ships, in order to not only pose a threat to the Resistance Alliance, but also not to make the Iron Battlestar feel that the threat is excessive, so as to launch a clean-up operation against it in advance.
Previously, the Earth Fleet was still a little unimpressed by this view of the rear headquarters, thinking that such a fleet of theirs, scattered and free, a jump is a distance of three light years, and the mobility flexibility is super powerful, once it is scattered, even if the Iron Battlestar really wants to do it, it is impossible to have too much impact on them in a short period of time, and it is simply unimaginable to give them heavy casualties, or even annihilate them completely.
After all, it's not that the Earth Fleet hasn't fought with the Iron Battlestar, although the Iron Battlestar didn't reach the best combat state at that time, the Earth civilization still has a certain amount of experience in fighting with it, and it thinks that it already has a pretty in-depth understanding of the Iron Battlestar.
At that time, the Earth Fleet and the Iron Battlestar were fighting at close range of less than half a light-year, and the success rate of the Iron Battlestar was nothing more than that, and it was not really a generation gap with the Earth Fleet's superluminal cannon, and the lethality was so powerful that it was unstoppable.
Considering that once the distance is extended to three light years or even longer, the Iron Battlestar's strike intensity, accuracy, etc. will be seriously weakened, and the Earth Fleet believes that once they choose to disperse the battle, as long as they make a few jumps, the Iron Battlestar will not be able to affect them at all.
As long as the size of each detachment is moderate, and the size is as small as possible on the premise of being able to resist the resistance alliance's home fleet and various fortifications, the Iron Battlestar will definitely not waste time with them, and can only use them as Earth warships to fight guerrilla attacks everywhere.
However, now after really starting a battle with the Iron Battlestar that has returned to its best condition, the Earth Fleet has really discovered the strength of the Iron Battlestar, and only then has it realized that it really underestimated the strength of the Iron Battlestar before.
The Iron Battlestar is equipped with a super-large land-based tachyon cannon, and the scale and size of a superlight cannon are more than ten times larger than the superluminal weapons of the Earth fleet, which is not without reason!
Previously, the earth civilization and the steel battle star were at war, and the understanding of this faster-than-light weapon was that the rate of fire was super-fast, several times faster than the weapon attack frequency of the earth fleet, and the power was super huge.
It is said that there is such a performance, which is already quite remarkable in itself, but the civilization of the earth has not been clear, and this specification of faster-than-light weapons also has a huge advantage in the effective lethality range.
The approximate effective lethality range of the earth's civilization is actually only a little more than one light year, and if the distance exceeds one light year, the lethality will be exponentially attenuated, and at a distance of 1.5 light years, its lethality is no different from natural light, and there is almost no lethality at all.
According to the attack distance of the superlight cannon of the earth civilization, the effective killing distance of the superlight cannon of the Iron Battlestar should only be about 2.5 light years, which is also the effective killing radius of ordinary battlestar weapons in the records of the Canglan civilization, which is not enough to cause too much damage to the Earth fleet that completes a jump.
Even the Earth civilization has slightly increased its performance expectations, believing that at a distance of three light years, the artillery fire of the Iron Battlestar may still have a little lethality at all, but it should not be enough to pose much threat to the Earth Battleship.
However, now it seems that this perception is a complete underestimation of the Iron Battlestar! The effective killing range of the Iron Battlestar's faster-than-light cannon should be in the range of four to five light-years, and although the lethality has been attenuated at a distance of three light-years, it still has enough lethality for the Earth Battleship.
This means that the Earth Fleet, which has completed a time and space jump, is far from reaching the real safe area, and at least during the five-day cooldown period, the Earth Fleet still has a huge threat to life and death!
If the Iron Battlestar's terrifying range and ultra-long-range killing range are relatively acceptable, then the Iron Battlestar's shooting accuracy and hit rate are completely beyond the expectations of the Earth Fleet.
A single attack destroys dozens of warships, and the hit rate of the Iron Battlestar at a distance of half a light year is no more than that. Now the distance has been lengthened several times at once, and the attack delay effect has reached a daily level, according to normal rules, the attack hit rate of the Iron Battlestar is reduced to one-tenth of the original level, which is already considered to be the powerful combat power of the Iron Battlestar.
Now the hit rate has not decreased at all, this is simply a ghost, and the officers and soldiers on the earth battleship have expressed disbelief!