Chapter 750: The King of the Pit
Although it was not possible to launch a counterattack on the Iron Battlestar at the first time, .
A wave of faster-than-light attacks from the Iron Battlestar is only a thousand ways, and one round of attacks can be carried out in five minutes, which seems to be a lot of attack strength, but if you want to hit an Earth battleship in the vast space, this chance is still extremely slim.
Although the Earth Fleet is only about three days away from Hangcheng of the Iron Battlestar at this time, you must know that the Earth Fleet maintains a speed of ten times the speed of light, and the distance between the Iron Battlestar and the Earth Fleet is a long distance of nearly 0.1 light years, even if the superluminal cannon of the Steel Battlestar has a transmission speed of a thousand times the speed of light, it will take half an hour to reach the location of the Earth Battleship.
For such a long time, the Earth Fleet has long been in the vast space, and it has long been unknown how many formations have changed, and the specific location of each Earth warship has changed extremely dramatically, and the superluminal cannon attack of the Iron Battlestar, if it were not for the extremely forward-looking calculation in advance and the selection of some of the most likely attack routes, the first wave of this thousand rounds of attack, it is very likely that there is no possibility of even a hit.
And if all of the Iron Battlestar's 1,000 faster-than-light attacks were dodged by the Earth fleet, then the next one would definitely be a large number of warships that rebelled against the Alliance.
In order not to accidentally injure the alliance's own warships, seriously dampen the feelings of allies, and dampen the will to fight of the personnel of their own fleet, Iron Battlestar also had to try to deal with the aftermath, after all, the enemy's attack, no matter how big the loss is, can be carried over, but the attack from behind the back of the own camp and allies, if a large number of warships and personnel are damaged, then whether the fleet soldiers who resist the alliance can accept it is a difficult thing to say.
In particular, the superluminal cannon attack of the Iron Battlestar is constantly bombarding indiscriminately at a frequency of five minutes and waves, and I am afraid that most of them are difficult to form lethality, and they must all be poured into the defense line of the resistance alliance fleet, if the problem of accidental injury cannot be solved, then the resistance alliance fleet is really in dire straits, while bearing the attack of the Earth fleet, and on the other hand, it has to bear the devastating blow from the steel battlestar in the rear, and the effect is really miserable!
Iron Battlestar's solution is to adjust the reasonable avoidance route of the Resistance Alliance fleet after the Earth Fleet has avoided the corresponding attack path, and let them continue to maintain their navigation trajectory if they do not involve the attack path, but the ships that overlap with the attack path of the Iron Battlestar's faster-than-light cannon at the corresponding time and place must change their trajectory in advance to avoid accidental injury.
Of course, the huge amount of computing involved in this will undoubtedly consume a lot of energy supply and computing power of the Iron Battlestar, which is undoubtedly a big burden for the Iron Battlestar.
But even if it's a burden, Iron Battlestar must bear it, because it's not just the Resistance Alliance that needs it as a backer, but it also needs the Resistance Alliance's allies to provide support in all aspects and maintain the relationship between the two sides, which is in the mutual interest of both sides.
Iron Battlestar uses the Rebel Alliance's fleet as a shield, As a shield, this is one thing, this is what the Resistance Alliance agrees to, and it is also the obligation that the Resistance Alliance needs to undertake as an ally, no matter how much the War Leader loses, he can't say a word, but the Iron Battlestar tilts a lot of firepower in the rear, if it can't make the Resist Alliance's fleet avoid damage as much as possible, resulting in the serious consequences of sticking a knife in the back, the foundation of the alliance between the two parties will inevitably be shaken, which is something that the Iron Battlestar is difficult to accept and must try to avoid.
And this kind of faster-than-light attack "stray bullet" problem, is not all bad for the Iron Battlestar, at least after the Iron Battlestar dodges the corresponding stray bullet trajectory, these faster-than-light attacks will also land on the head of the Earth fleet a hundred light-years away from the Iron Battlestar, even if only a part of these stray bullets will affect this fleet, but once the Earth Fleet is slightly insufficient, it will undoubtedly cause considerable losses.
After all, one wave every five minutes, a thousand faster-than-light attacks, this is definitely not a small problem that can be ignored, even if there is only one thousandth of the attack effectiveness, it will cause great losses to the Earth fleet.
However, these are relatively lagging problems, and they will not really have an effect until the first wave of Iron Battlestar attacks crosses the position of the Earth Fleet.
For the Earth Fleet, which has approached less than three days away from the Iron Battlestar, even how to deal with and dodge the Iron Battlestar's five-minute wave of counterattack is a relatively secondary problem, and the most important problem facing the Earth Fleet now is which direction to choose for the Iron Battlestar's powerful counterattack.
At present, the main area of firepower poured by the Earth Fleet lies in the hole in the defense window of the Iron Battlestar that was broken before, in this leakage area, the sub-light spaceships that the Iron Battlestar relies on as a shield have been destroyed by the Earth Fleet, except for spending part of its firepower on sniping at the more and more sub-light ships that are trying to fill the position, the remaining firepower of the Earth Fleet is all poured into the core area of this defensive hole.
Each wave of tens of thousands of faster-than-light attacks was concentrated by the Earth fleet on a certain target position on the surface of the Iron Battlestar, although the constant rotation of the Iron Battlestar made this target position more and more off-center, and it would eventually be obscured by the sub-light speed spaceship that filled the position.
However, the Earth Fleet still caused a lot of damage on the Steel Battlestar through a large amount of firepower, compared to the small potholes in the ordinary area with a diameter of 100 meters and a depth of tens of meters, the target position of this refocused fire attack by the Earth Fleet has a damage range of thousands of meters in diameter, and the core damage depth has reached a depth of thousands of meters.
In the deepest part of this super-large fire-gathering fire-gathering damage, even after the devastating damage of the devastating superluminal space-time wave, all the alloy decks have been completely destroyed to the state of particles, and it stands to reason that the injured area should be smooth as a mirror-like shape, but even if it is just scorched by the after-temperature of the attack, in the interval between the superluminal attack waves, in the depths of this large crater, there is still a pool of molten alloy magma, and the crimson flowing metal magma makes this fire-gathering crater seem to be hit by a meteorite, a volcanic crater that runs through the earth's core.
This kind of achievement can be called the largest damage caused to the Iron Battlestar in the history of the Earth Fleet, and among other small pits, this large pit is really clear, clear, and eye-catching, and deserves the reputation of the king of the pits.
It should be said that the effect of this combat plan adopted by the Earth Fleet before is quite obvious, and it cannot be said that it is not without results.
But the Earth Fleet has to face up to the fact that even such a huge wound is actually nothing to the Iron Battlestar, and the outermost alloy deck has a thickness of twenty kilometers, which is only a cone wound at a depth of one kilometer, and it is really not even a flesh wound for the Iron Battlestar.
And in exchange for this trivial damage, the Earth Fleet paid for all the attack power, and those sub-light ships that were destroyed incidentally were not regarded as the results of the battle by the Earth Fleet at all, because these things were too low-end and too cheap, and there was no point in destroying them.
Realistically speaking, instead of digging such a big pit, it is better to destroy a superlight cannon, at least that thing Steel Battlestar does not have the ability to produce on its own, knock out one less door, but this super pit, don't look at the big one, wait until the Steel Battlestar turns back to make time, use a large number of maintenance robots to repair, and it will be repaired in less than a day, it is nothing more than consuming materials and energy, it is not a matter at all.
It was not that the Earth Fleet did not want to choose a more efficient and effective attack plan.
It is entirely because the Iron Battlestar has adopted a complete shrinking tactic, and all the important facilities on the alloy armor layer on the surface of the Iron Battlestar have been shrunk deep underground in the armor layer.
The excitation and release devices of the defensive cover, the external radar probes, and the superluminal cannon facilities, the Iron Battlestar were all hidden before, leaving the Earth Fleet with no standard attack only this bare alloy armor layer, and the Earth Fleet had no choice but to shovel the ground in vain in the face of this situation.
Now, as the Iron Battlestar begins to counterattack, a new combat target has appeared in front of the Earth fleet, and that is those over-the-top superluminal guns!
If Iron Battlestar does not immediately retract these faster-than-light cannons back into the depths of the alloy armor layer after completing an attack, then once the attack on the corresponding area is launched, it will undoubtedly achieve extraordinary results, causing a large number of superluminal cannon damage to Iron Battlestar.
After all, now the steel battle star has not activated the defense function of the multi-layer energy shield, although the surface of those superlight guns has a layer of sub-light speed spaceship cover, a large number of sub-light speed ships have begun to surround the superlight speed guns, forming a thick meat shield defense circle, but the defense power of the hull of these sub-light spaceships is still relatively limited after all, and the earth fleet will definitely launch a surprise attack, as long as it gathers enough attack strength, it can still destroy this layer of defense, thus causing serious damage to the intended target.
However, the number of Earth ships approaching the Iron Battlestar is limited, and the number of attacks that can be launched in one wave is limited, and if you attack those faster-than-light gun targets, it will inevitably seriously affect the previous attack targets, and even lose the opportunity to continue to attack the "King of the Pit".
After all, being able to dig a thousand-meter-deep pit on the Iron Battlestar, to be honest, is also quite difficult, and the opportunity is quite rare.
And the reason why the Earth Fleet dug a deep pit in this position is actually not without consideration.
The Earth Fleet and the Iron Battlestar also had a confrontation before, and accumulated a large amount of relevant information about the Iron Battlestar, and the Earth Fleet also had a certain understanding of the details of the Iron Battlestar.
The king of the excavation pit this time, the coordinates selected are an important node found by the earth civilization in the previous battle with the Iron Battle Star, and it is suspected that the deep area of this location may hide some important internal facilities of the Iron Battle Star, and when attacking here before, a large number of complex structures were found, some pipeline facilities that have been destroyed, etc., it can be seen that the results are not just as simple as digging a big pit, if you continue to dig deep, it may not be impossible to achieve major results and breakthroughs, and bring major damage to the Steel Battle Starใ
Of course, this major achievement must also be significantly limited, because within the thickness of the armor layer on the surface of the Iron Battlestar, no matter how important any target is, it is not important after all, and it cannot really do any substantial damage to the Iron Battlestar.
The problem is that this is also a potential target after all, and once you choose to attack a new target, this achievement will be largely nullified, and if you want to recover it, you need to pay a huge cost of time and firepower.
After the analysis of the Earth Fleet, if you attack every superluminal cannon target of the Iron Battlestar, if you want to achieve the effect of destroying with one blow, the Earth Fleet must carry out a hundred rounds of superluminal attack on each target.
The Earth Fleet has a total of less than 50,000 rounds of attack firepower, and the allocation of targets to the superluminal cannon is not enough to concentrate all the targets that have been exposed. To obtain the data, it is best for the Earth Fleet to pour all its firepower on the new target, so that the original results will naturally be in vain, and the Iron Battlestar will definitely take the opportunity to mobilize the sub-light speed ship to refill the previously exposed area.
Faced with the choice of a new attack direction, the Earth Fleet quickly recharged the naval guns, and at the same time conducted urgent discussions, and finally reached a unanimous conclusion before the end of the naval artillery charging, that is, to abandon the original target and choose the faster-than-light gun as a new target for attack.
The reason for choosing this offensive direction is very clear for the Earth Fleet, because the original goal is really too small in potential, and it is difficult to say whether it can achieve effective results.
Even if this big pit continues to be dug and really destroys some of the important facilities of the Iron Battlestar, it is still a big question whether these facilities are irreparable.