Chapter 570
Whether it is Major General Stoner or the crew of the 'Lighthouse' and the surrounding escort ships, it is clear at this moment that the enemy troops coming up from the bottom of the sky are aimed at The heavy cruiser 'Lighthouse' is here.
So the captain of this battleship that was conducting guidance operations did not hesitate to order all weapon units on the ship except for anti-aircraft firepower to be offline. All energy was supplied to the deflection field and induced signal transmitting device. superior.
And soon, the attack from the 'ATLAS Kai', with Amber's shooting timing control and Lilith's auxiliary correction, accurately hit the heavy cruiser.
The people inside the ship felt a violent turbulence coming from the surrounding space, which was the sound of the ship being hit!
Immediately afterwards, a few crew members in a certain internal passage of the ship who had not had time to fix themselves to the wall were knocked directly to the ceiling in the shock, and then fell to the floor by the reaction force.
At the same time, the ship's broadcast also sounded half a beat slower:
"The entire ship is preparing for impact. Repeat! The entire ship is preparing for impact."
"TMD, it's already been hit before we remind you, it's better not to remind us!"
A crew member who was thrown to the passage floor by the reaction force, and felt that his back was almost broken, said He complained, grabbing the gap at the same time, and holding on to the mobile handles on the bulkheads on both sides of the passage to assist movement in a gravity-free environment.
But before he could help his other companions, a further impact shook the ship's hull and caused an alarm inside the ship to sound.
The correspondent's ship-wide broadcast was also interrupted by the explosion sound transmitted from the outer armor of the ship. The impact was twice as strong as before, causing the bodies of these people to be ejected again.
"Loss confirmed! What the hell is the air surveillance doing! How come it was hit continuously? Didn't the surrounding air defense ships intercept it?"
On the bridge of the 'Lighthouse', The captain, whose seat belt was securely fastened to his seat, was lucky enough not to be thrown out in the violent vibrations, but the successive attacks still annoyed him.
“Don’t these people know what operations this ship is performing now?!”
"Report! It is suspected to be a super-long-distance sniper attack by a heavy particle cannon from an enemy assault unit!" The answer the intelligence officer roared quickly reached the captain's ears.
He quickly glanced at the ship status monitoring interface. Although the front section of the bottom deck of the ship was attacked just now, fortunately, the deflection field operating at maximum power and the thickened external laminated armor still worked. The effect, coupled with the opponent's sniping at a very long distance, caused the heavy particle cannon to scatter to a certain extent, so the continuous attacks did not cause much damage.
"Well, it's a good thing it wasn't a large battleship-level heavy particle cannon attack, otherwise we would have been turned into space garbage!"
The captain calmed down, he knew that even if this Several attacks did not cause much damage, but as the enemy raiding units approached, it was obvious that they could no longer use the bottom deck of the ship to attack them, so he quickly issued new orders.
"Helmsman, adjust the axis! Use the bow to meet the enemy!"
"Yes, Captain! Adjust the axis! Use the bow to meet the enemy!"
Hearing his order, the helmsman immediately repeated the order and at the same time set the composite steering system to the specified axis. On the ship, the bow of the 'Lighthouse' also quickly moved downward by nearly 90 degrees. The nearest escort ships around them also immediately started to move after discovering the 'Lighthouse''s movements.
The captain of the 'Lighthouse' knew that since the opponent's raiding unit was killing him without concealment, it meant that the opponent had realized the importance of the ship under his feet.
Although the captain couldn't figure out why the people of the Atlas Group realized the special nature of the 'Lighthouse' so quickly, this is no longer important now.
The important thing is how they can complete the guidance of the proton annihilation bomb after being exposed.
"Has the composite image come out? What kind of unit is attacking us?"
The captain asked loudly in the communication channel, and the intelligence officer, who was sweating profusely during this period, also quickly He opened his mouth and replied:
“The optical The image is out, but it’s very blurry! We’re trying to integrate it with the synthetic aperture radar image!”
“Let’s take a look first!”
Under the command of the captain, a composite image was The resulting picture was quickly projected onto a screen on the bridge.
Although the red object in the processed image is still a bit blurry, everyone on the bridge of the 'Lighthouse' can still vaguely recognize that it is a unit similar to a large HCP.
It just seems to have no legs
"Red. Large machine body?" The captain, who had come into contact with some information, suddenly realized something, and then immediately called out the ship of the 'Lighthouse' Control personality.
"Maya! Put the synthetic image into the feature database for identification and priority comparison with the units of the Atlas Group that have appeared before!"
"Recognition completed, feature coincidence degree 90%"
The Beacon's shipboard control personality completed the recognition almost instantly, and then projected the recognition results on the big screen.
Displayed side by side with the blurry image just captured is a photo of the ‘ATLAS’ super-heavy HCP taken through an unknown means.
Judging from the shooting time and other information next to the photo, the background should be during the Battle of A. Bawa Ku.
"No! He is the enemy's real 'ace'. Hurry! Mark him as a high-risk unit! Notify all nearby air defense ships to set fire to intercept! You must not let him break through!"
The captain of the 'Lighthouse' reacted quickly, but the Federation Navy, including him, still underestimated the speed of the 'ATLAS reform'.
When he just gave the order, the 'ATLAS modification' in the optical monitoring window was just a blurry bright spot in the distance, but just over ten seconds later, this blurry bright spot had turned into a red phantom.
Although all the carrier-based HCPs left behind on the nearby battleships have been dispatched and rushed forward to intercept, the heavy armored combat boats that have been following the wings of the 'ATLAS Kai' are not acting as atmosphere groups.
MA-01Bblock5, the fifth batch of products produced after the modification of Atlas Military's first heavy armored combat boat, has actually been significantly improved compared to the previous four batches.
The designers racked their brains to stuff a 25-meter twin heavy particle cannon into the 30-meter-long hull. When facing HCP, it has an absolute advantage in firepower.
Even if you do not use a plasma torpedo specifically designed for anti-ship, just using this twin heavy particle cannon can pose a threat to destroyers and even light cruisers at the right angle and timing.
So when two clusters of heavy armored combat boats strictly arranged in a box formation attacked the hundreds of HCPs coming to intercept and the warships behind them, the latter quickly suffered a big loss.
This kind of queuing and shooting style of play naturally seems to make the combat boats a target, but if the firepower of the combat boats has the upper hand, the situation will be completely different. .
The federal navy's interception HCP could not rush through the firepower zone formed by the salvos of combat boats, or in other words, they did not dare to rush at all.
And several newly added The new recruits may have reacted just half a beat slower than the veterans. As a result, the machine body was instantly beaten into a pile of incomprehensible wreckage by the dense rain of light.
Seeing this scene, the commanders who intercepted the HCP immediately shouted in the blue-green laser communication command link:
"Turn! Disperse! Get out of the opponent's forward fire range and try to go around from other directions. The combat axes of these combat boats are not adjusted so quickly!" It can be said that the HCP commander's judgment was not wrong. He knew it very well. The differences and advantages and disadvantages between HCP and heavy armored combat boats, so we decisively adopted a strategy of exploiting strengths and avoiding weaknesses.
Since HCP can’t compete with frontal firepower and defense, try to use HCP’s flexibility to create opportunities.
In close combat, HCP pilots generally maintain control of the follow-up control system. In this mode, the HCP maneuvers are extremely flexible. With the AMBAC maneuver bonus, the HCP pilots steer along the center of mass and adjust the directivity. The ability is even more terrifying.
So when a heavy armored combat boat is heading in one direction, pounding like a bulldozer, there is absolutely no problem in taking advantage of the flexibility of HCP in tactical maneuverability.
But the problem is that this HCP ignored two issues.
1. These heavy armored combat boats do not only have twin heavy particle cannons.
2. The combat boat cluster moved forward not to attack the fleet, but to cover the advancement of a more critical unit. They wished that the attention of the surrounding intercepting forces would be attracted to them
"Boss! The large force can only send you here! We will entangle the opponent's interception unit!"
Jacob's deputy - the temporary commander of all heavy armored combat boats in the First Fleet Said to Amber, and then issued new instructions in the command channel.
"Attention all combat boats! Three boats in a group, fight freely!"
As this order was issued, all combat boats activated their external chemical booster rockets, which were another means of propulsion in addition to their plasma propulsion arrays.
It's just a one-time thing, and it doesn't last long.
But this thing is externally mounted on a heavy armored combat boat. It is not originally intended to improve the combat boat's conventional cruising capability, but to provide an explosive thrust in a short period of time.
As the light of a large number of chemical booster rockets lit up, the two 'box arrays' immediately disbanded and quickly divided into three-machine formations and rushed towards the surrounding federal HCPs.
It is very dangerous to adjust the axis and heading at high speed, but the pilots of these heavy armored combat boats did not hesitate to make maneuvers that would break the ribs of ordinary people.
At the same time, these heavy armored combat boats also opened their own attached bomb bays, and threw out all the 'round' plasma warhead guided rockets and combat bombs inside.
As long as any unlucky HCP is hit by this plasma warhead weapon, most of their deflection fields will soon be neutralized, followed by several charged particle beams. Salvo
Of course, the Federation's ship-borne HCPs are not completely beaten. Some pilots with superb driving skills can often use plasma heavy swords that are enough to split the outer armor of the battleship at the moment when the two sides intersect at high speed. The heavily armored combat craft split into two.
Or after entering the dogfight, multiple HCPs quickly formed a small 'box array' back to back, and then forced the combat boat to turn at a large angle on the periphery, and then took the opportunity to attack the opponent's tail propulsion array.< br>
Fireballs keep hitting 'ATL The surrounding area of AS Kai' lit up, causing the bloody level of the warring space to rise rapidly. However, Amber in the cockpit was not distracted at all, because he knew that his way forward was led by the pilots of these heavy armored combat boats. It was obtained with blood, so I must not make any mistakes.
Although in the game in her previous life, Amber had staged a good show of breaking into the fleet by herself more than once, but it was a game after all. After death, she could rely on the resurrection of her clone to rush in. But now she was really playing with fire with her life. So he had to admit that he would be very nervous indeed.
Fortunately, this tension did not deform his operation, and the large amount of adrenaline secreted made him become more and more sharp and focused, allowing him to operate in an almost cheating state. A large number of warships shuttled among the anti-aircraft fire.
During this process, Amber repeatedly tried to attack the vulnerable sides of the 'Lighthouse', but it never worked - the heavy patrol escort warship in the vicinity directly acted as if it was risking its life. The former's 'human shield' directly blocked the shooting axis of the 'ATLAS modification'.
"No, I don't have that much time to test, so I can only approach forcefully"
After many attacks failed, Amber frowned, and then controlled the 'ATLAS modification' directly He rushed in the direction of the 'Lighthouse'.
But at the moment when they were about to enter the opponent's final air defense circle, the two nearby heavy cruisers responsible for escort suddenly made a crazy move.
Ignoring the fact that there were other friendly warships at the far end of their ray axis, they directly opened the gun doors of the bow main gun, preparing to attack with heavy particle cannons.
“Are you crazy?! There are their friendly forces behind me and so on.”
Amberford suddenly realized something, and then immediately mounted 'ATLAS' The two heavy shields on the auxiliary mechanical arm overlapped in front of him, and at the same time he said loudly to Lilith, who was the auxiliary AI of the aircraft combat:
"Lilith! The deflection field of the aircraft is fully open! Overload mode Run! ”
Lilith, who has always been a curious baby, carried out Amber's instructions without any hesitation or doubt at this moment.
The next second, the captain of the 'Lighthouse', who temporarily took over the command of the two heavy cruisers, issued a fierce order to fire:
"Lock the target position! Thunderstorm, Prominence! Aim at the ray axis, open at an angle of 2 degrees and 3 minutes, and start irradiating!"
Two blue scattered 'beams' emitted by the two heavy cruisers on the left and right quickly covered it! Find the location of 'ATLAS Change'.
Under the diffuse irradiation mode of this heavy particle cannon, even the extremely maneuverable 'ATLAS Kai' cannot escape the opponent's irradiation range within these seconds.
At the same time, although there were other friendly warships on the ray axis of the two heavy cruisers, the power of the heavy particle cannon in the scattering mode was obviously not that great. It only caused the deflection field flashes of several warships, but it did not causing substantial harm.
But the statement 'not that powerful' is obviously only for battleships.
In any case, this is also the main gun of the two heavy cruisers. Even in the spread shooting mode, it can still pose a threat to large HCPs like the 'ATLAS Kai'.
Amber only felt that the all-circle display in front of her eyes flickered, and then the optical sensor screen was automatically disconnected due to the excessive brightness, and then Lilith issued a warning:
"Master! The surrounding environment of the machine body is overheated! The temperature of the surface armor is saturated! The external armor has begun to melt!"
"Warning! Thermal energy is transmitted to the internal titanium alloy frame structure! The emergency cooling procedure has been started!"
As warnings were transmitted to Amber's ears, everyone in this space also saw them. The scene where the large red HCP was swallowed by the intersection of two 'light beams'.
“Amber!”
“Boss!”
“Okay! Hit!”
"It should have been destroyed by now!"
The reactions of everyone in the Atlas Group and the Federation Navy at this moment can be said to be completely opposite, with mixed feelings of joy and worry, and there was even a moment of silence on the battlefield. .
But as the 'Light Pillar' disappeared, a body with almost all external armor melted, while the armor fragments continued to peel off and fall off, it passed through all the interceptors and crashed into the 'Lighthouse' 'The deflection force field completed the deceleration and finally hit the deployment bay hatch on the side of the heavy cruiser.
The emotions of both parties have reversed again!
(End of this chapter)