Chapter 1330: Cosmic Fortress, Irsha’s Attack (5)
"Reconfirm the waypoint, we may be off course."
In a fierce battle, it is necessary to repeatedly confirm the route. After all, the fleet is dynamic. Once it deviates too much and falls alone, it is easy to become a target.
Alyssa immediately started the ship's broadcast:
"Attention all anti-aircraft gunners, sporadic enemy planes have launched torpedoes."
Behind a cruiser like the Swan is a mobile aircraft carrier, and behind the mobile aircraft carrier is an armored transport ship. Void torpedoes still pose a threat, so the cruiser also needs to undertake air defense tasks.
The air radar and scanner found vague signals, and Long quickly divided the air defense area for the anti-aircraft gunner while the main gun was being loaded.
Alyssa leaned on the captain's seat and frowned.
Their mission was to escort the armored transport ship close to the space fortress Ilshai, but now they were blocked and their progress was slower than expected.
Turning his head and looking at the message from the fleet commander, he found that the clearance rate of the Red Maple Republic's firepower points on Ilsia was only 30%. Although the original weapons of the fortress were blown up during the evacuation, during this period the Red Maple Republic Some of the guns built and repaired still pose a major threat to the cruiser.
It would be easier to exchange fire with the main fleet, but the main fleet has to deal with the main fleet of the Red Maple Republic. Now it can only rely on the cruisers to fire one after another to open a way for the armored transport ships.
After thinking for a moment, Alyssa connected to the hangar's communication:
"Have Hall and Li Chengqi come back?"
"Hall came back once to replenish ammunition, but Li Chengqi hasn't."
After hearing Fang Lanyin's report, Alyssa thought to herself that Li Chengqi was very persistent this time. In the past, he would have to come back every twenty minutes on average if he was fishing for lionfish.
Obviously the battery life of the new mecha played an important role. Alyssa roughly understood why Li Chengqi had to consume a lot of energy.
Obviously, Alyssa still doesn’t know how dangerous Li Chengqi is carrying...
As the captain, Alyssa didn't actually pay attention to what vehicle the pilot flew, but since Li Chengqi never came back, this showed that the resistance of the Red Maple Republic was extremely fierce.
After all, she knew how capable Li Chengqi was. Even with him, he could not break through the blockade of the fleet. The Red Maple Republic had obviously arranged a large number of space fighters and pilots in the Ilsha Fortress to make up for the lack of troops.
Now the cruiser cannot break through the fire blockade, and the carrier-based aircraft cannot break through the interceptor blockade. The situation is not necessarily bad, but it will slow down the progress of the battle.
A major feature of the pincer offensive is maneuverability, which must be fast. If the enemy's retreat cannot be quickly cut off, the enemy will not only have time to retreat, but will even cooperate with the friendly forces behind to attack from both sides.
It is unlikely that the main fleet will decide the winner in a short period of time, but the cruiser formation needs to escort the armored transport ship to the space fortress Ilshai as soon as possible and seize control of the fortress.
While Alyssa was thinking about countermeasures, Anyun reported: "A new ship target appeared on the radar, and it came from the fortress."
"Do they have reinforcements?"
"The signal shows a size of cruise ship level, but the signal is severely distorted."
According to the intelligence provided by the Spinning Water Federation, there should be no more enemy troops on the side of the Space Fortress Ilsia, unless a major error was made in the intelligence.
But the signal showed that a ship similar to a cruise ship was sailing out of the fortress...
"I understand, it must be an armed merchant ship."
Due to the Meteor Operation, although nearly one-third of the Red Maple Republic's military strength was not wiped out, there is currently no way to return to the rear and be redeployed.
In other words, the Red Maple Republic is currently facing the risk of insufficient troops, and there is no way to immediately mobilize troops to support the Irsya Fortress on the supply line.
Since there are not enough ships, we have to think of other ways.
For example, transforming a cargo ship carrying supplies into a battleship.
This operation is like transforming a courier box into an armor and wearing it through the door. It is a no-brainer. Needless to say, there is no need to say much about its performance. No matter from the perspective of fire protection and maneuverability, that thing is not as good as the weakest battleship cruiser.
But the number is really quite a lot.
Soon, Alyssa confirmed her guess on the optical sighting equipment. It was indeed a large number of armed merchant ships coming out of the base.
These modified warships probably only have one or two cannons, and the cannons used were probably transported from the rear. They were originally intended to be installed on the Space Fortress Ilsha, but Alyssa and the others arrived too quickly and did not have time to continue targeting the fortress. Modified.
There is indeed a threat. After all, a cannon is also an ion beam directed at the ship, but the cargo ship's energy transmission pipeline, reactor power, and shipboard computer are not prepared for combat. It takes a long time to recharge before firing. , and the blow is still crooked.
The Spinning Water Federation sent two fleets to seize the fortress, while the Red Maple Republic Army defending the fortress only had one fleet plus an enhanced supplementary fleet.
The latter is equivalent to the supplementary force of the former and cannot be regarded as a complete fleet.
This also resulted in them having no choice but to send out a cruiser formation to intercept the cruisers of the Third Fleet. The Swan followed the cruiser formation of the Fifth Fleet to clear out the firepower points on the fortress. The Red Maple Republic Army probably had no choice, so it sent out its armed forces. Merchant ships were sent out to block the sword.
But as mentioned just now, armed merchant ships do pose a certain threat, especially cruisers, which are not very strong.
Alyssa estimated that the fleet commander would have new orders.
Sure enough, after confirming that it was an armed merchant ship, Alyssa received new information from the fleet commander.
"The route has been updated, the target has been switched to armed merchant ships, and priority is given to destroying them."
Long immediately recalibrated the shooting elements, and Carlos also checked the direction, preparing to sail according to the new route.
And just when the Swan was about to turn, Alyssa suddenly saw a bright blue flash diagonally above the bridge.
"Emergency stop maneuvering! Immediately sink and evade!"
At the critical moment, Alyssa no longer paid attention to the regulations that prohibited random emergency attitude control during formation navigation. Carlos immediately stopped turning the steering wheel and pushed it down fiercely.
The attitude control nozzles all over the Swan's body were instantly lit, forcing the Swan to sink quickly.
Almost the next second, the azure blue light reflected on the bridge glass suddenly exploded and turned into a huge, long and thick beam of light that swept towards the cruiser fleet of the Spinning Water Federation.
Note, it's scanning, not shooting.
This also means that its attack surface is very wide.
Alyssa could clearly see friendly signals disappearing one after another, and a large number of warships were instantly melted into the blue beam.
Finally, the beam of light swept above the Swan.
It felt like something tangible swept over the head, the shield collided with the energy dissipated by the beam, and was transmitted to the bridge, bringing a rumbling and dull bass.
If the Swan had not sunk in an emergency just now, at least half of it would have been melted away.
However, after sweeping over the head of the Swan, the beam immediately broke and did not cause any more damage.
Alyssa lifted her mask when she saw this:
"They actually repaired the fortress cannon!"
This is obviously not good news.
(End of chapter)