Chapter 669 Destruction
"This thing has a bit more lethality than I imagined."
After fifteen ice crystals with a speed of 0.12C hit the defense area of the Stonehenge for half an hour, Amber, standing in front of the panoramic porthole of the Endless Bridge, looked at the asteroid belt in front of him that had been plowed out of fifteen 'gullies', and couldn't help but sigh.
If the "gullies" hit by the ice crystals will be amplified, you will also find that the gravitational balance of the entire asteroid belt has been completely chaotic, and the chain reaction caused by the impact has also begun to occur. Countless asteroid gravels began to collide in disorder, which will make this situation worse.
"Although this battle 'paid' the 'Star 12 operation' by Marshal Trafalgar thirty-five years ago, both the acceleration of the ice crystal and the final killing effect are far more than that," Guterres couldn't help but speak after hearing Amber's words.
"So the times and technology are constantly improving. We are just seizing this wave, and we must seize this opportunity."
Amber turned around and looked at Guterres. He was very satisfied with the latter's recent command on the front line, as well as the final attack path and timing. This former federal lieutenant general can be said to have no secrets at all.
After hearing this, Guterres nodded and asked, "Boss, do you need the fleet to continue to launch an attack next?"
Amber: "No need to attack head-on. The situation in Stonehenge is too chaotic now. I don't want the fleet to enter and increase casualties. The remaining fleets of the Federal Navy will definitely think about breaking through, so let each fleet control the field on the periphery and attack all enemies who are trying to escape from the Stonehenge defense zone."
"Yes, Boss, I'll make arrangements now."
Guterres saluted Amber and turned away, while Amber stayed in place and continued to look out of the porthole.
Others on the bridge didn't know that in Amber's eyes, this chaotic gravel belt "evolved rapidly" as if the acceleration key was pressed. This "Stonehenge Defense Zone" that once made the Federation proud turned into a slowly rotating metal cemetery during acceleration.
The shock waves generated by the impact of ice crystals reshape the asteroid belt into a weird ring structure, trillions of tons of debris follow new orbits, and the sparks generated by occasional collisions bloom silently in the vacuum.
Countless metal debris danced endlessly under the drive of inertia. A piece of armored plate with the "Thor's Hammer" seemed to pass by Amber. Further away, the accelerated orbital debris corroded by hydroxyl clouds into hollowed-out structures projected a lace-like light spot under the starlight
Immediately afterwards, Amber looked at a giant structure in the distance, which was a spindle-shaped structure spontaneously assembled by the wreckage of twelve defense nodes in the "Stonehenge" defense zone under the action of Lorentz. The surface was covered with a crystalline layer of silica generated by the impact of ice crystals. Whenever debris pass by nearby, the crystalline layer would release a cold light like a firefly.
The electromagnetic pulses released by several gravitational anchor wrecks regularly woven a changing light curtain over this 'metal cemetery'. The ionized samarium elements give it emerald color ripples, and the rays generated by the decay of cobalt 60 are decorated with orange-red stars.
After becoming a psychic, as the intensity of the psychic energy increases, the psychic energy will continue to transform Amber's body, such as allowing his retina to see more spectrum at this moment - those deep purple patterns representing deadly radiation are flowing eternally in the light curtain in the form of a Mobius ring.
"Master, what are you looking at?"
The sudden sound of Lilith made Amber suddenly wake up from the 'rapid evolution'.
He looked closely and saw that the scene in front of him had returned to its previous appearance, and the entire Stonehenge defense area was still in a state that had just been hit.
"I still remember that after the explosion of the Snake Alpha, I told you that my psychic energy appeared. Well, has it changed?"
"I remember, Master~ I just did the same?"
Amber nodded slightly: "Yes, this change has occurred again, and I have seen the scene after 'rapid evolution' again"
"Then what did you see this time?" Lilith asked curiously after quickly confirming that Amber was not abnormal through the vital sign monitoring device.
Amber: "We made a 'clock'."
"Clock?"
"Yes, every piece of debris in front of us is a second hand, and every collision is a countdown - the entire Stonehenge defense zone will slowly become an artificial star ring under the influence of gravity, and this artificial star ring will continue to expand in the next few hundred years and become a nightmare for all sailors"
Listening to Amber's description, a strange look appeared on Lilith's face in the virtual space:
"Master, why have you suddenly become so literary? I think you really have to find time for Ms. Saleh to show you."
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After being hit, the "Stonehenge" defense zone has now completely become a literal "Stonehenge" formation. In this huge gravel belt with diameter, the remnants of the Federal Fleet are like soldiers and ants who have been destroyed in an ant nest, struggling in the turbulence formed by radiation storms and molten metal, trying to escape from this purgatory.
The joint fleet of Atlas and Revival will be like the "child" who destroyed the ant nest. As the federal fleet continues to reduce its personnel, the warships that have begun to gain the upper hand in number have already completed formation and attack formation outside the defense zone.
Light cruisers and destroyers who usually hide behind the main battleship also came to the front of the formation at this time. They deployed various detection devices and scanning arrays on the bow, scanning the peripheral areas to capture the federal warships trying to escape.
The Federal Navy's "Liberty" heavy cruiser was patrolled at the edge of the defense zone when the impact occurred, so it was not involved in the core area. Under the command of Captain Erin, it became the first main ship in the entire fleet to rush out of the "Stonehenge", and also brought out more than a dozen destroyers and frigates.
But their good luck ended here. While the warship avoided the last threatening asteroid gravel, the ship-based control personality also issued a warning again, but this time it was a warning that the warship was about to be attacked. "The team detected a high-speed approaching object on the starboard side, with 120 corrections and 260 corrections. It was judged to have encountered a volley of plasma torpedoes."
The voice of the ship-based control personality is extremely calm, but the content makes everyone on the bridge unable to help but stand up. This feeling of just escaping from the gate of hell but entering the killing formation again will naturally not be much better.
On the holographic projection platform in the center of the bridge, the ship-based control personality has shown the tactical situation. The dense red dots are like a piranha school that smells bloody, and are quickly approaching the starboard side of this team. Judging from the intensity of the light spots in the infrared optical sensor on another screen, these plasma torpedoes have also rebooted the thrusters and entered the final attack process.
"The distance is 3230 kilometers, and it is expected to contact in 42 seconds."
"Every ship! Emergency air defense operation on the starboard side! HCP directly goes to the deck and acts as air defense fire to intercept! Release all bait and start maneuvering avoidance!"
Captain Erin knew how much it could be done in 42 seconds. Maybe the air defense weapon set on the starboard side of each ship could be activated, but at most it would be enough for the carrier-based HCPs to climb up to work overtime, but she had no other choice at this moment. She could only do it as a living horse.
As for maneuvering, the restrictions on maneuvering are even greater. The starboard side is the direction of the plasma torpedo attacking, and the rear half of the port side and the entire rear half are the hell of the "Stonehenge", which is even more impossible to avoid, so the maneuvering space of these warships has become very limited.
Soon, a large number of bait pods bloomed in the vacuum and began to simulate the infrared and electromagnetic characteristics of the warships - Captain Erin would bet that the seekers of these plasma torpedoes are conventional infrared and radar guidance, which is also the most common seeker configuration for plasma torpedoes at present. After all, this weapon has relatively low priority in the navy of the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire, so it will not have relatively complex configurations.
But Captain Erin ignored one thing, that is, the Atlas Group is one of the few forces in this universe that attaches importance to the use of plasma torpedoes.
In addition to infrared and radar seekers, image recognition and quantum entanglement recognition units are also specially configured. In addition, Lilith developed a special probability algorithm, the search accuracy is no longer at the same level as that of conventional plasma torpedoes.
Captain Erin and the others on the bridge were almost watching the torpedoes on the tactical situation chart, scattered around the bait they spread out and continued to attack their positions.
Outside the porthole, beams of directional energy weapons and dense orange-red ballistics appeared, and the starboard air defense weapon groups of each ship began the final interception.
But relying on the air defense firepower of these more than ten warships on the starboard side, it is like a drop in the bucket to intercept a total of 260 heavy plasma torpedoes that were APP.
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The moment these plasma torpedoes were about to hit the target, the composite metal at their front end was blooming and unfolded like petals, and the sulfur-colored halo suddenly stretched in the vacuum. It was the liquid metal lithium bound by the electrostatic field. Three plasma torpedoes that broke through the air defense fire network gently kissed the starboard side of the "Liberty"
"Fifty million Kelvin-level fusion reaction was detected."
The ship-based control personality issued a warning again, and Captain Erin also roared and issued an order to accept the impact, but these sounds were quickly submerged in the whistle of metal. The core of the plasma torpedo instantly eroded through the three-layer composite armor plate. Everyone's cabin helmets automatically lowered the brightness, but they could not stop the sudden orange-red halo of the bulkhead - the secondary radiation caused by the flow of ultra-high temperature particles when they penetrated the hull.
In front of Captain Erin's eyes, the three-dimensional projection of the damage tube system instantly turned red, and all areas B7 to D12 were offline, and the airtight gates connecting these areas were evaporated before closing.
Immediately afterwards, Captain Erin saw her podium begin to glow, and the ionized metal atoms were releasing X-rays, and her bones developed into a white relief under her skin, which was the last scene before her consciousness dissipated.
A series of blue and white high-temperature plasma fireballs lit up one after another in this universe. More than a dozen federal warships that finally escaped from the "Stonehenge" defense zone became a pile of wreckage under the saturation attack of plasma torpedoes.
And such scenes are also constantly being staged in various parts of the "Stonehenge" defense zone.
Looking down from deep space, the hunting presents a strange geometric beauty: Federal warships gush out of cracks in the gravel belt, like a jet of material ejected by a supernova, and Atlas's front fleet is weaving filters with various weapons to burn each particle of 'metal dust' to ionic ashes.
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The tactical holographic screen suddenly went out in the fifth violent vibration. Major General Griezmann felt his nails deeply pinched into the shock-proof rubber layer inside the cabin gloves. Through the panoramic porthole of the bridge, he saw an asteroid gravel with a diameter of two kilometers rubbing across the port side of the battleship, and then hit hard on a nearby destroyer that had lost power. The destroyer was unable to resist facing the gravel that was several times larger than his, and was smashed to pieces in an instant.
"Open the full-band radar scanning! All electromagnetic reconnect cannons switch to break the barrier shotgun!"
Major General Griezmann's voice mixed with a damage tube alarm echoed on the bridge. He tapped a few times on the control board of the cabin at his wrist. The subcutaneous syringe inside the cabin was pierced into his neck. The next second, his pupils instantly contracted, and then slowly expanded a little - this is a high-risk stimulant authorized by the Federal Navy combat forces in an emergency. It can increase the speed of people's reaction three times, at the cost of some of the nerve tissue that will inevitably fail after the war.
The combat staff's hands were almost dancing afterimages on the holographic console, and the sound from the communication channel also brought a hint of despair:
"The wreckage density reaches 846 units per cubic kilometer! This has far exceeded the threshold for air defense operations and obstacle clearance!"
"Don't worry about that much! Intercept it first"
Major General Griezmann's voice was interrupted by a sudden impact, and a gravel flying from the right flew past the starboard side of the battleship. The entire flagship was like an iron can kicked by a giant, and everyone felt a huge force swing them to the left.
Before Griezmann could come back to his senses, a stinging pain suddenly came from his neck. This was a physiological warning triggered on his close combat uniform after being locked by the enemy's composite fire control system.
"High-energy reaction was detected!" The voice of the tactical information coordinator was filled with a hint of tremolo, "The source position T9N4, the feature matching is complete. It is the kind of laser warship of Atlas!"
The moment he heard the news, Griezmann realized that it was all over.
The next second, the deflection force field of the battleship where Griezmann was located disappeared directly after a flash. Then twelve high-energy laser beams accurately shone on the outer armor plate directly above the bridge.
As these high-energy laser beams penetrated the bridge, Major General Griezmann was trying to send the final command of "breaking through by himself" to the surrounding federal warships. His last consciousness stayed on a summer night with the freezing of the life revolving lantern. At the age of eight, he lay on the lawn of his home yard, and the Milky Way poured over his head. It was this scene that made him set the goal of becoming a naval officer since he was a child.
The beam of light swept past, Major General Griezmann's body instantly decomposed into countless elementary particles, and the front end of the "Spectrum Destroyer" battlecruiser was still circulating with rainbow light, like a sharp sword wiping away from blood.
(This chapter ends)