Chapter 474 Fortress vs. Fortress
While Duke Duke and Duke William had to choose to continue the frontal attack, the Duke of Hastings and the Duke of Artesia on the other side also entered the battle stage.
With neither the Gospel nor the Serenity celestial fortresses having upgraded their liquid metal armor, Duke Hastings would naturally not use such an extremely risky tactic like Duke Duke. His final response The approach is also relatively conservative.
The fleet of the battle group entered the scene first to attract attention, and through fire reconnaissance, they roughly found out the defensive forces except the mobile fortress.
The response of the Federation's second mobile fortress was as Hastings had expected. It was afraid of the Empire's Celestial Fortress, so it was slow to open fire first.
In the view of the Duke of Hastings, this is actually a conspiracy.
Under the pull of Marshal Trafalgar, no matter how the commanders on the empire side think and hesitate, in 99% of the cases, they will execute the switch of using the celestial fortress to attack the mobile fortress. 'Tactics.
This also means that the Federation's mobile fortress was prepared to fight against the two celestial fortresses at the same time from the beginning.
Especially after Duke Duke and Duke William have taken the lead in launching the attack, the commander of the mobile fortress faced by Duke Hastings must have also received news of the attack on friendly forces - here Hastings Duke Si silently thanked Atlas Group for its move to popularize ultra-long-distance real-time communication technology, otherwise the other party would not have received the news so quickly.
In this case, the other party must have focused most of its energy on the two celestial fortresses that may enter the site at any time.
Therefore, when facing a large number of imperial fleets that took the lead in entering the battlefield, they became somewhat defensive and did not dare to use main guns to attack easily.
After all, what is now in front of the mobile fortress commander is a multiple-choice question:
A. Let the main gun fire and attack the imperial fleet that has been stuck in the face
B .Wait for the empire's celestial fortress to enter the scene, and then wait for the opportunity to open fire
But this multiple-choice question is obviously not that easy to answer.
If the commander of the mobile fortress is impulsive, he can certainly use his main gun to wipe out an entire imperial fleet, but the empire's two celestial fortresses are also likely to be stuck just after he enters the 'CD period', and the situation will be different. It immediately became extremely bad, and maybe he would be killed by the focused fire of the two 'Focusing Rainbows'.
So when the Duke of Hastings boldly sent 8 full fleets to attack in advance, leaving only 2 fleets around to deal with emergencies, the Federation's response in this galaxy The defensive power became a little uncomfortable.
After Marshal Trafalgar transferred the elites, except for one mobile fortress, there were only 5 fleets left in this galaxy, and half of the ships were replenished some time ago. Come over, even the newly formed ones.
So when they were unable to obtain main artillery support from the mobile fortress, the eight attack fleets sent by the Duke of Hastings had more room to play.
Even though the mobile fortress also has a large number of battleship-level heavy particle cannons as secondary weapons in addition to the main guns, they are not as threatening as the main guns in terms of deterrence and lethality.
This period of time was extremely painful for the commander of the Federal Mobile Fortress, because he could only watch his own defensive fleet fall into this exchange of blood loss.
So much so that he finally disobeyed Marshal Trafalgar's orders and chose to open fire on the Imperial fleet.
When the surging jet of heavy metal particles crossed the space domain and swept from the area where an imperial fleet was located, looking at the wreckage in the target space domain, the commander of the mobile fortress was not at all excited. What came to my mind at this moment was more regret for the reckless decision I had just made.
And after a period of time, when the alarm of 'super massive growth' was detected twice in a row, this regret reached its peak.
Looking at the two celestial fortresses appearing on the left and right in the icy space, and their slowly adjusting ray axes, the mobile fortress commander asked anxiously: "How long will it take for the main guns to fire again? "
"Sir! It will take at least 20 minutes, and it can only be irradiated at 70% power!"
After hearing this answer, the fortress commander knew that there was no time left! He counterattacked. According to the previous information collected about the Empire's celestial fortress, it only takes more than six minutes at the fastest from the breakaway jump to the main gun firing
Thinking of this, he made a decision immediately.
“Send me a command to disconnect the energy loops of all weapon units. All energy is distributed to the power unit and deflection field unit in a ratio of 2:8! Activate the overclocking mode of all deflection field generators and set The scheduled route intersects with the predicted route of the Imperial Celestial Fortress
The defense fleet will continue to attack the imperial fleet as originally planned, and the restrictions on the use of proton annihilation bombs will be lifted, leaving it to the commander of the defense fleet to decide when to use them! ”
When the mobile fortress commander’s order was issued, everyone in the core command room guessed what he was going to do.
There was no exciting speech, and there was no speech. The morale-boosting speech before the final moment came, and in the limited time, only this cold order remained.
But despite this, no one in the core command room raised any objections or acted timidly at this juncture. As if he had been mentally prepared for it, he continued to do what he was doing in silence.
And this federal mobile fortress, which seemed to be in dire straits, also lit up the blue light of the main propulsion array in the rear hemisphere. , rushing towards the Tranquility Fortress where Duke Artesia is located at an ever-increasing speed
"Hastings!" Duke Artesia's nervous voice sounded in the communication channel.
Under the warning of the fortress control personality, she naturally noticed the Federal Mobile Fortress rushing towards the Tranquility Fortress. Although it looked like a huge sphere with a diameter of 350 kilometers, it was equipped with a large number of high-power plasma propulsion arrays. Under the circumstances, this thing accelerates like a 'flexible fat man'.
Although it is not easy to achieve a precise impact with an object of such volume and mass, Duke Artesia does not want to block the impact of two of the largest creations built by humans to date. What it's like to be together.
"Don't panic! Just complete the irradiation according to the scheduled procedure."
The voice of Duke Hastings remained calm at this time, because the response of the Federal Mobile Fortress was not unexpected. His expectations.
In other words, in this desperate situation, the commander of the Federal Mobile Fortress was left with this only option.
A few minutes later, in the core command rooms of Gospel Fortress and Tranquility Fortress, the two fortress control personalities almost simultaneously issued the reminder that the "Focusing Iris is ready", and Hastings and Al The two Dukes of Desia did not hesitate after hearing the prompt.
"The 'Focusing Rainbow' begins to shine!" The Federal Mobile Fortress at their intersection was also completely engulfed by the sudden dazzling silver light.
(End of this chapter)