Chapter 537 True Red Lightning & Red Baron
The combat auxiliary AI of the ‘Sacred Shield’ quickly marked the location of the current communication target on the full screen.
Johnny Redding tilted his head slightly in this direction, and the main monitor on the second-generation head of the aircraft immediately turned around, and quickly captured the corresponding target - a red-painted aircraft MA-01Bblock5 heavy armored combat boat.
This is the car of Manfred the Red Baron.
He was also ejected from the heavy cruiser 'Solar Reward'. He was leading his team to continuously surpass the HCP in front at a faster acceleration, and soon caught up with the powerful HCP who had set off earlier. Ni-Leiting et al.
After hearing his friend's voice on the communication channel, Johnny Letting's nerves that were a little tense after participating in a space battle for the first time relaxed a lot.
Johnny Redding returned his gaze to the front and replied:
"Hey, the driver is here, how many people can he carry this time?"
"No more, no less, just a team to pack and take away~"
At the same time as Manfred's voice came from the communication channel, the HCP team where Johnny Leiting was located also received a message from this 'Coordinated propulsion' application for heavy armored combat craft squads.
"Then you're welcome, the 'True Red Lightning' team is ready to conduct a 'coordinated propulsion' docking!"
With the order from Johnny Letting, four fully equipped machines including him The Holy Shield also opened a little distance. After everyone agreed to the application for 'coordinated propulsion', the four heavy armored combat boats behind also accelerated and flew up.
Soon, these high-speed predators on the battlefield meekly came to the bottom of the four Holy Shields, and the auxiliary docking page was quickly displayed on the latter's full screen. instruct.
With the help of the auxiliary page, the fully equipped Holy Shield and the heavy armored combat boat completed the one-to-one correspondence and entered a relatively static state.
Immediately afterwards, the two mechanical arms of the Holy Shield grasped the handle raised on the heavy armored combat boat and completed the lock.
Subsequently, the entire machine body was attached to the upper part of the heavy armored combat boat in a posture similar to lying down. The knees and feet of the machine body were also combined and locked with the corresponding interfaces on the heavy armored combat boat.
"The docking lock is completed, and the control authority of the main propulsion array of the aircraft body is shared with the 'Partner Combat Boat'!"
The voice of the combat auxiliary AI sounded, Johnny Letin looked down, and he The Holy Shield he was driving had already docked with Manfred's combat boat. Under the armor plate in front of him was Manfred's cockpit.
"Manfred, it's up to you and your team to lead us through! When we reach the final distance, I will lead people to help you escort and fight a way out!"
Johnny Leiting said loudly in the communication channel, and Manfred's answer was also very simple. He pushed the throttle of the heavy armored combat boat to the top, plus additional control of the main propulsion array of the Holy Shield. , the sudden burst of thrust almost ejected the combat boat.
His teammates who belong to the same team are very suitable for him in terms of strength and tacit understanding, so they started to advance at full speed very synchronously, and the entire team continued to maintain a diagonal formation and rushed towards the target direction. .
Behind them, more and more ejected HCPs quickly completed the docking with the heavy armored combat boats, and finally turned into assault formations and crossed the Infinity's position, following closely behind.
Currently, these heavy armored combat boats in the Third Task Force have been upgraded from the earliest MA-01 to the latest model MA-01Bblock5.
The biggest difference between the improved model and the 'basic version', in addition to the more stable power unit and weapon unit and greater overall thrust, is the integration of a system called 'coordinated propulsion'.
As the name suggests, this thing allows the HCP produced by Atlas to be temporarily docked with the heavy armored combat boat, and then by integrating the thrust of the two aircraft, the combat boat can carry the HCP faster. Breaking into the battlefield at such speed.
This system can be said to solve the two problems of "heavy armored combat boats lack cover in melee" and "HCP is easy to lose touch with the combat boat troops during the assault".
The current battle is also the ‘first show’ of this system in actual combat.
While the HCP and heavy armored combat boat squadrons of each ship launched a full-deck attack in accordance with Randall's order, and launched an attack on the Rubian system garrison fleet after completing the 'fusion', the third special agent The battleships of the mixed fleet also began to attack.
Under Randall's order, the 'Infinity' and all other battleships, which switched to the regular combat mode, selected the electromagnetic reconnection cannons of the entire ship for the first and second rounds of long-range attacks. shoot.
It’s just that this time it was not the most common heavy-duty anti-ship penetrating rod, but another ammunition with more countermeasures-AHEAD ammunition, which is a clustered directional prefabricated fragmentation projectile.
The massive AHEAD shells fired by the entire fleet in two salvos turned into countless orange-red ballistics and disappeared in front of the fleet. According to the calculations of the fleet's gunnery officer, these two salvos fired according to the calculated advance amount will be within a few seconds. Minutes later it would exactly cover the position of the garrison fleet. "Let them intercept slowly. It would be best if they can be fooled~" After hearing the fleet gunnery officer's report that the salvo was over, Randall nodded and continued:
"The entire fleet is preparing to launch a salvo of all-port heavy particle cannons. The timing of the salvo is controlled by the fleet gunnery officer!"
"Yes, sir!"
Fleet gunnery officer He returned his attention to his workstation and put a helmet on his head.
Soon, the bridge of the Infinity disappeared from his vision, replaced by this icy space and the surrounding battleships of the Third Task Force.
On the frames marking these battleships, the green icons representing ‘shooting preparations completed’ gradually lit up and connected, and they all completed shooting preparations in more than ten seconds.
The fleet gunnery officer who confirmed this did not hesitate to issue the tactical order of 'full salvo of heavy particle cannons' to each ship.
In an instant, the universe, which had just been illuminated by the purifying beam and then gradually extinguished, was lit up again by the salvo of heavy particle cannons.
Everyone on the bridge only felt a flash of light outside the portholes, and couldn't help but close their eyes. When they opened their eyes again, there were still countless 'afterimages' of blue and white light beams on their retinas.
A distance of 20,000 kilometers, for a heavy metal particle jet with one percent of the speed of light, takes less than seven seconds to fly. Coupled with the fleet's gunnery officer's "preview", this heavy metal particle jet will not be able to break through. Unexpectedly swept the flank of the garrison fleet.
It only took more than two minutes from the moment they were attacked to the position where they were hit by the heavy particle cannon salvo. During this time, Major General Kimmel had already realized that they were being attacked and ordered a turn to greet them. enemy's instructions.
But for this huge and fully equipped fleet, it is completely impossible to complete the turn of the entire fleet under such circumstances.
Except for some captains with more flexible minds, who have already commanded the warship to complete the axial adjustment in advance to prepare for the enemy, most of the other captains have just begun to command the turn according to Kimmel's order. .
Although these battleships do not care about the personnel at the bow and stern at this time, they may suffer from red vision or even fainting due to the violent steering, and they desperately want to face the enemy with the front of the battleship. But it was still a step too late.
The surging jet of heavy metal particles immediately set off a spectacular "fireworks" in the Lubion Galaxy garrison fleet.
In a fleet battle, it is a very terrifying thing to be strafed by the enemy in a superior formation on one's flanks. Amber also emphasized this to Randall many times, but Randall was not aware of this at the time. The understanding is not yet in place
But now, Randall finally realized what Amber meant by 'horror'.
In the image synthesized from the observation results of optical, infrared, and synthetic aperture radar, a large number of warships, including many capital ships, in the Lubion galaxy garrison fleet were blocked by this salvo. Break.
Those warships that were hit by fusion furnaces or superconducting battery stacks even exploded and immediately turned into a huge high-temperature plasma fireball.
Coupled with the three previous rounds of strafing conducted by the Infinity with its super-heavy purification beam generator, the combat intelligence team speculated that in just a few minutes, one-third of the warships in the garrison might have been completely sunk, and the remaining Nearly half of the units in the battleship are injured.
Such a damage effect greatly exceeded Randall's prediction of the first round of strikes before the war
However, this 'fleet battle command novice' did not take it lightly, but immediately realized This is an excellent opportunity. An opportunity to accomplish the tactical goal of 'quickly annihilating the enemy'.
"Pass my order, the entire fleet begins to slow down and maintain bombardment, Infinity! The battle module is deployed! Prepare for a wide-area electronic warfare attack!"
On the other side, the Lubion System Guard Fleet On the flagship 'Balkaner', Major General Kimmel finally recovered from the panic caused by the enemy's sudden attack.
When he had just given the order to 'turn the entire fleet to face the enemy', he had already realized that he had been tricked by the Atlas fleet, allowing the opponent to complete a beautiful 'tactical deception'.
However, He never expected that his own fleet would suffer such losses in the opponent's first round of attacks.
But no matter what, things have happened and the battle has begun, so Kimmel knows that there is only one way left for him now - to calm down and direct the battle, and try to complete the reversal in a desperate situation .
"Report! A large number of high-speed flying units have been detected, and the shipboard controller's personality is judged to be electromagnetic reconnection gun fire, the number is 3392!"
The information reported by the tactical information coordination officer, although it makes Kimmel was a little confused as to why the other party started attacking with electromagnetic guns from such a long distance, but he didn't have time to think about it at this moment. He could only order according to the standard disposal procedure:
"Each ship begins to perform air defense operations! All HCP squadrons attack to coordinate defense!"
(End of this chapter)