Chapter 160, the starting point of the road to glory
The approaching firepower of eleven green-skinned ships made it very difficult for Wang Jiarong's fleet to resist.
But their counterattack seemed weak.
Their bows are rushing outward, which is not conducive to firepower projection. What's more, when the enemy's weapon system comes online, the close-range interception capability also comes online simultaneously. Some of the laser cannons and macro cannon shells they blasted were locked in mid-air and intercepted in the void by the enemy's firepower.
Of course, the interception systems in the merchant ships are also playing a role. The 'Defender' kinetic energy rapid-fire cannon and the 'Reflector' interceptor laser cannon all perform similar tasks.
But overall, they are undoubtedly at a disadvantage.
Before they could completely distance themselves, they would probably be knocked down by the firepower of the green-skinned orcs.
What's worse is that their speed... seems not as fast as the greenskins.
After the engine system of the orc ship began to accelerate at full speed at this moment, it obviously started late, but its speed increased to a very high level in a short period of time. Their first-mover advantage will probably be wiped out soon.
When the speed gap between the two sides is eliminated, the closer and closer distance will allow the greenskin fleet's firepower advantage to be further utilized.
Not to mention, the greenskin fleet also has a special preference during naval battles: jumping gangs to fight.
They can almost be regarded as the second favorite guys in this universe to join gangs in naval battles - the first favorite is the Space Marines.
Landing pods, landing ships and even short-distance jumps...these are all things the greenskins can come up with. Once the distance reaches a dangerous level, they will use such methods.
The small landing cabins and landing ships followed a large amount of artillery fire as they approached the target, and there was a considerable degree of camouflage on them to deceive the interception system of the target ship. After approaching the target ship, these landing pods and landing ships will sail at a low speed, making the void shield unable to produce a defensive effect, and thus get close to the ship.
Certain harmless breaches in the hull that were made during naval battles will become entrances for invasion; if there is no such entrance, various high-performance bombs and cutting devices that come with the jumping gangs will be found. Cut openings in relatively weak locations on the ship.
These holes pose little threat to the ship itself, equivalent to an adult being bitten by a mosquito. But what’s scary is the ‘venom’ that comes with this bite. A considerable number of soldiers will enter the ship and engage in fierce battles inside the ship.
There is no particularly open area on the ship that is particularly suitable for heavy firepower deployment. The vast majority of combat environments are narrow, closed, and face-to-face.
Then who can compete with the green-skinned orcs in this environment?
The elite greenskin team will go on a killing spree inside the ship. Even if it cannot directly destroy or kill everyone in the entire starship, every time a certain amount of damage is caused, the battleship's combat capability will drop significantly.
If you get to the weapon system and you can mute some of the firepower, you've made a profit; if you get to the Thinker Array, you can even paralyze the ship's automation system and greatly reduce the coordination of various departments of the ship; if you get to the engine bay, then Perhaps a high-powered bomb detonated from within could paralyze the entire ship. What if we get to the captain's room again...
Of course, gang-hopping operations are high-risk and high-loss operations. In most cases, the landing module and landing ship will be destroyed by interceptor fire during the process of building a ship close to the target. But as long as it is a small success, it is just a disruption; if it is a big success, it can even seize the ship.
Greenskins are not afraid of death.
In fact, there were already some small airdrop pods flying over along with the artillery shells at this moment.
However, so far, there has been no airdrop capsule that can pass through the fire interception net. It is estimated that one or two hundred green-skinned boys will be buried in the star sea.
However, Wang Jiarong's face was still pale.
It is certainly good news that no green-skinned marines have landed on the starship yet, but this good news is too insignificant.
Seeing that the void shield had turned purple, and seeing that some cannonballs had passed through the void shield and hit the starship's hull, she could already feel the vibration.
The void shield is an energy protection system. Its characteristic is that it can intercept physical shells, energy cannons, and missile weapons, especially objects and energy approaching at high speed. But the blocking effect is not good for things flying through at low speeds.
The Void Shield in its full state, that is, when it is blue, has the best resistance effect; but if the attack it withstands exceeds a certain limit and turns purple, it will fail to block, including shells and energy rays. There will be a certain probability that it will leak in.
It was fine at first. Even if it leaked in and the force of the blow was weakened by the void shield, it would generally be able to withstand the strong physical armor on the starship.
But when the carrying capacity of the void shield reaches its limit, that is, when it turns red, the probability of missing the shell will increase significantly, and the weakening effect on the attack will also become weaker. At this time, it is probably about the strength of the armor and the strength of the hull. .
Although the current condition of the void shield is still in the process of changing to purple, the starship armor is still strong, and the occasional attacks that penetrate the void shield do not cause much harm.
However, this is all very bad news.
From the time the greenskins began to launch a counterattack, things were deteriorating rapidly.
More importantly, Wang Jiarong completely thought that there was no way to change the status quo.
"Gu Hang, Gu Hang! I was really killed by you this time! I shouldn't have come to this remote country..."
She was muttering to herself, her beauty turning pale.
At this moment, the Astropath suddenly reported a message: "Captain! We received the communication signal from the Quintet!"
Wang Jiarong was stunned for a moment, then suddenly overjoyed: "Get in quickly!"
The next moment, Yelicia's voice rang across the entire bridge: "I am Commodore of the Pegasus Fleet of the Imperial Navy and captain of the Quintet, Yelicia Fofana."
Her clear voice sounded like a savior to everyone on board the Beautiful Maid.
"Yelicia! Thank God! We finally got in touch! Save us!"
Wang Jiarong was so happy that she almost cried.
"I'm right next to you," Yelicia said. "Now, you have to make your fleet complete the turn and fire at those greenskin ships with all our strength. We have to be here, before they pick up their speed, and completely attack them." Annihilate them!”
Wang Jiarong was slightly startled.
What does 'right next to' mean?
Could it be that Yelicia had already expected to encounter the green-skin fleet here, so she laid an ambush here? The reason why there was no response from the astropath's previous contact was because the Quintet was in a silent and lurking state?
But why? How did she get the news in advance?
Wang Jiarong's mind was in a state of confusion, but these thoughts only circulated in her mind for a short while, and she soon stopped thinking about it.
Following Yelicia's instructions is the only chance to survive.
At that moment, the four ships of the beautiful girl's caravan, following Ye Lisia's request, began to turn sideways and attack each other with all their strength.
Without outside help, this is courting death.
The broadside is quite dangerous to the enemy.
In this way, the ship's firepower can be fully utilized, but the hit area is also the largest. When the distance is far enough, shooting at each other, and relying on firepower to determine the direction of the war, this problem is not big. The two sides are separated by more than 100,000 or 150,000 people. When the distance is more than 1 km, the firepower hit by the opponent sideways or directly is about the same, but the firepower projection ability of one's own side may be 30% or more different.
But equally, of course, it is impossible for a ship to remain stationary in a sideways state. Ships moving laterally can also more easily avoid gunfire.
Overall, this is a balanced offensive tactic. The greenskin fleet charging at this moment is of course an out-and-out radical offensive tactic. As the distance is shortened, the power and accuracy of artillery on both sides will be greatly improved. For this reason, they are even willing to sacrifice 20-30% of their firepower.
But despite this, the greenskins' firepower advantage is still much greater than that of the Beautiful Maiden.
They didn't know why these cheap ships suddenly looked like they were going to fight with them, but this obviously made them more excited.
Not only did the firepower become more intense, they also released more landing pods.
However, at this moment, hundreds of missiles suddenly flew out of a dark void in the distance.
These missiles were heading towards a green-skinned destroyer.
The next moment, two huge macro-cannon shells passed through the void and hit his energy shield hard.
Among the two heavy cannons that arrived at the same time, the first batch was aimed at starships, which also had huge destructive power.
The energy shield surrounding the targeted green-skinned destroyer suddenly changed from calm blue to purple light symbolizing danger. Then, seventy of the hundreds of missiles passed through the void shield and hit the destroyer.
Seventy explosive points suddenly erupted on the hull of the green-skinned destroyer, causing serious damage to the ship.
The energy shield generator may have been affected by the explosion. The purple void shield, which was originally purple, disappeared for a while.
If you give them a little time, it doesn't need to be long, just a few minutes, it will be enough to restart the energy generator on the green ship, or activate the backup energy.
However, there is no such opportunity.
Then ten rounds of smaller macro cannons came again, and six of them hit, hitting him hard. The damage caused by these six cannons was even more terrifying than the previous seventy missiles, which directly turned the green-skinned battleship into a huge fireball.
A valuable destroyer was completely destroyed in this way.
And the results of this inexplicable firepower are not just that.
Ten more macro cannons were fired at a green-skinned frigate. Four of the cannons hit, and the energy shield on it suddenly turned red.
The shield strength on the frigate is much weaker than that on the destroyer.
……
On the bridge of the Quintet, after confirming the result of the battle through the battle footage faithfully transmitted from the Thinker Array, Yelicia did not move for joy. That was too unstable and not what a captain should do.
But she still couldn't hold it back and shook her fist hard.
This green-skinned warship that was bombed to pieces was actually her first actual naval combat achievement in her career as a captain.
And this achievement is enough to surpass the careers of many captains in the Pegasus Sector.
Since the establishment of the Pegasus Sector Fleet, it has not had many experiences of being used as a support force by the Imperial Navy and mobilized to form a larger fleet for operations. In addition to the old captains who went out to form a temporary joint fleet, the other younger and more junior captains, that is, within the scope of the star sector, or at most in multiple surrounding star sectors, wiped out some interstellar pirates.
What are those interstellar pirates capable of? A pirate ship as strong as a frigate is considered quite good. Many of them even use ordinary spaceships to rob and rob, and at most they dare to touch some ultra-small caravans.
In the past, Yelicia had never even accomplished the feat of wiping out small pirates. This was one of the reasons why she was ridiculed in private.
But from now on, no one can laugh at her.
Even veteran captains who have been transferred to other high-intensity war zones and have seen big scenes, not every one of them has a record of destroying an enemy destroyer.
Getting an assist is something you can brag about for years to come.
But today, she, a brigadier general who has always been said to be a well-connected person and someone who has risen in military rank, has accomplished it.
Not only is he not an assist, but he is also the only main force.
What happened to the sneak attack?
This is called tactics!
However, after the initial excitement, Yelicia immediately regained her composure.
One of the enemy's three destroyers was destroyed, which was certainly a heavy blow to the Greenskin's entire fleet, but they had many ships and still had strong capital.
This battle still has to be fought.
Especially now that the advantage of a sneak attack is gone. Without the advantage of a surprise attack, the next round of firepower will not be so easy to achieve the same results as just now.
The orc fleet has discovered their traces, so they will not let them attack without defense. If the ship maneuvers in advance, more artillery will miss; if the short-range anti-aircraft firepower is full of vigilance, some macro artillery will be intercepted or deflected midway.
Of course, as a main cruiser, the Quintet is fully equipped with weapons, especially the two L-class "Wrath of Tadashi" macro cannons, which have devastating power for ships of the frigate level.
With just one hit, the energy shields of those frigates would be directly overloaded.
The slave workers and technicians on the Quintet have begun working very quickly to load the shells for the next round of artillery fire; the Thinker array is working hard to observe and lock on the ship targets that are actually moving rapidly.
Fire strikes require preparation time.
Before that, the Quintet had to face a round of enemy firepower.
The 'Defender' rapid-fire cannon and the 'Reflector' interceptor laser began to operate to withstand the firepower of the Orc ship. At the same time, large swaths of blue light appeared around the cruiser.
That was the scene when the void shield was in effect when the ship was attacked.
The naval battle has now entered a fierce stage.
The previous results of destroying a destroyer and overloading the energy shield of a frigate seemed less important now.
At this time, Yelicia couldn't help but turned her head to look at the man standing not far behind her.
She sighed and said: "Gu Hang, if we lose the battle, you will really hurt me."
Gu Hang smiled: "If you win, then this will be the starting point of your glorious road."
(End of chapter)