Chapter 194 Decisive Change of Tactics
The Kuik-class battleships of the Kuntai Civilization, which did not show much combat power against the human Shan-class battleships, appeared to be extremely powerful here.
Eighty percent of the charging self-destructing drones and self-destructing shuttles were destroyed by the close-in defense guns of these ten battleships.
The Callisto-class battleships in the second wave of human raids were not even worth a look in front of the Kuik-class battleships. The only thing the Callisto-class battleships could do was to find opportunities in the chaos of the raids launched by the self-destructing drones and self-destructing shuttles, and fire at the cluster of residential spaceships from a distance.
If you want to break through the defense circle of ten battleships, you will basically end up being sunk.
In fact, if a self-destructing shuttle can advance to the face, it can hurt the Kuik-class battleships of the Kuntai Civilization, but it can't break through at all.
Now the target is not the Kuik-class battleship itself, but to kill the cluster of residential spaceships around. Even so, less than 20% of the self-destructing shuttles can break through, so it is conceivable that the close-in defense force of the Kuik-class battleship is strong.
It's no wonder that the Kuntai civilization didn't have small warships.
Of course, the two waves of self-destruction raids by humans were still effective. Even if only 20% of them broke through, there were still 200 self-destruction shuttles.
There were also some self-destruction drones.
However, the self-destruction drones were too small, and the bombs they carried could not sink a residential spaceship at once. So after breaking through the defense circle and entering the Kuntai civilization residential spaceship cluster, the 200 self-destruction shuttles first bombed the residential spaceship, making a big hole, and then the self-destruction drones rushed in from the hole to carry out a second attack.
In the universe, the light of the explosion continued to sound.
Along with the explosion, the residential spaceships of the Kuntai civilization disintegrated one by one, and the unarmed residents inside were either directly killed or thrown into the cold space by the explosion and died. The lucky ones were thrown into the universe with some temporarily closed residential structures, but this was just a slow death.
For a while, ultrasonic screams in the Kuntai civilization's residential spacecraft came one after another, and death scenes continued to play out in space. Under such a blow, the broken limbs and arms were already complete corpses, and more were directly turned into dust in the light and heat of the explosion.
Attacking residential spacecraft and slaughtering residents.
How cruel it is.
But this is war, this is the universe, a war between two intelligent civilizations, and there is no Geneva Convention here. If humans were not so powerful, then millions of human residents would be slaughtered now.
"Sir Pierce, our residential spacecraft cluster has been attacked and suffered heavy losses." Mo Tuotuo's sad and inexplicable voice sounded in the communication channel.
"I know, keep moving forward, we want humans to pay for their blood debts with blood!" Pierce closed her eyes, not looking at the tragic scenes, trying to calm herself down.
But the next scene made her unable to remain calm.
"Sir Pierce, it's humans, it's a cluster of residential spaceships of human civilization, they are really on the back of the giant gas planet!" This is the voice of the observer in the channel.
As this voice appeared, the enlarged picture of the giant gas planet immediately appeared in front of Pierce.
One after another, the barrel-shaped spaceships slowly flew out from the back of the giant gas planet, spraying and then tail flames, accelerating in a more distant direction.
"Damn, they are going to run!"
Seeing this situation, Pierce felt dizzy and almost changed a mouthful of "acceleration buffer".
There are very few spaceships, not nearly 300 like the Kuntai civilization, but only more than 40. Among them are engineering spaceships, resource-carrying spaceships and spaceships that feed the Wolf biosphere.
"It's over! We can't catch up!" Pierce took a look at the other party's acceleration data, and she felt bitter in her heart. She guessed right and bet right, but she didn't expect that humans would be so decisive and directly let the residential spaceships drive away, and they ran away far away outside the range of laser energy weapons.
And the reaction was so fast, it didn't look like they had been in the Aldebaran star system for many years.
"Why are there so few? Is this really just an alien colony of human civilization?"
Pierce had questions in her mind, but she didn't have much time to think about them, because her top priority was to decide what her fleet should do next.
"What should I do?" She asked herself in her mind.
It's definitely impossible to catch up, so should I chase?
Pierce weighed the pros and cons for a moment and made a decision.
She ordered in the fleet channel: "This fleet will turn immediately to support the fourth formation, and the second formation will support the third formation. Execute immediately."
From the reaction of the human inhabited spaceship cluster, Pierce could see that humans were well prepared, or just waiting for her to raid.
In this case, change tactics and annihilate human warships.
From the battle between the third and fourth formations, Pierce saw that humans really didn't have many warships. So far, ten Queke-class warships have been seen. As long as the human warships are annihilated with the advantage of numbers, this galaxy will still belong to the Kuntai civilization.
As long as the human fleet is defeated, the Kuntai civilization can slowly recover in this galaxy no matter how serious the losses are.
There is still hope!
Pierce decisively gave up the pursuit because she knew that energy weapons could not reach it, let alone kinetic weapons.
Weapons like space missiles and nuclear missiles are also propelled by nuclear fusion engines, and the fastest speed is no more than 15% of the speed of light. At a long distance, it is impossible to hit a target that can also be accelerated to 15% of the speed of light.
The same is true for the electromagnetic railgun.
Pierce's decisiveness was soon reflected in the two battleship formations.
The news that the battleship formation changed its course soon reached Yue Yuan's ears.
"You are so decisive, but it's too late for you. After I destroy the remaining five battleships, your fifty will be next!" Yue Yuan showed a triumphant smile on his face.
There are only four battleships left in the fourth formation of Kuntai civilization, and only one of the human mountain-class battleships has been damaged, which is the Lushan ship.
Well, the main gun was blown up, and now the bow of the Lushan ship where the main gun is located is gone, but due to the highly modular and layered design, plus the hidden bridge design, it is not scrapped, and the rear thruster of the battleship can still operate normally.
It can't fire, but it's still no problem to run.
It's no problem to hit twenty ships, and it's the same to hit fifty ships, just a little longer. The powerful armor of the Tianqin has proved that the main gun of the Kuntai civilization can't penetrate its armor at all.
Of course, Yue Yuan did not rely on the strength of the Tianqin to send a single ship out to fight against the fifty warships of the Kuntai civilization, because the Tianqin only had strong armor, and parts such as the main gun and engine would still explode if they were directly hit.
For this reason, every time the Tianqin showed its head and fired, it would adjust its posture and try not to let its head and tail face the direction of the Kuntai civilization fleet.
For this reason, nearly half of the close-in defense guns mounted on the outside of the Tianqin were destroyed by the main guns of the Kuntai civilization.