Chapter 473: Attack and Defense Change

The few remaining nano-repair robots in the inventory were dispatched again. Under the command of strong artificial intelligence, they rushed to the injured area frantically and fought with the enemy nano-robots ejected from the shells.

At the same time, the Tianqin was not idle either. After the strong artificial intelligence completed the quick calculation, it mobilized the warships in its small formation and fired a round of electromagnetic railgun salvos at the position where the flagship of the enemy fleet might turn in more than a minute.

Tens of seconds later, the next round of laser energy cannon salvos in conjunction with the previous wave of electromagnetic railgun salvos were fired again from the muzzles of more than 20,000 warships.

According to calculations, this round of laser energy cannon salvos will be launched later and block the movement of the opponent's flagship guard formation, forcing it to slow down and turn, and finally just on the trajectory of the previous electromagnetic railgun shells.

This requires precise and fast calculations. It can be said that every round of salvos, every shot, every turn to avoid, and every acceleration and deceleration are all based on the supercomputer strength of the civilizations of both sides.

It can be seen that the two sides are in a fleet melee on the surface, but in fact, it is indeed a confrontation of the comprehensive strength of civilizations. Nanotechnology, energy technology, propulsion technology, material technology, computer technology. There are also strategic vision, tactical literacy, etc.

And because of the existence of nano-repair, it is extremely difficult for a single ship's laser energy cannon to break the polarization shield. Similarly, even if a single ship's electromagnetic railgun hits, it is difficult to destroy the opponent with one shot. Therefore, although the Tianqin and the flagship formation of the interstellar trading market had a direct confrontation, it was difficult to eliminate the opponent in a short time.

Twenty-three days have passed, and the melee is still going on, but there are more warship wreckage in the starry sky.

The war seems to have entered a stalemate.

This situation is the first time that humans have encountered it. In previous wars, humans were either crushed or defeated the opponent with absolute advantage, but now, it is a situation of equal strength.

Yue Yuan is very anxious, because as time goes by, not only are human warships getting bigger and fewer, but frequent turning, acceleration and deceleration actions have also made the fuel inventory of the entire fleet close to the red line.

The various mineral resources on each ship are also becoming increasingly scarce because they need to be used to continuously manufacture nano-repair robots and electromagnetic railgun shells.

On the 78th day of the melee, some warships even had hydrogen bomb warheads that did not have enough mineral resources to manufacture.

By now, the Lyra has become riddled with holes, and there is no new place on its surface. If it had not been for the good evasion, the magnetic thrust at the rear of the warship would have been hit. The number of close-in defense guns is only one-third, and some are replenished from the ship's inventory during the battle.

In order to protect the Lyra, the number of those guard warships has been sharply reduced to 13,000.

Of course, the flagship formation of the interstellar trading market is not much better. There are only more than 40,000 warships left after being hit. Similarly, if it were not for its unmanned guard warships to block and roll, this flagship would have been destroyed by humans countless times.

Its armor also has obvious traces of patching, which is the trace of nano-repair robots repairing it after being burned through by human laser energy cannons.

With the sharp decline in the number of guard warships, one of the flagships of both sides will eventually be buried in this battle.

Well, this is the general battle of the decisive battle, but this is the starry sky, and the battle is coordinated and controlled by the strong artificial intelligence. With these two factors alone, the development of the war is unlikely to turn out like this.

For example, on the Tianqin side, after the number of guards warships decreased sharply, the strong artificial intelligence once again transferred the warship formation that was fighting with other warships of the other side to replenish, and the interstellar trading market did the same.

The scene of the flagships of both sides colliding with each other did not appear, so now it depends on who is unlucky and hit by the core part or the propulsion system of the warship by the other side.

However, at this time, the electromagnetic railgun shells of some warships in the human fleet slowed down, which seemed to be keenly observed by the interstellar trading market.

As a result, they, who were originally fighting desperately with the human fleet, took a defensive posture in an uncharacteristic way, and their desire to attack was reduced a lot, as if they were wasting time with humans.

Seeing such changes, Yue Yuan became calmer. He knew that the interstellar trading market saw that the human fleet was short of energy and materials, but he couldn't be anxious, the more anxious he was, the more mistakes he would make.

In fact, Yue Yuan wanted to fight hard, let the Tianqin continue to move forward and approach the opponent's flagship formation, and then take it away with a wave of electromagnetic railgun salvos, but such a move was tantamount to directly telling the opponent the route trajectory of the Tianqin and letting the opponent use it as a target.

At that time, it might not be the opponent's flagship that was killed, but the Tianqin was killed first.

The interstellar trading market knew that it had an advantage in close combat, but it also realized the armor-piercing power of human electromagnetic railguns and the weakness of its warship armor. If it was too close, its advantage would turn into a disadvantage, so its flagship formation and even the entire fleet always deliberately maintained a certain distance.

When human warships approached, they maneuvered to open up some distance. When humans wanted to open up the distance, they moved closer to prevent the distance from being too far. The terrible thing was that in the melee, the human warship formation could not open up a large distance at all.

This made the warships of both sides have to perform extremely frequent acceleration, deceleration and turning during the battle.

Some warships even kept repeating this action. In order not to be predicted by the opponent's computer, the next acceleration and deceleration direction, acceleration and deceleration time and other parameters of these warships were randomly generated by strong artificial intelligence. Even if they knew that their location was relatively safe, they had to perform such irregular speed-changing movements.

Because the laser energy cannon could not be predicted, it could only be avoided in this way. Because of this, the energy of the warships was consumed very quickly.

While the two sides were fighting back and forth, two pieces of news, one good news and one bad news, were transmitted from the distant starry sky to the flagships of their respective fleets.

For humans, the good news is that their third fleet, that is, the fleet commanded by Bu Guiyu, has successfully reached the first planetary base of the interstellar trading market, which is equivalent to reaching one of their planetary bases.

The bad news is that the second fleet commanded by Manyuemei was observed by the interstellar trading market through magnetic propulsion tracks while rushing from the depths of the starry sky to the thirteenth planet for support, and then encountered a fleet full of interstellar pirate style in the star field 63 astronomical units away from the battlefield of the thirteenth planet. At this moment, they are engaged in a tug-of-war with the fleet that came out of nowhere.

These two pieces of news are the opposite for the interstellar trading market. Good news for humans is bad news for them, and bad news for humans is good news for them.

"It seems that support can't be counted on for the time being!" Yue Yuan muttered.

From the good news, it can be seen that the interstellar trading market has more than one planetary base in this galaxy. Otherwise, the human tactic of surrounding Wei to save Zhao can at least make the fleet in front of him take some actions, such as withdrawing some warships to return for support.

After understanding this, Yue Yuan glanced in the direction of the thirteenth planet. At this moment, he undoubtedly understood the importance of defending this planet.

And at this moment, the Tianqin. Yue Yuan glanced at the various data indicators of the Tianqin displayed on the projection screen in front of him and found that although this human flagship was still very strong, if it continued to fight like this, the fuel would probably last for a month or so.

In fact, Yue Yuan also knew that the warships of the interstellar trading market were also seriously consumed, but no matter what, the human fleet came from afar, and it was certainly not as sufficient as the interstellar trading market. So in the end, it was likely that the fuel of the human fleet would run out first.

"What should I do?! Do I really have to take the risk of leaving the battle and going to the thirteenth planet to replenish and fight again?" Yue Yuan frowned and pondered.

Now the thirteenth planet can produce resources normally, functional buildings have been built on the planetary orbit, and there is also the South China Sea battleship there to coordinate, so it is no problem to go there for replenishment.

But if we go there, the strategy of attacking Huanglong will be completely declared a failure.

Staring at the light dot representing the opponent's flagship in the star map, Yue Yuan was full of reluctance.

However, at this moment, a feedback message suddenly caught his eyes.

[The hit position has been confirmed! The enemy flagship magnetic thrust has been destroyed. The enemy flagship has lost its strong thrust! The target is fully activated and the steering thruster is used for maneuvering.]

[The target route is being calculated. The probability of each direction has been determined. The target area has been locked. The 69543rd round of laser energy cannon salvo is ready.]

Seeing this series of feedback information, Yue Yuan's eyes lit up, and the turning point finally appeared!

If the power drops, it will be a live target. If the flagship is destroyed, the group of unmanned warships controlled by the strong artificial intelligence on the flagship will lose their powerful combat effectiveness.

At that time, it will be a real change of offense and defense.

The result of the salvo was quickly fed back to the Tianqin command center. It was hit, but unfortunately it hit an unmanned warship.

Although so, Yue Yuan was not frustrated, because the reason why it hit the unmanned warship was that the unmanned warship deliberately drove between the Tianqin salvo formation and the opponent's flagship.

There are many warships that act like this destroyed warship, and the purpose is self-evident, which is to serve as a shield for their flagship.

From the lens of the detector, it can be seen that the unmanned warships that originally fired at the Tianqin formation are constantly approaching their flagships, as if they want to use their own sacrifice to buy time for their flagships to repair.

Seeing such a good opportunity, humans will naturally not miss it.