Chapter 474 Pros and Cons

The pick-and-roll of the unmanned warships continued, and the humans were not polite. They directly mobilized nearby combat formations to bombard the target location. The Tianqin battleship formation poured firepower at the target location without listening for a moment.

There is no morality in the battlefield. If you are sick and can kill you, you must seize the opportunity to reverse the situation of the war.

Wave after wave of salvos turned into light that illuminated the battlefield, igniting a ball of fire at the target location. Countless unmanned warships swarmed there, just to buy more time for their flagship.

Since the beginning of the war, mankind has never had such a happy "target practice". Almost every salvo can destroy an enemy warship. But the more this happens, the more anxious everyone on the Tianqin becomes, because time drags on. The longer it takes, the more likely it is that the opponent's flagship can complete propeller repair.

Such a scene also made Yue Yuan and other senior officials and military personnel see some shortcomings in the current configuration of the human fleet.

At the beginning, that is, at the time of first-level civilization, almost all warships in the human fleet were manually controlled. At that time, there were unmanned motherships, self-destructing drones, detection spacecraft specially used for detection, etc. Type of ship.

Later, with the emergence of some new technologies, weapons such as positron cannons gradually disappeared from the big stage. At the same time, the hugeness of magnetic thrust also made the battleships become giant, creating today's battleship and cannon fleet.

It was also during this period that mankind consciously canceled the manufacture of other types of warships, and the original motherships were no longer available. The entire fleet was almost dominated by sea-class warships.

In fact, before this war, humans thought that this was nothing. After all, other ship types were simply no match for sea-class battleships. Not to mention that small-caliber main guns could not penetrate the armor of sea-class warships. Even the polarization shield was damaged due to the strike energy. Not enough to blow it up.

But now, Yue Yuan and other senior officials realize that there seems to be room for improvement in fleet configuration, and that all sea-class battleships are not omnipotent. Especially after experiencing the difficulties of the direct attack on Huanglong, this feeling became even stronger.

Humanity may really need other types of warships.

For example, a group of battleship formations can be built specifically for quick raids. This formation can be made lighter and carry less fuel in order to obtain faster acceleration, or even be made into disposable crispy battleships. The purpose is naturally like this. What the Qin did today was to raid the flagship of the opponent's battleship formation.

Of course, a fleet with strong artificial intelligence and multi-line control will be miraculous.

As for the guard warships that accompany the Tianqin flagship, they can be made rougher and thicker, with thicker armor, based on their guard functions.

Well, you can also add some motherships to the guard formation, but these motherships are not responsible for offense like they were originally, but for auxiliary purposes.

Some engineering ships can be stuffed on top of the mother ship. When the Tianqin has a major malfunction during the war or its propeller is damaged like the current fleet in the interstellar trading market, these engineering ships can be dispatched to disassemble the unmanned warship's accessories. Installation for quick repair.

Nano-repair robots are not capable of repairing such large parts, so the fastest way is of course to replace them. It just so happens that humans are very proficient in mechanical technology and can achieve modularization in most components, so this auxiliary mothership strategy is very feasible.

As for the detection module, in fact, in addition to the detection module of the warship itself, the human fleet has also retained the tradition of small spacecraft detection. Under normal circumstances, these detection spacecraft are carried on capital ships, and when necessary, they will be released to conduct various detections in the stars.

All of these naturally serve various tactics in human minds. For example, in this Operation Huanglong, if there had been a dedicated raiding warship formation, the opponent's flagship might have been captured long ago.

Of course, the so-called offense and defense are integrated.

Human beings can think of this, and other third-level civilizations can probably think of it as well, as long as they don't have insufficient war art like the Nair civilization. Therefore, they also need to take precautions to defend their own flagship from being raided.

In fact, although the fleet configuration of the third-level civilization has great benefits and can avoid the problem of excessive casualties of individual civilizations in the war, it is indeed easy to be targeted.

Once the flagship is destroyed, it will be like ancient wars, where the army will be disbanded after the leader is beheaded.

You can't have your cake and eat it too, you have to make a choice between the two, unless you develop a self-replicating strong artificial intelligence like the Mok civilization, whose name is only known to humans.

But that form of strong artificial intelligence is too dangerous. No one can guarantee that one of the thousands of replicas will not have problems. Even if there is a thought imprint, there is no guarantee that there will never be problems during the replication process.

There is also an environment in which strong artificial intelligence exists, that is, the requirements for supercomputers must be reduced. There is no doubt that this is a different kind of strong artificial intelligence technology than today.

This kind of technology is currently not mastered by humans and the interstellar trading market. Maybe we can get something from the Silver Mist Consciousness, but now the Silver Mist Consciousness has disappeared.

Soon enough, while Yue Yuan was still brainstorming, he suddenly heard an excited voice coming from the Tianqin channel.

"Haha! Hit!"

"Blast, blast, we killed that flagship!"

"Victory belongs to us!"

After hearing these voices, Yue Yuan immediately regained his clarity of mind, and his pupils refocused on the projection screen in front of him. Sure enough, he saw the information feedback on it, as well as the bright light coming from hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.

It was also at this moment that from the perspective of the detector, it could be seen that the interstellar civilization fleet that was originally entangled with the human fleet fell into a state of stagnation in an instant.

Their weapons stopped firing, their actions became slow, and their positioning had flaws.

Although this stagnation would not last long, the unmanned warships that were reactivated did not have the previous flexible positioning and precise strikes, and there was no perfect coordination between each other.

Seeing this situation, how could humans not know what went wrong? It must be that the flagship was killed. Without the control of strong artificial intelligence, these unmanned warships activated the emergency system and were taken over by a series of intelligent programs.

For a time, the battlefield situation suddenly reversed.

Those warships that lost the control of strong artificial intelligence were like headless flies running around in place. Although they still knew to fire like human warships, their accuracy and judgment in dealing with human flexible positioning had already dropped by several levels. The ability to predict and fire more human weapons through precise coordination and positioning now seems to have become a joke.

As a result, these unmanned warships that were originally under the jurisdiction of the strong artificial intelligence were killed one by one by the human fleet, and the starry sky once again bloomed with more bright fireworks than before.

Those unmanned warships interspersed in the human warship formation have now become batches of lambs to be slaughtered.

In the starry sky in the direction of the Tianqin battleship cluster to the Beihai battleship cluster, the battle showed a trend of one-sided defeat, and thousands of unmanned warships were destroyed by humans in just a few hours.

In this case, the strong artificial intelligence of humans also knew what to do without the humans on the Tianqin giving orders.