Chapter 74: Life-Threatening Assault

"High electric and magnetic field reactions detected! It is judged that the enemy's heavy particle cannon is charging!"

The slightly nervous voice of the tactical information coordinator sounded on the bridge of the giant demon-class battleship "Equality", the flagship of the task force composed of the remnants of the Federation.

Although he has served on this battleship for almost five years, today's battle is his first time to experience a large-scale fleet battle in the true sense.

"Each ship maintains the adaptive power output of the deflection force field. After the destroyer and frigate are attacked, adjust the position to avoid subsequent attacks while maintaining the normal line of course unchanged."

The voice of Commodore Duwell, the commander of the task force, came from the rear.

His instructions were also transmitted to other ships in the fleet in real time through the data link.

Unlike the command mode of the Imperial Fleet, although the core of the fleet command of the Federation Navy is also the fleet commander, this role will often command tactical details instead of handing it over to the tactical staff under his command.

These two command modes did not distinguish the superiority and inferiority in the last war between the Federation and the Empire.

Therefore, in the years after the signing of the peace agreement, both sides have continued their command traditions without major changes.

A few seconds after Commodore Duville's order was issued, the main guns of each ship of the Imperial Fleet were also charged.

In large-scale fleet battles, the attack targets of each ship were discussed by the ship's control personality in a "meeting".

After calculating the course of the Federation Task Force, the control personality of the Dawn Sword immediately held a "short meeting" with the control personalities of other warships and assigned the attack targets of each ship.

Of course, this "meeting" is just an anthropomorphic description. In fact, this firepower allocation was completed the moment the track was solved.

In the target area in front of the Federation Fleet, a burst of star-like flashes appeared.

Immediately afterwards, the bismuth alloy projectiles that were impacted into heavy metal particle flows by the plasma flow released by the battleship's fusion reactor were wrapped in a directional magnetic field. After being accelerated to nearly 1% of the speed of light through the heavy particle cannon acceleration channel on the battleship's axis, they spanned a distance of nearly 30,000 kilometers and hit the face of the Federation Task Force.

The Federation fleet was arranged in a spindle formation during the high-speed assault, and the warships outside the formation were almost simultaneously wrapped in a dense layer of electric snakes.

Including the flagship "Equality", all the warships hit, the bridge portholes, burst into dazzling white light.

The moment the shipboard control personality detected that the light was too high, it lowered the light intake of the optical sensor.

So from the perspective of the people in the bridge, it was when the ship was shaking violently that the portholes appeared with a flash of less than half a second.

The heavy metal particle flow was twisted, disintegrated, and scattered when it hit the deflection force field.

These twisted jets are also dangerous. They will scatter to other warships around them in a trajectory that the shipboard control personality cannot predict.

But under the condition of strictly maintaining the engagement distance, these metal jets can still be withstood by the warship's laminated armor.

The shooting phase of the fleet battle is a very pure power competition. Calculated from the number of warships on both sides alone, the Imperial Fleet obviously exceeds the Federation Fleet in overall power.

The result is that the attack coefficient of the Imperial Fleet's salvo in this round has exceeded the defense threshold of the deflection field of all warships in the Federation Fleet.

Three Hydra heavy cruisers that were hit by the concentrated fire of the Imperial battleships were sunk.

Some high-speed destroyers and frigates whose deflection field power was not high enough were also directly blown up after the deflection field generator was overloaded.

A Jackdaw-class high-speed destroyer on the periphery of the fleet overloaded its deflection field generator after resisting three destroyer-class heavy particle cannons, and then went offline for protection under the operation of the ship-borne control personality.

In the previous attack, in order to support the operation of the deflection field generator, the instantaneous power of the battleship fusion reactor exceeded 25%, and the main energy supply channel immediately experienced voltage abnormality.

At the same time, although the bow part under attack was protected by the deflection field, the high temperature generated by the heavy metal ion jet still caused the destroyer's front liquid helium cooling system to issue an "abnormal working condition" warning.

In this case, the captain of the high-speed destroyer ordered the switch of the backup power supply with sweat on his forehead, distributed the main power to the cooling system, and reduced the power of the main fusion reactor to prevent a worse situation.

The warship's weapons control and fire control units were also temporarily shut down, and the entire ship suspended the counterattack program.

According to the captain's order, the helmsman controlled the destroyer to adjust its attitude and maneuver behind a nearby heavy cruiser while keeping the normal line of course unchanged.

There was nothing inappropriate about this series of treatments, and it could even be called a relatively calm emergency response.

But unfortunately, the Imperial fleet opposite them launched two salvos in this round of attack.

At this time, under the infrared sensor, all the warships of the Imperial fleet had a red front section.

A large amount of liquid helium coolant was injected to force the heavy particle cannon that had just been fired to cool down.

Although under normal procedures, it should wait for the acceleration channel to cool down before firing to prevent the heavy particle cannon from malfunctioning.

But under the "double salvo" order from the flagship, the captains of these warships only waited until the temperature dropped below the red line before ordering to fire again.

So less than ten seconds after the first round of salvos ended, a second torrent of heavy metal particles swept across the federal fleet in a high-speed assault.

The Jackdaw-class destroyer that was evading behind the friendly heavy cruiser had used up its luck.

Two heavy metal particle beams hit the rear half of its hull.

The surging energy torrent directly tore apart the rear laminated armor, and the internal alloy bulkhead was also directly melted.

The damage control personnel who were heading to the main fusion reactor and superconducting battery stack happened to walk into the beam and evaporated into several plasma clouds in an instant without any pain.

Such tragic situations occurred in various parts of the task force formation.

In this round of double-shot salvos, the Empire's Eighth Expeditionary Strike Group perfectly played its firepower advantage and directly sank 9 Federation warships, including three Hydra-class heavy cruisers that served as the firepower output of the Federation fleet.

Looking at the holographic image in the center of the bridge, the loss rate of 16.8% and the damage rate of 32.7%.

The expression of Commodore Duville, the commander of the task force, did not change significantly.

In fact, such a loss rate had been predicted by the shipboard control personality at the pre-war meeting.

As a mediocre general in the federal navy, he did not have the ability to change this result.

Otherwise, he would not be a mobile fleet commander ordered to stay in the edge star system when he was nearly 60 years old.

But even so, the other commanders who came to join still chose to implement this combat plan and obeyed Duwell's command completely.

The rare "patriotic officers" in these federal armies could not escape to the edge of the star system without fighting back when their country was invaded.

There were naturally voices of opposition among the crew, but after several leaders were labeled as "deserting" and "disturbing the morale of the army" and thrown into the cold space, the voices of opposition disappeared.

Seeing that the development trend of this raid was not much different from what was speculated at the pre-war meeting, Commodore Duville, who had already put on his space suit, issued a new order coldly:

"The normal line of the entire fleet remains unchanged, and move forward three."

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I can only say that I have no experience, and I have written several more chapters of battle without realizing it

I guess I can't change this habit for a while 0.0

Finally, I'll give you a preview, the first volume will end at about 200,000 words, and each subsequent volume will probably be between 200,000 and 300,000 words