Knock wonders from the space station

Chapter 368 Pursuit and Mutation

So far, the five void rifts on Tianji Star have all been closed.

When the night passed, the light descended on the front of Tianji Star again, and the magnetic storm shrouded in the sky of Tianji Star finally subsided slowly.

The disaster is over.

The announcement that the trial has entered the second stage has been heard since last night, indicating that there are no gaps in the entire galaxy at this moment, and the next step is to clear up those void threats that slip through the net.

However, things are not over yet.

Half of the empire's fleet escaped the siege, and now it is unknown where it is hiding.

So Lu Feng immediately ordered the Shentang fleet to assemble and hide in the clouds above the gate of hell, waiting for the return of the remaining half of the imperial fleet.

Lu Feng prepares to ambush the return fleet of the empire whose truth is unknown.

1 hour passed...

3 hour passed...

In the blink of an eye, half a day has passed, and all parties have started to rebuild after the disaster, and assembled troops to eliminate the remaining threats and get some soup, but the expected imperial fleet never appeared.

Another two hours later, the Firefire, which was sent to space in advance for stealth reconnaissance, sent a letter back, saying that they had found the traces of the Imperial fleet, and they were driving on the edge of the meteorite belt between Skyrim III and Skyrim IV, silently cruising.

After hearing the news, Lu Feng frowned suspiciously, and wondered why the squadron was so calm and didn't care about the information from Tianjixing at all.

Don't wait, since the other party doesn't come to find me, then I will take the initiative to attack.

"Order, all capital ships immediately leave the atmosphere, assemble outside the gravitational circle, and prepare to warp to the target position to launch a surprise attack!"

"Yes!"

With an order, the leading Phoenix first raised its majestic bow, the main engine was ignited, and the blazing blue tail flames spewed out hundreds of meters, forming billowing air waves, pushing this heavy ship out of gravity, and Start to accelerate gradually.

On one side of her are the Dawn aircraft carrier and the Black Cat-class engineering ship, and on the other side are four Charon-class cruisers. A total of seven pillars of blazing smoke of different thicknesses rose into the sky, like seven sharp arrows piercing the sky above her head. Dark clouds, straight to the sky.

This raid did not involve the Aegis-class destroyer. First, it was unable to sail independently at warp speed, and it was relatively weak in the battle of the cruiser class. Second, these destroyers that had been sunk as blocking positions were still anchored on the ground and could not be lifted into the air for the time being.

This battle will be completed entirely by capital ships, and there is no reason for Shentang to lose with battleships leading the battle.

The people on the ground looked at the fleet in shock and cheered like a tsunami. The people who were once poor were proud of the strength of human beings at this moment.

I wish your fleet the best of luck!

With the blessing of the people, the Shentang fleet broke through layers of the atmosphere smoothly and quickly, and sailed into the empty universe.

Then the Phoenix was in the front, the Lixiao and Shennong-4 were behind, and the four cruisers escorted the surroundings, forming a military stab-shaped assault array, and drove rapidly out of the gravity well.

The opponent has an advanced Intruder-class electronic surveillance cruiser, so the own fleet cannot hide its tracks and must arrive as soon as possible to reduce the opponent's reaction time.

Therefore, as the first commander of the fleet, Major General Yin Hang did not dare to delay, and immediately led the fleet to break through the air, and entered warp speed sailing as soon as he left the range of the gravitational well.

Warp speed sailing from level 1 to infinitely close to level 10, the higher the level, the faster the speed.

Like the Lasan fleet that came during the war trial, their warp drive only has level 1, and they can only sail at 1 times the speed of light, which is called turtle speed in the warp family.

The ships of the Shentang Fleet basically adopt the design blueprints of thousands of years ago, and even the ships of thousands of years ago, the level of the warp speed engine is around level 6, which is 392 times the speed of light, which is nearly 400 times faster. mainstream at the time.

As for the Imperial Exploration Fleet, because the retired Imperial warships equipped are also classic models thousands of years ago, the design standard for their warp speed engines is also level 6.

Lu Feng didn't know what the current mainstream technology level of the Sanctuary Star Cluster was, but it stands to reason that it should be constantly improving.

It may be because the earl is relatively poor. If equipped with a new type of ship, the Shentang fleet may fall into a dilemma of not being able to catch up with the opponent.

Of course, not all Shentang ships can't catch up with each other.

As a legendary ship, the Crescent mothership can directly perform hyperspace jumps, and can instantly jump to the opponent's face.

The flagship of the Firefire, which is also a legendary battleship and is also biased towards exploration, uses a mass effect core, which can achieve a warp speed close to level 9, up to 1500 times the speed of light.

Warp travel is generally used to cross the vacuum between galaxies, which are all very far apart.

At this moment, it only spans the distance between the orbits of two adjacent planets in the same galaxy, so it has arrived in a moment. After the light of the hyperspace channel dissipates, the Shentang fleet has already rushed to the imperial fleet.

What made Lu Feng heave a sigh of relief was that the other party did not leave at warp speed, as if they were waiting for Lu Feng and the others.

"Keep speed, set the enemy aggressor-class cruiser as target No. 1, and prepare to engage the enemy!"

Yin Hang gave the order loudly.

The ships of the Shentang Fleet immediately recharged their weapon systems, and adjusted the power of their sensors to the maximum, firmly locking on to the surveillance cruiser of the Empire that was so close at hand.

The Shentang Fleet's electronic warfare strength is at a disadvantage. Once encountering enemy electronic suppression during combat, ships other than battleships are likely to lose the ability to resist and suffer losses.

This battle Lu Feng not only had to win, but also had to be tough and beautiful.

as predicted,

Facing the sudden arrival of the Shentang Fleet at warp speed, the Imperial Fleet turned their bows one after another, met the enemy in a combat formation, and launched a strong electronic suppression.

The Intruder class is in the center as a temporary flagship, and 4 Arquitects class cruisers escort the flanks.

Under the high-speed advance of Shentang's side, the distance between the two sides is less than [-] kilometers.

This distance is already very close in space, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is close to the face. However, due to the low velocity of the main cannon equipped on the Phoenix, the optimal firing distance should be even closer.

This is why Yin Hang ordered to maintain the speed.

Under the strong electronic interference, the physical battleships other than the Phoenix were affected to varying degrees, mainly manifested as communication interruption, targeting system failure, sensor paralysis and so on.

despite this,

The Shentang Fleet, which was advancing at high speed, still opened fire. The sporadic electromagnetic shells and ion beams successfully hit, and bursts of light exploded in the Imperial Fleet. This was the energy ripple generated when the attack hit the deflector shield.

The standard deflector shield of the imperial warship is a force field shield, which weakens the incoming attack, so that the power of the attack when it finally hits the hull armor is completely non-existent, and even completely bounces off the attack.

These hit attacks all came from the main guns of the cruiser class. Even if they hit the Arquitense class, which is also a cruiser, they still couldn't make meritorious deeds with one blow, and could only create some scars on the armor surface.

but,

For Imperial light cruisers with lower shield capacitance, their shields will fail first.

The main gun of the Phoenix headed by was not in a hurry to fire.

Now it is a high-speed assault, and there is only one chance when the two sides pass by each other. As long as the bulky main gun seizes this opportunity, it can instantly severely damage the opponent and secure the victory.

however,
If the Phoenix does not fire, the Imperial Fleet will not be polite.

Facing the menacing Shentang fleet, more than a dozen heavy-duty turbolaser cannons turned their muzzles one after another, spewing firepower towards the incoming fleet.

With sufficient energy supply, the turbolaser cannon fires at a rate of 2 seconds. When the dual-mounted turrets are fired, the powerful blast energy beams are almost uninterrupted, and they are precisely bombarded on the leader Phoenix one after another. Creates a cloud of exploding flames.

Since there is no shield equipped, these attacks are actually hit on the ship, which is full of power.

Fortunately, the lead Phoenix is ​​larger and the threat is the highest, so most of the firepower of the Imperial Fleet is given to her. Continuous explosions are lit up on the Phoenix. This huge ship has been focused by so many heavy artillery that It looks like it will be destroyed in the next second.

However, the Polarized Hulls have been absent from the Sanctuary Cluster for so long that the Imperials have forgotten how strong these things are.

Inside the bridge of the Phoenix,

Yin Hang glanced at the data at the bottom of the main screen. Facing the concentrated fire of the enemy fleet, the reading of the hull strength there was still at 80%, which was actually far from being breached.

Taking advantage of the enemy's firing, the Phoenix has advanced to a distance of less than 30 kilometers from the opponent's fleet, enough!
"Aim at target No. 1, all focus on fire!"

The Shentang flagship sent out a light signal to the surrounding fleet.

Afterwards, the main gun of the Phoenix started firing salvo first, because it had the slowest bullet speed, so it was the first to fire but the last to arrive.

at the same time,

The Firefire suddenly appeared from the rear of the Imperial Aggressor class. After appearing, the Ripper torpedoes on both sides of the Firefire were the first to launch, and hit the opponent's shield in a blink of an eye.

A strong space tearing effect was produced under the interference of the two groups of torpedoes, and the violent space shock instantly overloaded the opponent's shield capacitor, which was almost full of energy.

The enemy flagship immediately lost its shield protection.

Immediately afterwards, the main gun of the Xinhuo opened fire, and a dazzling azure blue light spear pierced the towering bridge of the opponent, overturning the huge electronic warfare module above it, and the terrifying expansion stress directly separated the island from the hull Driving away, the twisted metal building kept burning and rolling, flying towards the cold deep space.

It's not too late. The Shentang fleet, which lost its electronic suppression, completed the lock at the fastest speed, and it was impossible to hit the air at such a short distance.

The powerful electromagnetic cannons on the bows of the cruiser and the mothership fired one after another, exploding the shield of an imperial cruiser in one go.

next moment,
The main gun of the Phoenix, which fired first, finally arrived.

All 16 huge shells pierced into the invader-class dagger-shaped hull without falling. The terrifying kinetic energy directly knocked the heavy hull out, and then exploded and disintegrated from the inside while flying.

Broken wreckage and burning fireballs were continuously thrown out from the riddled hull, and finally, under the action of centrifugal force and internal expansion, the solid hull broke into more than a dozen knots, and went to different directions. .

Creates a large conical patch of space junk.

The cruiser whose shield was blown off just now was quite unlucky. It was hit by a piece of main body wreckage. It was a light cruiser. Naturally, the armor was not very thick, and a hole with a diameter of tens of meters was knocked out of the hull immediately.

The vacuum negative pressure sucked out a large amount of equipment and crew members, and then a partial explosion and fire broke out inside the ship, paralyzing even half of the surrounding hull.

The largest battleship of our own side was actually set fire by the opponent in seconds!
In fact, the most effective in this round of raids was not the salvo of the Phoenix's main guns, but the Xinhuo's close-range sneak attack.

If the shield of the Intruder class is not broken, then its bridge will not be blasted, then it can perform emergency evasion, so as to avoid the slow conventional shells, even if it is hit by a few rounds, it will not be directly disintegrated fate.

As a legendary battleship, Xinhuo not only has a stealth system against the sky, but also has a firepower that reaches the level of a battle cruiser. Even if a small ship carries a cannon, it is still full of energy and balanced in performance.

It can be seen from this that the legendary ship's ability is so outstanding that it would not be exchanged for a battleship.

Afterwards, the remaining three semi-imperial light cruisers had no intention of fighting and wanted to leave the battlefield at warp speed.

But how could the Shentang Fleet, which had already completely gained the upper hand, give them this opportunity? The leading battleship fine-tuned its course and directly rammed into a cruiser.

A brutal scene was staged in the silent space. With its strong polarized hull and huge mass, the Phoenix directly crushed the opponent into two pieces with a crushing attitude. It was only the bow of the ship itself was damaged. Ship is here, it's nothing.

The other two ships were not much better, and were immediately besieged by Shentang's superior forces.

Not only was the route blocked by Shentang ships, but the fighter planes that took off from the Akatsuki even bombed the enemy ship's engines indiscriminately, quickly paralyzing the opponent's ability to move, and it was only a matter of time before it fell.

As expected, the Imperials did not have the courage to fight to the end. The squadron commander announced his surrender, saying that he would shut down the engine and give up resistance.

This is true.

Ever since, Yin Hang dispatched the Marine Corps accompanying the ship to board the ship in an attempt to control the two slightly injured and one seriously injured imperial cruiser.

however,
In less than 5 minutes, a sudden change occurred.

"Fleet, this is Boarding Squad No. 1. We have encountered a large number of mutated humans and are fighting fiercely. We request reinforcements!"

"Here is number 2..."

Soon, all the three boarding commandos received news of the attack, and the content was pretty much the same. They were all raided by mutants, and now they are deeply trapped in enemy lines.

"Send reinforcements immediately."

Yin Hang didn't dare to be ambiguous, and immediately took off more Pelican transport boats from the mothership Lixiao, carrying more landing troops towards the enemy ship.

At this moment, the sound of firefighting from the channel became more intense, as if all the Imperials on the opposing ship had turned into man-eating monsters in a short period of time.

The commanders, including Lu Feng, have speculated. Could it be that these imperial people have been infected long ago?

That being the case, how do these people normally fight them?
However, the mutation is far from over.

Soon the fleet sounded the alarm, and the sensors detected a large number of biological signals in the meteorite belt below, rushing towards the fleet.

It is a kind of Zerg that has never been seen before!
Now that the fleet members are fighting on the enemy ship, it is impossible for the fleet to leave them and evacuate alone. In an instant, everyone understood.

It's a trap!
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(End of this chapter)