Chapter 398 Dilar Encounter (Part 2)
"This is...Byron's 'Headless Horseman'?" Tang Fang suddenly recalled the scene when Byron, Aros, and Howson were chatting and spanking on planet 5.
"It's mine!" Aros didn't even forget the bet between the two.
When Zhou Ai heard this, he couldn't help "giggling" and laughed: "Looking at the situation in front of me, that guy Byron not only took the throne of the regiment leader, but even his car became the riding object of the other party."
Tang Fang squinted at her: "Well, yes, the riding thing... the riding seat..." The kid seemed to agree, but in fact he bit the word "riding" very hard.
"Claire?" Zhou Ai stared.
The girl took advantage of the opportunity and stuffed a piece of peeled green grape into the unscrupulous Tang Fang's mouth: "You bastard who runs the train, Tang Yun is still down there."
"Uh..." Tang Fang was at a loss for words, subconsciously straightened his neck and looked down. Howson and Churchill were flirting with each other again, whether you are good to me or not, they are full of love, soap is high. The little girl in front looked eagerly at the instrument readings on the navigation platform, but did not pay attention to the unscrupulous incident on the second floor.
"Fortunately..." Tang Fang looked at Claire gratefully.
"Captain." At this moment, Yuffie, the ship officer, who wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, turned his head to look at the crowd with his face flushed, "The enemy fleet sent 2 destroyers and 3 frigates to our side."
Nehemiah, Grant and others all looked at him: "What should we do? To fight or not to fight?"
"Hmph." Tang Fang squinted his eyes, and glanced at the 5 pirate warships that were coming straight: "Open the star ring and rush over to me."
The reason why he didn't leave for "Babylon" immediately after leaving "Jakartapur" was to come to Byron and make arrangements for "Morning Star Casting".
Johnny said he was understaffed and had no henchmen. There is no basis, no background, no background. all kinds. As careful as Tang Fang, how could he not have thought of it?
Byron, Zhou Ai, Aros, Howson, and Eva were brought out from planet 5 by him. Without him, several people would have died in the hands of the Monya government, and there is no doubt about their loyalty.
Among them, Byron is the leader of the Apollo Pirates. If you find him, are you still worried about the lack of manpower? In fact, "Morning Star Casting" is just a tool for him to hide his own strength and confuse the Star Alliance and other forces. The core secret is only known by high-level officials like Byron and Zhou Ai. As for whether the subordinate pirates really have one heart with him, Tang Fang has no thought and no time to test them. He only asks that these people be obedient, otherwise...kill a bunch of pirates,
The captain will not feel any guilt.
In this way, the manpower is there, the base... Then Albert can only be wronged to move his gold-stamped and silver-studded buttocks. Of course, this move will definitely offend some people or forces, but he doesn't care. With his friendship with Byron. Both emotionally and rationally, he should help pretend, force and commit the "one-eyed dragon" to take back the position of the head of the Apollo Pirates.
In addition, he has another consideration. You must know that "Apollo" is a large pirate group. When Byron was in power, he must have had contacts with high-level figures in the Covenant government. As long as he helped him regain control of "Apollo", wouldn't the background and background be solved?
Half a month ago, why did he make such a big commotion in "Jakartapur", and even play tricks and tricks with politicians he always dislikes. One is that the situation forced it, and the other is to pave the way for the "Morning Star Casting".
When I first arrived in "Jakartapur". He thought about finding pirates to make an example of others, so that Walton could do things conveniently. But then the situation took a turn for the worse, and Clement and Junichi Fukui dared to make small moves against the Morningstar. While this annoyed Tang Fang, he also saw clearly the hateful faces of politicians.
Ever since, he used his tricks and took advantage of the situation to play another "kill the chicken to warn the monkey". This time, the one who killed the chicken was not the pirate group, but the high-level executives of the Star Alliance. Turning the entire "Jakartapur" upside down by one's own power, no matter who wants to move such a force, he must carefully weigh his weight.
Of course, for him who wants to form "Morning Star Foundry", these are not enough. Once the "Rover Technology Complex" knows that it is going to start all over again, God knows how it will react. Therefore, he had to find another backstage. In this regard, he already had a candidate, the backstage boss of the "Apollo" pirate group during Byron's time in power --- Terry Ferdinand.
He was not afraid of those old foxes in the parliament, but he was too lazy to make trouble for himself. If there were any decisions in the parliament that would be unfavorable to "Morning Star Foundry" in the future, wouldn't it save a lot of trouble if there were people in the system like Terry Ferdinand?
His idea is very simple, you can argue as much as you like, and restrain you however you like, as long as you don't bother me. It's your luck that you couldn't pass Terry Ferdinand's level. If you accidentally pass it, you will really mess with him, hehe... The captain has never been a good talker. It's really going to make a big fuss, and he doesn't mind letting the Star Alliance government play with it, adding another stronghold to the intricate Tiannest star area.
Of course, these are all things to come, and the top priority right now is to rescue Byron and repel this pirate fleet.
"Expand the star ring, switch the plasma mode, the countdown to the shield system starts, 10, 9, 8..."
The Morning Star moved forward quickly, and the two destroyers and three frigates on the opposite side did not say hello, and stopped directly at 60 kilometers away.
At the same time, the star ring of the Morning Star unfolded, and a large amount of silver-white plasma jets erupted from the cracks in the star ring, and then stretched rapidly under the action of the force field, forming a spindle shield like the "Aurora".
From the outside, the plasma shield is blue and white in color, which is not as dazzling and colorful as "Aurora". But even so, it was a great shock to the low-level pirates like "Apollo" who hadn't seen much of the world.
The five battleships paused for a while, and after about 10 seconds, the gunners pressed the fire button amidst the captain's roar.
The water splashed out by more than a dozen projectiles is usually poured on the plasma shield outside the Morningstar. The silver-blue light waves flow, and a large amount of plasma gathers in the bow of the ship under the action of the star ring sensor components, forming a high-density plasma flow. .
When the projectile hits the dense plasma stream, the kinetic energy carried by it is absorbed by the cohesive plasma, and then squeezed out of the shield range. It can't cause the slightest damage to the hull at all.
5vs1, the first round of attack was fruitless, and the bridge staff of the five warships on the opposite side were all dumbfounded. This level of attack is replaced by a normal destroyer. Even considering that the bow armor is the thickest, and it was lucky not to be sunk, the main structure may have been damaged, and the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced, but the guy on the opposite side is fine, as if he is okay.
What is that thick layer of silver-blue shield outside it?
Since kinetic energy bombs are fruitless, what about heat exchange energy bombs? Wei Wei was overly surprised, and the interception team fired several thunderbolts.
At this time, the distance between the two has been shortened to 40k. Thunderbolts, large and small, whizzed past and headed straight for the opposite target. This time, they learned the lesson of the previous attack and launched an all-round three-dimensional bombing.
Fragmentation warheads, high-explosive warheads, EP shock warheads, radioactive warheads, and even small-yield nuclear charge bombs... exploded on the surface of the spindle-shaped plasma shield in sequence.
Heat energy, explosive energy, powerful fragments, pulse waves, high-energy rays, and so on, all kinds of attacks instantly enveloped the entire hull, the silver-blue shield oscillated rapidly, and strong lights flowed on the surface one after another. Under the adjustment of the star ring induction device, the plasma output of the storage tank in the belly of the ship increased sharply. The porthole reflects the rapidly changing light of the shield, shining brightly, like the sparkling water waves floating on the shallow surface of the sea.
Tang Fang sat in the captain's seat. Looking at the reading of the nuclear energy consumed by the star ring, he frowned slightly. Sure enough, the plasma shield does not have a strong energy supply, which will reveal the defect of insufficient endurance. Especially in the face of kinetic energy and explosive energy attacks, the load on the system is relatively large, but in the defense of energy and ray-type attacks, it is very effective.
It seems...the plasma mode is really not comparable to the zero element mode.
But even so, with just 5 small and medium warships, it is absolutely impossible to break through the plasma shield. The distance of 40k seems to be constant. But in the cosmic starry sky, it's just a drop in the ocean. Braving the hail of bullets, the Morning Star rushed towards the opposing interception team at maximum speed.
The captains of the five pirate warships were stunned by the scene in front of them. Seeing the Morning Star rushing straight over, the two destroyers in the middle subconsciously spread out to the left and right. At the same time, with wisps of smoke, the Morning Star sailed in the same direction, and the bow of the ship "passed by" the two strings of the 2nd destroyer.
Of course, the metaphor of "passing by" may be somewhat inaccurate, but referring to the size of the universe, it is okay to say that a distance of several hundred meters is just passing by.
Finally, the main guns on the two strings of the Morning Star moved, and the six railguns spun quickly, firing a row of lightning projectiles at the two destroyers passing by, and the plum blossom-shaped rapid-fire gun array on the bottom of the ship also disappeared along the plasma shield. The pores sweep out rows of light rain.
There are also dark deep-space torpedoes, which silently ejected from the launch tube at the bottom of the ship's belly, passing the two destroyers, and quickly heading for the three frigates whose sight was blocked and unable to respond.
In the blink of an eye, waves of fire surged, fragments flew, and the high-explosive armor-piercing projectiles of the rapid-fire guns left a long scar on the side strings of the two pirate destroyers. The projectiles fired by the 6 railguns directly smashed the weapon system, the ship island, and even penetrated the external armor in the situation of the string battle.
In the short moment of passing by, when the enemy ship was caught off guard, three rounds of attacks were carried out, and the two pirate destroyers were sent to a dead end. As for the other three frigates, the deep-space torpedoes, under the cover of the pirate destroyers, evaded the shipboard radar and hit the frigates one after another, turning them into wreckages filled with fireworks.
The five battleships behind were burning with raging flames and rolled to the left and right. The shield of the Morningstar was shining with light, and the silver blue rowed from the bow to the stern. From the beginning to the end, the speed did not decrease, and it rushed straight to the main pirate fleet.
Charlemagne was taken aback. When the intelligence agent reported the news of the annihilation of the interception team, the first reaction of the new deputy head was that this was impossible, and there must be a mistake. 2 destroyers plus 3 frigates, according to common sense, the combat power ratio exceeds 3:1, can this advantage be defeated? Not to mention that the entire army was wiped out, why didn't these intelligence guys wake up? Such unimaginable results, if you think about it with your butt, you know that it will never happen.
However, when the intelligence agent tremblingly transferred a picture to the big screen on the bridge No. 2, Charlemagne and a group of staff were completely dumbfounded, what a joke!
In the picture, a battleship bathed in silver-blue light is rapidly approaching the main fleet, and behind it is an interception team that explodes all the way and goes farther and farther.
"Hiss..." Everyone gasped.
"Captain, it's not good. A large number of low thermal energy reactions appeared on the left wing of 'Crystal'. The estimated number... 260."
As soon as the voice fell, it followed. The man's voice suddenly increased by 80 decibels: "The right... The right wing also detected a thermal reaction, and the energy level is high. The number... 150!"
"What?" Charlemagne finally couldn't sit still, and with all his strength, he lifted his butt off the tiger leather chair, and said nervously, "Is it Stephen? Su?"
"No...not." The intelligence officer glanced carefully at the results of the ship's quantum radar analysis, and shook his head: "They are all small ships."
"Small ship?" Charlemagne was puzzled, why did the small ship come to join in the fun? 260+150, a total of 410, if it is the same as your own. It is composed of frigates, destroyers, cruisers, and battleships. With the current pirate force of less than 300, they can only pack their bags and go home.
If the opponents are only some small ships, then the result is a different matter. The giant ship cannons of one's own side can wipe out those 400 small ships in minutes, which is simply death!
"Since it's not Stephen Sue, and it's impossible to be Ruskin Eddie, who could it be?" Charlemagne frowned.
At this time. After receiving the order from the superior, the reconnaissance ship that went to the two wings for investigation sent back some image data, and the intelligence officer quickly transferred the latest information to the main monitor of the bridge.
left wing. As the operating parameters of the high-power optical lens of the reconnaissance ship's sensing system were fine-tuned, the picture gradually became clearer. One after another, the starry sky behemoths with hideous appearances and frightening figures flew out of the shadow area of "Christelle". The left wing outflanked the "Apollo" battleship group.
The low-calorie unit in the mouth of the intelligence officer is actually... a group of big bugs, big bugs that can traverse the void alone!
Charlemagne really wanted to complain: "Master God, are you kidding me?", however. The picture that appeared on the right wing gave him another blow.
Unlike the big bugs on the left wing, the flying units that appear on the right wing are aerospace fighters and milky white transport planes. And a mechanical battle group composed of dazzling aircraft.
What's going on? Charlemagne and the deputy captain looked at each other, and the scene in front of them subverted their cognition. Two flying units with completely different systems entered randomly? There is also a Lone Ranger behind the ass. The three surrounded the "Apollo" fleet.
"Order the destroyers and frigates on the two wings to change their formation, and the formation of battleships and cruisers to suspend their firepower suppression on the ground. First, let me eliminate this group of intruders who don't open their eyes." Charmain clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
For the first time leading a group of people on an expedition, can't he let him easily take away "Christelle"? What happened to cause these strange combinations?
Where did the biological battleship come from? Where did the mechanical battle group come from? There is also a modified Lightning Python-class destroyer posing straight towards the "Headless Horseman" in a soul-stirring posture. Where did they come from?
Charlemagne had never experienced the Rector naval battle, so he naturally didn't know the origin of these messy and weird flying units, and he didn't know that there were not only two factions of aircraft coming directly to the pirate battleships from afar, but another kind , unfortunately he can't see it.
According to the deputy commander's instructions, the frigates and destroyers on standby on both wings of the fleet quickly turned and spread out to the left and right, while the formation of cruisers and battleships behind them was stepped up or down to form a standard cross-shaped battle formation.
Although his identity is a pirate, from the point of view of quickly changing formations, he must have practiced a lot.
In a short period of time, the attack formation that was in a state of clamping down on the "Christian" star divided into two sets of cross battle formations, one on the left and one on the right. Charlemagne's "Headless Horseman" and its direct escorts turned around, facing the gradually slowing down of the Morningstar, activated their long-range weapons, and ejected kinetic energy projectiles one after another.
Putting up a combat stance in the air, in order to weaken the pressure of the "Christian" land-based weapons on the air units, the pirate landing force shifted from the original passive attack to advance across the board, maintaining fire suppression on the defense lines around the park.
Finally, a sea battle kicked off. The two sides did not negotiate, and there was no talk. The pirates tried their best to eliminate these intruders without self-knowledge in a short time. Tang Fang, on the other hand, was determined to completely defeat the fleet of the Apollo Pirates to weaken Albert's forces and pave the way for Byron to regain control of "Apollo".
Light, continuous flashes are shot out by various battleship masters and auxiliary turrets, and a large number of missiles roar away like a hot stream from a volcanic crater, carrying thick clouds of smoke.
On the space battlefield with a diameter of several hundred kilometers, light and rain are like weaving, and the projectiles are like meteorites from outside the sky with raging fire, spanning hundreds of kilometers, splashing on the camps of humans and insects.
With the help of reconnaissance ships, combat support ships, and shipboard fire control radars, the railgun projectiles are extremely accurate, and the small units of the human and insect races have no shields, and the units flying in the front are hit straight.
However, what is creepy is that the projectile with extremely high kinetic energy penetrates the target's body so easily. There is no explosion, no flash, and no flesh and blood flying across the body. It only causes light streaks in the void and distorts the picture. (to be continued)