One Thousand Three Hundred and Forty-Nine Swarm Priority

Gao Kai chose to accelerate at this time not on a whim, but had this idea long ago.

The reason why the fleet slowed down in advance was to slow down the speed so as to fight the enemy decisively. Now it re-accelerated in order to seize the initiative in the battle.

Generally speaking, speed advantage and altitude advantage are both important in air combat. Although there is no atmosphere in space, many principles are universal.

To put it simply, if the speed of the warship is too slow, it will become a live target of the enemy, and it will be passive as much as possible; if the speed is too fast, it will stagger and pass by. It will take several hours to turn around after a moment of contact, and then it will take the same time to fly back for the next round of attack.

If it is a long journey and there is no time to slow down, then the time consumed by each round of charge will be calculated in months. By then, there will be nothing to fight. The two sides will just charge back and forth for fun. It is estimated that the fuel will not be able to hold up after a few times.

At present, both the enemy and us have the intention of a decisive battle, so they will maintain an appropriate speed at the same time, but within the appropriate speed range, they will try their best to compete for the speed advantage.

There is another very critical point - although dogfights between warships are also close-range fights, the so-called far and near refer to the space scale. The actual distance is not measured in meters, but in kilometers. A straight-line distance of dozens of kilometers is short, and hundreds or even thousands of kilometers are not surprising.

The plots in the movies, where several kilometers or tens of kilometers are often used, and naval guns are used to fight each other face to face, or even collide with each other, are difficult to stage in reality, unless the commanders of both sides have a brain twitch at the same time and must fight each other by ramming.

Battleship ramming is a tactic in the era of sailing warships. At that time, the means of long-range attack were very limited, and the combat distance between the two sides was only a few hundred meters. The super close distance and relatively slow speed were prerequisites for using ramming tactics.

Since the modern era, there has been no record of ramming and sinking enemy ships in naval battles between countries. Even if you want to ram, you have to pass the naval gun and torpedo test first. Not to mention the era of beyond-visual-range combat, you can't even see the enemy ship, let alone ramming.

The characteristics of space battles are long distances and high speeds. Even if both sides intentionally slow down their speed, the relative speed per second is still 100 to 80 meters. In addition, the warships are heavy and large, and it is not easy to turn and overcome inertia. It is not so easy to hit the enemy ships. Therefore, the probability of collision between warships is so small that it can be ignored.

The combat distance between the two sides depends on the longest range of the weapons, and those with longer arms naturally have more advantages.

In this regard, humans with a variety of weapons undoubtedly have a great advantage. This is why Gao Kai is not worried at all even though there are few warships in the Nanzhou fleet - you can't hit me, but I can hit you with my fists. What else is there to worry about?

Gao Kai thought so, and

did so. While there was still some distance between the enemy and us, all warships opened fire with full force, missiles one round after another, and super shotguns one after another.

The main force on the surface is missiles, but the main force in reality is super shotguns. Countless finger-sized steel balls set up a net in front of the fleet, just waiting for the enemy planes to drill in... That's right, it's enemy planes, not enemy ships!

At present, the relative speed of the enemy and us is too slow, and the steel balls are too small. They can't do much when hitting the heavily armored warships, but it's different when facing the sky full of insects. This thing is a fragile skin. No matter how slow the steel balls are, they are much faster than bullets. I dare not say that one steel ball can kill a insect, but as long as it hits, it is enough to give the insect a good drink.

Think about what it looks like when a person is hit by a bullet, and you can think of what the result will be if the insect is hit. The insect is not a lifeless machine, and it will be affected by a hard hit.

With this in mind, the Nanzhou fleet started to attack from 3,000 kilometers. When the distance was shortened to 2,000 kilometers, 50% of the missiles had been used up, and one-third of the super shotgun shells were left.

The aliens were not idle either. Their fleets have not stopped spreading. The faster insect swarms even spread out like a big net and covered the Nanzhou fleet head-on.

Although the aliens cannot see the super shotgun, they have suffered too much and have long been on guard against the Nanzhou fleet's dirty tricks. The alien fleet is so scattered to avoid super shotguns.

As for the insect planes in the sky, the aliens don't think it's a big deal, because the insect planes are relatively small and the probability of being hit by super shotguns is not as high as that of warships.

In addition, the insect plane tactics have not only been successful on the Leishan, but also successfully hit several other warships. The aliens believe that the insect swarm tactics are a very effective means of combat, and the cost of insect planes is much lower than that of warships, so they used the insect sea tactics very wretchedly, preparing to use the insect plane swarm to submerge the human fleet.

According to the calculation of the Nanzhou, the enemy has dispatched no less than 30,000 insect planes, which are evenly distributed to the Nanzhou fleet. Each warship can get 1,500. Even if only one-tenth of them are successfully hit, it is an absolute air crash for human warships.

Just think about it, more than a thousand lizards running rampant in the warship, what a terrifying and horrifying scene it would be.

At this moment, the radar screen of the Nanzhou was full of flashing red dots. The front, as well as the top, bottom, left and right sides of the front were all filled with red dots. Seeing this scene, everyone's first reaction was to think of the old saying that ants can kill elephants.

Gao Kai was also nervous. He suddenly felt that it was not a good thing to disperse the fleet. The distance was too far, which was equivalent to giving the enemy the opportunity to defeat them one by one. Maybe it would play into the aliens' hands!

An alien's smug smile immediately appeared in his mind.

Fortunately, it was not too late to realize the problem now. He immediately ordered: "Order all ships to approach me. Don't worry about the insect planes for now. Concentrate firepower to fire at the enemy ships... Also, order all carrier-based aircraft to take off. All ships should fire at the insect swarm first!"

After receiving the order, the aviation force, which had been prepared for a long time, set off immediately. Fighter planes flew out of the warships one after another, and then the fleet was divided into several waves, facing the directions with the most concentrated insect planes.

As the ships approached the Nanzhou, they continuously fired missiles and super shotgun shells at the incoming insect swarm.

The enemy ships and aircraft kept firing fine beams, but all the fine beams were aimed at missiles. There was no way. The steel balls were too small and too many. Even if the aliens could see them, they could not intercept them. Besides, it was hard to say whether they could see them.

The distance between the two sides finally reached 2,000 kilometers. The insect swarm took the lead and the distance between them and the Nanzhou fleet was less than 1,000 kilometers.

At this moment, a insect plane was hit by a super shotgun shell. The elytra that had been vibrating non-stop became slower and slower, and soon stopped completely.