Five Hundred and Ninetieth Chapters, Chasing Death and Chasing North

Many people also had the same question. Huang Bo was the first to ask, "Commander, can you do it with only three turrets?"

"Aren't there still eight close-in defense guns?" Yan Jing was full of confidence.

"What if our firepower cannot destroy the enemy ship?"

"Do I seem to be such a dogmatic person? If the firepower is insufficient, report it quickly, and follow my orders when the time comes." Yan Jing said.

Everyone understood the meaning of the words, and it was considered a reassurance for everyone. Huang Bo immediately ordered the whole ship to prepare for battle.

Note that it is the whole ship that is ready for battle, not turrets one to three, that is to say, as long as necessary, the Yuewan can put all its artillery fire into battle at any time.

It's one thing to use it or not, it's another to not prepare for the time it takes. As the saying goes, it's not a problem to think of the enemy as tough as possible.

The orders given by the other captains were similar, including the Rainbow Bay where Yan Jing was located.

Yan Jing didn't express any opinions on this, and there was no need to express any opinions, because pre-war preparations should have been done in this way.

At this time, the fleet is still an hour away from the enemy. At first glance, the time seems to be more than enough, but the expeditionary force has been sailing in the universe for nearly a year, and all weapons and equipment have not been maintained. The entire ship must be equipped before the battle. Perform a necessary test to make sure everything is in order with the weaponry.

In this way, one hour seemed too short. Even if the maintenance team ran and broke their legs, it was impossible to complete the inspection of all weapons and equipment before the start of the battle. They could only focus on the No. 1 to No. 3 turrets.

Fortunately, although the construction of Level 024 has been rushing, the quality of the project has not deteriorated in the slightest. After the system self-inspection, the fire control system is normal.

The expedition fleet is still half an hour away from the asteroid. Yan Jing made a decisive decision and ordered the fleet to change formation. The Hongwan and Luwan will form a group, and the Summer Bay and Yuewan will form a second group. They will continue to fly in the form of a two-ship formation. to the asteroid.

The fleet finally received a reply from the command center. The core of the call was only four words: play by ear.

The general is outside, and the king's order is not accepted. It is the expeditionary force that is about to exchange fire with the enemy fleet. The command center is far away on the earth. The communication delay with the expeditionary fleet is more than half an hour. It is impossible to grasp the situation faced by the expeditionary force in real time. How can you issue combat orders to the expeditionary force?

In a word, everything about the expeditionary force can only be resolved internally.

The fleet continued to move forward, and everyone returned to their combat positions. Even the marines who had absolutely no chance to participate in the battle put on power armor and stayed in the cabin.

Sixteen minutes away from the asteroid, the aliens finally discovered the arrival of the expeditionary force. The originally orderly alien spacecraft suddenly became extremely chaotic. Dozens of various spacecraft took off from the asteroid. Half of the spaceships ran away desperately, and the other half of the spaceships went around behind the asteroid, hiding behind the asteroid to avoid the expedition fleet.

Huang Bo looked at the escape trajectory of the alien fleet, curled his lips in disdain: "It's pretty good."

The alien spaceship has just taken off, and its speed is definitely not as good as that of the expedition fleet. In this case, only by escaping in a direction perpendicular to the route of the expedition fleet can it escape as far as possible in the shortest possible time.

But the alien fleet didn't do that at all, but fled directly in the direction of Jupiter.

At this time, the fleet is still far away from Jupiter, and Jupiter is still an inconspicuous little red dot directly in front of the expedition fleet, but Jupiter can already be distinguished from the stars with the naked eye.

Unless the alien fleet can increase its speed to more than 70 kilometers per second in a short period of time, these alien spacecraft will sooner or later be overtaken by the expeditionary fleet.

But looking at the acceleration of the alien fleet, it is obviously impossible to do this.

The behavior of the alien fleet is really unreasonable, so Huang Bo regards the behavior of the alien fleet as a false attack and a false defeat.

Flagship Rainbow Bay.

Yan Jing found that the alien spacecraft was running and dodging, and had no intention of fighting at all, so he couldn't help feeling a little bit puzzled.

Are aliens really blocking here on purpose?

But it's pointless to study this now.

Yan Jing stared at the asteroid for a few seconds, and then ordered in a low voice that had just returned to normal: "Order, one group goes up and the other group goes down. Keep a little distance...about 200 kilometers."

The diameter of the asteroid is only more than one hundred kilometers. After the two groups of warships are separated, the firepower of the fleet will cover the upper and lower ends of the asteroid, leaving only a very small area behind to hide.

However, the distance between the four warships was originally not less than 100 kilometers, but it was originally an in-line formation suitable for long-distance voyages. Now it is necessary to increase the height and incorporate the space around the asteroid into the expeditionary force as much as possible. artillery fire.

The expeditionary fleet flew closer and closer, and when it was less than a minute away from the asteroid, Yan Jing issued a combat order, and the four warships activated No. 1 to No. 3 turrets at the same time. The sides are separated, folded and dropped on both sides of the turret, revealing the twin laser cannons under the guard.

The 120mm dual-mounted laser cannon looks like two large-caliber astronomical telescopes tied together, but this thing is a real killer, the highest achievement of human energy weapons!

Don't think that only the U.S. has Zenith military technology. China's high-energy laser weapons started very early. Although its achievements are kept secret, it has the strength to crush the U.S. imperial laser weapons.

The laser cannon of the 024-class space battleship has an effective range of 1,200 kilometers. That is to say, from the time the enemy ship enters the range to when it leaves the range, the expeditionary fleet has 16 seconds to open fire calmly.

If the tail cannon is also used, there will be another sixteen seconds!

Yan Jing was careful not to slow down the fleet, and forbid the fleet to get too close to the asteroid, so the fleet will pass the asteroid at a speed of 72 kilometers per second at a distance of more than 400 kilometers from the asteroid.

In this way, even if the aliens set some traps near the asteroid, they will not be able to catch up with the expedition fleet, thus preventing the fleet from falling into the pockets of the aliens.

The asteroid was getting closer and closer, and finally entered the range of the main gun, but the alien spaceship cunningly hid behind the asteroid, showing no flaws. Twelve dual-mounted laser cannons, within the limited time when the fleet passed the asteroid, Just didn't find a chance to fire.

Yan Jing simply ordered the ships to use tail guns to defend against possible pursuits, and then chased the fleeing enemies with all their strength.

There were about 30 alien spacecraft that escaped from the asteroid, and they escaped too late, until the expedition fleet passed the asteroid, the speed of the alien spacecraft was still far lower than that of the expeditionary force.

The distance between the two sides shortened at a speed visible to the naked eye. Perhaps the aliens realized that there was no time to escape. The thirty or so spaceships that had been gathered together suddenly came to a heavenly girl to scatter flowers, scattered and flew in all directions, trying to escape the attack of the expedition fleet. hit.