Six Hundred and Thirty Third Saturated Bombardment

The muzzle velocity of ordinary artillery shells generally does not exceed two kilometers per second. The naval guns of the expeditionary fleet have not undergone any special enhancements, but in the vacuum environment of the universe, the initial velocity has a certain bonus, about 2,400 meters per second.

Moreover, what the expeditionary fleet fired was not ordinary artillery shells, but rocket speed-up shells.

This thing is actually an ordinary rocket range-extending bomb, but there is no resistance in space. As long as the shell misses the target, it can fly indefinitely. There is no range limit.

The speed of the cannonball itself plus the bonus of the rocket, after six seconds, the speed has exceeded three kilometers per second. The crimson cannonball tore through the dark space, turning into dozens of rainbow lights and rushing towards Europa.

Compared with the speed of tens of kilometers per second of warships, the speed of shells is really nothing. To put it bluntly, even if the expeditionary fleet uses gun barrels against the ass of alien warships, the shells fired cannot catch up Target.

But dead data on paper is of little use in battle, the real important data is the relative speed between the expedition fleet and the target!

The position of the Second Fleet is seven to eight hundred kilometers away from Europa, and it has always maintained this distance. Once it finds that the alien fleet is approaching, it will immediately retreat.

This is because the effective range of fine light is about 600 to 700 kilometers!

Xiguang's range was not calculated casually, but was calculated based on the combat data of the First Fleet and the combat experience of the Second Fleet during this period.

Directed energy weapons are not good at this point. The power of a little farther away will drop sharply. This is true for human lasers, and the same is true for aliens' fine light. On the contrary, missile shells do not have so many restrictions.

What Gao Kai bullied was the lack of fine light range.

It takes about four minutes for a shell with a speed of more than 3,000 meters per second to reach its target. If the target is a certain alien warship, the warship will not know where it will go when the shell flies to the place, but Europa is a satellite. A satellite with a fixed speed and revolution orbit is unavoidable and unavoidable, and it is simply the best gun target.

At this moment, the core of the battlefield is neither the expedition fleet nor the alien fleet, but Jupiter, which is entrenched by the alien fleet. The relative speed of the enemy and us is very low, and the speed of more than 3,000 meters per second has exceeded the reaction speed of both sides. The shells flew close to Europa, and hundreds of alien warships shot out dense and thin lights at the same time.

The defensive net composed of thin lights couldn't stop the flying shells at all. The shells passed through the gaps in the light net, and after hitting Europa, they set off clusters of dazzling nuclear lights.

Nuclear light illuminates the dark space,

It also illuminated the alien fleet floating near Europa. Dozens of shells exploded in just a few seconds. Nothing seems to have changed.

Europa has a diameter of 170 kilometers, and the equivalent of nuclear artillery shells is relatively small. Let alone only a few dozen, even if tens of thousands of them are tied together and smashed on it, it will not do anything to Europa.

However, the success of this batch of shells opened a door for the expeditionary fleet, confirming that the defense network of the alien fleet could not stop the shells with a speed of more than three kilometers per second.

With this result, the goal of this battle has been achieved, Gao Kai glanced at several comrades: "How is it?"

"It should be fine." Lu Zuo said.

"Then let's get started!"

"Yes, order the formation to set off!"

There is a row of "machine nests" on the left and right sides of the Kunlun. A carrier-based aircraft is placed in each nest. wooden windows.

After that, a stream of flames spewed out from every window, and more than 70 fighters ejected out of the ship at the same time. The well-trained pilots speeded up and flew towards Europa, while dividing them into six groups according to the plan, with exactly 12 fighters in each group. .

The six formations quickly dispersed, and then rushed towards Europa at the fastest speed.

The distance of more than 700 kilometers is enough for the fleet to increase the speed to 3 kilometers per second.

At the same time, the Penglai, hundreds of kilometers away, also released all the warships, and the target was also Europa.

In order to prevent the fighter planes from being sniped by alien warships, Gao Kai gave the fleet an order for saturation strikes as soon as the fleet set off. The ten warships headed by the Kunlun immediately poured artillery fire at the alien fleet at the highest rate of fire.

The turrets placed on the belly and back of the Helicarrier were fully fired, and a cannon was ejected every two seconds; missiles flew out of the honeycomb-like improved missile nest under the ship's belly.

The escorting 024-class B-type removed most of the laser turrets and replaced them with ordinary naval guns. The eight 024-class turrets on the bow facing Europa fired in turn, and each shot was like a beam of dazzling fireworks.

The artillery fire of the 026 class was more violent, and the shells fired by dozens of cannons were like a tide one after another.

The fleet's firepower was also consumed. In less than a minute, ten warships fired more than 3,000 tons of artillery shells at the enemy!

If it is on the ground, three thousand tons of artillery shells is really nothing, but the artillery shells and missiles used by the space fleet are all improved versions considering that there is no resistance in the vacuum environment. The fuel of the missiles and the propellant of the shells are reduced to the minimum. Most of the thousand-ton shells are solid shells, not shell casings.

This is only counting shells, missiles are not counted in it.

For this battle, Gao Kai did spend a lot of money. This burst of shelling alone wiped out a quarter of the fleet's ammunition reserves.

The speed of the shells is the fastest, followed by the speed of the missiles, but they are much faster than the fighter planes. Gao Kai didn't expect the shells and missiles to kill many enemies. On the penetrating fleet.

The saturation attack of the Second Fleet immediately detonated the alien fleet. The speed of each ship's thin light beams was unprecedented, and the vertical and horizontal beams flew up and down, cutting the incoming shells and missiles.

The missiles with limited speed were inevitably cut by the thin light, and some shells were also cut by the thin light, and the light beams quickly across the void, like a huge lightsaber, cut again and again.

There were too many thin lights and too dense, and the fleet had just entered the range of the thin lights, and a dozen of them were destroyed by the flying thin lights.

The atmosphere at the headquarters suddenly became much more dignified.

The consumption of fighter planes is too fast. According to this trend, the fleet will be destroyed by aliens before they can break through the defense network of the alien fleet.

If that happens, the space carrier may follow in the footsteps of the gunship.

Warships in human history have had various combat modes, but space warfare has only appeared in sci-fi works, and no one can tell how to arrange the space fleet is the correct direction.

Gunboats and motherships are the most mature modes of combat for human beings. If neither of these two modes can defeat the aliens, no one really knows what to do.