Chapter 430 Dirty, Too Dirty

"The optical sensor captured the target. It is a large body painted in red! It matches the characteristics of the 'Red Devil' previously shared by the Federation!"

Amber's plane was quickly captured by the United Fleet and quickly identified by the signature database.

After the Pyla Galaxy conflict ended, according to the agreement reached between the Federation and Atlas, they finally took away a group of senior officers, including Van Fleet and Guterres, and the remaining battleships.

As for the remaining ships, ground troops, and ground equipment, there was no intention to go back at all, and of course there was no order for the ground troops to surrender.

It was clear that he wanted to leave these things to Atlas and at the same time disgust them. This kind of rogue operation naturally made everyone in Atlas feel very disdainful.

In the battleship sent back to the Federation, all kinds of information about the "Red Devil" stored in it were quickly extracted and studied. The final result was that in addition to allowing the Federation to start researching this kind of specialization in space warfare, In addition to the large HCP, it was before the joint fleet dispatched that the characteristic identification data of the 'Red Devil' was sent over.

At this time, although the fleets of each enterprise will be fighting independently, the communication and command within their fleets are still smooth.

After discovering the enemy attacking from the zenith direction, the already somewhat limited quantum encryption communication bandwidth was immediately allocated a large part to the air defense headquarters of each ship, allowing them to complete the network formation and transfer the information of each ship. Summary.

The most senior air defense commander also automatically became the air defense commander of the entire fleet under this circumstance, and began to guide the destroyers and frigates responsible for air defense tasks to attack.

The mid- to high-level officers in each corporate fleet are basically officers poached from the federal navy or graduates from the Naval Ship Academy - the federation does not mandate that graduates of the Naval Ship Academy must enter the military service, but it is obvious that Joining the federal navy is more tempting than joining the fleets of various companies, so the graduates cut off by various companies are basically the last trainees.

Such a composition of middle- and high-level officers allows these federal corporate fleets to be consistent with the federal navy in many operational processes, including the current air defense operations.

Although the fleets of different companies are busy, and based on the level of personnel training, the speed of air defense operations is also fast or slow, but at least no fleet has not even completed this step, so Amber is also very fast It was intercepted by the fleet's air defense network.

"The satellite missile group begins to attack! The second wave of penetration teams and combat boat groups are ready to attack!" While controlling the body to perform evasive actions under high G force, Amber also issued new instructions.

Soon, at the edge of the 'entrance and exit' of the rubble belt that the combined fleet passed, asteroid rubble with diameters ranging from hundreds of meters to several kilometers that had been floating quietly in the universe began to move.

Several camouflage tarpaulins on the surface of the rock mass were lifted, revealing a number of solid rocket thrusters with extremely thick inner diameters that looked like they were 'full of tiles'. They quickly erupted with Lilith's signal. tail flame.

At first, the thrusters used by these 'satellite missile groups' were actually solid-liquid hybrid thrusters or high-energy liquid thrusters with higher specific impulses, but this was quickly rejected by Amber.

Because this kind of 'satellite missile swarm' is essentially pushing asteroid rubble to collide with the enemy. It will not explode itself. It is purely a low-tech, energy-saving weapon that directly impacts the enemy with its huge mass.

Moreover, Amber never had any expectations for their accuracy. The mission of these 'satellite missile groups' around A. Bawa Ku in battle was more to create chaos for the enemy troops and attract some Anti-aircraft firepower.

Although the chance of a direct impact is very low, if they are hit, the worst result is severe damage, so it is impossible for the enemy to really ignore these 'little cuties'.

Under this positioning, the cheapest solid rocket thruster has become the final choice.

"Report! A large-scale low-mass object has been detected around the fleet and is moving towards the fleet's current trajectory!"

The attack of the satellite missile group was naturally unable to be concealed, so it was quickly discovered by the ships of the combined fleet. When these squadron commanders and air defense commanders saw these gravels that had been accelerated to a high relative speed, , after the tail flame behind them extinguished and still rushed towards their location resolutely, they couldn't help but feel a little panicked.

If there were only dozens or hundreds of such 'kinetic energy bombs', each squadron would assign tasks and focus fire to quickly clear them out. But now the number captured by radar and optical sensors is 3,415.

"TMD, are Atlas very rich? How can they deploy so many of these low-hitting, one-time, low-efficiency weapons?"

Many air defense commanders had cold sweat on their heads. It’s not that they had not trained on asteroids with overlapping attack paths, but in the textbooks of the Federal Naval Academy and the Navy’s combat doctrine, they were not told how to deal with more than 3,000 asteroids. What to do when the planet is rubble

The shipboard control personalities of each battleship quickly worked together to calculate the path of the satellite missile group, but when those dense red lines covered the entire combined fleet like a big net, even Megan and Bell's faces showed An expression like eating shit.

"It's so dirty, how could anyone be so dirty!"

Bell, the fleet operations adjutant, was the first to curse. As an outstanding graduate of the Federal Naval Academy, he was poached by the Raging Waves Group with a high salary after joining the Federal Navy. He is also an out-and-out "academic" commander.

So when faced with this completely unconventional tactic, his reaction was still very intense.

"This shows that Atlas has regarded this conflict as a "war". In a war, do you still expect your enemy to abide by the so-called "gentleman's agreement" with you and fight back and forth elegantly?"

Megan said without looking back, while quickly thinking about countermeasures in her mind.

Although there were no similar battle examples to refer to before, Megan still knew that there were only two best ways to deal with it at the moment.

The first is that the entire joint fleet quickly passes through this area, while avoiding these asteroid debris, approaching the vicinity of the asteroid fortress.

The second is that the joint fleet quickly shrinks and then uses a spherical formation for omnidirectional air defense.

But the premise for these two methods to be implemented is that the entire joint fleet can obey his command and accurately execute every instruction he issued, but it is obviously impossible to do so now.

And the fleet commander had to admit that Atlas had a good timing to launch the attack. First, the sudden appearance of the "Red Devil" put pressure on all air defense commanders, and then the impact of these asteroid debris.

Anyone who has read the combat records of Pyra IV knows that in addition to the "Red Devil", Atlas also has a new type of small combat boat with a high threat, so everyone has been on guard against these units that have not yet appeared.

But now these asteroid debris that threaten the fleet have forced them to allocate a lot of attention and firepower units to this side.

"If those combat boats also launch an attack at this time, the fleet air defense network may not be able to stop it."

Just as Megan had this idea in his mind, the words of the tactical information coordinator made his premonition come true.

"All squadrons report that 4 more heavy HCPs have been captured in the zenith direction. Their features match those of the 'Red Devil' and they are considered to be mass-produced machines of the same series!"

"Wait, there are more than just these four heavy machines! There are also units that are suspected to be heavy combat boats, 240 in number!"

After hearing the words of the combat information coordinator, Megan only had one thought in her mind: "It's over."

If Atlas's series of combined punches were facing the regular army of the Federation Navy, although it would also cause considerable trouble, at least under his command, they could still respond and minimize the losses.

But unfortunately, the huge corporate fleet in this space is still far behind the regular army, and after being attacked twice by mysterious weapons, many corporate fleets have lost their will to fight.

In this case, it is simply a fantasy to want to organize a defense. It is already good enough for each fleet to barely maintain its own air defense network.

"Bell, contact the 23rd and 24th fleets of the Federation Navy. Now we can only rely on them to turn the situation around."

"Yes! Sir!" Bell nodded, and then asked before leaving:

"What should we do before they arrive?"

"Let the squadrons that are willing to obey our command follow us to continue the attack and leave this dangerous area."

Megan Ford narrowed her eyes, looking at the disconnected corporate fleets on the three-dimensional schematic diagram, and said without emotion: "As for those who are unwilling to follow orders. 'Life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are determined by God', so I wish them good luck."