Chapter 474 Fortress Vs. Fortress
When Duke Duke and Duke William had to choose to continue the frontal attack, Duke Hastings and Duke Artesia also entered the battle stage.
In the case that the two celestial fortresses of Gospel and Tranquility had not upgraded their liquid metal armor, Duke Hastings would naturally not use such an extremely risky tactic like Duke Duke, and his final response method was relatively conservative.
The fleet of the battle group entered the scene first to attract attention, and roughly figured out the defensive forces other than the mobile fortress through firepower reconnaissance.
The reaction of the second mobile fortress of the Federation was the same as Hastings had expected before. Because of fear of the celestial fortress of the Empire, it was delayed in opening fire.
In the eyes of Duke Hastings, this was actually an open conspiracy.
Under the pull of Marshal Trafalgar, no matter how the commanders of the Empire thought and hesitated, in 99% of cases, they would implement the "home exchange" tactic of using the celestial fortress to attack the mobile fortress.
This also means that the mobile fortress of the Federation was ready to fight against two celestial fortresses at the same time from the beginning.
Especially after Duke Duke and Duke William had taken the lead in launching the attack, the commander of the mobile fortress that Duke Hastings faced must have also received the news that his friendly forces had been attacked - here Duke Hastings silently thanked the Atlas Group for popularizing ultra-long-distance real-time communication technology, otherwise the other party would not have received the news so quickly.
In this case, the other party must have focused most of their energy on the two celestial fortresses that could enter the field at any time.
So when facing a large number of imperial fleets that entered the field first, they became a little cautious and did not dare to use the main gun to attack easily.
After all, what is now placed in front of the commander of the mobile fortress is a multiple-choice question:
A. Let the main gun fire and attack the imperial fleet that is already close to the face
B. Wait for the imperial celestial fortress to enter the field, and then wait for an opportunity to fire
And this multiple-choice question is obviously not that easy to do.
If the commander of the mobile fortress was impulsive, he could certainly use the main gun to sweep away an entire imperial fleet, but the two celestial fortresses of the empire might just enter the field after he entered the ‘CD period’, and the situation would immediately become extremely bad, and he might be killed by the two ‘Focusing Rainbows’.
So when the Duke of Hastings boldly sent out 8 full fleets to attack in advance, and only left 2 fleets around to deal with emergencies, the Federation’s defense in this galaxy became a little uncomfortable.
After Marshal Trafalgar withdrew the elite, there were only 5 fleets left in this galaxy except for a mobile fortress, and half of the ships were just replenished some time ago, or even just formed.
So when they could not get the main gun support from the mobile fortress, the 8 attack fleets sent by the Duke of Hastings had more room to play.
Even though the mobile fortress has a large number of battleship-level heavy particle cannons as secondary weapons in addition to the main guns, they are ultimately not as threatening as the main guns in terms of deterrence and lethality.
This period of time was extremely tormenting for the commander of the federal mobile fortress, because he could only watch his own defensive fleet fall into this bloody exchange.
So much so that he finally violated Marshal Trafalgar's order and chose to fire at the Imperial Fleet.
When the surging heavy metal particle jets crossed the universe and swept through the area where an Imperial fleet was located, the commander of the mobile fortress looked at the wreckage in the target universe, but he was not excited at all.
At this moment, what came to his mind was more regret for his reckless decision.
And after a while, when the alarm of detecting "super-mass growth" sounded twice in a row, this regret reached its peak.
Looking at the two celestial fortresses that appeared on the left and right in the cold universe, and their slowly adjusting beam axes, the commander of the mobile fortress asked anxiously: "How long will it take for the main gun to fire again?"
"Sir! It will take at least 20 minutes, and it can only be irradiated at 70% of the power!"
After hearing this answer, the commander of the fortress knew that there was no time left for him to fight back. According to the information collected about the Imperial Celestial Fortress before, it only takes more than six minutes from the departure jump to the main gun firing
Thinking of this, he made a decision immediately.
"Pass my order, disconnect the energy circuits of all weapon units, and distribute all energy to the power unit and deflection force field unit at a ratio of 2:8! Activate the overclocking mode of all deflection force field generators, and set the route to intersect with the predicted route of the Imperial Celestial Fortress!
The auxiliary defense fleet will continue to attack the Imperial fleet as planned, lift the restrictions on the use of proton annihilation bombs, and let the commander of the auxiliary defense fleet decide the timing of use!"
When the order of the commander of the mobile fortress was issued, everyone in the core command room guessed what he was going to do.
There was no exciting speech, nor any morale-boosting speech before the final moment. In the limited time, there was only this cold order.
But despite this, no one in the core command room raised any objections or was afraid of fighting at this juncture. They seemed to have been mentally prepared and continued to do their work in silence.
And this federal mobile fortress, which seemed to be in a desperate situation, also rushed towards the Tranquility Fortress where the Duke of Artesia was located at an increasingly faster speed under the blue light of the main propulsion array in the rear hemisphere.
"Hastings!" Duke Artesia's somewhat nervous voice sounded in the communication channel.
Under the warning of the fortress control personality, she naturally noticed the federal mobile fortress rushing towards the Tranquility Fortress. Although it looks like a huge sphere with a diameter of 350 kilometers, it is equipped with a large number of high-power plasma propulsion arrays. When it accelerates, it is like a "flexible fat man".
Although it is not easy to use an object of such volume and mass to complete a precise collision, Duke Artesia does not want to block the two largest creations built by humans so far. What kind of scene will it be when they collide with each other.
"Don't panic! Just complete the irradiation according to the predetermined procedure."
Duke Hastings' voice remained calm at this time, because the reaction of the federal mobile fortress did not surprise him.
In other words, in this desperate situation, the commander of the federal mobile fortress only had this only option left.
A few minutes later, in the core command rooms of Gospel Fortress and Tranquility Fortress, the two fortress control personalities almost simultaneously issued a reminder that the "Focusing Rainbow is ready", and the two Dukes of Hastings and Artesia did not hesitate after hearing the reminder.
"'Focusing Rainbow' begins to shine!" ×2
As their orders were issued, the next moment, two "Sky Rivers" appeared in this universe at the same time, and the Federation Mobile Fortress at their intersection was also completely engulfed by the dazzling silver light that suddenly lit up.