Chapter 570

Whether it was Rear Admiral Stoner and his crew, or the crew of the Lighthouse and the surrounding escort ships, they all knew clearly at this moment that the enemy forces coming from the nadir direction were heading for the Lighthouse heavy cruiser.

So the captain of the warship that was conducting the guidance operation did not hesitate to order all the weapon units of the ship except the anti-aircraft firepower to be offline, and all the energy was supplied to the deflection force field and the induction signal transmitter.

And soon, the attack from the ATLAS Kai, with Amber's control of the shooting timing and Lilith's auxiliary correction, accurately hit the heavy cruiser.

The crew members on the ship only felt a violent turbulence in the surrounding space, which was the sound of the hull being hit!

Then, in a certain passage in the ship, several crew members who had not had time to fix themselves on the wall were directly hit against the ceiling in the shock, and then fell to the floor by the reaction force.

At the same time, the ship's broadcast also sounded a little late:

"All personnel on board are ready to meet the impact. Repeat! All personnel on board are ready to meet the impact."

"Damn, you're reminding me after the impact, it's better not to remind me!"

A crew member who was thrown to the floor of the passage by the reaction force, and felt that his back was almost broken, complained, and at the same time seized the gap and desperately held the moving handles on the bulkheads on both sides of the passage to assist in moving in a zero-gravity environment.

However, before he had time to help his other companions, the further impact shook the hull and set off the alarm on the ship.

The content of the communicator's full-ship broadcast was also blocked by the explosion transmitted from the outer armor of the hull, and the bodies of these people were flung away again with double the force of the previous impact.

"Confirmed loss! What the hell is the air surveillance doing! How could it be hit continuously? Didn't the surrounding anti-aircraft ships intercept it?"

On the bridge of the 'Lighthouse', the captain, who was firmly fixed to his seat by a safety belt, was lucky enough not to be thrown out in the violent vibration, but the continuous attacks still made him annoyed.

"Don't these people know what this ship is doing now?!"

"Report! It is suspected that the enemy's assault unit's heavy particle cannon is sniping at a very long distance!" The intelligence officer's roared answer quickly reached the captain's ears.

He quickly glanced at the ship status monitoring interface. Although the front section of the bottom deck of the ship was attacked just now, fortunately, the deflection field running at maximum power and the thickened external laminated armor still played a role. In addition, the opponent's sniping at a very long distance caused the heavy particle cannon to scatter to a certain extent, so the continuous attacks did not cause too much damage.

"It's a good thing it wasn't a heavy particle cannon attack from a large battleship, otherwise we would have been turned into space garbage!"

The captain calmed down. He knew that even though these attacks didn't cause much damage, with the enemy's raiding units approaching, it was obviously impossible to use the bottom deck of the ship to meet the attack, so he quickly issued a new order.

"Helmsman, adjust the axis! Meet the enemy with the bow!"

"Yes, Captain! Adjust the axis! Meet the enemy with the bow!"

Hearing his order, the helmsman immediately repeated the order and set the composite steering system to the specified axis. The bow of the 'Lighthouse' also quickly pressed down nearly 90 degrees. After discovering the action of the 'Lighthouse', the nearest escort ships immediately followed suit.

The captain of the 'Lighthouse' knew that since the enemy's raiding units were coming towards him without any concealment, it meant that the enemy had realized the importance of the ship under his feet.

Although the captain couldn't figure out why the people of the Atlas Group realized the special nature of the "Lighthouse" so quickly, this was no longer important.

What was important was how they would guide the proton annihilation bomb after being exposed.

"Is the synthetic image out? What unit is attacking us?"

The captain asked loudly in the communication channel, and the intelligence officer, who had been sweating anxiously during this period, quickly answered:

"The optical image has been captured, but it is very blurry! We are trying to integrate it with the synthetic aperture radar image!"

"Let's see it first!"

Under the captain's order, a synthesized picture was quickly projected onto a screen on the bridge.

Although the red object was still a little blurry in the processed image, the people on the bridge of the "Lighthouse" could still vaguely recognize that it was a unit similar to a large HCP.

It just seemed to have no legs

"Red. Large body?" The captain, who had been exposed to some information, suddenly realized something and immediately called out the shipboard control personality of the "Lighthouse".

"Maya! Put the composite image into the feature library for identification and prioritize the Atlas Group units that have appeared before!"

"Identification completed, feature overlap 90%"

The Lighthouse's shipboard control personality completed the identification almost instantly, and then projected the identification results on the big screen.

This photo, which is displayed side by side with the blurred image just captured, is a photo of the 'ATLAS' super-heavy HCP taken by unknown means.

Judging from the shooting time and other information on the side of the photo, the background should be during the defense of A·Bawa·Ku.

"No! He is the enemy's real 'ace'. Hurry! Mark him as a high-risk unit! Notify all nearby air defense ships to set fire to intercept! He must not be allowed to break through!"

The captain of the 'Lighthouse' reacted quickly, but the Federation Navy, including him, still underestimated the speed of the 'ATLAS reform'.

When he just gave the order, the 'ATLAS modification' in the optical monitoring window was just a blurry bright spot in the distance, but just over ten seconds later, this blurry bright spot had turned into a red phantom.

Although all the shipborne HCPs left behind on the nearby battleships have been dispatched and rushed forward to intercept, the heavy armored combat boats that have been following the wings of the 'ATLAS Kai' are not acting as atmosphere groups.

MA-01B block5, the fifth batch of products produced after the modification of Atlas Military's first heavy armored combat boat, has actually been significantly improved compared to the previous four batches.

The designers racked their brains to stuff a 25-meter twin heavy particle cannon into the 30-meter-long hull. This also makes this kind of combat boat unique when facing HCP. Absolute advantage in firepower.

Even if you don't use a plasma torpedo specifically designed for anti-ship, just using this twin heavy particle cannon can pose a threat to destroyers and even light cruisers at the right angle and timing.

So when two groups of heavy armored combat boats strictly arranged in a box formation attacked the hundreds of HCPs coming to intercept and the warships behind them, one on the left and one on the right, the latter quickly suffered a big loss.

This kind of queuing-to-shoot style of play naturally seems to make the combat boats a target, but if the firepower of the combat boats has the upper hand, the situation will be completely different.

The federal navy's interception HCP was simply unable to rush through the fire zone formed by the salvos of combat boats, or in other words, they simply did not dare to rush.

The few newly recruited recruits may have reacted half a beat slower than the veterans. As a result, the machine body was instantly beaten into a pile of incomprehensible wreckage by the dense rain of light.

Seeing this scene, the commanders who intercepted the HCP immediately shouted in the blue-green laser communication command link:

"Turn! Disperse! Get out of the opponent's forward fire range and try to go around from other directions. The combat axis adjustment of these combat boats is not that quick!" It can be said that the HCP commander's judgment was not wrong. He knew it very well. The differences and advantages and disadvantages between HCP and heavy armored combat boats, so we decisively adopted a strategy of exploiting strengths and avoiding weaknesses.

Since HCP can't compete with frontal firepower and defense, try to use HCP's flexibility to create opportunities.

In close combat, HCP pilots generally maintain control of the follow-up control system. In this mode, the HCP maneuvers are extremely flexible. With the AMBAC maneuver bonus, the ability to turn along the center of mass and adjust the directivity is even higher. horrible.

Therefore, when the heavy armored combat craft is heading in one direction, pounding like a bulldozer, there is absolutely no problem in taking advantage of the flexibility of HCP in tactical maneuvers.

But the problem is that this HCP ignored two issues.

1. These heavy armored combat boats do not only have twin heavy particle cannons.

2. The combat boat cluster moved forward not to attack the fleet, but to cover the advancement of a more critical unit. They wished that the attention of the surrounding intercepting forces would be attracted to them.

"Boss! The large force can only send you here! We will entangle the opponent's intercepting unit!"

Jacob's deputy, the temporary commander of all heavy armored combat boats in the First Fleet, said to Amber, and then issued new instructions on the command channel.

"Attention all combat boats! Three boats in a group, fight freely!"

As this order was issued, all combat boats activated their external chemical booster rockets, which were another means of propulsion in addition to their plasma propulsion arrays.

It's just a one-time thing and doesn't last long.

But this thing is externally mounted on a heavy armored combat boat. It is not originally intended to improve the combat boat's conventional cruising capability, but to provide an explosive thrust in a short period of time.

As the light of a large number of chemical booster rockets lit up, the two 'box formations' immediately disbanded and quickly divided into three-machine formations and rushed towards the surrounding federal HCPs.

It is very dangerous to adjust the axis and heading at high speed, but the pilots of these heavy armored combat boats did not hesitate to make maneuvers that would break the ribs of ordinary people.

At the same time, these heavy armored combat boats also opened their own attached bomb bays, and threw out all the 'round' plasma warhead guided rockets and combat bombs inside.

As long as any unlucky HCP is hit by this plasma warhead weapon, most of their deflection fields will soon be neutralized, followed by a salvo of several charged particle beams.

Of course, the Federation's ship-based HCPs are not completely beaten. Some pilots with superb driving skills can often split a heavy armored combat boat in two with a plasma heavy sword that is enough to split the outer armor of the battleship at the moment when the two sides intersect at high speed. .

Or after entering a dogfight, multiple HCPs quickly formed a small "box array" back to back, and then forced the combat boat to turn at a large angle on the periphery, and then took the opportunity to attack the opponent's tail propulsion array.

Fireballs kept lighting up around the ‘ATLAS Kai’, rapidly increasing the bloodiness of the battle zone, but Amber in the cockpit was not distracted at all, because he knew that his path to advance was paid for by the blood of these heavy armored combat boat pilots, so he must not make any mistakes.

Although Amber had performed the good show of single-player intrusion into the fleet more than once in the game in his previous life, it was a game after all, and he could still rely on clones to revive and rush forward if he died, but now he was really playing with fire with his life, so he had to admit that he was really nervous at this moment.

Fortunately, this nervousness did not deform his operation, and the large amount of adrenaline secreted made him more and more sharp and focused, allowing him to shuttle through the anti-aircraft firepower of a large number of warships in an almost open state.

During this process, Amber tried to attack the vulnerable side of the Lighthouse many times, but it never worked. The escort warship near the heavy cruiser acted as a "meat shield" for the former as if it was risking its life, and directly blocked the shooting axis of the ATLAS Kai.

"No, there is not so much time to try, so I can only force my way in."

After many failed attacks, Amber frowned, and then controlled the ATLAS Kai to rush directly in the direction of the Lighthouse.

However, at the moment of entering the opponent's final air defense circle, the two nearby heavy cruisers responsible for escorting suddenly made a crazy move.

They ignored the fact that there were other friendly warships at the far end of their own ray axis, and directly opened the gun port of the bow main gun, ready to use heavy particle cannons to attack.

"Are you crazy?! I have their friendly forces behind me, etc."

Amber Fu suddenly realized something, and immediately overlapped the two heavy shields mounted on the auxiliary mechanical arms of the 'ATLAS modified' and placed them in front of him, and shouted to Lilith, the combat auxiliary AI of the machine:

"Lilith! Fully open the deflection force field of the machine! Overload mode operation!"

Lilith, who has always been a curious baby, did not hesitate or question at this moment, and executed Amber's order without hesitation.

The next second, the captain of the 'Lighthouse', who temporarily took over the command of the two heavy cruisers, fiercely issued an order to open fire:

"Lock on the target position! Thunderstorm, Prominence! Aim at the beam axis, open an angle of 2 degrees and 3 minutes, and start irradiation!"

The two heavy cruisers on the left and right irradiated two blue scattered 'beams' quickly covering the position of the 'ATLAS modified'.

In the diffuse irradiation mode of this heavy particle cannon, even the highly maneuverable ‘ATLAS modified’ cannot escape the opponent’s irradiation range within these few seconds.

At the same time, although there are other friendly warships on the beam axis of the two heavy cruisers, the irradiation power of the heavy particle cannon in the diffuse mode is obviously not that great. It just caused the deflection force field of several warships to flash, but did not cause substantial damage.

But the statement that ‘the power is not that great’ is obviously only for warships.

In any case, these are the main guns of the two heavy cruisers. Even in the diffuse shooting mode, they can still pose a threat to large HCPs such as the ‘ATLAS modified’.

Amber only felt the full-circle display in front of her flash, and then it automatically disconnected the optical sensor screen due to the high brightness, and then Lilith issued a warning:

"Master! The surrounding environment of the body is overheated! The surface armor temperature is saturated! The external armor has begun to melt!"

"Warning! Heat energy is transmitted to the internal titanium alloy frame structure! The emergency cooling program has been activated!"

As the warnings came into Amber's ears, everyone in this universe also saw the scene of the large red HCP being swallowed by the intersection of two "light beams".

"Amber!"

"Boss!"

"Good! Hit it!"

"It should be destroyed now!"

The reactions of the people of the Atlas Group and the people of the Federal Navy at this moment can be said to be completely opposite, with joy and worry. There was even a moment of silence on the battlefield.

But as the ‘light column’ disappeared, a machine with almost completely melted external armor, while the armor fragments were constantly peeling off and falling off, forcibly passed through all the interceptions, and hit the deflection force field of the ‘Lighthouse’ to complete the deceleration, and finally smashed into the deployment bay hatch on the side of the heavy cruiser.

The emotions of both sides also reversed again!