Chapter 95: The Precarious Front Line, the Armor Breaker Finally Arrives

The military commander completely targeted Chen Ming.

The battle line that he had just relaxed because he was distracted by intelligence was instantly tightened.

The battle line suddenly advanced a lot to the company's side.

Four ships that did not have time to retreat had their shields directly broken.

Only one destroyer, under the protection of Chen Ming, relied on the panel repair to forcibly discharge the almost overflowing radiation.

The other three frigates that lost their shield protection were immediately submerged by the subsequent attacks, and there was no possibility of rescue.

Two of them were destroyed instantly, and only one was lucky enough to be paralyzed, lost its combat capability, and was pushed out of the battlefield by the impact of the weapon.

And this is just the beginning.

In a normal battle, the fighters that maintain a battle line are relatively evenly distributed.

Generally speaking, there will not be a situation where one side is full of guards and the other side is full of destroyers.

But this means that the cattle herders sitting in the center of the battle line are a certain distance away from both ends of the battle line.

Therefore, letting the destroyers at both ends of the battle line return to the cowherd and let Chen Ming take control will lead to a short window period in front of the battle line.

Even if they rotate one by one at a very low efficiency, the front of the battlefield is prone to a short period of weakening combat power.

The military commander's extremely keen battlefield sense allowed him to immediately seize this opportunity.

While Chen Ming was controlling the destroyer, he made a very radical deployment directly on the battle line.

It put a lot of pressure on the ships on the front line.

Even if it failed to break through the battle line and create results, it would make other warships on the battle line difficult to resist.

In addition, the commander also deliberately noted which ships had approached Chen Ming's shuttle, and deliberately let the military ships actively avoid the location of these ships when attacking.

In normal battles, he took the initiative to command more ships to attack the ships that had not been rotated back to accept Chen Ming's control.

Since the battle line has always needed destroyers as the backbone to maintain it, Chen Ming's progress in controlling the destroyers has not been completely completed.

Therefore. Under the commander's targeted attack, problems occurred everywhere on the front line.

Chen Ming could only use the panel's ability to maintain the position of the front line according to the captain's emergency position, so that the spacecraft would not be destroyed and the front line would not be completely defeated.

This caused Chen Ming to not only lose his mental strength, but also his physical strength.

It is very normal to concentrate on doing one thing with high intensity, and then feel distracted and exhausted.

But it was still difficult for Chen Ming to accept such a feeling in just a few minutes.

He couldn't help rubbing his temples, soothing his brain, and continuing to hold on.

This was the first time Chen Ming felt such a huge pressure on his head since he left the space station until today.

And this is the real strength of the army in combat, even the existence of psychic power is difficult to make up for.

Chen Ming took a few deep breaths and adjusted his mentality that was somewhat affected by the situation of the battle.

Anyway, the military's purpose is very clear now, that is, to kill him.

People are going to die, don't fight hard and wait for the next life?

Chen Ming looked at the special orange-red law enforcer on the sensor screen.

The military commander is definitely on that ship.

If there is a chance, he must destroy that ship as soon as possible.

Only then will he have the confidence and opportunity to win this battle.

Although Chen Ming can't do anything about the military commander now,

Chen Ming has thought of a solution to the problem and told the captain.

Let the ships on the front line stagger and then turn around.

At the same time, change the position of the ships, and try to make sure that there are ships under his control on the entire front line.

As long as the ships controlled by Chen Ming return, the combat effectiveness of the ships will be strengthened by the panel maintenance ability, and the front line can fill the section that was just repelled.

When all the destroyers are controlled by him, the uneven distribution of combat effectiveness on the front line and the relatively weak combat effectiveness in some places will no longer exist.

The captain was very happy to accept Chen Ming's previous proposal, but he did not accept the suggestion of changing the position of the ships at all.

The reason is quite simple.

The command system of the Xinda Company fleet is currently put together temporarily and is very fragile.

The captain cannot let the rescue ship sent by Xinda Company lead the support ship at the space station, and vice versa.

They can only command separately, otherwise once there is any mistake in his command, this fragile command system will lead to confusion of command power and some uncontrollable problems.

And a while after Chen Ming made the suggestion, the captain also told Chen Ming a bad news.

"Mr. Chen, we can't hold on to the manpower here."

"What manpower?"

"Manpower for fighter jets."

Chen Ming reacted immediately after hearing it.

The fighter plane itself needs to be controlled by the pilot, and the pilot needs to judge the damage of the fighter plane and the timing of returning home.

Although Chen Ming can directly repair the fighter plane and even replenish the damaged fighter plane.

But the loss of personnel cannot be made up.

The reduction of maintenance time means that the driver can rest and take turns less time.

Keep rushing to the battlefield without stopping for a moment.

The captain can tell Chen Ming about this matter. I am afraid that the pilots on the cowherd have been damaged to the extent that they can't support a full-strength fighter squadron to set off.

And the remaining pilots on the ship must have driven the fighter plane out several times, and their spirits are more tired than he who stays in the safer rear.

If this continues, the military will fail to defeat the fleet, and the fleet itself will have problems due to excessive internal losses.

Although all fighter planes are equipped with emergency escape pods, the actual loss should not be to this extent.

But it is really hard to say how many pilots can actually come back.

Chen Ming really didn't want to hear what the captain said, but this is the inevitable defect of aircraft carriers and fighters under normal circumstances.

Unless it is like the Storm class of Tachyon Technology, which is equipped with a Terminator fighter squadron controlled by AI.

Tachyon Technology seems to have initially completed the technology of remotely controlling spacecraft without being affected by the complex environment of the battlefield. If Chen Ming can get the Storm class, then this situation will not happen now.

But Xinda Company is different from Tachyon Technology, which is openly researching AI-driven spacecraft technology and walking on the edge of the law.

Xinda Company can only rely on people to drive fighters, and personnel damage is inevitable.

Chen Ming is now quite a pity.

If he can control the cowherd in advance and install the Afterglow AI core on the cowherd for some simple modifications, maybe Afterglow can control these fighters.

Although the effect may be much worse than that of people driving in person, after all, Chen Ming does not have it, but

And this is just thinking about it, Chen Ming has no way to solve the problem of insufficient manpower now.

So he could only respond helplessly: "I know."

At the same time, the repair of the Cowherd fighter plane was stopped.

The fighter plane no longer needed to be repaired, so at least his spirit could relax a little.

However, the spirit could be relaxed, but the tight front line could not.

There is still a last batch of fighter planes to support, but the ability to protect friendly ships will definitely drop a level in the future.

Fortunately, there was no problem with the Cowherd's missiles, and they should be able to resist for a while.

But the materials of the missiles have been consumed a lot so far.

The materials prepared on the other destroyers controlled by Chen Ming for repairing the spacecraft after the battle are almost used up, just like the missile materials.

And the weapons and ammunition on these spacecraft are also close to emergency.

If they continue, they can only rely on the materials stored in the Cowherd warehouse to support them.

When these reserve materials are exhausted, the combat effectiveness of the entire fleet will decline greatly.

Although the military is in the same situation, and their war reserve materials cannot be instantly converted into combat and endurance capabilities like Chen Ming.

But their combat capability is stronger than the space station and the company's fleet.

They can achieve greater results with less loss.

In addition, the military ships are much more than the company's at the beginning.

After giving the company's fleet so much pressure through exquisite command technology, forcing the fleet to consume supplies in batches.

Chen Ming doesn't think the military will be able to survive the Sinda fleet that is constantly using reserve supplies to support the combat effectiveness of the spacecraft.

Even though Chen Ming has asked the captain to request material assistance from the space station.

But it takes time to collect and load the materials and transport them.

In the current battle, it may be too late to send them.

With the help of Chen Ming, the Sinda company's fleet has gradually shown signs of decline.

The military has resisted the outbreak brought by Chen Ming's ability, and the situation they have been desperately maintaining has shifted towards them again.

At this time, the total number of ships that can still fight on both sides of the battlefield is less than 140, and a quarter of the warships have sunk in this hyperspace.

Most of the remaining warships were also damaged and could no longer withstand the baptism of more severe battles.

Chen Ming now has only a little over 50 warships, while the military still has more than 80.

You should know that at the beginning, although Chen Ming's support for the Sinda Company totaled less than 30 ships, with the support of the space station, the total number of ships has approached 100.

But now, the fleet has lost nearly half.

And there are no more ships that can be supported from the space station.

The situation at the space station is the same as the fighter plane of the cowherd.

There are spaceships, but no one is driving them.

In the two previous attacks by Yuhui, the company helped to reimburse the losses each time, and there were also subsequent spacecraft that could be used for combat.

However, the losses in personnel were not replenished so quickly.

However, on the military side, there were more than 100 military militarized spacecraft, and there were more than 70 remaining after the battle.

Obviously, there was not much difference between the company's and the military's spacecraft in terms of the technical level of low-level spacecraft.

However, due to the gap in the organization and command of the fleet and the actual combat capability, the final battle loss ratio was 2 to 1.

The only good news in this situation now.

Only the company's fleet lost, and most of the destroyed and paralyzed ones were frigates.

And because of Chen Ming's protection, there are still 31 destroyers left.

However, this good news is a bit bad under the cover of bad news.

Because the number of remaining destroyers in the military fleet has exceeded that of the company's fleet.

It's not just because the military destroyers were more than the company's at the beginning.

It's also because the military's spacecraft are equipped with professional maintenance technicians.

Most of the spaceships that were not destroyed on the spot were only paralyzed and withdrew from the battlefield.

As long as there is no critical damage, they will soon return to the battlefield again.

This is also one of the reasons why the proportion of casualties on both sides of the battle is large.

In short, even if Chen Ming can improve the upper limit of the spaceship.

Through repairs, the spaceship can be made brand new, so that the combat effectiveness of the spaceship can be burst in a short time, and even as long as there are sufficient supplies, it can continue to burst.

Relying on the reserved combat supplies, all disadvantages including the number of spaceships, weapons, and personnel can be made up, and even a little advantage can be regained.

But it can only be regained a little.

The overall gap between the company and the military is there.

The military is not like the Sinda Company, which only has less than 30 reliable spaceships to use at the beginning, and has to rely on space stations for support.

It is also not like the fleet's command system can only be temporarily pieced together, making it difficult to finely control the battlefield situation.

Under the huge gap in various aspects, it can only be said that Chen Ming has tried his best to fight to this point with his psychic power.

If there are no variables afterwards, then failure is inevitable.

At the same time.

The commander at the Enforcer level also felt that the balance of victory was completely tilted.

He had already sensed that the enemy had reached its limit.

It was not Chen Ming's limit, but the limits of other people, other ships, and the fleet.

The patrol ships of the space station and the ships escorted by the Sinda Company were completely inadequate compared to the military ships, and they could not fully exert the capabilities of Chen Ming that the commander felt during the battle.

But no matter what factors were affecting it, whether the company was not well prepared or the military had prepared means in advance.

Victory is victory.

"Then that's it."

The commander had found a loophole in the fleet's front line and was ready to press on at any time to destroy the company's fleet's combat capability and end the battle.

It only took one more straw to break the camel's back.

But, at this moment.

A ship that was obviously a military destroyer suddenly arrived at the edge of the battlefield from the hyperspace channel.

The overall shape like a spearhead had already made its identity clear.

This was the armor-piercing class that Chen Ming had been waiting for for a long time.

When the Armor-Breaking finally arrived at the edge of the battlefield, Chen Ming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The reason why the Armor-Breaking arrived slowly was because it spent too much time on the road.

Although Chen Ming paid special attention to the Armor-Breaking, he tried to hide or pass directly from the outside when passing through the star system.

But it couldn't completely avoid the Armor-Breaking being chased by government patrols several times when passing through some star systems. It could only get rid of them by entering the hyperspace channel cloud to avoid the sensor scanning.

Entering the cloud layer of the hyperspace channel cloud will inevitably be affected by hyperspace lightning, so the Armor-Breaking had to go to the dark cemetery first after arriving nearby, and repair it before coming here.

The total time spent was more than doubled that of Chen Ming's return.

But at least the Armor-Breaking successfully arrived here at the last critical moment, which is the most important thing.

The commander obviously also noticed the destroyer that suddenly appeared at the edge of the battlefield. He seemed to have some impression of this ship in his mind, but he was not sure, so he did not give the order to attack.

Instead, he immediately asked his deputy: "Whose ship is that?"

The deputy immediately replied: "That is the ship of the Star Region Government, an armor-piercing class."

"The Star Region Government had previously notified the military here that they would conduct a spacecraft experiment nearby, using the afterglow as an experimental reference."

"But the document said that their fleet would not arrive for a few days, and there is only one ship coming now, so there may be some special arrangements."

The commander nodded slightly, focused his attention back on commanding the fleet, and said: "That has nothing to do with us."

"Send a message to that ship, tell them to stop or go around to the outpost, don't get in the way here."

"Yes."

Chen Ming, who was on the shuttle, suddenly received a message from the military from the Armor-Breaking Class, which surprised him.

But he immediately realized that this was an opportunity, an opportunity for a surprise attack.

He immediately replied "received" to the military fleet, and then asked the Armor-Breaking Class to pretend that everything was normal and avoid the front line, keeping an ambiguous distance and bypassing the center of the battlefield.

Although this behavior was generally correct, the commander who was keenly aware of danger at this time still noticed the abnormality of the Armor-Breaking Class.

"What are the government people doing? Keep sending messages to keep them away from the battlefield."

The deputy was assigned by the commander to deliver the message, and the commander was already prepared to deal with unexpected situations.

The moment he received the second military message, Chen Ming knew that time was running out.

Although the Armor-Breaking Class has not yet reached its ideal position, it is now in a position that Chen Ming can accept.

Chen Ming controlled the Armor-Breaking Class and suddenly began to accelerate. At the same time, he turned the bow and aimed at the military flagship, the special Enforcer-class.

All the special equipment on the Armor-Breaking Class started up with Chen Ming's control.

The antiparticle energy activation module caused a huge amount of energy fluctuations visible to the naked eye around the Armor-Breaking Class.

The large high-energy focusing system module made the large weapons of the Armor-Breaking Class covered with energy-guided streamers.

The energy stabilizer stabilized the restrained energy bombs that were constantly fluctuating.

One by one, the energy balls that were almost condensed into substance flashed in the automatic pulse laser barrel carried by the Armor-Breaking Class.

Once the energy was stored, thirty consecutive large restrained energy bombs that could almost engulf a spacecraft like the Iron Ore were poured out.

Headed straight for the military flagship.

The commander had already prepared in advance. The Enforcer-class had already opened the shield in advance, and two other destroyers returned to the Enforcer for protection.

Share the damage for the Enforcer-class.

But the automatic pulse laser is a large weapon.

Just when the first energy bomb hit the shield of a destroyer, the relatively weak shield of the military almost instantly reached the edge of overload, and obvious ripples appeared on the entire shield.

The destroyer didn't even have time to close the shield before the second restraint energy bomb hit it.

The shield of the destroyer burst directly, and the entire destroyer was covered with violent flashing arcs caused by radiation overload.

Then it was completely submerged by the remaining energy bombs.

The military's always powerful armor did not last long in front of the large energy weapons blessed by two special equipment.

As the subsequent energy bombs followed up, the armor of the military destroyer was destroyed, and the hull was almost instantly destroyed in hyperspace.

There was no chance of resistance.

And more than half of the remaining restraint energy bombs continued to move forward.

The second destroyer did not retreat because the previous spaceship was instantly destroyed, but continued to block the law enforcer of Chen Ming's target.

Everyone on this destroyer was ready to sacrifice.

Its shield also collapsed at the first touch, but unlike the previous destroyer, it stuck to the point where the shield was closed.

While allowing the radiation energy system to bear the maximum damage, it did not overload the ship.

The ship can still turn the hull to make the area of ​​itself attacked larger, allowing more armor to bear more damage.

Although it could not escape the fate of being destroyed, at least its sacrifice allowed the special Enforcer class to take this opportunity to enter the protection circle of the military ships.

The military fleet began to dispatch, temporarily slowing down the suppression of the Sinda fleet, and began to encircle the most threatening armor-piercing class among all the ships present.

However, Chen Ming had planned the route, and also communicated with the captain in advance.

A sudden change of direction directly entered the company fleet like the Enforcer class.

Under the protection of a large number of ships, the extremely sharp spear of armor-piercing can completely disregard its own safety and exert its strongest ability.

After fifteen seconds of weapon cooling, the automatic pulse laser began to accumulate energy again.

The leading military destroyer fired a round of large energy restraint bombs at the most stressful area on the current front.

Just like before, the destroyer turned into dust in space without any struggle.

The momentum of the military fleet suddenly stagnated.

It can only be said that the armor-piercing is worthy of its name.

Although the automatic pulse laser it carries does not have the terrifying instantaneous high-energy output of the tachyon spear.

But its restraint energy bomb burst ability in a short period of time is also quite impressive.

At the same time, it also has a slow shooting mode.

It does not need to cool down, and can continuously output large restraint energy bombs at a rate of one shot per second.

With two special devices on the spacecraft that can be quickly cooled by Chen Ming's maintenance function.

No military ship can withstand the firepower of this large weapon.

With the addition of armor-piercing, the frontal pressure of the battle line was reduced sharply.

The situation of the battle was reversed almost instantly.