Chapter 111: Strategies for Engineer No. 4

The drone group that came to intercept Xuefeng at first was destroyed by Qi Yiming's arc generator in one attack, and the remaining drones were destroyed one by one by Xuefeng's secondary guns.

Such a result stunned the people watching around. There were hundreds of thousands of drones, and they were gone just like that?

But the Engineer was like an angry dragon, and countless drones were ejected from the exits all over her ship.

The ejected drones gathered together in layers and flew towards Xuefeng, and their speed was extremely fast.

One of the two super-heavy main guns on Xuefeng was occupied by the arc generator. The remaining one had just been charged, and before Qi Yiming gave the order, the weapons officer had already pressed the launch button.

The thick purple beam instantly penetrated the drone group, and then the purple beam moved with the muzzle of the super-heavy main gun, drawing a fan in its attack direction.

Although it looked quite spectacular, it had no effect at all against the locust-like drones.

The Engineer was still ejecting drones.

Qi Yiming was at a loss this time. He regretted a little. Why did he overestimate his own abilities and stir up this hornet's nest? This time, it was really a fight to the death.

The arc generator that had just completed a round of attack still needed more than a minute to recharge. Qi Yiming felt that he was going to die.

He was hesitating whether to give in and spare these drones, when he heard the voices of the captains of the ships who were just eating melons in the fleet channel.

"Yiming, how could we stand aside and eat melons when such an exciting thing happened?" This was Wang Shuhua's voice, with a slightly teasing tone.

"That's right, you can't be the only one to take the limelight." This was Ye Lu's voice, with a hint of coquettishness in her tone.

"Sister Ye is right..." This was Wang Sen. Qi Yiming felt a little funny when he heard it.

Qiao Shan did not speak, but commanded the Azure to rush to the front.

Qi Yiming realized that he had been with his partners all along the way, but that these partners stood behind him silently and supported him at the critical moment.

"Well, let's take down this giant together." Qi Yiming was instantly full of fighting spirit.

However, the battle did not become simpler because of the participation of everyone, but the participation of Wang Shuhua and others did share a lot of pressure for Qi Yiming.

Qi Yiming directly ordered to turn on the fortress mode of Xuefeng.

The power furnace network inside the Lightning was running at full power. Qi Yiming supplied 80% of the energy to the arc generator, and the remaining 20% ​​was fully supplied to the nanorobot production line inside the Guardian.

And Wang Shuhua and others also performed their duties.

The Expedition, the Yuanwang, and the Yuanhang were located above and on the left and right sides of the Xuefeng, respectively, sharing the drone clusters flying from three directions for the Xuefeng.

The Azure came forward and supported the front and bottom of the Xuefeng, resisting the drone clusters that intended to attack from the bottom for the Xuefeng.

Although the mobility of the Xuefeng, which entered the fortress mode, dropped sharply, her other functions were strengthened.

Nanorobots were continuously transported to the hulls of various warships to repair their damaged outer armor at any time.

After the shield generator of the Azure was replenished with energy from the Xuefeng, the shield strength was greatly enhanced.

However, the number of drones was too large, and the armor integrity of several friendly ships continued to decline rapidly.

As a last resort, Qi Yiming had to reduce the attack intensity of the arc generator to reduce its charging time.

There were originally 30 seconds of charging time left. After Qi Yiming took the initiative to reduce the attack intensity, the remaining charging time of the arc generator was also reduced to 5 seconds.

But it was during these 5 seconds that the Azure was first in danger.

After all, the Azure was just a frigate. With the energy blessing of the Xuefeng, it was very difficult to hold on for more than a minute under the siege of countless unmanned people.

At this time, his energy shield had already shown signs of collapse.

Qi Yiming was about to remind Qiao Shan that the energy shield was about to collapse and asked him to command the Azure to retreat.

The light blue energy shield around the Azure flashed a few times, and then an explosion occurred inside the Azure.

The Azure, which lost its energy shield, could only use its fragile armor layer to face the attack of drones.

Seeing that it was about to be torn apart by a group of drones, the arc generator on the Xuefeng finally completed the charging.

A blue light flashed, and several blue arcs once again flew towards the drones, entwined with each other.

A few seconds later, the drones around the Azure caught fire and exploded, followed by a chain reaction.

The explosion spread out layer by layer.

What surprised everyone was that although there were many drones, this also became an important reason for their demise.

The large number means that each drone will be very close when attacking.

This creates extremely favorable conditions for the high-energy arcs shot out by the arc generator to be transmitted between them.

This attack not only saved the Azure, but also caused more damage to the drones than the first round of Xuefeng's attack.

In just a few tens of seconds, the drones surrounding the fleet instantly became scrap metal, floating silently around the fleet.

Qi Yiming even saw many drones burned into a ball by high-energy arcs.

Seeing this scene, Qi Yiming discovered the key to the problem and lowered the attack intensity of the arc generator again.

The charging time that originally took more than 1 minute now only takes more than 40 seconds.

More than 40 seconds, this is the key point that the Xuefeng can provide support for the rest of the warships in time.

That is to say, it takes exactly 40 seconds for the Xuefeng to launch a round of nanorobots for all friendly ships in the fleet.

In this way, the armor integrity of all friendly ships is maintained at a very dangerous but absolutely safe value.

The Azure was completely withered, and the energy shield generator exploded due to energy overload, and the Azure had to temporarily withdraw from the battle sequence.

But Qi Yiming has found the balance point of combat damage.

While taking into account the firing frequency and attack intensity of the arc generator, it can also take care of friendly ships. The rest is to fight a war of attrition with the drones in front of it.

Fortunately, the Xuefeng's war preparation warehouse has been filled with energy blocks by Qi Yiming, and Qi Yiming is not afraid of a war of attrition.

The battle lasted for 6 hours, and Qi Yiming found that the Engineer finally stopped ejecting drones, and everyone saw the hope of winning the battle.

Although the Engineer no longer ejected drones, the number of drones stranded around Qi Yiming and his team was also not small.

It took Qi Yiming and his team another two hours to destroy all the remaining drones.

After the battle, the fleet was filled with drone wreckage.

In order to get close to the Engineer, the Xuefeng even needed to use the super-heavy main gun to open the way before it could move forward.

Eight hours of boring battles exhausted everyone.

But when they thought that they were about to board the Engineer, everyone became energetic again.

They kept urging Qi Yiming to clean up the drone wreckage in front of them.

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