Chapter 220: A Battle of Wits in a Minefield

"Damn... How come the main guns of the warships on the opposite side shoot as if they have eyes?" Kong Qingchao cursed and ordered the recovery of the workboats.

Although his ship was called a minesweeper, the actual work was done by the ten minesweeping workboats on board.

Losing these workboats was nothing, they could just go back to the rear of the fleet to replenish them. The key was the personnel on the workboats. These people had been carefully trained by him for seven or eight years, and every loss was as painful as cutting his flesh.

But what made Kong Qingchao depressed was that after he recovered all the workboats, he found that the battleship on the opposite side flew towards the minesweeper in the same direction.

In desperation, he once again took the risk to release the several workboats that had just been recovered.

This time he was much more cautious. When the workboats were working outside, his eyes were fixed on the images sent back by the battlefield monitor without blinking. As long as a warship appeared, he would immediately stop the minesweeping work.

But before he finished releasing the third workboat, he found that thousands of missiles flew out from the gaps between the air mines in the minefield.

The targets of these missiles were very clear, which were the workboats released by their minesweepers.

Before he could send out a warning message, two more workboats and the people inside them turned into cosmic dust.

"Fuck, the main guns are accurate, but how come the missiles can shuttle back and forth between the gaps in the minefield as if they have eyes?"

This time, two more people on the workboats were lost, and they were all elite members of his minesweeper.

Kong Qingchao had no choice but to ask for air defense support from the rear.

The burst laser could not be stopped, but at least the missiles launched by the opponent had to be intercepted.

Soon, the coalition sent nearly 10,000 frigates dedicated to air defense.

The effect was surprisingly good. When the Xuefeng launched the second missile attack, all the missiles were intercepted by the air defense frigates in the first place.

Qi Yiming was not discouraged when he saw the air defense frigates on the opposite side easily intercepted the missiles launched by the Xuefeng, but he commanded the Xuefeng to charge several main guns on the ship at leisure. This time the target was still the workboats that were released.

Kong Qingchao was more cautious this time and was not in a hurry to release the third batch of workboats.

The workboats released by the other friendly ships were in bad luck. The workboats released by thousands of minesweepers were almost all destroyed in an instant.

The minesweeping formation was in a mess, and many staff responsible for driving the workboats subconsciously refused to set out again to clear mines.

If it weren't for the suppression of military law, these people might have rioted on the spot.

Under the high pressure of the law enforcement team, the engineers on the minesweepers had to bite the bullet and enter the workboats.

But what made the commanders of the minesweepers angry was that these people were reluctant to enter the minefield after the workboats were released.

There was no way, the commanders of the minesweepers had to aim the main guns on the ship at these workboats, forcing them to enter the minefield to clear mines.

Qi Yiming watched the enemy's performance on the other side of the minefield with a mood of watching a good show.

After discovering that the enemy's workboat entered the minefield again, Qi Yiming ordered the main gun to start charging again.

At the same time, the Wise calculated the target track and assigned targets and attack timing to each main gun.

Under the precise control of the Wise, the coalition forces lost thousands of work boats again.

This time, even the commanders on the minesweepers could not bear it. They were also human beings and could not watch their comrades die.

Under the delayed attack of the Xuefeng, the coalition's minesweeping work came to a standstill.

Qi Yiming found that the minesweeper on the opposite side had not moved, so he ordered the Xuefeng to stop attacking at the same time. This made the commander of the enemy minesweeper very angry, but he could do nothing about the Xuefeng.

This kind of behavior on the battlefield cannot be said to be right or wrong. As long as it is beneficial to one's side, no one will say anything about it no matter what means are used.

But this time it was himself who was defeated, of course, many captains would curse in the fleet command channel and directly greet Qi Yiming's ancestors.

Lu Zhenyang frowned after learning about the situation on the front line.

He could imagine that the enemy would send warships to harass while his side was sweeping mines, but he didn't expect Qi Yiming's Xuefeng to appear on the battlefield at this time, because the information he received before the attack was that the Xuefeng was still docked in the airport of Gaia Star.

"Sir, what should we do now?" The liaison officer of the coalition forces responsible for contacting various fleets looked at Lu Zhenyang anxiously. His communication channel was already crowded with messages from various fleets, all asking for information about the next battle plan.

Faced with this situation, Lu Zhenyang had no better way except to strictly order the minesweepers sent by various fleets to resolutely execute orders.

Although Lu Zhenyang knew a more efficient minesweeping method, the fleet he commanded was not a fleet of the former Human Federation, and there was no suitable tool to realize his idea.

In fact, this kind of minefield is just a matter of a few rounds of sweeping by the three super-heavy main guns on the ship for the Xuefeng, because the super-heavy main guns on the Xuefeng ship belong to continuous firepower output.

The energy beams fired from the muzzles are continuous. As long as they sweep across the minefield, they can basically detonate all the air mines in front of them. Even if it doesn't work once, they can just fire a few more times.

In the fleet commanded by Lu Zhenyang, all firepower is intermittent, and it is impossible to do the same as the Xuefeng, so they can only use this ancient mine-clearing method.

This method is very susceptible to the influence of the enemy, and there is no other way.

Lu Zhenyang can only let the commander on the front line forcibly execute his orders.

In desperation, Kong Qingchao can only command his warship to approach the air mine at risk.

Then release the workboat to clear the mines.

The purpose of doing this is very simple, that is, to use the shape of the minesweeper as the background of the workboat, to reflect the detection waves emitted by the enemy for the workboat, and to hide the detection waves reflected by the workboat in the detection waves reflected by the minesweeper.

In this case, even if the Wise Man has a strong ability to control the details of the battlefield, the fire control radar of the Xuefeng cannot lock the workboat, and it cannot hit the workboat released by the minesweeper.

However, the disadvantages of this approach are also obvious, and the progress of minesweeping is extremely slow.

However, Lu Zhenyang cunningly concentrated all the minesweepers in one direction for operation. Although this reduced the overall minesweeping efficiency, it could at least clear an attack path for the fleet before the transport ship escaped from the Lando galaxy.

Now it is Qi Yiming's turn to be blind.

Xuefeng cannot lock the workboat, so it can only attack the minesweeper.

Minesweepers are notoriously tough, and it often takes multiple rounds of attacks to sink a minesweeper.

Qi Yiming had no choice but to attack continuously while formulating a new delay plan, otherwise all his previous efforts would be in vain. Not only would Wang Shuhua not be able to escape, but the fleet responsible for transporting civilians would also fall into the hands of the enemy.