Chapter 228 Melee

Guo Zhaoyuan looked at the enemy who was adjusting the fleet formation, and he always had an ominous premonition in his heart, but he didn't know where this feeling came from.

He had to urge his fleet to speed up, which was unusual.

Looking at the fleet that was gradually completing the adjustment, Guo Zhaoyuan felt a little relieved.

But when he saw the coalition fleet began to speed up towards him, his sensitive nerves were tense again.

"Is the enemy commander really stupid? Thinking of flying at a normal speed at a distance of 0.2 light minutes?"

When Guo Zhaoyuan was puzzled, a large area of ​​distorted space appeared in front of the New Federation assault fleet, and all the warships entered the jump channel in the next second.

Before Guo Zhaoyuan could react from the shock, the assault fleet appeared 50 kilometers away from his own fleet.

The captains of the coalition's front-line warships looked at the fleet that suddenly appeared in front of them with ghost eyes, and for a moment they actually forgot that they were on the battlefield.

When the New Federation fleet, led by the Xuefeng, quickly passed the short distance of 50 kilometers between them, the warships reacted and hurriedly ordered the warships to open fire.

The melee began in an instant.

The New Federation fleet, led by the Xuefeng, plunged into the coalition fleet and quickly separated the enemy formation.

At this time, the Xuefeng fired at full power, and the main and secondary guns on the ship fired at the same time.

As long as the warships locked by the Xuefeng were easily sunk in less than two rounds of shooting.

The performance of the other warships was not inferior. Three or two warships were grouped together. After receiving the target instructions from the Wise through the tactical data link, they immediately began to concentrate their fire.

Although they did not sink an enemy warship in two or three rounds of attacks like the Xuefeng, their efficiency was far higher than the coalition's shooting efficiency.

At this time, the command channel of the coalition was already in chaos.

Guo Zhaoyuan made various emergency plans at the beginning of the battle, of course, including countermeasures in this melee.

But he never expected that a melee would suddenly break out when the two sides were only 0.2 light minutes apart.

The coalition forces were now using a common long-range artillery formation, which was completely unable to cope with this kind of melee.

But under the current circumstances, ordering the fleet to change its formation would only make the battlefield more chaotic.

The only thing that made Guo Zhaoyuan feel at ease was that the number of warships in the New Federation's assault fleet was not large, with only more than 5,000 cruisers plus a Xuefeng battleship.

Guo Zhaoyuan knew that as long as the Xuefeng could be destroyed, the coalition forces would be halfway to victory in this war.

So he would definitely take this opportunity to keep the Xuefeng even if he suffered losses.

"Order all ships... Get as close to the friendly ships nearby as possible, and jointly strangle this fleet, their number is not large..."

With clear instructions, the coalition fleet gradually stabilized from the chaos and began to launch a counterattack against the New Federation fleet in an orderly manner.

Although the assault fleet led by Qi Yiming rushed into the enemy's formation, it was surrounded by three layers of enemy ships inside and outside, which looked extremely dangerous.

In fact, the warships outside the coalition could only watch the friendly ships inside the battle group fighting desperately, while they could not help at all because of fear of the consequences.

The performance of the warships of the New Federation is comprehensively superior. In this case, the longer the melee lasts, the more advantageous it is for the New Federation.

Don't forget that the Xuefeng has the ability to repair remotely, and the Wise Man's appropriate path planning can allow each severely damaged warship to appear in the range of the Xuefeng's remote repair at the right time.

As long as the main gun on the warship is not destroyed, the warship will appear alive and well next to the enemy in a few minutes.

When the coalition received the order to fight on their own, although they organized an attack on the New Federation fleet, it looked very lively, but in fact they did not achieve much results.

In the tenth minute of the melee, the assault fleet of the New Federation lost only 13 warships, and these thirteen warships were hit by stray bullets on the battlefield, otherwise the coalition would not even get any results.

But in just ten minutes, the New Federation had recorded more than 400 ships sunk, and more enemy ships were lost in the brief chaos when the raid was just launched.

But Guo Zhaolong turned a blind eye to his own losses. In fact, he had given up the battleships that were fighting with the enemy from the beginning, and quickly organized a fleet outside the coalition.

While they lined up in a formation suitable for the melee and waited for the right time to enter the battlefield, they also kept compressing towards the center of the battlefield, trying to reduce the maneuvering range of the New Federation's raid fleet.

As the first batch of friendly ships fighting with the raid fleet were lost, they finally found an opportunity to break into the battlefield.

But when they entered the battlefield, they found something wrong.

The melee lasted for more than an hour, and the self-defense lost more than 7,000 warships, but the raid fleet did not seem to lose many warships.

Although the battlefield was too chaotic to count the enemy's losses, the speed of the loss of our own warships could show some clues.

The fleet that had just joined the melee had only 8,300 warships due to the limitation of the battlefield scope. However, within less than three minutes of the battle, they had already lost 19 warships, including a battlecruiser that was taken down by a single salvo from the Xuefeng.

In fact, Qi Yiming was under a lot of pressure at this time. The chaotic battlefield and the huge number of warships had caused the shipboard brain inside the Wise Man to overclock.

Under the continuous overclocking work, the temperature inside the Wise Man increased sharply. Even if the Xuefeng attacked the Wise Man with a large amount of energy to increase her cooling rate, it was still a drop in the bucket.

The scientific officer on board the ship said to one of them: "Captain, the overclocking work of the Wise Man's shipboard brain has exceeded the limit. If this continues, the Wise Man's shipboard brain may burn out at any time."

"Is there any way to integrate the computing power of the regional modular battleship into the Wise Man?" Qi Yiming looked at the science officer worriedly.

The ship's science officer shook his head: "It's impossible. The other modular battleships' onboard brains are also responsible for the operation of equipment in their respective areas. The Xuefeng is now operating at full capacity and has no extra computing power to support it. Wise Man."

Qi Yiming nodded: "If the Wise Man stops supporting now, how long will it take to complete the cooling and resume work?"

"It will take half an hour if most of the Lightning's energy supply is obtained."

"Half an hour..." Qi Yiming repeated involuntarily.

Then, as if he had made some determination, he ordered the central brain of the Xuefeng: "Stop the support work of the Wise Man, and at the same time transmit new tactical information to all friendly ships."

Soon new tactical instructions were issued to each warship through the data link.

After receiving the new order, the captains of the assault fleet quickly followed the instructions and adjusted their combat positions while dealing with the enemy ships.