Chapter 470: Big Melee

Because that means fighting at very close range. Since the possession of Alloy No. 1 and Alloy No. 2, this is the first time that the human fleet has fallen into a disadvantage in close combat.

But now it is unavoidable. The Tianqin battleship cluster must engage in close combat with the opponent's fleet, because the consequences of turning to avoid are even more unacceptable.

Everyone on the Tianqin understands this truth.

"Maintain relative speed, pay attention to maneuvering and evasion, increase the priority of the close defense gun program, increase the computing power allocation by 5 percentage points, and the fleet will advance to the target center area in a spherical array." As soon as the two fleets came into contact, Yue Yuan gave a simple order.

Although the order is simple, it is not easy to execute. However, when they first came into contact, the humans on the Tianqin did not make much movement, because at this time the warships that came into contact were all unmanned warships controlled by strong artificial intelligence.

The leading warships of both sides had just approached each other to a distance of 23 meters and light seconds, and the leading ones in the human warship cluster began to shoot at their respective targets. I saw the muzzles of more than 700,000 warships flickering faintly, as if they were charging thunder, and then shot out hundreds of thousands of thunders.

These laser beams, which were hit by sight, traveled through the void at the speed of light, spanning a distance of 23 light seconds, either brushing past enemy ships or causing them to light up with bright light curtains.

Under the illumination of this light, the warships that were originally hidden in the darkness on the battlefield appeared one by one, as if they appeared instantly, the starry sky was shining silver, and the originally thin black void seemed to be coated with a layer of silvery metallic luster.

The light reflected by the lit polarized shield made these warships look even more mighty. Although there was no reference to reflect their hugeness, the seven million warships that were several kilometers long, wide and high could be seen from the time of the Tianqin's detector, and the entire forward direction was full of the enemy's vast ocean.

The dim battlefield was illuminated as the polarized shield and the laser energy beam came into contact, accompanied by the red shells of the warships illuminated by the laser weapons after the polarized shield was overloaded and exploded, and then the light of their explosion.

After the previous battle, the Lyra battleship cluster has obtained the data on the extreme tolerance of the polarization shield of the interstellar trading market. It can withstand about 20 laser energy weapons from human warships at the same time. This is the critical point. If it exceeds this amount, its polarization shield will be instantly overloaded, and then the polarization shield system will be paralyzed.

It is simultaneous, not sequential.

If there is an interval between the hits, even if there are 20 laser hits, its polarization shield system can gradually recover after buffering, thus resisting these attacks.

Based on these data, each of the current human strike formations consists of more than 20 warships. When using laser energy weapons to attack the opponent's warships, they communicate with each other and the muzzles hit the same landing point.

At a distance of 23 light seconds, it is difficult to control more than 20 laser beams to hit the same landing point accurately and without error. At least humans can rarely do it by controlling warships themselves, but under the coordination of strong artificial intelligence, human strike formations can achieve an error of 1 kilometer. ,

Although the size of the warships of the Interstellar Trade Market is not exactly the same as that of human warships, they are also sea-level, so the error of 1 km is not too big, and basically one hit means all hits.

Humans have mastered the data of the polarization shields of the Interstellar Trade Market warships through previous battles, and vice versa, so the Interstellar Trade Market also forms a formation in the same way when attacking human warships at long distances.

It’s just that there are many more warships in their shooting formation than humans, about 108 ships, but they know that this number is not enough, but more will affect the flexibility of the formation. Therefore, on the basis of the formation, they adopted the strategy of multiple formations jointly attacking one after another.

The reason is not that the polarization shields of humans are much stronger than theirs, but that the armor of human warships is too strong.

The Interstellar Trade Market has no idea how many times a round of salvos broke the polarization shields of human warships, but was forcibly carried down by the armor of the warships.

So this time, the formation strategy was changed.

In such a long-range confrontation, there are actually many tactical details that can be implemented, such as when making maneuvers to evade, try to turn the warship's head towards the direction of the enemy fleet.

This is naturally to reduce the area of ​​our warships facing the enemy, so as to reduce the number of laser energy weapons that are irradiated at the same time, thereby improving survivability.

Of course, this tactical detail is very effective in long-range combat, but when it comes to close-range dogfights, its effect will be greatly reduced. After all, no one can reserve when and from which direction a laser energy beam will be shot at them.

In the shining light of the explosions of warships, the distance between the warship clusters of both sides is getting closer and closer. The second and third echelons in their respective arrays also joined the battle, and the Tianqin, located in the center of the array, also fired the first shot against this enemy fleet at this time.

At this moment, the starry sky seemed to be lit by thousands of lights, and it was like the silent firecrackers in the dark night of the New Year under aerial photography. Light and heat are intertwined here, and steel and flames bloom here.

The war entered a white-hot stage at the beginning.

Here, there are no medical ships in the game, nor those small ships with different functions in the game. There are only battleships and huge cannons blooming in the sea of ​​stars.

The size of the magnetic thruster determines that small warships cannot participate in such a battle. Even if there are small warships, they cannot catch up with the sea-class warships with magnetic thrusters, and their main guns cannot penetrate the polarization shields of sea-class warships.

The life-and-death battle between the two civilizations determines the cruelty of the war. There is no mercy, and there is no humanitarian spirit. You have to fight while complying with the regulations not to fire at the so-called medical ship.

It does not exist. Everything is aimed at destroying the other side.

As time goes by, warships on both sides continue to turn into cosmic fireworks under rounds of attacks. Warships in each attack formation are constantly destroyed. Once a warship in these formations is destroyed, the strong artificial intelligence will immediately fill in from other rear formations to ensure that it has sufficient firepower.

The short and fierce confrontation allowed the Tianqin to quickly receive the battle loss ratio data of both sides. Like the previous Beihai battleship cluster, the Tianqin battleship cluster also only played a battle loss ratio of one to three.

In fact, at the beginning of the long-distance confrontation, the battle loss ratio of human warships and the warships of the interstellar trading market reached 1:6, but after the two sides entered the advanced dogfight and nano weapons appeared, the battle loss ratio was suppressed.

The Tianqin battleship cluster and the Beihai battleship cluster originally belonged to the first fleet of mankind. There is no difference in the performance and configuration of their warships, and their strong artificial intelligence is similar, so it is not surprising that they have similar results.