Alien Relic Hunter

The black fleet has been driving until it is only 20 kilometers away from Fleet Zero - this is basically the final warning line. According to the regulations of the Ark Fleet, if a non-friendly target enters the fleet stationed area without permission, Within twenty kilometers, the captain of each ship has the right to decide whether to fire.

This is also to prevent the command center from being interfered with and the order not being conveyed in time, resulting in delaying the fighter plane... The distance of 20,000 meters is quite close for a battleship, and the plasma emitted by the plasma cannon can only span 20,000 meters. It's just a blink of an eye.

As soon as Yeager approached his mothership "Betelgeuse", he saw another Raven-class high-speed fighter numbered 017A flying out of the hangar of the mothership.

That's Hans's phone number.

Hans was not flying very fast. When he was heading towards Yeager, the signal light on the nose of the aircraft flashed rhythmically several times - that was the signal to apply for laser communication.

Yeager released the joystick and switched the fighter to hover mode. A red communication laser shot out and connected to the opponent's receiver.

"The situation is worse than we expected." Hans said straight to the point, "To use the Chinese proverb, it means that those who come are not good, and those who are good will not come..."

"What did the captain say?" Yeager asked. Hans had obviously communicated with the captain of "Betelgeuse" before dispatching so late.

"The captain said that you should never take the initiative to fire unless it is absolutely necessary... Once you fight at this distance, even if you can win, it will be a miserable victory." Hans said.

"...Captain, isn't it possible that he is confused? The other party has already opened the interference field and pushed it in our faces. Is there still a possibility of peace talks?" Yegel frowned.

The main engine of the Night Owl-class high-speed fighter is powered by energy crystals, and the external propeller consumes almost no fuel. As for ammunition, except for the hundreds of cannon shells used to straf the ground and the one that will destroy the Black Fleet, Except for the unguided missiles that were "exploded", there was basically no loss - Yeager simply did not plan to return to the hangar for supplies. He stayed outside so that he could react faster if the situation changed.

(I have something to explain to you here. I have written about the term "missile" before, and then some readers asked me in the comments if I was from the other side of the island. I didn't react at first, but then I I checked online and found out that it turns out that missiles are called missiles here on the island, and missiles are called missiles on the other side of the island... I would like to make a solemn statement that the author is not from there. As for why the missiles in the article refer to It is a weapon that uses a rocket thruster to drive the warhead warhead, a rocket without a guidance system, and is similar to an RPG.)

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Inside Yagunaktor, "Forward Supply Base."

"What? An unknown fleet?! And there's an unidentified aircraft carrier and battleship?" Hound, who was too busy with work and didn't have time to have lunch until three in the afternoon, put aside most of the box lunch in his hand. He jumped down from the chair with eyes as wide as copper bells.

He held the table with one hand, turned over from behind the table and jumped to the front of the table. He grabbed the shoulder of Zhuo Ligetu who ran in to report: "What's going on?"

"Four and a half minutes ago, Fleet Zero reported that a radio interference field enveloped the entire airspace, and all communications and radars were affected. It sent fighter jets to conduct reconnaissance in the direction of the estimated interference source... As a result, a Raven A missile casually launched by the class exploded an approaching stealth fleet... If the pilot of this Raven class hadn't discovered the anomaly, I'm afraid the opponent would have already arrived right under our noses."

"What now? Is there a fight?!" Hound asked.

"not yet."

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External airspace, the station of Fleet Zero.

More than a dozen cruisers are lined up in a row, their energy shields are fully deployed, and various medium and long-range weapons are ready to go. As long as this black fleet comes closer than half a kilometer, a fierce exchange of fire will immediately break out between the two sides.

"It seems that the battle is unavoidable." Yeger sighed, and suddenly lowered his voice a little, "Hans, when you find an opportunity later, you can retreat to the back, and then find an opportunity to get away from the battlefield... …Anyway, all radio communications have been cut off now. You can make up whatever reasons you want after the war, and those guys probably won’t hold you accountable…”

"What are you talking about?!" Hans' somewhat annoyed voice sounded in the one-to-one laser communication channel.

"I have observed the configuration of this black fleet at close range. Not only are the number and level of battleships much stronger than ours, but the level of battleships also stabilizes our head... If the big guy at the rear cannot join the battle, we will fight No win." Yeger did not say the remaining half of the sentence - even if "Yagunaktor" joined the battle, Fleet Zero would have suffered heavy losses before that.

Once the war begins, at least half of the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in Fleet Zero will die here.

Hans fell silent, and the communication channel fell into silence.

Yeager thought he had successfully persuaded Hans, and continued to persuade: "A fleet battle of this level is all about naval gunfire. Whose energy shield collapses first and armor is penetrated first... Don't say anything. Our old-fashioned fighter jets, even the cutting-edge variable flying mechas, can't play any role in this kind of battle, and they can only serve as cannon fodder."

"Then why don't you run?" Hans asked.

"I am the captain of the air combat unit of 'Betelgeuse'. If I run away, who will direct the others to fight? Besides, didn't you just get married last month? I remember your wife was just pregnant, right? Do you want you to Will the child be born without a father?" Yeger asked.

"Stop talking." Hans said decisively, "I will not be a deserter. If you say anything again, I will report it to the captain."

Hans, who was sitting in the cockpit, glanced at his old partner's plane three hundred meters away with complicated eyes - he knew Yeager was doing it for his own good, but this incident still broke his bottom line...

If it doesn't work, the only option is to put Yeager in a solitary room - as long as "Betelgeuse" is not sunk, Yeager will most likely not be in danger of life. As for the post-war military court trial, at least it will not be possible. Will be sentenced to death 100%.

This matter can be big or small. At the most minor level, it could be considered as "issuing wrong instructions to subordinates", and if it fails, you will be dismissed... At the most serious level, if it is regarded as "inciting mutiny", it will probably be more troublesome.

But no matter what the situation is, it is better than driving the "Raven-class" towards the black fleet on the opposite side - Yeager is right, in this scale of combat effectiveness, these air combat troops are just cannon fodder.

Even if the opponent's warships turn off their energy shields, Raven-class weapons cannot penetrate the physical armor of these warships.

At this moment, the aircraft carrier battleship headed by the black fleet suddenly fired a series of colorful flares into the air.

"This is..." Yeager glanced at these flares and was stunned.

This is a communication method invented by the Ark military. When radio, sound wave and laser communication are all unavailable, and semaphores or other communication methods are also restricted, signal flares can be used to communicate with distant friendly forces. Simple A single single-color flare can mean "attack" or "retreat", and multiple flares of different colors can also be used to piece together some short words and sentences.

"What this sentence means is..." Yeager murmured as he looked at the colorful signal flares in the sky.

"In our next actions, if Fleet Zero chooses not to intervene, we will not launch an attack on Fleet Zero." Hans continued Yeager's words - he especially liked it during his business time. When studying this kind of thing, it is natural to read the meaning of the signal flare faster than Yeager.

"Next action? Let us not interfere?" Yeger looked at the black fleet, and then he suddenly looked back as if he remembered something, "I understand! Their target is not us, but It’s the big guy we’re guarding!”

This black fleet is coming towards "Yagunaktor".

The next second, Fleet Zero launched an attack on the Black Fleet first!

The intention of the other party is very obvious, and the purpose of Fleet Zero since its birth is to protect "Aguna Kotor". Naturally, the commander of the fleet cannot take "Aguna Kotor" just because his own fleet is weaker than the other party. "You" will be handed over to this fleet with mysterious identity and unknown origin.

"Quickly retreat! Get behind the mothership! Be prepared to withstand the impact!" The experienced Yeager immediately shouted in the team channel. At the same time, he pushed the joystick fiercely and flew the Raven fighter towards Towards the tail of "Betelgeuse".

However, due to communication interference, only Hans heard his instructions. As for the other fighter jets, they were still hovering around "Betelgeuse" blankly.

Most of the pilots flying these fighter jets were rookies who had just graduated from the Air Force Military Academy. They had just been added to the Zero Fleet not long ago. Not to mention combat experience, they even had very few flying hours.

Just when these recruits didn't know what to do because they couldn't receive orders from their superiors, the black fleet's counterattack has arrived!

More than 50% of the fighter jets were directly evaporated, and the remaining few "lucky ones" were swept in by the air waves in the aftermath of the explosion, lost their balance, and hit the energy shield of a friendly warship, turning into A firework blooming in mid-air.

In the first round of bombardment, the air combat unit of the "Betelgeuse" cruiser, except for the two captains and deputy captains Yeager and Hans, the rest of the fighter jets were completely wiped out.

"Alas!" Yeager punched the armrest of the seat angrily. He and Hans hid behind the butt of the battleship to avoid this wave of counterattack - and those rookies who lost their lives had no idea at all. In this kind of battleship battle, how insignificant is one's own fighter jet?

There is no energy shield, the armor is light, and the firepower is weak... The air combat troops deployed on the battleship are only used to perform low-intensity tasks such as reconnaissance or clearing out a small number of indigenous creatures on the ground. On this battlefield, their existence is simply insignificant. .

The reason why the aircraft carriers of the Navy in the old era were deterrent was because the nuclear warheads carried by the carrier-based aircraft had long-range destructive strike capabilities. A fighter jet with a length of more than 20 meters and a combat weight of only 20 to 30 tons carried weapons It was enough to level a metropolis with hundreds or even tens of millions of people... This extreme imbalance between spears and shields disappeared after the discovery of energy shields.

A military expert on the Ark said that if a "modern war" breaks out between humans now, it is likely to become a war of attrition on the "energy level": the weapons of both sides blast each other's energy shields, which The one whose energy shield is the first to be unable to withstand the bombardment will be defeated.

Because of the rebalancing of offensive and defensive forces, the combat mode has become more primitive compared to the middle and late periods of the old era.

It was like returning to the cold weapon era overnight.

The Raven-class driven by Yeager and others is equivalent to the most "worthless" militiamen in the cold weapon era - no armor, no mounts, and the weapons are only wooden spears and short bows with extremely weak penetrating power. , and those knights who were called "iron cans", even if they stood still and let the militiamen chop them down, the militiamen's weapons could not cause any harm to the knights through the plate armor.

If you want to kill a knight, you only need heavy lances and full-metal warhammers in the hands of the enemy knights, or large killing weapons like crossbows and trebuchets.

"Yegel, are we... going to join the battle?" Hans asked. Although he had just stated firmly that he would not be a deserter, after witnessing the tragic situation of other fighters, he still felt a little shaken in his heart.

Yeager was right. If they stayed on this battlefield, they could do nothing but throw away their lives meaninglessly.

Moreover, without radio communication with the mothership, they could not obtain command from the mothership at any time on the battlefield. Everything could only rely on their own judgment.

In this way, the risk factor will increase exponentially - not only must they avoid enemy firepower, but they must also always be alert to indiscriminate attacks from behind.

Our warships will not stop attacking just because friendly fighter jets are within the attack range.

"Let's wait and see first..."

Before Yeger finished speaking, a dense black shadow rushed out from the black battleship.

Yeager quickly recognized them. They were enemy remote-controlled drones, and each drone carried a large number of crystal energy bombs.

These drones have only one purpose, which is to hit the battleship's energy shield.

"It seems we will have something to do soon." Yeager sighed.

Although he didn't know how the other party controlled the drones in the case of severe interference, since these things came out, their air combat troops must be responsible for dealing with them - the close-in defense guns of the battleships can indeed clean up these things. Self-destructing drones, but if close-range defense cannons want to mow down these drones, they must first turn off their own energy shield.

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