Voyage of the Stars

While the unknown civilization is waiting for the deceleration to be completed, humans are also waiting for them to complete the deceleration.

Theoretically speaking, without deliberate concealment, the process of deceleration when entering a galaxy is the maximum conventional acceleration value that this civilization can withstand. This value will not be much different from the ultimate acceleration that it can withstand.

Just like a human battleship, the normal acceleration and deceleration is 120 G, and the limit of 150 G can be reached by refilling the acceleration buffer.

There is a direct information gap in civilization. It is impossible for humans to ask questions face to face. Therefore, they can only judge others by themselves and guess the other party based on their own situation.

Of course, this is based on the fact that the other party is also flesh and blood, and those roller-like residential spaceships just prove this.

Four hours, five hours, six hours.

Time passed slowly as both parties waited. At the same time, both parties were observing each other with their own devices.

The unknown civilization directly used their eight stopped detectors to observe the human battleship formation, and the human side also directly used the Wudangshan ship, Emeishan ship and the dispatched detectors to observe the opponent unscrupulously. .

This saves the telescope from having to secretly observe the asteroid belt and reduces the probability of exposure.

As the two sides spied on each other, time came to the eleventh hour after the unknown civilization's fleet began to decelerate.

"Shuai Yue, the other party has begun to adjust its posture." A voice on the Tianqin brought Yue Yuan, who was in deep thought, back to reality.

"How much?" Yue Yuan asked.

The announcer knew what Yue Yuan was asking, so he flapped his hands to synchronize the data and replied: "It is divided into two stages. The first five hours are the first stage, and the last six hours are the second stage. Some time after they discovered us, we observed that their thruster nozzles were obviously brighter, indicating that they were undergoing extreme deceleration."

"Considering the two stages comprehensively, the opponent's average acceleration value is 100 G. The limit plus speed should be higher, but not more than 110 G. After eleven hours of deceleration, it is now close to 6 astronomical units. At present, The distance from the Wudangshan ship is about 24 astronomical units."

"Okay!" Yue Yuan stood up from the chair, activated the magnetic boots to stick himself firmly to the floor, and then said leisurely: "I found that we entered the limit deceleration after an hour. We should be filling the acceleration buffer. Even if they The ultimate acceleration is 110 G, which is not as good as ours."

"So do you think it is possible for them to decipher the information we sent in the acceleration buffer?" Yue Yuan's voice was not loud, but it could be heard by every scientist in the bridge.

This acceleration limit is not a gap in engine technology, but a gap in the tolerance of civilized individuals.

"I think it is possible. If nothing else, as long as I can see the signals on the equipment, I can do such work." Cryptozoologist Talya Sinskaya said this.

Immediately afterwards, linguist Lu Xiaofen, who appeared on the big screen in the form of a video, also expressed his opinion: "I also think so. We are now in a paperless office. As long as the equipment is normal, the deciphering work can be carried out. We If you can do it, there is no reason why the other party, who is also a first-level civilization, can't do it."

"So, the other party's supercomputer is not very good." After hearing what the two said, Yue Yuan also thought it was reasonable, so he came to such a misjudged conclusion.

"Chief, maybe, they started to decipher the stage information, but found that they couldn't decipher it within an hour, so they carried out extreme deceleration." Yu Nanfeng expressed a different view, because he felt that infusion of acceleration buffer did not require a Hours long.

Yue Yuan nodded, expressing reservations, and then asked by the way: "What is the communication delay now?"

"3.6 hours."

3.6 hours is 3 hours and 36 minutes.

Then just wait!

"Commander Yue, the opposing fleet is still adjusting its posture and seems to be changing its formation!" At this moment, an observer in charge shouted.

Yue Yuan raised his eyebrows: "The screen displays dynamically."

With that said, Yue Yuan put his hands behind his back and looked at the big screen.

The videos shown above are from more than one angle. There are frontal views and slightly tilted up, down, left, right, and four side angles. However, the side angles are not really side angles, but are just slightly tilted from the front.

Obviously, this is the picture captured by the detectors released by the Wudangshan and Emeishan fleets.

In the picture, Yue Yuan saw the huge fleet slowly adjusting its posture. It felt a little chaotic at first, but after looking at it for a while, he could see the clues.

This unknown fleet is indeed changing its formation.

At the beginning, the fleet's 120 battleships and the 293 barrel-shaped spacecraft behind them were roughly in a rectangular array, but after the change, the rectangular array was out of shape.

Without letting Yue Yuan wait long, the formation change of the unknown fleet was completed.

The unknown fleet formed an umbrella-shaped structure. The front end of the umbrella-shaped structure was composed of one hundred and twenty main warships, while the 'umbrella pole' at the back was composed of two hundred and ninety-three barrel spaceships.

The tip of the umbrella faced the direction of the human battleship formation.

"Something!"

Seeing such a change, Yue Yuan touched the newly grown stubble on his chin. He already understood the purpose of the opponent's change into this formation.

In space, the umbrella formation is a typical long-distance firefighting formation. This formation has been proposed in the simulated war deduction of the human headquarters.

In the early stages of contact between the two sides, when the enemy carrier-based aircraft are far away, the fleet generally adopts an umbrella formation. The fire support ship is opened in an umbrella shape and faces the attack direction. The second layer of umbrella is formed by missile ships and other capable It is composed of weapons-controlled ships. Space carriers and logistics support ships are lined up to form an umbrella handle to reduce the attack surface.

When the enemy's self-destructive carrier-based aircraft is close, the fleet generally adopts a spherical formation, with heavy armored ships and heavy firepower ships such as fire support ships on the outermost layer, missile ships and other secondary heavy ships on the second layer, and the core is space. Mothership and logistics support ship.

Correspondingly, the attack formation of carrier-based aircraft is generally bowl-shaped, with a concave center and convex sides, leaving the center point vacant, in order to leave a counterattack window for friendly gunboats, and at the same time, it can also cause confusion in the formation of the enemy escort fleet. .

The main danger faced by the defender in striking back is that once the enemy's self-exploding carrier-based aircraft protrudes from the rear of the formation, it will inevitably lead to a state of melee in the fleet and cause huge losses to the fleet.

Equivalent to a ground war, both sides should maintain reserve forces for defense or for a second wave of attacks. However, if the defender's strength is small, investing all its strength at once may achieve an annihilating effect. This depends on the commander's self-confidence and decision-making ability.

The combat effectiveness of large formation operations is reflected in the speed of changing formations and the determination to maintain formations. An excellent commander must have a strong spirit of sacrifice and steely nerves, and be able to watch the friendly ships around him being destroyed one by one. Even if it explodes, it can still maintain a fixed position.

In a word, when fighting in large formations, close combat must be avoided. Killing one thousand enemies and inflicting eight hundred losses on yourself is not the quality that a good commander should have.

These are some tactical theories obtained by the human high command from previewing the first-level civilization level war.

Now an unknown civilization has moved the residential spacecraft to the umbrella pole and spread it out in a long strip, which can be said to have the same purpose. However, it seemed that they had no choice but to set up a large formation because they wanted to protect those residential spaceships.