Voyage of the Stars

After completing the filling of the acceleration buffer, the Tianqin, the Huangshan ship, the Lushan ship, plus ten Callisto-class battleships and a hundred frigates dragged the fusion tail flames out from behind the asteroids, towards Kun The fourth battleship of the Thai civilization left in formation.

"Commander Yue, our formation is about to engage the enemy. The current straight-line distance is 19 light seconds. The enemy's formation is 6% of the speed of light relative to our ship, and the speed vector angle is 154°."

19 light seconds is 5696056.702 kilometers. Not enough. Because at this distance, the main engagement firepower is beam weapons, humans are accustomed to using light seconds as the unit, because it is more intuitive than kilometers or astronomical units. You can tell how many seconds after firing the gun can hit the target. area.

"Commander Yue, the enemy ship formation has changed from a three-dimensional wild goose formation to a rectangular square formation, and has begun to distance itself from each other. The outer ships have moved closer to the surrounding asteroids, probably to avoid the sight of our naval guns."

"Commander Yue, the enemy ship formation has discovered our ship. The first seven warships have begun to adjust their attitude. The angle between their main guns and our ship is 167°. It is estimated that in fifty-six seconds, our ship will be locked by fire control of seven enemy warships! "

"Commander Yue, the enemy, the No. 1 ship, the No. 8 ship, and the No. 13 ship have begun vector speed changes. The estimated bearing is *** and the estimated time to complete the speed change."

"Shuai Yue, the environmental parameters have been corrected and the positron cannon is charging 7%, 16%, and 22%."

The Tianqin's channel sounded the voices of the observer, helmsman, first mate, second mate and other crew members. These voices were converted into information and summarized to Yue Yuan, who then made a comprehensive judgment on the warship's next move.

After each piece of information is processed by the shipboard supercomputer, it is summarized and turned into a visual battlefield dynamic map, which is displayed on the star map in front of Yue Yuan.

Yue Yuan stared at the star map for less than a second before giving the order: "Change the rudder to 15 on the side, aim the main gun at the predicted point of the enemy's eighth ship, and then advance at full speed to the side of the asteroid No. 4569, avoiding the enemy ships. Shoot the field of view!”

"Order the Callisto-class battleships and frigates to spread out quickly, use asteroids and meteorites as cover, and conduct harassing attacks on the enemy's outer battleships! Cover the Huangshan and Lushan ships to hunt and kill the enemy's outer battleships."

After issuing the temporary tactical order, Yue Yuan once again focused his attention on Kuntai's several warships that were the first to break into the asteroid belt, as well as his own Tianqin.

In a battle like this that relies on the asteroid belt, it is impossible for Yue Yuan to personally direct other warships to move. After all, each warship's surroundings are judged based on its own position.

Therefore, after actually engaging the enemy, he could only issue an overall tactical order and then let each ship perform its own duties.

A few seconds later, the Lyra's positron cannon was filled, and then the fire controller pressed the fire button without hesitation.

The positrons, which have been bound by the magnetic field for a long time, are like wild horses, whizzing away towards the target, and then leaving a faint light on their path.

The result of the first shot was not unexpected, passing through the space one kilometer away from the enemy ship.

It is normal to fire a gun from such a distance of 19 light seconds. The Tianqin did not wait for the second gun to be recharged. Instead, it followed Yue Yuan's order to change speed and approach the asteroid, conduct sight avoidance, and then wait for an opportunity to find the second gun. Gun opportunity.

When you see others, it means that others also see you.

So after the Lyra made a sharp turn to avoid it, seven faint rays of light whizzed past near its original location.

After entering the effective range of beam weapons or directed energy weapons, warships from both sides launched various prejudgment strikes.

For a time, in the outer space of the asteroid belt, faint light beams criss-crossed, like searchlight beams seen in the night sky passing through the clouds.

The light beams were large and small, intertwined, and their diffracted and scattered light slightly illuminated the originally dark asteroid.

If you look at it from God's perspective, it looks like there are constant lightning and thunder somewhere. Oh no, there is no thunder, only lightning.

At this time, after many single-ship firings without results, the Kuntai Civilization warship launched another salvo. Nine of the twenty warships were in salvo position. So the nine rays of light instantly crossed over, no, after 18.4 seconds, they crossed a distance of 18.4 light seconds and engulfed a Callisto-class battleship that was just about to emerge for a harassment attack.

Nine laser volleys were fired, two of them hit.

In less than 2 seconds, the salvo of energy cannons heated up the hull armor of the Callisto-class battleship and burned a large hole. The ensuing explosion instantly submerged the battleship, and the splashing molten iron was like fireworks. Shooting in space.

The remaining seven laser energy cannons that missed the target continued to attack, and three seconds later, they struck a quietly floating asteroid.

At this moment, the powerful laser energy burned the surface of the asteroid with bright spots. The asteroid, which is mainly composed of silicon, iron, nickel and other elements, instantly turned into a flowing liquid where the laser energy weapon was concentrated. , the instantaneous heating expansion caused the liquid that had turned into magma to explode into space, looking like a blacksmithing performance in the dark.

However, before the nine salvo battleships could cheer, only 3 seconds after the Callisto ship was blown up, a small flare-like bright spot appeared on the left side of an outer battleship, and then watched A series of explosions erupted from the bright spot, instantly spreading from the left string to the right string.

After a series of explosions occurred on the battleship, other battleships observed that a faint light came from far and near, turning into the left side of the battleship.

The more dazzling light brought by the explosion shone from the hull of the Kuntai Civilization Quaker-class battleship, splitting the battleship in two and cutting it in the middle.

The explosion threw the scalding thick juice that had turned into molten iron and the broken arms and limbs that had already turned into coke into space. The gas that originally filled the battleship also became an accomplice in the explosion, accelerating and pushing the two ends of the battleship apart.

"Damn it, it's that human Quaker-class battleship from before. Its main gun is a positron cannon!" An angry curse rang out from the fourth formation of Kuntai Civilization.

The only gun that can destroy a Quaker-class battleship with one shot is that kind of gun.

"Avoid, evade, if you don't want to die, maneuver!"

"Fight back, fight back! The No. 8 ship, the No. 18 ship, the No. 6 ship, and the No. 3 ship will adjust their attitude and launch salvos together with our own ship. Quick, quick, quick, the salvo parameters have been sent! Don't let that Another damn battleship shrinks behind the next asteroid!"

The salvo fire does not mean that all the guns are fired at one point, but at the possible displacement direction of the opponent's warship in the next step. The target is coverage, so the hit rate is naturally higher than that of single-ship shooting.

But the salvo also brings a problem, that is, because each ship needs to adjust its attitude in a unified manner, its next move is easier to be predicted by the opponent, and then hit by the opponent.

But now these five Kuntai civilization warships don't care so much, because the flagship captain of this small formation is confident that the Quaker-class warships that humans have just completed shooting will move to the asteroid ahead next.

She thought the salvo had a chance of hitting.

After firing, the five warships no longer maintained the salvo formation, but immediately changed the next movement direction of their warships in an irregular manner.

The five energy cannons were like rays of light cutting through the darkness, carrying the hopes of the Kuntai people, crossing a distance of 18.9 light seconds and falling towards the target area.

In the 37.8 seconds after the salvo was launched, the flagship of the fourth formation of Kuntai Civilization observed the result of the salvo as scheduled.

"Captain, we hit, two main guns hit! One shot hit the back of the enemy ship, and the other hit the upper left chord, hahaha!"

“Great job!!!”

There was a burst of joyful cheers on the Kuntai civilization battleship, but the squadron's flagship captain was still very awake. She shouted: "The human battleship is very armored, and it should not be able to sink with two hits. The eighteenth ship, the first Ship No. 4, follow this ship and fire a salvo according to the following parameters, and while its power is declining, give it a few more shots!"