Chapter 171 Large Formation
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, and it is impossible for humans to ask questions face to face, so 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 conduct observations in 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 pouring 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, 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 had already 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 his reservation, and then asked by the way: "Well, 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 have 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. He felt a little messy 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 one hundred and twenty battleships and the two hundred and ninety-three 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-range firefight formation, which was once proposed by the human command in the simulated war simulation.
In the early stage of the contact between the two sides, the enemy carrier-based aircraft is far away, and the fleet generally adopts an umbrella formation. The fire support ship is located in an umbrella-shaped opening, facing the attack direction. The second layer of the umbrella is composed of missile ships and other ships with controllable weapons. The space carrier and the logistics support ship are lined up to form the umbrella handle to reduce the attack surface.
When the enemy's self-destruct 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 in the outermost layer, and missile ships and other secondary heavy ships in the second layer. The core is the space carrier and logistics support ship.
Correspondingly, the carrier-based aircraft attack formation is generally based on a bowl shape, with a concave middle and convex surroundings, and the center point is vacant, in order to leave a counterattack window for the gunboats of the side, and at the same time, it can also cause confusion in the enemy's escort fleet formation.
The main danger faced by the defender in the last-resort attack is that once the enemy's self-destruct carrier-based aircraft breaks out from the rear of the formation, it will inevitably lead to a melee state of the fleet, which will cause huge losses to the fleet.
Equivalent to ground warfare, both sides should keep a reserve force for defense or a second wave of attack. But if the defender's strength is small, investing all its strength at once may achieve an annihilating effect, which depends on the commander's self-confidence and decision-making ability.
The combat effectiveness of a large formation is reflected in the speed of changing the formation and the determination to maintain the formation. An excellent commander must have a strong spirit of sacrifice and nerves of steel, and can watch the friendly ships around him being blown up one by one, and still insist on maintaining a fixed position.
In a word, large formations must avoid close combat. Killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of your own is not the quality that an excellent commander should have.
These are some tactical theories obtained by the human command from the rehearsal of the first-level civilization war.
Now the unknown civilization has moved the residential spacecraft to the umbrella pole and spread it out in a long strip, which can be said to be similar. However, it seems that they have to put out a large formation array because they have to protect those residential spacecraft.