Chapter 376 The War of Secondary Civilizations

More than ten minutes later, as the three fleets continued to pass, the warships in the rear echelon of the fleet also entered the effective range of the laser energy cannon and positron cannon.

For a while, the voices in the warships came one after another, including the captain's instructions, the scientific officer's data report, and the voices of the fire control operator and the communicator.

And in these voices, the three fleets also fired waves of volleys at the opponent in their own way.

For a while, space beams were crisscrossed, and one after another beams either bombarded the opponent's ships or left faint traces in the void.

At the distance of 3~15 light seconds, there are only two weapons that dominate the battlefield, one is the conventional laser energy cannon and the other is the positron cannon.

The reason is that the speed of these two weapons is the speed of light. At such a long distance, only such weapons can have a higher hit rate.

As for the electromagnetic railgun, it needs to get closer, close to the range of 1 light second, that is, within 300,000 kilometers, before it can really come in handy.

In other words, the contact between the two sides is just beginning.

Therefore, even though dozens of minutes have passed since the two sides started fighting, no warship has been destroyed. The reason is that after the magnetic field shield appears, the positron cannon, a powerful weapon, loses its original power. The power is still very strong, but it just can't hit.

This is not a power problem, but a physical problem.

After all, no matter how high the power of your positron cannon is, it still shoots out positron beams, and the fastest is still the speed of electrons in a vacuum, and the magnetic field doesn't care how many electron beams you have. As long as it is a charged particle, as long as it is still within the physical laws of the universe, the magnetic field of the warship can make it deviate, without exception.

Therefore, the positron cannon seems to have lost its effect at this moment.

Whether it is the Nair civilization warship after humans replaced it with a large-caliber positron cannon, or the artificial intelligence warship that still uses a triple-mounted style, it is the same.

So the most common situation seen on the battlefield at this stage is a beam of light that turns in space and shoots into nothingness.

"Captain, we hit it! Our laser energy main gun hit the triple-barreled gun barrel of the enemy ship, and the burning lasted for 3 seconds. We punched a big hole in the turret of the enemy ship and it was scrapped."

"Well done!"

The battle continued. In the long-range shooting stage, the two sides went back and forth. While the three fleets were cutting the outer edge of the artificial intelligence fleet as planned, the density of artillery on the battlefield began to increase due to the increase in the number of warships entering the range.

For a while, the voices of the staff on each warship became more dense.

"Haha, my ship's super-large laser main gun penetrated the enemy ship's side string and caused a big explosion! Captain, based on our understanding of the structure of the artificial intelligence warship, the location where the explosion occurred is definitely the location of the magnetic field shield generator!"

"Very good, mark that warship, and send it to the warships in my formation equipped with super-large positron gun main guns together with this message, let them focus on that enemy ship and try to kill it with one shot!"

"Got it!"

After exchanging information,

The warship whose magnetic shield system was damaged by the skill energy cannon was quickly concentrated by two positron cannons, and then in a series of explosions, it turned into a pile of scrap metal moving at a constant speed in space.

The laser energy cannon first damaged the enemy ship, and then the positron cannon made up for it. This was a common way to destroy warships at this stage.

With the destruction of the first artificial intelligence warship, the war seemed to have entered another stage.

With the first one, there will be the second, third, and fourth.

As the distance was shortened, the shooting hit rate was also increasing, so the number of destroyed warships was also increasing rapidly.

One, two, three, thirteen, thirty, one hundred

Soon, more than three hundred fragile artificial intelligence warships were sunk, which was the brilliant victory of the Fourth Fleet.

The reason why it is called brilliant is that the Fourth Fleet has achieved such a result before entering the main field of electromagnetic railgun range, and they are also the first fleet among the three fleets to tear a corner of the artificial intelligence fleet.

Of course, in this process, the Fourth Fleet also paid the price of thirty warships.

The AI ​​fleet has a huge advantage in numbers, so in fact, during the charge, the Fourth Fleet was hit much harder than its opponent. The reason why it only paid the price of 30 warships was entirely because the AI ​​fleet's main guns were triple-mounted.

The firing rate was fast, but the caliber was too small. Often, the AI ​​warships' laser energy main guns needed to hit the Nair civilization warships dozens of times before they could seriously injure them or invalidate their magnetic field shields, and then they could use positron guns to make up for it.

The exciting thing is that this situation not only occurs in long-range battles.

When the leading warship of the Fourth Fleet passed through a corner of the AI ​​fleet, the other warships in the cone formation were at a closer distance to the enemy warships at this moment.

Many warships located on the periphery of the cone formation were within 300,000 kilometers of the enemy ships, and some even reached 50,000 to 60,000 kilometers.

At this distance, the warships that were originally on the outer edge of the cone formation and whose main guns were laser energy guns or positron guns immediately moved to the inner circle, and then the warships equipped with electromagnetic rail guns immediately pushed up.

Therefore, the first round of confrontation also entered the second stage at this moment.

Electromagnetic railguns carrying hydrogen bomb armor-piercing warheads, driven by powerful electromagnetic force, flew out of the muzzle at an extremely fast initial velocity and shot towards enemy warships tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.

One after another, super-large electromagnetic railguns began to roar at the enemy ships.

This was a silent roar. At the moment when the shells came out of the barrels of all electromagnetic railguns, there was no picture of electric light in the movie, but they shot out silently.

Without light or shadow, the electromagnetic railgun shells traveled through the dark void like ghosts. Only when they plunged into the armor of the enemy warships, would there be a beautiful explosion like fireworks.

Once the electromagnetic railgun shells upgraded by humans hit, it would be like sending a hydrogen bomb into the warship and detonating it.

The high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees at the center of the hydrogen bomb explosion directly melted a large hole in the warship. The remaining high-energy and high-heat explosion would follow this hole and rage inside the warship, thus triggering a secondary explosion, and finally a one-shot hit.

Hydrogen bombs, a weapon that humans can make in the Earth era, are still not outdated in the second-level civilization stage. As long as you can send it to the position close to the enemy's face to explode, its lethality is still strong.

When the electromagnetic railgun roared, the war really entered the tragic close combat stage, and the short-distance directional maneuvers of each warship became more frequent.

Warships exploded under this kinetic weapon and turned into piles of cosmic scrap metal.

The last moment the rudder was full left, and the next warship was likely to make a 360-degree turn, and then open the main thruster to the maximum, so that the warship could make different navigation postures in the shortest time as much as possible to avoid the various naval guns fired by the opponent.

Of course, the close distance of close combat is also relative. It is not the traditional close-range boarding battle. At this time, the distance between the warships of both sides is still maintained at more than tens of thousands of kilometers.

But compared with the distance of 20 light seconds and 15 light seconds, it is also considered a close combat.

This change in the way of war undoubtedly tests the maneuverability of warships. Whoever has better thrusters and greater acceleration will have more sensitive warships and can better avoid the opponent's attacks.

Due to the emergence of magnetic field shields, kinetic weapons such as electromagnetic railguns have finally become the protagonists in the war of secondary civilizations. The main battlefield of the war has also been pulled from a distance of tens of light seconds to a closer distance, so the rhythm of the war has become faster and more dangerous.