Chapter 390: Gasping for Air
At the same time, the strategic focus was placed on the electromagnetic railgun, which was not favored at the first-level civilization stage, so the combat effectiveness of the first fleet was not reflected when the two fleets just came into contact.
Tianqin did not fire a single shot, but just kept slowing down in the reverse direction to get closer to the fleet of the artificial intelligence consciousness.
The starry sky is very vast. The 36,000 Lake-class warships of the artificial intelligence consciousness seem to be a lot, but the space they occupy in the vast starry sky is still very small.
However, compared with the three fleets of the coalition, the scene was still much more shocking, especially when they simultaneously decelerated the tail main thrusters in the direction of the coalition fleet, hundreds of thousands of long flames were just like countless suns suddenly lit up in the starry sky.
It can be said that in the eyes of the visible light detectors of the coalition fleet at this moment, they are the only light source in the starry sky.
As the distance between the two sides continued to close, the artificial intelligence fleet no longer continued to decelerate with its tail facing the coalition fleet, but when it was about to enter the effective range of the electromagnetic railgun, it turned around and started a fierce battle with the coalition fleet.
Because of the existence of the main consciousness of artificial intelligence, the formation of the artificial intelligence fleet has always been spherical, and its body is in the center of the sphere, so that it can ensure that the other warships it controls have similar delay time.
For this reason, if the coalition forces want to catch it, they must destroy the fleet it controls.
This is a war between 3,750 warships and 36,000 warships. The difference in numbers makes the scene look very tragic for the coalition forces at the beginning of the war.
When the fleets of both sides entered the main field of the electromagnetic railgun, the ten-fold gap made the scene seem to have become that the three coalition fleets were swallowed up by the artificial intelligence fleet at once.
However, if the camera is pulled to each warship in the battlefield, it is not the case.
At this moment, the Tianqin has plunged into the spherical formation of the artificial intelligence fleet like other warships. From the optical image, it can be seen that at the right 3 o'clock direction, the port 10 o'clock direction, the front 12 o'clock direction, the upper 60-degree direction, and the lower 90-degree direction, four enemy ships have entered the range direction.
And judging from the changing postures of the four warships, four laser energy cannons may fire at them in the next moment, of course, it may also be the electromagnetic railgun that has just been fired.
"Don't pay attention to enemy ships in other directions. Our ship will not adjust its posture. Continue to slow down in the reverse direction and approach the warship in front. Prepare the electromagnetic railgun and kill that one first!"
Fronted firmly in the captain's chair, Yue Yuan, who was subjected to 160G acceleration, gave tactical instructions.
Tianqin did not add acceleration buffer, because humans have now mastered the human body overclocking mode. After entering the human body overclocking mode, the normal human body strength can withstand 200G acceleration. If you often do acceleration training, such as the crew on the warship, you can completely withstand 300G acceleration.
Now the acceleration brought by the deceleration of Tianqin is only 160G, and it is enough to open the human body overclocking mode casually.
The existence of the overclocking mode ensures that humans can maintain sufficient combat effectiveness in this high-intensity acceleration and deceleration battle, and the practice of sending a scientific team to collect scientific data in this star field ensures that the movement posture of each warship is easier to adjust and the shells fired are more accurate.
So when the main gun of the Lyra fired the first armor-piercing electromagnetic railgun with a hydrogen bomb warhead like a ghost, it was shot right as the calculation results showed!
However, although the electromagnetic railgun can ignore the magnetic field shield, its speed is still not fast enough, so this shell was burned by the laser close-in defense gun on the enemy ship more than 70 kilometers away from the enemy ship.
However, when the electromagnetic railgun of the Lyra was intercepted, a bright spot appeared on the belly of the enemy ship. Three seconds later, the armor at the spot turned from red to white, and finally turned into a large hole with red steel lava.
This is a masterpiece of a warship located below the Lyra. The main gun of the laser energy cannon equipped on it made a large hole in the enemy ship with only one shot, but it did not hit the core part and did not cause a secondary explosion.
However, this penetrating attack also caused many equipment failures on the enemy ship. A series of circuit burns and fires caused by electronic equipment failures occurred after the armor was penetrated.
And the next moment, the enemy ship caused the unstable power supply of its own magnetic shielding layer because of these failures. If it were in other places, this instability of the magnetic shielding layer would not cause any serious consequences, but here, it cost the life of the warship.
The instability of the power supply system led to the instability of the magnetic shielding layer function, so the next moment, the magnetic shielding layer collapsed briefly.
Afterwards, before the maintenance robots on the warship arrived, a series of sparks appeared in the internal circuit of the warship, and various burnt smoke and dust came out from various pipelines and locations.
Then in a series of sparks, the warship seemed to be electrocuted by itself, and the tail thruster also went out, and then the close defense gun that was originally rotating on its surface also stopped, and its various internal equipment and indicator lights also fell silent at this moment.
Less than ten seconds after a large hole was shot through the battleship by an energy laser cannon, it turned into a dead iron lump floating in space.
The energy laser cannon only injured it, and it was the environment of this space that killed it. To be precise, it was the quasi-magnetic star that is invisible in the visible light band.
Everything that just happened was the process of the enemy ship's internal equipment being magnetized by the quasi-magnetic star after it was injured.
The process was very short, but its internal equipment was all scrapped in a short period of time due to the strong magnetic field, and it "died" peacefully.
This phenomenon not only occurred on this enemy ship, but many enemy ships that were shot with large holes by laser energy cannons and caused turbulence in the internal magnetic shielding layer had the same fate.
For a time, the laser energy cannon repeatedly made great achievements.
Less than an hour after the two sides fought, more than 400 artificial intelligence warships were buried under the laser energy cannon.
And warships like the Tianqin equipped with electromagnetic railgun main guns also showed their combat power in the following time.
As the distance is constantly shortened, the electromagnetic railgun is no longer as easy to be intercepted by close-range laser energy weapons as when it just entered the range. After all, the shells of the electromagnetic railgun are not slow. With the current electromagnetic technology of mankind, the speed of the shells can be accelerated to 10% of the speed of light, that is, 30,000 kilometers per second.
If it is an electromagnetic railgun shell that has been advanced and modified, it can also ignite the shell's own fusion propulsion engine after the shell is ejected, and the speed will continue to increase.
In close combat, such speed can barely be described as "fast as lightning". If we use some common words in some movies and TV shows in the Earth era, this is sub-light speed.
Of course, that is a brainless drama.
In fact, sub-light speed refers to the speed of an object reaching 90% but not reaching the speed of light. Obviously, the electromagnetic railgun of mankind cannot do this now.
But for close combat, it is enough.
Just like the current Tianqin, it took only 30 minutes to successfully kill three enemy warships.
"One hundred and eight left rudder! Coordinates 22663, shoot down that warship!" Just after observing that an enemy was destroyed by the electromagnetic railgun, Yue Yuan spoke again to find the next target for Tianqin.
At this moment, a damaged report sounded in the Tianqin command center: "The top side of our ship was irradiated by laser for 1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds, and 6 seconds. The local armor temperature was 8897℃, which was low, but the armor was intact. The radiation cooling system of this ship is working normally, and the armor is circulating and cooling. "
Laser energy cannon, light speed, detection means being hit or missed, there is no possibility of interception, only moving to avoid.
However, in this close-range battle, predicting and avoiding becomes more difficult. Even if the warship is fully advanced and changes speed and direction, it is not faster than the speed of light.
However, the Tianqin armor is very strong. During this period, it was not the first time that it was hit by the opponent's laser energy cannon, and it was unscathed.
At the same time, the Tianqin's radar detected eight rapidly approaching electromagnetic railgun shells. So its close defense laser cannons turned together under the control of the combat AI, and after completing the charging, they irradiated the oncoming shells.
"Our ship's close-in defense gun successfully intercepted 7 electromagnetic railguns!"
"Our ship's side wing armor was hit by an electromagnetic railgun, and the hydrogen bomb warhead of the shell exploded. The flaw detection system is working normally and is calculating the explosion energy. The external equipment is scanning the damage.
Result: The warhead hydrogen bomb explosion produces a high temperature of 140 million degrees. The deformation of our ship's side wing armor is less than 3CM and the armor is circulating and cooling. "
After being hit by an electromagnetic railgun, everyone in the command center felt that the Lyra shook a little, and then it did not stabilize.
The main gun of the artificial intelligence fleet uses the original triple-mounted mode of the Nair civilization. It has a small caliber, but it also has built-in hydrogen bomb warhead technology, but no armor-piercing technology.
So being hit by an electromagnetic railgun is equivalent to being hit in the face by a hydrogen bomb. Alloy No. 2 has extremely strong impact resistance and a melting point of up to 280 million degrees Celsius. Therefore, the Lyra, which uses Alloy No. 2 as armor, took the hit hard, and the armor was slightly dented, and it was not injured at all.
In the two human fleets, although the performance of other warships was much worse than that of the Tianqin, the armor was all made of No. 2 alloy, so the two sides had just engaged in close combat, and a human warship was able to fight seven or eight artificial intelligence consciousness warships at the same time.
Moreover, the human warship was able to kill all the opponents in this situation, and its armor was only slightly deformed.
On the other side of the battlefield, the Nair Governor, who had been paying attention to the human warships and wanted to know the true combat power of the human warships, saw this scene and couldn't help but use his many dialysis gas organs to suck in countless breaths of cold air.