bdsm-fiction Chapter 414 Asteroid Belt Ambush (3)
Chapter 414 Asteroid Belt Ambush (3)
The unexpected attack threw the entire pirate fleet into chaos.
One warship after another hid behind the numerous asteroids around them, so that the entire fleet formation became messy in an instant.
Fleet combat in space is different from combat on a planet, in that the most important thing is fleet formation.
Because in space, the distance between the two sides is easily tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of kilometers.
At this distance, your attack will take a long time to reach the enemy formation.
So, aim and shoot accurately?
Sorry, this is the combat logic within the planet and is not applicable in space.
Maybe you were aiming correctly at the moment you shot.
But when the ammunition reaches the target after minutes or even dozens of minutes.
other side...
Still on your attack path?
the answer is negative.
Even if you calculate the lead time, can you accurately calculate the exact position of the enemy ship several minutes or even dozens of minutes later?
The answer is still no.
Therefore, large-scale fleet combat in space will once again return to the era when humans first came into contact with thermal weapons.
If the accuracy is not enough, then give up the accuracy.
Just use a tight array and barrage to shoot.
This is the essence of space warfare.
Of course, what we are talking about here is large-scale, long-distance, and the use of kinetic weapons.
If technology advances and energy weapons are used exclusively, with a range of hundreds of millions of kilometers, tactics and methods of fighting will naturally change.
But it is obvious that the current fleet of King's Landing cannot reach this level.
Although there are energy weapons, they can currently only attack within tens of thousands of kilometers and are not suitable for existing fleet battles.
On the contrary, the railgun does not have this problem, especially the range...
This is the biggest advantage of kinetic weapons.
Unless it hits something, its range is infinite.
Of course, the disadvantages are also obvious.
One is that compared to energy weapons, it is too slow.
Another is that its power is limited.
Especially when encountering armor made of some special materials, it is almost impossible to cause damage.
for example...
The outer shell armor made of degenerate materials cannot be penetrated by railguns.
Fortunately, those space pirates don't have such technology.
Not to mention the armor, even their warships...
Even they are made of wood.
As mentioned before, according to the confessions of the pirate prisoners.
The creation core exists on most planets in this universe, just like copper ore buried underground.
Of course, there are occasional open-air ones.
Even when they were still primitive and could not even use fire, some people accidentally discovered an open-air creation core and thus possessed various magical powers.
Then, when most civilizations learned to build rafts, the great voyages of space exploration began.
Can you imagine?
A simple raft flew out of the planet and opened the era of space navigation?
It's totally off the mark.
But this is the fact.
In other words, like Luo Lan's previous life and the pirate world, although they have mastered many technologies, they are still unable to conduct space travel. This is truly outrageous in the eyes of almost all civilizations in the universe.
Although their technology is hundreds or even thousands of years ahead of ours, the interstellar navigation technology that should have been first mastered by intelligent life is...
In short, when both sides look at each other from their own perspective, there are only two words for them, that is...
Outrageous! ! !
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On the large warship where the four captains were.
On the lookout tower of the mast, a pirate was holding something like a telescope, searching for the enemy.
If Luo Lan saw this scene, he would definitely complain madly.
No, you are in space with a telescope looking for a target...
Are you serious?
This is really serious.
Although it was very similar to the telescope that Luo Lan thought of, even the distance was almost the same.
But because of the different lens materials, the actual observation distance is much farther.
About that, you can see about 10,000 kilometers away.
At the same time, it has an effect similar to night vision goggles and is not afraid of the darkness in the universe.
But it was obvious that these ten thousand kilometers were not enough, and the King's Fleet could not be found at all.
When this result was heard by the four team leaders, their faces turned pale.
This is because anyone in the universe who can launch an attack from 10,000 kilometers away is at least at the level of a six-star pirate group.
The worst thing is that although the enemy ships cannot be seen, the density of their attacks...
There must be at least a few thousand warships, right?
Yes, they believed that there were at least several thousand warships launching the attack on King's Landing.
Because, in their logic, even large warships have no more than a hundred guns.
Then, based on the density and range of each wave of attacks, we can calculate the approximate number of projectiles, and finally calculate again...
Wow, even if all of them were large battleships, there would be at least four or five thousand of them.
You said there is something wrong with their algorithm, but that’s not the case.
But they have big problems in cognition.
After all, the space pirates still use a combination of wooden sailing ships and artillery.
Except that they do not sail on the sea, they are no different from the naval warships in the pirate world.
How could they comprehend a real interstellar battleship like the Reign, which was at least ten times larger than them and equipped with hundreds or even thousands of railguns?
This led to the mistaken belief that the enemy had at least several thousand warships.
In fact, the training fleet, plus the first and second fleets, the three fleets together only have more than 300 ships.
"This can't go on like this!"
"Indeed, we must find a safe harbor and restore the fleet formation!"
"It's impossible to go to the port. Let's go over there. There is a very dense asteroid belt. Its density can even completely block the enemy's attack!"
One of the team leaders pointed in a certain direction and said.
The other three team leaders also picked up the space telescopes in their hands and looked in the direction he pointed.
Sure enough, compared to the area where they are now, the density of asteroids there is more than ten times higher.
Therefore, as long as the fleet moves over, the dense asteroid belt will be enough to block all attacks, and the fleet that gets a chance to catch its breath will be able to restore its formation...
Regroup!
"Okay, let's do it!"
Opinions were instantly unified.
Orders are also issued to every warship in the fleet through the Genesis Core.
Watching the covering fire from King's Landing every few seconds, the pirate fleet moved.
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at the same time.
Somewhere in the asteroid belt, in an area with a high concentration of asteroids.
Thousands of people hide here.
Among them, most of them were wearing combat uniforms of various colors, while some were still wearing ordinary clothes.
The body is directly exposed to the space environment.
They didn't move, just waited quietly.
until...
A huge fleet of nearly 3,000 warships entered the area...
Everyone is ready.