From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 428: Feint Attack Me Alone Is Enough

The sudden attack stunned the commanders and captains at all levels of the Combined Fleet.

No one would have ever thought that this asteroid base of Atlas. No, it should now be called an asteroid fortress, would be equipped with such large-scale attack weapons.

Although the early reconnaissance conducted by the Federal Navy did discover this triangular device protruding from the rock wall, it was determined by intelligence personnel at the time to be the "entrance and exit passage" of A.Bawa.Ku.

In addition, the dense gravel belt surrounding A Bawa Ku has indeed left a "gap" here, which also makes this judgment more credible.

Of course, the main reason is that no one would have thought that Atlas could possess such a weapon.

Before today, if someone approached the top brass of the Federation or the big bosses of the military-industrial complex and told them that Atlas might have strategic weapons like the Star Dragon Empire's 'Focusing Iris' or the 'Requiem' carried by the Federation Mobile Fortress, the other party would definitely think that this person had something seriously wrong with his brain.

How could a private enterprise possess such technology and actually build such a strategic-level weapon?

From a certain perspective, there is nothing wrong with this idea.

After all, this thing was not developed by Atlas itself, but was picked up inside the asteroid. It is also not a weapon in the strict sense. According to the classification of the Forerunner civilization, the "decomposition ray" is actually a civilian mining equipment.
The effect of this kind of ray, whose principle has not yet been mastered by humans, on attacking ships is similar to that of mining asteroids. The external armor plates swept by the ray do not have the hideous wounds after being attacked by other weapons, but are disintegrated into standard cubes with a side length of 1 meter.

In essence, this is also a kind of "decomposition", and in terms of lethality alone, the effect is actually quite general. What really causes fatal damage to the ship is actually the derivative damage caused by the collapse of the internal supporting frame structure.

"Report, the fleet's losses have exceeded wait! Energy reaction detected, the second round of attack is coming!"

On the bridge of the Hood, the tactical information coordinator was just about to report the fleet's losses, but before he could say anything, the A.Bava.Ku detected an energy reaction again, and the green light that had just disappeared not long ago lit up again.

The attack of the decomposition ray was still like a huge whip sweeping across, but this time it changed the direction and angle.

If the first round of attacks just now left a huge "scar" on the Combined Fleet, then after the second round of attacks, the Combined Fleet was basically marked with a big cross. The formation that had been barely maintained completely collapsed after the two rounds of attacks.

This time, the tactical information coordinator finally had time to report the losses of the combined fleet.

"Report, 8% of the warships were directly sunk in the attack, 12% of the warships were severely damaged and could not continue to fight, and 21% of the warships were seriously damaged and are undergoing damage control!"

"Six corporate fleets including Deep Space Mining, Odin Heavy Industries, and Ryan Brothers have been severely damaged and are applying to withdraw from the battle!"

Following the report from the tactical information coordinator, Megan, the fleet commander who was shocked by A. Bawa Ku's attack, finally came to his senses and made a very correct decision from a God's perspective.

"Reject all requests to withdraw from the battle! Pass my order, the entire fleet continues to attack! The enemy's strategic weapons cannot continue to fire continuously, and our numerical advantage has not been lost! As long as each squadron avoids the beam and closes the distance, victory will still belong to us!"

Megan's decision was basically the best solution for the combined fleet under the current circumstances, because A. Bawa Ku's decomposition ray generator was forced to shut down and start self-checking because it had been running at full power for a long time. After all, no matter how effective the decomposition ray was, it was essentially just a civilian mining device, and running at full power for a long time was not its normal working mode.

If the Combined Fleet's fighting spirit was strong enough at this moment, and they suppressed their fear and rushed to the vicinity of the A.Bava.Ku asteroid fortress at high speed, this battle would still be fought. Even if Atlas could win in the end, it would have to pay a heavy price.

But unfortunately, the joint fleet composed of private enterprise fleets, in addition to personnel proficiency and experience, lacks the will to fight the most.

Not to mention those pirates. They may be able to put on a good show by fighting a favorable battle, but if you ask them to fight to the death, they will definitely be the first to run away.

Just like now, keeping a distance from the asteroid fortress and the joint fleet, ready to jump and escape at any time.

Although Megan, as the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, issued the order to "continue the attack", not all Enterprise Fleet commanders would listen to him.

Companies like Deep Space Mining and Gabriel Biotechnology, which are similar in size to the Nutao Group, have fleet commanders who also have their own ideas.

So when Megan's order was issued, the combined fleet, which had no formation to begin with, became disconnected.

Some relatively obedient corporate fleets continued to follow the fleet of the Nutao Group to launch attacks, while a group of fleets led by Deep Space Mining began to slow down and distance themselves from other fleets while avoiding the rays of the asteroid fortress.

This scene was also seen by Guterres in the core command room of A. Bawa Ku. He shook his head as he looked at the joint fleet in chaos after the attack. The enemy's fighting will was as poor as predicted before the war, and the reaction after the attack was basically consistent with Guterres' pre-war judgment.

Although the weapons of mass destruction of this asteroid base are indeed quite effective, there is still a certain gap in power and attack range compared to heavy particle cannons such as 'Focusing Iris' and 'Requiem', which have a 'caliber' of 10 kilometers and an acceleration orbit of hundreds of kilometers.

If the place here is an empire's artificial celestial fortress, then based on Guterres' personal experience, a Focused Rainbow with the right angle will cause at least 30% to 40% of the ships in the combined fleet to disappear directly.
"According to the battle plan, Mr. Amber and the battleships should also appear. I am finally not the only victim~"

Guterres' eyes were cast on the nine green inverted triangles at the 'zenith' position on the three-dimensional schematic diagram of the battlefield.

The one marked with an asterisk is Amber's squadron, while the other eight represent eight squadrons of heavy armored combat boats.

At this time, Amber, who had been lurking in the covert action mode for a long time, finally waited for the opportunity for their team to start action. The screen of the full-circle cockpit quickly changed from the standby interface to the "panoramic driving" mode, and the "Giant God" that had been optimized again also woke up.

"Boss, do you really want to go alone in the first wave? Let us cover you."

Murat's voice came from the communication channel. Amber turned her head to the right and saw another heavy machine in the distant universe that was similar in shape to the "Giant". Its legs were also replaced by additional propulsion components and it was gradually removing its optical camouflage.

"No, it's enough to just feint an attack on me. You guys can cover the battleship brigade and complete the breakthrough as planned."

(End of this chapter)