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Chapter 396 Metal Ball

Yoni, the commander of the Goulan Fleet, is an officer who has served in the army for 15 years.Humans in advanced civilizations generally have a lifespan of over 250 years. A 15-year military service can only be considered a newcomer among military officers. This is the first time he has served as a commander in an independent mission. attach importance to.

Due to the special nature of tasks like this that require a small fleet to complete, experienced officers are generally sent to take command. If such officers are not available, sometimes even higher-ranking officers are sent to directly command the small fleet.

The time when Kweed of Otto made the request to the military headquarters was very unfortunate. The alliance fleet was retreating, but the intelligence department got the news from nowhere that the alliance fleet would attack the Goulan control area in the form of a small fleet.Although the planets bordering the alliance members in the Goulan control area have established defense points long ago, but because of the defeat in the war, the under attack military department no longer dared to be negligent, and officers with independent command capabilities were assigned to the alliance bordering Defensive point, as the command there, so the command will fall into the hands of Johnny.

This time is an opportunity for Johnny.If the task can be successfully completed, his future will enter the fast lane. Officers with independent command experience and officers without such experience have completely different promotion speeds.Johnny has been in his current position for more than five years. Without this mission, he feels that he might only be able to maintain his current rank until he retires, but as long as he completes this mission, he might be able to rise to a higher rank this year.This temptation made Johnny extremely eager to complete the mission successfully.

The information and help Kweed provided to Johnny made him full of confidence in this mission.But even with such great confidence, he was still relatively cautious. He arrived in the solar system more than ten days later than expected, which was the result of his waiting, planning, and arranging the various fleets.

As soon as Yoni's fleet entered the solar system, it spotted fourteen warships oncoming.After the detection scan was fully turned on, it was found that the opponent had four large warships.This is equal to the number of large warships in his own fleet, and ten small warships pose little threat to his own fleet.But Johnny just couldn't find the giant base ship that Kweed mentioned, which made him a little strange. Could it be that the other party planned to use the slow-moving giant base ship to set up an ambush?
The opponent's dozen warships dare to fight head-on with their own fleet. Don't they understand what it means to hit a stone with an egg?

"Send a message to the other side to surrender immediately, otherwise we will attack in two hours."

Johnny calmly gave orders to his men.Although he knew that it was completely unnecessary, the other party was coming to meet his fleet, which already explained the problem very well. If the other party intends to surrender, there is no need to tell him, they will still surrender. If the other party intends to resist to the end, it is useless to say it himself, so send this message Just routine.

Monman received the message from the Goulan Fleet in the Homeway.In Mengman's view, he always felt that he had nothing to say to the enemy, and fighting was not a matter of bickering, so there was no need to pay attention to each other.

"Send a few of our presents first."

As soon as Monman's words fell, ten metal spheres were launched from the only fortress-type attack ship in the fleet, and these spheres flew towards the Goulan fleet at sub-light speed.The flying speed of the ball is far faster than that of the Longxiang Fleet, but it will take at least half an hour to fly to the Goulan Fleet.

These metal spheres were specially prepared by Sun Xiang to "welcome" the Goulan fleet.Facing the Goulan Fleet, which is far more powerful than their own, many people in the Long Xiang Mercenary Group advocated using space plane mines to deal with them.However, there are not only earthlings on the earth now. With the expansion of the coverage of reports, more and more media have come to the earth. At the same time, there are also more spaceships delivering extraterrestrial aid materials. If space mines are used, they must be Will keep these people out of the solar system.

Moreover, the space mines may not have any effect against the Goulan fleet. The real fleet has many ways to deal with the minefields. No matter how many mines are deployed, at most it will delay their arrival on Earth.After comparing the pros and cons, Sun Xiang gave up his plan to use mines.

Yonny's fleet of course saw the ten metal balls launched by the other side, but they didn't take them seriously at all.How much threat can some metal objects that can't get close to the fleet in 10 minutes?Unless their power can directly destroy the star system, don't care about it at all.

There are very few weapons that can destroy a star system. With the current technology, it is impossible to destroy a star system without relying on a special environment and a lot of preparation in advance. Relying on ten small metal balls is not even a thought.Besides, does the Longxiang Mercenary Group really dare to disregard the lives of the people in the "Ranch" and die together with the Goulan Fleet?

Yoni ordered the fleet to turn slightly to avoid the oncoming unknown weapons.

The Goulan fleet's steering didn't have any effect, and the metal ball adjusted its flight direction as the fleet's course changed.

Johnny didn't care when he couldn't get rid of it, and continued to command the fleet to meet the Longxiang fleet.

The metal ball was getting closer and closer to the Goulan fleet, and suddenly accelerated five times the range.

The protective cover of the Goulan Fleet has already been opened, and the main and auxiliary weapons have already been fully charged, just waiting for the metal ball to hit the range.No matter how fast the flying object is, as long as the flight trajectory is controlled, it is still difficult to escape the fate of being destroyed under the firepower of the warship that has been prepared.This is one of the major reasons why live ammunition is rarely used in current wars.

There is another reason why civilizations don't like to use live ammunition: this thing is too slow.The current technology can only make live bullets reach about 20 kilometers per second at most, which is two-thirds of the speed of light.The slow speed increases the enemy's reaction time, and it must be difficult to hit the opponent.No matter how good a weapon is, if it can't be effective against the enemy, is there any value in its existence?

Another thing is that live ammunition cannot be a metal bump. The era of directly relying on speed and impact to destroy the enemy is gone forever. Various attack parts make its internal structure extremely complicated, which causes the price of live ammunition. Extremely cheap.The attack power of ordinary live ammunition is not even as good as that of energy weapons. The live ammunition that can be stored inside a battleship is really limited, so most civilizations have given up live ammunition and devoted all their research to energy weapons.

The things that Sun Xiang carefully prepared were of course not ordinary goods. When the weapons of the Goulan Fleet locked on them, these metal balls started to move irregularly.The flight changes of these metal balls were completely made by Sun Xiang after the live ammunition fired by the pirate ship last time. You must know that the live ammunition fired by the pirate ship with a rail gun last time was not even completely blocked by the Wisdom Mountain, let alone the smart ones in the Goulan fleet. brain.

The change in the flight trajectory of the metal ball not only dazzled the eyes of the observers in the Goulan fleet, but also made it impossible for the brain in the battleship to predict the trajectory of the ball, so there was no way to talk about locking.

Suddenly Johnny tensed up.Although there were only ten metal balls fired by the opponent, God knows how powerful it is. If the power is unexpected, it is hard to say whether the defensive cover can withstand this kind of attack. In the end, the battle was won, but this bad record would still cause him trouble in promotion.

What Johnny needs is a complete victory, a complete victory without any flaws!So he ordered all the warships to cover fire before the metal ball entered the range, and prepared to use all the main gun firepower to intercept the annoying metal ball.

Although the power of the main gun outside the shooting range is greatly attenuated, if it hits the target, even at twice the shooting range, the surface of this metal ball will melt and deform.However, there are only so many main guns on each battleship, and the firepower density is really limited. Moreover, after the main guns are fired, it takes a long time to recharge. As a result, not even a single metal ball was hit.

After the battleship's main gun was fired several times, the metal ball finally came within the range of Gou Lanren.In an instant, rays and balls of light filled the airspace, and all energy weapons shot towards the direction the metal balls came from.

Optical detectors onboard Yoni's flagship keep track of the metal spheres.The firing of secondary weapons is different from that of the main cannon. The main cannon is powerful, but it needs to be recharged, but the secondary weapon does not have this trouble. The recharging time is extremely short, and it can basically be fired continuously. , Those flickering rays of light and light balls have never stopped.

From time to time the observers reported to Johnny that there were still seven metal balls left.The virtual screen played back the process of hitting the metal ball, but the metal ball did not explode at all.

At present, the metal balls are hit by the secondary weapon, and Johnny watches the process of the three metal balls being hit repeatedly played on the screen.

To put it simply, although these metal balls act strangely, they are not distributed in a large area. Coverage shooting can always blind cats and hit dead mice. The three metal balls that were hit were almost all hit in this way.The performance after being hit is also similar, they will suddenly change from strange flying to inertial flying, and the flying direction is no longer heading towards the Goulan fleet.

However, none of the three metal spheres exploded, which made everyone feel unpredictable. There was no foresight of what kind of harm this kind of sphere would cause to the battleship.What is the scariest, the unknown is the scariest!In his heart, Johnny didn't want any of his warships to be stained with these unknown metal balls.

As the distance got closer and closer, the effect of the strange evasive action of the metal ball was weakened due to the speed, and more and more balls were hit. However, two metal balls still passed through the firepower net of the Goulan Fleet, respectively. crashed into two battleships.One of these two warships is a large warship, and it is also one of the trump cards in the Goulan fleet this time.

Johnny and the observers on the flagship saw that when the metal ball passing through the fire net was still a certain distance away from the battleship, there was a sudden change. The metal ball with a diameter of less than two meters suddenly changed color.

(End of this chapter)