So, why not just use hyperspace navigation and go directly to the enemy array, instead of being ten light seconds away and then charging forward while staring at the cannon fodder?
Is it because mechanical civilization is stupid?
This is a very good question.
But obviously, mechanical civilization does not brush.
If you do this directly, you can indeed send all one thousand Annihilators into the enemy array with great accuracy.
But once it enters the opponent's array, the Annihilator will not be able to exert its extraordinary high-speed maneuverability.
After all, at a speed of tens of thousands of kilometers per second, it flies directly from inside the array to outside the array in one second.
Moreover, in such a small area, surrounded by warships, it is impossible to maneuver accurately.
Maybe not much was destroyed by the enemy, but more than half of it was destroyed by itself.
You know, the battleships of the Scorpion Pirates all have shields, but the Annihilators don't. If there is a collision, who will die and who will live? Do you still need to ask?
Therefore, the Slayer battleship is not stupid. He knows very well that only by keeping a certain distance, and then using ultra-high maneuverability to avoid firepower while continuously outputting firepower, is the least casualty and most secure way of fighting.
In particular, completely dispersing a thousand Annihilators so that the enemy fleet cannot concentrate its firepower can greatly increase the Annihilators' survival probability.
But just now, through simulation and a series of calculations, it has been able to determine that the intruder intends to kill itself and then escape, instead of fighting the Annihilator again.
Obviously, this is very detrimental to it.
Therefore, he changed his plan and prepared to directly bypass the invader fleet and attack the transport fleet behind it.
The transport ship is unarmed. Once the Annihilator invades the array, even if it does not maneuver or even stands and outputs...
It doesn't matter.
The entire calculation, plus countless simulations, is completed in just an instant, and then the command is issued.
And at the same time, on the other side.
The fleet array of the Scorpion Pirates.
"Captain, those spherical metal bodies deployed their weapons, and..."
"And what?"
"And, are they slowing down?"
slow down?
What the hell?
Liu Tao was stunned for a moment.
According to the previous battle, shouldn't those spherical metal bodies maintain high-speed maneuvers and launch attacks at the same time?
There’s no need to slow down at all, right?
After all, slowing down will greatly reduce their evasive ability.
"Besides these, is there anything else unusual?"
"I don't know if it's an anomaly, but Captain, their route seems to have shifted slightly."
"Route deviation, predict the route immediately, and then display it."
"Yes, leader!"
Soon, an image was projected on the bridge.
In the picture, thousands of dots are marked, and then a straight line appears on each dot, and then extends, extends, and extends again.
Eventually, these thousands of straight lines focused on the same position.
And that location is exactly...
"No, give the order to the transport fleet to conduct hyperspace navigation to the predetermined location immediately, quickly!"
"Yes, leader!"
Although Liu Tao understood the other party's purpose, it was a little late.
At this moment, the thousands of spherical metal bodies had all started their hyperspace engines, and then quickly rushed into the hyperspace window one by one.
This is a hyperspace voyage of only about ten light seconds.
The whole process doesn't even take a second.
Thousands of hyperspace windows have been deployed in the rear transport fleet array.
"Hurry up, tell them to hurry up and leave immediately!"
"Captain, all battleships have started to activate their hyperspace engines."
"Too late!!!"
Seeing the spherical metal bodies emerging from the hyperspace window in the observation screen, energy began to gather on their already deployed weapons.
Liu Tao knew that it was already too late.
I just hope that the transport ship will not suffer too many losses in this wave of attacks.
Although, there are no humans on the transport ship. They are all piloted by pirates that the Scorpion Pirates captured after they first destroyed the three-star pirate group.
But no matter what, these are now the assets of the Scorpion Pirates, aren't they?
Liu Tao's heart was bleeding.
For a moment, a silver-white beam-like attack was flashing in the transport ship array.
Immediately, fireballs began to rise one after another.
Even without careful calculation, Liu Tao could tell that the loss was at least a thousand ships.
Fortunately, Liu Tao reacted quickly and issued the escape order in time.
Therefore, before these spherical metal bodies launched the second wave of attacks, the other transport ships had already entered the hyperspace window one by one and disappeared.
"Sure enough, the scientific team we brought here was right to establish a production line for hyperspace engines."
"Otherwise, I'm afraid the losses this time will be several times greater."
"Command all the battleships to give me a hard hit while those things are all gathered together and not at super high speed!"
Liu Tao gritted his teeth and said bitterly.
"Yes, leader!"
In an instant, countless firepower covered the area.
Since most of the spherical metal bodies are still in an almost stationary state at this moment, the hit rate of this wave of attacks is surprisingly high.
"Captain, the attack just now successfully killed 378 spherical metal objects. Do you want to continue?"
"Go ahead and give the order to all warships to flee immediately!"
"Well..."
A few seconds later, those spherical metal bodies began to accelerate again and were ready to attack.
The 1,300 battleships of the Scorpion Pirates...
Ran away!
As for the Slayer battleship, the mastermind also froze for a moment.
According to his previous calculations, the best way to deal with the invaders would be to order the transport ships to gather together and block all the Annihilators' action routes.
The fleet then took the opportunity to launch an indiscriminate attack.
However, the invaders did not do this and instead asked the transport fleet to evacuate first.
And in the end, when all the Annihilators had paused beyond the calculations of the Slayer battleship, they added a wave of firepower and directly removed nearly 40% of their Annihilators.
If this state continues, it may even be possible to kill all the Annihilators with minimal losses.
However, the intruder did not do this and ran away again.
This time, everything exceeded the Slayer's calculations of the best way to respond to hits.
then...
The Slaughterer silently rewarded the intruder with a mark.
Take transport ships very seriously and be extremely cautious.
But at the same time, he is also extremely cunning!
If Liu Tao knew at this moment the evaluation recorded by this Slayer warship, he would definitely be dumbfounded.
Let the transport fleet escape directly because these transport ships are your own assets. As a pirate, how can you destroy tens of thousands of transport ships just to kill so few combat weapons?
And be cautious...
Then it is even more impossible to talk about.
Liu Tao simply believed that fighting head-on with the enemy was not what pirates should do.
If you encounter a weak one, grab it; if you encounter a strong one, just run away.
This is what interstellar pirates are, okay?
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In the colorful hyperspace.
Liu Tao listened to the report from his subordinates, and his heart was bleeding.
"Captain, according to statistics, we have lost a total of 1,785 transport ships."
1785 ships...
I was indeed careless. I shouldn't have thought about launching a few waves of attacks before running away when the opponent was not close. Instead, I should have run away as soon as the opponent appeared.
What a mistake, I forgot...
The basic survival principles of being an interstellar pirate...