Although the distance is only 12 light seconds, these autonomous annihilators still have a reaction time of about 3 seconds.
Even though 3 seconds is very inconspicuous, for an Annihilator that has reached a speed of tens of thousands of kilometers per second after acceleration.
Just a slight deviation from the course is enough to stagger a considerable distance in one second, thus completing the avoidance.
However, there is a problem with mechanical civilization.
That is, I like to make precise calculations and choose the best solution for everything.
If you can avoid the attack by moving one meter, they will never move even 1 millimeter more.
After the sudden appearance of the fleet began to attack, they instantly judged from the energy that its attack method was the same as that of the Scorpion Pirates' warships.
So, the old habit started to show up again.
After calculating the best avoidance method, it was quickly implemented.
Each Annihilator was dangerously dangerous, barely avoiding all attack routes.
Just as usual.
But this time, they were wrong.
Although they are all spatial functions, although they emit special energy fluctuations, they are extremely similar.
However, this is a completely different attack.
Pieces of space suddenly seemed to be grasped by someone's hands and then crushed into a ball.
Although the range is not large, each space compression attack can only cover a range of about ten kilometers.
But for the Annihilator who just happened to avoid the attack path...
But it is completely enough.
There are even multiple Annihilators within the killing range of many attacks.
In the end, according to calculations, more than 20,000 Annihilators were killed in one wave of attacks.
And the attacks did not stop.
As waves of attacks were launched, and more and more warships arrived, the Annihilator's loss rate also skyrocketed.
In just over two minutes, more than 90% of the Annihilators had been wiped out before even the first legion had arrived.
The entire battlefield has entered the liquidation stage.
However, after all, more than two minutes had passed, and the two-light-second range gap between the two sides had been erased due to the Annihilator's exaggerated speed.
At this moment, ten light seconds away, it was already within the range of the Annihilator.
Beam-like attacks were continuously shot out from its body.
Although this attack looks like an energy attack, it is actually not. It is a special particle flow based on dark energy (i.e., space particles).
The honeycomb-shaped space shield on the Pangu battleship also has a certain killing effect.
On average, every time a shot is hit, the integrity of the Pangu II shield will decrease by 7-8%, which can be said to be very powerful.
You know, according to the Federation's own tests, a kilometer-level space cutting attack can only destroy 10% of the full value of the shield on the Pangu II.
Fortunately, more than 90% of these things have been killed, and the remaining number is less than 10,000.
Coupled with the fact that the Annihilator has no shield and the distance is shortened, the hit rate of single-point attack weapons on the Pangu II type has also been improved.
You can still suppress these Annihilators and fight them.
However, it won't be a unilateral killing like before.
"Warships with shield values below 70% should move to the rear immediately to minimize possible casualties!"
"Yes, legion commander!"
Along with the First Fleet of the First Legion, they arrived on the Pidi battle star.
Duan Xing was calmly giving orders!
"Order the fleet arriving later to spread to both wings of the array and form a three-way crossfire with the main array!"
"clear!"
"Also, don't let Liu Tao sit idle. Inform them to attack from behind to increase the intersection of firepower!"
"Yes, legion commander!"
The order is issued.
Duan Xingke looked at the real-time model of the battlefield again.
Number of Annihilators remaining: 6,729 units.
Number of Slayers remaining: 377.
The remaining number of Pangu I-type ships: 300.
The remaining number of Zhurong II type: 955 ships.
The remaining number of Pangu II type: 8997 ships.
The Scorpion Pirates did not suffer any losses. The reason why there were 45 less Zhurong II ships was because they had been lost one after another during the battles in the previous few months.
However, the first fleet's Pangu II type lost three ships.
Although it has a space shield, if it is hit by more than ten shots from Annihilus at the same time in an instant, it will still be very fatal.
This is why Duan Xingke requires that the battleship at the front must move to the rear to carry out auxiliary attacks as long as the full shield value drops to 70%.
Even though Annihilators are just some ship-based combat weapons, their power and attack power are really strong.
If more than 90% of them had not been killed at the beginning, one of the Federation's main standard fleets would have wanted to take it down...
Although it can be done, the price you need to pay is definitely not small.
"Legion Commander, don't you need to take care of those Slayer warships behind you?"
"Ignore them, they have no attack power. What we have to do now is to concentrate all our firepower and get rid of these annihilators first."
"According to the briefing, these killers can fly in hyperspace. If they run away..."
"Is that so...then order the Sky Armor Corps to attack!"
After pondering for a moment.
Duan Xingke said.
In fact, he didn't care whether these killers ran away or not.
After all, without the Annihilators, these Slayers are just toothless tigers who can be manipulated at will.
Even if he runs away, it doesn't matter.
In the Theed system, they have no place to replenish Annihilators.
However, considering Jiang Xingchen's previous order, these killers should be included.
Moreover, there are not many opportunities for the Sky Mecha Legion to appear, so give them a chance!
"Yes, legion commander!"
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More than ten minutes later.
Just in time for the First Legion and the Third Fleet to arrive completely and before the Second Legion descends.
The last few Annihilators fought autonomously and were destroyed by a wave of focused fire.
On the other side, the Slayer battleship was besieged by a large number of Sky Mechas.
Although they are different from Annihilators, they have shields.
But it can't hold up to the number of Sky Dome mechas and the emasculated space-penetrating cannons they carry.
"Report to Kaitian that the First Legion has annihilated the Balt Mechanical Civilization Fleet, and the safety of the fleet's arrival area has been ensured!"
"Yes, legion commander!"
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At the same time.
Balth Galaxy.
In the center of a mechanical planet, a huge creation like a mechanical brain is running at high speed.
[Assessing threat]
[After assessment, the threat level is 6. Slaughterers and Annihilators alone cannot eliminate this threat]
[Open the strategy library and choose the optimal strategy suitable for the current situation]
[Strategies have been extracted to make up for the quality gap with absolute quantity]
[Wake up the program and start execution]
[Scope...all dormant fleets]
Within Bartene, there are a large number of mechanical planets hidden everywhere.