Gao Kaixuan's acceleration at this time was not a whim, but he had had this idea for a long time.
The reason why the fleet slowed down in advance was to slow down the speed in order to fight the enemy in a decisive battle. The reason why the fleet is speeding up again now is to gain the initiative in the battle.
Generally speaking, speed advantage and height advantage are both important in air combat. Although there is no atmosphere in space, many principles are universal.
To put it simply, if the battleship is too slow, it will become a live target for the enemy, and it will be extremely passive; if the speed is too fast, it will pass by each other, and it will take several hours to turn around once it comes into contact, and then it will take the same amount of time to turn around.
time to fly back and conduct the next round of attack.
If you have traveled a long distance and haven't had time to slow down, then the time consumed by each round of charge will be calculated in months. By then, there will be nothing to fight, and the two sides will just have fun going back and forth. It is estimated that they will not be able to charge a few times.
The fuel will no longer hold up at first.
At present, both the enemy and ourselves have the intention of a decisive battle, so they invariably maintain an appropriate speed, but within an appropriate speed range, they must strive for speed advantage as much as possible.
There is another very crucial point - although dog fights between warships are also close-range fights, the so-called far and near refer to the scale of space. The actual distance is not measured in meters, but in kilometers, which is the smallest unit, tens of kilometers.
The straight-line distances are all short, hundreds or even thousands of kilometers are not surprising.
The scenario in the movie of traveling several kilometers or more, facing each other with naval guns, and even colliding with each other is difficult to perform in reality, unless the commanders of both sides are brain-stricken at the same time and insist on fighting each other with a collision.
male and female.
Battleship ramming is a tactic from the era of sail battleships. At that time, long-range attack methods were very limited. The combat distance between the two sides was only a few hundred meters. Ultra-close distance and relatively slow speed were the prerequisites for using ramming tactics.
Since the beginning of modern times, there has been no record of ramming or sinking an enemy ship in naval battles between countries. Even if you want to ram it, you have to go through the naval gun and torpedo hurdle first, let alone the era of beyond-visual-range combat. There is no such thing.
Even the enemy ships cannot be seen, making collision even more impossible.
The characteristics of space battles are long distances and high speeds. Even if both sides intentionally slow down, the relative speed is often 180 meters per second. In addition, the warship is heavy and huge, and it is difficult to turn and overcome inertia. It is not that easy to collide with the enemy ship.
, so the probability of collision between warships is so small that it can be ignored.
The combat distance between the two sides depends on the longest range of the weapon, and the one with longer arms will naturally have an advantage.
At this point, humans with numerous weapons undoubtedly have a huge advantage. This is why Gao Kai is not worried at all when there are few warships in the Nanzhou fleet - you can't hit me, but I can punch to the flesh.
What's there to worry about?
This is what Gao Kai thought and did. While there was still some distance between the enemy and ourselves, all the warships opened fire with all their strength, missiles one after another, and super shotguns one after another.
On the surface, the main force is missiles, but in fact, the main force is super shotguns. Countless finger-sized steel balls lay a dragnet in front of the fleet, just waiting for enemy planes to burrow in... Yes, it is enemy planes, not enemy ships!
At present, the relative speed between the enemy and ourselves is too slow, and the steel balls are too small to have much effect when hit on a heavily armored battleship. However, it is different against the insect drones in the sky. This thing is just squishy. No matter how fast the steel balls are,
It is slower and much faster than a bullet. I dare not say that one steel ball will kill an insect machine, but as long as it hits, it will be enough for the insect machine to have a good drink.
If you think about what it would be like for a person to be hit by a bullet, you can think of the consequences of being hit by a bug machine. A bug machine is not a lifeless machine, and it will be affected to some extent if it is hit hard.
With this in mind, the Nanzhou fleet launched an attack from a distance of 3,000 kilometers. When the distance was shortened to 2,000 kilometers, 50% of the missiles and a third of the super canisters had been fired.
The aliens were not idle either, and their fleet never stopped spreading. The faster swarm of insect aircraft even spread out like a big net, covering the Nanzhou fleet head-on.
Although the aliens cannot see the super shotguns, they have suffered too many losses and have long been on guard against the Nanzhou Fleet's evil intentions. The alien fleet spread out so far just to avoid the super shotguns.
As for the insect drones all over the sky, the aliens don't think it's a big deal, because the insect drones are relatively small and the probability of being hit by super shotguns is not as high as that of a battleship.
Furthermore, the insect-drone tactic was not only successful on the Leishan, but also successfully hit several other warships. Aliens believe that the insect swarm tactic is a very effective means of combat, and the cost of the insect-drone is far lower than
battleships, so they used the insect sea tactic very clumsily, preparing to flood the human fleet with swarms of insect aircraft.
According to the calculations of the Nanzhou, the enemy dispatched no less than 30,000 insect drones. Evenly distributed among the Nanzhou fleet, each warship could be allocated 1,500. Even if only one tenth of them succeeded in hitting, it would be very harmful to humans.
It was an outright air disaster for a battleship.
Just think about it, more than a thousand basilisks running rampant in a battleship, what a terrifying and appalling sight it would be.
At this moment, the Nanzhou's radar screen was full of flashing red dots. The front, as well as the top, bottom, left and right sides of the front were all occupied by red dots. Seeing this scene, everyone's first reaction was to think of ants.
There is an old saying that bites an elephant too many times to kill it.
Gao Kai was also nervous. He suddenly felt that spreading the fleet apart was not a good thing. If the distance was too far apart, it would give the enemy every opportunity to defeat them, which might play into the aliens' hands!
An image of an alien laughing triumphantly appeared in his mind.
Fortunately, it was not too late to realize the problem. He immediately ordered: "Order all the ships to come closer to me. Ignore the insect aircraft for now. Concentrate your firepower on the enemy ships... Also, order all carrier-based aircraft to take off. All ships
Prioritize firing on the insect swarm!"
After receiving the order, the aviation force, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately set off. Fighter planes ejected from the battleship one after another. Then the fleet was divided into several waves and headed towards the directions where the insect planes were densest.
As the ships moved closer to the Nanzhou, they continued to fire missiles and super shotguns at the approaching insect swarms.
Enemy ships and aircraft keep emitting thin lights, but the targets of all the thin lights are missiles. There is no way, the steel balls are too small and too small, even if the aliens can see them, they cannot intercept them. Besides, it is hard to say whether they can see them.
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The distance between the two sides finally reached two thousand kilometers. The insect swarm took the lead and was less than one thousand kilometers away from the Nanzhou fleet.
At this time, a bug machine was hit by a super shotgun. The originally vibrating elytra became slower and slower, and soon stopped completely.
