The short air raid ended, and the aliens lost dozens of insect drones. However, thanks to Ceres' low gravity and strong carapace, most of the enemy soldiers who landed stood up, and only a few unlucky ones broke.
Their arms and legs were lost, and almost none died from the fall.
Perhaps they were worried about the next wave of human air strikes, or perhaps there were not enough insect drones to take away all the enemy soldiers. The aliens simply gave up the idea of a low-altitude raid and let the insect drones drop all the enemy soldiers while the enemy soldiers advanced on foot.
, the insect plane followed at low altitude.
Well, if the armored bugs follow up again, the aliens' tactics will be exactly armored assault and air-ground coordination.
It's just that the armored bugs were left far behind by the attacking forward troops. The forwards didn't have any intention of waiting. They left the corpses of the bug machines on the ground and continued to move forward. It seemed that they were willing to overcome all difficulties.
The Yuzhou was not used to the aliens at all, and the fleet suddenly climbed up at the right moment, bringing the advancing enemy forces into sight.
The next step was simple. All the laser cannons of the six warships fired at once. The lasers swept across the enemy troops almost to the ground. The enemy forwards who were just fine suddenly rushed into the street. Countless enemy soldiers were quickly reduced to coke by the lasers and then disappeared into ashes.
The low-altitude insect drones were flying around like headless flies, but they could not escape the pursuit of the laser, and most of them were killed or injured in a short time.
After dealing with the enemy, the Yuzhou fleet immediately lowered its altitude. With the support of the artillery array on the ground, the Yuzhou was not worried at all about the enemy ships catching up.
Of course, the heights here are only relative. When the fleet is at its lowest, the actual distance to the ground is hundreds or dozens of kilometers.
Ceres has a diameter of nearly a thousand kilometers and is hovering in a low-altitude orbit of only more than a hundred kilometers. Ceres directly fills the viewing angle on one side of the fleet, which is almost 1,670 degrees, nearly half of the circumferential viewing angle. It looks abnormal.
Huge and full of oppression.
But it will be different after the fleet is raised to a higher altitude. If the fleet altitude is raised to a thousand kilometers, the viewing angle occupied by Ceres will only be about fifty degrees, only one-seventh of the circumferential viewing angle, and it will look much smaller than in low orbit.
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Therefore, the shooting angle of the fleet at different altitudes is completely different. When the altitude is increased by 180 kilometers, the shooting angle can be greatly expanded. The Yuzhou took advantage of this and carried out a short surprise attack on the enemy.
Successfully eliminated the vanguard of the alien ground forces.
The successive defeats have made the aliens realize that it is not that easy to knock down the artillery array. In order to avoid greater losses, all the alien troops who landed have stopped advancing.
Soon after, the alien fleet that had been parked above the landing area finally made new movements. The fleet was divided into two, with one half moving towards the artillery array, and the other half increasing in altitude, gradually moving away from Ceres.
The movements of the alien fleet attracted great attention from Ye Han and others, because there was too little information. Although everyone had various speculations, there was no tone to indicate the enemy's purpose.
No one paid attention to the enemy ships moving away for the time being, and everyone's attention was focused on the enemy ships moving towards the gun array.
However, this enemy force did not cross the safety line. They stopped before entering the range of the super cannon and used the firepower of the fleet to take care of the ground forces.
After the enemy troops moved, the ground safety line moved a certain distance towards the artillery array, but this distance was not long. If the enemy troops wanted to rush to the artillery array, they still had to pass through a dangerous zone of hundreds of kilometers.
However, Ye Han believes that the enemy's purpose is not to cover the ground forces, but to deter the Yuzhou fleet! Because the alien fleet's current position can control the mid-to-high-altitude orbit above the Yuzhou fleet, once the Yuzhou fleet increases its altitude
, we have to face the firepower of the alien fleet.
Of course, no one is worried about this, because the straight-line distance between the two sides is too far, far beyond the effective range of the thin light, and beyond it by a large margin. Unless the Yuzhou takes the initiative to approach the enemy, it will be difficult for the alien fleet to threaten it.
The security of the Yuzhou Combat Group.
The enemy's ground troops finally took new actions. They divided their troops into several groups and advanced towards the artillery array.
The Yuzhou really had no intention of engaging in a deadly collision with the enemy, and there were ways to avoid it.
The fleet waited patiently for a while, and after the enemy had reached a suitable distance, the cannons on all the remaining warships were raised high and fired a barrage of artillery fire, directly covering the enemy with artillery fire.
All the warships that returned to Beiyuezhou have undergone extensive modifications. Replacing naval guns with laser cannons is one of the key points of the transformation. The remaining naval guns on each ship are only equipped with nuclear shells.
It's just that things are not absolute. Nanzhou happened to leave two warships that failed to return to Beiyuezhou on Ceres. These two warships still used naval guns mainly, and there were also a large number of artillery shells on board, which were used to bombard the enemy.
So the two warships fired at full speed, and the shells were thrown at the enemy as if they were free. There were also a few nuclear shells mixed in with the ordinary shells.
Soon after, the shells fell.
Because the distance was too far, there was a big error in the impact point of the shells. As a result, five to six hundred shells were fired, and less than one-tenth of them actually hit.
It wasn't until the nuclear bombs landed that the situation completely changed, and another round of alien attacks failed.
The aliens finally stopped attacking, and they stopped for several days, but no one thought that the aliens had given up, because their ground troops were still gathering near the safety line, and their fleet did not withdraw to the landing zone.
At this time, the departing fleet turned around and returned without warning, and its speed was getting faster and faster.
At the beginning, no one noticed this abnormality. It was not until this enemy force flew close to Ceres without slowing down that everyone realized that something was wrong.
According to the current direction and speed of this enemy force, when these enemy ships fly close to Ceres, the closest distance to the ground will be only a few kilometers, and their position will be just above the artillery array.
Ye Han immediately remembered the scene when he attacked the enemy ship on Ceres, and immediately realized the enemy's intention - they wanted to imitate the original Leishan and use the warship to launch a super-low-altitude assault!
Everything is clear. The enemy has not given up the attack, but has changed to a more effective method.
Ye Han wanted to remind Yuzhou, but gave up after thinking about it.
Whatever he can think of, the Yuzhou can definitely think of it, because every battleship's control system contains past battle cases. No one would have thought that a computer could also find clues through comparison to provide a reference for the commander.
Sure enough, just ten minutes later, the six warships headed by Yuzhou turned collectively, all facing the direction of the enemy. If the enemy wanted to attack, they had to get past the fleet first.
Ye Han could fully imagine that at this time, every gun chamber of the Yuzhou battle group was filled with nuclear artillery shells or artillery-launched missiles with nuclear warheads. Just waiting for the enemy ship to fly close, he would give the enemy an unforgettable and painful lesson.
