Many people also had the same question. Huang Bo was the first to ask: "Commander, can we only have three turrets?"
"Aren't there still eight close-in defense guns?" Yan Jing was quite confident.
"What if our firepower fails to destroy the enemy ship?"
"Do I seem to be such a dogmatic person? If the firepower is insufficient, just report it quickly and follow my orders." Yan Jing said.
Everyone understood the meaning of his words, which gave everyone a reassurance. Huang Bo immediately ordered the entire ship to prepare for battle.
Note that the entire ship is ready for battle, not turrets one to three. In other words, the Moon Bay can put all its artillery fire into battle at any time as long as necessary.
It is one thing to use it or not, but it is another thing not to prepare when it is needed. As the saying goes, be lenient when you anticipate the enemy. It is not a mistake to think that the enemy is stronger.
The orders given by several other captains were similar, including the Hongwan where Yan Jing was located.
Yan Jing did not express any opinion on this, and there was no need to express any opinion, because this was how preparations for war should have been done.
At this time, the fleet is still an hour away from the enemy. At first glance, it seems that the time is more than enough, but the expeditionary force has been sailing in the universe for nearly a year, and all the weapons and equipment have not been maintained. The entire ship must be equipped before the war.
Carry out a necessary test to ensure that everything is normal with weapons and equipment.
As a result, one hour seems too short. Even if the maintenance team breaks a leg, it is impossible to complete the maintenance of all weapons and equipment before the war begins. The maintenance can only focus on No. 1 to No. 3 turrets.
Fortunately, although the construction of Level 024 has been rushed, the quality of the project has not been reduced at all. After system self-inspection, everything in the fire control system is normal.
The expedition fleet was still half an hour away from the asteroid. Yan Jing made a prompt decision and ordered the fleet to change its formation. The Hongwan and Luwan were in one group, and the Summer Bay and Yuewan were in the second group. They continued to fly in a two-ship formation.
To the asteroid.
The fleet finally received a reply from the command center, and the core of the reply was only four words: act according to circumstances.
The expeditionary force is about to engage in a firefight with the enemy fleet. The communication with the expeditionary fleet is delayed by more than half an hour from the command center on Earth. It is impossible to grasp the situation faced by the expeditionary force in real time.
How can we issue combat orders to the expeditionary force?
In a word, everything about the expeditionary force can only be solved internally.
The fleet continued to move forward, and everyone returned to their combat positions. Even the Marines, who had absolutely no chance of participating in the battle, put on their power armor and stayed in the cabin.
When they were still sixteen minutes away from the asteroid, the aliens finally discovered the arrival of the expeditionary force. The originally orderly alien spacecraft suddenly became extremely chaotic. Dozens of various spacecrafts took off from the asteroid.
Half of the spaceships tried their best to escape, while the other half circled behind the asteroid and hid behind it to avoid the expedition fleet.
Huang Bo looked at the escape trajectory of the alien fleet and curled his lips disdainfully: "It looks like they are pretending."
The alien spacecraft has just taken off, and its speed is definitely not as fast as the expedition fleet. In this case, only by escaping in a direction perpendicular to the expedition fleet's route can you escape as far as possible in the shortest time.
But the alien fleet did not do this at all, but fled directly to the direction of Jupiter.
At this time, the fleet was still far away from Jupiter. From the perspective of the expedition fleet, Jupiter was still an inconspicuous little red dot directly in front, but it could already be distinguished from the stars with the naked eye.
Unless the alien fleet can increase its speed to more than 70 kilometers per second in a short period of time, these alien spacecraft will be overtaken by the expedition fleet sooner or later.
But looking at the acceleration of the alien fleet, it is obviously impossible to do this.
The behavior of the alien fleet was really unreasonable, so Huang Bo regarded the behavior of the alien fleet as a feint attack and a false defeat.
Flagship Hongwan.
Yan Jing found that the alien spacecraft was running and hiding, with no intention of engaging in a fight, and he couldn't help but feel a little doubtful in his heart.
Are aliens really blocking this place on purpose?
But there is no point in studying this now. Yan Jing stared at the asteroid for a few seconds and whispered in a voice that had just returned to normal: "Order, one group goes up, two groups go down, keep a little distance...just two
A hundred kilometers, maybe.”
The diameter of the asteroid is only over a hundred kilometers. After the two groups of warships distance themselves, the fleet's firepower will cover the upper and lower ends of the asteroid, leaving only a very small area behind it to hide.
However, the distance between the four warships was originally no less than a hundred kilometers, but it was originally an in-line formation suitable for long voyages. Now it is necessary to increase the height and incorporate the space around the asteroid into the expeditionary force as much as possible.
of artillery fire.
The expedition fleet flew closer and closer. When it was less than a minute away from the asteroid, Yan Jing issued a combat order. The four warships activated turrets one to three at the same time. The shields covering the turrets first moved toward the two sides under the action of hydraulic equipment.
The sides are separated and folded to fall on both sides of the turret, revealing the twin laser cannons under the shield.
The 120mm twin laser cannon looks like two large-diameter astronomical telescopes tied together, but this thing is a real killer weapon, the highest achievement of human energy weapons!
Don't think that the United States alone has Zentraedi military technology. China's high-energy laser weapons started very early. Although its achievements are kept secret, it has the power to crush the laser weapons of the United States.
The effective range of the laser cannon of the 024-class space battleship is as far as 1,200 kilometers. That is to say, from the time the enemy ship enters the range to the time it leaves the range, the expedition fleet has sixteen seconds to fire calmly.
If the tail cannon is also used, we can still have another sixteen seconds!
Yan Jing was cautious and did not let the fleet slow down, and prohibited the fleet from getting too close to the asteroid. Therefore, the fleet would be more than 400 kilometers away from the asteroid and pass by the asteroid at a speed of 72 kilometers per second.
In this way, even if the aliens set some traps near the asteroid, they would not be able to catch up with the expedition fleet, thereby preventing the fleet from falling into the pocket of the aliens.
The asteroid was getting closer and closer, and finally entered the range of the main gun. However, the alien spacecraft cunningly hid behind the asteroid without revealing any flaws. The twelve twin laser cannons, within the limited time the fleet passed by the asteroid,
I just couldn't find a chance to fire.
Yan Jing simply ordered all ships to use their tail guns to defend against possible pursuit, and then pursued the fleeing enemies with all their strength.
There were about thirty alien spacecraft escaping from the asteroid, and they escaped too late. Until the expedition fleet passed the asteroid, the speed of the alien spacecraft was still far slower than that of the expeditionary force.
The distance between the two sides shortened at a speed visible to the naked eye. Perhaps because the aliens realized that they had no time to escape, the more than thirty spaceships that had been gathered together suddenly flew into chaos and flew in various directions, trying to escape from the expedition fleet.
