According to Sophia's order, the Fourth Fleet and the Fifth Fleet backed up the Star Road entrance and began to deploy their battle lines.
Among them, Sofia's Fifth Fleet is located in the center of the defense line, slightly forward, and forming a triangular formation. It does not look like it is defending, but it is completely preparing for an assault.
The Fourth Fleet was divided into two fleets of 10,000 killer whale-class battleships, temporarily codenamed First Column and Second Column.
The two columns moved to both sides of the Fifth Fleet and deployed fire coverage arrays 1 million kilometers away from both sides of the Fifth Fleet!
The so-called fire coverage array is to spread out the fleet like a net, ensuring that every warship can fire at the same time, and at the same time, it can cover a larger area with fire.
After the battle lines were deployed, the 700,000 warships of the Kabate Empire had already reached a distance of 3 million kilometers.
Their mission is to open the entrance to the Cecil Star Road at all costs so that the subsequent fleet can evacuate without hindrance!
"Fire!"
Following the orders from the commanders of both sides, the dark void was suddenly illuminated, and countless energy bombs began to beam, quickly passing through the void.
Since the distance is still very far, the commander of the Kabate Empire also uses area coverage shooting!
After all, at this distance, if you want to focus fire on the attack, the hit rate will be horribly low.
Coverage shooting is different. No matter how the opponent changes formation or maneuvers, the hit rate can be maintained within an acceptable range.
But the shortcomings are also obvious. Under coverage shooting, it is almost impossible for human warships to be hit by multiple main guns at the same time.
Therefore, for the human fleet with shields, there is basically no threat at this stage. The real threat is that the distance between the two sides shrinks to within 1 million kilometers. At this time, the Kabate Empire can start to focus fire and carry out relatively precise
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But, will Sophia give them this opportunity? The answer is obviously no!
Regardless of the fact that there are only 40,000 warships on the human side on the battlefield, to put it bluntly, the firepower that these 40,000 killer whale-class warships can burst out is not weaker than a main force of the Kabbah Empire, which is thirty
Thousands of warships of multiple types.
Moreover, at three million kilometers, the main guns and secondary guns of the Orca-class battleships can attack, while only the main guns of the battlecruisers of the Kabat Empire's fleet can attack, and the range of the secondary guns is insufficient.
Originally, battleships could also be attacked, but unfortunately, the entire army of battleships was mobilized by Hamid, and 80,000 of them were just destroyed in the orbit of Vit III.
The remaining 50,000 ships are also lying on the temporary modification line under Hamid's order.
Therefore, there are currently no battleships in the Kabbah Empire's fleet, and the strongest ones are battlecruisers.
In addition to these two ship types, other cruisers, destroyers, frigates, aircraft carriers, etc. do not have the ability to launch attacks from a distance of three million kilometers, especially frigates, which cannot even start an attack until they have entered one million kilometers.
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On the other hand, the human fleet, which is all composed of killer whale-class battleships, will directly cover you with intensive firepower from the entire fleet for 3 million kilometers. Plasma cannons and numerous positron cannons will definitely make the Kabat Empire's fleet doubt their lives.
In fact, the commander of the Kabate Empire is already doubting life.
The firepower of the 40,000 warships on the opposite side is actually several times more powerful than our own 700,000 warships?
Well, this commander has obviously forgotten that although he has 700,000 battleships, his current range allows only 60,000 battlecruisers to be attacked.
Battlecruisers are far inferior to battleships in terms of the number of guns and the caliber of their main and secondary guns.
As time goes by, the distance between the two sides gets closer and closer, and the firepower on Kabat's side gradually increases as the distance gets closer.
After all, there are more naval guns and ship types that can fire.
"Little Li, it's about to begin. The columns on both wings are beginning to project crossfire toward the center of the opponent's fleet. I will lead the fifth fleet to launch an assault. Your crossfire will be extended backwards according to the progress of my assault. Do you understand?"
"Okay, leave it to me!"
The Fourth Fleet, located on both sides of the Fifth Fleet, gave up their frontal covering fire, and each turned 20 degrees toward the center. Then a crossfire was formed. In conjunction with the frontal firepower of the Fifth Fleet, it directly shocked the central array of the Kabat Empire.
A meal!
The next moment, before the commander of the Kabat Empire fleet could react, Sophia took action. The fifth fleet directly ran the sublight engine at full power and launched a straight line towards the center of the opponent's array.
The maximum speed of the Orca-class battleship is 50,000 kilometers per second, which fully meets the sublight speed standard. For it, 2 million kilometers does not even take a minute.
As for the Kabat Empire's battleship main gun, it takes a minute to recharge after each launch!
It is conceivable that in the interstellar era, each level of civilization technology is an absolute leap. As long as the civilization is one level higher, it can form an absolute crushing, unless your quantity reaches a level that cannot be compensated by quality.
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Just like the Zerg in Lin Fan's various film and television works in his previous life?
As the Fifth Fleet attacked, the two columns of the Fourth Fleet also fired while adjusting the angle of the warships, so that the intersection of firepower continued to move farther away.
This approach directly formed a fire cover for the assaulting Fifth Fleet, protecting the Fifth Fleet until it rushed into the enemy's formation!
The result was not much different from what was expected. Under the cover of the Fourth Fleet, including the acceleration time, the Fifth Fleet crashed directly into the enemy's formation in just over a minute.
Sofia, who cut into the enemy's formation, was even more excited.
"Little Lizi, your crossfire can stop now. Let me contain their formations on both wings. Leave the middle to me!"
"Okay, be careful!"
Well, Sofia, who was in the local array, got completely high.
"Haha, fire for me, you can fire wherever you want, they are all enemy ships anyway!"
Everyone in the bridge was sweating. The commander's character was really...
In fact, this is not because Sophia is so excited that she is dizzy, but because he has considerable confidence.
What is the situation of the Fifth Fleet now? It cut directly into the formation of the Kabat Empire. The Kabat Empire was unable to use its full strength for fear of accidental damage, but it could fire at the outside of the assault array without any scruples.
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The most important thing is that the main guns of the third-level civilization can only fire forward. Therefore, if the warships of the Kabate Empire want to use the main guns to attack the Fifth Fleet, they must first turn and turn the bow of the ship towards the opponent.
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Without the main guns, the power of the secondary guns is too small and cannot pose an effective threat to the energy shield. As for other cruisers, destroyers, battleships, etc., the power of the main guns equipped on them is even higher than that of the killer whale-class secondary guns.
Much smaller.
This is also the reason why humans no longer equip these types of ships. Too small size means that they cannot be equipped with powerful naval guns. They have small caliber and short range.
Today, with shields, what can these ships do? On the battlefield, they are just cannon fodder!