First Engagement
Yue Yuan paused for a moment and continued, "At that time, your fleet will only consist of the Kunlun-Class Warship, Mount Tai-Class Warship, Mount Hua-Class Warship, Mount Song-Class Warship, and Mount Huang-Class Warship —five Mountain-Class Warship plus one Space Carrier, barely counting as six ships. Meanwhile, the enemy will have 20 ships, making it 6 against 20. Do you have confidence?"
Six minutes later, on the large screen inside the bridge of the Lyra, the image of Man Yuemei finally began to speak. Yue Yuan knew that this was due to the delay in communication.
"Commander Yue, please rest assured. With the Asteroid Belt as our support, we have the advantage of terrain. On the surface, it seems like 6 to 20, but in reality, we can use the advantages of Neutrino Communication and the line-of-sight blocking effect of the Asteroid Belt to achieve 6 to 6, then 6 to 6, then 6 to 3, and then 3 to 3. Moreover, my formation still has six ships, while Commander Yue's formation only has three. How can I say I lack confidence? Soldiers go to war only to die, so there is no need for further words."
Man Yuemei is right. As long as the fleet is properly commanded, it is possible to take advantage of the terrain to divide up the twenty Mountain-Class Warship of the Kun-Tai Civilization.
Humans have Neutrino Communication, which allows them to communicate regardless of Asteroid Belt, while the Kun-Tai Civilization cannot, and the Kun-Tai Civilization is also unfamiliar with the terrain.
Yue Yuan did not believe that the Kun-Tai Civilization could have such a coincidence as to have had a fortuitous encounter and master Neutrino Communication.
"Alright, then after the Kun-Tai Civilization advances to the Asteroid Belt in four directions, we will make the arrangements accordingly." Yue Yuan nodded, then stared at the Man Yuemei on the screen, looking confident, and said, "Victory will surely be ours!"
As soon as Yue Yuan finished speaking and the communication screen was turned off, another broadcast sounded from the bridge of the Lyra: "Commander Yue, the Mount Wudang-Class Warship and Mount Emei-Class Warship formations have engaged the enemy and are currently firing on the Kun-Tai Civilization's central army formation. The enemy's fifty Main Battleship are too powerful. The two ship formations have begun to retreat towards the Asteroid Belt."
At this very moment, the Mount Wudang-Class Warship.
Bridge!
Everyone was firmly strapped into their seats and had already filled their enclosures with Acceleration Buffer Fluid.
The captain of the Mount Wudang-Class Warship sat in the middle of the bridge. His entire body was filled with Acceleration Buffer Fluid, and there was something on his throat that was clearly not his skin. It was the ship's communication chip, which was specially designed for communication by humans in this Acceleration Buffer Fluid.
His throat bobbed. "145 degrees to the left, full engine rudder, maximum thrust, positive acceleration 150G, Positron Cannon, recharge it! Boom the hell out of here!"
Science Officer: "Corrected deflection angle ***, environmental dust concentration 0.0000124, Gravity intensity 0.0000000, correction parameter formula!"
Fire Control Officer: "Targets 7782, 4579, 46687. Angle correction complete. Positron Cannon charging 67.9% - 88.4%."
As the shipboard computer input parameters into the warship's main gun system, the main gun, located at the bow of the Mount Wudang-Class Warship, extended forward a short distance with a click-clack sound. Then, the positron binding magnetic field deep inside the gun barrel gradually brightened from its dim state once again.
During the charging process, the Positron Cannon did not appear as if plasma swirled around its muzzle as seen on television; instead, it simply shone with the characteristic metallic light as usual.
Because the energy confinement of positrons occurs at the deepest part of the barrel, which is the strong magnetic field confinement device of the Positron Cannon.
Countless positrons are drawn here from the generator by the guiding magnetic field, and then are pressed into the space of the confinement device under the confinement of the strong magnetic field. During this process, the positrons are Strong Force confined by the strong magnetic field and are moving at high speed. Some positrons collide with each other in this process, producing some other particles such as mustard seeds and photons.
So if someone could see through the Positron Cannon's barrel and into this place, they would find that there was nothing there except a ball of light emitting a faint blue glow. But upon closer inspection, they would notice that this light grew brighter and brighter, before suddenly disappearing.
The device disappeared because the Fire Control Officer pressed the firing button for the Positron Cannon.
A whooshing burst of positrons shot out from the cannon barrel and hurtled toward the Kun-Tai Civilization warship, 20 light-seconds away.
"Full rudder up, roll down!" After firing a shot, the captain of the Mount Wudang-Class Warship shouted again, instructing the Mount Wudang-Class Warship to change its attitude.
The Positron Cannon has a 30-second cooldown period, while the Mount Wudang-Class Warship needs to wait 40 seconds to observe whether the shot it just fired hit its target.
During this time, the Mount Wudang-Class Warship did not maintain its original course, but immediately turned the rudder to full speed, raised the bow, performed a 360-degree flip, and then flew back to its original direction.
Why not just use Vector Nozzle angled upwards and then push the ship downwards?
There are two reasons. First, humans can withstand a higher positive acceleration than a negative acceleration. Second, warships have more power to roll upwards and can turn faster.
Many warships are designed with the direction of a human's feet on the ground as the bottom, with larger, more powerful thrusters positioned below. This design also takes into account the difference in positive and negative acceleration experienced by humans.
Positive acceleration, simply put, is the equivalent force experienced when riding an upward-accelerating elevator; negative acceleration is the opposite.
Under negative acceleration, the blood vessels in the human brain tissue experience greater pressure, and even with the aid of Acceleration Buffer Fluid, this physical fact cannot be altered.
"Captain, the Electromagnetic Railgun is fully loaded!" The bridge of the Mount Emei-Class Warship was also bustling with activity.
However, unlike the Mount Wudang-Class Warship, the Mount Emei-Class Warship's main gun was not Positron Cannon, but a large-caliber Electromagnetic Railgun.
"Once you've finished charging, shoot me! Do you need my help? After you're done shooting, adjust your posture quickly. Damn it, there are fifty Mountain-Class Warship on the other side. If you don't want to get hit, don't let those alien bastards see our Mount Emei-Class Warship still in its original position!" The Mount Emei-Class Warship was also immersed in the Acceleration Buffer Fluid.
The Fire Control Officer didn't say anything, but just snapped the gun into action. He knew his captain wasn't usually like this; once things got tense, he'd start rambling on and on. He was used to it.
"Captain, enemy ship energy trajectory detected, deflection angle 9964, distance 24 kilometers from our ship!" an observer reported.
What she detected was not the energy beam that was about to be fired, but rather an energy beam that had already passed not far from the Mount Emei-Class Warship. After a capability-type weapon passes through a vacuum, due to the presence of trace amounts of dust in the vacuum, some of the light will be scattered and then observed by nearby warships.
However, all that could be observed was a faint trace of light.
If you see a bright light, then without a doubt, you have been hit.
"Captain, two of my squadron's Callisto-Class Warship have been sunk."
"Damn it, hard to starboard! Let's back up towards the Asteroid Belt and tell those bastards to watch their positioning. Don't they know what positioning is? Don't let them die before I can even fire a single shot!" The Mount Emei-Class Warship clenched his fist and shouted into the ship's internal channel.
Damn it, they'd barely made contact and the enemy had already destroyed two of their Callisto-Class Warship, and it looked like they took them down with a single shot.
As it turns out, the armor of the Callisto-Class Warship is like paper in front of the main guns of the Mountain-Class Warship; however, it can hold out for a while if it is equipped with various defensive Secondary Cannon.
Just as the humans had lost two Callisto-Class Warships, good news rang out from the Mount Wudang-Class Warship: "Haha, Captain, the Positron Cannon has hit the enemy's side thruster! The enemy ship has experienced Big Bang and its power has decreased!"
"Good lad, you hit the mark! Finish me off!" Although more than a dozen shots had already gone unanswered, the captain of the Mount Wudang-Class Warship still gave the Fire Control Officer a thumbs up.
"Understood!"