Decisively Changing Tactics
The Kuntai civilization's Quek-class warships, which had not demonstrated much combat power against human mountain-class warships, appeared exceptionally powerful here.
Eighty percent of the charging Self-Detonating Drone and Self-Detonating Shuttle were destroyed by the Close-In Weapon System of these ten warships.
The Callisto-Class Warship in the second wave of human attacks were no match for the Quake-Class Warship. All the Callisto-Class Warship could do was find an opportunity amidst the chaos of the attacks launched by the Self-Detonating Drone and Self-Detonating Shuttle to fire at the Residential Spaceship Cluster from a distance.
Trying to break through the defensive perimeter of ten warships almost always resulted in being sunk.
In fact, if a self-destructing shuttle could get close enough to damage a Kuntai civilization's Quek-class warship, it could actually do so, but unfortunately, it simply couldn't get close enough.
The target is no longer the Quake-Class Warship itself, but rather to circle around and attack the Residential Spaceship Cluster. Even so, less than 20% of the Self-Detonating Shuttle managed to get in, which shows how powerful the Quake-Class Warship's close-in defenses are.
No wonder the Kun-Tai Civilization didn't develop small warships.
Of course, the two waves of human suicide attacks were effective. Even though only 20% of them made it through, there were still 200 Self-Detonating Shuttle.
There are also some Self-Detonating Drone.
However, the Self-Detonating Drone were too small, and the bombs they carried were not enough to sink a Residential Spaceship in one go. So after breaking through the defenses and entering the Kun-Tai Civilization's Residential Spaceship Cluster, the two hundred self-destructing shuttles first went up close and bombed the Residential Spaceship, creating a large hole. Then the Self-Detonating Drone swarmed in through the hole to carry out a second attack.
In outer space, the bright lights of explosions continued to resound.
With the explosions, the Kun-Tai Civilization's Residential Spaceship disintegrated one by one. The unarmed inhabitants inside were either killed instantly or thrown into the cold space to die. The lucky ones were flung into space along with some of the still-sealed living structures, but this was nothing more than a slow death.
In an instant, Ultrasound screams echoed throughout the Kun-Tai Civilization's Residential Spaceship, and scenes of death played out continuously in space. Under such attacks, severed limbs were no longer complete corpses; many more were simply reduced to dust in the light and heat of the explosion.
They attacked the Residential Spaceship and massacred its inhabitants.
How cruel.
But this is war, this is space, a war between two intelligent civilizations, and there is no Geneva Convention here. If humanity were not so powerful, then millions of human inhabitants would be slaughtered now.
"Lord Pierce, our Residential Spaceship Cluster has been attacked and suffered heavy losses," Mo Tuotuo sorrowful voice rang out in the communication channel.
"I understand. Keep going. We will make humanity pay for its blood debt!" Pierce closed his eyes, trying to calm himself down by not looking at the horrific scenes.
But what happened next made her lose her composure.
"Lord Pierce, it's a Human Civilization Residential Spaceship —they really are on the far side of the Giant Gaseous Planet!" This was the observer's voice coming through the channel.
As the sound appeared, a magnified view of the Giant Gaseous Planet immediately appeared before Pierce.
One after another, cylindrical spaceships slowly emerged from the back of the Giant Gaseous Planet, spewing trails of flame, and accelerated toward a more distant destination.
"Damn it, they're trying to escape!"
Seeing this, Pierce felt a wave of dizziness and almost choked on his 'Acceleration Buffer Fluid'.
The number of spaceships was small; unlike the Kun-Tai Civilization which possessed nearly three hundred, they only had around forty. These included engineering spaceships, as well as those carrying resources and those used to cultivate the Wolfe Biosphere.
"It's over! We can't catch up!" Pierce glanced at the enemy's acceleration data, her heart filled with bitterness. She had guessed correctly and gambled correctly, but she hadn't expected the humans to be so decisive, sending their Residential Spaceship away so far out of the range of the laser Energy Weapon.
Moreover, the reaction was so fast that it didn't seem like someone who had been in the Aldebaran Star System for many years.
"How can there be so few? Could this really be just an alien colony of Human Civilization?"
Pierce had questions in her mind, but she didn't have much time to think about them, because her immediate priority was to decide what to do next with her fleet.
"What should I do?" she asked herself.
There was no way he could catch up, so should he still chase after him? After a moment's consideration, Pierce made his decision.
She commanded in the fleet channel, "This fleet shall immediately turn to support the Fourth Fleet, Second Fleet shall support the Third Fleet. Execute immediately."
From the reaction of the human- Residential Spaceship Cluster, Pierce could tell that humans were prepared, or rather, they were just waiting for his surprise attack.
Since that's the case, let's change tactics and annihilate the human warships.
From the battles between the Third Fleet and Fourth Fleet, Pierce saw that humanity indeed didn't have many warships. So far, he had only seen ten Quake-Class Warships. As long as they could annihilate the human warships with their numerical superiority, this star system would still belong to the Kun-Tai Civilization.
As long as the human fleet is defeated, the Kun-Tai Civilization can slowly recover in this star system, no matter how severe its losses.
There is still hope!
Pierce decisively abandoned the pursuit, because she knew very well that if Energy Weapon couldn't reach it, kinetic weapons would be even more out of reach.
Weapons like Space Missile and nuclear missiles are propelled by Nuclear Fusion Engine, and can only reach a maximum speed of 15% of the speed of light. At great distances, they are simply not capable of hitting targets that can also accelerate to 15% of the speed of light.
The same applies to Electromagnetic Railgun.
Pierce's decisiveness was quickly demonstrated in the two warship formations.
The news of the warship formation changing course quickly reached Yue Yuan's ears.
"You're decisive, aren't you? But it's too late for you. After I destroy the remaining five warships, it'll be your fifty next!" Yue Yuan smiled victoriously.
Of the twenty warships in the Fourth Fleet the Kun-Tai Civilization, only four remain after the battle, while the human Mountain-Class Warship have only lost one, the Mount Lu-Class Warship.
Yes, the main gun was destroyed. The bow where the main gun of the Mount Lu-Class Warship was located is now gone. However, due to its highly modular and layered design, as well as its hidden bridge design, it was not scrapped. The stern propulsion system of the warship can still operate normally.
They can't fire the cannons anymore, but escaping is still no problem.
Taking down twenty ships is no problem, taking down fifty is the same, it just takes longer. The powerful armor of the Lyra has already proven that the main guns of the Kun-Tai Civilization cannot penetrate its armor at all.
Of course, Yue Yuan did not rely on the strength of the Lyra to send it out to fight against fifty warships of the Kun-Tai Civilization. This was because the Lyra was only strong in armor; parts such as the main gun and engine would still explode if directly hit.
For this reason, every time the Lyra surfaced and fired its cannons, it would adjust its posture to avoid having its bow and stern facing the direction of the Kun-Tai Civilization fleet.
For this reason, nearly half of the Close-In Weapon System mounted on the exterior of the Lyra have been destroyed by the main cannons of the Kun-Tai Civilization.