Gasping in Shock

At the same time, the strategic focus was placed on Electromagnetic Railgun, which were not favored at the time when the two fleets were in the Tier 1 Civilization. Therefore, the combat power of the First Fleet was not demonstrated when the two fleets first made contact.

The Lyra didn't fire a single shot; it simply kept slowing down in the opposite direction, bringing itself closer to the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness fleet.

The starry sky is vast, and although 36,000 Lake-Class Warship of Artificial Intelligence Consciousness seem like a lot, they still occupy a very small area in the vast starry sky.

However, compared to the three fleets of the Allied Forces, the scene was still much more shocking, especially when they simultaneously slowed down their tail Main Thruster towards the Allied Fleet. Hundreds of thousands of long tongues of fire were like countless rays of sunlight suddenly lighting up the starry sky.

It could be said that, at this moment, in the eyes of the visible light detectors of the Allied fleet, they were the only light source in the starry sky.

As the distance between the two sides continued to close, the Artificial Intelligence fleet stopped slowing down with its tail facing the allied fleet. Instead, when it was about to enter the effective range of the Electromagnetic Railgun, it turned around and engaged in fierce battle with the allied fleet.

Because of the existence of the Artificial Intelligence 'Main Consciousness, the Artificial Intelligence fleet's formation is always spherical, with its main body located at the center of the sphere. This ensures that the other warships it controls have roughly the same delay time.

For this reason, the allied forces had to destroy the fleet it controlled if they wanted to capture it.

This was a war between 3,750 warships and 36,000 warships. The numerical disparity made the scene appear very tragic to the allied forces at the beginning of the war.

When both fleets entered the Electromagnetic Railgun's home field, the tenfold difference made it seem as if the three allied fleets were being swallowed up by the Artificial Intelligence fleet.

However, if you zoom in on the warships on the battlefield, the situation is quite different.

At this moment, the Lyra, like the other warships, has plunged into the spherical formation of the Artificial Intelligence fleet. From the optical images, it can be seen that four Lyra ships have entered their firing positions at the three o'clock position on the right hull, the ten o'clock position on the left hull, the twelve o'clock position forward, the sixty-degree position above, and the ninety-degree position below.

Moreover, judging from the changing postures of these four warships, they might be attacked by four Laser Energy Cannons at any moment, or they might be Electromagnetic Railgun that have just been fired.

"Ignore enemy ships in other directions. Our ship will not Attitude Adjustment. Continue to decelerate in the opposite direction and approach the warship directly in front. Electromagnetic Railgun, prepare. Take out that one first!"

Secured firmly to the captain's seat and enduring 160G acceleration, Yue Yuan gave tactical instructions.

The Lyra did not add Acceleration Buffer Fluid because humans have now mastered the Human Body Overclocking mode. After entering the Human Body Overclocking mode, the normal human body strength can withstand 200G acceleration. If they do acceleration training regularly, such as the crew members on warships, they can withstand 300G acceleration.

The acceleration from the deceleration of the Lyra is only 160G, which is easily handled by simply turning on Human Body Overclocking mode.

The existence of Overclock Mode ensures that humanity can maintain sufficient combat power in this high-intensity acceleration and deceleration battle, while the previous practice of sending scientific teams to collect scientific data in this star field ensures that the movement Attitude Adjustment of each warship is easier and the shells fired are more accurate.

So, on that Lyra fired its first armor-piercing Electromagnetic Railgun with a hydrogen bomb warhead like a ghost, and just as the calculations showed, it hit the target! However, although Electromagnetic Railgun can ignore Magnetic Shield, their speed is still not fast enough. So, this shell was burned up by the enemy ship's laser Close-In Weapon System when it was more than 70 kilometers away from the enemy ship.

However, as the Lyra's Electromagnetic Railgun was intercepted, a bright spot appeared on the enemy ship's flank. Three seconds later, the armor at the spot turned from red to white, eventually transforming into a large hole filled with crimson steel lava.

This is a masterpiece of a warship located below the Lyra. Its main Laser Energy Cannon can create a large hole in the enemy ship with just one shot, but unfortunately it did not hit the core and did not trigger a secondary explosion.

However, this penetrating blow also caused many equipment malfunctions on the enemy ship. A series of electronic equipment failures led to circuit burnout and fires after the armor was penetrated.

The next moment, these malfunctions caused the enemy ship's Magnetic Shielding Layer to become unstable in its power supply. Elsewhere, such instability in the Magnetic Shielding Layer wouldn't have serious consequences, but here, it cost the warship its life.

The instability of the power supply system led to the instability of the Magnetic Shielding Layer, and in the next moment, the Magnetic Shielding Layer briefly collapsed.

Then, before the maintenance robots on the warship could even arrive, a series of sparks appeared in the warship's internal circuitry, and various charred fumes billowed out from various pipes and locations.

Then, amidst a series of sparks, the warship seemed to be electrocuted, and its stern thrusters shut down. The Close-In Weapon System that had been spinning on its exterior also stopped, and all the internal equipment and indicator lights went silent at that moment.

Less than ten seconds after the warship was pierced by the energy laser cannon, it became a malfunctioning metal lump floating in space.

The energy laser cannon only damaged it; what killed it was the environment of this space. To be precise, it was that Quasi-Magnetar, invisible in the visible light spectrum.

What just happened was the process of the enemy ship being damaged and its internal equipment being magnetized by Quasi-Magnetar.

The process was very short, but its internal equipment was completely destroyed by the strong magnetic field in a short period of time, and it "died" peacefully.

This phenomenon did not only occur on this one enemy ship; many enemy ships that were blasted with large holes by Laser Energy Cannon, causing disturbances in their internal Magnetic Shielding Layer, met the same fate.

For a time, the Laser Energy Cannon achieved remarkable feats.

Less than an hour into the battle, more than 400 Artificial Intelligence warships were destroyed by Laser Energy Cannon.

Meanwhile, warships like the Lyra, equipped with Electromagnetic Railgun as their main guns, demonstrated their combat capabilities in the following period.

As the distance continues to close, Electromagnetic Railgun are no longer as easily intercepted by close-in Energy Weapon (CIWS) as they were when they first entered range. After all, the projectiles of Electromagnetic Railgun aren't actually that slow; with current electromagnetic technology, the muzzle velocity of a projectile can be accelerated to 10% of the speed of light, which is 30,000 kilometers per second.

If it is an advanced Electromagnetic Railgun projectile, it can ignite its own fusion propulsion engine after it leaves the barrel, further increasing its speed.

In close-quarters combat, such speed can barely be described as "lightning fast," or, in the words commonly used in movies and television from Earth Era, "Sub-Light Speed."

Of course, that's a mindless show.

In reality, Sub-Light Speed refers to the speed at which an object reaches 90% of the speed of light but does not reach the speed of light. Obviously, current human Electromagnetic Railgun cannot achieve this.

However, it's enough for close-quarters combat.

Just like the Lyra, it took only thirty minutes to successfully destroy three enemy warships.

"Left 180! Coordinates 22663, destroy that warship!" Having just observed an enemy ship being destroyed by Electromagnetic Railgun, Yue Yuan spoke again, searching for the next target for the Lyra.

Just then, a report of damage rang out in the Command Center of the Lyra: "Our ship's top side has been irradiated by a laser. 1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds, 6 seconds. The local armor temperature is 8897℃, which is relatively low. The armor is undamaged. The ship's radiant cooling system is functioning normally and is currently undergoing internal circulation cooling within the armor."

The Laser Energy Cannon travels at the speed of light. Once detected, it either hits or misses; there is no possibility of interception, only movement to dodge.

However, in such close-quarters combat, predicting and dodging becomes more difficult, and even if a warship is fully propelled and changes direction, it cannot outrun the speed of light.

However, the Lyra's armor was extremely strong. During this period, it was not the first time it had been hit by the enemy's Laser Energy Cannon, but it remained unscathed each time.

At the same time, the radar of the Lyra detected eight rapidly approaching Electromagnetic Railgun shells. Its Close-In Laser Cannon CIWS), controlled by the Combat AI, immediately began to rotate and, after recharging, fired at the incoming shells.

"Our ship's Close-In Weapon System successfully intercepted seven Electromagnetic Railgun!"

"Our ship's side wing armor was hit by Electromagnetic Railgun. The projectile's hydrogen bomb warhead exploded. The flaw detection system is functioning normally and is calculating the explosion energy. External equipment is scanning the damage. Results: The hydrogen bomb warhead explosion generated a temperature of 140 million degrees Celsius. The deformation of our ship's side wing armor is less than 3 cm, and internal cooling is being implemented."

After being hit by an Electromagnetic Railgun, everyone in the Command Center felt the Lyra shudder slightly before it stabilized.

The main guns of the Artificial Intelligence fleet adopt the triple-mounted design of the original Nair Civilization. They have a small caliber but also have built-in hydrogen bomb warhead technology, but no Armor-Piercing Shells technology.

Therefore, being hit by Electromagnetic Railgun is equivalent to being struck in the face by a hydrogen bomb. Alloy No. 2 possesses extremely high impact resistance and a melting point as high as 280 million degrees Celsius. As a result, the Lyra, which uses No. 2 Alloy Material as its armor, withstood the attack, suffering only a slight dent in its armor, without being damaged at all.

In the two human fleets, although the performance of the other warships was much worse than that of the Lyra, their armor was made of Alloy No. 2. So, as soon as the two sides engaged in close combat, a scene appeared in which a human warship was able to fight seven or eight Artificial Intelligence Consciousness warships at the same time.

Moreover, human warships can wipe out the entire enemy force under such circumstances, with only their own armor slightly deformed.

On the other side of the battlefield, Governor Niel, who had been watching the human warships closely and wanted to know their true combat capabilities, gasped in astonishment upon seeing the scene.