Overclocking Overload
Clearly, Yue Yuan's annihilation tactic succeeded, but his containment tactic failed.
The enemy's support fleet is heading towards the Lyra battleship group and will join its main fleet in about an hour. At that time, the Lyra battleship group will be facing a Great Fleet of 8.67 million warships.
At that point, unless the Lyra battleship group can achieve a 1:4 kill ratio, it will be in extreme danger.
Worse still, due to an order from the Crimson Flame Civilization's Great Commander, its Main Battleship has already begun to shift into a loose formation. In other words, even if the Lyra battleship group changes course again now, it cannot avoid colliding with their fleet.
Close combat is unavoidable unless the Lyra battleship group ignores the situation on the Donghai (East Sea) Warship and West Sea battleship groups and charges straight through the enemy's loose formation. However, if they do this, the Crimson Flame Civilization will inevitably seize the opportunity to change the direction of their fleet and go to support their Second Fleet.
Then all the waiting beforehand will have been in vain.
Meanwhile, the Lyra battleship group had already engaged the enemy's Main Battleship. Detection feedback from the Lyra showed that many warships were reporting the stress levels of their Polarization Shield systems, and the lead ships had begun activating their Electromagnetic Railgun.
"Commander Yue, the enemy warship formation is reckless! They are completely ignoring our ships' attempts to stop them and are heading straight for our location!"
A report drew Yue Yuan's attention from the star map to the real-time dynamic map of the battlefield situation radar. Sure enough, as the report said, the red dot targets representing the enemy's small fleet of warships were very clear. When faced with attacks from human warships, they did not accelerate, decelerate, or change direction to avoid them. Instead, they rushed towards the location of the Lyra without any regard for the situation.
"Looks like these guys are really going all out." Yue Yuan murmured upon seeing this.
Without his command, the Strong Artificial Intelligence on the Lyra knew what to do.
As soon as the battlefield situation changed, the Lyra reduced its speed slightly, while the warships behind the battleship group accelerated at full speed, overtaking the Lyra to intercept the enemy's reckless battleship formation.
In an instant, beams of light intersected, and bright Polarization Shield lit up, while Close-In Weapon System swept across the Void. A series of explosive flashes suddenly illuminated the dark starry sky: explosions from successfully intercepted Electromagnetic Railgun shells, fire from the destruction of warships themselves, and mostly the glow of Polarization Shield activating.
At this moment, the starry sky was as bright as day.
Looking out of the exterior porthole of the Lyra, these lights have surpassed the distant Yellow Dwarf Star. The far end of the Sky Dome resembles the glittering stars that fill the sky in a BL (Boys' Love) painting. The difference is that the light here does not come from natural light, but from technological creations.
The light of technology, though beautiful, is also a gift to life.
Thanks to the superb coordination of the warships, the leading warships of the Lyra warship group blocked wave after wave of attacks and destroyed one enemy warship formation after another.
However, the already frenzied main fleet of the Crimson Flame Civilization did not give up. At this moment, they displayed unparalleled bravery and courage, ready to die for their cause.
Gradually, the Crimson Flame Civilization's dispersed charge tactics began to show results. The originally scattered warship formations began to rush towards a single target from all directions, like moths to a flame. All the warships had an aura of not giving up until the Lyra was destroyed.
Such a desperate fighting style also cost the Crimson Flame Civilization a heavy price. At one point, in such close combat, the Lyra warship group inflicted a 1 to 4 casualty ratio on them. However, they seemed not to care at all. On the contrary, cheers rang out from their warships.
Because some warship formations had already successfully reached within tens of thousands of kilometers of the Lyra, at such a distance, these warship formations were unleashing a barrage of fire on the Lyra.
The Laser Energy Cannon arrived almost instantly, blasting the Lyra's Polarization Shield to the brink of collapse. Meanwhile, Electromagnetic Railgun Super Micro Nanobots reached their optimal threat range, with thousands upon thousands of shells traversing this short distance to strike the Lyra.
A single warship formation that had broken through to such a distance obviously could not pose any threat to the Lyra. These Electromagnetic Railgun shells were quickly wiped out one by one by the Lyra's Close-In Weapon System. Several warship formations were also reduced to ashes under the attack of the Lyra and its guards.
However, once is never enough; the fact that a single warship formation could reach such a distance already indicates that the defensive interception of the Lyra warship group was no longer able to stop that group of warships that were willing to die for their cause.
Sure enough, just over ten minutes later, the second, third, and fourth warship formations suddenly appeared right in front of the Lyra.
However, the Lyra, as the flagship of Human Civilization, was not to be underestimated. After withstanding more than seventy Laser Energy Cannon, it successfully sent all the enemy warships to their deaths, and intercepted all the Electromagnetic Railgun shells.
"The Lyra is about to enter full-power, full-thrust acceleration and deceleration evasive combat mode. All crew members, prepare to activate Human Body Overclocking mode. One minute countdown!"
Faced with this situation, the Lyra finally stopped holding back and activated its strongest mode.
Every component on the Lyra represents the pinnacle of human technology. Although its Magnetic Propulsion Thruster appears the same as other warships on the surface, it is incredibly durable.
Ordinary warships with Magnetic Propulsion cannot sustain themselves for long under propulsion overload conditions, but the Lyra can. Its Main Thruster and Auxiliary Thruster are made with the strongest materials and the most advanced technology, allowing it to operate for about an hour in overload mode.
In this mode, the Lyra's acceleration will be greatly enhanced, and the time for gear changes and turns will be significantly shortened. Of course, it will also bring a greater high-G impact to the crew, so the humans on the warship must activate Human Body Overclocking mode.
Those who can board ships are all very familiar with the Human Body Overclocking mode.
Each person's preparation time was less than two seconds before successfully activating the Overclock Mode. Then, their bodies began to change; their cells became incredibly powerful in a short period, and in less than a minute, everyone had completed the Overclock Mode.
Before they could even feel the strength of their own bodies, they were met with a powerful push against their backs.
At the same time, a broadcast rang out on the channel. "Lyra's Magnetic Propulsion overloaded by 160%, successfully evading 776 enemy Electromagnetic Cannon."
This batch of Electromagnetic Cannon railgun shells was already very close, and they would normally need to be destroyed by Close-In Weapon System, but the Lyra simply accelerated and avoided them all.
Immediately afterwards, the Lyra charged left and right, dodging all the Electromagnetic Cannon fired at it.
At this moment, the Lyra was no longer something that could be hit by Electromagnetic Cannon railgun from a warship tens of thousands of kilometers away. To hit it, one would have to get much closer. Because at this distance, the Lyra could completely evade the detected Electromagnetic Railgun shells thanks to its superior acceleration.
The Lyra, which suddenly became incredibly agile, also attracted the attention of the Crimson Flame Civilization.
"Great Commander, Earth's flagship has suddenly become more agile. Our assault squadron's Electromagnetic Railgun can't hit it at the current distance. Not only that, but because the difference in acceleration has widened, getting any closer has become extremely difficult," the observer reported, somewhat stunned.
"How could this be! How could the performance of Earth's flagship suddenly increase so much? This is not scientific!" Their Great Commander was also somewhat bewildered. He recognized the warship, but he hadn't seen it display such formidable performance in the previous battle! "Great Commander, it seems to be an overload mode." At this moment, a fleet Science Officer offered his guess. "This mode must come at the cost of component durability loss. Even if their materials technology is incredibly advanced, it certainly can't last long."
"Damn it!" the Great Commander cursed under his breath, then shouted, "Why hasn't the support fleet arrived yet?"
"We've arrived at the Great Commander," the messenger replied.
The Great Commander said through gritted teeth, "Tell them about the situation of Earth's flagship, as well as the conclusions of Science Officer Muerte. Let them charge. We have no way out; we must take down that flagship."
It's too late to save the Second Sub-Fleet; the only option is to press forward and destroy the flagship before us. Only in this way can the battle be considered a failure, and only then can we possibly defend the Second Planet Base and buy more time for the rear to produce more new warships.
"Also, transmit the information about the Human Flagship to the Main Civilization, so that those shipbuilding experts can take a good look and see if we can also add this function to our new warships."
"Yes, sir!"
With the addition of the support fleet, the pressure on the Lyra battleship group increased. These new warships, which use No. 1 Alloy Material as armor, are much harder to destroy than other warships, which means that in the near future, more warship formations will successfully penetrate into the vicinity of the Lyra.
In contrast to the Lyra battleship group, the battle between the Donghai (East Sea) Warship and West Sea battleship groups on the other side was a completely different scene. With roughly equal numbers of ships, the battle became one-sided.
In just one hour, two-thirds of the 4.2 million warships were destroyed, while the human side only lost 460,000 ships, achieving a casualty ratio of approximately 1 to 6.
Moreover, as the number of warships of the Crimson Flame Civilization decreased sharply, their advantage continued to expand. If this continued, it was believed that the remaining warships would be completely annihilated in less than an hour.
As the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Crimson Flame Civilization, the Great Commander naturally saw the situation on the other battlefield, but he still felt that he had a chance, and he pinned his hopes on the 2.87 million new warships that were providing support.
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