Burning Anxiety
The performance of those 2.87 million warships was outstanding. They adopted the same strategy as their main fleet, but the results were much better.
Because once the Polarization Shield are breached, the armor of these warships can better withstand the high temperatures from laser Energy Weapon, thus improving their survivability and combat effectiveness.
The original Crimson Flame Civilization warships, once their Polarization Shield were breached, were destined to be destroyed by the ensuing Laser Energy Cannon, sometimes without even having time to undergo nano-repair. These New Warship, however, are different. After their shields are broken, they can often withstand some of the Laser Energy Cannon fire with their armor, giving them time for nano-repair.
Their advantage in Nanotechnology has given the Crimson Flame Civilization a greater edge over humans in repair work. With these two advantages combined, their New Warship are showing signs of being able to compete with human warships at medium to long ranges.
At least at the point of contact, in long-range combat, they were able to achieve a kill ratio of 2 to 1 against humans, with two warships able to take down one human warship. This was the best result achieved by the Crimson Flame Civilization since the start of the war.
Seeing this favorable situation, the leader of the Crimson Flame Civilization Great Commander felt a surge of joy, finally seeing the dawn of victory in the war.
Things seemed to be going as he wished. After these New Warship joined the battlefield, the human Lyra fleet was completely put on the defensive. With no way to avoid it, the Lyra fleet had already engaged in close-quarters combat with the Crimson Flame Civilization. In this close-quarters combat, these New Warships, equipped with No. 1 Alloy Material as armor, were able to achieve a kill ratio of 5 to 3 against the human warships.
In fact, if it were just the Alloy No. 1 armor, these warships would only be considered slightly tougher by humans, but their superior technology in Super Micro Nanobots is undeniable.
"Good! Good! Order all warships to destroy that flagship at all costs before those two enemy fleets arrive!" The Crimson Flame Civilization's Great Commander shouted excitedly in the ship's communication channel.
Now he knew that this battle could not be completely won, because there were two other Earth civilization fleets on their way. But as long as he could destroy the fleet in front of him, it would not be a complete defeat.
However, destroying the Lyra, which had already entered overload mode, was no easy task. Although the New Warship of the Crimson Flame Civilization had stronger armor, they were far inferior to the Lyra in terms of thrust, acceleration, and deceleration.
Like other warships, their Electromagnetic Railgun couldn't hit the Lyra at a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers. The Laser Energy Cannon could hit it, but it was hundreds of lasers hitting it at the same time, which was like tickling the Lyra.
As for continuing to approach Lyra, it wasn't so easy. Aside from the presence of a large number of guard ships nearby, such a reckless charge would make them easy targets. Therefore, in the final 100,000 kilometers, the Crimson Flame Civilization fleet suffered losses several times greater than before.
Therefore, in such close-quarters melee, the casualty ratio was once brought back to 1:3.
Finally, the Great Commander of the Crimson Flame Civilization was even more horrified to discover that even if a fleet of warships could break through that final distance, as long as it did not form an eight-sided encirclement of the Earth Civilization's flagship, it would still be overtaken by it with its absolute advantage in acceleration.
Upon seeing this, the Great Commander, who had just been happy, felt a bitter taste in his mouth.
He really hadn't expected Earth's flagship to be so powerful. Now, he could only be thankful that not every warship of Earth's civilization could activate this mode, otherwise this battle could have ended much earlier.
The Science Officer on the flagship told him that this mode of operation for Earth's civilization flagships wouldn't last long, but they couldn't tell him exactly how long it would last.
Clearly, by now, the Great Commander of the Crimson Flame Civilization has realized that as long as Earth's flagship remains in this state, his fleet of warships will be unable to destroy it.
The Great Commander now faces two choices: one is to continue the all-out assault and destroy the flagship at all costs; the other is to change tactics to minimize losses and wait for the flagship to recover from its overload.
Uncertain how long the Lyra's overload could last, the Great Commander, after much deliberation, decided to change tactics and focus the attack on the other ships in the Lyra's battle group.
His change gave the Lyra a chance to breathe, but the presence of their New Warship also brought greater losses to the Lyra fleet.
In this situation, the Lyra had no other choice but to rely on its overloaded state to destroy as many enemy warships as possible.
As time went on, the number of Lyra warships dwindled, and the situation became increasingly dire. By the fourteenth minute, when the Lyra had entered overload mode, the warship group had lost nearly half its strength. It was at this moment that the Crimson Flame Civilization once again adopted its previous tactics, forming a small squadron of warships to directly attack the Lyra.
Although they found no signs that the Lyra had exited overload mode, they couldn't wait any longer, because if they waited any longer, the two human fleets would arrive.
Faced with the Crimson Flame Civilization's tactical change, Yue Yuan on the Lyra breathed a sigh of relief. He had calculated that if the Crimson Flame Civilization had continued with their previous tactics, they could have destroyed even more of the Lyra's fleet. Now, the Lyra's overload condition could last for about twenty more minutes, and the two squadrons that had already destroyed the enemy fleet would arrive to provide support in twenty minutes. In other words, the Lyra had successfully survived, and the diversionary tactic had unexpectedly succeeded, although the fleet had suffered considerable losses.
But it doesn't matter, since they are all Unmanned Warship anyway, we can just produce more. On the other hand, the Crimson Flame Civilization's warships are almost all manned, and their losses are much greater than those of humans.
Of course, Yue Yuan didn't foolishly wait like that. After discovering that the Donghai (East Sea) Warship and West Sea had successfully dealt with the enemy's squadron, he immediately ordered the Strong Artificial Intelligence to gather warships to cooperate with the Lyra to break through the encirclement.
Needless to say, the direction of the breakout was towards the two squadrons, Donghai (East Sea) Warship and West Sea.
It must be said that the Strong Artificial Intelligence has a strong execution capability. Not long after the command was issued, Yue Yuan saw that the warships that were originally protecting the Lyra and those that were fiercely fighting with the enemy took the opportunity to break away from the entanglement and turn around through mutual artillery fire. Then, they consciously cooperated with each other and moved around, creating a relatively open road for the Lyra in the midst of the melee.