The addition of the specialized Leviathan posed a huge threat to the Antill fleet, but the Swarm fleet still could not eat them up in a short time, and the Antill fleet firmly held the line.
A large number of cruisers and destroyers also jumped out of hyperspace and formed a defensive formation together with the battleships, pouring firepower on each other with the Swarm biological battleships.
The exchange ratio between the two sides is still very exaggerated. Swarm suffered high battle losses of eight for one and ten for one.
The reason for this is not only that Swarm is a biological battleship made of flesh and blood, but also because of its small size. Apart from Leviathan, the largest Brood Lord is only half the size of a battleship.
Small means that the armor, firepower, and engine are weakened. Ordinary life organs can only last up to the size of Brood Lord. If you go above that, you have to add fusion reaction organs, and the incubation cost will increase significantly.
The size is a small problem, but the bigger reason is that Antill fleets generally have energy shields, which can greatly reduce the damage of high-speed weapons.
At the beginning of Zhang Han's time travel, Swarm's fleet also suffered from this kind of shield, and was outnumbered by others.
Some people may have questions, a being like a natural disaster like Swarm has eaten so much of the galaxy and collected so much technology, why not use energy shields to strengthen biological battleships?
The reason is very simple. It's not that you can't use it if you don't understand its principle, but that you can't use it.
The energy shield used here is different from that in film and television works. The shield in film and television works is like magic. Pressing a button can raise a shield that can block anything, just like a transparent wall.
Such a shield is actually impossible to achieve.
The first battleship has to move. If you create such a wall, the battleship will hit it by itself.
Second, compressing energy into matter consumes a lot of energy. As can be seen from the mass-energy equation, the energy consumed to convert a bit of matter makes this behavior cost-effective.
Third, warships have to fight. With such a shell, missiles, artillery shells, and lasers can be fired on their own shields.
So the energy shield here is different. It is a field. Field is the basic unit of the universe. Field constitutes everything in the universe.
The wave-particle duality shows that the most basic particle has wave characteristics and particle characteristics, and its essence is a field. When energy rises in the field, it takes on the characteristics of particles, and when it falls, it becomes the characteristics of waves.
Energy shield uses a high-energy generator to cause a special field in the universe to vibrate in a wide range, making the invisible and intangible field become as viscous as water in the real world, so it is also called a field shield.
This is why the higher the speed of the weapon hitting the shield, the greater the damage loss. Unless the energy level of the attack is extremely high and exceeds the range of the shield field energy limit.
For example, a cannonball penetrates the Mariana Trench and defeats all obstacles. Small light particles accelerated to the speed of light can also explode stars.
For space battleships, this kind of field shield is very useful. When you want to launch high-energy weapons, just reduce the frequency of the ballistics entering the field, and the field will disappear instantly.
Doing so will neither reduce the defense nor the weapon's power.
The missile is simpler. It leaves the field slowly and then increases its speed. When it is about to approach the enemy ship, just slow down and penetrate the shield. Of course, it is not necessary to attack the Swarm battleship, because the Swarm has no shield.
The viscous field shield will not affect the movement of the sub-light speed battleship. It is just like the space battleship really sailing in the water. However, the field shield generator must be turned off when traveling at high speed, otherwise the battleship will be crashed.
Since the field shield is so easy to use, why not use Swarm?
The reason is also very simple. Swarm Network is also a field, and the two fields will interfere with each other.
If this shield is turned on, the Swarm units will be disconnected from the Internet. Except for the self-aware logical Zerg units, the interruption of the network is fatal to all Zerg units.
They will lose control, become confused, violent, overwhelmed, and even attack friendly forces.
The best battleship configuration for the Swarm biological fleet that gives up field shields is high armor, high damage, and endless numbers.
This galaxy is the home field of Swarm, so you won't lose money no matter how much you spend.
The first to be overwhelmed by a large number of melee tusk battleships and spore battleships was the vanguard of Antilians, a large assault ship.
Even if the missiles of these assault ships destroyed the Swarm fleet that was several times larger than our own, this kind of loss was acceptable for the Swarm fleet with a scale of hundreds of thousands.
After destroying the large assault ships, the Swarm fleet began to attack the remaining thousands of Antill fleets with tens of thousands of tusk warships as the vanguard.
The combat effectiveness, fighting will, and fighting skills of the Antill fleet are very strong. They are constantly changing their defensive formations in an attempt to better reduce losses and kill Swarm.
In order to create output space for the powerful battleships, cruisers and destroyers can use their hulls to block the fangs of the Swarm fleet, the acid shells of the spore ships, and the self-destructing mosquitoes as many as locusts in the sky.
Through excellent command, the Antill fleet brought the battle damage ratio to one to ten, but it seemed meaningless. Their number was less than six thousand, and many battleships were also injured.
After observing carefully for a while, Abaddon turned his attention back to the laboratory. His Cerebrate felt a lot of hyperspace fluctuations. He thought it was another threatening attack. The enemy was very strong, but if there were too few, it was doomed to fail.
This time the commander of the Antill fleet is much calmer. He does not have such an exaggerated throne. He just sits on the bridge calmly and issues orders.
He knew the difficulty of the battle. He had to go deep into the Swarm occupied area and seize key star systems. The difficulty was that they didn't know how many Swarm fleets there would be in the defending star system, and whether he could support it until reinforcements arrived.
His mission is to hold the exit of the hyperspace channel for an hour, and then direct the battle on his own based on the battle situation.
The war situation was getting worse and worse, and finally good news reached the commander's ears. He was authorized to use the tachyon light spear.
Tachyon is a great discovery in physics in recent years. It is faster than the speed of light, that is, it transmits information between entangled quanta. When it is used as a weapon, the targeted enemy will have no way to avoid it.
Two hundred special battleships lined up in formation, and the blue light that illuminated the battlefield shot out instantly. In an instant, dozens of huge specialized Swarm Leviathan were purified by the blue light.
Now the Antill fleet relies on the tachyon light lance and should be able to sustain it for a little longer.