Earth Invasion

Chapter 445 Big War! (3)

Being shot in space isn't nice at all.Although the battleship was evacuated and filled with thin low-temperature inert gas, even if the battleship was penetrated, there would be no such thing as a fire.Moreover, titanium alloys don't burn, unless they are hit by a plasma torpedo specially equipped with strong oxidizer and metal hydrogen charges.Others, whether it is a charged particle cannon or a heavy particle cannon, or the kinetic energy piercing rod of an electromagnetic reconnection cannon, the damage caused is very direct, but the secondary damage is very small.

But less is less, no one will feel bad after this blow.

When the Divine Comedy was hit, the hull suffered a severe lateral instability.After the battleship's deflection electric field was overloaded, it was bombarded by the second and third heavy particle cannons within an extreme time.Under the condition of one percent of the speed of light, every gram of heavy metal particles emitted by the heavy particle cannon carries a huge kinetic energy of more than 15 megajoules.These ultra-high-temperature metal particles exceeding tens of millions of degrees but firmly restrained by a directional magnetic field directly tore apart the entire starboard side of the Divine Comedy.Trachoma-like traces appeared on all the fractures of the metal structure.And those torn internal structures are shot out to the side and rear like a shotgun under the impact of this kinetic energy.

If this kind of injury is a normal battle, you should withdraw from the battle line, return to a safe area, let the repair ship come to the repair ship for emergency repairs, and then return to the factory for overhaul.But in this situation, any vacancy on the battle line would cause incalculable losses.The Divine Comedy can only continue to fight!
Due to the application of various intelligent machines, the number of damage control personnel on battleships has been greatly reduced, and usually the damage control personnel are not scattered throughout the battleship, but are unified at the central axis for standby.Because the damage control personnel are the guarantee for the rapid restoration of combat effectiveness after the battleship is damaged, and the central axis position is considered the safest area.

If the central axis is damaged, then it is better for this battleship to abandon the ship honestly.

On a battleship, apart from those marines who are going to jump out of the atmosphere, there is only one kind of person who has to wear PA for a long time, and that is the damage control personnel of the battleship.The difference is that the battlefield of the marines is on the surface of the planet, while the battlefield of these damage control personnel is inside the damaged battleship.The hard-shell space suits of ordinary warship members can only sustain life, and the engineering PAs of these damage control personnel may need to deal with various harsh environments, such as strong radiation, such as high temperature, such as low temperature.

The damage control officer on the Divine Comedy was a black man with a bald head and a beard. At first glance, he looked more like a gladiator than a damage control officer.In fact, this master is indeed very fierce.

After the entire battleship regained its attitude and stabilized, this man pushed away the hydraulic lever holding his PA, and then jumped up like a spring!
"Quick, quick! Ask about the loss of the shipboard control personality battleship! All repair robots are out of dormancy! Check the loss of maintenance robots!"

The damage control personnel are concentrated on standby, and the replacement of the damage control personnel is the emergency maintenance robot distributed in every corner of the battleship.These small octopus-like things can drill around in various ventilation and maintenance ducts, and can use the power system on the battleship to recharge themselves at any time, complete simple damage repairs, and temporarily serve as tools such as lighting.

In such a violent shelling, the personnel were killed and injured, not to mention those little robots.

Statistics soon came out, the entire starboard front robot octopus was reimbursed by 70.00%, and 15 starboard combat crew members died on the spot and 7 were injured.Fortunately, the armored compartment consumed the opponent's high-speed heavy particles. If it didn't continue to penetrate backwards and penetrate the starboard electromagnetic catapult, more people would die.

All the damage controllers couldn't help sighing, the big hole was creepy from the inside.

"I think the shipboard control personality must be very painful..."

"Pain? I don't remember that the control personality of the battleship has this function."

"Little ones, we don't have time to express emotions here!" The controller's loud voice echoed in the shortwave radio of everyone, and he waved the ion torch in his hand, "Now, let's go and block that hole !"

The crowd clapped.

The PAs with yellow and black diagonal stripes walked in single file through the narrow passage of the battleship, passed through several isolation compartments from the central axis, and soon came to the already messy and damaged compartment.

The magnetic adsorption and air pressure adsorption devices on the soles of the PA's feet are activated at the same time, so that they will not be thrown out during the large-scale maneuver of the battleship.From the breach of the battleship, they could still see the bright blue and orange flashes that still continued to appear outside.

"Boss! We don't seem to be able to restore the entire armor layer in a short time. The basic armor, laminated armor, absolute black body cladding, including the external armor and the deflection electric field circuit are almost finished. This needs to be returned to the factory for overhaul!"

"Then let's restore the basic armor and the deflection electric field first!" The bearded control officer waved his hand, adjusted his PA posture, and then kicked on the bulkhead, jumping directly from the armored bulkhead here. Near the breach on the opposite side!
“2班！调动战舰的左舷维修机器人二十台过来！1班！从仓库中提取B-241-E7型发泡钛合金装甲板40平方米！1班清理破损位置！闭合电路！4班跟我来！我们到战舰装甲外面去，重建偏转电场电路！快快快！小伙子们！我们必须争分夺秒！”

This is just a microcosm of the entire Battlefield Hill.In this kind of large-scale shelling battle, everyone knows that the next unlucky person may be himself!
"How about the Divine Comedy." The two sides are still bombarding each other with heavy particle cannons at a distance of [-] kilometers, and the entire fleet is doing a large-scale S-type maneuver as a whole.All the bridge crew had strapped themselves to chairs.While directing the battle, Collins did not forget to ask the unlucky cruiser just now.

"The damage control has begun, and part of the deflection electric field has begun to recover. The main structural armor is being repaired. It is estimated that the combat power can be restored to about 60.00%!" General Nakajima also tied himself to his seat.

"Well, very good." As he said, his eyes continued to fall on the battle situation on the big screen.

The battle between the two sides has fallen into a stalemate. The distance between the two sides has not continued to approach, but has stabilized at a distance of 8000-9000 kilometers.The bright blue flashes of you come and go look like a lot of fun, but apart from the initial focus of fire, the results of both sides are a bit lacklustre.If the capital ships of both sides directly start to focus fire on some cruisers on the opposite side, there is a chance to achieve results, but the problem is that their own safety may not be guaranteed.The capital ship mainly solves the problem of deflecting the opening of the electric field while bombarding, but the reduction in the defense of the deflecting electric field while bombarding cannot be changed.Once the capital ships of both sides start to transfer firepower, then the opponent's capital ships will no longer be suppressed. In this case, the opponent will give you a shot with full power in all likelihood.In that case, due to the deflection electric field, the battleship of one's own side will most likely be hit by a shot.This is not worth the candle.

Therefore, when both sides have capital ships, suppressing the opponent's capital ships is the main task of one's own capital ships.

In this case, the battle between the cruisers of the two sides has become a pure war of attrition!Let's see whose refrigerant is exhausted first, and whose superconducting parts of the heavy particle cannon can't hold it first!

This scorching war of attrition lasted for nearly 10 minutes.In the meantime, there was another similar exchange between the two sides.The first unlucky one this time was the CA-47 "Spruance" of the NATO expeditionary fleet. From the name, it is known that this is an American ship.This warship named after the famous American Navy Admiral Spruance of World War II is the No. 12 Alpamayu-class cruiser of the Americans, and it is an old warship with continuous age.The unlucky ship suffered from a complete accident.He himself was going to cross back with the CA-58 North Carolina when he was hit, but for some reason, it was supposed to be flanked by another super old battleship, the CA-31 Clermont The shuttle was a beat slower.Not only was it exposed when the capacitor was recharged, but more unexpectedly, the space circle cruiser that has been greeting the CA-71 Nansen, the latest ACR-45 "Anna Karinina" cruiser has been in service The ACR-33 "Gitanjali", which was facing the Clemenceau, aimed ten heavy particle cannons at the hapless Spruance.

Under the command of the captain, the Spruance, which was frightened into a cold sweat, almost turned over with a kite that could make the people on the bridge spit out the overnight meal!This action that should not have been made by the battleship saved the lives of most people on the battleship.In itself, it would be sieved directly from the side by the opponent's heavy particle cannon, but due to this action and the breakdown of the entire battleship's sewage circulation system, the whole ship was washed in a dirty water bath, and it was just blown away by the port catapult. , and then penetrated the entire rear multipurpose silo.Mr. Captain made a decisive decision and blasted the entire multi-purpose launch module out, avoiding greater secondary damage.But this also cost more than half of the Spruance's entire working medium water layer, plus a large amount of refrigerant leakage, and what's worse is that the rear third of the superconducting battery stack is finished.The Spruance has also become a cripple that has lost most of its combat effectiveness!
But the NATO fleet immediately retaliated, and the battleship Doom, which turned to the rear, used its secondary guns to pump cold air to give the ACR-39 "Wagner", which was too far ahead of the assault in the space circle, a full power once, and was exhausted. The Wagner was not harmed by the deflection electric field, but the unlucky opposite came from nowhere and a solid warhead of the self-forging warhead flew sideways, directly reconnecting a double-mounted electromagnetic reconnection on its side. Cannon destroyed.What's worse is that this electromagnetic reconnection gun is replacing the superconducting battery and intends to use the plasma cannon mode.This time, he lost the pass immediately, and a hole was opened on the starboard side!
"It's really ugly." Collins said this inexplicably.

"Ugly?"

"It's ugly! I'm looking forward to what kind of outstanding performance that Mr. Ratcliffe will have. But now, alas, it is this kind of boring war of attrition!"

Utred Nakajima had some doubts in his mind, and he tentatively said, "Is there any conspiracy?"

"Conspiracy? What's the point of this big fleet confrontation..." At this point, Collins suddenly stopped talking.

"No!" Collins frowned suddenly. "This kind of war of attrition is obviously not good for them. Why do we need to waste it like this? Even if he plans to face-to-face confrontation and adopts a dense formation, he should fight hand-to-hand now." That's right. Even if we adopt a concave formation, the opponent should not adopt this method of delay!"

"Then who are they?!" Nakajima also wanted to understand this.

"Dense formation, hum!" Collins sneered.

"Infrared and ultraviolet fields, this one is really an eye-opener." Speaking of this, Collins immediately ordered, "The destroyer fleet immediately launches heavy particle wide-area radiation in the direction of the north pole and south pole of the celestial sphere! Magnetic Quantum Interferometry System Antenna! I want to see how Ratcliffe uses his destroyer fleet!"

(End of this chapter)