The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

When conducting such intensity and precision-required operations, Oregana has no way to check the timing of the induction. Anyway, now that the communication and combat links are intact, it is better to leave this work to the scythe who mobilizes the fleet at the rear.What I have to do is to attract the attention of this dark worm as much as possible, until the flagship team enters the field.

Even making this dark worm powerless—perhaps just waking up from a long sleep, or the decline in ability caused by a lot of trauma on the body, this dark worm is even stronger than before under the condition of terrible firepower. Any dark worms encountered are crisp and slow.It seems unable to bear the load brought by high mobility, and even unable to maintain the spiritual energy barrier in real time to protect its whole body.Judging from the feedback data from the detector, the strength of its psychic barrier is uneven... If the general warship is shrunk inside a shell, this guy is like an ancient warrior, holding a shield in his hand, Block in that direction when needed.

In the confrontation just now, the first round of attack was inexplicably scored. This revealed that the opponent's shield was unreliable and at the same time made Oregana decide to try to adopt an active fighting method. As a result, the second round of attack also achieved Nice effect.

So go ahead—you can't kill it with this battleship-level tube, but no matter how you scrape it, it's more itchy than a mosquito bite, right?

On the bridge, Oregana injected herself with a second dose of potion to prolong the time of overloading. The burning sensation from the injection port spread along the skin next to her, but after reaching her brain, it turned into a The rushing clear spring is refreshing.

"Okay...the bug isn't very powerful." She grinned dangerously, "Let's strip it off."

"Yes! By the way, do you want to calculate the cost of the materials we consumed equivalent to the cost of several battleships?"

"stop!!"

The only thing that must not be done is this... She doesn't want to know how many expensive and scary things she has already fought in this battle, and how many scary things she will fight-even if the battle is over, Oregana doesn't want to think about this kind of thing.

"Forget it, what attack route shall we take next?"

"This time, we will use the delay method to launch an attack from the asteroid belt," said the head of the Oregana Legion, opening the tactical view, "Let the 'Aquatic Giant' attack from the 12st, 17th, and [-]th positions at the same time! After the enemy intercepted , we projected from the obliquely above the dark worm, aimed at the No.[-] and No.[-] crystal cannons, and at the same time used missiles to attack the propelling limbs—we don’t pursue the results of the battle, as long as we fire and evacuate, we win. Do you understand?"

"Yes!"

"The action begins!"

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Till Vadam fought countless battles throughout his life, saw the planet turn into a sea of ​​flames, and countless heroes sacrificed in vain.But today is still the first time he has seen this kind of battle, and the impact brought by it made him feel chills on his back and sweat on his palms.He immediately agreed to Oregana's request to enter the flagship, because he knew one thing very well, that is, he couldn't solve this thing.

Its power can completely change the power structure of this universe - if this ghost thing appears on the UNSC territory, their entire fleet will probably have to be filled in; if it appears at home, the result will be the same... I don't remember can kill.The energy peak of the opponent's main gun shooting has been clearly seen, and this guy can do this kind of thing.

At the same time, there was a strong sense of dread in my heart—fortunately, it woke up now, and someone from the integration department was here to deal with it.If it had come out tens, hundreds, and thousands of years earlier, no one would have been able to stand up except for the pioneer battleship in the city of fraternity, but the prophet would not dare to fight recklessly. It has become a wandering civilization that runs around with the city of fraternity and hides from this bug to save its life.

But now, the commander of the command department is relying on only four or five warships to deal with it, and it is her ship that is in the main attack position. This kind of courage makes people sweat.But what is surprising is that she actually entangled the target with just one battleship.A thousand-meter-class warship fought back and forth with a dark worm with a long axis of one thousand kilometers, even if she relied on the massive interference equipment, decoys, and cloaking devices on the battleship to kill the enemy. Barely defending himself under the fierce attack, but this battle is still magnificent like an epic.

In all fairness, if I used the largest fleet I had ever commanded to fight this battle, I would have to prepare at least [-] warships to find out the details of the enemy—it is indeed very cold-blooded, but this is almost the only way.And these battleships may not even have time to attack and will be wiped out. They don't have the level of jamming equipment of the Leopard, they can't survive precision strikes and hyperspace sniping, and the range of plasma torpedoes is unknown.Even if the energy projector is used to set up a formation and bombard the enemy, the loss on one's side after the first round of shooting is too great to be made up for.

I don't know if I can kill the opponent, but I can't bear it anyway.This is what Tyr Vadam concluded when he viewed the battle from the perspective of an experienced fleet commander.It was also from the performance of the Very Leopard that he understood the huge difference in technical ability and soldier training between the two sides.

This made him not only murmured and sighed:

"It's almost like holding a toothpick with a newly born San'Shim trying to kill Tartarus... and Tartarus is being poked by this toothpick until he is covered in blood."

The guiding prophet next to him was nervous and even bent the metal armrest of the chair, and the peeling paint surface stuck to his calloused rough palm, but he didn't care:

"How could such a thing happen?! We should have scanned there before!"

"Of course it has been scanned, but according to the news... until just now, it used some kind of technology to hide itself in the atmosphere of that planet, while keeping it dormant in a state of low energy consumption." Tyr Vadam replied, " We only scanned outposts from the beginning, and we didn't care about the planets - because everyone knows that no one can hide in the atmosphere of a gaseous planet."

"Why didn't anyone suspect that the ruins were related to the dark worm before?"

"The characteristics didn't match up...so no one thought about that."

But now it's a lesson learned.

"Humans are also watching this battle, right?"

"...That's right, they were probably frightened—just like us. In the past, many of us felt that it was useless to send young people to the school of the Ministry of Consolidation to learn how to deal with dark worms. Worm weapons are also meaningless, because we will never use them in our lifetime, and there is no need to increase the expenses for the history of 10 years ago. After today, they will not think so." Tier Vadam stood up from his desk, Said to the guard at the door, "Let the fleet block the channel! The traffic in the surrounding galaxies is all stopped, don't let any civilian ships approach. The fleet of the Consolidation Department may enter the battlefield at any time to fight the dark worms. They are bleeding and dying for us, and they are ready for medical treatment." ships and supplies, and meet them as soon as the battle is over."

"Yes!"

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Chapter 1107 Chapter 137: Let's Snipe (Mocking)

For Oregana, the battle became more difficult as time went on.

If it is an evenly matched opponent, just relying on a series of very aggressive operations of the Leopard can gain a decisive advantage after the first confrontation-after being fooled by the sensor, the propeller or the turret is sniped, which is enough for a ship The battleship lost its chance of a comeback in an instant.But when facing an enemy whose tonnage crushes several grades, your advantage is not called an advantage, it is called "buying time for yourself".

Even though he was deflated in a confrontation and was beaten a few times, the blood bar of the deep dark worm was long and there were many subsystems. After several rounds of volleys, it was just scraping, and the loss of combat power was very low.But for the Very Leopard, this is another card - the intelligent dark worm is not much worse than the saint fighter, and the tactics used once will be greatly reduced if used again. And the bait is also used for one less round.

As long as it is caught once, the car will overturn. Most of the missions with this difficulty appear in Miyazaki ○ Gao's game.

But with the exchange of fire, everyone gradually figured out the fighting style of this dark worm.

It has high shooting accuracy and the ability to project fire through space.Its main shooting modes are divided into three types -

The first type is a non-distinctive conventional shooting. The energy beam is emitted from the crystal turret, but this energy cannon is pulsed, and it will irradiate at a very high intensity, and will not turn or track.At present, it can lock at least seven targets at a time for shooting. Visually, this is not the upper limit of its fire control system.

The second type is diffuse shooting. The emitted light beam will scatter forward after reaching the intended target, and spread into a cone with a generatrix of about [-] kilometers and an angle of about [-] degrees.The power of the diffused light beam will be significantly reduced, but it still has the power to sink a cruiser. After the third decoy tactic, the dark worm began to use this trick to clean up all kinds of small things.

As for the third type, Oregana calls it the focused type. This type of attack is obviously prepared to fight against large battleships—such as those of the Forerunner. The attack mode is similar to conventional shooting, but it is several crystal turrets. At the same time attack focus.Just now, it used this kind of shooting to drill through an asteroid with a long axis of 1400 kilometers where the Very Leopard was hiding. The aftermath and impact destroyed two lidars and a dual-mounted [-]mm turret.

She moved forward in the debris and smoke, hiding her body in the complex space environment caused by the explosion. The orange shield that was about to go out quickly lit up under the full power of the shield emergency injector, and the entire spaceship The interior is filled with static noise, many energy pipelines have accumulated a lot of waste heat due to overload, and the cooling system of the battleship has begun to howl.

The sensor alarmed frantically, and the tension contained in the observer's thinking stood up like a thorn——

"The next wave of attacks is coming! Shot type! Energy burst point sixteen!"

"Bait?"

"Still intact!"

Four 'aquatic giants' ran in different directions, like a frightened mouse running out of a hole.In the next moment, sixteen crystal fortresses burst into light at the same time.

In an instant, the surroundings were filled with light, and it felt as if all the stars in the universe turned into meteors and flew past him.The shield at the stern of the ship was shot continuously in a few seconds. The first eight rounds were bounced off by the excellent deflecting shield and disappeared into the universe as droplets. The performance of the bullet was maximized, she connected herself with the sensor, predicted the ballistic trajectory and calculated the impact point in a short time, and concentrated the energy of the shield in a small area as much as possible.

However, the performance of hardware always has its limit.The ninth hit beam pierced through the shield that was exhausted to the critical point and had no time to replenish.

Although the shield has reduced its power as much as possible, the beam still pierced through the armor of the very leopard carbonized Phil metal composite shell.In the next instant, the high-temperature plasma slammed into the inner hull of the ship, and the metal evaporated, creating terrifying pressure.The internal force field stabilization system resisted the initial burst of pressure, and opened the pressure relief pipe, blasting out the hot metal gas that could turn the hull into a cannonball.

The sound of metal twisting came from the depths of the hull, followed by a terrifying shaking that almost threw people out.The display went black for a moment, then started working again.

"The fourth area has been penetrated - the energy transmission pipeline is not damaged! The damage to the hull is slight!"

In the current situation, as long as the structure is intact and does not affect the battle, it is not a trivial matter for a few corridors and cabins to be blown into twisted metal pieces-do you still have to shout when the toilet of the battleship was blown up? 'It's a trap!Abandon ship! 'No?

"The bait is gone!"

"Keep firing decoys! Shoot back!"

The Very Leopard passed through the planetary ring formed by the rubble, and the Dark Worm chased after rising on the surface of the planet. Its propelling limbs swayed in the atmosphere, just like the gods in Indian mythology churning the sea of ​​milk.Heavy shells were fired at the dark worm from the front, and the missiles followed behind like raindrops, but none of them could penetrate the fluorescent shield—those missiles were jumped by the psychic barrier before they even approached. The arc detonated in mid-air.

Liu Lizi stuffed the scanned image into Oregana's mind:

"The opponent's shield is gathered in front, and our counterattack can't touch it at all."

This operation is exactly the same as our shield operator's technique. I don't know if it has just learned it, or it has been able to do it from the beginning, but it has only become serious now.

Oregana wiped the sweat from her forehead, and she drew a new route——advance at extreme speed while relying on the planet's gravitational acceleration, which looks like flying towards the gas giant planet, rushing towards the On the other side of the 'horizon', use the planet's curvature as a backslope to defend against direct enemy fire, while remaining there to keep the enemy aware of your presence:

"The missiles are filled with 'poison guns', and we have the authority to fire the main guns before No. [-] and No. [-]." She shouted, "Continue to fight back, hit it in the face with electromagnetic pulse bombs and anti-psychic warheads, do Look like we're going to destroy the shield from the front!"

"Yes!"

Oregana can't guess the psychology of the dark worm, but one thing is very clear, that is, the dark worm will not evade at all - it may even be impossible for it to detect a 1400mm caliber warhead, so it can only choose to stand against the shield Hard resistance.So Oregana's choice is to try to bypass this shield.

Whether this tactic will work is still a mystery, but it is so close to the planet, and the gravitational field is also here, it is not a strange thing to try projectile, right?

Oregana controlled the steering of the turrets on the bow so that they would not point at the dark worms, and the fire control computer quickly calculated the ballistic data based on the trajectory.She withdrew from the conventional fission launch package of the main gun, activated the auxiliary electromagnetic ejection component, and corrected the calculation program of the shield protecting the gun barrel—through thinking when the Very Leopard passed through a group of high-density clouds The link gave the order to launch.

The recoil force of the shell is so slight that it can be ignored in normal times.Then there were 36 heavy missiles called 'poison guns' that were thrown out.

The warheads of these heavy-duty missiles are high-density steel wrapped with fission charges, because during the initial test process, the more sensitive cursed son fainted because of being affected by the proximity of the warheads, so they were nicknamed 'poison guns'. Battleship-class dark worms are sometimes effective-because their hard warheads can effectively penetrate the enemy's outer shell, destroying its internal structure to the greatest extent.

A total of 36 rounds were brought out, so let's use them all right now.She licked her tongue, and set the target of the 'poison gun' at the part where the propelling limbs connected to the body behind the dark worm - it is impossible to directly blow off the propelling limbs with this kind of missile attack, but the warhead Exploding in such a place might destroy the connection between the main body and the propelling limb.

The artillery shells and missiles moving at a low speed were captured by the gravity of the planet at once, and their heights gradually decreased, accelerating toward the dark worm from above.The descent curve of the missile is slightly flatter, because their impact point is closer to the rear - the thrusters will ignite to accelerate the missile after entering the predetermined area, so that the opponent will experience the feeling of 'the enemy plane is going straight up and down' .

I don't know if this dark worm who fought with the forerunner has ever seen this primitive tactic?

However, regardless of whether the Dark Worm has ever seen such a tactic, the group of 'sentry drones' around it will not consider these issues.After destroying the decoy, the Very Panther, heading to the other side of the planet, was an excellent target.

"Cluster type! Three energy burst points! We are locked!"

With three cluster cannons, even the flagship would have to drink a pot, let alone this small ship.To be honest, this battle is really big--

Oregana paused for such a long time as her heart beat, and shouted resolutely:

"Enter the atmosphere!"

Liu Lizi turned her head abruptly:

"Eh?! This speed?!"

If it rushes into the atmosphere at the current speed, the already overworked inertial stabilizer and internal force field stabilization system will probably come to an end.

But if they don't die at this moment, the ship will die in the middle.Oregana bit her lip, her attitude in the mind transmission was unwavering:

"This speed is just right! The tail missile launcher fills the fusion warhead, and the delay is three seconds!"

"Three seconds?!"

No one disobeyed Oregana's thoughts, and everyone knew that at such a critical juncture, even if it was a question, the work in the mind should not stop.

The battleship rushed into the top of the atmosphere heavily, and the shell of the spaceship made a loud rumbling sound. Everyone felt that they were floating in mid-air, and then were slammed back on their seats.The projection system in the middle of the bridge was ripped off, and there were sparks and flickering arcs everywhere.

Liu Lizi gritted her teeth and endured the pain to level the battleship, making her swim like a submarine in the sea of ​​clouds, and Oregana also activated the missile launcher at this time.

"three!"

"two!"

"The energy of the enemy is rising! It is about to attack!"

"one!"

Three fusion bombs exploded directly behind the hull.All of a sudden, a dazzling white light rose into the sky, the swirling clouds burned wildly, the violently diffused electromagnetic pulse impacted the magnetic field of the planet, and the air waves slammed against the hull of the Very Leopard, causing terrifying vibrations to strike like waves.The display screen was full of flames for a while, and the bridge became hot.

And at this moment, the bombardment of the dark worm came.The scorching beam of light rushed into the clouds, and hit the powerful energy cluster produced by the fusion reaction head-on. When the dark worm's cannon beam passed through this huge interference, it was as weak as a bullet passing through a body of water. Scattered away in the scorching cyclone, lighting up the surrounding clouds.

Although the Very Leopard was severely damaged, it escaped fatal injuries.Even though one of the main propellers had been extinguished, she continued to move forward and successfully entered the shadow of the planet—the current position was already behind the planet's reverse slope, a position where the dark worm could not snipe.Even with the atmosphere in the middle, this dark worm still couldn't make the cannon beam pass through such a volume of high-density gas and still maintain its power and accuracy.

Just as Liu Lizi predicted, the internal force field stabilization system has been shut down, and there are fires everywhere in the ship. Although the damage control system is fully operational, the ship is obviously unable to withstand any more attacks.

Her life is like a candle in the wind.

"Boss, we're almost done."

Liu Lizi wiped the blood that had just flowed from the impact on his face, took off the combat goggle, and rubbed the indentation on his face by the combat goggle.There was a burnt smell in the surrounding air, and there was something wrong with the lighting system. Under the dim light of the emergency lights, Liu Lizi's red pupils were particularly eye-catching—Oregana could read the joy in those eyes. Complicated emotions mixed with pity.

However, it's not over yet.

In the tactical view reflected in Oregana's mind by the main control computer, more than a dozen curves are extending downward at high speed, and the end of them is the dark worm whose advancing speed has been increased in order to ensure the destruction of the target.