$1,405 Persistence

The order was issued, and all ships immediately launched fighters.

Due to the special environment of space, the ejection mechanism of the aerospace mothership is also relatively special. To put it simply, the hangar is like a magazine, the aircraft is like a bullet, and the channel for launching fighters is like a gun barrel. The entire launch process is not much different from firing an automatic rifle, but the speed is much slower, with an average of one aircraft launched every 1.2 seconds.

Each aerospace mothership is equipped with multiple "automatic rifles", with more than a dozen sets and as few as seven or eight sets.

The high-speed departure of a large group of fighters from the ship did attract the attention of the swarm. The originally scattered fine lights immediately concentrated on the aerospace mothership, and other warships got a brief respite.

However, the massive fine lights almost submerged the aerospace mothership. Many fighters were destroyed by the fine lights that enveloped the mothership as soon as they left the ship. Dozens and hundreds of fighters exploded one after another, and each ship had to temporarily suspend the launch.

It was not possible to stop the launch. The fine lights were still concentrated on the aerospace mothership, with the intention of concentrating firepower to kill the mothership first and then attacking other warships.

The distance between the two sides continued to shrink, and the aerospace carrier had no time to evacuate. Halsey could no longer sit still, and gritted his teeth and ordered all ships to release smoke screens to cover the fleet.

After receiving the order, all ships immediately fired smoke bombs at the fastest speed. In just over ten seconds, the entire international fleet was covered by smoke screens.

The smoke screen blocked the sight of both sides, and the originally fierce confrontation suddenly stopped.

The swarm still persevered in firing at the smoke screen, and each smoke screen pointed at a warship. If these warships remained in their original positions, the probability of being hit by the thin light was extremely high.

However, the international fleet was very experienced, and the first thing each ship did after releasing the smoke screen was to move its position.

The international fleet did not completely cease fire, and the laser could not be used, but the missiles and shells were fine, as well as the super shotgun shells and gun-launched missiles.

In order to cover the shells and missiles, the international fleet continued to fire smoke bombs after the smoke screen blocked the sight until the enemy and us were completely filled with smoke screens.

However, Halsey soon received a report that all warships that fired guns were targeted by the Zerg, even if there was a smoke screen.

But warships that did not fire guns but only fired missiles did not have this problem of direction. Halsey immediately realized that the Zerg could determine the position of the warship through a straight trajectory.

He held the idea of ​​believing it was better to believe it than not to believe it. Halsey informed the entire fleet of this speculation and asked all ships to stop using direct firepower and

use missiles to fight the enemy.

After the ships did so, the effect was amazing. The Zerg could no longer figure out the position of the warship. Although they were still firing thin lights, they were blindly shooting without any target. Occasionally, they were all blind cats hitting dead mice.

Halsey breathed a sigh of relief. Now he just had to wait until the Jizhou fleet angered the aliens. When the aliens withdrew the Zerg, the international fleet could take the opportunity to catch up and beat the Zerg hard.

At this moment, the radar suddenly emitted a sharp scream. Halsey almost jumped up and was completely dumbfounded.

He was very familiar with such alarm sounds, which usually meant that something was approaching the warship at high speed.

"What happened?" Halsey roared angrily.

"General, the bugs are crazy, they are faster than missiles!"

"Are you crazy? How can bugs be faster than missiles?" Halsey didn't believe it at all, but when his eyes fell on the radar screen, he was dumbfounded.

On the radar, countless light spots representing bugs were rushing at a very high speed. Halsey was stunned for a few seconds before he suddenly woke up: "What's going on?"

"I don't know, it suddenly became like this just now, just like taking stimulants, yes, taking stimulants!"

Halsey roared: "You took stimulants, intercept, intercept, intercept with all your strength, quickly!"

At an order, the international fleet opened fire again, all weapons that could be used were put into action, and even close-in defense guns joined the battle.

The smoke screen blocked the line of sight but could not block the radar. The positions of all bugs were under the control of the international fleet.

However, there were too many bugs and they were so fast that Halsey had foreseen the development of the war.

As expected, he received a report from the operations staff after a while: "General, the Farragut was hit by a bug!"

Halsey said calmly: "How is the battleship?"

"It's okay, it hit a piece of intact reactive armor." said the staff.

Since the bug hit the Leishan, Beidu and Washington began to study countermeasures, and the final conclusion was still to strengthen the battleship armor. Not long after, the first ship-use reactive armor was born in Beiyuezhou.

Now this thing has become the standard of the space fleet. Not only the international fleet has it, but also the Jizhou fleet and the Nanzhou fleet.

The Nanzhou fleet had the opportunity to use this thing in the Ceres battle, but considering that exposing the reactive armor in advance may arouse the aliens' vigilance, if the aliens find a countermeasure in advance, it may affect the entire expedition plan, so the reactive armor of the Nanzhou fleet has been in the transport ship, and until now there has been no chance to use it.

Starting with the Farragut, the warships of the International Fleet were hit by the bug planes one after another. Most of the hits were blocked by the reactive armor, with only a few exceptions, either hitting a position without reactive armor or the reactive armor was damaged in the previous battle.

However, Halsey was not worried at all, because the ordinary armor under the reactive armor was also strengthened, and its thickness far exceeded the penetration depth of the bug planes. Even if the corrosive substances secreted by the bug planes were taken into account, they still could not penetrate the armor.

But Halsey soon stopped laughing, because after the insect machine nailed to the armor, it did not secrete corrosive substances to burn through the armor, but instead emitted thin light close to the armor and cut the armor with thin light!

Is this life-threatening?

Halsey jumped up like a cat with its fur blown up: "Shoot each other, shoot each other to kill the insect machines--"

He really wanted to ask where the Jizhou fleet was and how long it would take to launch an attack.

At this time, the Jizhou fleet had already rushed to the vicinity of Callisto, and it would be able to launch an attack in a few minutes.

In order to save time, the Jizhou fleet dispersed in advance, with each battle group responsible for one direction. The action plan was similar to that of the international fleet, except that there were four fewer battle groups, unless the aliens could still come up with a batch of insect machines to intercept.

Can the aliens come up with it? Of course not, because shortly after the Jizhou fleet launched the action, the aliens transferred a batch of insect machines from the battlefield, with a total of about 20,000.

If there were still insect machines on Callisto, would the aliens need to weaken their strength on the battlefield?

The aliens brought back more than just the swarm of insects. A little further away, the alien fleet that had not been seen before also appeared, also rushing towards Callisto at full speed.

In addition, the light insects that survived the disaster also emerged from underground and were gathering at a certain location on the ground.