Chapter 223 Am I Always the Unlucky One?
The mass and volume of Triton are larger than Pluto, and its elemental structure is similar to that of Pluto. It is speculated that it may be a Kuiper belt object like Pluto, but it was captured by Neptune's gravity and became its satellite.
In space, about 19,000 warships directly controlled by Han Yang were moving towards Triton at the same time. In the process of advancing, a large number of military satellites, detection satellites, communication satellites, interstellar mines, artillery positions and other automated combat facilities and intelligence facilities were released.
By collecting previous combat information about the guard fleet, as well as his own research on war science and his own deductions, Han Yang confirmed that this was necessary and a routine measure for interstellar warfare.
Just like at this moment, there are also a large number of such facilities around Triton.
Facing the actions of the attacking fleet, Wang Qing and a group of commanders did not feel anything unusual.
If the opponent did not do this, they would feel strange.
At this moment, the eight Itar warships, 320 guard ships, and the automatic defense force and land-based air defense force of Triton, which had been waiting here for a long time, were merciless at this moment and launched an attack on the invading enemy at the same time.
Without any communication or hesitation, the fierce battle between the two sides suddenly broke out at this moment.
Under the gaze of the blue Neptune, millions or even tens of millions of electromagnetic cannon projectiles were crisscrossing in the vast space, bombarding any target on the way forward.
One by one, interstellar missiles flew out from the spacecraft through electromagnetic acceleration, and then flew flexibly in space under their own power, biting the target tightly. Once they arrived near the target, they would immediately detonate, and a gorgeous flower would appear in the space.
Daodao has extremely high condensation, and the high-energy laser that is almost invisible outside the forward path is moving at the speed of light, and it is almost impossible to warn. When the laser beam is detected, it has already reached the ship and started to burn the armor.
The mine cluster hidden in space, under the enemy identification system, will continue to lie dormant and not move at all when encountering the ship. Once an enemy target approaches, no matter what the enemy target is, whether it is a warship, a satellite, an enemy mine, or an enemy automated turret, it will immediately be like a piranha smelling blood, even at the cost of being shattered to pieces, it will bite off a piece of meat from the enemy.
Various artificial satellites, or detectors, are maneuvering flexibly in the chaotic battlefield. They must not only attack enemy satellites, but also guard against enemy satellites attacking themselves. At the same time, they must do their best to collect intelligence on the battlefield and the movements of each enemy warship for their commanders to make decisions.
Outside the regular battlefield, the battles between detectors and turrets are hidden and cruel.
They are just consumables, and their damage rate is faster than that of warships. Almost every minute and every second, hundreds or even thousands of detectors are destroyed. But at the same time, the same number or more detectors will be released to rejoin this brutal battle.
As soon as the frontal battlefield began, Han Yang felt great pressure.
It was completely different from the pressure during the previous harassment war. At that time, although the Ita warships and guard ships were killing people everywhere, they were still away from their homeland and were still cautious in their actions. But at this moment, near the enemy's base camp, these Ita warships and guard ships no longer had any scruples, and there was only killing, only killing.
That's right, it was killing.
The warships controlled by Han Yang were easily annihilated like cutting melons and vegetables under the opponent's super high performance.
The electromagnetic cannon projectiles were too dense and too fast, making the defense system that Han Yang had painstakingly built seem useless, and the heavy armor was almost ineffective. However, the electromagnetic cannon projectiles of our side can be easily intercepted by the enemy.
The battlefield is almost one-sided.
Although the number of our warships is dozens of times that of the enemy, they are being suppressed!
However, in the basement of Neptune Headquarters of Triton, Fuxing Mall, Han Yang still has a smile on his face.
He realized that his first-stage goal was about to be completed.
Separate the Ita warships and Ita guard ships!
Under the fearless attack of thousands of warships, the 8 Ita warships have been drifting away from the 320 guard ships, and gradually dispersed in two directions of the battlefield!
With the replenishment of another round of spare warships, the two forces were completely separated and could no longer communicate and coordinate with each other.
The first-stage goal was achieved!
After this, Han Yang's fighting style suddenly changed.
In the battlefield, the total number of our warships directly controlled by Han Yang has always been maintained at around 7,000. Once there is a loss, it will be replenished from the backup spacecraft. At this moment, the 7,000 warships were divided into two roughly equal parts.
One part was trying to surround the eight Itar warships, trying to temporarily isolate them from the battlefield, while the other 3,500 warships launched a full-scale attack on the 320 guard ships!
At this moment, the Itar warriors and guards fighting on the battlefield finally noticed a change that was different from the past.
The enemy warships seemed to be difficult to deal with in an instant. It was as if there was an invisible net in front of us. If we went backward, there would be a blockade behind us. If we went forward, there would be an interception in front of us. If we went left, there would be artillery fire on the left side, and if we went right, there would be an interception on the right side.
We were already desperately trying to destroy the enemy warships, and the enemy warships were indeed as easy to destroy as they had shown before.
But every time a warship was destroyed, warships from other directions would immediately come to fill the position, still firmly maintaining the existence of the invisible net.
We rushed left and right, but we could never get out!
In the almost stalemate battle, more details were noticed by the guards.
How could the enemy cooperate so well? So unified and coordinated with each other?
There was obviously no target in this airspace, so why did the warship next to it desperately move in this direction? Would rather risk serious injuries than retreat?
At first, the guards didn't understand why. However, after the battleship finally maneuvered to a certain place in this direction, the guard ship that was fighting with several enemy battleships on the other side had to temporarily withdraw from the battlefield because of serious damage.
It tried its best to accelerate in this direction and tried to get away, but it happened to encounter this battleship that inexplicably forced its way in!
At this moment, the battleship that inexplicably forced its way in just launched the most violent attack that its performance allowed, and just completed a fatal blow to the severely damaged guard ship, directly blowing it up!
Is all this a coincidence?
It must be a coincidence, right? Otherwise, could it be that the enemy commander had anticipated it early? This is impossible.
Besides, even if the enemy commander could predict it, how could his soldiers have such strong execution?
Although such an arrangement may indeed end one of its own guard ships, the enemy ship carrying out the mission will undoubtedly die and will definitely be destroyed. How strong and fearless a soldier must be to be so determined?
What's more, even if they were determined enough, the operating skills required were too precise and rigorous. Could ordinary intelligent life warriors really do it?
The soldiers of the guard team didn't believe it.
This must be a coincidence, it must be. It was just that they were lucky and happened to achieve this situation.
But another coincidence made the soldiers suspicious.
A guard ship was besieged and had to choose to evacuate temporarily. This evacuation affected the course of a guard ship next to it, forcing it to evacuate urgently.
However, when it evaded, it was suddenly bombarded by tens of thousands of electromagnetic cannon projectiles, and the entire guard ship was destroyed instantly.
However, the nearest enemy ship near its evacuation direction was also thousands of kilometers away.
Based on this distance, it takes at least 15 seconds for the enemy's electromagnetic cannon projectile to reach the target from firing. And 15 seconds is enough for the guard ship to pass through this area safely.
But it was destroyed by concentrated fire.
Tens of thousands of electromagnetic cannon projectiles were fired at the same time. Even if the defense of the enemy was strong, there would always be some fish that slipped through the net and hit the ship and destroyed it.
So what happened?
Is it a coincidence?
How can there be so many coincidences?
What if it is not a coincidence?
Then the enemy ship had predicted that the guard ship would arrive here in a dozen seconds, and launched a round of salvos in this direction a dozen seconds in advance. Then, when the electromagnetic cannon projectile cluster arrived, the guard ship of the enemy also arrived and hit the muzzle of the electromagnetic cannon projectile cluster?
Even the pressure suffered by the guard ship of the enemy that forced the guard ship to evade urgently was also arranged in advance?
The soldiers of the guard team did not believe that there was any commander who could do this. On Triton, in the underground command base, Wang Qing did not believe it either.
However, there were too many such situations, and they happened almost every moment on the battlefield. Once was a coincidence, twice was a coincidence, and three or four times could still be coincidences!
If it is not a coincidence, it can only prove that all this is deliberately created by the enemy!
Wang Qing's expression gradually became solemn.
Replaying the current battle situation, he suddenly realized that it seemed that... this "coincidence" had always existed from the beginning to the end. It had existed since the beginning of the battle.
It was just that at that time, the enemy ships were like possessed, insisting on rushing in a certain direction, resulting in large-scale casualties by our side, and this "coincidence" was covered up by the good battlefield situation.
At this moment, the enemy seemed to have completed a certain task and really started the attack. This "coincidence" was immediately exposed and noticed by our side.
So... what task did the enemy complete before?
Looking at the battlefield situation, Wang Qing quickly saw that the 8 Ita warships and 320 guard ships had been divided into two pieces.
In normal times, it is easy to see that our side has been divided, and it is also necessary to try to avoid it.
But at this moment, the battlefield situation, it is almost impossible to see that our side has been divided.
What is division?
Divide and annihilate is called division. But at this moment, it was obvious that our forces were destroying the enemy ships from two directions.
On the left, there are only 8 Ita warships, surrounded by at least 3,000 enemy warships. These 8 Ita warships are like big sharks entering a pond, swallowing small fish wantonly. In just one hour, more than 100 enemy warships were destroyed.
On the right, 320 guard ships - now only more than 280 are left, and they are also killing the enemy at a very high rate.
Can this be called division?
But from another perspective, the party is indeed divided.
Because no matter what, the two sides have reached a factual incompatibility. Although this situation is created by the extremely high rate of destruction of enemy ships.
Looking further, Wang Qing gradually understood.
The more than 3,000 enemy warships surrounding the 8 Ita warships are not attacking the Ita warships at this moment. It is clear that they are blocking these 8 warships at the cost of their own lives and preventing them from breaking through!
On the other side, more than 3,000 enemy warships, with almost incredible coordination, are slowly destroying their own manpower bit by bit, at any cost, like sandpaper rubbing wood!
The enemy's casualties are indeed huge, but for every ship destroyed, a backup ship joins, always maintaining the same level of combat effectiveness. But our own strength is slowly decreasing!
The enemy's plan is very obvious.
Do their best to separate the 8 Ita warships outside the battlefield, do their best to annihilate the guard ships, and after the guard ships are annihilated, do their best to besiege the Ita warships!
And...
Wang Qing also vaguely realized that the enemy fleet seemed to be very familiar with the overall defense arrangement of Neptune.
They seemed to be very familiar with the performance and layout of their own military satellites and automated combat systems, and were very familiar with the air defense field of the circum-Neptune air defense belt, and knew the distribution of the land-based air defense bases on Triton!
It can even carry out targeted strikes against the land-based air defense base of Triton!
However, these things are confidential, and only a very few people, including himself, know about them.
Could it be that there is a traitor among the top leaders of our side, who leaked the relevant information to the enemy?
But now does not seem to be the time to find out who the traitor is.
Wang Qing stood up suddenly.
"This can't go on! Mobilize support from other satellites immediately!"
At this moment, there are still two Itar warships and 80 guard ships stationed on the other satellites of Neptune or on the main navigation routes, and they have not joined the battle.
"Manager Wang, no!"
The commander of the Eta fleet immediately stood up to stop him: "Manager Wang, look, at this moment, the enemy's total strength is 14,000 warships, but only 7,000 have joined the battlefield!
The remaining half of the force did not join the battle! What are they doing? Obviously, they are guarding against external support!
In other words, the two Eta warships and eighty guard ships that we hid in other places and did not join the battlefield have tied up half of the enemy's strength, making them dare not act rashly.
If we put all our forces into it, the enemy will have no scruples, and the remaining half of the force will also be put into the battlefield, and our pressure will be even greater!
So, we can't mobilize support! Our remaining forces must continue to lie dormant!"
Wang Qing looked ugly. But after thinking carefully for a moment, he found that the commander of the squadron made sense.
This is indeed the case.
Then, the deadlock on the battlefield at this moment can only be broken by relying on the existing forces!
The development of the situation to this stage was not expected by Wang Qing and everyone else.
Who would have thought that the enemy fleet, which was so vulnerable in the previous harassment phase, could burst out with such combat power when it really entered the planetary attack and defense phase.
Who would have thought that these enemy warships had such incredible tacit understanding and coordination! Who would have thought that their cooperation was so exquisite, the combat quality of the soldiers was so high, and the spirit was so tenacious, it was not enough to describe them as fearless.
Wang Qing even doubted whether they didn't know what death was at all!
If they knew the horror of death, and had even a little awe of death in their hearts, how could they do three ships at the cost of death, and rescue the four ships next to them without hesitation? As a result, although the rescue was successful, the three ships were completely destroyed.
From the overall point of view, four warships are undoubtedly more valuable than three warships.
But, put yourself in their shoes, if you are the soldiers on the three warships, can you make such a decision? Even if you can, can the soldiers under your command?
They were too cold, and their minds seemed to be filled with cold numerical calculations - your value is greater than mine, so it is worth it for me to die in exchange for your life. Your value is not as good as mine, so you should die, and try your best to inflict casualties on the enemy before you die.
Is this really what human warriors can do?
Coupled with superb tactics, neat and consistent cooperation, and perfect coordination...
At this moment, even if the performance of the enemy warships is far inferior to their own, even if it is obviously their own side that is killing and wounding the enemy in large numbers, even if a large number of enemy warships are destroyed every moment, Wang Qing felt a deep chill in his heart.
The enemy's horror far exceeded his original expectations.
He gritted his teeth: "Let the 8 Ita warships stop killing and wounding the enemy, and reunite with the guard ship first!"
"Okay."
After the order was given, the eight Ita warships in space immediately took action.
Facing a target that could be easily killed, they stopped attacking and tried their best to maneuver forward.
But at this time, the enemy fleet also moved.
Thousands of warships rushed up fearlessly, blocking the eight Ita warships with their flesh and blood, or attacking in groups, or directly colliding, or luring the enemy without any defense. In short, you can kill me, but you can't pass through me!
In the basement of the Neptune headquarters of Fuxing Mall, the smile on Han Yang's face has never disappeared.
Your Ita warship is indeed powerful, and one can indeed kill more than 500 of my warships, or even more.
But, so what? Even if you kill me as easily as killing a pig, it will take some time and effort to kill a pig, right?
Isn't it just killing? I let you kill.
If you kill one of my warships, I will give you ten more warships for you to kill. If you kill 100 ships, I will give you 1,000 ships.
As long as you are willing to kill, you can get as many as you want.
Under Han Yang's direct control, countless warships came one after another to block the 8 Ita warships.
Every time a ship was destroyed, a backup ship would fly over to continue the interception mission.
At all times, the number of our warships blocking the 8 Ita warships always remained at 3,500, no more and no less.
This scene was a bit terrifying in Wang Qing's eyes.
"The Ita warships... can't rush over!"
At this moment, a sentence that was slightly inconsistent with his position appeared in Wang Qing's mind.
Use our flesh and blood, use our corpses, and build an insurmountable flesh and blood wall!
The Ita warships couldn't rush over, and on the other side, the guard ships were gradually showing signs of exhaustion under the siege of enemy ships whose number never decreased!
That's right, our side is indeed killing a large number of enemies, but we are also being consumed! As of this moment, there are only 205 guard ships left on our side, and 105 of them have been destroyed, almost one-third, but the number of enemy warships is still 3,500!
At this moment, the number of enemy reserve warships is only 5,000, that is, from the beginning of the battle to now, the enemy's warships destroyed by our side have reached 7,000.
The battle loss ratio is 7,000 to 105, which is a great victory in any aspect. But unfortunately, our side has fallen into a huge crisis.
In particular, the number of reserve warships is 5,000, which makes the remaining forces of our side still dare not move lightly!
Then, we will inevitably face such a situation: our existing spacecraft will be consumed at a faster rate.
320 guard ships facing 3,500 enemy warships, and 205 guard ships facing 3,500 enemy warships at this moment, can the pressure be the same?
The fewer the number of our guard ships, the faster they will decrease!
There was already some restlessness in the combat command room.
The sound of talking and laughing had long disappeared. At this moment, every official's face was full of solemnity.
The task that Governor Malentine gave to his side was to defend Neptune for 7 days. And the original combat goal of his side was to achieve a beautiful victory.
But at this moment, the battle had not even started for a day, and his side was about to give up!
Wang Qing had an urge to curse at this moment.
Why!
Why am I always so unlucky!
My enemies, my opponents, why do they always play cards out of the ordinary!
When on Mercury, who would have thought that Rotrit's whereabouts would be leaked, the rebels would be so desperate, and even the personal guards could be turned against, which eventually led to Rotrit's assassination?
When in the asteroid belt, who would have thought that the secret of Ceres's empty defense would be leaked, and the rebels' combat power would suddenly increase, which eventually led to the fall of Ceres?
Why did I come to Neptune and still encounter such a thing?
Who would have thought that the enemy fleet would be so strong, and have such a level of coordination and tacit understanding? And they are so fearless? They seem to know so much about Neptune's overall defense system?
Who the hell could have thought of this! Why do I always encounter such things!