Chapter 204 The Final Struggle
The Yunhuan Federation fleet, which was hit by the Xuefeng from all directions, was actually cornered at this time.
The reason is simple, they are running out of supplies.
According to the supply plan, Shi Xiangrong should order the four fleets to take turns to retreat to the rear today to receive supplies.
It's fine now, the supplies have arrived, but it's a pity that I have become the captain of the transportation team.
The logistics fleet was taken over by Qi Yiming, and not even a single remnant of the energy block was left to them.
Shi Xiangrong could only force the fleet to attack despite huge losses.
Moreover, he did not think that he would definitely be the loser. After all, Qi Yiming had too few warships in his hands.
The battle became intense from the beginning. After learning that his escape route was cut off and his logistics fleet was wiped out, all of Shi Xiangrong's men felt like they were on fire, wishing that they could kill the enemy in front of them with just one attack. Get rid of them all.
But Qi Yiming was much more determined than Shi Xiangrong imagined. Even if his fleet suffered heavy losses in the previous attack, he had no intention of backing down.
The two warring parties are now competing not only for their will to fight, but also for their speed.
Shi Xiangrong chose to focus the attack. He knew well the importance of the Xuefeng to the New Federation Fleet. He also knew that even if the other warships were sunk by his own side, as long as the Xuefeng was still active on the battlefield, the battle would be far away. There is no end.
The opposite is not true. If the Xuefeng can be sunk quickly, then the remaining warships will not pose the slightest threat to them.
Qi Yiming also felt the pressure from the enemy at this time.
The Xuefeng's energy armor was peeled off the hull bit by bit under the enemy's indiscriminate bombardment.
The nanorobot production line inside the Guardian simply did not have enough time to produce enough nanorobots to repair the Xuefeng's lost outer armor.
Fortunately, when the War Spear was originally designed, it was considered that it would become the focus of the enemy's attention on the battlefield, so the outer armor of the War Spear was very thick.
The name of the heavily armored battleship was much louder than the name of the War Spear in the pre-human Federation era.
After several rounds of attacks, Shi Xiangrong felt doubtful about his life when he saw the Xuefeng still standing in the center of the battlefield.
More than 13,000 warships focused on Xuefeng, but Xuefeng was not sunk.
I know very well that the integrity of Xuefeng's outer armor has reached an extremely dangerous level under the powerful firepower attack of the enemy.
Some parts of the ship's hull have even been penetrated, and the internal structural layers have suffered some damage.
The crew of the Xuefeng were a little panicked at this time. The integrity of the outer armor had dropped to 13%. As long as the enemy fleet launched another round of attacks, the Xuefeng would fall apart.
So everyone looked at Qi Yiming with anxious and slightly frightened eyes.
Qi Yiming was much calmer. Although he did not lean on the captain's chair to direct the battle, he still turned a blind eye to the fact that the outer armor was about to be cleared.
Just when everyone thought Qi Yiming had given up completely and was about to let the Xuefeng fend for itself, Qi Yiming suddenly ordered the Xuefeng to activate the field maintenance system.
I saw that the mesh structure exposed after the Xuefeng's outer armor was peeled off suddenly sprayed a black viscous substance outwards quickly.
As the black substance was sprayed, countless red laser beams were shot from the mesh structure.
After these laser beams hit the black material, the originally sticky black material instantly solidified and adhered to the penetrated outer armor.
And this process only takes two or three seconds.
What's even more terrifying is that the mesh structure within the Xuefeng battleship's hull is attached between the outer armor and the inner structural armor.
In other words, the Battle Spear's ship body is divided into three layers. The outermost layer is the outer armor layer, the middle layer is the so-called combat maintenance system layer, and the inner layer is the structural layer.
Qi Yiming is not a scientist and does not know what this black substance is, but it does not prevent him from figuring out the function of these black substances.
As you can see with your own eyes, these black substances will harden instantly when burned by laser.
Its hardened strength is comparable to the strength of Xuefeng's outer energy armor.
It's a pity that this black substance is extremely difficult to produce. It is said that the Human Federation's full-scale production for one year was only enough for the War Spear to activate the field maintenance system three times.
Otherwise, this black substance has long since replaced the repair function of nanorobots and been equipped on a large scale on various types of warships of the former Human Federation.
After the field maintenance system came online, the integrity of Xuefeng's outer armor was restored to 94% within thirty seconds.
These protective shells temporarily attached to the outer armor can withstand two salvos of damage from all the warships of the Cloud Ring Federation, and will then fall off the Xuefeng's hull.
Xuefeng can use the time of these two rounds of shooting to speed up its own repairs.
So the nanorobots produced by the Guardian, protected by this temporary armor layer, selflessly repaired Xuefeng's outer armor.
Shi Xiangrong was stunned when he saw the strange armor layer that suddenly appeared on the outer layer of the Xuefeng.
It's okay if the Xuefeng can repair itself, but what is this wrapping layer that suddenly appears on the outside of the ship?
It wasn't until this temporary armor layer was shattered or voluntarily fell off that the Xuefeng, with its outer armor intact, appeared on the battlefield again.
Of course, the New Federation's fleet couldn't just watch the Xuefeng being beaten, they were also attacking.
It’s just that the New Federation Fleet’s counterattack efficiency is much higher than that of the Yunhuan Federation.
Although there are only more than 100 warships, they sank and damaged nearly 3,000 warships of various types of the Yunhuan Federation in less than three rounds of attacks based on the battlefield information and attack suggestions provided by the Wise.
Such a huge loss made Shi Xiangrong very distressed. If he could sink the Xuefeng, Shi Xiangrong could still accept such a loss, but the problem is that not only was the Xuefeng not sunk, but even the integrity of its outer armor did not decrease much.
Then Shi Xiangrong fell into a strange dead loop.
Every time he tried his best to reduce the integrity of the Xuefeng’s outer armor to less than 20%, a temporary protective layer with very good defensive strength would suddenly appear on the outer layer of the Xuefeng.
Then after a few more rounds of attacks, the Xuefeng appeared perfectly on the battlefield again after the protective layer fell off.
The number of the Yunhuan Federation’s fleet decreased rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
First, there were more than 9,000 ships, then 8,000, 7,000, 6,000, and finally more than 1,000 ships.
The battlefield maintenance system of the Xuefeng had just used up all the black viscous substance it carried.
At this time, the fleet of the Yunhuan Federation only had more than 700 warships left, and all of them were injured.
In fact, Qi Yiming had already prepared for retreat when there were only 7,000 warships left in the Yunhuan Federation, because his goal had been achieved.
A decisive battle directly killed nearly half of the enemy's warships. If this result was not considered a heavy blow to the Yunhuan Federation, Qi Yiming didn't know what kind of record would be considered a heavy blow.
But he didn't expect that the enemy commander would be so stubborn that he would press the Xuefeng to the ground even if the fleet was destroyed.