The battle started quickly.

The start was still the same, with the two sides firing laser cannons at each other within a few light seconds, betting on a probability.

However, since Earth's civilization operates locally and has an advantage in supplies, it has been launching space missiles from the beginning.

The space high-speed train connecting the ground and the space port is flowing continuously, transporting thick space missiles to the space port for launch.

Compared to a laser that travels at the speed of light, the speed of a missile is much slower. Even if the opponent is flying towards us now, it will take a long time for the missile to fly next to the opponent's spacecraft.

However, civilization on earth does not expect these missiles to hit the target. They mainly play a role in limiting the opponent's maneuvers and indirectly increase the hits of their own laser cannons, if the missiles are not intercepted.

Unlike Zhao Chui's previous guerrilla attacks, these space missiles are all genuine.

After all, their fleets have arrived at their doorstep, and they still insist on saving money, which is just a suicide.

Every opportunity to break through the opponent's interception fire network is precious, and such precious opportunities cannot be wasted on fake warheads.

"Don't worry about the opponent's warships. Get rid of those fixed turrets first!"

The space turret is equipped with high-power laser cannons. Their charging time is shorter and they fire more frequently.

After several rounds of shelling, the Salarians decisively changed their strategy and decided to kill these more threatening stationary targets first.

However, the armed space station designed by Daming Heavy Industries is not so easy to destroy.

Yes, although they will not engage in tactical evasion or dodge laser cannons, precisely because they do not need to consider mobility, their armor is particularly thick and they were designed to withstand more damage.

Daming Heavy Industry has specially developed an alloy armor plate that has extremely high laser reflectivity, which can greatly weaken the power of laser cannons and can also withstand direct bombardment from small-mass kinetic energy weapons.

This kind of armor plate tightly wraps the entire space turret, and the laser cannon on it will retract behind the armor plate when not firing, and will only reveal its head when it is fully charged and ready to fire.

"What's going on? Didn't I ask you to attack the fort first?"

A few minutes later, when he saw that the opponent's fort was safe and sound, Hanal cursed angrily.

"Reporting to His Highness the Prince, we have hit the opponent's fort, but...it seems the effect is not obvious."

Because the space turret cannot maneuver, when attacking in space, the Salarians did not arrange a fleet salvo, but only arranged a small number of warships to fire freely.

In their opinion, this kind of childish thing is not a one-shot thing?

However, after one shot was fired, the armor plate not only did not explode, it did not even melt. The area where it was hit was just slightly red...

"Hey, I still don't believe it. Is this thing so beaten? Give me concentrated fire and bombard it!"

Hanal watched the battle video carefully, changed his strategy decisively, and mobilized all the laser cannons in the entire fleet.

This time the reflective armor couldn't stand it anymore. In the silent explosion, the laser cannons on the space turret misfired one after another.

But the Salarian fleet also paid a price for this.

Taking advantage of the opponent's lack of time to take care of it, the Earth's civilization fleet used fleet salvo skills to destroy several Salarian warships in succession.

The strategy of the Earth's civilization fleet is to give priority to destroying the opponent's small battleships, because large battleships such as battleships and cruisers are thick-skinned and cannot break through their defenses even if they take several shots.

Moreover, their shields recharge very quickly. If continuous hits cannot be guaranteed, the shield health bar may not be replenished as quickly as others.

Small battleships are different. The shields are thin and replenish slowly. Sometimes, when a salvo fires, only two or three shots can hit it and it will explode. Even if it fails, it can be disabled and it will temporarily lose its combat effectiveness.

Twenty minutes later, all the dozens of space turrets of the Earth's civilization were killed, and the salarian fleet's artillery fire began to target the warships of the United Earth Fleet.

The sacrifice of these unmanned remote-controlled turrets is not without value. In exchange, 15 small Salarian warships withdraw from the battle, which offsets some of the opponent's advantages to a certain extent.

However, overall, the gap between the two sides has become wider, and the probability of victory for earth civilization is still very slim.

"Haha, your junk turret is gone. Next, it's your junk spaceship's turn. Speed ​​up and rush forward, close the distance and fight!" Hanal ordered excitedly.

Your own main battleship has thick skin, and the opponent's battleship has a high evasion rate.

In this case, as long as the combat distance is brought close enough, the opponent's dodge rate will plummet, and the final result can be imagined.

Civilizations on earth are not stupid either. How can we not understand this truth?

"Zhao Chui, Yongsheng, the other party wants to close the distance, let's separate and try to maintain the best fighting distance."

The Earth United Fleet Command decisively gave a new course.

"The Zhao Chui fleet understands and will turn around immediately."

"Hou Yongsheng understands and turns to the center."

The three squadrons turned around and retreated in a fan-shaped pattern, giving no opportunity for the Salarian fleet to approach.

"What are they doing? Do they want to escape and not even leave their home planet?"

Hanal was stunned, then thought of something, and quickly ordered: "Cease fire immediately, mobilize energy to the engine, and pursue the fleet in the middle at full speed!"

These cunning earthlings must have seen that they can't defeat us and want to run away with the fire system!

Not long after chasing, the Salarian fleet ushered in the first wave of space missile attacks.

Although these missiles may not look big in size, they are still military-grade weapons, so it is impossible to leave them alone.

So the Salarians had to slow down, draw some energy from the engine, and let the short-range defense system kill these incoming missiles.

"Fire control radar on!"

"123 targets captured! Counting and counting."

"All incoming targets have been locked!"

"Close-in defense artillery fire!"

Unlike the close-range defense cannons installed on warships by the Earthlings, the Salarians' close-range defense cannons are not live ammunition weapons similar to Gatling cannons, but a miniaturized energy weapon, and some small lasers.

Cannons can also be used to intercept enemy missiles.

The advantage of not using live ammunition weapons is that the pressure in the cargo bay is reduced, and there is no need to bring a lot of spare ammunition. The disadvantage is that it requires a certain amount of energy, which will more or less affect other modules of the spacecraft, such as the engine.

The reduction in engine function does not mean that the spacecraft will slow down, because there is no resistance in space. Even if the engine is turned off now, the spacecraft will continue to fly forward due to inertia.

With the close-in defense artillery firing in full force, white flowers suddenly lit up in front of the fleet. They were space missiles launched by the earth's civilization. The shells were heated by energy weapons and detonated the internal charges. There was no chance of getting even half a step closer to the fleet.

"Report, the distance between us and the target fleet is increasing."

The report from his subordinates made Hanal feel uncomfortable. If he had eyebrows like the people on Earth, they would probably have been wrinkled into two knots.

"Why are they so fast?"

"According to our speculation, the opponent's warship may be equipped with a warp engine, which is a technology that only exists in ancient legends."

Yes, it is said that the fire system in the hands of the earth's civilization is indeed the legacy of a certain prehistoric advanced civilization, and it contains some black technologies that even the Salarians have not mastered. It is not surprising.

No, we can't delay any longer. We must catch up as soon as possible. Even if we can't catch up by conventional means, we must break away from the star's gravitational field as soon as possible and start a hyperspace jump.

As long as you can successfully jump in front of the opponent's fleet, doesn't that mean you can kill them instantly?

Hanal looked at the two space stations above the earth and above the celestial sphere. All the space turrets around them had been killed. Unexpectedly, the main body was still firing space missiles continuously.

This is obviously to cover their fleet's escape, leaving two unmanned space stations here to stall for time.
Chapter completed!