877 The First Battle Behind the Enemy (2)
The most exaggerated people of the Nether God and the Intelligent God even threw out the metal blocks on the surface of the warship as armor layers.
Although the armor blocks projected through the force field on the ship are very slow, each armor block is as big as four cubic meters and weighs thirty tons, which is much heavier than the shells fired by the gravity cannon!
Due to the limitation of caliber and force field strength, the maximum weight of the shells fired by gravity cannons shall not exceed ten tons per ship, otherwise the airflow speed will be affected because the mass of the shells is too high.
Of course, it is not impossible to fire more than ten tons, but the fleet's current mission is to carry out high-density firepower delivery. Using large-mass shells will inevitably affect the firepower delivery density.
Moreover, the volume of ten tons of metal blocks is more than one cubic meter. Such pure metal blocks fall directly into the planet from the air, causing damage to the ground is comparable to that of an asteroid. They are too powerful. This is no longer a blow to the enemy, but a destruction of the planets. Therefore, the practice of these two warships was immediately stopped by Ye Fei.
He also needs the Atlantis on this planet as bait, how can he make them die so happily?
In addition, when physical shells enter the atmosphere, their appearance will affect the direction of falling, so the shells used by gravity cannons are all made into water droplets with a streamlined appearance.
The armored blocks are square, and the hit accuracy is much lower than that of the gravity cannon. Fortunately, the greater quality makes up for the lack of accuracy. I believe that as long as the deviation during falling is not particularly strong, the target will not leave the power range of the explosion - the power of this thing when falling to the ground is higher than that of a large-equivalent nuclear bomb.
The artillery shells of the forward fleet were soon discovered by the Atlantis, and the defensive cannons in high-altitude orbits in the planet immediately began to change their orbits. They quickly concentrated in the direction where the forward fleet was located.
The large-mass shells fly too slowly, giving the Atlantis enough time to strain. Although the density of the shells is extremely high, it is hard to say whether they can break through the defensive layer.
While the gravity cannon was firing, the suspended shields of the thirteen warships were gradually unfolding. When the shells flew to a distance of only one light second from the defense cannon, the defense cannons shot dense decomposition beams, and the first wave of shells disappeared in a very short time.
At this time, the fleet's floating shield also completed its shooting preparations. It aimed at the Atlantis rail gun and beat it up.
The task of the orbital gun is to defend against asteroids, not to fight against fleets. Both range and power are much worse than the battleship version of the decomposition beam cannon. In the confrontation between the two sides, one by one was destroyed by laser cannons.
This is the first time that the main gun and gravity gun have been engaged in cooperation since the war god-class warships were formed.
The number of orbital guns dropped rapidly, and the number of losses of gravity shells also decreased. Although the Atlantis continued to mobilize orbital guns from other directions of the planet to supplement the losses, it left a period of gap during the mobilization process. Hundreds of shells took the opportunity to pass through the defense layer and were about to enter the planet's atmosphere.
The orbital gun on the front had no time to turn the gun at all. Even if it was barely turned, it would throw a weapon because the gun was aimed at the planet. Fortunately, the orbital guns on both sides of the planet opened fire in time, decomposed the beam through the top of the atmosphere, and successfully intercepted the shells before they fell into the atmosphere.
But the price of this was that the frontal intercepting firepower was reduced by one third, and the Atlantis' defense line retreated thousands of kilometers in the direction of the planet.
Moreover, with the continuous damage of the rail gun, the Atlantis' defense line continued to retreat.
The forward fleet took the initiative in the battlefield in full, and it seemed that it would not take long to completely break the Atlantis' defensive layer, but Ye Fei did not relax his vigilance because of his own advantages - there would be no only six Lotus battleships, right?
Seeing that the Atlantis' defense line was only more than 10,000 kilometers away from the orbital gun, twelve lotus warships finally flew out from behind the planet.
Ye Fei finally breathed a sigh of relief: "It's finally done, all ships are ready to power the impact ship. Note that the impact ship cannot leave the ecliptic plane!"
The safe space in the galaxy is much larger than in the channel, but Ye Fei is not sure where the boundary between the safe area and the dangerous area outside the ecliptic plane is.
On the verge of caution, the range of activities must be maintained within the ecliptic plane to ensure the safety of the power impact ship itself.
As soon as the Lotus Battleship that had been called out for a long time appeared, it cooperated with the rail gun to launch a beautiful counterattack. The dense and powerful decomposed beam successfully forced the defense line back.
With Ye Fei's order, the twelve power impact ships that locked the target started the magnetic engine, while the other fourteen power impact ships that failed to grab the target could only stay behind the fleet and watch.
The most obvious space fluctuations instantly penetrated the void near the planet. The twelve lotus warships returned to silence after a brief glory. The impact ships that destroyed the lotus warships also shuttled back and forth from the most densely popped orbital guns several times when they returned, destroying a large number of orbital guns.
The small number of rail guns left by the Atlantis could no longer maintain the defense layer. After several more volleys of the forward fleet, all the few rail guns were destroyed.
There was no obstacle in front of the shell group. The shell group finally drilled into the planet's atmosphere, and a bright red hot meteor gradually fell into the depths of the atmosphere.
Ye Fei immediately ordered the end of the shooting of the gravity cannon.
Although the gunners were very satisfied just now, the gravity cannon fired physical shells, and the space on the warships was limited and they didn't carry many shells. Just just a little while, each ship knocked out about one-third of the shell stock.
Although gravity cannons do not pick shells and can be fired from the barrels no matter what they are, the best source of shells in the universe is just iron asteroids, with texture much worse than pure metal balls or metal piers. When attacking a planet, the mass and volume of the shells must be increased to achieve the ideal effect.
In other words, if the DIY version of asteroid shells is used, the number of warships' reserves will be reduced by at least one third under the same conditions. If the shells have poor texture, they will even be reduced by half!
Even if you do not return to the blue light star, you need to reach a certain human colonial star to have the opportunity to replenish the shells, and the remaining assets must be saved.
However, even the shells that have been fired are enough to turn half of the planet into scorched earth.
The first shell finally landed on the ground, and the mushroom clouds soared into the sky covered the sky and turned out to be an armored piece!
Then countless large mushrooms bloomed everywhere.
"Okay!" Ye Fei said, "Prepare to retreat..."
Chapter completed!