Chapter 134: Fury in the Star Sea
The battlefield situation was already chaotic enough. The total number of various unmanned combat weapons involved in the slaughter probably exceeded 100 million.
Looking up at the sky from a satellite of Neptune, one could see a magnificent fireworks display taking place in the tranquil and deep space.
Endless firelight appeared and disappeared, disappeared and appeared, seemingly without end.
Amidst such chaos, the newly joined nearly 200,000 manned battleships made the battlefield situation even more chaotic and brutal.
Almost instantly, over a thousand manned battleships were destroyed, and more than 20,000 people from both sides were instantly obliterated, buried in the star sea.
However, among the more than one thousand manned battleships destroyed, over 80% belonged to Tom!
In an instant, over 800 battleships were destroyed!
Tom’s heart grew heavier.
The enemy’s powerful combat strength, especially that of their manned battleships, was fully revealed at this moment.
Their maneuverability was stronger, even capable of hundreds of meters per second squared of maneuver, their electromagnetic cannon projectiles had greater mass and higher speed, and their laser cannons had higher power. Especially their electromagnetic cannon, its firing speed could even reach over 60 kilometers per second!
If small battleships were like this, there was no need to mention the large battleships.
They were like tanks charging onto an ancient battlefield, rampaging almost unopposed!
Wherever they flew, large swathes of unmanned spacecraft, armed turrets, armed satellites, and manned battleships were destroyed!
Tom genuinely felt the powerful oppressive force brought by more advanced technology.
But... the weapons and equipment I’ve developed with all my might and painstaking effort over so many years are not to be trifled with!
Under the control of the tactical version of Goku AI within each battleship, the high-speed radar scanning power was boosted to maximum, scanning with all its might for any threats from space, and then, in response to any threat, thousands upon thousands of interceptor projectiles were unleashed.
The offensive electromagnetic cannon barrels constantly rotated, aiming at every location where enemy traces were found, launching full-scale attacks in cooperation with the vast unmanned combat system.
Your interception system is stronger? Ten million projectiles can’t break through your defense?
Then let it be a hundred million, a billion!
Your armor has higher anti-laser cannon performance? Then let it be a hundred, a thousand laser beams!
More than a hundred thousand Mercury-class battleships were fighting desperately.
Unlike the Mercury-class battleship, which could only barely tie down most of the opponent’s small battleships and required concentrated effort to annihilate one of them, the Venus-class battleship exhibited greater lethality on this battlefield.
Because the Venus-class battleship was larger, had stronger survivability, and was equipped with more powerful electromagnetic cannons and laser cannons!
In addition, they also had a weapon specially developed by Tom, which the Mercury-class battleship did not possess.
The electromagnetic accelerator cannon!
With the surging power supplied by the nuclear fission reactor, the thick electromagnetic accelerator barrel, with unimaginable ultra-high power, accelerated 10 kg projectiles to speeds exceeding 20 kilometers per second.
At the same time, this speed would be superimposed with the ship’s own speed. Sometimes the ship’s own speed had already reached 10 kilometers per second, so the speed of these projectiles was no longer the original 20 kilometers per second, but 30 kilometers per second!
Moreover, after leaving the barrel, they still had a portion of self-propelled acceleration!
Their higher speed meant stronger penetration capability. Thus, out of a hundred projectiles, there would always be one or two that broke through the enemy battleship’s defense, reached its vicinity, and then exploded with a bang.
Ten kilograms of all-nitrogen anion salt immediately released over 400 million joules of energy, instantly shattering any armor, regardless of the advanced technology used in its manufacture.
It didn’t matter if they were intercepted before hitting the target. Because of their extremely high speed, the material composing them possessed extremely high kinetic energy. Relying solely on impact, they could still break through the opponent’s armor!
Besides the electromagnetic accelerator cannon, there were also nuclear missiles.
Unlike the nuclear missiles previously deployed in space, these ship-borne nuclear missiles could also utilize the ship’s speed to gain some initial velocity.
Once nuclear fission was activated, their speed would surge to over a hundred kilometers per second, resulting in stronger penetration capability and greater lethality.
Because their engines were themselves small atomic bombs!
Above the Venus-class battleship, the combat power of the Earth-class battleship was even stronger.
Tom had prepared a total of 50 Earth-class battleships at Neptune, and all of them were now deployed onto the battlefield at once.
The colossal ships, with a total mass of up to 15,000 tons, could only move slowly in space. But whether it was electromagnetic cannons, laser cannons, electromagnetic accelerator cannons, or nuclear missiles, or even interception performance, everything was a notch above the other friendly battleships.
At full power, on average, it could unleash hundreds of thousands of electromagnetic cannon projectiles and hundreds of laser beams per second!
The electromagnetic cannon projectiles used for defense could even reach tens of millions!
At this moment, facing the enemy’s fierce assault, the Earth-class battleship "Greedy Wolf" was deployed to a section of the front line that was on the verge of collapse, and the situation there immediately stabilized.
Under the support of its long-range artillery, the enemy fleet, composed of dozens of small battleships, was immediately scattered and forced to flee for their lives.
"The role of the Earth-class battleship on the battlefield is indeed irreplaceable."
No sooner had this thought flashed through Tom’s mind than the "Greedy Wolf" Earth-class battleship was suddenly struck by a projectile that had broken through their defenses.
The next moment, a powerful explosive, with at least 20 kg of charge, of some unknown material but with greater destructive power than all-nitrogen anion salt, violently detonated. Instantly, the "Greedy Wolf"’s armor was breached, creating a massive hole over ten meters wide.
Large amounts of gas and debris flew out from within.
Affected by this, more projectiles flew over. Before long, the "Greedy Wolf" battleship exploded with a roar, turning into wreckage.
A precious Earth-class battleship was thus buried on the battlefield.
But... it doesn’t matter!
Again!
I still have 49 Earth-class battleships! And more Earth-class battleships are rushing toward Neptune!
The situation on the battlefield had become extremely chaotic and brutal.
Manned battleships, unmanned battleships, various minesweepers, minelayers, communication satellites, reconnaissance satellites, armed satellites, turrets, and so on, had turned the area around Neptune into a chaotic mess.
But these were not all the participants on the battlefield.
On the many satellites of Neptune, vast swathes of ground-based air defense bases were also pouring fierce artillery fire into space.
From the overall situation, given the enemy’s formidable strength, even though Tom had gone all out, he was still at a disadvantage.
But it didn’t matter; the battlefield situation had largely stabilized and was slowly tilting in Tom’s favor.