Chapter 1066: Concentrated Fire
Chapter 1066: Concentrated Fire
The Skrull and Blue Star forces exchanged fire, enveloping the battlefield in a thick haze of smoke. Of course, this wasn't the ordinary smoke from past Blue Star wars.
The battlefield was flooded with high-energy weapons, such as antimatter railguns and laser cannons, each packing a tremendous punch. The Blue Star forces even launched dozens of nuclear missiles into the fray! The entire area around the Fuji Spring was only about 1,200 square kilometers.
With so many high-energy weapons being used in such a small area, the sky was choked with dark, dusty debris, and the entire space was violently shaking.
To address the severe spatial tremors, both the Blue Star and Skrull sides dispatched over 20 Seventh-Stage cultivators to actively clear the area. They barely managed to suppress the spatial disturbances, preventing them from causing significant harm to their own forces.
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Not long into the battle, the Blue Star forces realized they were struggling to gain any significant advantage.
Based on Su Yu's observations, their defensive weapons were striking too many targets, making it difficult to inflict effective damage on the Skrull fleet.
The Skrull ships were already highly resilient individually, and with the activation of "Combined Defense," their overall defense became nearly impenetrable.
The Blue Star forces' counterattacks were too focused on covering a wide area, leading to a fierce but ultimately insufficient fire to destroy the Skrull warships. As a result, the Skrull Fleet managed to withstand the attacks without suffering significant casualties.
After two rounds of attacks, the Skrull Fleet had only lost three ships. These losses were due to delayed reactions and the failure to form a combined defense with nearby ships in time.
Seeing this, Su Yu immediately knew he needed to change his strategy.
He immediately extended his mental power, spreading it across all the soldiers on the first line of defense, and used his mental power to communicate with them:
"From now on, we will implement the concentrated fire strategy. Each basic unit will no longer randomly target, but will focus on specific Skrull warships as I direct."
Su Yu then used his mental power to communicate with the various ranks of soldiers, issuing commands to focus their attacks on his designated targets.
During this process, Tina and Ai Jie also provided support.
Tina was a military genius, once becoming the "Grand marshal of the Golden Peony Empire" in the game, renowned for her exceptional "battle chess" tactics, which no one could match.
However, in this unfamiliar real-world environment, Tina's command abilities were significantly diminished because she was not well-versed in the operational mechanisms of real-world troops, especially the high-energy weapons of the Skrull.
Despite this, it didn't hinder her from assisting Su Yu's command.
Tina's greatest strength in military command was her ability to divide her mental power into several hundred strands, each strand independently commanding a segment of the troops. This allowed for greater flexibility in troop movements, a technique known as "micro-control."
Su Yu's "battle chess" tactics were learned from Tina. Therefore, Su Yu could also divide his mental power into several hundred strands to micro-control the troops.
Thus, Su Yu and Tina each divided their mental power into several hundred strands, directing each strand to command one or a few soldiers.
Ai Jie was also skilled in "battle chess" and could divide her mental power into several hundred strands. She joined in as well, though her mental power coverage was slightly less extensive than Su Yu's.
With the combined efforts of the three, the entire Blue Star battlefield immediately sprang to life!
The soldiers all focused their attacks on the designated targets, with various types of defensive weapons concentrating their fire on the Skrull warships closest to the Dragon Abyss Tetragram.
Soon, the Blue Star forces began to see significant results, with the number of Skrull warships lost starting to rise sharply!
In the first two rounds of counterattacks, the Blue Star forces only managed to down two warships. However, in the third round, with the concentrated fire, 23 warships were destroyed, unable to withstand the overwhelming assault.
This impressive achievement in a single round immediately boosted the morale of the Blue Star forces. They quickly replicated the strategy, continuing the concentrated fire under the leadership of Su Yu, Tina, and Alyssa's mental powers.
By the end of the fourth round of counterattacks, the Blue Star forces successfully destroyed over 20 more warships.
However, by the end of the fourth round, Su Yu began to show signs of fatigue. Splitting his mental power into several hundred parts to control so many units was indeed draining.
Mental power is a resource that can only be naturally replenished and cannot be restored with potions. Their mental power was extremely valuable, as they needed to conserve it for the upcoming battles.
After the fourth round, Su Yu and Tina Alyssa had a brief discussion and decided to hand over this task to the AI Blue Whale. The AI Blue Whale had a vast network of electronic terminals and could relay information to every soldier through its AI network. It also possessed powerful computational capabilities, allowing it to calculate the movement trajectories of Skrull spaceships and guide the concentrated fire.
Although the AI Blue Whale was still in its early stages, especially in terms of war command, and lacked the experience and comprehensive perspective that Su Yu had, it had the advantage of not consuming mental power. Therefore, Su Yu transferred the entire task to it.
The AI Blue Whale, of course, did not hesitate to follow Su Yu's instructions. As soon as Su Yu proposed it, the AI Blue Whale diligently took on the task and began to command the units.
The AI Blue Whale's commands, transmitted through the AI network, quickly reached every soldier's electronic terminal. However, due to the varying reaction speeds and information processing times of the soldiers, and the AI Blue Whale's inexperience, the timing of the soldiers pressing the counterattack buttons was inconsistent during the sixth round of counterattacks.
With such inconsistency, the counterattack naturally did not achieve the best results. The sixth round of counterattacks only managed to down 15 enemy warships.
However, Su Yu was not concerned. Fifteen warships were still fifteen! He simply encouraged the AI Blue Whale to optimize its algorithms to improve performance in the next round.
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Faced with the sudden increase in losses, the Skrull fleet gradually retreated and adopted a defensive stance. After several rounds of probing attacks, they realized that it was extremely difficult to break through Blue Star's first line of defense with just the fleet's attacks.
To break through this line of defense, they would need to use even more powerful measures! Manina saw this most clearly.
After the fourth round of counterattacks from Blue Star, Manina immediately asked the AI Syble, "Syble, given the fleet's attack strength, is there any possibility of breaking through this line of defense?"
"No," AI Syble replied. "The array set up by the Blue Star people is extremely powerful, and almost all of their high-level experts are stationed within it. With the current attack strength of the fleet, even if we continued attacking for a month, we would not be able to break through this line of defense. By then, the fleet would have been completely decimated."
(End of Chapter)
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