Chapter 188: Fatal Flaw
“At 2500 meters distance, launch one close-range destructive bomb, auto-detonate after three seconds.”
Wang Wei’s Young Dragon B instantly rushed to right in front of the opponent’s fleet, then his spaceship’s front ejected a slightly larger missile.
The missile was extremely fast after leaving the ship, reaching 20 meters from the forward Young Dragon A fleet in three seconds.
There is no sound in space, but the massive explosion fireball that followed represented that in an instant, the destruction caused by that bomb was enormous.
Wang Wei, piloting the Young Dragon B, had a slight arc at the corner of his mouth; the pent-up frustration finally dissipated a bit at this moment.
“Destruction report generated.”
Wang Wei had no time to look at this so-called report; merely thousands of meters distance, after the explosion, his mount had already brushed past the opponent’s fleet.
Behind him, the remaining Qingluan Brigade team members followed suit.
Clearly, they had trained this tactic many times; at this moment, they all detonated destructive bombs at ultra-close range like suicide attacks, then, just like Captain Wang Wei, manually operated their spaceships to brush past the opponent’s fleet.
Soon, after the Qingluan Brigade completed the maneuver and turned around, they regrouped around Wang Wei’s warship.
At this moment, looking toward the forward space area again.
There, a scene of devastation.
When communication was restored in this space area, the Qingluan Brigade finally formed up properly for the first time since engaging the enemy.
“Follow my orders, fight in team formations, obey each team captain’s commands for grouped combat. Team 1, follow me to handle the forward area.”
With Captain Wang Wei’s order, the Qingluan Brigade, as if holding back a surge of energy, split from their clustered formation into four groups of 5-ship teams, rushing toward 4 directions respectively.
Meanwhile, the Young Dragon A formation, scattered by the destructive bombs, finally reacted and began emergency countermeasures.
In the Blue Star Hub command room, upon seeing this scene, Fan Ren’s long-suspended heart finally settled.
The battle outcome was no longer in doubt.
Destructive bombs, at essentially close range, had no effect on Young Dragon B, but for traditional spaceships built with tri-titanium alloy, the damage was particularly severe.
In comparison, the remaining battle was no longer fair.
However, this exercise was mainly to test spaceship performance and expose any potential issues with the new-type spaceship.
Captain Wang Wei’s stunning operation in the first engagement was already very impressive.
If the sides swapped warships, Young Dragon B might suffer some losses, but the old-model Young Dragon A would still be completely wiped out.
This was the inherent power of silver-like super metal; its excessively high hardness made it completely ignore the damage from such bombs in conventional close-range combat.
And destructive bombs were large-area self-detonating attack methods, useless against Young Dragon B.
Unless, like in the first wave, directly using mid-to-long-range guided bombs to attack Young Dragon B—those, not considering Young Dragon A’s fragile defense at close range, had warheads loaded with nuclear bombs, which could effectively damage Young Dragon B.
But the problem was, Young Dragon B’s high-speed performance allowed it to shake off these missiles at mid-to-long range.
In summary, aside from the first wave where the shockwave from dense bombs forced the Qingluan Brigade to slow down, allowing mid-to-long-range missiles to hit them, once both sides opened formation for frontal combat, it became a one-sided slaughter.
“Destruction report generated, battle damage ratio 0:200, Young Dragon A completely wiped out.
Qingluan Brigade had no other losses besides minor electronic components damaged by electromagnetic wave bombs and some team members suffering organ damage from high gravity.”
“Order: After completing the scheduled patrol of one lap around Jupiter’s gossamer ring, Qingluan Brigade return to base for maintenance and resupply.”
Li Jian’s voice carried no emotion; the exercise’s predetermined content was an encounter battle, and an encounter battle needed to look like one.
Now it seemed the massive shockwave from dense bombs had some effect in slowing high-speed navigation fleets.
However, Wang Wei’s subsequent series of operations were very impressive; through A’dai’s real-time analysis, he also learned of the opponent’s high combat proficiency throughout the battle.
Yet, it now appeared that Young Dragon B, limited by human gravity tolerance, had extremely strong performance but couldn’t be fully utilized.
On this point, if not for the threat of electromagnetic wave bombs, then with A’dai piloting a same-level spaceship, humanity wouldn’t stand a chance.
After thinking, Li Jian said, “A’dai, connect me to headquarters.”
“One moment, connected.”
“This is Liu Shengzhan. Li Jian, Qingluan Brigade performed well, but next time consider our team members’ bodies.”
Clearly, Liu Shengzhan had also received the detailed battle damage report from A’dai; those few team members injured by gravity pained him greatly.
All were carefully selected promising talents.
Li Jian didn’t care; he knew the power of Xinghai Biomedical Laboratory well—this level of injury would have no aftereffects after treatment.
“Yes, Commander Liu, I’ll definitely pay attention next time. By the way, is Fan Ren there?”
“He is, you two brothers chat.”
Liu Shengzhan directly transferred the call to Fan Ren.
“This is Fan Ren. How about it? Satisfied with Young Dragon B’s performance?”
Hearing this, a smile finally appeared on Li Jian’s tense face as he replied, “Satisfied, very good. The high-strength hull resisting close-range combat bombs was something I hadn’t anticipated.”
He paused, then sighed, “Still that issue, just like our air combat in the Blue Star Era—we’re again stuck in the awkward situation where the mount has performance but can’t be fully utilized due to human gravity limits.”
Li Jian spoke complexly, but Fan Ren instantly understood the reason.
“Boss, our laboratory is already researching the nano buffer from Conqueror, but it still needs some time.”
Fan Ren was also helpless; they had ideas for the theoretical work on this nano liquid, but practical research still had a long way to go.
This involved major branches like mechanics, electronics, biology, and materials science—not a trivial difficulty.
Fortunately, Xinghai’s nanotechnology laboratory was very strong; at least the theoretical foundation was complete. The next step was large-scale testing without regard to cost under A’dai’s assistance, awaiting results.
“Good, and one more thing.”
“Go ahead.”
Li Jian hesitated for a moment, feeling like he was fleecing his own second brother.
Noticing the brief pause in the comm channel, Fan Ren smiled, “Boss, no need to be polite with me.”
With that, Li Jian no longer hesitated, “On weapons, missile-type firearms have a hard flaw in initial velocity. In our current low-speed combat mode, it’s no issue, but Second Brother, that spaceship can super-accelerate dramatically in short time—have you considered that aspect?”
