Chapter 232: Post-battle Summary
In the war room of the Conqueror.
Azure Phoenix Legion Legion Commander Li Jian, Space Force Marshal Liu Shengzhan, as well as the main commanders, and the captains of various squadrons were all present.
At this moment, in front of the conference table around which they were gathered.
On the virtual desktop created by 3D modeling, an intense space battle was playing out.
The combat personnel watched very carefully, and some personnel would occasionally call for a stop and repeatedly review certain details.
This interception battle, which lasted 30 minutes, was played back more than a dozen times in the war room, and it was declared over only after no further objections were raised.
Fan Ren glanced at the group of commanders with solemn expressions, and he sighed inwardly.
This was humanity’s first true proactive war against an alien civilization.
However, after preparing for decades and believing they were foolproof, they still lost 483 Punishers in a matchup of 2000 against 500 ships of the same level.
For these combat personnel, and even for the commanders and Chief Commander Liu Shengzhan, this was undoubtedly an extremely failed combat operation.
It was because of their combat arrangements and command flaws that 740 Azure Phoenix Legion soldiers heroically sacrificed themselves in the end.
The number of seriously wounded reached as high as 1397.
“I’ll make a summary!”
Fan Ren spoke up in a low voice, and upon hearing him, everyone involuntarily turned to look at him.
“For this interception battle, I bear the main responsibility.”
Before Fan Ren could finish speaking, he quickly raised his hand to stop Liu Shengzhan who was about to speak. His expression was serious, Liu Shengzhan clenched his fist involuntarily, but ultimately relented helplessly upon seeing Fan Ren’s persistence.
“Hear me out. It was precisely because of my insistence that this interception battle was advanced. Otherwise, if we had been given several more decades, I believe with everyone’s combat capabilities, our battle damage wouldn’t have looked so bad.
We wouldn’t have sacrificed so many precious warriors.
So, when I say the responsibility lies with me, that is a fact.”
Fan Ren finished saying these words with a heavy expression, without giving others a chance to refute, and spoke again.
“But one point I want to emphasize is that during this combat operation, everyone’s attitude, combat level, and proficiency in controlling the ships were all very good.
And after the enemy twice used range advantage to inflict large-scale damage on our ships, they were able to respond promptly.
This was already very good.
You know, this was humanity’s first proactive combat against an alien civilization with advanced technology and development hundreds of years ahead of us.
To achieve total annihilation of the enemy, and complete all predetermined objectives within the scheduled time, this is very commendable.
Here, I offer my most respectful thanks to everyone!”
After Fan Ren finished speaking, he nodded slightly to the group.
Now, after Ye Rongshan’s passing, he had formally taken over as successor.
In the entire Space Force, this young man who appeared to be only in his thirties was now the highest chief for all of them.
Liu Shengzhan was the first to stand straight and salute Fan Ren.
Seeing this, the others quickly followed suit.
Fan Ren pressed his hand down, looked at Li Jian, then smiled and said: “As Azure Phoenix Legion Legion Commander, you did not participate in this combat operation, but you watched the simulation recording throughout.
So, let’s start with you. Tell us your thoughts.”
Upon hearing this, Li Jian looked into Fan Ren’s deep gaze and was momentarily stunned.
This former second brother, who always seemed to need his care, had unknowingly reached this height.
“Legion Commander Li!”
Liu Shengzhan noticed Li Jian’s distraction and subconsciously called out.
Coming back to his senses, Li Jian quickly spoke:
“Sorry, it’s like this.
I watched the recording throughout. Actually, the main problem was that we didn’t do enough preparatory work against the Hans Civilization Fleet.
Clearly, our understanding of them was basically zero.
Actually, in hindsight, these were all problems that could have been anticipated in advance.
A’dai, please display the large image of the Hans Civilization battleship.”
Li Jian smiled helplessly. He knew the matter had already happened, and now all they could do was learn from the lessons.
A lifelike virtual model of a Hans Civilization battleship soon appeared before everyone.
“Everyone, please look!”
Li Jian pointed to the several enormous cannon barrels on this spaceship, each with a diameter of ten meters, and said:
“Our battleships are equipped with electromagnetic railguns with a barrel diameter of about 1.4 meters.
While its barrel diameter is ten meters.
Everyone, from this, we can actually infer that for such a huge caliber firepower equipment to have the kinetic energy to damage our battleship armor, the electromagnetic rail and corresponding power supply system powering it surely cannot be something a battleship possesses.
A’dai, what is the caliber of the electromagnetic railgun on the Conqueror?”
“The Conqueror uses 8 2000-millimeter caliber electromagnetic railguns. Please allow me to provide some detailed introduction to the electromagnetic railgun.
The electromagnetic rail on the Conqueror, based on Fox’s technical introduction materials on the Galactic Alliance, is already the largest caliber electromagnetic railgun.
Generally speaking, this caliber of electromagnetic railgun requires an extremely massive amount of energy to fire.
Take the Conqueror as an example: its entire power supply system occupies 20% of our spaceship’s space.
This is also why the Titan Warship is so enormous.
At the same time, the ammunition caliber limits for electromagnetic railguns are extremely strict. Every millimeter increase results in exponentially higher required energy, which is especially important.
That’s all I have to say.”
A’dai only provided the introduction and did not comment on the Hans Civilization spaceship.
Li Jian and the Space Force personnel nodded darkly upon hearing this.
They all understood the implication.
“Exactly. In hindsight, we could have actually analyzed from the earlier observed images of the Hans Civilization battleship that the turrets they used with this caliber ruled out extremely short-range electromagnetic railguns.”
Everyone nodded slightly.
Seeing this, Li Jian continued:
“Missiles, as a weapon system that seems relatively backward to us, clearly dealt us a heavy blow this time.
At the same time, it also brought us some new thoughts.
Electromagnetic railguns certainly have great advantages in lethality, rate of fire, and other aspects. But due to kinetic energy decay, beyond a certain range, they cannot inflict effective damage on battleships.
Therefore, we should resume research on missiles.
Clearly, the Hans Civilization’s heavy attack missiles are.
For example, when being pursued, an extremely advantageous countermeasure.
Of course, that’s for later.
My main point now is that we need to put more effort into pre-combat intelligence analysis and invest more resources.
For example, with this spaceship, such a huge caliber barrel should have allowed for early warning.”
