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Quallen immediately issued an order for all severely damaged ships to go to the dock for repairs immediately.
The Heavy Artillery's battle position was filled by another Tempest-class ship that arrived later. It traveled to a position three kilometers away from the orbital dock and was towed into one of the shipyards by the tractor beam on the orbital dock.
In the eyes of the captain of the Heavy Artillery, the Tyrones were using their technological wizardry to quickly repair the hull. The cracks 700 meters above the hull were being filled with fine gold layer after layer.
"Can we replace the energy shields for these frigates?" Quaren asked Adam.
Adam was stunned for a moment. He thought that Quallen was an extremely conservative person and was very resistant to everything in the Tyrone Star Region... At least in the previous cooperation in the Obscurity Star Territory, Qualen once said that he was absolutely the best person without being asked. Fleets will not be allowed to use dimensional engines.
Quallen knew what Adam was thinking, and he looked helpless: "I am an admiral, the master of a fleet, but there are some things that I can't decide."
"Replace their energy shields." Adam ordered.
The Heavy Cannon's previously damaged void shield was removed, and an energy shield generator was placed inside the ship.
The heavy artillery, which was repaired within half an hour, quickly left the factory and headed towards the place where the battle was most intense.
Qualen had previously analyzed the weapons and equipment of the Tyrone fleet. He believed that he might one day use dimension engines against all opinions, but he would definitely not use energy shields.
Physical shields such as energy shields will even collide with some larger stones in space. The energy consumption must be staggering, and the long-lasting damage-bearing effect may not be as good as the void shield.
But at this moment, when facing the Tyranid Zerg fleet, Qualen felt that the energy shield was perfect. It was truly airtight. The Zerg's biological ammunition and biological carrier-based aircraft could not cross the shield and cause damage to the hull.
The Heavy Cannon, which was equipped with an energy shield, was once again targeted by the Strangler, but those tentacles could only be attached to the energy shield, and the Heavy Cannon had enough time to crush the Strangler's tentacles one by one.
But the Heavy Artillery was not invincible. When it was tied up by the tentacles again and again and tried to escape, a Devourer suddenly attacked from behind.
The giant jaws opened wide and then snapped together quickly.
The energy shield didn't last long before it was bitten into pieces. The energy forming the shield turned into blue spots floating in space, and the ship's hull immediately shattered.
But before sinking, the Heavy Artillery opened fire and fed a large number of shells and torpedoes into the mouth of the Devourer. The Devourer did not last long before it became unbalanced and its belly turned upward.
With an energy shield, you can hold on for a while longer, but without an energy shield, it's like being without clothes in the cold winter.
A cruiser was targeted by several Devourers and subsequently eaten.
Qualen listened to every battle report from his men and stood by the porthole watching everything. He could already guess what tactics the Hive Fleet used.
The Hive Fleet is not trying to overwhelm itself with numbers. Their biological ships are actually attacking the center of the fleet with all their strength, intending to disrupt the fleet formation and divide the fleet.
However, the situation quickly changed, and the front end of the fleet encountered a more violent attack.
Just when Qualen thought his calculation was wrong, the left and right sides of the middle section of the fleet were simultaneously attacked by torpedoes.
The torpedoes launched by biological ships look strange. They do not fly straight forward, but lock onto the ship like living creatures.
Those torpedoes looked like living things, too.
But fortunately, five Tempest-class and seven standard Tyrone frigates stepped forward, passed through the biological ships and stood in front of the torpedoes, and quickly destroyed the flying torpedoes with close-in defense weapons.
Chapter 290 Humanoid Creatures
The ten torpedo ships of the Tyrone fleet began to gather towards the front of the fleet.
These torpedo ships are a new type of ship, and their purpose is to launch torpedoes as killer weapons at the enemy. In order to maximize the ability to launch torpedoes, they are not even equipped with light lances or arc weapons.
After gathering, the torpedo ships opened fire on the countless biological ships ahead. A total of thousands of torpedoes detached from the launch tubes and flew forward.
The biological ship located on the path of the torpedo releases a black mist. The black mist is composed of large and small flying insects. They are like brave carrier-based aircraft that find that the biological munitions they launch cannot hit. When piercing the torpedo shell, they choose to gather together and directly collide with the torpedo.
The transfer loading device in the torpedo ship transfers a new batch of torpedoes directly from the arsenal into the launch tube, and then fires again.
The number of launches was the same as before, but this time they were all heavy-duty torpedoes with protective capabilities, mixed with ten torpedoes that were larger and slower flying.
Half of the first batch of torpedoes fired were intercepted, and the remaining half exploded in the biological ship group. The different warheads they carried had different effects.
Some explode directly, some release arc seas, and some release hundreds of particle spears like flashlights.
These torpedoes destroyed at least three hundred biological ships, and the Hive Fleet immediately launched an interception at any cost after realizing the power of the torpedoes.
A large group of Stranglers rushed towards the second batch of torpedoes, and more biological carrier-based aircraft also swept over.
But this second batch of heavy-duty torpedoes has protective capabilities, and the close-defense weapons carried on them began to fire at biological carrier-based aircraft.
The battle situation of the Leviathan Hive Fleet was learned by the Hive Mind. It did not understand why someone would equip torpedoes with close-defense weapons. What was the meaning of this.
These heavy torpedoes fly slower and only have close-defense weapons. Although they do intercept some attacks, their speed determines that their attack effect is not as good as the first batch of light torpedoes.
But hidden among the heavy torpedoes are ten larger torpedoes, which are the main force of the second attack.
The heavy torpedo swarm repels the biological carrier-based aircraft, pierces through the intercepting biological ship, and flies towards the core area of the Hive Fleet.
Finally, ten super-heavy torpedoes detected themselves arriving at the center of the Hive Fleet and immediately self-destructed.
A dimensional space rift appeared on the battlefield, and all the biological ships located at the location of the rift and nearby were swallowed up.
Dimension Torpedo.
Tyrone Technology version of the Vortex Torpedo.
Any creature swallowed by the dimensional space will have its soul torn apart due to the lack of protective devices. The soulless empty shell will also be accelerated by aging and decomposition in the time wave of the dimensional space.
The Hive Mind is aware of the threat of torpedo ships, but it does not deploy biological ships to attack the torpedo ships at the front of the fleet, because although there are thousands of biological ships swallowed by the rift, they are still considered safe among the entire Hive Fleet. Accept the loss.
The biological ships were still bent on dividing the human fleet, and they were almost there.
The defeat had a chain reaction as a frigate on the far left side of the fleet was chewed to pieces and the cruiser next to it was snatched away by the tentacled Devourer.
The formation of the fleet gradually dispersed and was about to be split in half by the biological ship.
Quallen realized that the fleet could only advance so far for the time being. There must be a way to protect the fleet at this time and then give the fleet time to regroup.
Adam realized this too.
"Enable defense platform."
When Adam's order was conveyed to the orbital dock, the defense platforms parked in the dock's shipyard were immediately activated. They were neatly teleported out of the orbital dock and teleported around the fleet.
The number of weapons carried by the defense platform even exceeded that of a battleship. Countless light spears penetrated all biological ships within the attack range. A large number of heavy torpedo groups surged out from directly below the platform and flew to the side of the own battleship that was about to be swallowed. Weapons assist those battleships in their defense.
After five minutes of uninterrupted firing using the light spears, two red light balls shot out from the main guns at the core position, melting everything in their path.
After flying fifty kilometers away, the ball of light turned into a shower of scattered beams, and the biological ship the size of the Devourer was riddled with holes.
At this time, the orbital dock rose directly above the fleet and fired arcs at the biological fleet diagonally below.
Under the double blow of the defense platform and the orbital dock, the swarm fleet could only avoid the edge temporarily and circle around the orbital defense platform and the human fleet protected by it, trying to kill the defense platform.
But no matter how you try, when the shields of those defense platforms are about to collapse, a blue light will flow back and forth between the platforms to repair the shields.
The Hive Mind realizes that these defense platforms are the same as those left by enemy ships over Baal, and must either destroy them all or avoid them.
The human fleet was quickly reorganized under the protection of the defense platform, and the damaged ships entered the orbital dock for rapid repairs. All previous efforts made by the biological ships to divide the fleet were in vain.
The human fleet moved forward again.
The defense platform was teleported directly to the Zerg mothership.
Qualen hoped that those platforms could sink the biological mothership, but soon discovered that the commander of the Hive Fleet seemed to have the ability to predict the future. He deployed some Kraken to the direction transmitted by the platform, and appeared when the defense platform left the dimensional space. Sometimes they overlap with those sea monsters.
Psionics.
Qualen believed that only spiritual power could explain all this.
Just like the Zerg have their psychic fighting units, the Cerebrates, who can use their psychic powers to predict the future, so can they.
Although the attempt to use the defensive platform to decapitate was indeed unsuccessful, the fleet that had time to repair and reorganize was able to continue moving forward.
Everything develops as before.
The fleet struggled to advance under the siege of biological ships, and the enemy's mothership always kept its distance.
"If it keeps running, we won't be able to catch up." Quarren said to Adam.
"Of course we can't catch up." Adam calculated. Judging from the speed of his own fleet, trying to catch up with the biological mothership is tantamount to wishful thinking, but this is expected, and there are solutions.
"Get as close as possible. When we enter the 700-kilometer range, we can teleport there stably."
"As long as the Hive Fleet cannot fill all the gaps within seven hundred kilometers with biological ships one after another, we can teleport there."
Adam speaks out.
Qualen thought this was feasible, but there were so many biological ships around him that it was impossible to even use teleportation to travel a short distance.
The fleet continued its arduous journey.
Just when Quarren and Adam thought this war would be extremely difficult, a ball of flame flew into space from the surface of the planet Baal and headed straight for the fleet.
Nothing could stop it. The chitinous carapace of the biological ship was vulnerable to the flames. It did not even change its route to avoid some larger biological ships, but directly crashed through them and rushed to the fleet.
As it came closer, Adam saw that it was not a ball of fire, but a humanoid creature covered in flames.
Chapter 291 Spear
Before the Burner came to the human fleet, the closest thing to it was the heavy battlecruiser Quaren was riding.
Quarren stood in the bridge and Burner stood outside the bridge, the two looking at each other.
"Someone is invading our cogitator array!"
"He's almost done it!"
The men stood up and shouted to Quallen.
"It has been successful." A voice echoed in the bridge.
Although the creature outside the bridge did not speak, Qualen knew that was its voice.
"Before this unpleasant trip started, I thought the craziest guy I had ever met was Saranoga, but you little ants are even crazier than Saranoga."
"You are trying to destroy an enemy twenty times more numerous than you!"
Hearing these cold words, Qualen thought that the Burner was on the side of the Zerg.
But just when he was about to give the order to bombard the flaming guy, the Burner was tied up by a tentacle and dragged away.
A Devourer prepares to eat a Burner, but this action brings disaster to it and its kind.
Those tentacles were a hundred times larger than the Burning One, and it was swallowed by the Devourer without any resistance.
But the Devourer's mouthparts spurted out flames a second later, and countless holes appeared on the entire chitin carapace from which flames were ejected. The entire insect body was like an exploding star.
The strange flame that can burn in a vacuum environment covers everything within a hundred kilometers.