Earth Invasion

Chapter 460 The Fall
No matter in terms of tactics or the spirit of pursuing victory, Ratcliffe is an impeccable commander.These even his opponents have to admit.Of course, except for the Assyrians, when the shadow of the NATO expeditionary fleet has been hanging over the synchronous orbit of the Assyrian planet, all the Assyrians can't wait to kill him.

But Racliffe doesn't care about this. In his eyes, the bounden duty of a soldier is to pursue victory.As for things other than victory, it is not important, or as long as there is victory, there is nothing to worry about.

This kind of thinking is very extreme, and this kind of person can easily cross the bottom line on the battlefield, challenging people's conscience and habits.But Ratcliffe still goes his own way. Although he still sticks to the bottom line of human beings, he has no bottom line for the Assyrians.He basically ignored the Assyrians.

This person does not care about good or evil, it is just a matter of position.

I don't know whether to say his luck is good or not.After making a big circle, he finally squeezed into the inner ring.Moreover, the dense gravel in the inner ring caused a lot of clutter, making it impossible for the long-wave radar of the Storm Shadow, which was most likely to find him, to accurately search for him.

"It's finally coming in." Looking at the dense gravel and ice around him, Ratcliffe was somewhat terrified. When he just cut in from the lower layer of the inner ring, because of an angular velocity, a piece that A huge ice block with a length of one kilometer swept over the Huoying's hull, and a large piece of silicon carbide external armor plate on the left side was torn off.Faced with something of this size, even a capital ship is not so easy to deal with.

Ring belt Ring belt, although this thing is a ring, it is also thick.The rings of Feru gradually become thinner from the inside to the outside, and the total thickness of the inner rings is almost equivalent to the radius of the planet Assyria.With this thickness plus this density, the total mass of the entire inner belt exceeds two earths.According to the calculations of scientists, this giant gaseous planet, which is one circle larger than Jupiter, has probably torn apart many of its own satellites, otherwise it would be impossible to form such a large ring.

This place looks like a huge, irregular labyrinth, as long as you enter, you will be completely lost in it.

But a capital ship is a capital ship.He was now under the enormous gravitational influence of the planet Fero.And it's still behind the big fleet in the space circle.Even if it expands a deflection electric field with a certain strength, and then squeezes it out slowly, it will work.

From time to time, a small piece of rubble was pushed away by the warship's deflection electric field and even the armor.Those gravels containing silicates and even metal compounds hit the armor plate from time to time, and the sound of vibration could even be transmitted to the inner layer of the battleship.

Ratcliffe carefully calculated the thickness and width of the inner ring.According to his own flight trajectory, it is estimated that he is already about 40 degrees away from the South Pole of the celestial sphere behind the big fleet in the space circle, and the straight-line distance is about [-] kilometers away.

"Haven't you calculated the passage from the opponent's rear that can sail at high speed!"

Ratcliffe grew impatient.He felt that he still underestimated the complexity of the entire inner ring.Originally thought that after getting in, he could find a passage that could speed him up, but until now, the controlling personality of the Violent Shadow still failed to calculate even a passage that could speed up the battleship.

"Your Excellency, because there are too many gravels in the inner ring, they often collide with each other, and it is temporarily impossible to estimate the orbit through gravity and the mass of the gravel." The control personality of the battleship still said in that flat tone, and at the same time The screen showed him passages that had just been calculated and then immediately cut off by a lot of irregular rubble.

This is not allowed!Ratcliffe felt bad.From the perspective of absolute space, the space of the gravel belt is not so narrow.Although it is dense, there are always hundreds or even thousands of kilometers between each stone and each stone in sparse places.But the problem is relative speed.Now the Storm Shadow and the direction of travel are exactly at a ninety-degree angle to these damned stones.If you describe it as a metaphor, this is a Formula One car crossing the road among thousands of high-speed trains!

The Storm Shadow itself has a large tonnage, and its turning radius is also very large.In many cases, the staggered distance in the gravel zone is impossible for the Storm Shadow to drill through the middle when the speed reaches more than ten kilometers per second.

Considering the speed of the Violent Shadow like a tortoise crawling, Racliffe almost wants to order the entire battleship to open its guns and blast a path!

"Then please think of other ways." Patiently, Ratcliffe said something to the control personality of the battleship.It's just a program, no matter how human it is, and it's not wise to get angry with it.

Just because Storm Shadow is a tortoise here doesn't mean others can't get up.The warships of the Assyrian return fleet are drilling from the depths of the inner ring like a slippery loach. The distance is probably more than 1000 kilometers away from the North Pole than Ratcliffe's Storm, almost sticking to the gravel belt. north rim.

The time the returning fleet stayed here for several months was not for gaining weight.While Roy and the others are hiding here, they are also investigating the minerals, routes and gravitational slingshots of the entire Feiru satellite group and the gravel belt.According to their meaning, one day in the future, the NATO guys will be driven away, and the Assyrians also plan to set up a mine near the Feiru gravel belt, and then build a large number of space industrial satellites!
Can it be possible, the ambition is good.

Anyway, after a few months of busy work, these guys really found some gravel flight patterns and some available passages in the inner ring.This is also because they originally worked on Jupiter and accumulated a lot of gravitational laws and the distribution of halos on super-giant gaseous planets.Considering that they would definitely hide in this place after they came back, the Ministry of Space Industry allowed them to make a copy of these materials.At the same time, the control personalities on the three cruisers are all the ones with a long enough activation time.During the boring days of these few months, these controlling personalities calculated these data every day.

But in this battle, Collins improvised the Return Fleet and was directly nailed to death by Dongfang Hao on the outside of the inner ring, which gave the Return Fleet an excellent raid position!

The raid, however, was to fall first on the hapless Ratcliffe.

Returning to the fleet, Iselin, who was in charge of the raid on the Storm Shadow, was talking to the UFP who had gone out for reconnaissance.Two Type 2426s are stealthily approaching the Storm Shadow from two directions.UFPs using those rubbles as cover and using all the strength of the nanowires and the electromagnetic joints of the legs to move quickly between the rubbles cannot be detected at all.

This place is completely a paradise for UFP to play.

"Marcos, Halsey! Can you confirm the target location!" Navigating at high speed in the gravel field is very exhausting.Roy, Lavern, and the control personalities on the two battleships have been doing their best to maintain the fleet's route planning.The mission of the raid could only fall on Estherine's head.Her cruiser Yongzhihua was tied to the Akatsuki ahead, completely following the route.

"Confirm the position, and now send the opponent's speed, azimuth and relative distance to the bridge!" In this messy place, the two 2426s conducting investigations can freely use neutrino communication without worrying about being monitored.

"How do you feel about the target?" The interference was too severe, and the video line couldn't establish a direct connection, so Iselin could only ask the scouts ahead.

"How does it feel? Well, first, it's huge. Second, it looks like a walrus that has been thrown on the sand. It's extremely clumsy."

"It seems that you are very confident, then the nuclear bomb at the beginning is up to you!"

"no problem!"

"understand!"

After calming down her slightly excited mood, Iselin gave the order to attack the somewhat impatient formation of single-seater combat boats already waiting on the catapult.

"Listen! This place is too narrow! You only have one chance to attack! But even so, you have to be careful not to be reckless! The gravel belt is the world of UFPs, all you have to do is to send out all the UFPs on the other side. Block the catapult for me! Get away with one blow, don't force a U-turn or anything! Remember that each of you is a precious asset, and you have no right to die easily! Alright, let's go now!"

The troops of the single-seater combat boats actually started to eject after the UFP troops were dispatched.In other words, now that the UFP formation is not far from the target, the combat boats are dispatched.There are too many obstacles in the gravel belt, even with detailed and reliable route planning, the battleship only has one chance to make a high-speed assault.And it's a mode of starting later, but launching an attack before the UFP!
On the communication screens of the two Type 2426s, the green triangle representing the formation of single-seater combat boats has crossed the calibration line!After crossing the line, the two of them are about to hit the ground running.

Two UFPs quickly occupied a favorable position, and fired two nuclear bombs at the Storm Shadow from the side and rear!

When the flashes of nuclear bombs filled the screen for finding enemies, Ratcliffe's heart sank for no reason, and a feeling he had never felt before flooded his heart.

It was a premonition of death.

After the ion fireball of the nuclear bomb covered all the detection equipment, 24 single-seat combat boats emerged from the light curtain of the nuclear bomb!Returning to the fleet has cost a lot of money and released half of the combat boats in the entire fleet!

These demons with wings spread sprinted towards the side and rear of the Storm Shadow in a large formation from three directions, and then spread out in six directions like a blooming flower, bypassing the Storm Shadow.And as their course changed, there were 24 plasma torpedoes neatly arranged!
Relying on their strong push ratio and structural strength, these dumb-looking gods of death draw a dazzling snake-like trajectory in space.The built-in deflection electric field and projectile spin make charged particle cannon and laser near-defense matrix mostly ineffective!However, those electromagnetic reconnection guns that can be effective in one blow failed to complete the interception because there were only twelve of them, and several of them were blocked by their own hull!

The acceleration of the capital ship is very good, but compared to the flexibility...

In the end, three flowers of death bloomed on the Storm Shadow, which had exhausted all its tricks!Under the impact of these three plasma torpedoes, the UFP attack program of the Storm Shadow was also interrupted, and they could only watch the opponent's double-digit UFPs pounce on them like a swarm of killer bees!

Storm Shadow, it's over!

Moreover, even if she died, Estherine did not intend to let her die happily.When the plasma torpedo hit worked, she decisively ordered the two frigates to break away from the formation, so that the attached marines were ready to jump!

"From today onwards, we are also considered a force!"

(End of this chapter)