Chapter 1330 Space Fortress, Ilxia Offensive Operation (5)

"Reconfirm the waypoints, we may have deviated."

In the fierce battle, the route needs to be confirmed repeatedly. After all, the fleet is dynamic. Once it deviates too much and is left alone, it is easy to become a target.

Alyssa immediately started the ship's broadcast:

"All anti-aircraft gunners, pay attention, sporadic enemy aircraft have launched torpedoes."

Behind cruisers such as the Swan is a mobile aircraft carrier, and behind the mobile aircraft carrier is an armored transport ship. Void torpedoes still pose a threat, so cruisers still need to undertake air defense tasks.

The air radar and scanner found a vague signal, and Long quickly divided the air defense area for the anti-aircraft gunners while the main gun was loading.

Alyssa leaned on the captain's seat and frowned.

Their mission was to escort the armored transport ship to the space fortress Ilxia, but now they were blocked outside and the speed of advancement was slower than expected.

Turning her head to look at the message sent by the fleet commander, the clearing rate of the Red Maple Republic's firepower points on Ilxia was only 30%. Although the original weapons of the fortress were blown up during the evacuation, some of the artillery built and repaired by the Red Maple Republic during this period still posed a major threat to the cruiser.

If it were the main fleet, it would be easier to shoot back, but the main fleet had to deal with the main fleet of the Red Maple Republic. Now it could only rely on the cruiser to bombard it one by one to open a way for the armored transport ship.

After a little consideration, Alyssa connected the communication of the hangar:

"Have Hall and Li Chengxi come back?"

"Hall came back once to replenish ammunition, but Li Chengxi hasn't."

Hearing Fang Lanyin's report, Alyssa thought that Li Chengxi was quite persistent this time. In the past, if he drove the Lionfish, he would have to come back every 20 minutes on average.

Obviously, the endurance of the new mecha played an important role. Alyssa roughly understood why Li Chengxi had to consume a lot of energy.

Obviously, Alyssa didn't know how dangerous Li Chengxi was carrying...

As a captain, Alyssa didn't really care what vehicle the pilot was driving, but since Li Chengxi never came back, it meant that the resistance of the Maple Republic was extremely fierce.

After all, she knew how good Li Chengxi was. Even with him, they couldn't break through the blockade of the fleet. The Maple Republic obviously arranged a large number of space fighters and pilots in the Ilxia Fortress to make up for the problem of insufficient manpower.

Now the cruisers can't break through the fire blockade, and the carrier-based aircraft can't break through the interceptor blockade. The situation is not necessarily bad, but it will slow down the progress of the battle.

A major feature of the pincer attack is mobility, which must be fast. If the enemy's retreat cannot be quickly cut off, the enemy will not only have time to retreat, but will even cooperate with the friendly forces in the rear to attack from both sides.

It is unlikely that the main fleet will win in a short time, but the cruiser formation needs to escort the armored transport ship to the space fortress Ilxia as soon as possible to seize control of the fortress.

While Alyssa was thinking about countermeasures, An Yun reported:

"A new ship target appeared on the radar, coming out of the fortress."

"Do they have reinforcements?"

"The signal shows that the size is at the level of a cruise ship, but the signal is severely distorted."

According to the intelligence provided by the Rotating Water Federation, there should be no more enemy forces on the side of the space fortress Ilxia, unless there is a major mistake in intelligence.

But the signal shows that a ship similar to a cruise ship is sailing out of the fortress...

"I understand, it must be an armed merchant ship."

Due to the meteor operation, although nearly one-third of the Red Maple Republic's military forces have not been annihilated, they are now unable to return to the rear and be redeployed.

In other words, the Red Maple Republic is currently facing the risk of insufficient troops, and there is no way to immediately withdraw troops to support the Ilxia Fortress on the supply line.

Since there are not enough ships, we have to think of a local solution.

For example, transform the cargo ship that transports supplies into a warship.

This operation is like transforming a courier box into armor and wearing it out of the door, which is a last resort.

Needless to say, the performance is not as good as the weakest battleship cruiser in terms of firepower, protection and maneuverability.

But there are really a lot of them.

Soon, Alyssa confirmed her guess on the optical sighting equipment. It was indeed a large number of armed merchant ships that drove out of the base.

These modified warships may only have one or two guns, and the guns used may have been transported from the rear. They were originally intended to be installed on the space fortress Ilsha, but Alyssa and her team came too fast and did not have time to continue to modify the fortress.

To be honest, there is a threat. After all, a gun is also an anti-ship ion beam, but the energy transmission pipeline, reactor power, and shipboard computer of the cargo ship are not prepared for combat. It takes a long time to charge a shot, and it is crooked.

The Swirlwater Federation sent two fleets to capture the fortress, while the Red Maple Republic Army defending the fortress only had one fleet plus an enhanced supplementary fleet.

The latter is equivalent to the supplementary force of the former and cannot be regarded as a complete fleet.

This meant that they could only send a patrol ship formation to intercept the patrol ships of the Third Fleet. The Swan followed the patrol ship formation of the Fifth Fleet to clear the fire points on the fortress. The Red Maple Republic Army must have been really helpless, so they sent out armed merchant ships to block the attack.

However, as I said just now, armed merchant ships do pose a certain threat, especially since patrol ships are not very strong.

Alyssa estimated that the fleet commander would have new orders.

Sure enough, after confirming that it was an armed merchant ship, Alyssa received new information from the fleet commander.

"The route has been updated. The target is switched to armed merchant ships. Destroy them first."

Long immediately recalibrated the shooting parameters, and Carlos also turned the direction, preparing to sail according to the new route.

Just as the Swan was about to turn, Alyssa suddenly saw a bright blue flash appearing diagonally above the bridge.

"Emergency stop maneuvering! Sink immediately to avoid!"

At the critical moment, Alyssa no longer cared about the regulations that did not allow arbitrary emergency attitude control when sailing in formation. Carlos immediately stopped turning the steering wheel and pressed it down fiercely.

The attitude control nozzles all over the Swan were instantly lit up, forcing the Swan to sink rapidly.

Almost in the next second, the azure light ball reflected on the bridge glass suddenly exploded and turned into a super long and thick huge beam of light sweeping towards the cruiser fleet of the Swirling Federation.

Note that it is sweeping, not shooting.

This also means that its attack surface is very wide.

Alyssa could clearly see the friendly signals disappearing one after another, and a large number of warships were instantly melted in the azure beam of light.

Finally, the beam swept over the top of the Swan.

It felt like something solid swept over the top, and the shield collided with the energy released by the beam, which was transmitted to the bridge with a rumbling and dull bass.

If the Swan had not sunk urgently just now, it would have been melted by half at least.

However, after sweeping over the top of the Swan, the beam immediately broke and did not cause more damage.

Seeing this, Alyssa lifted her mask:

"They actually repaired the fortress gun!"

This is obviously not good news.