Magic? My Iron Torrent will sweep it all away!

Chapter 704 Danger! Plasma Bugs Focus Fire!

Inside the Tian Shu command center, several staff officers simultaneously looked up, their eyes shining.

"Solid fragments are effective!"

"The shield isn't all-around defense; it's more focused on energy protection!"

The pent-up frustration that had been building up in the hall was finally released.

Han Niba showed no joy, he merely raised his hand.

"Armor-piercing rounds, continue."

"receive!"

The last two dark black armor-piercing rounds entered the trajectory one after the other.

The first one was deliberately exposed in front of the fireproof net in advance, forcing out part of the blue and white beam of light from the side of the plasma bug.

This time, however, the plasmaworms had clearly learned their lesson.

Instead of emptying the entire flank thruster pod at once, it only activated one-third of its firepower, the blue and white beams sweeping across the missile's path like a row of red-hot blades.

The first armor-piercing shell was instantly shredded.

But in that area, a large number of jet capsules remained silent.

As soon as the second armor-piercing round entered the area, another batch of reserved close-in weapon beams immediately took its place.

laugh!

A red crack appeared on the outer shell of the projectile, and the high temperature spread along the edge of the armor, but it did not detonate the warhead.

The missile's AI forcibly corrected its attitude, and the tail nozzle flashed three times, channeling all remaining kinetic energy into the plasma worm's midsection sac.

The semi-transparent shield reappeared.

This time, the shield didn't completely deflect it.

The bullet pierced through the ripples, like drilling through a viscous film of water, then smashed through the dark purple shell and embedded itself hard into the edge of the fleshy sac.

The next second, the plasma worm's kilometer-long body trembled violently.

Large amounts of dark red viscous fluid gushed out from the gaps in the carapace, with electric arcs surging wildly inside. The entire fleshy sac bulged outward from the inside, cracking as if it had been forcibly ripped open.

"Hit!"

"Armor penetration effective!"

"The mid-section energy capsule is damaged, and the target's energy response is disordered!"

In the command center, the suppressed breathing that had been building for so long turned into exhilaration.

If it can be penetrated, that's enough.

But new troubles are also looming over everyone.

Plasma worms aren't stupid; in fact, they're so smart it's chilling.

Their close-in weapon beams are not rigid programs, but can actively adjust the firepower density.

Each close-in weapon cools down in about ten seconds, but the entire system can fire in turn, maintaining continuous firepower.

Trying to exploit a loophole with one or two missiles has a pitifully low success rate.

Han Niba stared at the trajectory replay on the screen, and after a few seconds said in a deep voice:

"The conclusions were written into the supercomputing system."

"First, Plasma Bugs have no absolute blind spots in close-range defense. Their tail firepower is relatively weak, but this can be compensated for by adjusting their posture."

"Second, the individual close-in weapon system has a cooldown of about ten seconds, and the entire system can be fired in batches, so it cannot be considered a stable window of opportunity."

"Third, the shield is biased towards energy defense, while kinetic weapons are effective at killing."

"Fourth, subsequent attacks will no longer focus on single-point penetration, but will instead employ multi-shot flanking maneuvers and layered pressure."

He paused, his gaze as cold as ice.

"Use quantity to force it to turn around."

"It can only take care of the tail end, not the middle section."

"yes!"

The command was transmitted back to the Kona satellite site via a quantum communication link.

On the gray wasteland, makeshift launch pads continued to rise.

The hydraulic rod emitted a low, resonant sound as the missile's tail nozzle preheated, sending up waves of heat that whipped up fine dust from the ground.

The trajectories of the more than twenty missiles that had already been launched were also rewritten under the control of the supercomputer.

They no longer fixated on the original two plasma worms.

In the distance, on the track, more massive, dark purple shadows are moving into attack positions.

Ten heads.

Twenty heads.

Thirty heads.

Those enormous objects that were originally looming like shadows are now being broken down into calculable, lurable, and penetrable targets within the Great Xia fire control system.

The first counterattack began quickly.

Six missiles hurtled towards a plasma worm that was charging up.

The plasma worm immediately controlled its close-in defense organs to fire in batches, with blue and white beams sweeping across the trajectory layer by layer, shredding the incoming missiles one after another.

A direct attack could be a decoy.

The real killer move was the twelve armor-piercing shells that came from behind.

The plasma worm sensed the threat at its tail and began to flip its massive body.

Even with the fastest reaction time, a body over a thousand meters long cannot adjust its attitude in orbit as easily as a small drone can turn around.

The sparse beam at the tail fired first, destroying three missiles.

Just as the fire net on the back turned, it was forced to launch another round of interception by the remaining missiles on the front.

Within a few seconds, it must defend against attacks from three directions simultaneously: the front, the midsection flanks, and the tail.

The firepower density was forcibly thinned out.

Adjusting my posture, I was finally a beat too late.

Two armor-piercing projectiles cut in from the lower tail, skimming past the plasma turbulence ejected from the propulsion chamber, and slammed into the fleshy sac in the middle.

boom!

A dark red flash appeared on the track, and the plasma worm's three-segmented fleshy sac split open from the middle.

The high-energy plasma stored inside erupted out of control, and the huge body resembled a blackish-purple mountain that had been blown apart, with fragments trailing flames as they rolled outwards.

"The primary target has been confirmed to be disabled!"

"The second target's tail propulsion chamber is damaged, and its attitude is out of control!"

"The third target section has fractured, and energy storage has been interrupted!"

On the screen, one red dot after another began to flash.

Some went out completely, while others deviated from their original course.

Some of the front-end blue lights had just lit up when they were forced to stop storing energy due to energy disturbances in the middle section.

Above the Kona satellite landing site, the oppressive shadow of the orbit was forcibly torn open by the Great Xia.

The unmanned systems in the field showed no emotion, continuing to load, calibrate, and launch according to the established procedures.

As long as there are enough missiles, and as long as they can be forced to take care of multiple directions at the same time, these orbital behemoths are not unsolvable.

Han Niba, however, did not relax at all. He stared at the far end of the screen with his brows furrowed.

Because the plasma worms are changing their formation.

After several of them were destroyed in succession, they did not continue to scatter and approach, but instead actively spread out and formed a staggered array.

The outer plasma worms laterally shielded the middle fleshy sac, the shields overlapped, and the close-range defense beams also began to cross and cover each other.

In this way, the energy sacs of the inner plasma bugs are blocked by the shield and the bodies of their companions, and even if the outer targets are consumed by the Great Xia missiles, it can buy time for the inner side to recharge.

Of course, Da Xia can be gradually chipped away at from the outside.

But the plasma bugs inside, which are protected, can free up their resources to launch a concentrated attack on the landing site.

That's the real trouble.

At that moment, further away, dozens of plasma worms simultaneously turned their front ends.

Blue light gradually illuminated the depths of their heads, like a row of cold eyes opening from the deep sea.

On the staff seat, the alarm suddenly blared.

[Warning: The first swarm of plasmaworms has achieved posture unification.]

[Suspected focus fire mode.]

[Target number of synchronous energy storage devices: 47.]

Han Niba stared at the forty-seven energy curves that were rising simultaneously, his face turning ashen.

"All air defense systems are on high alert."

"The missile continues to flank."

"We can't let them fire completely!"