Data flooding

Before any real contact is made, the first damage will be inflicted by a flood of miniature missiles and bullets. Before the shield technology was really practical, miniature missiles and ordinary bullets would be the most used weapons on the battlefield because of their excellent characteristics of being difficult to intercept and cheap to build.

This conclusion was made possible by the countless calculations made by Hawke's vast computing power.

Hawke had conducted massive simulations for this doomed interstellar war, in which he had tried tens of thousands of different methods of warfare, and had chosen the most economical and efficient one. That is, conventional weapons as the main fighting force, high powered laser cannons as the high-end fighting force, micro laser guns as the main defensive force, and large yield nuclear bombs as the ultimate fighting force.

Hawke did not know whether the other side also had such an understanding, but after all, the other side was also a civilization, and there would certainly be countless amazing people among them, and their understanding of warfare would probably be the same as his own, which meant that they would probably adopt the same tactics as his own.

However, even if the other side adopted the same tactics as Hawk, if they fired a large number of miniature missiles and ordinary bullets in the early stages, Hawk would still have a way to deal with them. Hawke had secretly developed a laser launcher that could defend against mini missiles and ordinary bullets, but it had not yet been tested in battle, so it was not clear how effective it would be.

Another half hour had passed and the two sides were 100,000 kilometres apart. At this distance, if the other side had used the same tactics as Hawke, then Hawke was now about to be greeted with a frenzy of micro-missile and ordinary bullet strikes.

"Don't pin your hopes of victory on your enemy's stupidity." Hawke chanted silently, "The other side is an entire civilisation, and while they will certainly be inferior to me, they should not be underestimated. So come out, giant flashbang!"

No mistake, giant flashbang! It was a munition specially developed by Hawke to illuminate in cosmic space, a flashbang powered by nuclear fusion engines that could provide light for tens of thousands of kilometres in circumference.

Hawke was already certain that the other side was a converging dark civilisation, that is, creatures that lived in the dark like bats. Visible light was superfluous to them, not needed. Then the strong light emitted by Hawke's giant flashbulbs might bring a certain blow to the other side, while providing light for themselves.

The three huge munitions were launched from the launcher of the Sky Court ship and flew to their respective positions. Thirty seconds later, the three giant flash bombs exploded together, and at once, it was as if three small suns had suddenly appeared in space, illuminating hundreds of thousands of kilometres in all directions.

Hawke could see a slight disruption in the formation of the alien fleet tens of thousands of kilometres away. Hawke's heart immediately perked up. This meant that the giant flashbang had made a small impact on them.

At the same time, with the bright light from the giant flashbulb, Hawke's optical equipment observed a dense torrent of bullets heading towards him, which was expected to hit his ship head-on in ten seconds!

"It's true, you can't underestimate the enemy, they have really mastered such fighting techniques. However, they don't seem to have miniature missiles." Hawk thought darkly.

These space bullets were clearly different from those on Earth, firstly, because of their small size, they were extremely fast, reaching at least five thousand kilometres per second! This meant that if one was unlucky and happened to be hit by a bullet in a weak spot of the ship and then destroyed the engines, a single bullet could destroy a ship.

"Fortunately, fortunately I was prepared for this!" Hawk immediately gave the command, "Activate the laser defence system!"

The so-called laser defence system was not that kind of energy shield, Hawke's technology had not yet developed to that extent. It was a corresponding defense method after Hawke had projected the tactic of striking the enemy with ordinary bullets and miniature missiles. The laser defence system, a defence system that used a large number of low-powered laser guns mounted on the ship to intercept ordinary bullets and miniature missiles so that they would not hit them.

The giant flash bombs that were fired earlier were also part of the laser defence system. The reason for this is simple, as in the universe these tiny bullets are largely unobservable unless with a powerful light source and with the help of light reflections can be captured by Hawke in their trajectory and then manipulated to destroy them with his laser guns.

A rough estimate of the number of bullets Hawke faced was at least tens of millions! The number of ships that Hawke fought in, on the other hand, numbered over six hundred, and the miniature low-power laser guns mounted on them numbered in the tens of thousands.

"I'll show you what human intelligence can do when it has great computing power again!" Hawk thought proudly, his huge computing power was immediately activated, the central computer usage rate soared to ninety-five percent, immediately, the tens of millions of bullets observed by Hawk, the trajectory of each bullet was projected, then, the bullets that could not hit his own body were released by Hawk, and the bullets that would hit his own ship, were intercepted by Hawk manipulating one micro laser gun!

The amount of calculations required to intercept tens of millions of bullets, and then manipulate tens of thousands of miniature laser guns to make the interception, while at the same time, Hawk had to manipulate more than six hundred ships and watch the opponent's movements at all times.

But this huge torrent of calculations was completely absorbed by Hawke!

Immediately, countless high-energy lasers in invisible wavelengths streaked across the universe, the muzzles of the laser guns spinning, accurately catching a bullet moving at a speed of 5,000 kilometres per second, and destroying it without mercy!

Because of the extremely small size of the bullet, even a miniature laser gun would only take a few tenths of a second to vaporise a bullet.

Within those ten seconds, Hawke displayed breathtakingly precise manipulation. The trajectory of every bullet, every laser gun strike, and even any tiny dodging movement of every ship was linked to the situation of the entire battlefield. Throughout the entire process, Hawke did not waste a single moment, did not waste a single bit of energy.

The entire fleet, tens of thousands of laser guns, worked together to a point of out-of-this-world tacit understanding. No bullet would be chased by two laser guns at the same time, and no bullet would be ignored by a laser gun.

It is often the case that a ship in the rear aims at another ship and launches its laser guns, but that ship dodges the laser guns the moment before they are launched, and this dodge not only avoids the lasers behind it, but also dodges a bullet flying in front of it. This bullet was then directly annihilated by this laser.

Countless laser guns, over six hundred ships, put on a dazzling and breathtaking show in space.

This torrent of bullets was all resolved by Hawke within ten seconds. The tens of millions of bullets only destroyed ten of Hawke's village-class ships and lightly wounded a few dozen. This was still something that could not really be done because of the sheer number of bullets and the low number of laser guns and the hardware limitations.

Tens of millions of bullets had only inflicted such a small amount of damage on Hawke, a battle record that was enough for Hawke to be proud of.

After resolving this torrent of bullets, Hawke unleashed his high-powered laser cannon and began to attack the other side, while at the same time, Hawke was also nervously watching the torrent of bullets he shot past.

In Hawke's anticipation, three seconds later, it would be time for his own miniature missiles, the torrent of bullets, to strike the other side head-on.

Hawke was curious as to what kind of response they would have, whether they would also employ miniature laser guns for defence, like himself?

But even if the other side also had a laser defence system, its efficiency would certainly be no match for Hawke's. The reason was simple, Hawke's entire fleet was equivalent to himself alone, Hawke manipulated these ships as if they were his own, while their ships, which were definitely manually operated, could not achieve such high efficiency even if they were well trained, and this represented an insurmountable gap.

"Three ... two ... one ...," Hawke silently recited the countdown "Zero."

In the distance, tens of thousands of kilometres away, countless bright flames suddenly burst out, which Hawke knew were from the collision of the high-speed flying bullets with the ship's hull. There were these flames, which proved that one's bullets, had hit the enemy ship.

At such high speeds, each bullet had many times more energy than a hand grenade. One or two bullets might be resisted by the ship's tough shell, but many ants bite the elephant.

As the flood of bullets hit their fleet, the mini missiles arrived. The speed of the mini missiles is slower than the bullets, but they are loaded with high explosive ammunition in their combat sections, and their destructive power is much greater than that of the bullets. The destructive power of a single micro missile is comparable to that of hundreds of bullets.

The enemy's neat flight formation began to appear chaotic, while laser beams began to appear in space to intercept the bullets. But the clumsy movements of the other side made Hawke almost laugh. Not only was the interception inefficient, it was also often accidental, with the laser beams often failing to intercept the bullets and injuring their own ships instead.

Looking at the enemies who were in chaos, Hawke manoeuvred his high-powered laser cannon and aimed at them.

"Let me, just give you guys some more fuel ..." Hawke thought, and without hesitation, gave the order to fire.

Hundreds of powerful lasers were fired, spanning a distance of tens of thousands of kilometres and shining on top of the alien ship.