Chapter 167: Targeting the Enemy's Weak Point

Where did this data come from? This data is too detailed!

Look at this! The energy core of the King Insect Mothership is actually a biological stomach? This is utterly unbelievable!

Their shield nodes are here! Coordinates XXX, XXX! The field strength at this position is almost zero!

And this Ripper—its visual and motor nerves share the same organ; strike its eyes and it will be instantly paralyzed!

……

Within the Academy of Science, all the scientists had fallen into a state of frenzy.

Under the influence of NZT-48, their brains were operating at an unprecedented speed.

The extremely detailed technical data sent by Qin Hao was, in their eyes, no less than a war's 'standard answer'.

They no longer needed to engage in any speculation or deduction.

All they needed to do was convey these 'answers' to the frontline soldiers in the simplest, most direct way.

In less than half an hour.

A brand-new, targeted attack plan had already been compiled.

Old Qian! The plan has been generated!

An assistant reported excitedly.

Send it immediately to Commander-in-Chief Zhang Xianzhong! Highest priority!

Qian Bowen waved his hand decisively, his tone firm and unyielding.

Tell him we're facing a bunch of primitive people in iron armor! Their weapons look intimidating, but essentially they're still at the level of fighting with stones and wooden sticks!

Yes!

……

The Solar System's first line of defense battlefield.

Inside the command ship Sun-Chaser.

Zhang Xianzhong furrowed his brows, commanding the fleet as they engaged in a tangled battle with the enemy.

Although the Federal fleet currently held an absolute advantage, the enemy's numbers were simply too great.

Like an endless swarm of locusts, kill one batch and another rushes in.

The Federal fleet's ammunition and energy were being rapidly depleted. He had considered sending warships from the other defensive lines, but after thinking it over, he decided not to.

The situation wasn't that dire yet, and he also wanted to test the army's combat effectiveness.

Report, Commander! Our fleet's average shield energy has dropped to sixty percent!

Ammunition reserves have been consumed by over thirty percent!

Three destroyers and five frigates have been forced out of the battle line due to depleted energy!

One grim battle report after another weighed down Zhang Xianzhong's mood, making it increasingly heavy.

He knew that if they continued to drain resources like this, even a victory would be a Pyrrhic one.

Could it really be necessary to divert other warships for support?

Just then, a highest-priority communication from the Headquarters Academy of Science came through.

"Commander! It's Academician Qian Bowen!" the communications officer reported immediately.

"Put it through!"

Instantly, Qian Bowen's holographic projection appeared in the center of the bridge.

His face was filled with an excitement that could hardly be contained.

"Commander Zhang! We've just received intelligence sent back from the front by Xiao Qin!"

He wasted no words and went straight to the point.

"We've completely figured out the enemy's details! They're nothing but paper tigers!"

Saying this, he projected the newly compiled attack plan onto the main screen of the Sun-Chaser.

On the screen, three-dimensional models of various Moyun Warships were displayed clearly.

And on those models, individual red areas flashing warning markers were highlighted.

"Do you see these red dots?" Qian Bowen's voice carried a grand, commanding air as if pointing out the mountains and rivers.

"These are the vital points of all their warships!"

"For this beetle-like warship, its biological brain lies three kilometers below the head! Strike there with kinetic weapons and it will instantly become an immobile target!"

"For this jellyfish warship, its energy tentacles are both weapon and weakness! Sever those tentacles and its main gun will instantly fall silent due to loss of power!"

"And then there's the largest King Insect Mothership! Though it looks terrifying, its true core is the biological brain located at the center of the hull!

"Its defensive power is even weaker than that of one of our frigates!"

Academician Qian Bowen's words exploded like heavy bombs throughout the bridge.

Everyone stared wide-eyed at the screen, at the marked weaknesses.

Only then did they realize they had been hammering away for half an hour, actually attacking the enemy's hardest shell.

Meanwhile, the enemy's soft underbelly had been exposed before them all along, yet they knew nothing of it.

"I understand……"

Zhang Xianzhong gazed at the extraordinarily detailed attack guide, drew a deep breath, and his eyes blazed with an unprecedented light.

All his previous worries and heaviness vanished in an instant.

In their place rose boundless confidence and heroic spirit.

If before, they were fighting an encounter battle with an uncertain outcome,

then now,

this war has become an open-book exam!

Moreover, it's the kind where the answers are literally shoved right up to your mouth!

"Pass on my orders!"

Zhang Xianzhong's voice instantly spread throughout the entire Federal fleet.

"All warships, immediately cease free fire! From now on, strictly follow the Enemy Unit Attack Manual issued by the Academy of Science and wage combat!"

"All weapon systems, retarget! Stop attacking the enemy's armor and shields; aim for their weak points and fire!"

"I'll say it again: aim for the weak points and fire!"

"From now on, I demand that each of our warships must take down a hundred enemy ships! Those who fail will write a ten-thousand-word self-criticism after the battle!"

Zhang Xianzhong's order carried a hint of unprecedented ease and teasing.

The entire Federal fleet's personnel, upon receiving this 'exam answer,' were all stunned.

"Damn! So we just needed to hit here? We've been pounding the hull for half an hour like idiots!"

A cruiser's gunner, looking at the weak point marked on the manual, couldn't help but slap his own thigh.

"Hahaha! Brothers, don't just stand there! It's an open-book exam! If we still can't win, we'll really become pigs!"

"Received! Captain! Guarantee mission completion!"

The morale of the entire Federal fleet rose to its peak at this moment.

All warships quickly adjusted their attack targets.

With the soldiers full of confident anticipation, they let out a roar.

This time, the scene on the battlefield underwent a dramatic change.

A Federal Destroyer fired a standard kinetic armor-piercing round that did not strike the enemy's hull.

Instead, it traced a precise arc and directly hit the underside of the head of a distant Beetle Warship.

There was no violent explosion.

That Beetle Warship merely shuddered violently, then, like a robot with its power cut, it froze in place instantly, motionless.

Its surface bio-energy glow also quickly faded, turning it into a floating coffin in space.

Meanwhile, a Federal cruiser, using its secondary guns, precisely severed all the energy tendrils of a Jellyfish Warship.

The Jellyfish Warship's main gun, which was charging up, instantly sputtered out.