The Age of Giant Ships and Cannons

Half an hour later, the fleet passed through the wormhole. After the turbulent energy tide, the radar of the warship scanned the starry sky 10,000 kilometers away for the first time. 2 pirate cruisers and 17 pirate gunboats were chasing and killing the one that stepped over first. Destroyer and 5 frigates.

"Fleet ready for battle!"

Li Qing looked at the communication screen sent by the front fleet, and immediately ordered the fleet to prepare for combat.

The captain of the destroyer under temporary command did not confront the pirates head-on, but fought and retreated. By flying kites at a faster speed than the wild monster pirate fleet, he had slipped away for almost an hour and a half.

As soon as the fleet communication was connected, Li Qing immediately ordered the vanguard fleet to return to join him, and the headquarters fleet quickly stepped forward to meet him.

Although these two pirate cruisers are called cruisers, they are just cruisers converted from destroyers, and they are inferior to him in terms of quantity and quality.

The two sides approached, and the hulls of the five destroyers flew sideways, aiming the muzzle of one of them forward to start accumulating energy.

Twenty-one frigates left five escorting destroyers in front, and the remaining seventeen were divided into two groups, with eight from the left and nine from the right to meet them.

The fifth-generation weapon itself has a longer range, and it also has a 20% range bonus for psykers. When the enemy ship is still accelerating towards it, the cannon that has been charged early has already fired in advance.

A series of flames and six dazzling light beams exploded, directly across the void and hit a pirate modified cruiser. The terrifying kinetic energy and neutron plume directly tore apart the energy shield of the pirate cruiser, and Yu Wei tore apart the alloy armor and shattered the alloy armor. Fragments flew.

The five destroyers have a total of 12 L-slot main guns, six of which are advanced kinetic energy rail guns, and the other six are neutron launchers, which can emit powerful neutron plumes.

A total of 60 M medium-sized weapon slots, half of which are equipped with fifth-generation electromagnetic guns, and the other half of which are equipped with fifth-generation laser cannons.

The twelve L-slot main guns focused their fire, almost tearing the armor of this modified pirate cruiser apart.

Fortunately, it has been modified and strengthened. If it is a destroyer, according to this firepower, the armor can be directly torn apart.

After a round of bombardment, they also entered the range of two modified pirate cruisers. With the dazzling lights on, a total of fourteen dazzling lasers traversed the void, and at the same time eight missiles flew over with a long tail flame.

With a flash of white light, fourteen laser beams hit the No. 3 destroyer fiercely. The huge power tore the shield of the No. 3 destroyer on the spot, leaving fourteen melting holes as deep as half a meter on the armor.

The eight missiles arrived first, but were intercepted by the flame barrage of the P-slot close-in defense system launched by four frigates and destroyed halfway.

"Destroyer No. 3 retreats, all have it, move forward!"

The range of the main gun in the L slot is as high as 1,500 kilometers, and the range of the medium-sized weapons in the M slot is about 500 kilometers. Although the opponent is a cruiser, it is only a modified destroyer, and its firepower is not as good as that of a real cruiser. Take advantage of this.

Soon the two sides entered the range of medium-sized weapons, and Li Qing's side used the 20% range bonus of psykers to fire ahead of time.

Li Qing didn't know how the opponent's warship was modified, fearing insufficient firepower, all 60 artillery pieces focused on the modified cruiser whose shield was broken.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the thirty metal cannonballs and thirty lasers hit the target at the same time, and there was an earth-shattering explosion. The modified cruiser was torn apart by the terrifying power of the concentrated fire, and turned into a mass of raging explosion flames on the spot.

Focusing on the sinking of one ship, the pressure dropped sharply, and the firepower of the remaining pirate cruiser was no longer enough to pose a threat to the destroyer in a short time.

On the other side, 16 frigates were encircling 17 pirate gunboats, and the two sides were entangled in a very small range of melee.

Both the frigate and the pirate gunboat are small warships of the same specification. They are equipped with small S-slot weapons. No matter the laser cannon, the machine gun, or the point defense system, the range is very short, which leads to the fact that frigate battles are mostly close-range and fast-moving mobile battles. .

When he destroyed a cruiser, the frigate equipped with all the fifth-generation technology on the other side had the upper hand against the pirate gunboat in a one-on-one match.

At this point, Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief. Not surprisingly, the battle was won without any loss of a single ship.

As he expected, seven minutes later, the second pirate cruiser was sunk, and five destroyers immediately joined the frigate battle, destroying the downwind pirate gunboats one by one.

As soon as the battle was over, Li Qing found that his experience in command skills had improved a lot, and his basic naval command skills had risen to level five.

Basic naval command skill LV5: speed +25%, weapon rate of fire +15%, attack damage +10%, command ship capacity +450.

In addition to the skill bonus of the psyker, the speed of the fleet commanded by him is +45%, the firing range is +20%, the fire rate of weapons is +15%, and the attack damage is +10%.

"It's getting stronger."

Li Qing smacked his lips and closed the attribute panel with satisfaction.

When salvaging the battlefield, Li Qing was surprised to find that besides a mess of warship wreckage, there was also a second-generation laser cannon manufacturing blueprint that could be used 25 times, and two data chips, one green and one white.

The second-generation laser injection paper is 350,000 pieces per time, and it can be used for 25 times, which is 8.75 million yuan, which is a small profit.

After the two data chips were delivered to him, he used a decoder to extract the data, and obtained a white skill chip and a green signal chip.

The whiteboard skill chip contains frigate operation skills, and after using it, 1000 frigate operation skills related experience will be added.

But this thing is only useful for the captain, not much for a commander like him.

Although he also learned the skill of frigate operation, it was only for emergency use. Not only does he not need to operate it now, but he may not have the opportunity to operate it again in the future. Naturally, there is no need to waste this skill, and it can only be used by his subordinates.

But his subordinates are all white board captains, and there is no value in training at all. This thing can only be saved first, and will be used when there is a chance to recruit frigate captains with green or blue names or above.

As for the signal chip, this thing will give you a coordinate after decoding, and then go to find the coordinate location.

The result of the signal chip is uncertain. It may be a treasure left by the ancients at the coordinate location, or it may be a relic, an ancient laboratory, an ancient shipwreck, or even an ordinary box.

If it is buried treasure, this behavior is called treasure digging.

In the case of ancient ruins or laboratories, this behavior is called grave digging.

Generally speaking, the final harvest can be determined by the level of the signal chip. Of course, there is no need to expect good things on the whiteboard. If it is a purple signal chip, there must be top-level good things.

The green chip is higher than the white board, but it is only one level higher, and there is a probability that something of good value will be produced.

Li Qing checked the signal coordinates with the star map, and found that the signal coordinates are not very far from here. Anyway, he is now looking for a suitable galaxy to build a base, so he decided to go and have a look.

However, after walking a few galaxies according to the coordinates of the star map, Li Qing discovered a problem. The interference electrons contained in the nebula in the nearby star field were rising rapidly. Not only the ship's sensors were seriously affected, but the jump engine was also strongly affected.

After crossing about ten galaxies, he found that only the fifth-generation jump engine can jump here, and the jump distance and accuracy are greatly affected.

"Is this also the edge of the isolated interference zone?"

Looking at the star map, the coordinates on the signal chip are only five hops away from here. After a moment of hesitation, he decided to move on.

Drilling into the next galaxy, I immediately felt that the interference in the nebula had strengthened again, and the sensor was suppressed to only one-third of the effect. The next galaxy in the depths would simply strike.

"It's all here."

It's a pity to give up now, but Li Qing also set a standard for himself, continue to move forward, but if he finds that the wormhole starts to become unstable, he will withdraw, and he can't take risks.

Then, he flew forward three galaxies in one breath, and the jump engine had already stopped working directly, and even the sublight speed of curvature was greatly affected.

But the wormhole is relatively stable. According to the information provided by the Jialan team, the real isolation interference zone is that the wormhole is disturbed and becomes unstable, which makes it impossible to travel through. Now the wormhole can still be used, but the interference is serious , indicating that this place should be at the edge of the isolation interference zone, and it is estimated that a few galaxies will officially enter the isolation interference zone in the future.

Fortunately, the coordinates on the signal chip are nearby, and it should be the galaxy on the edge of the isolation interference zone.

Half a day later, the fleet came to the edge of the galaxy, the large force stopped, and one expulsion and five guards drilled into the wormhole.

An hour and a half later, the vanguard fleet sent him a response, received the communication, and looked at a team of players parked not far from the wormhole displayed on the communication screen, including two cruisers, eight destroyers, and forty escort fleets. Li Qing was amazed by the fleet and wreckage all over the place.

After a little silence, he ordered in the fleet channel:

"Destroyer No. 345 and frigates No. 1 to 10 enter first, and the remaining warships enter later."

Half an hour later, the wormhole shuttle ended. As soon as he came out, Li Qing checked the situation for the first time, and was relieved when he found that there was no conflict. At the same time, the communication was lit up. The young man in the dark green military uniform said:

"I am the commander of the fleet not far from you, you can call me Thornbird."

"Jalan Team Li Qing!"

"I'm here to dig a grave with a signal chip guide."

"Coincidentally, I accidentally broke out a signal chip, and I came here to dig treasure."

"That's a coincidence."

"It's a bit of a coincidence."

Li Qing checked the coordinates of the star map. The position guided by the signal chip is located under this galaxy. He sent the coordinates and said:

"Should we not be in the same coordinates?"

Thorny Bird was obviously relieved, and also sent a coordinate:

"Although it is also in this galaxy, it is not the same location."

"Then let's dig our own?"

"Row."

The two bid farewell peacefully, a fleet sailed to the left of the galaxy, and Li Qing led the fleet to sail downward.

The so-called direction does not refer to the front, rear, left, right, up, down, and up and down of each player's battleship as the standard, but the entire new banking system as the standard.

As we all know, the new Milky Way is also a huge flat disk with four spiral arms. The flat disk is used as the midline to divide up and down, and then the four spiral arms are used as the four directions of east, west, north and west.

Taking the center of the galaxy as the base point, the spiral arm of the united empire of mankind is the Perseus spiral arm, and the set direction is the north of the silver disk.

Of course, the southeast, north, and west refer to the direction coordinates of the entire Milky Way, and this set must not be used in the galaxy at ordinary times.

Inside the star system, the upper and lower horizontal planes are still based on the Milky Way, but the east, west, north and south are anchored by itself, or by the star in the center of the star system.

What he is using now is the southeast, northwest direction with himself as the anchor point.

The concentration of nebulae in this galaxy has actually affected the naked eye's perspective. The image transmitted through the sensor shows that the starry sky outside the battleship is covered with a layer of faint mist. If you zoom in on the image, you can find that the mist is composed of countless fine particles.

If you look closely with a scientific-grade instrument, you will find that there are tiny electronic connections between these particles.

In fact, this environment itself has a certain scientific value. The outpost base has been sending scientific research ships to investigate the galaxies on the edge of the isolation interference zone. It is not known whether any valuable information has been investigated.

There are also wild monsters in this galaxy, and they are also affected by the nebula. The sensor is suppressed harder than him. During the two close contacts with the wild monster fleet, they have already entered its radar detection range. If it is another galaxy, it will definitely be discovered, but in He wasn't found here at all.

In addition, there seems to be more than one kind of wild monsters appearing in this galaxy. In addition to the common pirate wild monsters, there is also a wild monster whose warship shape is obviously different from that of pirate gunboats.

The level of technology is not much different from that of pirate gunboats, but the size of the fleet is much larger than that of pirates.

In addition to the scattered and sporadic gunboats of the pirates, the large-scale fleet generally has less than five destroyers and cruisers with 20 to 30 gunboats, and there are no sporadic unknown wild monsters, most of them are large-scale fleets, and the fleets are very large. There are at least four or five real cruisers, a dozen destroyers, seventy or eighty frigates, and the total number is about one hundred.

When encountering this kind of fleet, Li Qing always turned to avoid it.

Stopping and stopping all the way, I finally came to the coordinates of the signal chip. From a distance, I saw a common barren planet floating alone in the starry sky. The orbit around the planet was full of broken warship wreckage. A small fleet of wild monsters including cruisers, three destroyers and about ten frigates wandered back and forth among the wreckage.

"Ancient battlefield?"

Li Qing was unexpectedly surprised.

"Why is there an ancient battlefield here?"

Judging from the wreckage of the battleship, it contained a large number of huge battleships. Although the wreckage of the flagship was not found, it can be seen from the wreckage of so many battleships that the scale of the ancient battle was absolutely huge.

After the fleet stopped for a while to scan, Li Qing ordered the fleet to scan around the planet far away.

However, as soon as they circled the planet to the other side, they saw another piece of orbital starry sky that was previously blocked by the planet full of wreckage of warships, among which there were several wreckages of warships that were larger than complete battleships.

"hiss!"

What shocked him even more was that there was a broken satellite behind the warship grave.