Chapter 403 "Whitebeard" Pirates

"Mr. Tang, I think you also understand that 'Venus Pharmaceutical' is a large group company, and I am just a small regional director with a branch manager, president, and directors. For such a big matter as cooperation, Forgive me for being powerless, I must report this matter to my superiors, and a conclusion can only be reached after discussion by the board of directors."

"It's okay, anyway, the repair work on the pirate warship can't be completed in a short time." Tang Fang replied with a smile: "Oh, by the way, on this matter, I hope your company's senior management can listen Mr. Li's suggestion, I think...he should have heard of the words 'Morning Star Casting'."

"Okay, I'll make a note of it." Sheridan couldn't help wiping off his sweat. The more smiling the young man opposite him was, the more panicked he felt in his heart, as if he had seen through all his thoughts and worries. .

"How is the repair progress of the communication equipment?" Sheridan turned to look at Ruskin to hide his embarrassment.

"Here... I'll ask those people in the maintenance team." Ruskin slid the LCD screen of the video camera, and was waiting to connect with the maintenance personnel on the ground. Suddenly, the door of the lounge opened, and a black man rushed in: " Stephen... Stephen is back with the convoy."

Byron stood up abruptly, before explaining to Tang Fang, he quickly walked out of the lounge and walked to the central control room. Without saying a word, Ruskin got up and followed closely.

Sheridan looked at the black man, and then at Tang Fang's four people, showing embarrassment.

"Let's go, let's go and have a look together." Tang Fang said empathetically.

"Please." Sheridan gave him a grateful glance, led the way, went out and turned right, and returned to the control center.

At this time, the picture on the big screen was frozen in the space 600km away from "Christelle", and the originally dark and quiet space in the universe was now flashing with light. One battleship after another appeared in the sight of several people.

"Can you connect to Stephen's flagship?" Byron asked an operator.

"If you use microwave communication, there should be no problem." The operator agreed, and slid his finger across the touch panel. Send communication requests in an encrypted channel.

But when the other party verified the correctness of the key and was about to establish a channel. In the void about 300km away from the place where the fleet appeared, the warp response increased greatly, and the early warning computer connected to the detector counted a reading, 187!

This indicates that apart from the fleet led by Stephen Su, another fleet will enter "Kristel."

"Could it be..." Ruskin and Sheridan turned pale.

At the same time, a light and shadow flashed on the No. 2 large screen, and a beard was curly, slightly brownish red. A white man with a big face like a king of the hill appeared in front of everyone: "Head, are you all right? Where's Charmain? Where's that fellow Charmain?"

"We're fine, you..."

Just as Byron was about to ask how he was doing, suddenly, there was a flutter of chaos on the opposite side, and Stephen's face shook on the big screen a few times, then he turned his head and said angrily: "Bastard, you actually followed me here. Captain .It's...that group of traitors and the 'Whitebeard' pirates."

"White beard? I didn't expect these guys to get involved with Albert." Byron frowned.

"This is a trap, a trap! Ma, bastard. I was tricked by them." Stephen yelled sternly.

It was only half a minute before the fleet returned to "Christian". He didn't know what happened just now. He saw the wreckage of space-based defense facilities floating outside the porthole, and the floating pirate warship not far away, coupled with the "headless" The "Knight" was also there, and Stephen mistakenly thought that Charlemagne's fleet was waiting. As for the members of the "Whitebeard" pirate group, the previous appearance of retreat was just a feint, in order to let his fleet and transport team return to "Christian", so as to cooperate internally and externally. Eliminate them in one fell swoop, and never have future troubles.

have to say. Stephen Su looked a little silly, but he was actually quite discerning. In just a few seconds, the trick of Charlemagne's gang was seen through.

"Herald, tell Gallup to hold the 'Whitebeard' men, and the rest of the ships, give me..."

"Stephen, open your eyes and take a good look. The battleship above 'Crystal' has lost its combat capability." Byron hurriedly interrupted him to give orders. This guy has some brains, but his shortcoming is that he has a quick temper and loves to do things with carelessness. Just like now, without waiting to understand the situation, the idea of ​​​​attacking is first launched.

"Huh?" Stephen Su showed doubts on his face: "Captain, it's not that Charlemagne has captured 'Christelle' and wants to use you as a trick to frame us?"

Byron's teeth were itching with hatred: "You son of a bitch, which eye of yours saw that I was being coerced?"

Stephen Su didn't reply immediately, turned around and left for a while, and then walked to the front of the camera. Perhaps he had learned the actual situation from the intelligence personnel, and said with an embarrassing expression, "I'm sorry, Commander, I was wrong."

"Hmph." Byron snorted coldly: "Charlemagne's fleet has been defeated, and now you only need to concentrate on dealing with the 'Whitebeard' gang."

"Don't worry." Stephen patted his chest: "As long as no one is holding back, I will definitely pluck that old Boyle's chin hair this time."

After he finished speaking, he was about to step out of the camera range when he suddenly turned his head: "Commander, I'm curious how you defeated Charlemagne."

Byron gritted his teeth and said, "It's important."

"Yes, yes, the business is important." Stephen smiled, and ordered the communication team to disconnect the two parties, and concentrate on dealing with the "Whitebeard" pirate group behind them and the "Crystal" guard fleet who had rebelled.

Later, Tang Fang was full of doubts, so he asked Ruskin what happened.

It turned out that more than a month ago, the headquarters of "Venus Pharmaceutical" informed that the staff of the "Babylon" branch bought a batch of biological samples that might have research value in the free market and sent them to "Christian" for research work. .

At first, he, Byron and others didn't care about it, thinking that the route from "Babylon" to "Dilar" was very safe, and there was no danger of any danger. When the edge was less than 0.1 light-year away, a group of medium-sized pirates composed of 120 warships suddenly popped up and stopped the fleet to carry out robbery.

A mere medium-sized pirate group dared to go to the hinterland of the Star Alliance to stir up wind and rain, and dare to intercept the transport fleet of "Venus Pharmaceutical" at a place less than 0.1 light-year away from the edge of "Dilal"?

You must know that the transportation fleet of "Venus Pharmaceutical" is not some Yeluzi cargo fleet. The company has signed security contracts with some security companies and mercenary organizations. This time, the fleet transporting biological samples includes "Venus"'s own scientific research ships and special-type cargo ships, as well as a fleet of 70 warships. Escort fleet.

The existence of the Pirates has not been hidden from the vanguard detection team of the transport fleet. While stopping the follow-up fleet, they sent a letter for help to the corporate garrison of "Dilal".

The social situation in the Heavenly Nest star area is not like that of a sovereign country like Monya and Charles. Due to the large number of pirate groups, the safety factor of each channel is different, and there are stronghold forces stalking them, resulting in frequent robberies. Only some major routes opened by the Star Alliance officially have peace because of the existence of patrol fleets. Of course, "Taiping" is also a relative term. After all, the distance between two adjacent star systems can easily be several light-years, tens of light-years. Even a superpower like the Star Alliance cannot guarantee the absolute safety of the entire shipping lane.

Moreover, this so-called official route is generally a star-shaped topological structure. Only node star systems like "Babylon" have official routes extending in all directions. Edge star systems like "Jakartapur" and "Dilal" First, the safety factor of the official route is not high. Secondly, there is only one official route, which is used to connect to the nearest neighboring star system.

Let's say "Jakartapur". Its official air route is connected with "Qatar". The distance between "Jakartapur" and "Babylon" is more than 20 light years. With the warp speed level of the Morning Star, if it travels straight, it will take about one month. But if you travel along the official waterway, it will take at least two and a half months.

Such a long journey may be acceptable to ordinary people, but it is unbearable for some commercial organizations and groups.

therefore. The major companies and organizations of the Star Alliance urgently need to work out a countermeasure, so that they can choose their favorite path. No risk of being robbed. Hiring large and medium-sized mercenaries and security groups is a good choice, but... the cost? The zero cost of hundreds of battleships alone is not a small amount. Unless the situation is compelling, no company is willing to hire them, which also creates a social phenomenon in which companies are eager to have private troops.

One is fear of detours and loss of opportunities; second fear of high rent; third fear of being robbed; fourth, warp speed navigation technology is not perfect, and the ship cannot stop the transition midway. Under such four major elements, a pioneering pathfinding mechanism was born.

Generally speaking, as a vanguard reconnaissance ship, a reconnaissance ship with the ability to scan warp probes will perform segmented warp jumps according to the fleet’s pre-set routes, and collect abnormal signals along the way. If unofficial warp speeds are found Probes, or encounter interception, the scout ship will send an alarm to the rear main fleet that is also doing segmented warp speed jump.

As long as the warp probe is not deployed, the movement of the fleet cannot be detected. Once the warp probe is deployed, it will be discovered by the vanguard scouting ship. In this way, the possibility of the fleet being intercepted will naturally be greatly reduced, unless there is an eyeliner of the pirates at the top of the fleet, or when the detection unit of the vanguard reconnaissance ship fails and is bumped into by the pirates indiscriminately. Unlucky situations such as dead rats.

Ruskin was very fortunate, fortunately, the transport fleet did not encounter the above-mentioned disadvantages.

70vs120! Fighting is definitely impossible, but if the transport fleet sincerely wants to delay, the pirates will never succeed in a short time. 0.1 light-year, about two or three hours of voyage, if the "Dilal" mercenary fleet is sent there, 150vs120! It can definitely scare away the pirate group.

But... What Ruskin Eddie wants is not to startle the other party away, but to make an example! The Dilar star system has been rented by "Venus Pharmaceutical", and in the next few decades, it will gradually build a comprehensive large-scale pharmaceutical company integrating pharmaceutical research and development, medical equipment manufacturing, and artificial organ production.

The goal of "Venus" is to grow into the top pharmaceutical manufacturer of the Star Alliance. How could it be possible to compromise with the Pirates? If the pirates succeed this time, they won't be ridiculed to death by their competitors. Therefore, it is necessary to hold back the momentum and kill chickens to make an example to monkeys.

In order to wipe out this group of pirates, Ruskin not only dispatched the security fleet of "Venus Pharmaceutical" stationed in the Dilar star system, but also borrowed Byron's pirate fleet consisting of 240 warships.

Originally, according to Byron's idea, it was necessary to leave half of the warships to guard "Dilal", so as not to encounter the possible "turning the tiger away from the mountain", but. Ruskin had the cheek to grind hard, and finally he agreed to the action plan of the whole ship attack.

After all, the battlefield between the pirate group and the transport fleet is too close to "Dilal". Only 0.1 light years away, besides. According to the data analysis sent back from the reconnaissance network scattered in the airspace around "Dilal", the pirates only have those 120 warships, and there should be no other ambush forces. Under such circumstances, as soon as the United Fleet arrives, it can be destroyed and send that group of pirates who are seeking their own doom to hell. It is conservatively estimated that if the bandit suppression campaign goes well, it should be over within an hour. Coupled with the round-trip voyage, it only takes about 5 or 6 hours.

In such a short period of time, no matter how fast the warship is, it will not be able to capture the air-ground integrated defense network built by the "Christian" before the combined fleet returns. You must know that the maximum monitoring distance of the "Dilal" peripheral reconnaissance network is 0.1 light-years. If someone really has evil intentions and plans to attack the industrial park after the United Fleet leaves, then he will wait to be copied by the United Fleet with a feint. let's go.

However, what Ruskin did not expect was that the opponent did not need to ambush redundant troops, nor did he need follow-up reinforcements. The security force of "Venus Pharmaceutical" consisting of 88 warships is simply a group of traitors, real pirates and lackeys.

After arriving at the target location, the fleet of the Byron faction of the Apollo Pirates led by Stephen Su launched its formation. The "Venus" security force at the rear suddenly launched an attack, forming a pincer attack with the original pirates.

Even if Stephen Su had more troops, facing this sudden change and unfavorable formation, he could not escape defeat. Fortunately, the frigate of the transport fleet arrived in time only after receiving the request for help, and with the combined efforts of both sides, they were able to stop the defeat and become entangled with their opponents.

As the saying goes, blessings come without pairs, and misfortunes never come singly. When Stephen Sue was held back by the "Whitebeard" pirates, "Christelle" ushered in its day of suffering.

The security fleet of "Venus Pharmaceutical" can be instigated by others. Border units can also be bought. Different from star systems such as "Jakartapur" and "Qatar", "Venus Pharmaceutical" does not have enough military and financial resources to set up a wide-area warp speed interception network on the "Dilar" border.

"Dilar" has only a local warp intercept line. It is arranged in the void outside the "Lachesis" star, and cooperates with a large number of warp probes in the star system to monitor and block possible enemy fleets, and to win responses for the security fleet and space-based defense platforms of "Crystal" time.

Under this defense structure, once the detection checkpoint in charge of a certain area is bought by the enemy, the result can be imagined. Thus, after the transport fleet and the fleet of the Byron faction of Apollo Pirates led by Stephen Su were held back, a fleet of 400 warships suddenly appeared from the shadow of "Lachesis" whose back was facing "Christelle". The expeditionary fleet formed by the army launched a fierce attack on the defense system above the industrial park.

This fleet is none other than the main fleet of the Apollo Pirates led by Albert's confidant General Charmaine Green.

Based on the analysis of the above-mentioned battle process, the series plan planned by Albert has gone through four processes: luring the enemy to go deep - diverting the tiger away from the mountain - countering the plan - enclosing the point to fight for aid. Who would have known that the appearance of the Morning Star broke this perfect and almost impeccable system? The battle strategy led to the disastrous defeat of the fleet led by Charlemagne.

According to Stephen Su's description, when Charlemagne captured the space-based defense line, the "Whitebeard" pirate group and the traitorous security fleet showed weakness to the enemy, deliberately pretending to be defeated, and retreated into deep space.

Considering that "Christelle" was being attacked by Charlemagne, Stephen did not dare to neglect, and rushed back to help with the transport fleet. Afterwards, after returning to the park after a voyage of more than two hours, the "Whitebeard" pirate group and the security fleet also followed.

It can be seen from this that Charlemagne's plan is not simply to encircle and fight for aid, but his plan is to attack back and forth and wipe out all the vital forces of the Byron faction.

"This Albert is really No. 1." Tang Fang looked up at the battlefield model drawn by the holographic projection equipment of the combat command platform. Stephen Su's side had more than 260 warships, and "White Beard" and the security fleet There are more than 180 ships, and the combat power can be distinguished at a glance.

In this case, whether he sends troops to support or not won't make much difference. "Whitebeard" and those people are not fools, without Charlemagne's fleet attacking, how could they be Stephen Su's opponents, "Escape" is their only option.

"If I had known this before, I would have let the high-ranking templar phantom some pirate warships. Then... unfortunately... unfortunately..."

Zhou Ai and Aluosi put their mouths aside and grinned. This kid is really bad, and all he thinks about is how sinful he is.

On the other side, on the flagship of the "Whitebeard" pirate group "Hydra", Boyle Ben, the head of the pirate group who is over 60 years old, stared at the big screen No. 2 for a while, " "Boom" punch hit the armrest of the captain's seat.

"That bastard Charmaine, what about the agreed front and rear attack? What about the other? Where did he go?" Boyle's eyes widened with anger, and he pouted his goatee angrily. (to be continued)