Chapter 437 Ambush

Three days later.

The fleet belonging to the battleship that Liang Fei and Li Weiqi boarded arrived at a star system between Aodan and the outer second ring star field.

This galaxy, like other galaxies outside, needs to evacuate the people in the galaxy.

But before evacuating, the galaxy can still play some of its final roles.

The friendly fleets in the next star field will pass through here when they are evacuating, and they will make temporary supplies before continuing to retreat.

What Liang Fei and Li Weiqi's fleet had to do was to set up an ambush on the retreating path of the friendly fleet to block the pursuing mechanical fleet.

Whether in the empire or the machine race, not all fleets can use jump retreats without scruples.

After all, warp is an important tactical ability with a limited number of uses.

Navigating through hyperspace channels is the main means of travel for space battleships.

This gives people the opportunity to ambush in war.

Liang Fei and his fleet maintained the minimum engine power and only maintained the operation of the life support system and stayed in the galaxy.

And in the command room of the fleet flagship.

Liang Fei was beside the captain asking him questions.

"How much longer?"

The captain had great respect for Liang Fei, a psyker, and said without reservation: "Our own fleet will arrive in about an hour. We will stop here for an hour to replenish supplies."

"If we don't use this half of the fleet, we don't have to worry about this matter. This is a matter for the other half of the fleet. When the time comes, whether they are withdrawn or us, they will be withdrawn together with the fleet that is already in the galaxy."

"The mechanical fleet behind them will probably arrive in another three hours. Our task is to temporarily block them and delay them for about an hour."

"A lot of the population in the galaxy has been evacuated before, and this time is the last batch. Then the rights to use the defense weapons on the colonial space stations in the galaxy have been transferred to us, so there should be no problem."

"I understand. Remember to notify me when the time comes."

"There will be a ship-wide broadcast at that time."

Liang Fei nodded, turned and left the command room, returning to his independent dormitory.

Li Wei happened to return here at this time, and when he saw Liang Fei, he said with a slight complaint: "I walked around for a while, and to be honest, this group of soldiers is not very good. More than 80% of them are new recruits. They are not as good as those I enlisted in before." The quality is high.”

Liang Fei said helplessly: "In special times, there are so many good soldiers. Being able to board the flagship already shows that these people are the tallest among the dwarves. Relax, it doesn't matter if you don't relax. Anyway, you are the one who feels uncomfortable." ”

"Hey……"

Liang Fei livened up the atmosphere between the two of them and returned to the formal tone: "Friendly forces will arrive in an hour, and the mechanical tribe's pursuers will arrive in about three hours. We are responsible for dealing with the pursuers."

"How many?"

"At least a fleet of three hundred cruisers."

"When the Machine Tribe invaded, they didn't just focus on our direction. There were many other places that were also being hunted by the Machine Tribe."

"To be honest, we are very lucky here. After all, the battleship that was originally here was transferred to the nearby Gallo."

"In addition, our combat power is indeed not good. The mechanical clan has not even dispatched a replacement capital ship, and only a few cruisers are left."

Liang Fei is quite optimistic about the future situation.

However, Li Wei still has a different view: "Even if only the cruiser is left, I can't say whether it is rescue or death. We don't have the strength."

Liang Fei understood why. Since his last brush with death, Li Wei had generally avoided dangerous things when he could.

You keep talking about it, but you still don't fall behind on what you need to do.

So he comforted him again: "Don't worry, the new ships seem to have adopted new technologies. Those scientists said that our new ships are a bit higher than the average value of the mechanical ships."

"But I still don't understand why we have to go to the front line when we come?"

"Most of the psykers have to go to the front line. Our psychic powers are not enough for offense and more than enough for defense. We are also very good on the spaceship. The two of us plus one may not be worth as much as the new ship we are sitting on now."

"And in the past, psykers had no identity that could be revealed, so no one cared about them. But it's different now."

"I still feel that before..."

"Why……"

Liang Fei waved his hand to interrupt Li Wei's nostalgia: "Let the past go by. Anyway, things always have good and bad moments."

"But I have a bad feeling."

"I have it too. Anyway, just do what you have to do. Did you bring that thing with you?"

"Bring it."

"Then there's nothing to worry about."

"I can't say."

Although Li Wei didn't say anything more now, it was still difficult for him to really not worry.

He walked around the captain's cabin anxiously for a long time and finally chose to close his eyes and meditate, adjust his mental state, and make final preparations.

Soon after.

The friendly fleet has arrived in the galaxy.

The entire fleet only has over a hundred battlecruisers, less than 500 destroyers, and only about 500 escorts.

And, there are about as many personnel transport ships as combat ships.

Not a single ship in the entire fleet is still intact. Each ship has more or less structural damage. It is considered very good to be able to drive back.

Of course, this fleet did not take away all the ordinary people, and many other fleets were also trying to evacuate.

In fact, most of the population relied on stargate transportation, and only a small number of people who did not have time to go to the stargate would be taken away in this way.

But having said that, there are still many people who can only escape the fate of being killed by the mechanical race through fleet transportation.

And judging from the number of personnel transport ships in the fleet at this time.

The loss of ordinary people has exceeded one-third.

It is conceivable how many people died on the road.

After the fleet arrived, the engineering ships that had been prepared in the galaxy immediately crowded up like a swarm, carried out emergency repairs on the damaged ships, and quickly used the resources brought out from the colonies in the galaxy to fill the supplies of these damaged ships.

Liang Fei's fleet was still hidden in a dark asteroid belt on the ecliptic plane of the galaxy, waiting silently.

Time passed by minute by minute.

The friendly fleets in the galaxy evacuated one after another.

One hour after the friendly forces completely evacuated.

The edge of the galaxy once again saw the fluctuation of the hyperspace channel jump engine.

An announcement was immediately made on the flagship ship, and the silent fleet immediately became active.

The mechanical fleet appeared from the edge of the galaxy, and after a preliminary reconnaissance, it approached the planet where the friendly evacuation fleet had previously replenished supplies.

The number of mechanical fleets was greater than the number of fleets ambushed here, but the difference was not too big.

Moreover, the purpose of the fleet's trip was just to delay time, not to really destroy the fleet.

The chance of achieving the goal was great.

When the mechanical fleet passed through the asteroid belt in the galaxy, it did not detect the fleet hiding in the asteroid belt.

The commander of the fleet did not rush to act, but let the mechanical fleet pass directly.

As an ambush hunter, he wanted to find the most appropriate time.

Just as the entire mechanical fleet was about to pass through the asteroid belt, they completely exposed the side and rear of the fleet.

The commander immediately issued an order.

The hiding fleet was fully activated, inserted from the most vulnerable side and rear of the mechanical fleet, and instantly created a lot of results.

Many mechanical warships had shields that were not full-width shields. They could only be opened in front of the spacecraft or the opening speed was not ideal, resulting in the full coverage of the firepower of this wave of surprise attacks.

For a time, the Odan fleet almost did not suffer any damage in exchange for nearly one-third of the mechanical fleet's losses.

The original objective difference in the number of fleets was completely eliminated.

A short cheer was heard in the command room.

But the cheer was soon interrupted by a panicked exclamation: "Commander! New fluctuations were found at the edge of the galaxy!"

The situation at the edge of the galaxy was immediately displayed on the large screen in the command room.

At the moment when the jump fluctuations were smoothed out.

Another mechanical fleet appeared here.

And the flagship of this fleet was a mechanical mothership.

"The number of enemies far exceeded the expected scale! The intelligence was wrong! Change the battle plan! Retreat!"

The commander made a decisive judgment.

But at this time, the Odan fleet's surprise attack had caused the entire fleet to penetrate the mechanical fleet, which caused the mechanical fleet formation to be in chaos, but also made the Odan fleet lose its flexibility.

The reinforcements of the mechanical race arrived instantly, and there was absolutely no chance for them to retreat.

Even at this time, their fleet had already entered the range of the mothership, which was still at the edge of the galaxy.

And during the period when the most external communication signals were transmitted, they were naturally regarded as the first target by the mothership.

The ridge cannon on the mothership lit up the light pollution of energy amplification, and a red laser beam was fired.

Even though the flagship was already performing maneuvers, even though it took three minutes for light to reach the galaxy from the edge of the galaxy.

But this beam still hit the flagship's shield accurately.

The shield only lasted less than three seconds before the spacecraft was almost overloaded and forced to shut down.

But this was the longest time that the specially modified flagship could support. If it was other cruisers, they would be directly destroyed the moment they were hit by the laser beam.

After breaking the flagship's shield, the mothership's laser hit the armor without any reduction.

The surging beam energy instantly melted the armor, and the hull structure was also directly penetrated.

Fortunately, the flagship had the opportunity to adjust its position after being hit by the beam.

It was not destroyed directly.

But the entire ship was also caught in the dilemma of radiation system overload.

Li Wei, who was in the command room, could no longer sit still the moment the shield was broken.

He stood up and rushed directly to the direction of the destroyed structure of the flagship. Everyone had changed into protective clothing before the battle began.

He was able to reach the vicinity of the ship structure that was penetrated by the mothership without being affected.

However, the passage between the sections from the intact area to the ship's gap had been closed by the airtight door.

Li Wei could only stand at the back and send the psychic wave to the gap in the hull.

Some snow-white foam appeared along the traces of the psychic wave, and quickly solidified in the vacuum, forming a layer of solid foam on the gap in the hull, completely separating the cosmic environment from the interior of the ship.

Foam that extinguishes with a blow is foam, and foam that is strong enough to seal the gap in the warship is also foam.

And a large amount of pure white foam grew out of the hull, creating a dense foam layer on the side of the hull.

The second attack of the mechanical mothership followed.

This time, the red laser beam did not hit the hull, but hit the foam layer created by Li Wei. .

The complex structure inside the transparent foam layer directly split the laser beam of the main battleship, and after Li Wei's carefully designed adjustment, it shot towards the surrounding mechanical fleet.

It created some room for the Odan fleet to turn around.

The commander immediately seized this fleeting opportunity and ordered the fleet to adjust its posture and try to get out of the gap created by the mothership itself.

But in the next moment.

The mothership suddenly disappeared at the edge of the galaxy, short-distance jump into the galaxy, almost sticking to the face of the Odan fleet.

Together with the mechanical fleet that Odan raided, they were sandwiched in the middle.

The mothership's ridge gun bow was immediately adjusted, replacing the gun bow from the laser beam with an energy restraint bomb.

At a distance almost touching the face, three consecutive energy restraint bombs fired by the ridge cannon were fired directly at the mothership.

The first energy restraint bomb exploded in the foam layer of the civilian Li Wei, completely clearing the foam layer.

The second and third energy restraint bombs rushed to the flagship almost without any hindrance.

Several extremely thick chains suddenly appeared near the period, wrapping the ship body in them.

Liang Fei also rushed to the side opposite the flagship and the mothership.

Although the chain was instantly broken under the attack of the subsequent two energy restraint bombs, it still alleviated some of the impact.

However, the next moment, a violent explosion was heard from the direction of the command room.

Even if the main weapons were slightly blocked by two 4-machine psychics, the cruiser was still too weak to face the other weapons possessed by the main ship.

Judging from the busy tone of the communication channel, there should be no living people in the command room.

No matter the captain or anyone else, there is no possibility of survival.

The command system of the entire spacecraft has been completely paralyzed.

A missile from the mothership hit the hull structure not far in front of the two men, completely destroying the foam filled by Li Wei and the airtight doors on both sides.

Li Wei was thrown out by the airflow from the internal air, and then was pulled back by a chain.

But when Liang Fei pulled him back, a piece of armor fragment had been inserted into Li Wei's body.

The gas in the protective suit and the blood in Li Wei's body were leaking out rapidly.

He looked like he was breathing out more than breathing in.

Liang Fei shouted at him anxiously: "Where's the thing!"

Li Wei vaguely heard the voice from the communicator, and reluctantly stretched out his trembling hand and pointed to his waist.

Liang Fei did not dare to waste time and found a gray-green cocoon-like object in the closed waist bag on his waist.

He immediately crushed the cocoon and stuffed the gray-green juice and cocoon into Li Wei's arms.

A large amount of gray-green biomass immediately wrapped the wound on Li Wei's body and penetrated into the wound.

At this time, Liang Fei saw a dazzling light out of the corner of his eye.

He turned his head to look outside the damaged hull.

Another energy restraint bomb from the mothership was approaching rapidly.

If this energy restraint bomb hits, the ship will be completely destroyed.

Even the means left by An Wuping seemed unable to change the outcome.

Li Wei opened his eyes weakly: "I don't see any hope of us winning."