Chapter 180 Stalemate

With the previous experience, Zhou Can had actually been on guard against Qi Yiming's short-distance precision jump again.

When he saw the familiar combination of Xuefeng and Azure again, he immediately ordered the fleet to be on alert, and at the same time mobilized all the powerful warships in the fleet to the surrounding of the modified battlecruiser.

The only particle energy cannon that could defeat the shield also began to charge. Fortunately, Xuefeng and Azure launched a fatal attack the moment they appeared beside him.

Qi Yiming finally smiled when he saw the internal mobilization of the other fleet.

He didn't really go up to fight to the death with the fleet of the Commercial Alliance. Qi Yiming's purpose was just to harass and make the other party afraid to attack his main force with all their strength.

However, the fleet of the Commercial Alliance had an absolute advantage in numbers. By mobilizing a part of the troops to perform key defense, Zhou Can still had a lot of mobile forces to continue to attack Qi Yiming's main fleet.

There was no other way, Qi Yiming could only let the Xuefeng continue to carry out the attack mission as planned. He believed that as long as the Xuefeng brought greater pressure to the opponent, the fleet of the Commercial Alliance would first concentrate its forces to deal with the Xuefeng, and then concentrate on dealing with Qi Yiming's main fleet.

Under the worried eyes of everyone, the Xuefeng and the Azure decisively accelerated to enter the jump channel.

Wang Shuhua immediately took over the command of the fleet and continued to lead the fleet to wander back and forth in front of the enemy to find opportunities.

At this time, Zhou Can ordered the fleet to advance and continue to compress the activity space of the enemy fleet. At the same time, he also ordered the warships responsible for the key escort mission to be vigilant and ready to attack the Xuefeng that was about to appear in front of them.

A few minutes later, the Xuefeng and the Azure appeared accurately near the modified battlecruiser.

The two warships that had just left the jump were immediately attacked fiercely by the alliance fleet.

Thousands of bursting lasers were mixed with artistic milky white particle energy beams.

"The shield strength dropped by 5512 points." Qiao Shan immediately reported the damage to the energy shield to Qi Yiming.

Qi Yiming had expected the 10,000-point defense strength to be cut in half in an instant, and he was not as nervous as Qiao Shan.

"The Azure will give up all weapon charging, transfer all energy to the shield generator, and try to increase the shield recovery speed. The Snow Peak will also help." Qi Yiming was very calm.

After giving Qiao Shan new instructions, he turned to ask the weapons officer: "Has the super-heavy main gun charging been completed?"

Qi Yiming did not want to complete the weapon charging before the jump, but no matter what form of energy in the jump channel would dissipate on its own for no reason, and charging in advance would only waste energy.

"There are still thirty seconds..." The weapons officer glanced at the charging status of the super-heavy main gun.

Qi Yiming calculated in his mind that with the current energy shield status of the Azure, it can still sustain a round of attack.

The enemy's attack interval is about 25 to 30 seconds, and the particle energy cannon's attack interval is slightly longer, and it takes about one minute to complete a charge.

"Hold on, at least let the Snow Peak complete a main gun salvo." Qi Yiming said to Qiao Shan.

Qiao Shan just nodded silently, and then stared at the status panel of the energy shield in front of him.

At this time, the energy shield was recovering its defense strength at a rate of 771 points every ten seconds, while the Azure sacrificed its attack power.

Although the Xuefeng also provided support to the Azure, the Xuefeng needed to quickly recharge its super-heavy main guns, and in fact, its support to the Azure was very limited, and it did not increase the recovery speed of the shield much.

Even so, after the Xuefeng completed a main gun salvo, regardless of whether the battlecruiser was severely damaged, Qi Yiming had to take the Azure to immediately accelerate into the jump channel and evacuate from the center of the enemy fleet, otherwise they would only be destroyed and killed.

But how could Zhou Can let Qi Yiming complete the attack on the battlecruiser so easily?

When he saw that the two super-heavy main guns on the Xuefeng began to charge, Zhou Can immediately ordered the modified battlecruiser to adjust its position and try to use friendly ships to protect his body.

At the same time, he commanded his ship to block the firing range of the Xuefeng.

Zhou Can didn't want to do this kind of thing, but there was no way. He couldn't order other warships to block the firing range of the Xuefeng, otherwise it would easily cause a mutiny in the fleet.

Even if the battlecruiser was asked to use friendly ships to evade, the order was issued through a special channel.

The warships surrounding the Xuefeng didn't realize that Zhou Can had betrayed them in order to preserve the trump card in his hand.

Qi Yiming looked at the battlecruiser that hid behind the fleet group neatly, but he had no way to do anything. Their maneuvering space had been blocked by Zhou Can long ago, and there was no way to adjust the firing range in time. In the end, he could only watch the two purple beams shot by the super-heavy main guns fly past the battlecruiser's hull.

However, at least two cruisers and more than a dozen destroyers were sunk. Another battlecruiser responsible for escorting was pierced by the purple beam. It could only slowly leave the fleet and retreat to the rear for emergency repairs.

Even so, Qi Yiming was not upset. Xuefeng and Weilan did not stay in place for long. After the main guns finished firing, they immediately accelerated and quickly entered the jump channel, disappearing in front of Zhou Can again.

When Xuefeng and Weilan appeared again, they had already broken away from contact with the alliance fleet.

At this time, the Xuefeng fully supported the Azure, allowing the Azure's shield recovery rate to reach 1321 points every ten seconds.

One minute later, the energy shield's defense strength returned to 10,000 points again, and Qi Yiming just said to Qiao Shan: "Let's go..."

The two warships turned their bows and entered the jump channel again.

This time, Qi Yiming was not going to stare at the battlecruiser to death, but turned to kill the enemy's living forces as the goal.

Nor did he require the Azure to fully provide energy for the shield generator. They only needed to ensure that the Xuefeng and the Azure would immediately withdraw from the enemy fleet after the shield was hit for the second time.

In this way, the number of damages Zhou Can faced rose rapidly.

The warships originally arranged for key guarding were quickly sunk or severely damaged one by one by the Xuefeng, which changed its fighting style, and the modified battlecruisers were gradually exposed to the muzzle of the Xuefeng.

Zhou Can had no choice but to mobilize the fleet from the confrontation line again to supplement the escort fleet.

Wang Shuhua felt very tired as he led the fleet, and the fleet suffered heavy losses.

Under the continuous attacks of the enemy fleet, they had lost half of their destroyers, and more than a dozen cruisers had also left the fleet, activating the nearby jump bridge and leaving the Cole galaxy.

But as time went on, Wang Shuhua keenly felt that the pressure on his shoulders was easing.

On the enemy front, many heavy firepower warships were withdrawn from the front.

Wang Shuhua knew that Qi Yiming's plan was working, but he was very worried about Qi Yiming and Qiao Shan, fearing that something might go wrong with them.

Fortunately, what he had been worried about did not happen, but things were moving in a good direction.