Chapter 38 Imperial Fleet
The fate of the gun sister was very miserable.
The huge wealth that was about to be obtained made her head dizzy, and she was not prepared for Qi Yiming to do something to her.
When the heavy gun approached the Redemption, Qi Yiming ordered the Xuefeng and the Redemption to fire at the heavy gun at the same time.
The gun sister did not have time to send any distress signals, and her ship was sunk by the dense barrage of bullets from two destroyers.
She herself was vaporized by a burst laser from the Xuefeng that penetrated the armor shielding the bridge.
Looking at the wreckage of the heavy gun, Qi Yiming shook his head and ordered the gunner of the Xuefeng: "All lifeboats launched from the heavy gun should be destroyed."
Qi Yiming knew that this was not the time to be sympathetic. If he did not handle it cleanly, he would leave a tail.
Maybe it would bring him endless trouble in the future, so Qi Yiming could only be cold-blooded.
After handling the tail, Qi Yiming ordered the Xuefeng to approach the Redemption and prepare to combine the two warships.
"Warning... a large number of fleets have left the jump..." Xuefeng's shipboard intelligent brain suddenly warned loudly.
Qi Yiming stood in the bridge and saw more than 30 warships suddenly appear 500,000 km away from Xuefeng.
"Listen, commander of the warship on the opposite side... you have been surrounded... ah..." Dorant subconsciously said the common phrase he used when he was a ground patrolman and immediately changed his words: "Commander of the warship on the opposite side, immediately turn off the engine, point the muzzle up and wait for inspection!"
After discovering the appearance of the Imperial Fleet, Qi Yiming knew that today's matter could not be resolved so easily.
Ignoring the warning of the commander of the Imperial Fleet, Qi Yiming directly started the combination program with the Redemption.
After receiving the combination command, the two warships quickly approached.
"Please select the combination mode..."
"Dual-ship formation mode..."
After Qi Yiming proposed the mode selection on the shipboard intelligent brain, he did not choose to let Xuefeng directly combine with the Redemption.
"Chen Cheng, you and Hao Chenqi go to the Guardian, bring enough energy blocks... The Guardian will be combined with the Redemption later, and you will be the temporary captain of the combination. The new combination will still be called the Redemption."
The two received the order and left quickly.
A few minutes later, the Xuefeng disintegrated first.
The Guardian and the Explorer left the combination mode at the same time.
After leaving its original position, the Explorer did not fly far away.
Instead, it moved to the lower side of the Lightning under the traction of the tractor beam shot by the Lightning, and the secondary guns on the hull were restored to two triple-mounted main guns.
One flew back to the Guardian, and the other flew to the position of the Lightning's bow main gun under the action of the tractor beam, and recombined with the bow main gun to form a front and rear backpack main gun.
The main gun at the stern of the Explorer also landed at the position of the Lightning's stern main gun at the same time, and it was also a front and rear backpack main gun.
Then the Explorer was firmly embedded in the armor cavity specially formed for her in the belly of the Lightning.
The Snow Peak transformed again, becoming a destroyer with 12 secondary guns and two triple-mounted main guns on the front and rear.
At the same time, the Guardian also completed the combination with the Redemption in the same steps.
The new Redemption's main gun at the bow is the special main gun used to launch nanorobots and transmit energy, and its lower part is the triple-mounted main gun, and her secondary guns have increased from the original 16 to 22.
After the two warships were combined, they quickly formed a double-ship formation, with the Redemption at the rear, protected by the Snow Peak.
The captains of the Imperial Fleet saw this scene and quarreled in the fleet channel.
"Is this a warship that can be combined at will?"
"Is this a show of skill? So what if it can be combined? We don't know how powerful it is yet..."
"Don't argue." Dorant stopped the quarrel in time: "Attention, all ships, two cruisers maneuver to the plane of the enemy ships, and form a trapezoidal array in ascending order according to the level of the warships."
Although facing the strange changes of Xuefeng and Redemption, the Imperial Fleet still acted quickly, completing the reorganization of the line within a few minutes, and slowly approached Qi Yiming's double-ship formation.
"Redemption... secondary guns fire at full power to provide fire support for this ship, and the main guns fire at will." Qi Yiming was not panicked. He could single-handedly fight a full-strength fleet of cruisers without Redemption. Now with the help of Redemption, it is even easier to kill this Imperial Fleet.
After the Imperial Fleet entered a distance of 450,000 km, it launched a intensive missile attack, with a total of thousands of missiles.
Qi Yiming roughly calculated that the number of missiles had exceeded the upper limit that Xuefeng and Redemption could intercept.
"Redemption, lock on to this ship and start the remote maintenance system." Qi Yiming gave the order decisively.
Although the Guardian lost the powerful energy support of the Lightning, the Redemption had enough energy blocks, and the remote maintenance device had been optimized for energy consumption, so the maintenance endurance was greatly enhanced.
When the Empire's missile rain entered the secondary gun range of the Snow Peak formation, the two warships opened fire at full force.
The Snow Peak even turned on all the power furnaces in the ship to continuously provide abundant energy for the secondary guns.
The dense rain of missiles was instantly hit head-on.
Each laser beam could instantly burn two or three missiles, but the firepower projected by the Imperial Fleet at one time was too dense, and the Xuefeng only intercepted most of the missiles even with the help of the Redemption.
The missiles that passed through the defense network directly rushed towards Qi Yiming's two warships.
In order to protect the Redemption, the Xuefeng had to block the flight trajectory of the missiles under the command of Qi Yiming.
"Armor damage 26%, structural damage 7%..." The shipboard intelligent brain faithfully reported the damage to the warship. The Xuefeng suffered heavy damage in just one round of attack.
"Fuck... Why is it so fierce?" Qi Yiming cursed.
Then he came to his senses.
Which businessman in the world is the most evil? Of course it's the arms dealer...
In the broken place of Xuanwu Galaxy, where there is nothing to buy, you can't assemble warships by yourself, so you can only buy them everywhere.
The arms dealers are afraid of being backlashed by the warships they sold, so of course they sell monkey-version warships.
Qi Yiming was not at an advantage when facing the Xuefeng, and with the generation gap, it was difficult for Qi Yiming to lose.
Today, he was facing an empire with a complete arms production line, and the combat power was certainly incomparable.
"The monkey version of the battleship killed people..." Qi Yiming couldn't help but wail.
But even so, Qi Yiming was not in a bad mood. Behind the Xuefeng was the Redemption, which was known as the nurse.
As soon as the Xuefeng was attacked, the Redemption activated the remote repair system.
Qi Yiming could clearly see the injury information panel of the Xuefeng, and the armor integrity value was recovering rapidly at a rate of 2% per second.
In other words, when the next round of attack from the imperial fleet arrived, the Xuefeng would almost be restored to its original state.
Of course, Qi Yiming couldn't just take the beating without fighting back.
The longer the battle lasted, the more advantageous it would be for Qi Yiming as the strength of both sides increased and decreased.
So many recommendation votes... Thank you everyone! ! I am crying with emotion... Yes, I still have one monthly ticket... I will continue to cry with emotion... By the way, let me tell you an embarrassing story. When I was writing this chapter, I sat there for a long time calculating how many secondary guns the two battleships should have and what the main gun configuration was.