Chapter 60: The Hammer

Qi Yiming ordered the Xuefeng to fly around the red desolate planet several times, and scanned the entire planet using the ship-borne scanning equipment.

But no ancient warships were found.

This made Qi Yiming's face look ugly: "Are we late? Has the warship been taken away?"

Wang Sen shook his head: "I don't think it's likely... We didn't delay for a long time on the road! In such a short time, it is still very difficult to find this place with a little clue."

"Then let's scan a few more times..."

So the Xuefeng lowered the orbital altitude of the planet so that the scanning equipment could scan the desolate planet more accurately.

"Captain, suspicious objects were found near 31.21 degrees east longitude and 22.51 degrees north latitude, suspected to be man-made objects." Ten minutes later, the crew member in charge of the scanning equipment happily reported to Qi Yiming.

Qi Yiming suddenly became energetic: "Send someone down to have a look..."

With his own crew, Qi Yiming no longer had to risk going alone to explore. Now he only needed to give orders, and someone would naturally do the work.

Half an hour later, the ground personnel reported to Qi Yiming: "Captain, it is confirmed to be an ancient warship."

The person who spoke was extremely excited. He was excited to find a warship left over from ancient times. He could brag about it for the rest of his life.

"Why can't I see its outline?" Qi Yiming asked curiously.

"The entire warship has been covered by red iron sand. We may need to dig here..." The overly excited captain of the ground exploration team actually forgot to introduce the details.

"Intelligent brain, can you identify what level of warship is buried below?" Qi Yiming was also very happy and asked the intelligent brain excitedly.

"The iron sand covered the warship, and all types of signals were severely interfered and could not be identified..." Although it was not a big bad news, the cold synthesis of the ship-borne intelligent brain was still so pleasant to Qi Yiming at this time.

Qi Yiming was not discouraged, but ordered the ground personnel to camp on the spot, and he would soon deploy heavy machinery to dig.

Heavy mechanic Qi Yiming asked Wang Zhengfeng to prepare it before leaving, just to prevent such a situation.

The whole process lasted for three days.

The warship was buried too deep, and it took a lot of effort to dig it out.

The moment this ancient warship was excavated, Qi Yiming recognized it as the Heavy Hammer frigate, which once belonged to the Strategic Strike Fleet and was also a modular warship.

Fortunately, the Heavy Hammer and the Snow Peak belonged to the same sequence and were modular warships of the armored system.

Since it was a modular warship, Qi Yiming had to go down and take control in person.

After ordering the Snow Peak to enter the guard state, Qi Yiming took a few energy blocks and went down to the ground in a transport boat.

The Heavy Hammer frigate was obviously different from the Guardian. There was no main gun on her hull, and her size was slightly smaller than the Guardian.

Two torpedo launchers were installed on the bow. This was the only modular warship in the Strategic Strike Fleet that used torpedo attacks.

Two sets of heavy torpedo production lines were placed inside the small hull, which could produce two types of heavy torpedoes.

One is a heavy torpedo with electromagnetic damage, and the other is a heavy torpedo with explosive damage.

When Qi Yiming entered the Heavy Hammer, it was filled with reddish-brown metal sand, and Qi Yiming had to ask people to clean it out quickly.

It took another two days to clean the internal environment of the warship. If it weren't for the high technical level of the Human Federation, the Heavy Hammer, which was so damaged by the iron sand, might have been scrapped long ago.

While cleaning the iron sand, Qi Yiming's men also cleaned out dozens of skeletons of Human Federation soldiers.

The skeletons have been buried in the reddish-brown iron sand for many years, and the surface has turned red.

Qi Yiming asked them to place the skeletons in the warehouse of the Heavy Hammer, and then he muttered to himself: "It's impossible to force a landing anywhere, but you have to land on this barren planet. I don't know how desperate you were at that time."

After sighing, Qi Yiming quickly gained control of the Heavy Hammer, and everything went very smoothly.

Just when Qi Yiming thought that this expedition was about to end, Xuefeng sent an urgent communication request.

As the deputy captain of Xuefeng, Hao Chenqi took over the control of Xuefeng after Qi Yiming left.

At first, the surrounding airspace was very quiet. When Qi Yiming successfully took control of the Heavy Hammer, Xuefeng detected a small formation on the edge of the X-221 galaxy.

Hao Chenqi immediately ordered Xuefeng to increase the defense level and immediately notified the Heavy Hammer, which had just broken through the atmosphere.

Because the two sides were still far apart, Qi Yiming was not nervous.

He adjusted the orbit of the Heavy Hammer to the same orbital altitude as Xuefeng.

Qi Yiming then took the transport boat back to Xuefeng again.

"Start the combination program and put the Heavy Hammer under the control of the combination..." Qi Yiming took over the command of Xuefeng again and ordered the combination program to start.

As a frigate, the Heavy Hammer only needs to enter the predetermined position alone according to the program, and the Xuefeng will use the traction beam to pull the Heavy Hammer into place.

The ship-borne intelligent brain of the Heavy Hammer, which received the order, drove the Heavy Hammer to the belly position of the bow of the Xuefeng.

The Guardian and the Exploration, which were combined in advance, slowly moved to the stern of the Xuefeng and repositioned the combination.

After the Heavy Hammer moved to its position, the two engines were separated from the hull and put into the warehouse by the Xuefeng, just replacing the two damaged engines of the Guardian.

The two torpedo launchers installed on the hull were also retracted into the Heavy Hammer.

Under the traction of the Xuefeng traction beam, the Heavy Hammer turned the hull, and the stern was facing the same direction as the bow of the Xuefeng.

And the interior of the battleship was also undergoing drastic changes.

The original engine installation site became the launch port of the heavy torpedo, and the power reactor inside the ship was dismantled and recycled into the warehouse.

After the Heavy Hammer was combined with the Snow Peak, the entire warship completely became a torpedo tube capable of producing heavy torpedoes on its own, becoming another offensive weapon for the Snow Peak.

Although the Snow Peak, which has been upgraded again, is only a destroyer, its combat power is no less than that of a battlecruiser in the current human forces.

Qi Yiming looked at the red dot on the radar screen approaching him quickly, and he guessed that it must be the mysterious people they met in X-113.

Sure enough, when this group of people left the jump mode, Qi Yiming immediately found that the Azure was among them.

The two sides were extremely jealous when they met, and even without basic communication, Qi Yiming had already ordered the Snow Peak to turn on the fire control radar.

At the same time, the Snow Peak's shipboard intelligent brain issued a warning: "Warning, under the irradiation of the enemy ship Azure's fire control radar... The enemy ship has locked our ship, please pay attention to avoid it!"

The battle broke out in an instant, and it was an all-out attack as soon as the war started.

After the first fight, Qi Yiming was also mentally prepared for a protracted war.

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