Chapter 51: Windfall
Monica's meaning was instantly understood by Fengyu, but he was especially suspicious in his heart, "Attacking NO's merchant ships is indeed a good choice, and it should be able to force the 9th Fleet out." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info But there are so many ships coming and going in WG1, how can we judge? ”
"Since I proposed the solution, I will naturally handle it." Monica came with a clear readiness, "Don't forget I'm an informant. Now he has been appointed as the exclusive intelligence officer of the Stormwind, and has the authority to contact the intelligence stations in various places. Before coming to WG1, I had already obtained the contact information of the intelligence station here, and I only had to ask the intelligence officer here to know which merchant ships were NO. ”
Although Feng Yu is a director, it is impossible to understand everything, especially in terms of complex intelligence work. He is in charge of security and military affairs in Awa-ker, and he really doesn't need a layman to worry about organizing a powerful intelligence system, so he has always been a cloth to reach out and open his mouth for intelligence.
Hearing Monica say this, Fengyu continued to be his hands-off shopkeeper, leaving the matter to the intelligence officer. So under Monica's guidance, the "Storm" flew to the WG1 shipping center in optical invisibility, dropped a beacon here, and immediately left.
A few hours later, a small spaceship crept up to Monica's agreed location and brought the information she wanted. As a super-large organization that can compete with the country, there will naturally be no shortage of merchant ships under NO, and there are also a few berthed at the WG1 shipping center at this time.
The WG1 Shipping Center is a space city, mainly used as a supply hub port for the main shipping lane, providing supplies, simple repairs and temporary docking for civilian spacecraft. Basically, in every main channel star field of each country, there will be a similar functional space city, which is a standard civilian facility.
Because it is a civilian facility, the WG1 shipping center is far away from the 9th Fleet base and is not in the same planetary orbit. The 9th Fleet base is located on the fifth planet L4, while the WG1 shipping center is located on the sixth planet L4. The distance between the two space cities is not only the distance of the orbits of one planet, but also because the orbital positions of the two planets at this time happen to be on opposite sides of the star, so the distance between them has exceeded 30 astronomical units, which is basically the distance from the star to the Kuiper Belt.
After grasping the information of the NO merchant ship, Fengyu considered moving directly near the WG1 shipping center.
There are two advantages to this, one is that the impact of doing it here is greater, and it can spread the word more quickly, rather than being like a pirate who does it in a corner and waits for ten days and half a month before anyone knows. The "Quasi-Ace Squad" plan could not afford delays, and it would not delay if the 9th Fleet could be pulled out as soon as possible.
The second advantage is that the WG1 shipping center is far away from the 9th Fleet base, so the other side cannot react in the first place, and the news will not be transmitted for too long, and the "Tempest" has plenty of time to operate. And if you want to attack the other side next, you can decide the direction of the main attack according to the number of warships sent by the 9th Fleet.
After making up its mind, the "Tempest" lifted its optical invisibility and headed straight for a caravan that was about to leave the port. This caravan belongs to the Soros Foundation, a long-established consortium of the UAC, and is preparing to fly to the Earth Federation.
The Soros consortium is one of the old consortia in the era of the earth, active in the field of finance and investment, and is good at disrupting and sniping at the financial and investment markets of various countries with massive capital operations, so as to grab huge profits.
With the advent of the space age, countless star fields are waiting for everyone to develop, endless resources are waiting for everyone to explore, and space is the most profitable place. People no longer put their spare money in banks and stock markets, which are secondary capital operating markets that do not create wealth by themselves, but directly invest in popular industries such as interstellar exploration, shipping, and mining.
With the rapid shrinkage of the secondary market, the Soros consortium, which is good at hot money speculation, has not kept up with the tide of the times in time and inevitably falls behind the ranks of the top conglomerates. In order to regain its former glory, this consortium became one of the original initiators of the NO organization and one of the decision-makers of a series of evil deeds of the NO organization.
There is no doubt that the caravan of the Soros consortium is the target that must be targeted, and Fengyu will not be soft when he moves.
The Soros caravan consisted of 10 ships, several of which were armed merchant ships, and apparently often sailed through pirate-infested areas. It's just that it's not enough to see the "quasi-ace squad" who have just won a few battles.
Feng Yu simply assigned the 10 ships, Hong Juxing, Valkyrie and Haifeng were each responsible for an armed merchant ship, the "Tempest" personally dealt with one, and the other 6 ordinary merchant ships were handed over to the other 6 Awakened pilots, just one of them was left behind.
It's just that the next battle was unexpectedly fierce, and this Soros caravan actually carried a full 5 mobile squads, which was stronger than the two patrols of the 9th Fleet.
It's just that after the last battle, the Awakened pilots summarized and shared their experiences, and they have some ideas on how to use their abilities to assist in combat when facing enemies that have doubled or even more in number. This is the right time to be confirmed.
As a result, although they faced more mobile suits, the "Quasi-Ace Squad" played more easily than before.
They use cooperative blocking tactics, with three wingmen of two teams responsible for pinning down most of the enemy, and then using a combination of position, firepower, and ability to isolate each captain from a target that the opponent has no time to rescue and down. In this way, the small amount adds up, and slowly narrows the gap between the forces of the two sides to a ratio that can be fully suppressed.
After ten minutes of fighting, all of the mobile suits of the Soros caravan were shot down.
If it had been in the past, before the Tempest came to harass the 9th Fleet, there should have been a training team from the fleet on duty near the WG1 shipping center. However, after losing two patrols in a row, the 9th Fleet was forced to recall this patrol, so that the Soros caravan had to abandon ship and escape.
Since he is acting under the banner of pirates, Fengyu has to act like no matter what he says, and if he can't sink all 10 ships, it is not the pirates, but completely seeking revenge. Although in the long run, the actions of the "Tempest" will definitely not be able to hide it, but at least in the short term, Fengyu does not want the other party to know about it immediately. So it's still necessary to do a line of love, and do a good job of piracy.
Moreover, the escort force of the Soros caravan actually has a full 5 mobile squads, which is beyond the normal escort scale, and it is obvious that this cargo has a high value.
So the "Tempest" sent an assault team to board these merchant ships to see what cargo they were carrying.
When the assault team boarded the ship, they were shocked that the goods carried by the 10 ships of the Soros caravan turned out to be FI alloy.