After the structural upgrade of the Shenzhou was completed, it immediately received a sortie mission.

All the crew of the Shenzhou gathered to board the ship and prepared to take off for battle.

Fang Yuan came to the office of Admiral Rhodes at the front headquarters of the Crater Mountains and accepted the order to attack.

"In this sortie mission, your main task is to command the operation and escort the convoy, and you don't need to take action unless necessary." Admiral Rhodes commanded.

"What kind of mission is this? This kind of trivial thing was also arranged for me? Fang Yuan blinked, originally thinking that it was a big move.

"If you don't want to do it, give up the captain's position to someone else, and you can lie down and wait for the big action." Admiral Rhodes spoke not seriously at all.

"Say it. To whom? Fang Yuan stood up solemnly, ready to attack immediately.

"Escort four Dawning-class ships." Admiral Rhodes replied.

"Forehead ......"

Fang Yuan was a little surprised, he was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what was going on: "The Dawning level is preparing for the first actual battle, let's escort us, that's what it means, right?" ”

The four Dawning-class space frigates have just been commissioned and have not experienced real combat, so it is not a good choice to directly participate in large battles.

Before participating in a large-scale battle, it is normal to have a few actual battles first.

"Yes, but it's not just an escort. The Shenzhou and four Dawn-class space frigates have formed the first battle formation of the Huaxia Space Fleet, with the Shenzhou being the flagship. In the future, the Shenzhou will fight side by side with the four Dawn-class ships, so this sortie mission is not only to escort the escort, but also to cultivate a tacit understanding of combat cooperation. Admiral Rhodes explained.

"Understood, I'll go." Fang Yuan said as he walked quickly away from the front-line headquarters building and returned to the Shenzhou.

This operation was the first actual combat of the four Dawning-class space frigates, the first combat mission after the structural upgrade of the Shenzhou, and the first combat mission after Fang Yuan served as a trainee captain.

At the same time, the first combat operation of the Shenzhou flagship and the formation of four Dawn-class space frigates is also an operation to show the muscles of human countries.

Use the most powerful force to completely deter the careful thinking of certain countries.

on the Shenzhou.

Fang Yuan stood on the bridge, looking at the endless planetary surface in front of him, and opened his mouth to give the first captain's order: "All the Shenzhou are ready for battle, report the condition of the hull." ”

Han Youwei quickly swiped the control screen in front of her and reported: "The Star Power Amplification System is operating normally, and the Star Power Condensation Shield Generation Assistance System is operating normally......"

Immediately afterward, Eve reported: "The ion thruster is operating normally, the ship-based space-based railgun is testing normally, and the solar furnace self-test is complete, waiting for ignition." ”

Zhao Anya also reported: "The avionics system is operating normally, and the radar scanning assistance system is operating normally. ”

Finally, it was Ye Zheyu's turn: "The fire control system is normal. ”

Only Niu Dazhi had nothing to do, thought for a while, and said, "Everything is normal, take off." ”

Fang Yuan looked at Zhao Anya and said, "Turn on the Dawning-class avionics system and ask them if they have completed preparations for liftoff." ”

"Okay."

Zhao Anya quickly swiped the control screen and connected the communication channels of the four Dawning-class space frigates to confirm that the four Dawning-class ships had completed preparations for liftoff.

Fang Yuan took a deep breath and ordered: "The sun furnace is ignited, the Shenzhou battle formation, take off!" Target, C12 mining area in the deep wind plain, full speed ahead! ”

After occupying Jones Canyon, the humans have taken control of a thousand kilometers of the Deep Wind Plain.

However, there are nearly fifty scattered mining areas of various sizes in the Deep Wind Plain, and most of these scattered mining areas have Star Beast Nests absorbing Star Source Ore.

Therefore, if you want to mine Star Source Ore in the Deep Wind Plains Mining Area, you need to clean up the Star Beasts and Star Beast Nests in the mining area first.

The Star Beast Nest in these scattered mining areas is not large, and the number of Star Beasts is not large, but there will still be a lot of trouble to clean up.

If it is not handled well, there is a high risk of casualties.

Therefore, it needs to be cleaned up with great care.

Moreover, the farther the mine is from the Jones Canyon base, the higher the risk factor.

Like the C12 mine in Deep Wind Plains, which is more than 600 kilometers away from Jones Canyon, it is a relatively dangerous area.

Therefore, the space fleet needs to be dispatched to clean up.

Of course, if you just clean up the C12 mining area, you don't need to dispatch the Shenzhou and the meteorite-star super soldiers.

However, this time the main battle unit is the Dawning-class space frigate.

Shenzhou is responsible for escorting the ship, and at the same time cultivating the tacit understanding of the coordinated operation of the space combat formation.

Ignition of the solar stove.

The Shenzhou was the first to take off, and the four Dawn-class ships followed closely behind, two left and two right, and the flagship formed a V-shaped formation.

The ion thrusters of the five space battleships simultaneously spewed out blue flames of light and flew in a northwesterly direction.

It only took 10 minutes.

The Shenzhou battle formation arrived at the target location, the C12 mining area in the Shenfeng Plain.

Fang Yuan gave the reconnaissance order.

The four Aurora-class frigates spread out and took advantage of their speed to get closer.

The main task of the space frigate is reconnaissance, escort of the flagship, followed by attack.

Thus, the reconnaissance mission was carried out by four Dawn-class space frigates.

Of course, Zhao Anya is also using the Shenzhou's spiritual amplification assistance system to improve her spiritual power to explore the C12 mining area.

Three minutes later, the reconnaissance data was summarized.

"The star beast mother nest in the C12 mining area, covering an area of 800 meters in diameter, is a small mother nest. Two war-level energy fluctuations were detected, and according to the database records, the Star Beast Brood, which is 800 meters in diameter, does not have the ability to emit super giant gamma rays. Zhao Anya reported the summarized data.

Judging from the data obtained from the reconnaissance, the star beast nest in this C12 mining area is not difficult to deal with, and it does not need to be used by the Shenzhou.

Obviously, the front-line headquarters issued this sortie mission to train the four Dawn-class space frigates.

Fang Yuan gave the order to the four Dawning-class frigates: "Destroy the brood!" ”

The four Dawning-class space frigates received the order and immediately opened fire, raining fire on the Star Beast's nest.

Boom Boom Boom ......

The cannonball exploded outside the Star Beast's nest, with a loud bang and smoke filled the air.

A group of Star Beasts immediately flew out of the Star Beast Hive, including two War-class flying Star Beasts, which pounced on the two Dawning-class space frigates.

These four space frigates have just been commissioned, and although some of the crew members on the ships were transferred from the Shenzhou and Chixian, the Dawning class has not undergone actual combat tests.

Therefore, it is difficult to say whether they can withstand the impact of the star beast group, especially those two war-grade star beasts.

In terms of attack power, the Dawning-class space frigate is fully capable of shooting war-level star beasts, but the premise is that they can't let war-level star beasts rush into their faces.

Once the strength of the war-class star beast jumps onto the shell of the Dawning-class space frigate, it can completely penetrate the shell and even break into the inside of the battleship.

Not only the Dawning class, but even the Shenzhou, once it is broken into the battleship by a star beast, it has the possibility of sinking.

Of course, there are super soldiers on the Shenzhou, so naturally this kind of thing will not happen.

It's hard to say about the Aurora-class frigates.

Therefore, Fang Yuan looked sideways at Ye Zheyu and ordered, "Lock on those two war-grade star beasts, and once they jump onto the frigate's shell, immediately defeat them." ”