As soon as the person in charge, Reuben, led the fleet out of the stargate, the spaceship's mailbox was first stunned, and then hundreds of emails poured out, filling the entire screen in an instant.

Seeing that the sender of the email was a dense "steel brother and sister group", Ruben suddenly had a feeling that something was wrong!

He didn't bother with the mail, but immediately ordered the Wild Dog to be called. However, the communications officer immediately told him that he could not be contacted. In the radar range, the identification signal of the Dingo could not be found at all.

Ruben had Benjamin capture and ask him to sense the location of the locator...... Benjamin told him that the location was on the edge of the meteorite belt about 70 light-hours away, but it didn't seem to have moved.

Reuben was stunned, let go of his hand, and his smile was more bitter than eating Coptis chinensis.

He's calculated to use the fleet as bait to lure away the pirates... Counting the arrival of the main fleet a day late, the pirates couldn't wait to leave... Even the five Walrus-class transport ships would never get it back - that is, the meat buns that were thrown out, whether they were eaten by pirates or mercenaries, they were the same. As long as the problem is solved, he will not ask whoever eats, and it is rare to be confused.

To put it bluntly, those boats are one of the rewards.

The huge formation that the pirates had assembled before had already frightened him, so in Reuben's vision, the best situation was that Wang Hu led the detachment to attract the attention of the pirates first, and then attacked and rushed for a while, causing heavy damage to the pirates. At this time, the steel regiment will also have certain casualties, and it is not impossible that two or three walrus-class transport ships will be paralyzed, and even all of them will be sunk by pirates (the cargo compartment is still there), depending on the ability of the steel regiment.

The mercenary group can't afford to make a profit early, and it will definitely choose to retreat with the remaining transport ships, and the pirates will not try to chase after them when they are busy dividing the spoils. The two sides separated and tacitly ate the transport ship in their respective hands.

The mercenary group violated the contract, and it would be good to get half of the employment fee, but they had a transport ship as compensation, which was not a loss; The pirates are a rabble, and they can all unite when they are hungry. When someone is well fed and someone is hungry, there will be infighting - even if there is no infighting, the DSS's inside line in pirates will make them infighting!

Fiction and reality, the pirates will not see a new fleet for a day, and they will definitely disperse. And the main fleet will also take a different route, and get rid of the two troubles of pirates and mercenaries at the same time, even if the losses are larger, and the recovery of "prototype X" is more troublesome, but overall it is perfect. As in the legend, the DSS group does not like to deal with mercenaries.

But I never thought of it......

He opened the email with a heavy heart, and sure enough:

"At 12:37, our reconnaissance planes discovered the pirate formation, and the number of fighters is expected to exceed 1,000! [Live Pictures], [Live Pictures], [Radar Pictures], no large warships were found, please instruct. ”

"We are on our scheduled route and are about to come into contact with pirates. [Picture] [Picture]"

"After the pirates tried to go around, I avoided the coordinates of XX, XX, XX. The escort formation attacked and completely annihilated the enemy's reconnaissance formation (22 fighters and 1 frigate). One of our fighters crashed. ”

……

Everything went according to plan until then.

The pace of space warfare is fast and slow, and it is not that the rhythm master cannot control it at all. Before the war, from the discovery to the beginning of the war, there were several days, not to mention several hours, but several days; But once the war starts, grasping the slightest flaw and expanding, it is likely to affect the entire battlefield in an instant, and then the battle will be won or lost in a few minutes.

Then clean up the battlefield, chase down the remnants of the enemy, hide and seek...... It could be another few days, months passed.

The rhythm of space warfare is so grinding.

Wang Hu's detachment clinged to the advance of the pirate fleet like leeches, slowly leading them to the predetermined battlefield - a land with sparse meteorites. It is the center point of the triangle, where the Pirates, the MSF Space Station, and the Stargate at Exit 1# of the New Jerusalem meet.

The detachment served as a decoy to drag the pirates for a few hours, waiting for the MSF reinforcements to be dispatched, and at the same time, the main escort force of the fleet drilled out of the stargate, instantly forming a situation of "two bread copying, blossoming in the middle"!

This is arguably an excellent tactical design...... If it weren't for the fact that the number of pirates far exceeded expectations, Ruben might have actually done that.

But he received word in advance that the number of pirates was four times as expected! This means that even if you are caught between the two sides, the chance of victory is still less than half...... This is not a business, and you dare to gamble if you have a 30% chance, but this is a war!

Half chance means a bad win.

That's not how business works, and the piracy problem stems from civil war and corruption in the old empire. What's more, as long as it is not a core area, MSF is going to throw the piracy problem to the NESF's pilot. Even the emperor doesn't care, who is willing to care? The pirates are not his own, so why should the DSS group pay this price?

After thinking about it for a long time, Ruben finally decided to enter the stargate a day later - not a day later than Wang Hu's entry into the stargate, but a whole day later than the scheduled time. There is a high probability that this can evade the pirates, but it looks like a trap for the steel group......

"This is Wang Hu's fleet, it's 20:17, have you arrived in the New Jerusalem 1# system? I don't see your signal on the detector, please call back! ”

"We are fighting and are in urgent need of reinforcements...... [picture] [picture], we have arrived at the scheduled battlefield with pirates, and I hope you will arrive in time. Please reply when you receive it! ”

"The enemy has been engaged, and he has fought and left. [Picture] [Picture] ...... Please reply when you receive it! ”

"Reuben! Are you fucking kids?! Reinforcements! Please reply when you receive it! ”

"your mother! Reuben! Why don't you come here and forget it, what about the support of the MSF Army? Talk back to Lao Tzu! ”

……

Just by looking at the mail Reuben, you can imagine the scene at that time, which is quite uncomfortable.

The Iron Regiment seduced the pirates according to the agreed plan and arrived at the intended battlefield, everything was perfect, but the expected reinforcements did not arrive! Now, instead of succeeding in fighting the pirates, he put himself in a disadvantageous position! The sparse meteorite belt is neither conducive to hiding nor escaping, and is almost equivalent to death for the steel regiment of the inferior side!

"Run, don't you run after all this? You're a mercenary. Reuben said to himself. But when he looked at the number of unread emails that still had more than half of the number left, he knew that it was wishful thinking. Steel Regiment ...... I have to abide by the principles more than I imagined, so I cheated a good person?

This thought made the guilt in Reuben's heart even stronger.

The ensuing email gave him an even more tragic aftermath, similar to what he had imagined. The steel circle that was pitted had to fight back. They relied on the thick armor of the cargo ship to confront the pirates, fighting and retreating to the meteorite belt on the other side. The Steel Regiment inflicted great damage on the pirates, shooting down and destroying more than 200 fighters before and after!

They also paid a heavy price, not only were the fighters almost completely destroyed, but four people were also killed!

They eventually resisted the pirate fire and stormed the meteorite belt, but that was the end of it.

……

"Twenty-two warplanes were destroyed, two of the five cargo ships were left, the port side of the mothership was pierced, the main guns were overheated and scrapped, and the casualties were not counted in time...... On the order of the regiment commander Wang Hu, the bomb hidden in the cargo ship was detonated, and the pirate pursuit was delayed, and the remaining personnel were withdrawn to the New Jerusalem 3# sector for repairs......"

"I would like to inform the head of the DSS commercial fleet, Ruben, that the Iron Brothers and Sisters (registration number XXXXX) have officially announced that they have abandoned this escort mission. We would like to formally inform DSS Group that we will submit all combat content and video recordings to arbitration, and we ask for your cooperation in advancing the relevant legal matters. ”

I'm not doing it!

And I'm going to sue you!

Reuben suddenly had a splitting headache...... Before, Wang Hu's email couldn't contact him, but now it's his turn to send an email to Wang Hu.

*****

"Are we going too far?" The person turned around, lame to Wang Hu's side and asked in a whisper.

"Excessive?" Wang Hu's eyes widened in surprise, "You wrote the email!" You made up the story! You're talking too much now? …… What's the matter with me? ”

People are so angry that they don't know what to say...... Didn't you say that you can still be friends after breaking up?

Of course, the real situation is completely different from what was written in the email.

The pirates owed a lot of money, and the wreckage was shot in waves, and finally someone broke the warehouse hidden inside. In an instant, the golden light flashed, and the radiation on the detector exploded, attracting the attention of countless pirates at once!

In space, heavy atoms and high radiation mean both danger and wealth. Treasure? No! It's a wreck that hasn't been discovered yet, and it contains precious cargo! The pirates suddenly became excited, the robbery is very fragrant, isn't the treasure hunt fragrant?

Pirates who were going to loot swarmed in.

However, Wang Hu and the others began to attack on the periphery, which made the pirates confirm that this was a big treasure, and it was probably lost by the DSS group. So they circled the treasure even harder.

When the number was almost up, the precious heavy metal elements were replaced with the very unstable T6 torpedo.

And then, boom-

More than two hundred warplanes were blown up in one instant!

The pirates were stunned...... They still don't understand whether they were cheated by someone, or if they let the treasure blow up on its own - it's also very reasonable and logical that the radioactive elements will explode on their own, right?

At this time, there is still some joint robbery, and it would be good if there was no infighting.

The pirate formation dispersed in place, and many of them didn't even catch up with the treasure hunt and the treasure was gone, but that didn't stop them from bragging. In addition, some people in the public channel told stories, one moment saying that the treasure hunt caused heavy losses, the other saying that it was caused by the escort formation during the robbery, and then saying that the ship exploded during the robbery, blowing up more than 400 fighters......

In short, in the end, there is no truth to be found.

……

Two days later, Ruben found the scrapped locator module on the edge of the meteorite belt. It doesn't look like battle damage, it looks like it was dismantled and thrown into space, and then it looked like it was a shot away!

The "Prototype X" inside is definitely finished.

Not only this, but the loss of the steel regiment......

Alas~ Reuben sighed and turned on the computer and sent an email to Wang Hu.

"Brother, don't submit it to arbitration yet, let's talk about it first. Believe me, DSS Group is a big company with sincerity and responsibility! ”