"It's ...... Byron's 'Headless Horseman'? Tang Fang suddenly recalled the situation on Planet 5, when Byron, Aros, and Haosen were chatting and farting.

"It's mine!" Aros hadn't forgotten the bet between the two of them.

When Zhou Ai heard this, he couldn't help but "giggle" and laughed: "Judging from the situation in front of him, Byron's guy not only robbed people of the regiment's throne, but even the car became the other party's riding thing. ”

Tang Fang glanced at her: "Well, that's good, riding things...... The kid ...... riding position seems to echo the voice, but in fact, the word "riding" bites very hard.

"Claire?" Zhou Ai glared.

The girl took the opportunity to stuff a piece of peeled green grape into the mouth of Tang Fang, who did not choose to speak: "You guy who runs the train with a mouth, Tang Yun is still down there." ”

"Uh......" Tang Fangden was speechless, and subconsciously straightened his neck and looked down. Hausen and Churchill are eyebrows again, hello and me, full of affection, soap race high. Xiao Nizi in front stared at the meter readings on the navigation platform, and did not pay attention to the undisciplined incident on the second floor.

"It's okay......" Tang Fang looked at Claire with a grateful expression.

"Captain." At this time, the ship's officer Yufy, who wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, turned his head to look at everyone: "The enemy fleet sent 2 destroyers and 3 frigates to our side. ”

Nehmeyah, Grant and the others all looked at him: "What should I do?" To fight or not to fight? ”

"Hmph." Tang Fang's eyes narrowed, and he swept over the five pirate warships that were sailing straight: "Unfold the star ring and rush over for me." ”

The reason why he did not immediately leave for "Babylon" after leaving "Jakarta Pur" was to come to Byron and then lay out for "Morning Star Casting".

Johnny said that he was understaffed and had no henchmen. It is unfounded, and there is no backstage, no background. With all these things, if you are as careful as Tang Fang, how can you not think of it?

Byron, Zhou Ai, Aros, Hausen, and Eva were the ones he brought out of Planet 5 in the first place, without him. Several people have died at the hands of the Monya government, and there is no doubt about their loyalty.

Among them, Byron is the leader of the Apollo Pirates, and when he finds him, he is still worried about the lack of manpower? In fact, "Morning Star Casting" is just a tool for him to hide his own strength and confuse the sight of the Star Alliance and other forces, and the core secret is only known to high-level officials like Byron and Zhou Ai, as for whether the subordinate pirates really have the same heart as him, Tang Fang has no mind. There's no time to test them. He only asks for one thing, these people are obedient, otherwise...... Kill a pirate, and the captain won't feel guilty.

In this way, there are manpower, and the base is there...... That can only aggrieved Albert to move his gold-and-silver buttocks. Of course, this move will definitely offend some people or forces, but he doesn't care. By virtue of his friendship with Byron. It is reasonable to help pretend, force, and commit the "one-eyed dragon" to snatch back the position of the leader of the Apollo Pirates.

In addition to this, he has another consideration. You must know that "Apollo" is a large pirate group, and during Byron's reign, he must have dealings with high-level figures in the Star Alliance government, as long as he helps him regain control of "Apollo", the background and background are not solved?

Half a month ago, why did he make such a big fuss in "Jakarta Pur". He even played tricks and tricks with politicians he always disliked. The first is forced by the situation, and the second is also to pave the way for the "Morning Star Casting".

When he first arrived in Jakarta Pur, he was looking for pirates to make an example of them. In order for Walton to act conveniently, it was only later that Clement and Junichi Fukui dared to make small moves against the Morningstar, which made Tang Fang annoyed at the same time, but also saw the hateful faces of the politicians who turned their hands and rained hands.

So, he took advantage of the problem to play, and played another game of "killing chickens and monkeys", this time killing chickens, it was not the pirate group that was being killed, but the high-level of the Star Alliance. Single-handedly turning the entire "Jakarta Pur" upside down, such a force, no matter who wants to move, must weigh their own pounds and pounds.

Of course, for him, who wants to form the "Morning Star Casting", these are not enough. Once the Rover Tech Consortium knows it's going to start anew, God knows what the reaction will be. Therefore, he must find another backstage, in this regard, he already has a candidate, the backstage boss of the "Apollo" pirates during Byron's reign - Terry? Ferdinand.

It's not that he's afraid of the old foxes in the council, but he's too lazy to make trouble for himself, if there is any decision on the council side that is unfavorable to the "Morning Star Forge" in the future, there is Terry? Wouldn't a person like Ferdinand save a lot of trouble when he was in the system?

His idea is very simple, how you like to talk about it, how you love to restrain it, as long as you don't bother me. Can't get past Terry? Ferdinand's pass, it's your luck, if you accidentally pass it, it really provokes him, hum...... The captain has never been a man of many words. It's really going to be a big fuss, and he doesn't mind letting the Star Alliance government play with it and add another stronghold to the intricate Tianchao Star Region.

Of course, these are all for later, and the first priority for now is to rescue Byron and repel this pirate fleet.

"Unfold the star ring, switch the plasma mode, the countdown to the start of the shield system starts, 10, 9, 8 ......"

The Morning Star moved forward quickly, and the two destroyers and three frigates on the opposite side did not greet them, and stopped directly at 60 kilometers, and the ship's main guns were fine-tuned, firmly locking on the target that was approaching quickly.

At the same time, the Morningstar's ring unfolded, and a large stream of silvery-white plasma erupted from the crack in the ring, and then quickly stretched under the action of the force field, forming a spindle shield like an "aurora".

From the outside, the plasma shield is blue-white throughout, which is not as dazzling and colorful as the "Aurora". But even so, it was a great shock to "Apollo", a low-level pirate who had not seen much of the world.

The five ships paused for about 10 seconds before the gunners pressed the fire button amid the captain's roar.

THE WATER SPLASHED BY MORE THAN A DOZEN 120MM-240MM PROJECTILES WAS GENERALLY POURED ON THE PLASMA SHIELD OUTSIDE THE MORNINGSTAR, AND THE SILVER-BLUE LIGHT WAVES FLOWED, AND A LARGE AMOUNT OF PLASMA GATHERED IN THE BOW OF THE SHIP UNDER THE ACTION OF THE STAR RING SENSING PARTS, FORMING A HIGH-DENSITY PLASMA STREAM.

The projectile hits a dense stream of plasma, and the kinetic energy it carries is absorbed by the glued plasma and then squeezed out of the shield range. It can't do the slightest damage to the hull at all.

5VS1, the first round of attacks was fruitless, and the bridge crews of the 5 battleships on the opposite side were all dumbfounded, this kind of Cheng dù attack, replaced by an ordinary destroyer, even considering that the bow armor is the thickest. Luckily it was not sunk, I am afraid that the main structure has been damaged, and the combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced, but the guy on the other side is good, as if he is fine.

What the hell is that thick layer of silver-blue shroud on the outside of it?

Since the kinetic energy bomb is fruitless, what about the heat exchange energy bomb? Slightly surprised, the interceptor team each fired several flying mines.

At this time, the distance between the two has been shortened to 40KM, and large and small flying thunder roared past, heading straight for the opposite target. This time, they learned the lessons of the previous attack and came with an all-round three-dimensional bombardment.

Fragmentation warheads, high-explosive warheads, EMP shock warheads, radioactive warheads, and even small-yield nuclear charge bombs...... Explode on the surface of the spindle-shaped plasma shield in turn.

Heat, explosive energy, powerful fragments, pulse waves, high-energy rays, and so on, the intricate attacks instantly enveloped the entire hull, and the silver-blue shield vibrated rapidly, and the surface flowed through one strong light after another. Under the regulation of the Star Ring sensing device, the plasma output of the storage bin in the belly of the hull surged. The portholes reflected the light of the drastic changes in the shield, shining brightly. Like the shallow waves of the sea.

Tang Fang sat in the captain's seat, looking at the nuclear energy readings consumed by the Star Ring, and unconsciously frowned slightly. Sure enough, the plasma shield does not have a strong energy supply, which will reveal the defect of insufficient endurance. Especially in the face of kinetic energy and explosive energy attacks, the load on the system is relatively large. However, it is effective in defending against energy and ray-type attacks.

Seemingly...... The plasma mode is really not as good as the zero-element mode.

But even so, with only 5 small and medium-sized warships, it is absolutely impossible to break the plasma shield. The distance of 40KM seems constant, but in the cosmic starry sky. But it was just a drop in the ocean, braving the rain of shells, the Morningstar rushed towards the opposite interception team at maximum speed.

The captains of the five pirate warships were stunned by the scene in front of them, and saw the Morningstar rushing straight over, and the two destroyers in the middle subconsciously scattered to the left and right. At the same time, with the slightest wisp of smoke, the Morning Star sailed unchanged, and the bow "passed by" the two strings of the 2 destroyer.

Of course, the metaphor of "passing by" may be a bit inaccurate, but with reference to the vastness of the universe, it is okay to say that a distance of a few hundred meters is a rubbing.

FINALLY, THE MORNINGSTAR'S TWO-STRING MAIN GUNS MOVED, AND THE SIX 200MM RAILGUNS QUICKLY ROTATED, FIRING A ROW OF LIGHTNING PROJECTILES AT THE TWO DESTROYERS THAT WERE HINGING BY, AND THE PLUM-SHAPED SPEED CANNON ARRAY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SHIP ALSO SWEPT ROWS OF LIGHT AND RAIN ALONG THE HOLES WHERE THE PLASMA SHIELD DISAPPEARED.

There were also swarthy deep-space torpedoes, which silently ejected from the launch tubes at the bottom of the ship's belly, allowing the two destroyers to quickly sail to the three frigates that were blocked in sight and could not react.

In the blink of an eye, waves of fire surged, fragments flew away, and high-explosive armor-piercing shells from the speed guns left a long scar on the side chord of the two pirate destroyers. The projectiles fired by the 6 railguns directly shattered the weapon system, the ship's island, and even pierced the additional armor in a continuous combat situation.

In the short moment that passed by, when the enemy ships were caught off guard, three rounds of attacks in front and behind were like bamboos, sending 2 pirate destroyers to a dead end. As for the other three frigates, they were also used by the tricky deep-space torpedoes to evade the ship's radar under the cover of the pirate destroyer, and hit the frigate's hull one after another, turning into a wreckage with smoke and fire.

The five battleships behind rolled to the left and right with blazing flames, the Morningstar's shield flashed, and the silver blue slashed from the bow to the stern, from beginning to end, without slowing down, rushing straight towards the pirates' main ship group.

Charman was startled, and when the intelligence officer reported to him the news that the entire killing team had been wiped out, the first reaction of the new deputy commander was that this was impossible, and that he must have made a mistake. 2 destroyers plus 3 frigates, according to common sense, the ratio of combat power is more than 3:1, can this advantage still be defeated? Not to mention that the whole army has been wiped out, why haven't these guys who are engaged in intelligence wake up? Such an unbelievable result, if you think about it, you know that it will never happen.

However, when the intelligence officer shuddered and transferred a picture to the big screen on Bridge 2, Charlman and the staff were completely stunned, what a joke!

In the picture, a battleship bathed in silver-blue light is rapidly approaching the capital ship group, and behind its tail is an interception team that explodes and climbs farther and farther.

"Hiss......" everyone gasped.

"Captain, it's not good. Christiel's left flank saw a large number of low-heat reactions, estimated at the ...... 260。 ”

As soon as the voice fell, the man's voice suddenly rose by 80 decibels: "Right...... Thermal reactions were also detected on the right flank, with high energy levels and ...... quantities 150！ ”

"What?" Charman finally couldn't sit still. With a hard effort, he lifted his butt from the tiger skin chair, and said nervously: "Is it Stephen?" Sue those people? ”

"No...... No. The intelligence officer glanced at the results of the ship's quantum radar analysis and shook his head: "These are all small ships. ”

"Small ships?" Charman was puzzled, what kind of excitement did the small ships come to join in? 260+150, a total of 410, if it is the same as its own, it is a mixture of frigates, destroyers, cruisers, and battleships, with the current pirate strength of less than 300. I had no choice but to pack my bags and roll up and go home.

If the opponent is only some small ships, then the result is different, your own huge ship cannons can slaughter those 400 small ships in a minute, this is simply death!

"Since it's not Stephen? Sue, it can't be Ruskin either? Add, who could that be? Charman's eyebrows furrowed.

Then. The reconnaissance ship that received an order from its superiors and rushed to the two wings to conduct an investigation sent back some images. The intelligence officer hurriedly relayed the latest information to the main monitor on the bridge.

On the left wing, with the subtle adjustment of the operating parameters of the high-powered optical lens of the reconnaissance ship's sensing system, the picture gradually became clearer, and I saw one after another starry sky monsters with hideous appearances and terrifying bodies flying out of the shadow area of "Christiel" and outflanking the "Apollo" battleship group from the left wing.

A low-calorie unit in the mouth of an informant. Actually...... It's actually a bunch of big bugs, big bugs that can cross the void alone!

Charman really wanted to complain: "God, old man, are you kidding me?" However, the appearance of the right wing gave him another blow.

It's not like the big bugs on the left. The flying units on the right flank are a mechanical battle group consisting of an Aerospace Fighter and a creamy transport, as well as a sleek aircraft.

What's going on? Charman and the co-captain looked at each other, and the scene in front of them subverted their cognition, and the two flying units with completely different systems entered indiscriminately? There's also a lone ranger behind the ass. The three wrapped the "Apollo" ship group with water chestnuts.

"Order the destroyers and frigates on both wings to change their formations, and the battleships and cruiser formations to suspend the suppression of fire on the ground, and first destroy this group of intruders who are not open-minded." Charman clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

The first time he led a crowd on an expedition, couldn't he easily finish off "Christel"? What is it about these strange combinations?

Where did the biotron battleship come from? And where did the mechanical battle group come from? There are also modified lightning python-class destroyers that put on a soul-hugging pose and rushed straight towards the "Headless Horseman", where did they all come from?

Charman had never experienced the Battle of Lector, so he naturally didn't know where these messy and strange flying units came from, and he didn't know that there were not only two factions of flying machines coming directly from afar, but there was another one, but unfortunately he couldn't see it.

According to the instructions of the deputy commander, the frigates and destroyers on the two wings of the ship group on standby quickly turned around and spread out to the left and right, while the cruiser and battleship formations behind were raised or lowered in steps to form a standard cross-shaped battle formation.

Although his identity is a pirate, judging from the rapid change of formation, he must have practiced a lot in normal times.

The attack formation that was originally pincer against the "Christel" star was divided into two sets of cross battle formations in a short period of time, one on the left and one on the right. Charlman's "Headless Horseman" and its direct escort turned around and turned on its long-range weapons to meet the Morning Star, which was gradually slowing down, and ejected one kinetic projectile after another.

In order to reduce the pressure on the air units caused by the "Christel" land-based weapons, the pirate landing force shifted from the original passive offensive to the full line of advance, maintaining the suppression of the fire on the defensive line around the park.

Finally, a sea battle began, the two sides did not negotiate, there was no mouthpiece, and the pirates tried to solve these unaware intruders in a short time. The Tang side, on the other hand, was determined to completely defeat this Apollo Pirates fleet to weaken Albert's forces and pave the way for Byron to regain control of "Apollo".

The light, continuous flashes of light, shot from all kinds of battleship main and auxiliary batteries, and a large number of missiles roared away like a hot stream of flames from a volcanic crater, carrying a thick cloud of smoke.

On the space battlefield with a radius of hundreds of kilometers, the light and rain were like weaving, and the projectiles were like meteorites attacking from outside the sky with raging firelight, spanning hundreds of kilometers and splashing on the camp of the human and insect races.

With the help of reconnaissance ships, combat support ships, and shipborne fire control radars, the accuracy of the railgun projectile is extremely high, and the small units of the human and insect races have no shields, and the units flying in the front are hit squarely.

However, what is creepy is that the projectile containing extremely high kinetic energy penetrates the target's body so easily, without exploding, flashing, or flying flesh and bones, only causing bursts of light in the void and distorting the picture. (To be continued......)