Huo Qimeng burned a stick of incense, praying for his father Zeng Yuquan, and even more for Hua Xiangrong, who was forced to get on the tugboat. The Führer, instead of following Li Mingyang's suggestion to Dewey to immediately report the hijacking of the planetary cannon, calculated the time when the towing group entered Gaia, and contacted Dewey at the extreme distance that Gaia could intercept.

I hope Zeng Yuquan can retreat in the face of difficulties and escape with the planetary cannon!

Zeng Yuquan was far less worried than Huo Qimeng, the cannon was still 3 minutes away from the firing range, and he could already see the fleet that was secretly arrayed on the trajectory. Both sides are gearing up, waiting for the moment of firefight.

"Fire!" The commanders of both sides gave the order almost simultaneously. Countless bright lights flew out, erupting in a beautiful turbulence in the sky. In order to prevent the cannon from breaking through, the battleship formed a force field deceleration barrier in the front three layers of the eighth mining area, intending to use the strength of the battleship itself to zero the speed of the entire towing group before approaching the eighth mining area.

After receiving Jiang Tianji's order, the Seventh Mine Manager decided to follow after a little thought. The fleet and planetary cannons were busy exchanging fire, and the bright and dazzling eyes of the night sky were difficult to open even with polarized lenses, not to mention noticing that in the dark area of the stellar light, the honeycomb surface of the seventh mine had begun to disappear and was replaced by a brighter and stronger light.

The computer had already identified the rotation law of the planetary cannon, and the three towboats under Jiang Tianji were forced to stretch out their arms and thighs. The momentum of progress is unabated, the law of rotation is becoming more and more stable, and there are still 2 minutes, and it has begun to contact the first layer of deceleration barrier, Zeng Yuquan held the communicator tightly.

"Saturation Attack!"

With a command, the spinning planetary cannon burst out like a spinning top shining in the night sky, bursting out in a whirlpool-shaped rain of missiles, and the long light intertwined with the fleet's missile rain.

"Launch!" 30 seconds before Zeng Yuquan gave the order, Jiang Tianji also gave the order.

The gamma rays from the seventh mining area need to cross hundreds of millions of kilometers to hit the towing group, and the super energy flow has been accurately and carefully calculated, and it is accurate to meet the three already prepared towing ships on the necessary orbit of the towing group.

In the last half of the circle, the three captains used their lifelong driving skills, and at the moment when the gamma-ray flow that came from the waist collision arrived, they successfully adjusted the thruster that had been committed to reverse propulsion to the horizontal, and the energy of the thruster collided with the gamma-ray flow, and the entire towing group was like a flat boat drifting in the ocean and suddenly encountered a rapid ocean current coming from the sideways, and was wrapped in the impact of extreme speed and could not get out.

"Big brother, I managed to turn him."

The second brother's words made Du Wei, who had been nervous about Jiang Tianji's personal safety, let go of the worries in his heart, and he understood at this moment that what this second brother had done had put self-preservation in the second place, and what he should really worry about was how to minimize casualties and ship damage. The construction of Gaia has condensed the efforts of many people, and the construction of the planetary cannon has overdrawn the productivity of the entire Blue Domain. In the face of such obvious right and wrong, the small life of an individual can no longer have too much to worry about.

"Second brother, you control three tugboats, chaotic advancement!"

"The interceptor ship group outside the eight mines listened to the order, and the first and second groups circled the rear from both sides of the tow ship. The third group stood by in place. ”

"Professor Kuibo, I need your help."

"Kuibo is in place, sir, ready for instructions."

"I'll give you 5,000 warships, and you cooperate with the planetary defense system to slow down the towing group, and make sure he stays in the Gaia system."

"Understood!"

All starships in the Blue Domain are designated as a direction below gravity, and during the flight of the starship, no matter whether the hull is vertical or horizontal, the bridge, control room, and cabin with personnel will not change with the rotation of the outer part of the hull.

However, this set of rules only applies to single-ship navigation, if several towers are linked into a towing group, then if the towed object is out of control, the moving towing tow will add a movement caused by the movement of the towed object in addition to the normal navigation movement.

Zeng Yuquan's towing crew was already facing this situation, although with the help of the ship's balancer, the entire bridge was still stable, but the starry sky outside the towing ship was moving and changing rapidly, which made anyone who dared to look outside have the illusion of shaking and dizzy.

Zeng Yuquan didn't dare to look outside, but just urged the entire towing group to give up slowing down, and all the towing ships were advancing in the direction of the towing group's moving speed.

The idea of using the mines to hold Gaia hostage ended in failure once again, but if the planetary cannon was still in his hands, he could at least occupy a lone star and set himself up as king.

But things were far from being as simple as Zeng Yuquan imagined, and the chaotic advance of the three rebel ships interfered with the thrust concentration of the towing group to a large extent. The towing crew has gone from a regular flip to an irregular roll. The more the remaining five ships tried to adjust, the faster they rolled, and all the energy was spent on the rolling, and instead of accelerating, the towing crew began to slow down.

The bad news is far more than that, Kuibo has calculated the trajectory of the entire towing group to 1 light-year away, and on this long trajectory, there is a barrier formed by the three or five warships combined with their own force field, this barrier, slowing down the towing group is not the main purpose, but to change the trajectory of the entire towing group, so that it can reach its desired position.

Every time the invisible force field barrier was triggered, it would cause a violent shaking to the towing group, and even Jiang Tianji, who was experienced in sailing, fell down several times.

Kuibo has completely portrayed himself as his former mentor, Professor Gilney's demeanor, with even black and white hair behind the back of his head, showing a shiny and smooth head, the difference is that he rarely sweats, I don't know if it is because of the high heat dissipation efficiency of the newly built computer room, or the professor's good psychological quality.

The towing group is like a billiard ball that changes direction and rebounds after hitting the force field barrier, and the trajectory appears on the stereoscopic projection in front of Kuibo, the dotted line is the predicted trajectory, and the solid line that the progress bar generally spreads forward is the actual trajectory of the towing group, and next to it is the pre-arrival time and actual arrival time. With each bounce, Kuibo picks up the parameters to adjust even if the trajectory is only half a millimeter off, or the time is only 0.02 seconds off.

"It's hard for us to get out!"

In front of the bridge of the main tugboat, the captain of the main tug announced the unfortunate news to Zeng Yuquan.

"Why? How many broken battleships did they slow us down? ”

"It's useless, look here, even if there is no force field composed of warships, our trajectory is not straight."

Zeng Yuquan followed the captain's gesture and looked at the trajectory diagram, and the trail at the back end of the long tail was indeed a straight line. But when Zeng Yuquan zoomed out the diagram, something terrible happened, and from a macro point of view, the entire towing group was moving forward in a winding trajectory.

"What does this mean?"

"At this speed, the trajectory rarely turns, unless it encounters a gravitational anomaly. These interception groups did not come to slow us down, but to let us change direction and pass through areas where the gravitational fields of stars and planets are strongly influenced. Interceptors alternately affect the gravitational field, which will take us wherever they want. You've been caught now. ”

"No, you must be lying to me, you want to convince me to hand over the cannon to them, tell you that even if they succeed in trapping me, I still have planetary cannons, and I have the strength to compete with them." Seeing that the captain stopped talking, Zeng Yuquan let out an angry roar: "Don't try to lie to me!" Hurry up and put me in the hibernation pod, I'm going to speed up to the speed of light! ”

"Sir, not to mention how feasible it is for the current towing group to accelerate to the speed of light in this state of motion, as far as the current Gaia star map is concerned, if we accelerate rashly, the entire towing group will crash."

"Hmph, don't scare me. I now command you, if you want to live, just load me up and fly outward. ”

The sudden increase in load did cause some trouble for Kuiba, but it didn't have any essential effect other than a little more analysis and prediction.

"Second brother, do you have to see which is the main tugboat?"

"See clearly, big brother, take my tugboat as the coordinates, facing the fourth clockwise in the direction of progress. I'll flash three times to tell you which one is me. ”

"Okay, you can undrag me immediately after you flash three times, I'm going to attack."

"Okay, Roger."

The trajectory of the towing group has changed from a state of perpendicular to the star to a state of flying around the star with an increasingly large arc, and the arc is still getting larger and larger under the alternating action of gravity and interception group.

Jiang Tianji had already understood Dewey's thoughts, and after controlling the tow ship to flash three times, he decisively ordered the three ships to untow. Without the interference of the mutinous ships, Zeng Yuquan seemed to have seized the opportunity to escape, and immediately urged all the tugboats to speed up together.

However, he ignored the interception group that was in front, this group of battleships was surprisingly numerous, there were 100 in total, there was no force field barrier, but at the moment when the tugboat passed, it accurately launched an attack on the towing group.

The target, not the planetary cannon, nor the towing hull, but the point of union of the main tower and the planetary cannon.

Zeng Yuquan didn't have time to react to mobilize the interception of the planetary cannon, and when he started the cannon attack like crazy, the entire cannon had already drifted far forward, and he, together with the towship and the planetary cannon control room, was forcibly separated from the cannon by the sudden attack, and seeing the cannon drifting farther and farther, he was already surrounded by battleships hidden in the shadows.

Without the protection of artillery, a tugboat is simply vulnerable. A few missiles came down, and the entire main tug was completely paralyzed. And the planetary cannon, no one is stupid enough to go head-to-head with him. The mad beast had been separated from its controlling master, and had safely anchored into the orbit of the stars in the Gaia system and began to orbit, like a beast that had been successfully caged by hunters, irritable but harmless.