Cai Qi's frustration can be imagined, he originally came to attack the imperial capital with high momentum, who would have thought that he would have lost so many warships before he even saw the appearance of the imperial capital, in other words, anyone would probably be in the same mood.

However, after all, the people of the Free Alliance Army are not those pampered high-ranking officials of the empire, and this blow will not make Cai Qi completely lose his fighting spirit.

I saw Cai Qi rubbing his face with his hand, and then slapped it hard a few times, as if to wake himself up.

He held on to the instrument beside him and struggled to stand up, only to see that the bridge had become chaotic due to the huge vibration just now, and many people were still lying on the ground and groaning.

"Cheer me up!" Cai Qi roared, and immediately frightened everyone.

Cai Qi glared at everyone's faces, and then said loudly: "A little setback is nothing, don't forget, we are the Free Alliance!" Our ideal is to overthrow the rule of the Empire! Even if you die in battle, you won't hesitate! Stand up for me! ”

This heartfelt roar had an immediate effect, and everyone in the bridge immediately quieted down, slowly rising from the ground, and looking at Cai Qi with blazing eyes.

Cai Qi nodded and said, "Very good, this is what the Free Alliance Army should look like, return to your post immediately, let's move on!" ”

At this time, the casualties of the ships had been reported, and the situation was about the same as estimated, nearly one-third of the ships were destroyed in the attack just now, and the surviving ships were also damaged to varying degrees.

In addition, almost every ship had a lot of wounded, and the attrition caused by this time was similar to that of a major battle.

The more Cai Qi listened, the more angry he became, if he didn't find and destroy the weapon, if the weapon attacked again, this fleet would probably be completely destroyed.

"Send the order, all ships will give me the detection of the energy source, and we must find out the weapons that attack us." Cai Qi ordered.

"Yes!" In fact, everyone is in the same mood now, if they don't destroy this terrible weapon, how can they be worthy of those who died, and for the sake of safety in the future, it must also be destroyed.

It is impossible for such a huge energy reaction not to leave a trace, and there must be residual energy reactions in the place where the attack passes, such as radiation, and so on.

After the coordinated detection of many ships, the target was quickly found, about 100,000 kilometers ahead, with high-energy radiation different from the surrounding area, and the attack just now must have come from there.

Cai Qi immediately ordered the fleet to move towards the area, and soon the fleet approached this place, only to see many shiny and shiny things like shards of glass appear in front of them.

It's just that these glass-like fragments are not small, each of them is the same size as an asteroid, and due to the refraction of light, it emits a colorful light, which looks extremely beautiful.

Everyone understood at a glance that this was due to the effect of high temperature, which burned the asteroids that were originally floating in the universe into glass-like substances.

"The general's goal is ahead. See! That's it! The soldier of the complex observation shouted.

"Enlarge the image!" Cai Qi said.

I saw an artificial object similar to a space station appear on the big screen, but unlike a normal space station, this artificial object is like a huge round mirror, with a radius of almost 15 kilometers.

"It's big, isn't this a mirror?" Someone couldn't help but exclaim.

"Is such a large mirror used to reflect beams of light?"

Cai Qi looked at this strange giant round mirror, and had already roughly guessed its purpose in his heart, this thing must be used to change the path of the beam, by adjusting the position and angle of this giant round mirror, it can shoot that terrifying beam attack anywhere.

"Send a few people over and have a look." Cai Qi said.

Soon a small ship flew towards the giant round mirror, and a special operations team smoothly entered the space station behind the round mirror.

After a while, the reconnaissance team reported directly to Cai Qi: "Report to the general, there is no one here anymore, it seems that he has just left, and the drink is still hot." ”

"Can you find a log or something, search carefully." Cai Qi said.

"Okay."

A few minutes later, the reconnaissance team reported again: "General, we found a work record, probably because we were in too much of a hurry, and they forgot about it. ”

"Good, bring it back." Cai Qi thought for a moment, and then said, "Let's see if there is anything useful left in their computers." ”

"No, they started the auto-destruct process, and now the computer system has been completely formatted."

"Damn it!" Cai Qi cursed and slammed his fist on the console.

"General, there is nothing else of value, are we going to blow it up?" A member of the Scout Team asked.

"You don't have to do it, I'll be right back."

"Yes!"

The reconnaissance team soon returned to the battleship, and Cai Qi asked the others: "In addition to this place, have any other similar situations been detected?" ”

"Yes, there is, but if we want to be accurate, it will take a long time, and the distance may be relatively long, so we may deviate from the course...... "One of the staff members replied.

"Alas, what a bargain for them!" Cai Qi said with hatred and annoyance.

"Are we going to keep the track?"

Cai Qi shook his head and said, "No need, now our task is to rush to the imperial capital as soon as possible to join the other fleets, and this damn thing will be slowly disposed of after we take the imperial capital." Order, destroy this, and the fleet moves on! ”

After a violent explosion, the giant Round Mirror space station was blown to pieces, and the lion fleet crossed the station and continued along its previous course.

Then the fleet did not come under a similar attack, and finally approached the asteroid belt after a dozen hours.

If the unicorn galaxy is divided into two parts, the inner and outer courts, then the asteroid belt is their dividing line. Beyond the asteroid belt is the outer courtyard of the Unicorn galaxy, while inside the asteroid belt is the inner courtyard.

The six habitable planets of the Unicorn Galaxy are all located within the asteroid belt, and as long as they cross the asteroid belt, they will be considered within the range of the imperial capital.

However, the asteroid belt is actually very wide, and it is not possible to pass through it all at once, and it takes at least ten hours to sail through.

The speed of passing through the asteroid belt cannot be too fast, and if it hits one of them, it will cause devastating disasters for the battleship, so the speed of the ship can only be maintained at a slower level when passing through the asteroid belt.

The lion fleet, under the command of Cai Qi, began to cautiously enter the asteroid belt, and its speed slowed down significantly.

There's no need to worry about being attacked by that kind of high-energy weapon, because these asteroids are so dense that it is impossible for that kind of weapon to be aimed at the target.

The first thing to guard against here is the impact of an asteroid, even a slight touch will cause a lot of damage to the ship, so you must be very cautious when sailing.

Cai Qi reminded the captain: "Pay attention to observe at any time, send more people to pay attention to the surroundings, and don't take it lightly." ”

The captain asked, "General, should we open the defensive shield so that it will be safer?" ”

Cai Qi thought for a while and said: "It's not necessary now, it takes too much energy to open the defensive cover, and we still have a big war to fight next, so we must pay attention to energy conservation from now on." ”

"Okay, General." Seeing that Cai Qi did not agree to his suggestion, the captain had to try to cheer up and remind the operators to be very careful.

The fleet had been traveling for about an hour when the alarm suddenly sounded, and the artificial intelligence system issued a warning: "Attention! Note! There are missiles coming! There are missiles coming......"

Hearing that it was a missile, Cai Qi did not panic, in fact, he had already expected that there would definitely be an ambush here, and it was strange that there was no attack.

There was no need to wait for Cai Qi to order, the captain had already ordered: "Launch the decoy missile, and the air defense ship gun should pay attention to protection." ”

Soon the radar showed that about forty-five missiles were fired at the flagship, and other warships encountered similar situations.

The various defensive weapons on the battleship immediately began to work, and the decoy missiles were fired one after another, directing the incoming missiles away from the ship.

However, due to the influence of various asteroids and stones, not all decoy missiles can successfully attract missiles, and occasionally some missiles can escape the influence of decoy missiles and continue to fly towards the battleship.

At this time, the anti-aircraft guns on the ship were relied on to block the missiles, and under the protection of the intensive anti-aircraft artillery fire, the missiles fired were hit one by one, and the fireballs exploded not far from the ship, like a welcome salute.

However, not long after the first wave of attacks, the second wave of attacks came, many missiles attacked again, and at the same time, particle cannon beams were fired from some asteroids, and the fire was quite intensive.

Navigating the asteroid belt is inherently a matter of care, and now there are so many harassing attacks that it is difficult to wreck a ship at once, but the impact on navigation is not small.

At this time, the captain couldn't sit still, and asked Cai Qi again to open the defensive cover, Cai Qi didn't want to make any more mistakes, so he nodded and agreed to the captain's request.

The flagship opened the defensive cover, and the other warships naturally opened the defensive cover, and with the protection of the defensive cover, the safety factor was immediately improved a lot.

These weapons hidden on the asteroid are not very powerful, and they all automatically trigger attacks according to the program, so naturally there will be no command, and the overall threat is not so great.

However, in order to defend against these chaotic harassing attacks, the ships of the entire fleet had to keep their defenses open, which would consume a huge amount of energy.

After sailing like this for more than ten hours, I am afraid that half of the energy on the ship will be consumed, which makes Cai Qi very worried that there will be a shortage of energy in the next battle.