The business team led by Chen Xiaomou successfully signed the supply agreement and brought back a large amount of signing money. Dart used the money to purchase dozens of tons of ingredients, so that the base could eat fresh food for a long time.

"This should be the last truckload of ingredients." Dart hired a port boat to transport the ingredients to the transport ship Snow Hare, a transport ship in the mooring area outside the port. Dart, who was signing a delivery note, suddenly heard someone shouting "Be careful, drive more into the tracks" on the public channel. ”

I saw a silver-white warship, at a very high speed, expected to pass through the Snow Hare, and the convoy of transports. Transport workers quickly untie the rails used to transport the goods and let the warship pass. All the crew members outside the ship found a fixed position until the warship passed through without any danger.

What has just passed is the active cruiser of the Space Force under the North American Liberty Alliance, the Balfia-class cruiser. Conventional power, with a total length of more than 240 meters. The armament of the whole ship is as follows: 203 mm linear beam particle cannon twin with three seats, one in the front and one in the back, 10 anti-aircraft guns, 4 anti-ship missile launchers, and 10 anti-aircraft missile launchers and 2 anti-aircraft missile launchers. The whole ship can also carry 10 fighters.

Although the world has discovered a new energy source of energy, the analytical application of it is still in its infancy. At the military level, because its power system is huge and the output ratio is not high, it is very suitable for small aircraft and can only be placed on large warships. In addition, the cost is too high, and it can only be applied to core ships, just like the nuclear power of the earth. Most of the boats are conventionally powered.

"What a brutal warship. Anyway, shouldn't this be a public mooring area? Dart asked the captain of the transport.

"They depart from the port, and the normal orbit when leaving the port is that they can use the port launch system and revolution to accelerate the departure directly. However, many ships are very easy to miss the acceleration course, and after missing it, ordinary ships generally spend more energy and time to relaunch. The arrogant ones, especially these guys from the North American military, are speeding up and taking shortcuts on their own, and unfortunately this is one of the shortcuts. The captain of the transport boat smoked a cigarette and explained. Looking at the way he looks, this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened.

Dart chatted with the captain again, and saw that the loading and unloading was over. He said goodbye to the captain of the other side and turned back to the bridge.

"Okay, let's go back, everyone in the family should be waiting for us." Chen Xiaomou said. The transport, the Snow Hare, embarks on its way back.

The plan to return to base from the moon will take two days, during which time it will have to pass through the defenses of multiple forces, including the chaotic star field of space pirates. Most of the pirates registered a space development company in the Oasis Alliance, and in turn obtained the channel on the surface, sold the looted goods, or purchased armed equipment such as ships and warplanes----- of course, in the name of anti-piracy.

"At present, most of the pirates in this star field are from the Oasis Alliance, so I don't know if there is a promoter of the Oasis Alliance behind it." Arthur said, although sailing in the universe feels very new at first, it usually gets tired of staying for a day or two. However, in order to maintain the image of a leader, Chen Xiaomou could not return to the VIP cabin on the ship to play, so he stayed on the bridge, or asked Dart for common sense of navigation, or discussed some forms of the world with Arthur. Since Arthur was summoned, he was temporarily granted the highest authority for intelligence messages, and he was checking all aspects of information obtained from Chen Xing every day.

"After all, the Oasis Alliance is too late to develop the universe. Therefore, you need to use pirate layout before forming your own space army. In this way, combat experience, space experience, navigation information of various star fields, etc., can be quickly obtained. Dart also joined the discussion. As the current highest-ranking military holder and the oldest person in the base, Chen Xiaomou hopes that Dart can give advice in all aspects, not just the captain of a transport ship.

"The communication signal is interfered with," Salter, the communications officer at the communication station, suddenly exclaimed. Because as anyone who has come out of war, it is understood that the interference of the general signal is a precursor to the battle.

"Alpha-4 area, at a distance of 8000, has a combat response," radar soldier Wells reported.

Chen Xiaomou had never participated in the war, so Dart had mentioned some of this information before, but he didn't remember the statements of the space vectors, not to mention the encrypted code name used by the military - in order to prevent the other party from learning the movement of the warship's instructions through eavesdropping, people in the same unit would encrypt some passwords. In addition, the military generally divides the space around its own ships or teams, and then uses code names to indicate the coordinates and locations of the grids.

"1 o'clock direction. It's about a six-minute flight from us," Dart explained, and he could see that Chen Xiaomou didn't understand the location of the combat area, "It's troublesome, and it's easy to be affected on our way back." ”

"Then we're here waiting until the other side ends the fight??" Chen Xiaomou asked.

"On the one hand, we don't know when they will end the battle, and on the other hand, this distance is already within the radar range of the opposing sides, and now it's a question of whether the other side will let us go," Dart explained, and on the other hand, he gave the battle order: "The whole ship is ready for combat at the first level, and the people of the security department are ordered to prepare Ball and Zani and be ready to go at any time." "This is the first long-distance trip, plus Chen Xiaomou also set off with him, just in case, he brought all the Balls and Zani from the base. As for the defense of the base itself, there are also fixed batteries available, which also have a certain combat effectiveness.

"Wells, can you analyze the situation on the battlefield?" Dart asked.

"It's ongoing, right away." Radarman Wells replied, "The situation at the scene is that six large ships of the unknown organization have been attacked, and one Balfia-class cruiser of the North American Liberty League...... Intelligence update, 2 large ships of unknown group are heading towards us. ”

----------- North American Liberty League, the Balfia-class cruiser USS Wirther

"It's a big loss this time," said Rear Admiral Robert Jones, captain of the Wirther, with a wry smile at Conviton, the wolf of the wind. I didn't expect this group of space pirates to be able to get such a high-end cargo as a multi-missile launcher. This kind of missile launcher has almost no guns, only a 40-link missile launch system of the phalanx type, and the whole boat can fire more than 40 missiles at one time with all the doors open. Generally, this kind of missile boat mainly focuses on strategic launches, launching a large number of missiles at a time to disrupt the opponent's formation. Therefore, small battles generally do not need to be configured, they are all configured with 3-4 units on aircraft carriers.

The pirates used the meteorite to camouflage the missile launcher and fired 40 missiles at a distance, far exceeding the Wilt's ability to handle missiles. As a result, two of the three two-mounted main guns were destroyed, the missiles on the ship were completely destroyed, and even the starting port of the space fighters was hit, making all the fighters unable to dispatch.

"The other side is about 6 armed merchant ships, and it is fortunate that there are no military ships, they are all small-caliber guns, and we can use the only one artillery for a deterrent attack. Most of the small combat equipment on board was combat boats, with only a small number of fighters," Major Jones continued. Combat boats, generally converted from transport boats, generally only have two 25mm cannons as the main weapons, far inferior to combat use in combat ability and maneuverability, there are four 25mm cannons, equipped with various missiles, and can also be loaded with a 150mm linear gun for ships.

"Haven't you cleared the fighter exit yet?" Conveton asked over the walkie-talkie about the situation at the fighter plane's entrance.

"No, it's badly damaged, and it's still very difficult to break through." The other party replied.

At this time, the radarman shouted: "The enemy combat boat unit is coming quickly towards us, the distance is 600. "Although the 25mm cannon does not do much damage to the armor of the warship, it still poses a certain threat against the main guns, anti-aircraft guns and missile mounts. If all the defensive weapons were destroyed by the combat boat, basically the ship would have to surrender.

"Use the cargo hold to throw the plane out and let it accelerate on its own." Convitaton suddenly thought of a solution, and then asked Major Jones, "Can the hangar and cargo hatch be directly connected?" ”

Major Jones thought for a moment and replied, "It should be feasible, in order to facilitate the delivery of ammunition from the cargo hatch to the hangar, the passage is quite wide." "Then give an order to all the logistics personnel to think about moving the fighter to the cargo port.