Chapter 62: The Bloody Barrow Empire (Part II)

The so-called house leak coincided with overnight rain, which is really an accurate description of the situation of the Barrow Empire at this time, and Pan Wen, who jumped to the K29 galaxy to complete the galaxy scan through the border of a non-participating war, expressed deep sympathy for the capital star of the Barrow Empire.

The results of the scan of the Phan Van fleet showed that there was a thick smoke covering the sky and the sun on the surface of the capital star at this moment, and it was obvious that the strategic facilities or industrial areas on the ground had been hit.

The capital star of the Barrow Empire is an ordinary rocky star, this kind of planet does not have the complex tactical environment established by the blue star satellite group based on the gas star satellite group, basically doing something on the surface of the planet was immediately discovered by the fleet in outer space, and the size of the ship-based landing force is impossible to enter the atmosphere to pose a substantial threat to a resident star, so the ground facilities should be destroyed by high-density orbital bombardment or the star-destroying ship has dropped professional missiles.

Along the way, Pan Wen's fleet also collected more information about the Barrow Empire, and the process of the war can be said to be tortuous and bizarre.

The territory of the Barrow Empire has a total of three star systems, and K30 has confirmed that it cannot be rescued, and even the surrounding TV shows have no hope of rescue; Although the K29 capital star has not been invaded by the ground for the time being, it is difficult to hold out for too long under this kind of orbital attack that does not take into account the safety of the people, once it enters the stage of no Z government, the high-tech system that supports the society will quickly collapse, and without a society with comprehensive monitoring, it will not take much ground troops to take over.

The hope of rescuing the capital of the Barrow Empire falls on K34. As mentioned earlier, K31 to K40 are dense regions of galaxies, and any point can jump to all other galaxies at once. The garrison pressure of K34 is greater than that of the capital star, so the scale of its standing self-military industrial system is also larger, and after the failure of some garrison fleets to support the capital star, the garrison fleet will theoretically be restored within a month, and a much larger fleet will be put together.

However, the world is wonderful, and just on the way to the arrival of the fleet of Pan Vyn, the news was heard that K34 had declared independence!

…… Well, if the news is true, the former Barrow Empire has already existed in name only.

K34's loyalty is certainly worth discussing, but there is no problem with the choice, several families that are making trouble in the capital star are now busy pinching each other, and they can't attack K34 who still retains part of the garrison for the time being, but if one day a few figure it out or one of them is eliminated, the interests will become easy to divide, K34 will sooner or later be assigned to at least one opponent, even if it can be repulsed, it is impossible to lose nothing, what defense will there be at that time to defend the neighbors who are eyeing the tiger?

In addition to the fact that the former capital of the Barrow Empire is no longer saved, another important news is very beneficial to Pan Wen's trip - K29 is now more than three companies involved.

In addition to having the capital star of the Barrow Empire, K29 also has a mineral star and a mineral chain, that is, the K29 asteroid belt, K29 will be selected as the capital, this asteroid belt is indispensable, it is rumored to be the highest gold content of the surrounding twenty or thirty galaxies, the highest gold content of gravity celestial group, its overall gold content reached 5 parts per thousand.

Five thousandths sounds like it's not even qualified to compare with the 60% clarity of the K7E1, but considering that the K7 has five relay hops here, it's one more than the K7 to MR251! The gravity and atmosphere of K7 itself have increased the mining cost, and the alternating mining with the blue gold diggers has reduced the mining efficiency, all of which is coupled with the cost of ultra-long-distance transportation, in short, the gold of K7 has no price advantage when sold here! On the other hand, in terms of total reserves, the gold reserves of the entire K29 asteroid belt are not less than those of K7, but the water needed to refine crude ore is somewhat lacking.

Due to the war, the K29 asteroid belt lost control, and the surrounding merchant groups and private armies automatically pounced on them like mosquitoes seeing meat. The three families that invaded the Barrow Empire were in a state of confrontation with each other, and they were unable to clean up these personal forces, so they could only gather their own country's private forces to take the food.

The original Barrow Empire still has a lot of mining bases in the asteroid belt, and now that the fleet has been conscripted by the war and never returns, around them, the private armed forces have been the most fierce robbery, and the other weaker ones are scattered all over the asteroid belt, relying on a little circulating water on the ship, and the amount of gold can be counted. On the first scan alone, the Panvin fleet captured at least three teams with large cargo ships and six high-energy clashes in the asteroid belt.

This environment makes Pan Wen feel like he is back at home.

While Pan Wenzheng was happy for the prosperity of his "prey", he was hit hard by another purpose of the trip - he was stupid, he didn't expect K29 and K30 to be closer, and the mileage was measured in light years, and the distance of only 0.86 light years caused the observation ship to be unable to complete the scheduled observation mission, and could only see the picture ten months ago! And he didn't even realize this until he saw the distance of the surrounding galaxies in the star map after arriving!

Fortunately, Pan Wen did not tell his subordinates in advance what the ship was for, and after slapping himself in the captain's room, he still let the observation ship do the observation, and the main task was changed to hunting.

The K29's private armament is slightly stronger than the average pirate in terms of size, and half of the fleet will have light cruiser flagships, but their fleet composition is very funny, with no more than three combat ships, and some ships and even cargo ships that cannot participate in the battle will be brought with them. Non-warships have no stealth needs, and the passive mode can only search for warships between 70 and 1.2 million kilometers, because of the existence of these civilian ships, they can be found at 2 million kilometers, and because there is more preparation time, it seems that there is not much advantage in bringing a large ship.

The newcomer Pan Wen was completely unable to adapt to the armed methods of the locals, and after invading the perimeter of the asteroid belt, he tentatively attacked after the double scanning of the 11th reconnaissance plane and the Golden Plane.

"BOSS, the target flagship has disintegrated." This response came less than half a minute after Pan Vin gave the order to open fire.

Only two rounds of firing lasted, and before Pan Wen could even say whether the attack would continue or a temporary ceasefire, the radarman's report came again.

"Captain, the target fleet is signaling surrender."

"Surrender? …… The whole fleet temporarily ceased fire and remained on alert. Pan Wen, who had basically never faced a similar situation, was a little confused for a while, and asked the deputy captain Nadezhda, "Shall we ask them what the charter is for surrendering here?" ”

In the past, when the surrender was accepted, the combat capability of the target fleet above the medium range had been paralyzed, and in the first contact here, the target fleet still had two heavy frigates almost intact, and the surrender at this time made all kinds of conspiracy theories pop up in Pan Wen's mind.

Nadezhda gave him a roll of the eye, and sent an order directly to the hangar area for him, asking the Oversized Mechs, the Marines, and the Warplanes and Gunboats on the Gold to receive the surrender ship together.

Pan Wen was not really stupid, but he was a little confused by the rhythm of the target's surrender, and when he heard Nadezhda's instructions to the hangar area, Pan Wen pressed the call button on the communicator's seat.

"Tell them that we accept surrender and let all of them evacuate the combat ships immediately, or else they will bear all the consequences."

Want money or goods? Pan Wen was the first to rule out this plan, on the grounds that once the Marines were allowed to get close to the opposing team, they were likely to be found out, and Segeis could not be used as a backer now, and he didn't want to cause too much trouble to his partners before D21 had enough strength, so it was a better choice to ask for a ship directly.

Pan Wen was mentally prepared to lose a few oversized mechs to cope with the mutation, but the process of surrender was without twists and turns, and after tossing for half an hour, these goods really handed over the two heavy frigates directly! And in this half hour, there are no powerful guys ready to approach.

In terms of this combat quality, compared to the fleets around the MR Cluster Starbridge, it is completely at the level of civilians, and the initial strength of the swarm occupying K30 may be far less powerful than imagined.

The arrival of two heavy frigates, although they were old models from twenty years ago, was not a big problem in selling 25,000 to 30,000 star coins in the MR star cluster, and the surprise from the sky generally lifted Pan Wen's financial predicament.

It stands to reason that with the wreckage of two heavy frigates and a light cruiser, the Harbor will be fully loaded in an instant, and it is basically announced that it can call it a day and leave, but it is the first time that Pan Wen has met such a weak guy, and the war of K29 may end at any time, and there will be no such shop in this village, how can it be possible not to bully without a little more.

Having said that, Pan Wen still guarded the prudence that a pirate should have, and on the premise that his income was guaranteed, the frequency of battles could approach zero, so as not to cause the sense of crisis to spread too quickly, and the choice of targets was repeatedly scanned and confirmed.

In the process of lurking again and choosing targets, Pan Wen gradually discovered the local "custom" that made him cry and laugh, the large ships equipped with private armed equipment around him were used to intimidate more battles, and in the battle between private armed forces, the pursuit was only to damage the enemy ships rather than fight until people disintegrated, perhaps it was this strange "friendly" style of combat that made the fleet in front of him develop the behavior of surrendering directly when things were not good.

In order to confirm the unusual, Pan Wen's fleet left the ecliptic plane and repeatedly scanned for more than ten hours, and Pan Wen, who had rested, also figured out a little, the local combat habits were like this, and it should still be related to the word responsibility.

In the MR Star Cluster, pirates and all outsiders are fighting to the death, there is a feud between the Empire and the Federation, the Empire and the Federation are greedy behemoths in the eyes of all other forces, and in MR241 they are also competing for the most valuable minerals in the entire Galactic Era, and the battle is basically a situation of non-death.

And there are no pirate groups around this area as a source of chaos, civilian armed forces have no way to practice, and there are mostly disputes over commercial interests between each other, how much profit is worth the risk, and without the strong profit conflict on the K7 side, their risk expectations will be lower, causing their will to fight only to the extent of civilians.

After some careful selection, Pan Wen selected a cute fleet that had opened the hangar twice in the past ten hours to show its "muscles".

Detoured to the asteroid belt and borrowed it as a cover, and went up and still grabbed the cruiser that looked like a flagship and beat it fatly, the firepower of the Gold does not need to be explained, and the Shotgun taken over by Pan Yueer is also a killer-class ship, and the same two rounds of fire directly disintegrated this large ship with a size between medium and light cruisers.

However, this fleet of six combat ships seemed to be a little more confident, and after reacting, it resisted, and only then did Pan Wen discover the real target - a special command ship hiding behind the fleet! The fleet gave up a round of attacks and adjusted to the synchronous fire command ship, and the result was exactly the same as the previous battle, the flagship fell, and the rest immediately surrendered!

In this operation, because the first target did not hit the flagship, the opponent also injured the Fat Dun in the case of a slower response, and what is even more outrageous is that the wound actually included neutron cannon damage, and the twelve compartments in front of the hull and the subsequent ballistic trajectory of the hangar, a certain area of the hangar, a total of nine crew members ascended to heaven! The cruiser has a lot of compartments in the bow, and it is not too afraid of the damage caused by the direct hit of the neutron cannon, and the nine crew members in just a few seconds, just in a straight line on the span of dozens of meters, is the truth of the attrition, this has become the battle with the most attrition of the Panvin fleet under a single neutron cannon attack!

As a result of the accident, Pan Wen, who had obtained four more medium-sized frigates, did not show any joy, and after commanding the fleet to move away from the ecliptic again, he held a simple silent ceremony, and said that if there were relatives among the dead, the relatives could apply for it, and the fleet would bear the cost of the resurrection of its genetic bank.

Too much loot is not always a good thing, four medium-sized frigates that cannot be stored to drive back, even if they give up arming, maintenance and other work, it will take at least 160 people, in a fleet that popularizes man-machine cooperation, at least three ships will not be able to take turns and reduce combat efficiency. In addition, returning to MR251 from here has to go through as many as eight relay points, both nine jumps, and each ship needs more than 400 Star Coins of fuel, while normal frigates will not have so much fuel, even if the fuel of the two heavy frigates stored up is out, the total gap is still more than 700 Star Coins. Even if Pan Wen has a strange habit of stockpiling energy rods, the consumption is also not small after experiencing the continuous movement of the fleet, and if there are a few more ships, he may have to dismantle the intact frigates on the spot.

But after this village, is there any such good thing?

Pan Wen struggled for a while, but in the end, he couldn't stand the income of a few days and a month, so he decided to adopt an extreme strategy.