"BOSS, THEY RAN AWAY."

Pan Wen's fingers knocked on the command platform a few times, and said helplessly: "Let the fighter return to the ship, and this ship and the Kuroshio return to the planned channel." ”

For the target ship group to decisively choose to escape, Pan Wen has no good way.

If you think about it, you can guess that this kind of thing often happens in MR241 - when the fighters of the two sides meet, one side forces the reconnaissance plane of the other side to retreat, and then the ship of one side must get enough information first, and if it is in a general area, then the one who gets the information first has the initiative. However, in the MR241 star field, the side that chose to escape had a geographical advantage, and most of the chasing ships were reluctant to be scratched by the dust anyway.

It may be because the other party is self-aware and knows that the small fleet can't make any big waves in MR241, and tries its best to avoid it when it doesn't have the initiative to seek a more secure opportunity to accumulate wealth.

The Empire of Is, the patrol ship group, and the decisive way of behaving, are suspicious players no matter how you look at them.

Pan Wen never underestimated the wisdom of the players, but he was quite depressed when he saw their growth.

Now that we know the use of fighters for early warning, it is estimated that the next step is to deal with the difference in the level of the frigate from the combination of ship types.

It seems that if the next ship still gets a conventional frigate, it seems that it will not be able to keep up with the times. Players are creatures that can popularize tactics much faster than in the real world.

Leaning on the command podium and dragging his chin to calculate, if there is only mineral income, it will take him another two months to buy frigates and hire crews again. The average strength of players in two months is enough to go to the next stage, even if the new warship market is not opened, the small ship class also includes medium patrol ships, and the popularity of tactics and other factors, the future of being a pirate seems to be bleak.

Although Pan Wen has the memories of two lives, he can't do a good job of this situation. He wanted to continue to increase the number of mining machines, but the stones and asteroids with star crystal ore in the nebula were not all over the ground, and his fleet would not have enough strength to protect if he continued to increase the number of mining machines. In addition, the Galactic Era does not seem to be in the atmosphere, just dig a pit and get a treasure chest, even if you make a fortune, Pan Wen's capital needs are too great, under the premise of his current strength, there is almost no better "business" than maintaining two mining machines in MR241.

At this time, the Hammer returned to the scheduled patrol route with the Kuroshio, and Pan Wen also got up, letting Dorotai continue to watch, and he went back to the captain's office to think about strategy.

Pan Wen connected with Doris again and gave a rough description of the situation.

"Boss, many people can't think of holding two mining machines here, why take the risk?"

"My instincts tell me that Segeis is about to be in danger, and that I need more strength before then." Pan Wen tried to fool the past with his intuition.

"Then if Segeis is not in danger, boss, have you considered the attrition of maintaining a large fleet?"

"Segeis has enough personnel, but there is a real problem, and money can't buy a good ship, so at least you have to get the ship first." Things will not come to the point where there are ships and no place to use them, and the matter of Karedati is not yet allowed to be believed, not to mention for the time being, if there is a large enough fleet, Pan Wen will dare to attack the space station! That profit, just by capturing prisoners, made a fortune.

"Okay, you're the boss, I'll do whatever you say."

Pan Wen looked at the faces in the picture, thought for a while, and said, "I want to fight an ambush war, use Sanitation No. 1 and a mining machine as bait, and other ships use asteroids to hide." Pack up a fleet of frigates and head back to the jump zone in Segeis to continue mining. ”

The player has become slippery, allowing him to start the idea of fighting the Isis Empire frigate, and now with the addition of a scalpel, as long as the engagement distance is right, it is not a problem to blow up a frigate in three or four rounds of fire with four main guns.

"The shield of Sanitation No. 1 can't hold up with a single shot, won't it be dangerous?"

"So let the target know it's an armed merchant ship." Armed merchant ships have no chance of winning against warships of the same class, and it is very likely that the other party chooses to capture them alive after revealing information in advance.

Speaking of which, Pan Wenxin's battle plan gradually became concrete, allowing Doris to prepare herself and return to the control room to adjust the tasks of the ships in the fleet.

The existing mining sites are defined as mine A and mine B, based on mine A with a slightly higher density of asteroids in the surrounding area, and the hammer, Kuroshio and scalpel remain relatively stationary by relying on the asteroid cover within 50,000 kilometers around mine A. Among them, the two split ships of the scalpel were also separated to find cover, so that the entire fleet could do three-dimensional protection of mine A in a stationary state.

After the combat ship was in position, Sanitation No. 1 stopped in the middle of the AB mine and opened the hangar and weapon system for a long time.

It is difficult to define the specific size of a ship with an anti-radar coating at a certain distance, and the weapon system is opened to use the shape change of the secondary weapon relative to the outer surface to weaken the stealth ability of the radar. In addition, the hangar of Sanitation No. 1 has been greatly modified, and the metal reaction generated by the opening of the hangar is much larger than that of a normal ship, and the surface area is a basic function according to the metal reaction.

Combining the two types of information, it is possible to tell the approaching guy that this is an armed merchant ship converted from a heavy frigate without turning on the active radar. Turning on the active radar can also achieve the goal, but it is too easy to think of a trap.

The combat capability of armed merchant ships converted from heavy frigates fluctuates greatly, and generally one or two light patrol ships dare not touch them, and the frigates absolutely cannot help -- whether it is for the purpose of "exterminating pirates" or seizing minerals.

After the launch of the new program, there was a long wait. What they have to do is also similar to that of ancient snipers, no matter what the enemy looks like, as long as they gather fire and kill one first, even if the opponent's fleet is not small, the rest of the fleet facing three frigates will not be pleased.

It was two days of waiting, and finally, at dinner time for the crew.

A girl from the tactical group stood at the door of the restaurant and shouted: "Level 1 combat alert, everyone is on duty immediately." ”

She was still making tactical gestures while shouting, and at this time she was implementing electronic silence and during regular shift times, so she directly used people to shout instead of using sirens. This will delay for two or three minutes, but there are rotating personnel on duty, and it will not be in the way for others to slow down and get in place.

Dozens of seconds later, Pan Wen entered the control room with a towel while wiping his sweat, he was training in the simulator just now, and the clothes were only hanging on his shoulders and didn't have time to wear them, but fortunately, everyone was very professional and did not attract onlookers.

"What's the situation?"

"Sir, five ships appeared in the direction of 230 degrees and -33 degrees, and they are heading towards Sanitation No. 1."

"Huh?" After a short period of adaptation, Pan Wen reacted quickly to the coordinate system of the stereo star map, "Isn't that going to pass under my gun?" ”

His words caused a low chuckle in the control room. In the midst of this laughter, the last few crew members and the members of the tactical team responsible for the notification came in and sat in their places with blank expressions.

The leader of the tactical team was still responsible: "Yes, if the course remains the same, they will pass directly in front of us and the closest distance is less than 150,000 kilometers. ”

Pan Wen wiped the sweat off his body, put on the captain's uniform, was not in a hurry to be happy, and continued to understand the situation: "Five ships, can you confirm the type and composition?" ”

"It is inferred from the recorded timing of the voyage turn that there is at least one frigate or medium patrol and reconnaissance vessel, because the sailing speed is not sufficient and the analysis of the propulsion effect is not reliable enough."

It's a bit passive, in case it's five frigates, can you fight?

Pan Wen didn't hesitate much, clicked a few times at a certain position on the star map, made a mark, and issued an order: "Use the signal light to signal the word, let all the ships adjust their attitude, the main gun is aimed here, and the action is small." ”

This time it is no better than the first time to use electronic silence, because the target may also be a frigate, or even several frigates, so even communication is not done, and the oldest signal method is used.

More than ten seconds later: "Sir, the command has been issued." ”

"Well, let's signal the miner and let it take off back to Sanitation No. 1 in two minutes, it's best to be panicked."

The signals on the battleship can be used to mark their own shape and position when entering and leaving the port, and in space, because they need to be covered to avoid damage caused by cosmic dust, they can be used as signal lights to send different signals to friendly forces in various directions.

The take-off time requested by Pan Wen also took into account that as a modified armed merchant ship, the Sanitation No. 1 would have some gaps with the warship in terms of reconnaissance capabilities.

Compared with space ships, multi-functional exploration aircraft needs to have the ability to get rid of the gravitational field from zero speed due to the needs of mining and geological analysis, and the thruster structure is completely different.

The technician on the miner who received the signal may not have been inside the ship during the first battle, and his performance was pompous, activating the thrusters and igniting a solid-fuel rocket booster, spewing a large pile of sand and gravel off the surface of the asteroid.

No one cares about this indecentness, everyone knows that the pilot on the probe plane is not a marine, and it is normal to be flustered when encountering a situation, not to mention that the mining plane was actually within the range of the other party when it took off just now. Of course, the miner represents property, and even if there is a real chance of hitting such a small thing, no one will really attack the miner with the main gun, so it is not really dangerous.

The attacking fleet was only 300,000 kilometers away from the ambush site at this time, and it was already within the range of engagement, and the barrier between the two sides was only a small arc of the asteroid.

If the opponent enters the enemy-seeking mode at this time, Pan Wen's fleet will be discovered immediately. Perhaps a concern for the chaotic situation on MR241, the take-off of the probe indicates that they have been detected, and they only slightly speed up towards Sanitation 1. There are not a few armed merchant ships that come to MR241 to gamble on their character, and they will encounter them for a long time, and sometimes, because they have more mines, they will be caught up because the acceleration is not as good as the battleship.

"BOSS, the thruster of Sanitation No. 1 has been opened, and it should have received a signal to persuade you to surrender."

"Tsk." Pan Wen snorted disdainfully, it is still much more convenient for pirates to get money and engage in such literature and art.

He didn't worry about the safety of Sanitation No. 1 at all, the distance between the two mines was not short, and he would fight before it entered the opponent's range.

"Sir, the picture is analyzed, two frigates, three patrol ships." At this distance, it is already possible to use optical imaging systems to help collect information.

This is a good and not bad result, with the ability of the Pan Wen fleet, it is best for the other party to have three frigates to maximize the interests, but everyone knows that this kind of thing does not become a reality if you think about it.