On the 10th day of November 1557 in the Alpha calendar, cosmic time is 15 hours and 45 minutes.

In the star field near the "Caladian" pirate fortress Shiguangfen, the Mercheng detachment and the 14th formation of the Blackbeard Pirate Regiment sailed in the same direction.

Fearing shelling, the ships turned their shields to the maximum. This slowed them down so much that they couldn't get rid of Mur City quickly.

And this apparent negligence was actually a use of strategy - the Fourteenth Formation wanted to lure the city into their ambush circle.

About ten minutes later, the Mecheng detachment and the 14th formation began to approach the position of about three minutes in the lower left direction of the "Caladian" pirate fortress.

Here, four other pirate formations have been fully assembled here.

At 15:48 cosmic time, the leaders of the four pirate formations opened fire almost simultaneously at the Mercheng squadron, which had already appeared on the ship's radar.

Because the people led by Mo Cheng were all heavy battleships, the strength to withstand the blow was relatively strong.

However, even so, in one round of artillery bombardment, about twenty heavy battleships were immediately incapacitated. In addition, there were more than fifty heavy battleships, with varying degrees of damage.

It should be said that such a battle loss has exceeded Mo Cheng's expectations. In order to make his escape seem more realistic, Mo Cheng originally wanted to maneuver with the fleet ambushing him for a while before running, but in this situation, all the performances can be saved.

Because Mo Cheng is a real escape this time, and he himself is not sure whether he can really escape.

Nine minutes and thirty-four seconds, when ordering the entire fleet to turn around and flee, Mo Cheng immediately calculated the time it would take to escape from him to the ambush point of his own fleet.

At the time of the pursuit, Mo Cheng was already studying the star map in this area.

Attentively, he found that there were three large meteorite belts in this area.

The largest of these meteorite belts has a transverse area of about 40 square minutes of light and a longitudinal area of about 70 square minutes. And his position happened to be in the straight line from the location of Mo City to the ambush point, and the straight-line distance was about seven lights.

When he realized this, Mo Cheng couldn't help but pat his chest, the sky can see that he was finally not completely abandoned by the goddess of fate.

For ordinary warships, the damage of meteorites is naturally very large, especially at high speeds near the speed of light. However, for a heavy battleship such as a heavy battleship equipped with special meteorite protection, its damage is not so deadly.

Of course, this so-called non-lethality only refers to ordinary meteorites, and if it is too large a meteorite, it can still cause great damage to heavy battleships. Especially now that we have to cross a meteorite belt that is a full seven rays away in a straight line, the risks are still self-evident.

However, at this time, Mo Cheng simply did not have the environment to think so much, if he didn't rush over, the pirate fleet of five formations would fire ten thousand cannons, and if there were two or three rounds, he Mo Cheng would see Lord Yama.

After seeing the Merci detachment rushing into the meteorite belt, the leaders of the five pirate formations glanced at each other on the communication screen, and then almost unanimously ordered the fleet to sail around the meteorite belt, catching enemy tracks along the way.

In this way, they sailed two or three times the distance of the Merce Fleet, and their speed advantage was lost.

And the most terrifying thing is that when the troops are gathered in one place, the five formations that originally had an absolute superiority in strength were separated by themselves in such a pursuit.

Although the farthest distance between the five formations is only six light minutes, the fastest can be reached within six minutes. However, such a distance is enough for the city of Mer.

Seven minutes later, the Mecheng detachment was killed from the meteorite belt, and by this time, he had less than one hundred and twenty heavy battleships left.

Almost all of the wounded battleships were sunk by giant meteorites in the meteorite belt. And these one hundred and twenty heavy battleships were all wounded. Almost 20 of them were barely able to sail and had completely lost their combat effectiveness.

Trailing behind Mo Cheng less than fifty light seconds was the 14th Formation that had just been beaten all over the ground by the Mo Cheng Detachment.

When they saw the Merce squadron reappear on the ship's radar, they immediately notified the other four fleets to come and join them. At the same time, he increased his horsepower and rushed towards the Mocheng detachment.

There were two minutes and thirty-four seconds left, and the nearest fourteenth formation was fifty light-seconds, almost simultaneously with their avant-garde fleet to the designated area.

"Will they show up there on time?"

Mo Cheng rubbed his hands a little nervously, and in order to overcome his nervousness, Mo Cheng even shook his hand gently.

At 15:57 a.m. cosmic time, when it was only 34 light-seconds away from the designated area, a communicator in Mocheng that was constantly sending out contact signals at a specific frequency finally received a response.

"Report to the president, our army is waiting for it solemnly." On the screen, the adjutant gave a standard military salute and reported, "The engine has been warmed up, and all barrel energy has been filled." ”

"Very well, from now on, I take back the command." Mo Cheng said, putting the "Destroyer" flagship core into the command center, and the powerful command signal began to be released.

Within five seconds, Mer City had established contact with all the warships.

Because there is no commander relationship, the communication of the city is not to contact the command center of each ship, but directly to everyone on each ship.

In other words, the Destroyer has established contact with almost three million terminals in just five seconds.

After that, the "Destroyer" began to initialize all the data, which took about thirty seconds due to the sheer volume of data.

Thirty seconds later, another second after the city had completely arrived in the designated area, three hundred and fifty heavy battleships and one thousand four hundred and fifty heavy cruisers were lying in ambush.

In just an instant, the fourteenth formation, with the exception of fifty heavy battleships, completely disappeared from this world.

The fifty heavy battleships began to repeat the maneuvers that Mo Cheng had just done, and they immediately turned around and wanted to retreat.

But Mo Cheng is not them, and there is no way he can give him this opportunity.

1,450 heavy cruisers immediately approached, and within twenty seconds they caught up with these fifty heavy battleships and annihilated them all.

At this time, the Mercheng fleet came into contact with the fifteenth and sixteenth formations of the Blackbeard Pirate Regiment.

The pirate leaders of these two formations were slightly shocked when they saw that the Mercheng fleet was suddenly so powerful, but they did not retreat. This is first of all because they know that in a lot of time, they will have two more formations to join. The second reason is that they believe that the difference in strength between the two sides is not absolute. They are trying to bridge this gap between the two sides with their own command capabilities.

However, when the battle really began, they found that their biggest gap was in their command ability.

At the time of the battle, the heavy battleships and heavy cruisers of Meer City did not completely put together as a group, as they were customary.

Mercheng cleverly arranged the three hundred and fifty heavy battleships around the one thousand four hundred and fifty heavy cruisers, using its thick armor to block a certain amount of fire for them at the right time.

And the most terrifying thing is the offensive efficiency of the Mercheng fleet, in the environment where both sides are moving at high speed, almost every energy cannon fired by the Mercheng fleet hits the ships of the pirate fleet.

The attack efficiency of the pirate fleet was less than 20 percent, and about half of these 20 percent was skillfully shared by heavy battleships.

Therefore, in the Mercew fleet, all the heavy battleships were injured without exception, but very few heavy battleships lost their combat effectiveness.

In just over four minutes, the two sides continued to shoot wildly at each other.

For more than four minutes, there was no doubt that the cone-shaped battle formation of the Mercier fleet was the most suitable for the encounter. The two pirate fleets were not subordinate to each other, and in addition to fighting each other, they became a long line formation because of the pursuit, so that the fleet, which was about 70 percent of the total, could not participate in the battle at one time. They can only participate in the battle after the fleet in front of them has been wiped out.

It was precisely because of this various gaps between the two sides that when the time came to the cosmic time of sixteen hours, two minutes and fourteen seconds, the Mercheng fleet began to occupy an absolute advantage. In total, they sank more than 1,600 warships of the opposing side. This included sixty-one heavy battleships, one hundred and twenty-three battleships, five hundred and fifteen heavy battleships, three hundred and forty-two cruisers, and the rest were various auxiliary ships.

Although there were still more than 1,700 warships in the number of warships, the main ships of these two formations had basically been completely destroyed. Among them, the leaders of the 15 th formation were killed, and they completely lost their combat effectiveness.

At the cost of this, the Mecheng fleet lost only eighty-five heavy cruisers and thirteen heavy battleships.

As for the current situation, Mercheng is very satisfied. What he's happy with isn't where he is now, and for him, he doesn't think he's the best he can do. If he is given enough time to prepare, he can create a better exchange ratio. What really satisfied him was the absolute obedience shown by the clones during the battle.

Through this engagement, Mo Cheng has more confidence in the fleet under his command.

There was a fierce bombardment just now, and both sides were very enthusiastic, but now that the battle has been fought, the pirates have seen that the artillery fire on their side is becoming more and more sparse, while the opponent's has not weakened at all. The astute pirates immediately realized that they had probably fallen into a trap. This feeling of being deceived, coupled with the harsh reality of it, began to breed a huge negative mindset in the hearts of the pirates.

The collapse of these two formations finally began with the fifteenth formation, which had already lost its commander.

Among the few hundred battleships left in the formation, several of them suddenly ignored it at the beginning and suddenly rushed in several directions. One of them even sank his own friendly ships.

In just a dozen seconds, through the pirate's internal communication system, this atmosphere of collapse immediately began to permeate the hearts of all commanders.

So, suddenly, like a flood, hundreds of warships scattered in all directions. As soon as these hundreds of warships rushed, even if the other warships didn't want to withdraw, they couldn't fight anymore, so they could only be coerced by them and flee in all directions.

At this time, the nineteenth and twenty-third formations had already arrived.

However, their arrival did not help, and the fleet, which had collapsed, did not calm down because of their arrival. However, the only remaining pitiful formation of their two fleets was all washed away by these broken warships.

Moreover, even if they had discovered the Mercheng fleet, there was no way to open fire at all, because between them and the Mercheng fleet was a pirate fleet that had fled completely disorderly.

And Mo Cheng saw this opportunity, and immediately ordered his fleet to open fire in full swing.

When Mo Cheng commanded all the warships to fire at these two formations, he specially chose the relatively sparse launch route of the fleeing fleet. For these fleets that disrupt the opponent, Mo Cheng is really a little unable to do it, where can he find such a fierce death squad?

At the same time, Mo Cheng was also vigilant in his heart.

-- In fact, the military quality of pirates is better than that of the regular army. Especially in many of the stronger pirate groups, their members are either old mercenaries who came out of the mercenary group or veterans who have retired from the army. The reason why the war is not as good as the regular army is because of the pirates' problem of dispersing once the advantage is no longer there.

This habit can be useful when raiding is not going well, or when pirates are fighting. Because the opponent's strength will not be so overwhelming, you can save your strength if you run, and the opponent will generally not chase after you. However, in the regular battle of the convention, this problem is not avoidable.

(To be continued)