Shen Chao saw Roy's hesitant appearance and knew that something might be an accident here, so he immediately ordered the navigation group to increase the output of the detection array and expand the scope of investigation.

And adjust the attitude of the Budapest, ready to slowly penetrate the galaxy at sub-light speed. In this way, they sailed at a lower speed towards the planet where the replicants were based.

Most of the replicants live on the inner ring planet called "Iros". If there are no surprises, as long as they get there, a reasonable explanation can be given to the question.

After cruising at high speed for more than ten minutes, the planet named "Iros" finally entered the tactical detection range of the Budapest.

Just as they were turning on all the communication channels and preparing to approach the inner orbiting planet in a peaceful manner, a dense electronic sound of warning suddenly came from the electronic warfare team. This was followed by a report from the head of the electronic warfare group.

"Sir, we've just detected multiple targets in azimuth 105,403, and it looks like two fleets are engaged in this area, with a total of 40... Oh no, it's 62 battleships......"

The person in charge of the electronic warfare team reported while sending the brush counts of the warring parties that had just been detected to the main control hologram in front of Shen Chao.

Soon, dozens of battleship symbols marked with numbers were displayed on the hologram. Each symbol represents a warship, and the numbers marked on the symbol are their basic information, such as location, distance, length, and estimated tonnage.

There are currently only these basic numbers on the hologram, but it is not like the usual model of the two warships. After all, they were now too far away from the warring areas, a full 4 astronomical units away.

At this distance, their warships could only detect two fleets in the distance, but they could not observe them too clearly. The optical equipment on board their ships has not yet defied the sky enough to see a few small warships several hundred meters long 600 million kilometers away.

Even if it can be seen clearly, it is a fool's act to observe the battle situation with optical equipment at this distance. Because at this distance, the natural time difference caused by the speed of light limitation makes the information observed by the device useless.

So Shen Chao didn't let the electronic warfare team give a clearer mark, but just quickly scanned the hologram sent to him. Analyze the start of the battle. And estimate whether they are eligible to join.

As shown by the number jù on the figure. On the periphery of an asteroid belt 4 astronomical units away from them, two unidentified fleets are engaged. Although the intensity of the overall exchange of fire between the two warring sides was not high, the fighting appeared to be fierce.

Of the two warring parties, one of them was clearly inferior in terms of equipment, with only 17 ships of low tonnage. Weapons standards also vary (in fact, they are all armed merchant ships)

The other side is clearly deep-pocketed, with 14 large-tonnage regular warships and more than 20 auxiliary types of warships. It has a clear quantitative and qualitative advantage.

It stands to reason that such a strong advantage would be enough for the stronger side of the team to win quickly. But according to the picture, the current situation of the battle situation is "a little" strange.

First of all, although Shen Chao and the others did not know how long this space battle had been going on, and they had not yet determined the specific camps of the warring parties, there were already the wreckage of two warships near the combat area. And it's one on each side of the war.

This is not particularly strange, after all, it is not impossible for a weakly equipped fleet to defeat the weak warships of the other side.

What is truly incredible is that the larger fleet, although theoretically has a comprehensive equipment advantage. But now they are being crushed by the small fleet behind them. I also ran while fighting. Apparently covering the support ships behind them to escape from the star system.

This situation is really strange, the small-tonnage battleship pursues the enemy large-tonnage battlefleet that has a numerical superiority and attacks, and it still has the upper hand! The incredible Cheng dù of this matter itself is simply a level of subversion of people's worldview.

Because if you compare it, the current situation is probably the same as seeing a dozen ordinary-performing torpedo boats chasing after a dozen high-tech destroyers and dozens of submarines and supply ships on the enemy in a naval battle in the main plane, which is simply illogical.

Just when Shen Chao was trying to figure out what was going on here. Roy had already seen the specific identities of the two parties through the limited number of jù on the diagram.

"That's the federal fleet, damn it, they're invading our system again!" Roy's tone was one of surprise, anger, and anxiety. The fists were clenched even tighter, obviously trying to find something to beat twice.

This is also very understandable, he went home full of joy originally to show his eloquence, pull his friends into the current outer organization of the Plane Council, get rid of the difficult life in this plane, and live a good life.

As a result, as soon as he returned, he didn't even have time to see an old friend when he saw the government army sending a fleet to encircle and suppress him, and the life and death of his friend were unknown...... Whoever encounters such a situation will not be calm.

He reacted as soon as he saw the number of the fleets on both sides on the hologram. After all, he had been an important military leader at the replicant base here, and had fought the federal government's fleet many times before.

He was all too familiar with the conditions and styles of the replicants and the federal government, so he could roughly figure out what was going on here when he looked at the numbers on the map.

It was clear that the federal government was now free to deal with them, and in order to clear the border instability, they tore up the border ceasefire agreement they had signed with the replicators a few years ago, and sent a fleet to clear their territory.

Something similar had happened before, but never on such a large scale, so the first few times they had fought hard to keep this hard-won base and use it as a base to accommodate other replicants.

"Captain, we have to go and help......" Thinking of this, Roy turned around and asked Shen Yu to help, although the battle situation looked strange, the small fleet of replicants seemed to be pressing the other party, but he was not happy.

He has a lot of experience in confrontation with the government fleet, and he knows that although the federal government's fleet is not particularly well organized and trained, the senior leaders are extremely corrupt.

But the combat power of their fleet is not only so small, and it is impossible that such a large fleet cannot defeat the small fleet of their replicants. So there must be something unexpected in this that they haven't figured out yet.

"Okay, no further ado, Roy, we'll help. After Shen Chao heard Roy's request, he agreed directly without thinking about it.

He had carefully observed the intensity of the firefights between the two warring sides, and had finally determined that neither side had enough firepower to penetrate Budapest's shields and armor.

So there's no real danger to them if they get involved. Since there was no danger, there was no reason for him to refuse Roy's reasonable request.

Besides, when he was on the road, he was still thinking about how to show his strength by the way when recruiting replicants peacefully, so as to avoid being unable to control the field after recruiting a large number of replicants in the future.

Originally, he hadn't come up with any peaceful way to flex his muscles, but now the situation offered him the possibility that they could flex their muscles by replicating people's fleets with strong support. It can show strength, and the means are very "peaceful".

"The government troops on the other side, I'm sorry, who asked you to come to clean up today, help with the current human background......" Shen Chao silently mourned for the people in the federal government fleet in the distance in his heart, and then ordered the whole ship to enter the battle state without hesitation.

Under his orders, the Budapest entered a ship-wide emergency for the first time (there were too few people to do so), and a piercing operational alarm sounded. Almost everyone on the battleship, except for the medical team, moved to their respective combat posts.

The navigation group begins to warm up the Mass Effect core and enter the jump coordinates. The fire control team turned on their observation and independent calculation system, and conducted a pre-battle self-inspection of the main gun, and the reserve secondary gunners also ran to the operating station to take place.

After receiving the battle alert, more than 200 marines on decks 5 and 6 put on their combat armor, collected their weapons, and rushed to the flight deck to assemble under the command of several officers and soldiers.

The pilots who lived on deck 8 also quickly assembled under the organization of several soldier commanders and came to the flight deck to enter the pilot's seat of the shuttle planes and fighter planes.

If the artillery battle after a while can't solve the battle in a short time, Shen Chao will also consider sending these pilots who have not completed their training for a long time to fly their space fighters out to fight.

Although in the world of Mass Effect, space fighters are basically soy sauce-like in space warfare, but in this plane with no shield and no super-large warship, the combat effectiveness of space fighters that can carry two-ton pyrolysis torpedoes around is not an ordinary bunker.

One minute and 40 seconds after Shen Chao's order to prepare for battle was issued, all the combat personnel on the ship rushed to their respective posts, and the whole ship was ready for battle.

After getting the reports prepared by all departments, Shen Chao immediately gave the order to jump a short distance, and the Budapest, which had just jumped out of the superluminal boundary for less than half an hour, disappeared into the starry sky again, rushing towards the battlefield 600 million kilometers away at an ultra-high speed of 240 times the speed of light.

About half a minute later. They finished their jump, and the Budapest suddenly appeared on the edge of the battlefield of the warring sides. It is only a few thousand kilometers away from the warring parties.

At this time, the two warring sides were very close, and the closest warships between the two sides were only more than a hundred kilometers apart, and in a space war, such a close distance was almost equivalent to a face to face.

"All secondary guns on the starboard side are ready...... Start firing in sections...... "Shen Chao saw that the position where he jumped out was just right, so he gave the order to attack the federal government fleet on the opposite side. (To be continued.) )