Chapter 35 Confluence
The Legion fleet has never been sloppy in its cautiousness, as the Legion is still relatively weak compared to other powers.
Although Qin Huo's character is not decisive, he is more cautious than other army generals. He put Qin Baiyu behind the next star, knowing that the strength of the Second Fleet in space was extremely weak now, so he naturally did not dare to be careless, which involved many personnel of the legion, and now there were nearly 500,000 new personnel.
There is also the city of Tinori, which has just been captured and stabilized.
What's even more advantageous is that this capital city can easily expand to the surrounding areas, and now Qin Baiyu is planning to attack the surrounding cities.
If danger comes from the stars at this time, then it will affect everyone in the Second Fleet.
Therefore, Qin Huo, while dividing his troops, also let the Void continue to build miniature warship modules. There are fifty more miniature warships currently in reserve.
To be on the safe side, Qin Huo replaced the Killer and the Enchanting with the standard cruiser Flag and the only corvette.
In this way, the Second Fleet can have a fairly strong attack capability in space, with the four warships of the Void, Daybreak, Killing, and Enchanting as the main force, plus fifty attack miniature warships. This strength has no problem in protecting itself in the face of a fleet of less than twenty warships, not to mention Qin Huo.
However, in order to ensure safety, Qin Huo also caused the warships to create thousands of star mines (disguised as meteorites or gravel blocks, unable to maneuver), and scattered them outside the star system where the star was located.
There are no nebula belts or gravel belts on the periphery of the star system here. The star is relatively smaller than the Sun and does not form a denser ionic shell of the star outside the galaxy. So the electromagnetic activity inside and outside the galaxy is almost transparent.
Qin Huo took advantage of this feature not only to deploy star mines outside the star system, but also to deploy a large number of various probes that could be used, especially motion sensors and high-energy response sensors to detect high-speed warships.
Qin Huo clearly knew that the opponent was just a slave trader organization, and it was impossible to have weapons and warships that surpassed the skills of the legion. However, he also knew that the opponent's family background might be stronger than him, and the number of warships that might come was larger.
Qin Huo didn't expect the other fleets to arrive in time, after all, time really wasn't the main thing when it came to interstellar distance. It can be a few days at the least, dozens of days or years at most, and if there was an interstellar battle, with the attack capability and level of the current battleship, it would basically be over long ago.
If the strength is not as good, then if the other fleets arrive, they can also collect the corpses and mourn. Therefore, the current interstellar wars are mostly suppressed by numbers and salvos of 10,000 guns at long distances.
Waiting for everything to be arranged, Qin Huo studied the tactics of defending against the slave trader fleet with the Brain Void on the Void to see what was more advantageous under what circumstances. Respond accordingly to the number of ships coming from the opposing side.
In any case, the slave trader fleet could not be allowed to enter the star system where the star was located.
The final result of the deduction is that in the case of the second fleet's number of warships not superior, it is impossible to defend, once the enemy takes advantage of the numerical advantage and divides his forces to attack from two directions, then the second fleet will not be able to take care of both, so that the adjacent star will become an undefensible weakness and is likely to be attacked.
At that time, everything that the Second Fleet has built on Viyuna will be lost, and most importantly, it will lose the hearts and minds of the people, and the possibility of using this habitable star as a base.
Of course, Qin Huo didn't experience the state that Qin Feng was in now, he ignored the advantage of the population and resources of the planet, a backward civilization, which had been plundered and slaved, and was in urgent need of freedom and salvation
will be close to the legion, and the number is huge.
This is definitely what Qin Feng wants.
After three days of hyperspace sailing, Qin Qian's shadow fleet was already about to reach the stellar coordinates of Qin Huofa, and he ordered the fleet to leave hyperspace.
As soon as he was out of hyperspace, he released several communicators and repeaters.
After the Thousand Shadows located the current position, Qin Qian found that it was only less than half a day's journey away from the location given by Qin Huo.
He sent another location communication to Qin Huo, and informed the Shadow Fleet that it would arrive in half a day.
Upon hearing this news, Qin Huo immediately led the Second Fleet to the outside of the stellar system to greet and wait. Not long after arriving outside the star system, Qin Huo's Void saw from the data fed back by the previously deployed probes that there was a huge fleet sailing towards this galaxy.
At first, Qin Huo thought it was Qin Qian's Shadow Fleet, but after thinking about it, it was impossible for the Shadow Fleet to have so many warships, and the size of the models did not seem to be uniform, which did not conform to the development model of the Legion Fleet.
He immediately concluded that it might be that the slave traders' organization had discovered the disappearance of the previous slave trading fleet and sent a large fleet here to retaliate.
It seems that the planet is still important to this slave trader organization.
While informing Qin Baiyu to defend himself on the planet, Qin Huo also urgently informed Qin Qian's Shadow Fleet.
At the same time, he also prepared the ships of the Second Fleet to attack, and if the number of his own ships was insufficient, if they simply defended, they would be defeated.
Qin Huo adopted an active attack instead of blindly defending, attacking and consuming enemy warships while blocking the enemy outside the star system. This is Qin Huo's defensive strategy, this method he has simulated several times on the Void, and he has a greater grasp of success.
As for tactics, it is also very simple, the enemy's fleet usually adopts a multi-queue formation when marching, and the attack adopts a conical or X-shape, of course, when the number of fleet warships is small, it will directly use a longitudinal line-shaped queue, so in view of the large number of fleet warships, Qin Huo decided to use a double-queue longitudinal line-up formation to attack.
Taking advantage of the speed and defense of the warships of the Second Fleet, they were inserted directly into the formation of the local fleet. Then unleash an assault on both sides, using large warships to pinn down, allowing a large number of miniature warships to pounce on the enemy fleet and entangle.
If it encounters a situation that is too strong to resist, Qin Huo will directly use the colonization suit to kill.
The legionnaires, including the captains, who had not fought for a long time, were now a little eager to fight, eager to hone themselves, and even more so to gain glory through battle.
This is very different in morale from other forces, even the manned fleets of the Protoss affiliated races.
This point was studied by people for a long time, but it was not completely understood, and in the end, it was only attributed to the personal charm of Qin Feng, the founder of the legion, and the cohesion and affinity generated by the more than 5,000 mine slaves who were brought out from the 17th Mine Star at the beginning.
It could also be the influence of the Colonization Ontology --- the Void Worm.
When the distance between the two sides had narrowed, the Second Fleet, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately accelerated towards the slave traders' fleet. At this time, the slave traders' fleet was still in a state of navigation, and they did not expect that a battle would occur before they reached the star system.
It takes time for a fleet on the move to change formations, and there's no better way to compare it to the Second Fleet, which is already ready to go outside the star system.
Seeing that the battleships of the Second Fleet had rushed to the close range of tens of millions of kilometers of the slave traders' fleet, all the main guns that had already been charged roared almost at the same time, and four huge beams of yang particles crossed the interstellar distance and collided
in the fleet of slave traders.
With the assistance of the battleship's intelligent brain, none of these four energy beams missed.
Immediately, the four slave trader warships in front were blown into pieces, and these fragments affected the movement of the follow-up warships, and the unprepared slave trader fleet was in chaos, and the battleships that changed formation, counterattacked, and retreated were huddled together.
At this time, the Second Fleet warships were already heading towards this side at high speed, and they would not give the slave trader fleet any chance to react at all.
As the distance closed, the offensive secondary guns on the main battleship also sent out beams, sealing the direction of the slave traders' fleet.
Qin Huo's second fleet disrupted the movement of the slave traders' fleet almost instantly, leaving the fleet in a chaotic formation change. However, the number of warships of the slave trader fleet exceeded that of the second fleet by too much, and the distance was still a little far, and the slave trader fleet quickly completed the cone transformation in the approach.
The Second Fleet had only time to approach and was not able to make a piercing according to the expected plan, and the attack was stopped in front of the cone.
Relying on the strength of his battleship's defense and vitality, Qin Huo simply advanced into the conical fleet, but he couldn't use the miniature warship to attack both sides. The miniature warships simply couldn't fit into the dense cone-shaped formation.
There have been miniature warships that have been continuously destroyed, although each miniature warship only has 7 members, but it is also the strength of the legion, every time Qin Huo loses it, he is distressed, Qin Huo really can't afford to lose.
He was trying to jump out of the Void and use his powerful colonization suit to coordinate the attack.
At this moment, the Void found a huge vortex appearing just behind the slave traders' fleet, and a dozen warships poured out of the vortex.
"My lord, this seems to be our hunting ship."
"Qin Qian, it's Qin Qian's Shadow Fleet."
"Call Qin Qian immediately and let him penetrate behind the slave traders' fleet." Qin Huo immediately ordered the Void to make contact.
At the same time, the colonization suit on Qin Huo's body also felt the fluctuation of the same origin on Qin Qian's body, it was indeed the power of the legion, and he also had a colonization suit, so Qin Qian also had a colonization suit.
Qin Huo handed over the command of the fleet directly to the Void, he summoned the colonization suit, activated the long stick and jumped out of the battleship directly, and appeared on the battlefield with the battleship.
On the other hand, the fifteen warships that appeared in Qin Qian's Shadow Fleet in the early stage were all hunting Type II destroyers, which were originally designed for raiding and hunting, and now they are just in line with this state, and Qin Qian also commanded the fleet to rush into the slave trader fleet from behind in the formation of a cross cone.
Feeling the fluctuations of Qin Huo's body from a distance, Qin Qian also jumped out of the battleship and killed with the fleet.
The colonization resonated, and the two activated the long stick at the same time, and went back towards the slave trader warship in front, one after the other, the powerful spatial energy burst out with absolute power, and the two spatial ripples were superimposed and vibrated from the front and back directions, making the slave trader fleet fluctuate in the shock of space.
There are constantly warships that cannot withstand the shock of this space itself and disintegrate.
Due to the fact that the slave traders' fleet was in front of it in order to deal with the piercing attack of the Second Fleet of Qin Huo, the fleet became a dense conical queue, and now it suddenly suffered heavy losses from space attacks.
This wave of attacks alone wiped out a third of the slave traders' fleet, and the morale of the army was already in turmoil. Qin Qian and Qin Huo felt that they had found a new way to cooperate with their attacks.
The spatial energy emitted by the two can be superimposed in the center of the battlefield, and when they reach the opponent's position, it will be canceled out, and it will not hurt the other party.
This is cooperation, trust, and the tacit understanding of the homologous void insect colony.
(End of chapter)