Qi Yiming ordered the Xuefeng to fly around the red barren planet in front of him several times, and used the shipboard scanning equipment to scan the entire planet.

But no ancient battleships were found.

This made Qi Yiming's face look ugly: "Are we late?" The battleship has already been taken? ”

Wang Sen shook his head: "I think it's unlikely...... We didn't have a long delay on our way! In such a short period of time, it is still very difficult to find this place with a little clue. ”

"Then we'll scan a few more ......"

So Xuefeng lowered the orbital altitude of the orbit around the planet, so that the scanning equipment could scan the barren planet more accurately.

"Captain, a suspicious object has been found near 31.21 degrees east longitude and 22.51 degrees north latitude, suspected to be man-made." Ten minutes later, the crew in charge of scanning the equipment happily wanted Qi Yiming to make a report.

Qi Yiming suddenly came to his senses: "Send someone down to see ......"

With his own crew, Qi Yiming no longer has to risk exploring alone. Now it is only necessary to give orders, and naturally someone will do things.

Half an hour later, the ground personnel reported to Qi Yiming: "Captain, it is confirmed that it is an ancient warship." ”

The person who spoke was extremely excited, and he was of course excited to find a battleship left over from ancient times, and he could blow it for a lifetime when he went back.

"Why can't I see his silhouette?" Qi Yiming asked curiously.

"The entire battleship has been covered in red iron sand, and we may need to ......dig here," the overexcited ground exploration team leader actually forgot to give details.

"Zhi Brain, can you identify what level of warship is buried underneath?" Qi Yiming was also very happy and asked Zhi Brain excitedly.

"The iron sand has covered the battleship, and all types of signals have been seriously interfered with, and it is impossible to identify the ......" Although it is not a big bad news, but the ship's intelligent brain is still so pleasant to Qi Yiming at this time.

Qi Yiming was not discouraged, but ordered the ground personnel to camp in place, and he would quickly deploy heavy machinery to dig down.

When heavy mechanic Qi Yiming set off, he asked Wang Zhengfeng to prepare for this situation.

The whole process lasted three whole days.

The battleship was buried so deep that it took a lot of effort to dig it out.

At the moment when this ancient battleship was excavated, Qi Yiming recognized it at a glance as the Heavy Hammer frigate, which had been subordinate to the Strategic Strike Fleet and was also a modular warship.

As luck would have it, the Heavy Hammer belongs to the same sequence as the Snow Peak, and is a modular warship in the armored system.

Since it is a modular warship, Qi Yiming must go down in person to take control.

After ordering the Xuefeng to enter the guard state, Qi Yiming took a few energy blocks and went down to the ground in a traffic boat.

The Hammer frigate is markedly different from the Defender in that it does not have a main gun on its hull and is slightly smaller than the Defender.

Two torpedo launchers are installed in the bow, the only modular warship in the Strategic Strike Fleet that uses torpedo attacks.

Inside the small hull are placed two production lines of heavy torpedoes, which can produce two types of heavy torpedoes.

One is a heavy torpedo with electromagnetic damage, and the other is a heavy torpedo with explosion damage.

Qi Yiming entered the Heavy Hammer, which was stuffed with reddish-brown metallic sand grains, and Qi Yiming had to ask people to clean it out quickly.

It took another two days to clean up the internal environment of the battleship, and if it weren't for the high technical level of the Human Federation, perhaps the Heavy Hammer that had been so devastated by iron sand would have been scrapped long ago.

While cleaning up the iron sand, Qi Yiming's men also cleaned up the bones of dozens of human Federation soldiers.

The bones have been buried in reddish-brown iron sand for many years, and the surface is already somewhat red.

Qi Yiming asked them to place the bones in the warehouse of the Heavy Hammer, and then muttered to himself: "I can't make a forced landing, I have to land on this barren planet where birds don't, and I don't know how desperate you were at that time." ”

After sighing, Qi Yiming quickly obtained the control of the Heavy Hammer, and everything went very smoothly.

Just when Qi Yiming felt that this expedition was coming to an end, the Xuefeng sent an urgent communication request.

Hao Chenqi, as the deputy captain of the Xuefeng, took over the control of the Xuefeng after Qi Yiming left.

At first, the surrounding airspace was quiet, until Qi Yiming successfully took control of the Heavy Hammer, and Xuefeng detected the appearance of a small formation on the edge of the X-221 galaxy.

Hao Chenqi immediately ordered the Xuefeng to raise its garrison level, and immediately notified the Heavy Hammer, which had just broken out of the atmosphere.

Because the distance between the two sides is still relatively far, Qi Yiming is not nervous.

Safely adjust the Hammer's orbit to the same orbital height as the Snowpeak.

Only then did Qi Yiming take the traffic boat back to the Xuefeng again.

"Start the combination procedure and bring the Heavy Hammer under the control of the combination......" Qi Yiming regained the command of the Xuefeng and ordered the combination procedure to be initiated.

As a frigate, the Heavy Hammer only needs to enter the predetermined position alone according to the procedure, and the Snow Peak will tow the Heavy Hammer into place with a towing beam.

I saw that the Heavy Hammer ship's intelligent brain, which received the order, drove the Heavy Hammer to the belly position of the bow of the Snow Peak.

The Guardian and Explorer, who had been combined in advance, slowly moved and repositioned themselves in the stern of the Snowpeak.

After the Hammer moved into position, the two engines broke away from the hull and were taken into storage by the Snowpeak, just in time to replace the two damaged engines of the Defender.

The two torpedo launchers mounted on the hull also retracted the inside of the Hammer.

Towed by the Snow Peak's towing beam, the Heavy Hammer turned around and the stern was facing the same direction as the bow of the Snow Peak.

And drastic changes are also taking place inside the battleship.

The engine was used as a launch port for heavy torpedoes, and the ship's power furnace was dismantled and recycled into storage.

After the Heavy Hammer completed the combination with the Snow Peak, the entire battleship completely became a torpedo tube capable of producing heavy torpedoes on its own, and became another weapon for the Snow Peak.

Although the Snow Peak, which has been boosted again, is only a destroyer, his combat power is no less than that of a battle cruiser in the current human forces.

Qi Yiming looked at the red dot on the radar display screen that was rapidly approaching him, and he guessed that this must be the group of mysterious people they met in X-113.

Sure enough, when this group of people got out of the jump mode, Qi Yiming immediately found that the Azure was impressively listed.

The two sides were very red-eyed when they met, and there was not even a basic exchange, and Qi Yiming had already ordered the Xuefeng to turn on the fire control radar.

At the same time, the shipboard intelligence brain of the Xuefeng issued a warning: "Warning, it is irradiated by the fire control radar of the enemy ship Azure...... The enemy ship has locked on our ship, please pay attention to evade! ”

The battle broke out in an instant, and as soon as the battle began, it was an all-out attack.

With the first encounter, Qi Yiming is also mentally prepared to fight a protracted battle.