Two armies.

There were 5,000 warships on one route and 9,000 warships on the other, of which 2,000 were Imperial garrison warships.

A total of 14,000 warships, which in the eyes of ordinary people, is definitely the rhythm of a big war that is about to take place.

Only a few people in the know understand that this is not to go to war with any force at all, but just to exterminate a group of star thieves.

A group of star pirates with only a hundred warships...

The combat conference room of the Zhurong-class warship.

"Commodore General, camouflage probe 2177, captured a fleet of about nine thousand warships."

"Number 2177?"

Mu Qianshan, who was presiding over the follow-up combat meeting, heard the report of his chief of staff Gu Bei, his face suddenly became serious, and he immediately opened the three-dimensional star map.

The camouflage detector that Gu Bei said, he naturally knew what it was.

After a search on the star map, the location of the 2177 camouflaged probe was about 150 light-years away from the imperial capital of the Carey Empire.

At the same time, he is only 70 light-years away from his current position.

And along the imperial capital, and then pass by the location of the detector, draw a straight line.

Well, I am now just on its extension line.

Obviously, these 9,000 warships are coming towards their side.

However, for this information, Mu Qianshan was not panicked, it was better to say...

He had been waiting for this information for a long time.

In other words, the fish has finally bitten the bait!

Hours later.

It is about eight light-years away from the administrative star where the Scorpion Bandits stay.

An Imperial fleet is waiting quietly.

However, it was not the nine thousand warships that DeWitt had brought here, but only one of the garrisons.

In fact, DeWitt had arrived here more than an hour earlier.

However, there was no rush to attack.

Because he knows very well that if he attacks directly, the result will be the same as Kyle's.

Every time you jump over, people jump away, and so on, over and over again, into a complete cycle of death.

So, the important thing is not to attack, but to intercept!

Since the offensive is doomed to failure, spend more effort on interception.

Centered on the enemy's current location, and then spread outward to a range of ten light years, completely splitting himself and the fleet in Kyle's hands.

A team of 500 warships is distributed in this range at equal distances.

So that when the fleet attacks, and the enemy flees again.

No matter where they jumped, they could locate them at the first time, and let the surrounding fleets immediately jump over to encircle and suppress.

Finally, take advantage of the time when the opponent's jump engine is charged to annihilate it in one fell swoop.

So, DeWitt is not in a hurry now, he is waiting ...

Wait until all the interceptor fleets are in place and the jump engine is fully charged.

"Commander, all fleets are in place!"

"Inform Kyle and let him lead a fleet of sheep attacks!"

Hearing this, DeWitt's eyes lit up, and he immediately got up and ordered.

"Yes, Commander!"

At the same time.

Scorpion Star Pirate Fleet.

"Commodore General, within ten light-years, a total of forty-three fleets have been detected."

"There were 300 warships at the least, 500 at the most, and they were distributed at equal distances."

On the bridge, the radar officer reported the latest deep space scan results.

"Got it, keep monitoring!"

"Yes, Brigadier General!"

On the side, Liu Tao's face was a little solemn.

"Dude, this is a deployment specifically for our jump, right?"

"That's right, in this way, no matter where we jump, they can confirm our location as soon as possible, and then immediately deploy a fleet to surround and suppress us, taking advantage of the time when our jump engine is recharged."

"Indeed... But we have a hyperspace engine, and there's nothing to worry about. ”

"No, I'm not going to use a hyperspace engine!"

"What?"

Hearing this, Liu Tao was stunned.

If there is any reason why the Federation's warships are stronger than the Carey Empire, it is the hyperspace engine, right?

You don't have much advantage of not using a hyperspace engine and going head-to-head with others, right?

What's more, your number is also at an absolute disadvantage, isn't it?

"Don't worry, although there is nothing wrong with their tactics, there are some problems in them."

"For example, although deep space radar can detect a few light-years or even tens of light-years away, it cannot locate precise coordinates, and there will be some deviations."

"Although it is only a slight deviation, in the huge environment of the universe, even a slight deviation is enough to be tens or even millions of kilometers away."

"Therefore, if they want to accurately locate and encircle us, they can only use deep space radar to determine our location, first jump over with a fleet, obtain our precise coordinates at close range, and then other fleets will act."

"The whole process, which doesn't take a few minutes, is very difficult to complete."

Hearing this, Liu Tao also nodded slightly.

Don't underestimate the difference of these minutes, these minutes are very important in the encirclement and suppression operation, which originally only had a time limit of 10 minutes.

Merely...

"Dude, even if it can take a few minutes, they can still have at least five or six minutes to carry out this encirclement and suppression operation after determining our exact coordinates, right?"

"Yes, theoretically yes, but you overlooked one thing, and that is that the fleet of the Kerry Empire is not concentrated now, but completely dispersed."

"So we don't have to face too much pressure at once?"

At this moment, Liu Tao seemed to have reacted a little.

In other words, the opposing fleet will not be overwhelmed all at once, but will arrive in batches.

Moreover, out of 14,000 warships, the number of warships that can arrive in a single jump will definitely not exceed 4,000.

And these 4,000 ships will not arrive at the same time, and the farthest of them, reaching ten light years, will take 2 or 3 minutes to jump alone.

The most important point is...

These 100 of them are Zhurong-class warships!

What does this mean?

It represents the equivalent of a hundred battleships of the Empire!

As for those battleships of the empire, if thousands of them are pressed up, they can definitely crush these 100 Zhurong-class warships.

But if it's hundreds...

Don't look at the number is several times that of Mu Qianshan, but among these hundreds of battleships, more than half are frigates, and the number of battleships is probably about a dozen.

Therefore, as long as it is not to press over thousands of warships at once, Mu Qianshan has a way to maneuver for a while.

Even if three or four thousand warships arrived in a few minutes, he could get out of the way with the plan that had been prepared long ago.

The one called...

A plan to survive!

Again...

Mu Qianshan never said that this time it was also as soon as the enemy arrived, he was going to run, didn't he?