Chapter 18: The Battle of Jinmen (Part I)

One day three months later, in the palm of the universe, the high-dimensional fortress dock, Li Qing's third batch of five frigates was completed and launched.

There is no blind expansion, although a chief engineer can preside over the construction of up to ten frigates at the same time, but Li Qing considered that he could not stay in the dockyard like a professional shipbuilder all the time, and he would definitely have to do something else in the middle, and he would have to leave Jinmen to go somewhere else.

Of course, the main thing is that the capital is not enough, if there is enough capital to store hundreds or thousands of frigates in the space dock in the palm of your hand, so that you can mix outside for a few years at any time before coming back and selling them in one go.

Unfortunately not.

A total of 15 frigates were built in three months, five were built and sold every month, and then materials were bought to build and then sold, and a total of 58.5 million has been earned so far.

Then he didn't continue to build, but came to Yu's shipyard, and the Hurricane-class destroyer he ordered had already been built and left the factory.

After quickly completing a series of receiving procedures, Li Qing saw the elite Hurricane-class destroyer moored in the dock, which was about fifty meters longer than a regular Tornado-class destroyer.

Board the ship, enter your own information into the battleship's combat system, and determine control.

The length of the destroyer is more than twice that of the frigate, and the bridge area is larger than that of the frigate, the destroyer needs a total of 100 clone crews, 5 senior crews, and a captain, in addition to the 20 million clone crew buyout, the monthly salary is 500,000 + 1.25 million, and the basic maintenance fee is 500,000, a total of 2.25 million monthly expenses.

The daily maintenance fee generally refers to the daily food, drink, and various basic needs of more than 100 crew members on the battleship.

With the salaries in place, plus another frigate, a total of more than one hundred and sixty crew members were quickly in place.

"Captain, you're ready to go!"

Li Qing, who was sitting in the main command chair, waved his hand, the captain nodded, stretched out his hand to connect the dots on the light curtain in front of him, and a series of orders were issued.

The battleship shook slightly, and the image outside the glass of the huge floor-to-ceiling observation platform in front of the bridge began to move slowly. The massive dockyard base slowly faded out of view.

From the outside, among the countless warships moored in the huge space station of the Yu Shipyard, a warship slightly larger than an ordinary destroyer slowly broke away from the space station and entered the starry sky.

When the warship sailed more than 100 kilometers away from the shipyard space station, the staff officer on the side reported to him:

"Your Excellency, Commander, there is communication access."

Li Qing stretched out his hand, the light curtain in front of him popped open, and a bald head with his right eye transformed into a mechanical eye appeared in front of him, gave him a military salute, and said in a deep voice:

"The captain of frigate number one reports to the commander and asks to join the team!"

"Accept the team!"

This is another frigate.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, a battleship that looked no different from a common frigate on the surface sailed over, and after exchanging a series of signals, the frigate slowly sailed to the edge of the destroyer to maintain the escort state.

After carefully checking the normal state of the two warships, Li Qing ordered the fleet to start the hyperspace engine at the same time and sail towards the north of the galaxy.

Two hours later, the battleship detached from its sub-light state and appeared near a gas giant.

Through the glass in front of the bridge, you can see a huge whirlpool in the void ahead, and a pillar of light erupts from the whirlpool, and dense warships are moored around it.

This vortex is an entrance to a subspace debris, a dungeon entrance in layman's terms.

The so-called replica is divided into two kinds, one refers to various subspace debris, which is generally very dangerous, and after the initial exploration, it will be transformed into reproducible subspace debris, commonly known as replicas.

The other is that for some special reason, some special events are projected to form a copy.

There is an unlimited amount of quests per player per month, but each quest can only be entered once per month.

This means that you can only enter a single quest once a month, but you can enter different quests without restrictions.

And once the battle damage is lost in the dungeon, just like reality, the ship is also destroyed and killed, and there is no way to salvage the wreckage to recover part of the capital, and the insurance company will not compensate for the loss.

The only good thing is that no matter what kind of death is in the dungeon, it is only counted as a normal death, and it only takes five years to lose its life.

But even so, there are still many players who get a quest once a month.

The reason for this is naturally the harvest within the dungeon.

In any dungeon, as long as you complete a series of tasks, you will earn points, as long as the points meet the minimum standard, you can choose to exchange these points for various blueprints to leave the dungeon safely.

From the blueprint for the construction of a generation of electromagnetic guns, to the complete set of blueprints for the construction of battleships, as long as you have enough points, you can redeem them.

It can be said that the dungeon is the source of most of the blueprints in the entire new universe.

Li Qing didn't come here to brush up on a wave of blueprints, but just to try the combat effectiveness of the two top-of-the-line battleships.

Apply to enter the dungeon first, and soon the light curtain in front of me pops up, showing that you are ranked 214th, which looks like a long queue, but in fact, you don't have to wait long.

Taking advantage of the queue, he checked the materials for this copy.

This dungeon is called [Battle of Jinmen], and it is a typical dungeon formed by the projection of special events, and the historical background comes from the last decisive battle where the Yu clan defeated the main force of the local alien civilization here hundreds of years ago.

Entering the dungeon, you will come to the historical moment when the Yu Clan's expeditionary force defeated the alien civilization here hundreds of years ago, captured the alien home planet, and opened up the Jinmen Province.

Players will participate in this battle as a mercenary fleet, and your performance will determine how many points you earn.

There are a total of four copies in the entire Jinmen, three of which are related to the Navy and one is related to the Army, and the Battle of Jinmen is the largest of them all, and it is also the one with the highest theoretical income, because the highest reward for this quest is the blueprint for building a dreadnought flagship.

The reason why it is said to be a theory is because Liao Liao Wuji, who has been able to get the blueprint for the construction of the dreadnought flagship for hundreds of years, has only seven total points of more than 100 on the dungeon points list.

The Dreadnought Flagship Blueprint, which ranks first on the quest reward redemption list, requires 100 points to redeem, which means that only a maximum of seven people can redeem it.

The speed at which the battleship entered the dungeon was fast, and the two battleships kept moving forward to approach the entrance of the dungeon, and it was his turn in less than half an hour.

With a powerful traction, the two battleships plunged headlong into the whirlpool, stirring up a surging tide of energy.

"It's an epic battle!"

"Wealth and Resources..."

"Blood and smoke..."

"To live and to perish..."

"The battle for the survival of the race between the Expeditionary Force from the United Empire of Mankind and the Bonir Star Sea Empire is starting here, as a mercenary of the Expeditionary Force, what wonderful performance will you have in this magnificent epic battle?"

The distorted font on the smooth slid down slowly, the battleship shook slowly, and from time to time loud explosions were heard, but beyond the bridge glass was a blur.

It didn't take long for all the fonts on the light curtain in front of him to slip off, and the blur outside the bridge glass slowly became clear, and with a slight shock of the battleship, Li Qing suddenly found that his two battleships appeared at the anchorage of a huge space station starport.

The ship's radar quickly scanned and quickly swept the surroundings, and the light curtain in front of him lit up, and a huge fleet led by a super warship more than ten kilometers long was slowly leaving the port.

"Shhh Titan Super Flag! ”

The huge hull and the iconic doomsday weapon muzzle all made Li Qing purple with envy.

"I've dreamed of it!"

All naval commanders dream of a Titan superflagship, but only Liao Liao can realize this dream.

What is the Titan Super Flagship, that is the most powerful warship in the Star Sea, there is no one.

The hull of a ship of more than ten kilometers or even longer, the unimaginable armor and shield, the T-slot doomsday weapon that can directly blow a planet the size of the earth into pieces with a single shot, and the aura of a powerful super flag force field, all kinds of factors are superimposed, and a Titan super flag suddenly joins the battlefield, often reversing the tide of battle in an instant.

Li Qing watched with reverence as this huge fleet sailed away from the base, a layer of force field aura covering the entire fleet, and as the space was violently distorted, the huge fleet jumped away together under the aura of the Titan Super Banner.

What is the Titan Super Flagship, this is the Titan Super Flagship.

The Super Flag-class jump engine can penetrate most interception and jamming fields, carrying a fleet of tens of thousands of capital warships directly on the battlefield, instantly turning the tide of battle.

It's a pity that he is not qualified to see the heroic appearance of this Titan Super Flag, and he has never seen it before.

Whether it is Qinghe or Jinmen, there has never been a big battle that can make the Titan super flagship dispatch.

It wasn't until the fleet had left for a long time and the spatial fluctuations caused by the jump of tens of thousands of fleets had disappeared that Li Qing came back to his senses, packed up his mood, and checked the quest.

The quest is very simple, it's going to fight, it's natural to start a war.

There are no bells and whistles, just one battlefield and two small three battlefields, players choose one battlefield to join, and then earn points according to the number of enemies killed on the battlefield.

According to his rating of strength, 0.1 points for each enemy frigate sunk, 0.5 points for a destroyer, 2 points for a cruiser, 20 points for a battleship, and 500 points for a flagship.

This point acquisition is based on the strength of different players, with weak players getting more points and powerful sunken ships getting less points.

If Li Qing had a battleship, then sinking a frigate might cost 0.01 points, and sinking a battleship might cost 5 points.

Li Qing didn't think about it, and directly chose the second battlefield among the three major battlefields and one of the two secondary battlefields.

He had checked the information when he was queuing up before, the difficulty in this copy is dynamic, and the situation is different every time he enters the back battlefield, except for the main battlefield, the battle situation of the two small battlefields is changing every time, and there is no situation where it is easy to brush points.

Moreover, Li Qing didn't think about brushing many points at all, let alone brushing a dreadnought flagship blueprint, he just came to test the power of two ships.

And when he enters the battlefield, he will not go directly into it, that is, he will dangle on the edge of the battlefield, and if the situation is not good, he will run away directly, and wait until 24 hours later, the copy will automatically end and teleport away.

What are you kidding, why did he retreat with these two ships, a destroyer and a frigate, after destroying so many enemy ships on a chaotic battlefield of tens of thousands?

Any battleship with its main guns locked, a fully equipped frigate is directly killed, and a fully equipped destroyer carries a maximum of two guns, why fight?

Psionics?

If he's a Storm-level Psionic, looking for an opportunity for a Psionic Storm might be able to destroy a damaged battleship, but he's not.

The second battlefield is not in this galaxy, but a galaxy within a six-hop distance north of Jinmen, where the alien civilization has a super-large mineral planet, so a star fort was built here and a fleet was stationed.

At this time, the battle had already begun, and after Li Qing received the mission, the two battleships left the base and flew towards the wormhole at the edge of the galaxy.

The system is full of expeditionary forces and mercenary warships, sailing away from the system, and the next few galaxies are the same, especially in the main shipping lanes, as long as the planet has a sentry post, and the jamming and interception blockers are laid to prevent the enemy ships from directly crossing and decapitating at sub-light speed.

It is worth mentioning that this dungeon projects the Battle of Jinmen, which covers all galaxies within a hundred light-years of Jinmen as the center.

Theoretically, it is possible to leave the three major battlefields and go to other places, but if you do so, it is equivalent to desertion, and all the points accumulated before will be cleared.

The advantage is that you can leave the dungeon alive.

When he approached the galaxy next door to the battlefield, Li Qing stood up and said to the senior crew behind him:

"We are about to enter the battlefield, and I ask you to work together to fight against a strong enemy! An additional month's salary allowance for each award after the war. ”

The officers and captains of several destroyers, as well as the captains and officers of the frigates in the communication channel, all nodded with serious faces, and the crew members in the channel were also happy when they heard this.

Li Qing nodded, and the morale was available.

Although both the crew and the captain are all blank slates, it is up to them to play later in the battle.

It's not that he doesn't want to get a good captain, it's that a talented crew captain can't find it.

Although Jinmen has a large vocational academy area, there are a large number of various professions available for recruitment every year, among which there is absolutely no green name and blue name, and occasionally there will be a purple epic talent crew or captain, but these excellent ones have been targeted by headhunting companies and signed contracts before they have even come out of the academy.

If you want these excellent captains, not to mention the salary that far exceeds the salary of ordinary captains, you must go through these headhunting companies and pay an extra price to recruit.

The most important thing is that many times you can't recruit at all, not only because the number is small, but also because these talented captains don't look down on you.

To put it bluntly, the low-end market recruits casually, as long as the salary is in place.

But a good captain picks the commander, which is a two-way choice, if the other party thinks that you have no future as a commander, they will ignore you.

So after Li Qing learned about the situation in this regard, he didn't think about finding a good captain in the past, and just got a batch of whiteboard crew captains to make do with it first, anyway, most of the players are the same, everyone is half a catty to eight taels, and no one takes advantage.

An hour later, the two ships plunged headlong into the wormhole.