The combined forces of the Dragon Eagle Star Domain have achieved their war goals, but it does not mean that the war is over.

Wars can be started at will, but they cannot end at will.

Where will the green skin suffer this loss, just admit it?

In the two systems of Mist and Yinguan 2, the war continues. The Greenskins have been storming for two years, trying to take these two planets back, and then go to fight the Silver Pass 3 and the White Mist Star behind these two galaxies.

The human army gritted its teeth and carried it for two years and beat the greenskins back.

To this day, there are still sporadic skirmishes going on. The large-scale battle is over, otherwise the Pegasus fleet would not have returned.

According to the plan, the Pegasus fleet will return for at least five years to recuperate. People need to rest, and at the same time the ship needs to be overhauled.

The attacking Pegasus fleet was led by five cruisers, and all the warships combined were more than 100. After six years of fighting, one cruiser has exploded, and the losses of other types of ships have exceeded 20, and the rest can only be overhauled on the battlefield, and the overall fatigue has reached a certain level.

It is estimated that after coming back, it may not be possible to overhaul all the ships in five years. At that time, the shipyard of Flying Wing Star is estimated to have to reduce production, and many docks will have to be vacated to repair ships. I'm afraid that the money for repairing the ship alone will have to break 20 billion.

The relevant orders have been sent.

Of course, the money for ship repair was paid for by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Imperial Navy, and it was to be used as a tax deduction, two billion a year.

In terms of income, it's not a loss. At least a few docks are empty, so we can build some other ships.

Gu Hang and Yelicia also talked a few times during this period, and when they came back, they planned to get married.

As for the war to continue to be fought in the future, the two will have to face separation again in a few years, I am afraid it is inevitable. Even when it comes to the identities of Gu Hang and Yelicia, many times they can't help themselves—or even a little more involuntarily.

But at least you can live a stable life for a few years, Gu Hang can only tell himself like this.

Counting the time, Elicia should have already set off.

Coming back, you have to make twelve shuttles through the Astral Tunnel. Generally speaking, the one-way time from one galaxy to another, at the speed of a typical fleet, is around five to eight days. Among them, the time for shuttling through the astral tunnel is not long, usually only one day, mainly in the vast void between the starport and the transition point, and the ship has to drive for a long time.

However, this problem can be greatly overcome during long journeys. The main thing is that if it doesn't stop all the way, the starship will always be in a state of acceleration, flying from one hop point to another, without slowing down, and directly starting the jump when it arrives on the ground, and continuing to accelerate to the next hop point, the speed of the entire fleet will get faster and faster.

The speed of the physical space voyage does not affect the transition time, and the twelve astral tunnel shuttles cannot be reduced in the last ten days, but the time spent in space in the middle can be compressed to about twenty-five days. The whole voyage was just over a month ahead.

In other words, in another month, Gu Hang will be able to see his fiancée.

It all feels strange.

Originally, in order to solve the problem of political marriage, before Yelicia left, Gu Hang also worked hard to close the relationship between the two. This separation is six years, and it's hard to say how much is left of the feeling that I have cultivated so hard before.

But that's it, this marriage will go on no matter what, no matter what the relationship between the two is.

……

While the welcoming ceremony was being arranged on the winging star, a military operation being carried out by the alliance at the moment also had a result.

After the shipping routes within the Pegasus Sector became prosperous, pirates were provoked.

Pirates are very annoying, they are haunted in the sea of stars, and they can't do big things, but they harass everywhere, robbing a small ship today, and running away in circles with the navy tomorrow, which is very disgusting.

It is not easy to exterminate those powerful pirate alliances, and the general pirate groups are all scum in front of the imperial officials, as long as they can find their nests, it is very easy to exterminate.

But the problem is, you have to find the nest.

Where are the pirates' bases, where are the ships coming from, and where are the menpower...... Officially, it's all a mystery.

And as long as this information is in hand, it is often the time when the pirate group is destroyed.

The group of pirates that haunt the Pegasus Sector, known as the 'Red-Eyed Pirates', has been cholera for over a year now.

The damage they caused, neither big nor small.

To say that it is not big, it means that it is not painful to talk about the alliance.

It's not small, dropping a ship, even a small boat like a traveler, is millions of tax dollars.

Not to mention, there was a ship that departed from Koroga and carried more than 800 young students appointed by the local government of Koroga, and the young students who were going to Flying Wings and were ready to study to change their fate were all captured.

This is undoubtedly a blatant provocation against the Union.

Gu Hang couldn't tolerate such a thing happening in his star zone.

The pirates conveyed the ransom demand to Gu Hang through secret channels, and the amount they demanded was ridiculously high. But they underestimated Gu Hang's determination and the strength of the alliance, no matter how much money these pirates wanted, even if it was a dime, Gu Hang never intended to pay.

He knew that if he gave in, it would mean setting a precedent, and the pirates would taste the sweetness and would get worse. When the time comes, knowing that the alliance is weak and easy to bully, and that it can make a lot of money here, then there may be more than one 'red-eyed pirate group' who comes to the Tianma Star Region to fight the autumn wind, and any colorful eyes will pop up.

He must give a tough response and let all potential pirates know that to challenge the alliance is to kill himself.

Gu Hang did not hesitate to refuse the ransom demand, even if it meant the death of hundreds of people.

At the same time, he also gave orders to Du Shiliang, who had just established the Alliance Navy and the Tianma fleet, asking them to solve the trouble as soon as possible, and this kind of thing must not happen.

It's not easy, mainly because pirates are hard to find.

All they can do is do something stupid.

The frequency of flights was reduced, and the ships gathered in groups and went together, with the Union Navy escorting them by the way.

It works, but the point is disgusting. The efficiency of Xinghai shipping has been greatly reduced, and escorting ships also consumes the cost of the navy, fuel money, and ship depreciation, all of which are additional losses.

Only a thousand days to be a thief, where is there a thousand days to prevent thieves?

The goal of the Alliance Navy and the Imperial Navy is to eliminate this group of pirates as soon as possible.

In several times to repel the harassment of pirates, the fast ships of the Alliance, at this time, came into play.

Thanks to the alliance's technology accumulation in advanced engines, when designing ships, it is very luxurious to equip almost all types of ships with excellent engines.

Spiritual engines, this kind of thing used for conventional navigation, in fact, the number of normal ship configurations is not particularly large. It's like an ordinary patrol ship, and it won't even be installed. It is somewhat expensive, and the most important thing is to consume the high-level energy source of energy crystallization, which is very costly. Low-level ships, it's a bit wasteful to use this.

But the Union is not afraid of waste.

The Raging Owl has a large amount of energy output. At present, the Raging Owl has a lot of experience in the energy collection and utilization of waste energy storms. The energy compression technology also comes from the black box output, and after years of expansion, it has now produced quite good output.

Especially after the population is abundant, the other two uninhabited continents on the Raging Star have now entered the development process. On those two continents, the planetary governments have built large-scale energy harvesting factories.

In addition, the Alliance's Technology Center, together with the Storm Mage Corps and the Psionic Order, is already studying how to completely quell the Waste Energy Storm on a global scale. Once this project is overcome, then the Spiritual Gas Field is expected to reappear on the Raging Owl Star. At that time, it is possible for the Raging Starlight to produce energy, and it will be possible to reach a development level of about level 4 or 5. Coupled with greater industrial productivity and shipbuilding than in the pre-war era, the potential for the entire planet to develop is greater than any other world in the Pegasus region!

Even now, it can only roughly collect the energy of the waste energy storm, which is not comparable to the efficiency of the Spiritual Gas Field back then, but it can barely reach two percent, which is also a good output.

Thanks to the convenient and advanced energy sources, coupled with the fact that the price of the black-box Psychic engine can be lowered a lot, the Soyuz ships were able to assemble such engine units on a large scale. In particular, the two fast ships 'Silver Sword' and 'Blackfish' can't run away if they bite the pirates.

Corsairs, generally speaking, because of their combat characteristics, generally do not choose to come head-on, and what they pursue is an unequal blow. If you can beat a transport ship or an armed merchant ship, you can do it, and the rest is all about speed.

However, under the ships of the Union Navy, they still could not escape.

After being fought several battles of annihilation, the Red-Eyed Pirates were also broken, and the frequency of their appearance was greatly reduced, and they never succeeded again.

For the average star sector, solving the problem of piracy is almost over at this point, and even most of the places where pirates are active can't do it to this point.

But the alliance is clearly not going to leave it at that.

Until this group of red-eyed pirates is completely exterminated, the Alliance Navy will not give up.

Through the torture of the captives, the search of the psionic brains, and the astral hall of the psionic order intercepted a few words about the pirates by listening to the star's conversations throughout the star area, they have finally figured out the followers of this group of pirates.

They have set up a hidden base on a moon near a gas giant in the Red Arrow system. There were some supplies for pirate ships, and there were thousands of slaves working there, repairing ships, processing parts from local materials, and setting up small underground plantations.

Of course, the moons of the giant planet have not undergone any habitability modifications, and humans cannot normally survive in them, and those slaves can only survive inside the base, and they must wear corresponding spacesuits when they go out.

More than 1,000 Union captives were also held there.

With this information in hand, the Pegasus fleet sent some forces, along with the Alliance Navy, to raid there.

Nine pirate ships were destroyed, the pirate base was destroyed, and thousands of slaves and Alliance hostages were somewhat damaged, but most were rescued.

However, under the news of victory, there were still losses.

One of the Union's Navy's Blackfish' fast patrol ships was lost.

It was not lost in naval battles, and in the case of absolute power, the alliance navy would not lose its ship. However, after all the pirate ships were wiped out, the resistance at the island base was lifted, and the Marines landed on the surface of the satellite, they were hit hard by a strange enemy squad while freeing the slaves and hostages.

In ground battles, the loss of personnel was very serious. And this strange enemy squad, in turn, captured a landing ship and drove into the sky.

Caught off guard, the landing ship showed great agility and slammed into a Blackfish patrol ship after a hesitant fire. Immediately afterward, the pirate squad hijacked the 'Blackfish' and escaped pursuit.

When he first saw the battle process, Gu Hang was a little surprised.

There were basically no accidents during the whole operation, and the performance of the Alliance Navy was also in line with expectations, even excellent for a newly formed army.

But this debut was messed up by the so-called pirate squad.

That squad, the ability it showed was too fierce.

Before the operation, the coalition military took into account the possibility of ground operations, after all, to solve the personnel, they cannot all be bombed. So, at the beginning of the operation, in addition to the Marine Corps, which was established with the Navy, they also requested the secondment of some elite units from the 10th Special Operations Brigade of the Alliance Army.

There were a hundred special operations elites who participated in the battle, including three teams of elites wearing the 'Serving God' feedback power armor.

Can such a team be penetrated by a so-called pirate squad?

What kind of pirate squad is this? Space Marine pirates?!

Space marine?

Wait a minute.

Gu Hang immediately paid attention to the descriptions of these enemies by the battle survivors mentioned in the next line of the battle report.

They are very tall, far beyond the height of ordinary people, and it is estimated that the average person is about two meters and two per person; They are dressed in heavy power armor, and are clearly distinguished from feedback power armor; Their power armor was a little tattered, with a solid red color paint, but the parts that should have been clearly marked, such as the breastplate and shoulder armor, were scratched and erased.

In the back, there is also a blurry photo.

The scratched mark on the shoulder was not very clear, but Gu Hang gestured and felt that there might be a soaring firebird underneath.

He thought for a moment, then dialed a special number on the Raging Owl.

"Captain of the Martins Warband? It's me, the Alliance may need you and your warriors for some help. ”

After a pause, he added:

"It's also possible that it has something to do with the immortal bird itself."

"Anyway, let's read the report first."

(End of chapter)