In the flagship, Matt's communication came in.
On the holographic projection in front of him, Matt's huge octopus head appeared.
"General, when do we start the attack?"
Matt couldn't help but be anxious. For the Chamber of Commerce, time is money.
Moreover, some of their ships were captured by space pirates. The longer they waited, the more likely the cargo inside would be destroyed by the pirates.
Li Xin responded calmly: "Don't worry, we need to understand the enemy's situation clearly."
"This is war, not a joke. There's no need to be so hasty."
Afterwards, Li Xin hung up the phone and continued to wait.
In battle, one must know both oneself and the enemy. Now time is on Li Xin's side. Even if he does not eliminate this group of pirates, it will not be a problem for him.
The isolated trade routes and transportation routes no longer exist for Li Xin.
He only has two planets now, so they won't be affected at all. The longer he waits, the more fleets he can produce.
Apart from anything else, during the past six months, the space dock at home was able to produce eight more destroyers, twenty-four frigates, and a bunch of half-produced frigates.
This is the current war potential of the Galaxy Defense, and the speed of shipbuilding is still increasing.
After waiting for another two days, they had confirmed from all directions that the group of interstellar pirates in front of them indeed only had this many troops.
The General Staff also began to make various combat plans.
The main reason why Li Xin and his team did not rush to attack was to find the lair of this group of interstellar pirates.
These interstellar pirates obviously did not expect that there would be a ship that could detect their movements from such a distance, so there was no hiding at all, and the returning ships exposed their lair.
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On the other side, in the lair of the interstellar pirates.
This is the Red Horn Interstellar Pirates. Their lair is near a ring of meteorites. These meteorites surround a large gas planet, like a halo of a planet.
Their main base is located in a large meteorite with a diameter of nearly ten kilometers.
The interstellar pirates transformed the meteorites here and built a starport at this location.
Destroyers, frigates, even armed ships and gunboats, some of these are docked here at this time.
Another part of the ships are currently patrolling among the meteorites.
Inside the main base, it was like the most chaotic slum on Guansuo IV. Everything was made of metal, and everywhere was black, and it was hard to tell whether it was putty or something else.
The soldiers here are of different races. The largest one may be four or five meters tall, and there are also many who are as small as dwarfs.
Their appearances were even more bizarre, but at this time these various alien races gathered under the banner of the Red Horn interstellar pirate group.
Some of these alien races wear power armor, while others simply wear life-support space suits.
Almost none of them had their heads or respiratory systems exposed.
Obviously, this base cannot take into account the air needs of all races, so there is simply no such equipment.
Here, a safe space suit is the most important equipment for every interstellar pirate, and weapons and other things come second.
After all, without space suits as a life support system, they would soon die in space.
And it is even more painful than being killed by a weapon, such as suffocation to death or other painful deaths.
Continuing to go deeper into the pirate base, we arrived at the location of the pirate leader.
This leader is an alien with a red horn on his head. He is a humanoid alien, about 1.5 meters tall.
If he can become the leader of a star pirate group with a smaller body, then his strength must be quite impressive.
This is a psychic space pirate with considerable strength, having reached Class C, a powerful alien.
At this moment, in this room, the leader of the pirates was performing reproductive activities, but the female under him was not of the same species as her.
But the pirate leader obviously doesn't care about this, as long as he has fun.
Just as he was feeling comfortable, a shrill alarm sounded throughout the base.
The moment the alarm sounded, the leader stopped his movements and threw the female under him away.
At the same time, he used the communication to ask his subordinates: "What happened?!"
The pirates' subordinates' panicked voices were heard: "Oh no! An unknown armed fleet is coming!"
The leader was furious and said, "Which loser exposed our tracks?"
"Order everyone to board the ship immediately, and if the situation is not right, flee immediately!!"
"Yes! Chief!!"
Obviously, for these interstellar pirates, this is not their ultimate lair, but just a stronghold.
For the pirates, abandoning a base is not a big loss.
As long as they have ships and men, they can still live a comfortable life, but if they have no ships, their strongholds will be of no use because they cannot build starships in strongholds.
When faced with enemies coming to encircle them, the first choice of the interstellar pirates is not to fight them, but to escape.
All the pirates hurriedly boarded the ship and entered their respective starships.
However, they have not yet entered the jump directly, because there are still ships outside that have not returned. Those gunboats do not have the ability to enter the subspace alone and must be towed by other ships.
The enemy will not reach this stronghold so quickly, so this is their opportunity.
Further out, the discovered joint fleet of humans and the Parker Chamber of Commerce were also chasing after them aggressively.
For Li Xin, it was his first time fighting against interstellar pirates, so he was considered a novice.
But he had been in the army for many years, and when Yadun severely dealt with the mountain rebels, he knew these guys' thoughts very well.
When encountering an attack, the first thing that comes to mind is often not an ambush or a fight, but escape.
Of course, if the enemy attacks on a small scale, these pirates may turn around and fight back.
But once they see that the incoming fleet is far stronger than them, these guys will flee desperately.
Therefore, Li Xin's battle plan this time was to send the Parker Chamber of Commerce's escort fleet out first, as bait to attract these interstellar pirates.
The human ships surrounded them from the outside and set up subspace traps to keep the enemy inside.
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