After the Afterglow Fleet was quiet for a moment, dazzling blue light suddenly burst out from the tails of all the ships.

With the addition of the fleet's number, this sudden burst of light is almost comparable to the stars in the galaxy.

Everyone thought that Yu Hui was going to do something big.

But in the next moment, Yuhui's fleet began to accelerate normally again and flew towards the space station.

The azure light just now seemed to be just a flash of an LED light.

However, at this time, almost no one cared about why Yu Hui did not take action immediately, but only took action after flashing the light.

Everyone's attention was focused on the approaching Afterglow Fleet.

Chen Ming also became more spirited as Yu Hui moved.

He must focus and devote all his attention to the risky behavior he has actively chosen.

After all, there is no such thing as zero risk and high return in this world. Even the panel repair of weapons and equipment requires the consumption of his mental power.

If he didn't do something risky but highly profitable like wandering outside the war zone looking for opportunities, he might as well go back to Ruimu and farm.

As the Afterglow Fleet gradually approaches.

The area around the space station suddenly began to flicker with a glow that was almost deep blue.

A blue translucent spherical barrier gradually unfolds around the space station, protecting it.

This is the second thing Chen Ming wants to obtain besides the hyperspace channel system, the shield generator.

Once he has it, Chen Ming's ships will be able to crush non-military ships one-sidedly when fighting them.

However, this thing is not as popular as the hyperspace channel system. In most cases, it is a controlled item.

Only a large company like Sinda can rely on various relationships to have the right to use and develop shields.

And it also has the ability to protect the entire space station within the shield.

Just as the space station's shield was deployed.

The fleet that was originally staying near the space station suddenly began to move away from the protection range of the space station's shield and hid behind the space station.

They did not take the initiative to go out, but hid behind the shield, waiting for a better opportunity to fight.

After all, the biggest advantage of the space station is the space station.

Their battles naturally require coordination with the space station.

It is not the right approach to rush out and engage in a battle with Yu Hui's fleet.

And now it is Yuhui who attacks the space station, rather than the space station needing to attack Yuhui.

As long as Yuhui's offensive can be delayed, the supporting military fleet will arrive sooner or later.

Yu Hui was also aware that the pressure of attack was on them, so without any hesitation, he rushed straight towards the space station.

The moment both sides entered each other's shooting range.

The tachyon spears on the three large load-bearing points of the Afterglow Cruiser lit up with a frightening azure light at the same time.

Immediately afterwards, three high-energy azure particle torrents that lasted for three seconds crossed a quarter of the galaxy and bombarded the space station's fully deployed shield.

The oscillating particle ripples spread across the shield sphere, making the entire shield look shaky, but actually indestructible.

After the three particle torrents stopped, the same bright light suddenly lit up on the space station, but the flashing light on the space station was dark purple.

Two deep purple torrents of turbulent particles crossed each other and directly passed through the shield protecting the space station.

Instead of attacking the Afterglow Cruiser, which was also protected by a shield, they each chose a destroyer as their target.

The particle torrent instantly overloaded the shield of the destroyed destroyer.

Amid the violent arcs that erupted across the ship's hull, the two Afterglow Destroyers disappeared in an instant like fireworks.

The space station is also equipped with large weapons such as Tachyon Lance, and there is more than one type.

Chen Ming could now see that several large live ammunition weapons were aimed at Yu Hui's cruiser.

Although live ammunition weapons do have irreparable weaknesses in space combat.

However, live ammunition weapons still have a place in space naval warfare and continue to develop.

The reason is that the destructive power of live ammunition on the shield restraint position is far beyond the reach of energy weapons.

Therefore, live ammunition weapons have developed several different types of live ammunition weapons many years ago.

Chen Ming saw two large live ammunition weapons on the space station.

Storm Needles and Gauss Cannons.

The former fires a massive amount of high-speed magnetic needles, causing continuous high-frequency strikes to multiple points of the shield, which can quickly overload the shield.

At the same time, the terrifying rate of fire can also make up for the low hit rate of live ammunition weapons in space.

And although they are needles, each needle fired by the Storm Needle is about as thick as Chen Ming's arm.

This was a weapon from thirty years ago. Chen Ming was not sure what kind of development and improvements this weapon had undergone.

But there is no doubt that Storm Needles are more lethal today than they were thirty years ago.

The Gauss Cannon and Storm Needle are almost two extremes. They fire large, high-quality solid shells made of super-heavy element metals.

Through the continuous superposition of magnetic coils, it is accelerated to an extremely high degree in the simplest and crudest way.

As long as it can hit the target, it will have a destructive power that is not on the same level as most weapons, and can even directly shatter some inefficient shields instead of overloading the shields.

If it weren't for the existence of a special phenomenon named the mass void effect.

As a result, when any object is accelerated to a speed close to the speed of light, its mass will be inexplicably lost, so that although the entity exists in observation, contact in the physical sense is impossible.

The power of the Gauss cannon could be even stronger.

In fact, this effect is also the prerequisite for the human empire's civilian spacecraft to reach the speed of light, but now it has limited the power of weapons.

In short, there are a total of four of these two types of large live-ammunition weapons on the space station, all of which are locked on Yuhui's cruiser.

The Afterglow cruiser immediately took evasive action.

However, the spherical shield that completely protects the Afterglow Cruiser may not be able to circumvent it.

The shield of the Afterglow Cruiser was hit by countless needles, causing more violent fluctuations than when the space station was hit by the tachyon spear just now.

Unfortunately, the cruiser's maneuverability immediately increased a lot as its straight-line flight speed decreased.

The more powerful Gauss cannon only hit once, causing a dent in the spherical shield.

But unfortunately there is no follow-up other than this.

Yuhui's cruiser was wandering at the limit of the range of both sides, and the weapons of the fixed space station were not so easy to hit it.

It is definitely impossible to come to a conclusion in a short period of time.

The burden of deciding subsequent developments then fell on other ships.

They bypassed the frontal fire coverage of the space station and rushed towards the Afterglow Fleet, which had also avoided the cruiser attack area.

The large-scale battle is just beginning now.

It was at this time that Chen Ming knew that his chance was coming.

If small ships start fighting, there will inevitably be a lot of damage and chaos. This is the best environment for Chen Ming to take advantage of.

If it is really possible to tow a ship of Yuhui back, then Chen Ming’s new spaceship will definitely have a place to go.

However, Chen Ming also knew the danger. If the Afterglow Cruiser chose to attack the small spaceship like the space station,

The Iron Ore had almost no ability to escape.

So even though there were other ships that had come out of the space station and were staying nearby, they couldn't help but move closer to the battlefield.

But Chen Ming still lingered in his original position, observing the battlefield conditions constantly transmitted back by the sensors, looking for a suitable opportunity.

Chen Ming is not like other spaceship pilots who are risking their lives on the fire. He is now in the basement of the Space Station Administration Building, the safest building in the entire space station.

Such a safe environment is enough for him to analyze and think calmly and find the most favorable opportunity.

Soon the space station and Yuhui's destroyers and frigates approached close enough for combat.

Energy beams and arcs flashing frequently when electromagnetic weapons were fired broke out near the center of the exchange of fire between the space station and the cruiser.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, the shields of more than ten spaceships were overloaded and were directly destroyed by firepower from other ships.

And more ships began to pass each other due to speed.

The battle line that should have been maintained suddenly became chaotic.

Chen Ming immediately realized that something was wrong . A normal battle between two spacecraft should be that both sides attack each other at the limits of their respective ranges, relying on continuous firepower suppression to break down the shield, and then a wave of pressure to destroy the enemy.

But now, the battle lines are becoming increasingly jagged.

Moreover, Chen Ming just clearly saw that when the ships of the space station were about to approach the range limit, they obviously slowed down and changed direction to prevent themselves from rushing directly into Yuhui's front line.

However, Yuhui's ship showed no sign of slowing down. Instead, it rushed into the space station under fierce firepower.

There were even several afterglow ships whose shields were overloaded due to the violent impact, and they were destroyed together with the space station ships with powerful kinetic energy.

Although this almost suicidal attack caused Yuhui's ships to suffer far greater losses than the space station in the first wave of fire, it did succeed in tearing open the battle line.

Several afterglow ships that were not entangled by the space station ships all headed towards the space station.

They wanted to directly raid the space station and disrupt it so that their main force, Yuhui's cruisers, could gain the upper hand in a head-on battle.

However, just before these afterglow ships that broke through the battle line approached the space station.

The station's weapons have finished cooling down.

The tachyon spears, which were capable of hitting with great precision, were already aimed at them.

The most troublesome afterglow destroyers were cleared out almost instantly.

The other frigates can be cleaned up by other small or medium weapons on the space station.

Although Yu Hui's death charge failed to cause any damage to the space station, he himself suffered heavy losses.

But Yu Hui's goal has been achieved.

The space station used the tachyon spears on the destroyer, while Yuhui's cruiser hit all three tachyon spears on the space station's shield.

After the three particle torrents that lasted for three seconds ended, the space station's shield had already begun to experience strong and uncontrollable fluctuations, and it was possible to overload at any time.

As a result, the space station suddenly shut down its shield.

The other energy weapons equipped on the Afterglow Cruiser immediately moved, and a continuous laser weapon aimed at the two tachyon spears of the space station.

However, before the Afterglow Cruiser could open fire, small directional shields suddenly opened up at the carrying points of all the weapons on the space station.

These shields are not connected to the main station shields so they can continue to operate.

Even if the Afterglow Cruiser's continuous laser hit, it would not be able to destroy the space station's weapons.

So it immediately changed the direction of its firepower, and the laser swept across the space station's 7, 5, 3 and 1 space arms.

A red scratch was instantly left on the outside of the space arm.

That is the mark of melted steel.

The laser finally stopped in the middle of space arm No. 1.

In just less than ten seconds, as countless incandescent molten iron flowed away, half of the No. 1 space arm was directly disconnected from the main body of the space station.

It was not until this time that the space station's shield was opened again, and all the ripples on the shield disappeared and stabilized again.

Chen Ming looked at the half-space arm drifting in the space, and was extremely glad that he had let the Iron Ore out.

Otherwise, the Iron Ore, which was almost parked in the middle of the dock, could only be called the Molten Iron.

Just when Chen Ming was feeling a little scared, he suddenly found the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time.

A Yuhui destroyer ship broke away from the main force.

This Afterglow destroyer was one of the ones that had just passed through the space station fleet's front line and wanted to attack the space station directly.

It was not hit directly by the tachyon spear just now, but its tail was grazed by the laser beam that was about to end.

Although the spacecraft was not directly destroyed, the strong EMP impact caused by the passage of a large number of high-energy particles has caused its engine to completely fail.

Only the steering-assisting engine on the port side of the spacecraft was still working, so that it could only spin helplessly in space, constantly flying farther and farther away from the battlefield.

The space station naturally would not waste firepower on it, and the ships engaged in battle in the center of the battlefield naturally would not do so either.

Therefore, this ship became Chen Ming's best target now.

But the Iron Ore was not the only ship that noticed the destroyer and did not engage Afterglow.

Five other ships from the space station also targeted it.

Everyone's purpose is clear.

Get the ship before anyone else does, and repel or even destroy the ship that gets there before you.

This was one of the possible risks that Chen Ming knew about from the beginning.

Conflict with other people is almost inevitable.

At this time, Chen Ming did not hesitate at all. He controlled the Iron Ore and flew directly towards the spinning Afterglow destroyer.

Chen Ming had previously survived three pirate ships that were determined to take his life, and buried them in the dark cemetery.

Now if someone wants to compete with him for his food, Chen Ming doesn't mind sinking a few more ships.

(End of this chapter)