Chen Ming quickly observed several ships that were about to clash with him.

There were five ships in total, one of which was an ordinary civilian ship without a model number.

The other four ships include two Expedition-class ships, one Sentinel-class ship, and one destroyer, the Cerberus-class ship.

This configuration looks familiar, is it a caravan?

As soon as this thought flashed through Chen Ming's mind, he saw the two expedition-class ships suddenly changed course and aimed at Chen Ming's Iron Ore.

The weapons on the ship were also turning, about to lock onto Chen Ming's dazzling white Iron Ore.

Although the Cerberus-class ship was slightly behind, it was clearly heading towards the Iron Ore, and it was obviously planning to cooperate with the two Conquerors to attack the Iron Ore.

Although the Sentinel-class ship did not move, it relied on the mobility advantage brought by its light armor to quickly approach the spinning Afterglow destroyer.

"They are together indeed."

Chen Ming couldn't help but mutter to himself, his heartbeat quickening a little.

However, he was still thinking calmly, thinking about how he could seize the Afterglow spaceship from the four spaceships that could work together under such a situation.

At this time, the other civilian ship had already realized that something was wrong and rationally withdrew from the fight.

But the word "retreat" did not appear in Chen Ming's mind at all.

He has already had the experience of successfully fighting three people at once, so the result this time will definitely be the same as last time.

Even without the assistance of the asteroid belt, Chen Ming could completely defeat them with his spacecraft itself.

At this moment, a communication request was sent.

Chen knew clearly who sent this message, so he simply ignored it.

The two electromagnetic javelins on the left and right sides of the Iron Ore had locked onto the expedition-class ship that dared to block his way.

After the dull hammering sound of the electromagnetic javelin, the expedition-class on Chen Ming's left suddenly exploded like fireworks.

By sheer luck, the electromagnetic dart shot just happened to hit the spot where it stored its engine fuel.

It is obvious that the spacecraft armor that has not been specially strengthened cannot withstand the attack of Chen Ming's electromagnetic javelin, which has undergone extensive modifications and is also equipped with armor-piercing electromagnetic bullets.

The other expedition-class ship was obviously panicked and opened fire directly at the Iron Ore from a distance far beyond their range limit.

The bullet speed and accuracy of civilian weapons at this distance are hard to describe. Not a single expedition-class bullet successfully hit the Iron Mine.

On Chen Ming's side, the six-second reloading time was over.

The electromagnetic javelin fired two armor-piercing electromagnetic bullets in the second round. Although they could not directly hit the engine of the expedition-class ship due to the blind spot, they still dismantled two of its weapons.

Having lost two-thirds of its firepower, the expedition-class had completely lost its threat to Chen Ming.

And only now did it barely come within its own attack range.

As if making its last dying struggle, the Conqueror-class fired at the Iron Ore with the 30mm machine gun on its last remaining bearing point.

Then the people on the expedition level saw a scene that made them despair.

Since the Conquest-class and Chen Ming's Iron Ore were almost head-on, almost all of the bullets fired by the Conquest-class hit the target.

However, on the Iron Ore's armor, which was obviously specially reinforced, all the bullets could only leave a dent at most and were completely unable to penetrate the Iron Ore's armor.

It is too late for the expedition class to escape now.

Chen Ming finished loading the electromagnetic javelin. Two armor-piercing electromagnetic bullets paralyzed its last weapon, and the engine was also pierced and caught fire.

The expeditionary class completely lost its combat capability.

Chen Ming ignored the hellhound that was slowly chasing him from behind and flew straight towards the Yuhui destroyer.

At the same time, it continued to control the electromagnetic javelin to lock onto the disabled engine of the expedition class.

After three rounds of shooting, the second expedition-class ship followed in the footsteps of its companions.

The Hellhound class no longer dared to pursue.

The Sentinel-class in front also seemed a little hesitant.

But the next moment, Chen Ming suddenly saw a missile with a black and red tail flame suddenly appear at the missile mounting point in front of the right side of the Sentinel-class.

It flew straight towards the Afterglow destroyer which was unable to make any maneuvers.

Chen Ming's expression suddenly changed.

Because this missile with a black and red tail flame is a signature feature of a terrorist weapon that has gained considerable popularity thirty years ago.

Reaper torpedo.

Its name is very plain and unpretentious, and it does not have its own guidance function like many missiles. Its trajectory will remain the same as when it is launched.

And it is not endorsed by any major weapons manufacturing company, nor has any designer acknowledged that it was their design.

Such a missile that seemed to be low-tech and had no practical value was widely circulated thirty years ago.

The reason is that the Reaper torpedo carries a concentrated antimatter-catalyzed nuclear warhead, which can cause instantaneous destructive power almost equivalent to that of large weapons.

And a big thing happened during the time when the Reaper torpedo first appeared.

There was a military battleship facing a group of pirates.

Perhaps due to hubris or perhaps due to a malfunction, its shields failed to activate and its point defense weapons missed the four Reaper torpedoes fired by the pirates.

Then, the battleship was sunk.

This military scandal spread throughout the human empire thirty years ago and created the reputation of the Reaper Torpedo.

No one knows who has mastered the manufacturing technology of the Reaper torpedo, and no one knows who has been manufacturing it. But it always appears occasionally on the black market of a space station.

Unexpectedly, after thirty years, Chen Ming could still see its traces.

However, Chen Ming did not expect that he would see such a launched Reaper torpedo under such circumstances.

The Sentinel-class ship was willing to bear the losses and launch a precious Reaper torpedo at a disabled Afterglow, so their meaning was very clear.

What they can't get, no one else can get.

Although Chen Ming is very angry now, he does not show it through actual action.

Because he also knew the best way to counter the Reaper torpedo before it actually hit, which was to destroy it.

The Reaper torpedo has no guidance system and can only fly in a straight line, which is not a difficult task for any spacecraft with numerical control capabilities and weapon systems.

Just relax, stay calm, and press the fire button on your weapon.

Chen Ming took a deep breath and completely ignored the Sentinel-class that had already fled in another direction.

The trajectory of the Reaper torpedo launch was calculated and locked by the spacecraft computer.

But at the moment when the electromagnetic javelin was launched, the hull of the Iron Ore suddenly vibrated slightly.

A slight deviation caused one electromagnetic javelin to miss the target, and the other electromagnetic javelin merely grazed the edge of the torpedo and failed to destroy it directly.

The sudden vibration of the Iron Ore was not caused by Chen Ming's driving error, but because the Iron Ore was suddenly hit by a random strafing of the Cerberus-class ship that was out of range.

The complete destruction of the Afterglow destroyer was inevitable.

After getting such a result, Chen Ming could no longer suppress the anger in his heart. He punched the workbench in front of him, his face extremely dark.

However, things did not seem to be completely hopeless. The electromagnetic bomb that just grazed the Reaper torpedo also had some impact on the trajectory of the Reaper torpedo.

The missile that was supposed to hit the center of the Afterglow destroyer fell on the bow of the spacecraft.

After the devastating explosion of an antimatter nuclear warhead.

Half of the Afterglow destroyer disappeared completely, and the remaining half was thrown away for an unknown distance by the violent explosion.

The Sentinels and Cerberus-class have given up the fight for the spaceship and plan to leave.

But Chen Ming didn't want to let them go just like that.

Anyway, he had already locked onto the flight path of the half of the completely paralyzed Afterglow destroyer and knew where it would fly next.

Since no one is competing with him for it, he has enough time and energy to get rid of the things that make him very unhappy.

Chen Ming locked onto the Cerberus and Sentinel again, and said in an extremely gloomy tone: "None of you can leave today."

Chen Ming turned the bow of the Iron Ore and followed the direction of the Sentinel-class ship which was closer to him.

With its hellhound-level size, it’s basically impossible to escape.

Its only possibility of escape is to directly activate the hyperspace channel system and escape through the hyperspace channel.

The Iron Ore has no hyperspace navigation system and is completely unable to pursue.

However, the activation of the hyperspace channel system is conditional.

The first and most important point is that the hyperspace channel system cannot be activated inside the galaxy.

Because once this is done, the huge gravity well created by the stars in the galaxy in the hyperspace channel will directly tear any spacecraft into pieces.

They must first escape the range of the star's gravity well before they can safely evacuate through the hyperspace channel.

So it seems that the faster Sentinel-class is more likely to escape.

Chen Ming must be dealt with first.

After confirming that the Iron Ore could never catch up with the Sentinel-class at its own speed, Chen Ming directly activated the spacecraft's overload power grid.

The temperature of the engine was rising, and the Iron Ore suddenly burst into a higher speed.

Before the Sentinel-class could completely increase the distance, it rushed into the range of the electromagnetic javelin.

The electromagnetic javelin is invincible against ships without shields.

Once caught up, there is only one possible thing that can happen next.

The weapons were destroyed, the engines were destroyed, and the spacecraft was paralyzed like scrap metal.

This Sentinel-class ship is no exception.

After a counterattack that posed no threat to the Iron Ore at all.

The Sentinel-class drifted in space like a lamb to be slaughtered.

Chen Ming immediately controlled the Iron Ore to move closer and used the spacecraft's own traction equipment to give it new force.

It stopped its previous action and flew towards the direction of half of the Afterglow destroyer.

After doing this, Chen Ming turned the ship around again and set his sights on the Cerberus-class ship that had not run far.

At this time, due to the continuous high power output of the overloaded power grid, even with the isolation device, the temperature of the engine is about to reach the dangerous critical temperature.

Chen Ming immediately activated the emergency cooling device he had installed earlier. A large amount of molten silver that had absorbed heat energy was directly discharged into space, and the temperature inside the spacecraft immediately dropped.

Able to continue to maintain a very high speed and rush towards the last Hellhound class.

Catching up with it before it leaves the star's gravity well.

Although Chen Ming's anger in his heart had not yet been completely vented, his brain was not occupied by anger and he remained calm.

Last time, he missed out on all the good things on the Cerberus-class ship except the cargo hold because of his nervousness and enthusiasm. He will not repeat the same mistake this time.

After paralyzing the Cerberus class, Chen Ming directly used mining lasers to forcibly cut the spacecraft.

He planned to cut off the Cerberus-class cargo hold and the installed medium-sized load-bearing points.

Although the use of mining lasers would expose the fragile interior of the spacecraft directly to the outside world, the already paralyzed Cerberus class would definitely not be able to resist at all.

And those other spaceships may have had some intentions just now and wanted to take advantage of the situation on the edge of the battlefield.

After seeing the fate of these four ships, no one dared to provoke this white civilian mining ship.

So Chen Ming could start cutting with peace of mind.

During the cutting process, Chen Ming also saw through the cut part of the Cerberus-class armor that there were several people wearing protective clothing kneeling on the exposed deck with their hands raised.

But Chen Ming ignored them. After removing the equipment at the medium-sized load-bearing points, he continued to cut the cargo hold open.

After discovering that the cargo hold of the Cerberus-class ship was empty, Chen Ming directly controlled the electromagnetic javelin to fire near the Cerberus-class's engine.

Soon, the flames of the explosion covered the desperate faces under the protective suits and helmets.

Chen Ming pulled the medium-sized load-bearing point and the weapons on it and left the battlefield area.

Continue to chase the half destroyer that was just thrown away and the Sentinel-class ship that Chen Ming brought to that direction.

Just when Chen Ming was busy with his own things.

The battle on the battlefield was coming to an end after a while.

As Yuhui tried his best to interfere with the space station, the space station had completely lost its three space arms: 1, 3, and 9.

Originally only half of the No. 1 space arm was missing, it was targeted by the Afterglow Cruiser from behind, and the remaining half also floated in the space like the first half.

And the outer layer of the space station is almost entirely covered with burn marks left by high-intensity lasers.

Of the original 130 or so spaceships of the space station, only about 60 were still operational.

The number of ships with survivors remaining did not exceed eighty.

Such a heavy loss, of course, also made Yu Hui pay a heavy price.

All of Yuhui's hundreds of destroyers and escorts were destroyed, and the Yuhui cruiser was almost paralyzed.

It even destroyed a large force-bearing point, leaving behind a Tachyon Spear modified by Yuhui.

It's a pity that the Afterglow Cruiser took advantage of the cooling time of the space station's tachyon spear, forcibly shut down the shield, and activated a jump engine that was more advanced than the hyperspace channel system, and directly jumped away from here.

But even if the Afterglow Cruiser was not left behind, just looking at the remaining situation on the battlefield.

The battle on the space station side can definitely be called a successful one.

(End of this chapter)