However, if a real fight breaks out, he may not be able to pay attention to avoid these goods.

And because he had so few ships, there were more important issues to pay attention to in battle than just the cargo.

That's why he determined in advance the pirates' return route and the locations where he might encounter them at different times.

And came here early and made some arrangements specifically for them.

These arrangements will immediately be reflected on the battlefield.

At the same time the Centurion-class sensor scanned the pirates.

The pirates obviously also noticed the three spaceships blocking their path.

Gladiator Kai, Centurion and Glimmer.

The fighter is now controlled by Gamma B.

The Centurion and Weiguang were both under Chen Ming's personal control.

Although he had to operate two spaceships at the same time, Chen Ming did not feel awkward at all when he actually did it. Instead, it was as if he was controlling his own hands and feet, very smoothly.

It was much the same when he was in control of the Iron Ore.

Although the various functions on the Iron Ore are complex and diverse, the actual control is not at all chaotic, which is one of the hidden benefits brought by the panel.

At this time, the three ships were maintaining a certain distance from each other, blocking the pirates' way to continue moving forward along the hyperspace channel.

Although the three lonely frigates were a bit shabby compared to the pirates' configuration of two destroyers and six escorts.

But the pirate leader on the pirate ship did not dare to act rashly at this time. He just frowned and looked ahead.

The reason lies in this strange ship configuration.

Yu Hui's ship was mixed in with a fleet that was suspected to be a military fleet. It looked strange and wrong no matter how you looked at it.

Before finding out the details of these three ships.

The pirate leader directly ordered the fleet to slow down, deploy the shield, and slowly advance while sending a communication request.

But their communication requests fell on deaf ears and received no response.

After seeing this, the pirate leader had almost figured out what these three spaceships were here for.

At this moment, a pirate beside him couldn't help but said, "Boss, do you want to just do it?"

The pirate leader waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, it's a bit difficult to handle the two military ships, and there seems to be some problems with the fighter."

"Let's test it first. We are not in good condition right now. It is best not to fight if we can. Even if we have to fight, we must first leave a way out."

"What's the situation outside the channel now?"

A pirate's voice came from the communication device next to the pirate leader's ear: "Nothing unusual, the sensor didn't scan anything, you can go out anytime."

The pirate leader was not relieved by this relatively good news. Instead, he felt that something was wrong.

"Only these three ships? Then why did they come to us?"

"No, keep getting closer, keep sending communications, and see what they want to do."

The pirates tried to contact Chen Ming, but Chen Ming totally refused.

Instead, he directly gave the order to let Gamma B do its thing, and at the same time activated the shields of the other two spacecraft.

The moment the shield was turned on, Chen Ming saw that the energy values ​​on the panels of the two spacecraft had continued to increase by more than ten points.

However, this increase in the shield's amplitude energy value was immediately offset by the spacecraft's amplitude energy dissipation, and the amplitude energy value remained at zero.

Only when the actual battle begins will the amplitude energy value rise again.

After confirming that there was no problem with the most basic and important function of the combat spacecraft, Chen Ming also ordered the two spacecraft to start accelerating and prepare for battle.

On the pirate side, after noticing the movement of the spaceship, they realized that they had to fight.

They have two destroyers and six escorts against three escorts. The advantage is on their side, so there is nothing they dare not fight.

And he also planned to confront Chen Ming head-on.

Chen Ming was not afraid at all. When both sides were about to enter the range of the exchange of fire, he gave the order to the refractive class that had been hiding outside to enter the hyperspace channel.

A few seconds later, the Refraction-class suddenly appeared in the hyperspace lane, behind the pirate fleet.

He stabbed the sharp blade in his hand from behind the pirate's butt.

Even though the Refraction is an auxiliary type ship, its combat capability is still guaranteed.

A ball of electromagnetic pulses flashing violently with arcs was instantly emitted from the opened electromagnetic capture cabin, paralyzing the three spacecraft closest to the refractive class.

Two ordinary frigates and one destroyer Mule class.

There is no cargo on the outside of this Mule-class ship, so it should not be the leader's ship.

But this doesn't affect anything. Being able to directly paralyze a destroyer, no matter which one it is, is worth the price Chen Ming paid for coming here early to arrange it.

You should know that his Iron Ore was affected by a refractive-level electromagnetic pulse last time, which directly caused many equipment on the ship to be completely damaged and needed to be repaired.

But the unfortunate thing is that these pirate ships all have military subsystems, so no matter how good or bad they are, or whether they are suitable or not, they can be started anyway.

Being able to start means that the radiation energy system can relieve the pressure of electromagnetic pulses on the equipment.

Before the arc ball actually touches the spacecraft, the most it can do is temporarily paralyze some of the spacecraft's equipment, which only need to be restarted and simply maintained to work again.

However, the Refractive Class can launch more than one arc ball, and the arc ball is not the only means of attack on the ship.

At the moment of paralyzing the three spaceships, the ion beams and pulse laser cannons on the Refractive class also concentrated their firepower on the engine of the Mule class.

Intend to completely destroy its ability to escape.

However, the ion beam itself is only an auxiliary type of weapon, so the actual damage it causes is not ideal.

However, the pulse laser cannon that fired multiple energy shells was very effective when hitting the hull.

The shuttle-shaped energy aggregates fired at high speeds continuously stripped away the armor of the pirate ships at the locations where they hit, while also destroying their ships' engines.

Even if there is a situation where the refractive-level firepower is really not enough to destroy the target in a short period of time.

Those arc balls alone would have been enough to disable all three ships until the refractive fuel ran out.

And all this happened in just a few seconds.

Only now did the pirate leader react that they had suddenly lost communications with three ships and noticed the refractive class behind them.

"What's going on? Why are there new Afterglow ships coming to attack us?"

The pilot of the Pirate Mule saw the appearance of the Refractor clearly through the camera on the outside of the spacecraft, and his expression looked a little panicked.

He immediately shouted to the others, "That's the electromagnetic capture ship! It has an electromagnetic shielding device on board, which blocks all sensor signals. Even now our sensors can't detect it."

"That electric ball can create an EMP in a large area. You must not get close to it."

Listening to his men's stories, the pirate leader had an unhappy expression on his face. He knew very well that they were in trouble now.

Just the afterglow electromagnetic ship, which used technology that was infinitely more advanced than theirs, was enough to give them a hard time.

What’s more, there are the three frigates in front that obviously have problems.

If we are attacked from both sides, there will definitely be big problems.

Therefore, their only choice now is to temporarily abandon the three ships that have been controlled and find a way to break through the current situation of being trapped.

Then consider whether to fight or run.

Now that we have decided to do this, it shouldn't require too many decisions to break through a 200-meter destroyer with a powerful electromagnetic pulse device, or three frigates that are less than 100 meters in total.

The Pirates' choice was clear and correct.

But in actual action, things may not develop as the pirate leader wishes.

Facing the pirate fleet that was rushing over with only one ship left to drive away four escort ships, Chen Ming stubbornly controlled the Centurion to rush forward with the shield on.

Rushed head-on into the firing range of five pirate ships.

The two Rippers and six light needles that Chen Ming specially installed and modified were the first to enter the range.

A large number of high-explosive armor-piercing shells and high-speed spikes rushed straight towards the fleet.

Immediately, the shields of the two frigates at the front began to fluctuate violently.

The two frigates were forced to slow down and shut down their shields, hiding behind other ships.

Then the pirates' counterattack followed.

As a pirate, your ship can be bad, but your weapons must not be bad.

Although their spacecraft weapons are no match for Chen Ming's carefully modified weapons.

However, the concentrated fire from the remaining few spaceships caused the Centurion's radiation energy value to soar by hundreds the moment it engaged in fire with them.

Chen Ming could easily see the power of this round of concentrated fire from the panel in front of him.

[Radiant Energy Capacity: 877 (806) / 900]

The Centurion's energy capacity was almost fully utilized, with an extra value in parentheses.

And when the Centurion's energy is dispersed in the gaps between the pirate ship's firepower and reaches the value in brackets.

The radiation energy value did not continue to drop, but instead got stuck here.

Because spacecraft radiation energy is actually divided into two types.

One is the amplitude energy that the spacecraft increases on its own initiative.

That is, the amplitude energy generated when the spacecraft maintains its shield and uses high-intensity weapons.

The radiation energy produced in this way can be discharged unconditionally if the spacecraft itself is deliberately designed.

It is generally called soft amplitude energy.

In addition to soft amplitude energy, there is another kind of amplitude energy.

It is the passive increase in energy when the ship's shield is hit.

This part of radiation energy was not included in the initial design of the spacecraft, and it will also fluctuate differently depending on the type of weapon and angle that is hit, and cannot be prevented in advance.

Therefore, such radiation energy cannot be quickly dissipated during the operation of the shield, but will continue to accumulate in the spacecraft's power grid.

Only by completely shutting down the shield system can this part of radiation energy, commonly known as hard radiation energy, be dissipated.

Therefore, when the Centurion was almost hit to its radiation energy limit by a round of firepower, Chen Ming directly shut down its shield and symbolically launched a missile.

Then the Centurion's built-in damping stance device was activated.

Although it is necessary to shut down the shield and stop using weapons when it is activated, it is indeed a device independent of the radiation energy system.

Therefore, when it is turned on, the Centurion can continue to dissipate radiation energy normally.

Before the damping field equipment can last for a certain period of time, it is enough for the Centurion class to dissipate the radiation energy to a safe level.

Then continue to take the next round of damage.

While the Centurion was exchanging fire with the pirates, the Gladiator-class controlled by Gamma B also broke into the combat area from the flank at the right time during the gap in the pirates' firepower.

The target it wanted to attack was naturally the core of this group of pirates, the Mule-class ship with several cargo holds mounted on the outside.

Rushed towards the mule which was protected by shields and other ships.

The pirate ship immediately activated their onboard point defense weapons, trying to destroy the missile mid-flight.

But missiles like the Cyber ​​SRM and the Gladiator Kai are products of Tachyon Technology.

The missile's built-in sensing system allows it to automatically trigger a secondary explosion when it detects that it is about to be intercepted and destroyed by point defense weapons.

A large number of high-speed spikes will fly out with the secondary explosion of the missile.

It has extremely strong lethality against shields.

The Mule-class ship that the missile was targeting, its energy system and shield system that were removed from the frigate, when faced with this kind of attack, instantly produced the same performance as the Centurion when being fired upon by all the pirate ships.

The shield was vibrating unnaturally and could overload at any time.

Chen Ming specially reset the missile launch bay of the Cyber ​​SRM and repaired it with the combat supplies he prepared before setting out on the hunt.

A new warhead instantly appeared in the launch chamber and could be launched again at any time.

As long as one of them hits, the Mule-class will be directly overloaded.

However, Gamma B did not launch a second round.

Instead, after the first round of missile launches, it immediately activated the plasma thrusters installed when Tachyon Technology transformed the Gladiator-class.

The Gladiator's tail engine was instantly activated at full power, and a large amount of bright green plasma burst out from the tail exhaust port.

The surge in maneuverability allowed it to instantly distance itself from the pirate fleet.

Once the distance is increased, missile weapons will not be able to perform well.

Chen Ming knew that Gamma B did not do it on purpose. It was just a mistake in coordination due to their unfamiliarity with each other.

The problem is not big.

Because in addition to the Cyber ​​SRM missiles on the Gladiator class, there are also two ion beams that are continuously attacking the Mule class.

Although the ion beam on the refractive stage performed poorly just now, that was because it did not encounter the right environment.

And now.

I saw that at the same time, two ion beams hit the mule-level shield.

There were also a large number of electric arcs flashing where the ion beam hit, and the electric arcs and indirectly generated electromagnetic pulses were constantly damaging the Mule-class hull.

This is the special effect of ion beam.

Its beam can stimulate this part of hard radiation energy while the hard auxiliary energy of the spacecraft rises, generating these arcs that can directly penetrate the shield.

The electric arc and electromagnetic pulse instantly paralyzed the Mule-class weapons, and the flashing arcs were still spreading to the sides.

Possesses extremely terrifying suppression capabilities.

However, the pirates were not fools. After clearly noticing the special effects of the ion beam, they immediately turned off the shield.

Choose to let the armor withstand the attack of ion beams, which have relatively weak destructive power.

Once again, the limitations of the ion beam itself are evident.

However, there is one more thing on the Fighter level.

High energy focusing system module.

Chen Ming had deliberately not let the refractive level, who also had this module, use it before, in order to prevent the pirates from being on guard and to be able to play its role in more critical places.

The moment the Mule-class shut down its shield, the high-energy focusing module of the Gladiator-class was immediately activated.

Energy fluctuations visible to the naked eye, like ion balls, appeared on the ion beams at the two medium-sized load-bearing points on the outside of the ship.

The ion beam, which could only slowly cause damage to the spacecraft's armor, suddenly became several times thicker.

The outside of the Mule-class spacecraft's armor even exploded and melted where it was hit, and a large amount of molten iron splashed out due to the temperature difference between the inner and outer layers.

However, such power and speed of destruction are still a bit slow for a Mule-class ship with a length of about 130 meters.

With the cover of other spaceships, it is impossible for the Gladiator-class to attack the engine directly.

Such an ion beam would not be enough to paralyze the Mule before its radiation energy was dissipated.

If we let it reactivate its shield, the next wave of fighters won't have such a good opportunity to get close.

But Chen Ming actually prepared something else at the fighter level.

Overload the grid.

This is a modification that Chen Ming decided to install on the Fighter class after thinking about it in the past two days.

After all, the explosion in all aspects that occurred at this moment was really useful.

Moreover, the overload power grid installed by Chen Ming was an overload power grid technology that he found on the Internet and had undergone thirty years of development and improvement.

And it was while checking the new overload grid technology that Chen Ming realized where he had seen the term Ludd before.

It was on his terminal, the name of the professional book that recorded the overloaded power grid and a series of other dangerous transformation techniques.

The transformation of the overloaded power grid was done by Lude Zuojing's people.

They seem to be using these technologies to announce their existence to the outside world.

However, apart from that updated professional book, Chen Ming did not find any other records about the people of Ludd's left path.

Chen Ming had no idea what the people from Lud Zuojing were like, but their techniques were certainly useful.

So Chen Ming didn't care who invented this technology.

As long as it works and is easy to use, that's enough.

Just like now.

With the dual support of overloaded power grid and high-energy focusing system.

The intensity of the ion beam emitted by the Gladiator is enough to generate its own electromagnetic pulse, unleashing a terrifying power that the Mule-class armor cannot withstand.

The armor was penetrated almost instantly, forcing other ships to get close to the Mule-class to block the ion beam that could ionize almost everything.

At this moment, the modified fuel ship that Chen Ming had been paying close attention to finally made a move.

Although it only had a very simple shield opened in the front of the hull, and the armor on the side of the ship looked almost non-existent.

But its front armor is very thick and seems to be able to withstand most attacks from the front.

Chen Ming could probably guess why it had such a design.

The purpose is to be able to rush to the target, and at the same time the armor will become fragments that amplify the power of the explosion.

Just as Chen Ming thought, the fuel transport ship suddenly broke away from the fleet from the side away from the Fighter-class.

It adjusted its direction and aimed at the front of the pirate fleet, at the Centurion that had just dissipated all the radiation energy and reopened its shield.

Chen Ming had noticed it in advance and had previously informed Gamma B that it was the second priority target.

The Gladiator-class, which had just used its mobility to pull away the pirate ship and completely paralyzed the Mule-class, changed its target and prepared to destroy the fuel ship from the side.

But what Chen Ming did not expect was that the tail of this heavily modified fuel ship suddenly spewed out a large amount of red-orange tail flames, just like a fighter activating its plasma thrusters.

The raging flames pushed the fuel ship to produce an extremely exaggerated instantaneous acceleration, and in less than two seconds it reached the fastest speed that could be achieved in hyperspace.

Crashed head-on into the Centurion class.

Even if the fighter class rushed back as fast as possible, it would not be able to deal with it in time.

The Centurion, which had just recovered, had no time to speed up and dodge, and its firepower was not enough to instantly penetrate the ridiculously thick frontal armor, so it could only withstand the self-destruction attack.

In a blink of an eye, the fuel transport ship collided with the shield that the Centurion had activated in advance.

Under the high-speed impact of a massive entity, the Centurion-class's radiation energy surged instantly.

Before Chen Ming had time to react, the radiation energy generated by the Centurion's attack had already reached its capacity limit.

Fortunately, there was a trigger device on the Centurion class that he had specially installed earlier.

When the spacecraft's radiation energy is about to reach its limit, it will be activated and automatically shut down the spacecraft's shield.

Unless there are more powerful weapons that can cause the Centurion-class to overload radiation energy in an instant, it is absolutely impossible for the Centurion-class to be overloaded due to the shield.

In addition, according to another design of Chen Ming, this trigger device will also activate the damping position device when it is triggered.

The moment the Centurion-class hull was covered by the damping field, the modified Dram-class fuel transport ship voluntarily detonated itself.

A fireball several hundred meters in size suddenly appeared in space.

Seeing this, Chen Ming became unconsciously nervous.

His boss had warned him about the madness of Lude Zuojing before, but he didn't expect that he would fall into its trap even though he was prepared.

However, he immediately noticed that the Centurion had not been disconnected from the ship he was controlling.

It has withstood the blast.

The three-dimensional imaging of the panel also showed the situation of the Centurion class in the fireball.

Its frontal armor mixed with Baiyun steel had been completely destroyed, revealing the hull structure covered with numerous melt marks and impact cracks.

Although the armor in other directions did not suffer direct damage from the self-explosion, it also suffered a lot of damage.

In addition, the Centurion-class' internal equipment suffered many minor damages due to the impact of the explosion, and it is possible that it will crash after running for a while.

But at least the Centurion is still running.

As long as it is not destroyed instantly, Chen Ming can rescue it.

Chen Ming immediately selected repair on the panel.

A large amount of material in the storage compartment of the Iron Ore melted into liquid, flowed into Chen Ming's palm, and disappeared from Chen Ming's eyes.

After consuming a considerable amount of mental energy, the disappeared metal liquid appeared in the Centurion cabin in the fireball.

The damage to the spacecraft's hull, armor and weapons was quickly repaired.

At this time, the damping equipment just shut down due to overload, and the fireball dissipated.

The fuel tanker exploded without leaving any wreckage.

But the Centurion class appeared unscathed in front of everyone and everyone who was not human on the battlefield.

On the Mule-class, all the frigates protecting it had been penetrated by the Gladiator-class and its engines had been paralyzed.

The pirate leader watched this scene somewhat numbly.

Feeling the desperate atmosphere in the spaceship, he slumped in his chair.

He knew very well that even a destroyer or even a cruiser would at least suffer some damage after being hit by the horrific self-destruction ship modified by Ludzuo Jing if it got close to them.

There is only one possibility that a military ship like the one in front of us could be found unscathed.

"Psychic..."

(End of this chapter)