Chapter 405: The Tall Pirate Squad
The joint forces of the Dragon Eagle Star Domain achieved their war goals, but that did not mean the war was over.
War can be started at will, but it cannot be ended at will.
How could the greenskins just accept this loss?
The war continued on the two star systems of Water Mist and Silver Gate 2. The greenskins attacked fiercely for two years, trying to take back these two planets and then attack Silver Gate 3 and White Mist behind these two star systems.
The human army gritted their teeth and held on for two years, and finally pushed the greenskins back.
Even now, sporadic small-scale wars are still going on. The large-scale battles are over, otherwise the Pegasus Fleet would not be able to return.
According to the plan, the Pegasus Fleet will come back to rest for at least five years. The people need to rest, and the ship needs to be repaired.
The attacking Pegasus Fleet was led by five cruisers, and all the warships added up to over 100. After six years of fighting, one cruiser was destroyed, and the loss of other types of ships exceeded 20. The rest could only be repaired on the battlefield, and the overall fatigue was to a certain extent.
It is estimated that after returning, it may take five years to repair all the ships. By then, the shipyards of Feiyi Star will probably have to reduce production, and many docks will have to be vacated to repair ships. The cost of repairing the ships alone may exceed 20 billion.
All related orders have been sent.
Of course, the money for repairing the ship is paid by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Imperial Navy, and is used to offset taxes, which amounts to 2 billion a year.
In terms of revenue, it's not a loss. At least there are still a few empty docks, so we can build some other ships.
Gu Hang and Ye Lixia also talked several times during this period, and they planned to get married when they came back.
As for the war to continue, the two will have to face separation again in a few years, which is probably inevitable. Even with the status of Gu Hang and Ye Lixia, they are often helpless - or even more helpless.
But at least I can live a stable life for a few years. This is all Gu Hang can tell himself.
Judging from the time, Ye Licia should have already left.
To come back, you have to travel through the star tunnel twelve times. Generally speaking, the one-way time from one star system to another is about five to eight days at the speed of an ordinary fleet. Among them, the time for traveling through the star tunnel is not long, usually only one day, mainly because the vast void between the star port and the jump point requires a long time to sail.
However, in long-distance travel, this problem can be largely overcome. The main reason is that if the starship does not stop along the way, it will be in a state of acceleration, flying from one jump point to another without slowing down, directly starting the jump when it arrives, and continuing to accelerate to the next jump point, the speed of the entire fleet will become faster and faster.
The speed of physical space travel does not affect the time of the jump. The twelve interstellar tunnels take about ten days, which cannot be reduced. However, the time spent in space can be compressed to about twenty-five days. The entire voyage takes only a little over a month.
In other words, in about a 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 Ye Lixia left, Gu Hang had tried to bring the two closer. This separation lasted for six years, and it was hard to say how much of the little feeling that had been cultivated before was left.
However, this marriage must go on no matter what, no matter what the emotional foundation of the two is.
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While the welcoming ceremony was being arranged on the Winged Star, a military operation currently being carried out by the Alliance also produced results.
After the routes within the Pegasus region became prosperous, pirates were attracted.
Pirates are annoying. They appear and disappear mysteriously in the starry sky. They can't do anything big, but they harass people everywhere. They hijack a small boat today and run away and circle around the navy tomorrow. It's very disgusting.
Apart from those powerful pirate alliances that are difficult to wipe out, ordinary pirate groups are nothing but trash in front of the imperial officials. As long as their lair can be found, it will be easy to wipe them out.
But the problem is, we have to find the nest.
Where is the pirates' base, where do their ships come from, where do they get their manpower from...to the officials, it's all a mystery.
As long as this information is obtained, that is often the time when the pirate group is destroyed.
The pirate group that roams the Pegasus region, called the 'Red Eye Pirates', has been plagued by cholera for more than a year.
The damage they caused was neither big nor small.
When I say it's not a big deal, I mean it won't cause any serious damage to the alliance.
It is not a small amount. Losing a ship, even a small boat like the Traveler's, would cost several million tax coins.
Not to mention, there was a ship that departed from Korojia, carrying more than 800 young students appointed by the local government of Korojia, heading to Feiyi Star. These young students who were preparing to study to change their destiny were all captured.
This is undoubtedly a blatant provocation to the alliance.
Gu Hang could not tolerate such a thing happening in his own star zone.
The pirates conveyed their ransom demands to Gu Hang through secret channels, and the amount they demanded was ridiculously high. But they underestimated Gu Hang's determination and the power of the alliance. No matter how much money these pirates wanted, even a dime, Gu Hang never intended to pay.
He knew that if he surrendered, it would set a precedent. The pirates would get even more aggressive after tasting the sweetness. By then, knowing that the Alliance was weak and easy to bully, and that they could make a lot of money by coming here, there might be more than one "Red Eye Pirate Group" coming to the Pegasus Star Region to take advantage of the situation. Maybe all kinds of colorful eyes would appear.
He had to give a strong response to let all potential pirates know that challenging the alliance would be a dead end.
Gu Hang rejected the ransom demand without hesitation, even if it meant the deaths of hundreds of people.
At the same time, he also issued orders to the newly established Alliance Navy and Du Shiliang of the Tianma Fleet, requiring them to resolve the trouble as soon as possible and prevent such incidents from happening again.
This is not easy, mainly because pirates are hard to find.
All they can do are some stupid methods.
Reduce the frequency of flights, gather a group of ships, and then go together, with the Alliance Navy escorting them.
The method was effective, but the key point was that it was disgusting. The efficiency of star sea shipping was greatly reduced, and escort also consumed the cost of the navy, fuel money, ship depreciation, all of which were additional losses.
A thief can steal for a thousand days, but you can never guard against thieves for a thousand days.
The goal of the Alliance Navy and the Imperial Navy is to eliminate this group of pirates as quickly as possible.
The Alliance's fast ships played a role in repelling pirate harassment several times.
Thanks to the Alliance's accumulation of technology in advanced engines, when designing ships, it is luxurious to equip almost all types of ships with excellent engines.
Spiritual engines are used for regular navigation. In fact, normal ships don't have many of them. For example, patrol ships don't even have them. They are a bit expensive. The main reason is that they consume high-level energy such as energy crystals, which is very expensive. It's a bit of a waste for low-level ships to use them.
But the alliance is not afraid of waste.
The Angry Owl Star has a large amount of energy output. Currently, the Angry Owl Star has a lot of experience in collecting and utilizing the energy of the waste energy storm. The energy compression technology also comes from the black box output. After years of expansion, it now has a very good output.
Especially after the population was abundant, the other two uninhabited continents on the Angry Owl Star have now entered the development process. The planetary government has built large-scale energy collection factories on those two continents.
In addition, the Alliance's Technology Center, in conjunction with the Storm Mage Corps and the Psionic Order, has been studying how to completely quell the waste energy storm on a global scale. Once this project is conquered, the spiritual gas field is expected to reappear on the Wrath of the Owl. By then, the Wrath of the Owl will likely reach a level 4 or 5 development level just by producing energy. Coupled with stronger industrial productivity and shipbuilding than before the war, the development potential of the entire planet is greater than any other world in the Pegasus Star Region!
Even now, we can only roughly collect the energy of the waste energy storm, which is incomparable to the efficiency of the spiritual gas field back then, but it can barely reach about 20%, which is also a good output.
Thanks to the convenient high-level energy, and the fact that the spiritual engine produced by Black Box can bring down the price a lot, the Alliance ships are able to equip this engine set on a large scale. Especially the two fast ships, "Silver Sword" and "Black Fish", which can bite the pirates and they can't escape.
Generally speaking, due to their combat characteristics, pirate ships usually do not choose to attack head-on, but seek an asymmetric attack. It is enough to be able to defeat transport ships and armed merchant ships, and the rest is all added to speed.
However, they still couldn't escape under the ships of the Alliance Navy.
After being defeated in several annihilation battles, the Red Eye Pirates were seriously injured. The frequency of their appearances was greatly reduced, and they never succeeded again.
For most star regions, solving the pirate problem to this extent is almost the end of the problem. Even most places where pirates are active cannot achieve this level.
But the league obviously won't let it go.
The Alliance Navy will never give up until these red-eyed pirates are completely wiped out.
Through severe torture and psychic brain searches of the captives, as well as the Psionic Order's Astronomical Office monitoring astropathic conversations throughout the star region and intercepting bits of information about the pirates, they have finally figured out the whereabouts of this group of pirates.
They built a hidden base on a satellite near a gas giant planet in the Red Arrow Galaxy, where they stored some supplies needed by pirate ships, and there were thousands of slaves working there, responsible for repairing ships, processing some parts using local materials, and setting up a small underground plantation.
Of course, the satellite of that giant planet has not undergone any habitability transformation, and humans cannot normally survive there. Those slaves can only live inside the base, and must wear appropriate space suits when going out.
More than a thousand Alliance prisoners were also held there.
After obtaining this information, the Pegasus Fleet dispatched some forces to raid the place together with the Alliance Navy.
Nine pirate ships were destroyed, the pirate base was smashed, and thousands of slaves and alliance hostages suffered more or less damage, but most of them were rescued.
Yet, amid the news of victory, there were losses.
A 'Blackfish' fast patrol ship of the Alliance Navy was lost.
They were not lost in the naval battle. With absolute power, the Alliance Navy would not lose ships no matter how weak they were. However, after all the pirate ships were destroyed and the resistance of the island base was eliminated, the Marines landed on the satellite surface and were violently attacked by a strange enemy squad when they were liberating slaves and hostages.
In the ground battle, the casualties were very severe. However, this strange enemy team also occupied a landing ship and flew into the sky.
Caught off guard, the landing craft showed its agile driving skills, bypassing the hesitant fire net and crashing into a Blackfish patrol ship. Then, the pirate team hijacked the Blackfish and escaped.
When he first saw the battle process, Gu Hang was a little shocked.
There were basically no accidents during the entire operation, and the performance of the Alliance Navy was in line with expectations, and was even excellent for a newly established army.
But this first show was ruined by the so-called pirate team.
The abilities displayed by that team were too powerful.
Before the operation, the Alliance military considered the possibility of ground combat. After all, they had to deal with the personnel and could not bomb them all. Therefore, at the beginning of the operation, in addition to the Marine Corps established with the Navy, they also requested to borrow some elite troops from the 10th Special Operations Brigade of the Alliance Army.
One hundred elite special forces participated in the battle, including three teams of elites wearing "Servant God" feedback power armor.
How could such a team be defeated by a so-called pirate squad?
What the hell is this pirate squad? Space Marine pirates?!
Space Marines?
Wait a moment.
Gu Hang immediately paid attention to the description of these enemies given by the battle survivors in the following line of the battle report.
They were very tall, much taller than ordinary people, and it was estimated that each person was about two meters two. They wore heavy power armor, which was clearly distinguished from feedback power armor. Their power armor looked a bit tattered, with a pure red paint job, but the parts that should have clear markings, such as the chest armor and shoulder armor, were all scratched and painted over.
At the back, there is also a blurry photo.
The painted-over symbol 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 and dialed a special number on the Angry Owl Star.
"Captain Martins? It's me. The Alliance may need you and your warriors to provide some help."
After a pause, he added:
"It could also be related to the Phoenix itself."
"Anyway, take a look at the report first."
(End of this chapter)
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