Chapter 61: Battle and Opportunity

After a moment of silence, the tails of all the ships of the Yuhui Fleet suddenly burst out with dazzling blue light.

With the number of fleets, the sudden burst of light can almost be compared with the stars in the galaxy.

Everyone thought that Yuhui was going to do something big.

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

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

However, at this time, almost no one was bothered by why Yuhui didn't take action immediately, but took action after the light flashed.

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

Chen Ming also became spirited as Yuhui moved.

He had to concentrate and devote all his attention to the dangerous behavior he chose on his own initiative.

After all, there is no such thing as zero risk and high return in this world. Even the weapons and equipment that need to repair the panel need to consume his mental power.

If he doesn't do something risky but also very profitable, such as wandering outside the battle zone to look for opportunities, he might as well go back to Raymu to farm.

As the Afterglow Fleet gradually approached.

The space station suddenly began to glow with a deep blue glow.

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

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

Once he has it, Chen Ming's ships will be one-sided when fighting with non-military ships.

However, this thing is not like the hyperspace channel system, which has been popularized. In most cases, it is a controlled item.

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

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

At the same time as the space station shield was unfolded.

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, hiding behind the shield, waiting for a better time to fight.

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

Their battle naturally needs to cooperate with the space station.

It is not the right way to rashly go out and fight with Yuhui's fleet.

And now it is Yuhui who attacks the space station, not the space station that needs to attack Yuhui.

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

Yuhui also knew that the offensive pressure was on them, and without any hesitation, they rushed straight to the space station.

At the moment when both sides entered each other's range.

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

Then, 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 indestructible.

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

Two dark purple agitated particle torrents staggered out and directly passed through the shield protecting the space station.

They did not attack the Afterglow Cruiser, which was also protected by the shield, but each selected a destroyer as a target.

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

In the violent arcs that erupted all over the hull, the two Afterglow destroyers disappeared like fireworks in an instant.

The space station was also equipped with large weapons such as tachyon spears, and there was more than one type.

Chen Ming can now see that several large live ammunition weapons have been aimed at Yuhui's cruiser.

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

However, live ammunition weapons still occupy a place in space naval battles and have been developing.

The reason is that the destructiveness of live ammunition to 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 as far as Chen Ming can remember.

And there are two large live ammunition weapons that Chen Ming saw on the space station.

Storm Needle and Gauss Cannon.

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

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

And although it is a needle, each needle fired by the Storm Needle is about the thickness of Chen Ming's arm.

This is a weapon from thirty years ago. Chen Ming is not sure what kind of development and improvement this weapon has undergone now.

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 elemental metals.

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

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

If it were not for the existence of a special phenomenon named the mass void effect.

When any object is accelerated to the speed of light, its mass will be inexplicably lost, so that although there is an entity in observation, physical contact is impossible.

Then the power of the Gauss Cannon can be even stronger.

In fact, this effect is also the premise for the civilian spacecraft of the Human Empire to reach the speed of light, but now it limits the power of the weapon.

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

Yuhui's cruiser immediately made evasive actions.

But the spherical shield that completely protected the Yuhui cruiser might not be able to evade it.

The Yuhui cruiser's shield was hit by countless needles, and there was a more violent fluctuation than 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, and the spherical shield was dented.

But unfortunately, there was no follow-up.

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 was definitely impossible to distinguish a result in a short time.

So the burden of deciding the follow-up development fell on other ships.

The main force had already started fighting, and Yuhui's small ships were gradually approaching. Naturally, the space station's fleet could no longer hide behind the space station's shield.

They bypassed the firepower coverage of the front of the space station and rushed towards the Yuhui fleet that also avoided the cruiser's attack area.

The large-scale battle has just begun.

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

When small ships started fighting, there would be a lot of damage and chaos. This situation was the best environment for Chen Ming to fish in troubled waters.

If he could really tow a Yuhui ship back, then Chen Ming's new spaceship would definitely be settled.

However, Chen Ming also knew the danger. Once the Yuhui cruiser also chose to attack the small spaceship like the space station.

The Iron Ore would have almost no ability to escape.

So although there were other ships that had come out of the space station and stayed nearby, they couldn't help but approach the battlefield.

But Chen Ming still lingered in his original position, observing the battlefield situation that the sensors kept sending back, looking for the right opportunity.

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

Such a safe environment was 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 to a sufficient distance for engagement.

The arcs of energy beams and electromagnetic weapons flashed frequently when they were fired, and they broke out near the center of the space station and the cruiser.

Almost as soon as the two sides met, the shields of more than a dozen ships were overloaded and directly destroyed by the firepower from other ships.

And more ships began to stagger due to speed.

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

Chen Ming immediately realized that something was wrong.

In a normal battle between ships, both sides should attack each other at the limit of their respective ranges, relying on continuous firepower suppression to break down the shields, and then a wave of pressure to destroy the enemy.

But now, the battle line has become jagged.

And Chen Ming just saw clearly that when the space station's ships were about to approach the range limit, they had obvious deceleration and change of direction operations to prevent them from rushing directly into Yuhui's battle line.

But Yuhui's ships did not mean to slow down at all, but rushed into the space station under fierce firepower.

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

Although this almost suicidal attack caused the Afterglow ships to suffer far more losses than the space station in the first wave of firefights, it did successfully tear the battle line apart.

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, the Afterglow cruisers, could gain the upper hand in a head-on battle.

However, just before these Afterglow ships that had rushed through the battle line approached the space station.

The weapons of the space station had already cooled down.

The tachyon spears that could hit accurately were already aimed at them.

Almost instantly, the most troublesome Yuhui destroyers were cleared.

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

Although Yuhui's death charge failed to cause any damage to the space station, he also suffered heavy losses.

But Yuhui's goal has been achieved.

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

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

Therefore, the space station suddenly shut down the shield directly.

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

However, before the Yuhui cruiser had time to open fire, small directional shields suddenly opened on the bearing points of all the weapons on the space station.

These shields were not connected to the main shield of the space station, so they could continue to operate.

Even if the continuous laser of the Afterglow Cruiser hit, it could not destroy the weapons of the space station.

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

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

That was the mark of melted steel.

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

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 shield of the space station was opened again, and the ripples on the shield disappeared and stabilized again.

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

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

Just when Chen Ming was 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 Yuhui destroyer was one of the ones that had just passed through the space station fleet battle line and wanted to attack the space station directly.

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

Although the ship was not directly destroyed, the strong EMP shock caused by a large number of high-energy particles passing through it has caused its engine to completely fail.

Only the steering auxiliary engine on the port side of the ship is still working, so that it can only spin helplessly in space and fly farther away from the battlefield.

The space station will naturally not waste firepower on it, and the ships fighting in the center of the battlefield will naturally not waste firepower on it.

Therefore, this ship has become Chen Ming’s best target now.

But the Iron Ore is not the only ship that noticed this destroyer and did not fight with Yuhui.

There are five other ships coming out of the space station and also staring at it.

Everyone’s purpose is very clear.

Get this ship before others, and repel or even destroy the ship that got ahead of them.

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

Conflict with others was almost inevitable.

Chen Ming did not hesitate at this time and controlled the Iron Ore to fly directly towards the spinning Afterglow destroyer.

Chen Ming had survived three pirate ships that were determined to kill him before, and buried them in the dark cemetery.

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