Chapter 122: Playing the Long Game and Catching the Big Fish

Qi Yiming looked at the enemy ships approaching him and felt an inexplicable sense of joy.

"Don't these people ask before they take action?" Qi Yiming felt offended.

Soon, more than a dozen main guns on the Xuefeng completed charging, and the first to suffer were the enemy ships approaching the Xuefeng.

More than a dozen bursting lasers directly hit her bridge shielding armor. Unsurprisingly, all the combatants in the bridge were instantly vaporized by the scorching laser beams, and the enemy ship No. 3 instantly lost its combat capability.

Other warships were not doing well either. With the assistance of the fire control radar of the Exploration, the eighteen main guns accurately hit the enemy ships.

Bai Jianhua was stunned. He did not inquire about the situation of the Xuefeng before taking action. In his opinion, the Xuefeng was just a special cruiser. No matter how powerful it was, could it still turn the world upside down?

But the Xuefeng really turned the world upside down, and the fleet he summoned was no match for the Xuefeng at all.

One warship was paralyzed just after the battle, and the remaining warships were all injured. Not to mention capturing the Xuefeng, it was a question whether they could leave safely in this situation today.

Although the situation became serious in an instant, Bai Jianhua did not hesitate. As a qualified commander, he knew that the worst thing on the battlefield was not to make the wrong choice, but to make no choice.

In fact, in his opinion, the Xuefeng was not unbeatable, and they still had a chance.

"Attention, all ships, form a roller formation, and approach the enemy ship alternately..." There was no way. The order he received was to capture Qi Yiming alive, so he could only charge forward against the abnormal firepower of the Xuefeng.

This formation still played a role. At least when the fleet rolled forward, only a few warships in the front row were attacked by the Xuefeng, and the rest of the warships behind the formation had a chance to breathe, and the engineers on the ship took the opportunity to repair the warships with all their strength.

But even so, several warships were directly sunk or paralyzed every time they advanced a certain distance.

Originally, Bai Jianhua thought that the Xuefeng's engine was destroyed in their first round of surprise attack, and they would be able to approach the Xuefeng soon.

But when his warship rotated to the front row, he almost fainted. The Xuefeng's engine had been lit again at some point. Not only did the distance between them not shorten, but his fleet needed to estimate the formation speed, which was much slower than the Xuefeng.

After careful calculation, Bai Jianhua despairingly found that if they continued to advance in the drum formation, they would never catch up with the Xuefeng in this life.

This is embarrassing... A single ship approached them and couldn't beat them, and a group approached them and couldn't catch up. If this trend continued, the fleet that Bai Jianhua had summoned would be eaten by Qi Yiming sooner or later.

After realizing the seriousness of the situation, Bai Jianhua simply issued an order to retreat.

He couldn't let his men die in a battle with no chance of winning.

But there were more things that made him vomit blood, because when the fleet turned to prepare to leave the battle, the Xuefeng actually took the initiative to stick to it.

The intention was obvious. Qi Yiming wanted to take over this fleet.

It must be said that comradeship is a magical feeling. No matter which team has been on the battlefield, there will be an indescribable feeling between the members.

Although Bai Jianhua's fleet cannot be regarded as soldiers, in a sense they are also comrades.

When they knew that they would face death if they were cut off, several warships with serious injuries and reduced maneuverability took the initiative to leave the fleet without receiving orders and turned their bows to fly towards the Xuefeng.

They hoped to use their death to buy enough time for other comrades to leave the battlefield smoothly.

Qi Yiming admired this spirit very much, but being kind to the enemy on the battlefield was extremely irresponsible to one's own combatants.

So even if Qi Yiming admired these people, the attack order in his mouth did not stop for a second because of this incident.

Then there was a one-sided chase.

From time to time, one or two seriously damaged warships in Bai Jianhua's fleet took the initiative to leave the fleet and turned over to rush towards the Xuefeng, which was getting closer and closer to them.

Bai Jianhua wanted to stop them from making such meaningless self-sacrifice, but this was the best way he could think of at the moment.

But what Bai Jianhua didn't expect was that the Xuefeng suddenly stopped chasing halfway through the pursuit and was planning to swallow up his small fleet.

But at this time, Bai Jianhua had no time to think about why Qi Yiming stopped chasing when he had an absolute advantage.

He could only subconsciously urge his navigator to adjust the engine output power to the maximum, and then he successfully got rid of the pursuit of the Xuefeng.

At this time, Qi Yiming smiled and watched Bai Jianhua quickly leave the battlefield with the remaining remnants of the defeated army.

Then Qi Yiming saw that the direction of the fleet's jump was exactly the capital star of the Commercial Alliance, and he immediately used the deep space communication device to contact Wang Sen who had been squatting.

"Pay attention these two days. It is very likely that someone will go to that hiding place to pass on information. You must keep an eye on the person who passed the information. Whether you can catch the mastermind depends on whether you can get some useful information again when you take down this meeting place this time."

Afterwards, Qi Yiming commanded the Xuefeng to accelerate towards the capital star of the Business Alliance, preparing to enter the jump mode.

Wang Sen, who received Qi Yiming's message, stared at the grocery store across the street with wide eyes.

This store was the den that Liu Chao told them to use to transmit intelligence on the capital star of the Business Alliance.

Sure enough, a day later, a thin young man wearing a black windbreaker and sunglasses walked into the grocery store.

He first exchanged a few words with the boss, like two old friends greeting each other after not seeing each other for a long time.

After that, the young man looked outside the store several times, confirmed that he was not being followed, and flashed into the inner room of the grocery store.

There was a small black desktop intelligent computer in the house.

The young man quickly took out a personal terminal from his hand and connected it to the intelligent computer, then opened a communication program and sent out an encrypted message.

"The idea is a bit tricky. The first arrest failed. Please request additional personnel from the headquarters."

The person who sent the message was Bai Jianhua.

As the person in charge of this operation, Bai Jianhua has done his best. However, the Xuefeng is indeed a bit too abnormal, and it is not something that ordinary warships can take down. He can only ask for help from the headquarters, hoping to get more manpower and use people to kill Qi Yiming.

But what he didn't expect was that the news from the headquarters recovered very quickly.

"The operation is suspended, keep an eye on Qi Yiming, the headquarters has other arrangements."

Bai Jianhua angrily smashed his personal terminal on the table in front of him: "Damn it, if there are other arrangements, tell me earlier, I have lost so many brothers, you tell me to stop the operation now, how can I face my brothers when I go back."

I'm really sorry, it's so late.