Chapter 78 Hunter and Prey, the War is On

Yanhuang Star, the imperial capital.

Ye Chen's eyes flickered as he looked at the information coming from the border of the empire.

"After waiting for so many years, the advance fleet of the Yuluo civilization has finally arrived, but these are just some exploration ships, and their strength is far inferior to the opponent's main fleet.

We can use these exploration ships to test the level of the Imperial Fleet after so many years of training."

Outside the Empire's border, in the eastern region of the Oort Cloud.

After observing the enemy's approximate position, the Zerg commander in this area began to order the Zerg hidden in the area to awaken the large number of larval eggs buried in various meteorites.

After hatching from the eggs, the larvae, after being transformed by the cosmic environment, began to devour the meteorites outside to explode.

For a moment, in this dead silent meteorite area, a large number of small swarms of insects spread out, waiting for the arrival of the Yuluo civilization fleet.

As time passed, the Featherfall Exploration Fleet entered the Oort Cloud region.

And because of the fleet's energy consumption problem, after they entered the Oort Cloud, the fleet's speed was slowly decreasing from sub-light speed flight state.

Finally it dropped to a cruising speed of 0.4 the speed of light.

"Captain, I just detected something wrong from the detector. There are many interstellar black areas ahead."

After hearing the words in the communication, Tallis was stunned in the command chair and said, "What's going on?!"

"Captain, according to civilization records, the Interstellar Black Zone was originally an ambush method used by the interstellar pirates of the Qinyuan civilization.

In the past, the Sismanta family's transport team suffered several losses in this way, so the civilization has recorded this method. "

"Star pirates?! How is it possible that there are star pirates here?!"

Hearing this, Talis couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He knew that those interstellar pirates in the universe were very disgusting.

Yes, it's disgusting.

Because apart from those few big pirates who roam the galaxy, there are countless other small pirates.

Although they are not very powerful, they are all desperate criminals and are extremely daring. They frequently rob the transport caravans of major interstellar civilizations, which makes the major caravans feel very disgusted.

But there is nothing that can be done about them, because the interstellar pirates are people who have committed crimes in various civilizations, or they are black gloves supported by forces within some civilizations.

It can be said that the reasons for the formation of interstellar pirates are very complicated and they are simply impossible to kill them all.

At this moment, after knowing that there were suspected pirates ahead, Tallis' first thought was whether it was the family in the civilization that was causing trouble.

Looking at the starry sky ahead, Talis couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

"Captain, what should we do next?"

After hearing this, Tallis thought for a moment and said, "Keep moving forward. After all, we don't know if there are pirates ahead. We can't scare ourselves.

However, just in case, we immediately dispatched the Yunxi space fighter, opened the battleship's protective shield, and conducted a round of test firing of the secondary guns."

"Yes, Captain!!"

"The Yunxi space fighter is starting up, and the hatch is opening."

"The ship's protective shield is being activated, and energy supply is being transferred."

"Secondary guns being retrieved, loading and ready for pre-fire"

"Space torpedoes being retrieved, loaded and ready for pre-launch"

It is better to be safe than sorry. Having lived for such a long time and having reached this position, Talis will naturally not be reckless. Moreover, since he has already noticed something wrong, it would not hurt to launch a round of attacks to test the waters.

As the exploration ship's intelligent brain turned on the ship's weapon system, information came out one after another, and the fleet's crew quickly took up their positions to prepare for battle.

at the same time.

At the border of the empire, the weapon systems of each fleet are ready.

The main guns of the battleships began to accumulate energy, ready to launch endless artillery attacks on the enemy the moment they discovered the enemy's whereabouts.

However, they didn't know that their ambush had been discovered by the other side.

After all, humans are still too immature.

At the same time, that old guy Dukao is too old, and some of his tactics are also old.

The Yanhuang Empire had very little experience in interstellar warfare, and the entire basis of current tactical deductions was deduced based on Dukao's interstellar war combat experience.

Maybe Dukao didn't hide his teaching skills, but don't forget that Dukao's combat experience is based on tactics from thousands of years ago. Times are changing, and tactics are also improving.

In addition, after the demise of the Denor civilization, in addition to people like Dukao, some people became interstellar pirates, and some of their tactics and strategies bore the shadow of the Denor civilization.

For example, the black zone.

The ambush method currently used by the Yanhuang Empire is a tactical method of the Dukao Conference, called the Black Zone.

The Black Zone is a tactical method adapted by Dukao based on a natural trap in the universe. It achieved great results as soon as it appeared during the war between the Deno civilization and the Norse civilization.

But thousands of years have passed, and the previous tactics have become outdated.

And no one expected that the people of Yuluo civilization had suffered losses at the hands of the black zone before, which led to this method being recorded in the civilization books.

Now, we can recognize this tactic at a glance and take precautions.

Qingxuan Fleet.

Captain Yuan Qing's eyebrows twitched involuntarily, and he felt a little uneasy, which made him frown.

"Why do I suddenly feel uneasy? Could there be some unexpected changes in this ambush?!"

At this time, he received an early warning from the Zerg defense line. With the location of the Zerg defense line, the battleship positioning system quickly locked onto the location of the Yuluo exploration fleet.

Just as Yuan Qing was about to order a long-range attack, he saw several bright lights appear in the dark starry sky in the distance.

Then, before he could react, he saw bright light bombarding the fleet.

In an instant, one frigate was destroyed and several frigates were damaged.

All the personnel on the destroyed frigate were killed in an instant.

Seeing the frigate turned into fireworks, Yuan Qing in the mothership only felt a loud bang in his mind.

This sudden attack caught him off guard.

He thought they were hunters, ambushing them and waiting to deliver a fatal blow.

However, they did not expect that at this moment, the prey had already discovered them and regarded them as prey.

The change of roles was quick and sudden.

“擎璇A3-03护卫舰已被击毁，擎璇C1-04护卫舰受损，擎璇C1-07护卫舰受损.”

In the command room, the mothership's intelligent computer issued an emergency broadcast in a cold voice.

After hearing the losses reported by the intelligent computer, Yuan Qing's eyes turned red. He did not expect the losses to be so huge at the very beginning.

At this point, he had already realized that there was something wrong with their ambush.

The other party must have noticed it, otherwise they would not have rashly attacked them.

Unfortunately, he was chosen as a target by the other side.

He then immediately adjusted his tactics and withdrew from the area.

Since this area has been noticed by the other party, it means that it has been locked on. If we stay here, we will become a target.

At the same time, order the fleet to launch a long-range attack on the enemy fleet coordinates.

After noticing the situation here, the other fleets realized that there was something wrong with their ambush methods, so they withdrew from the ambush area one after another.

As the Yanhuang fleet withdrew from the ambush area and launched long-range attacks on the Yuluo exploration ship, Talis was completely stunned.

He didn't expect that just by trying to fire a round of attack, so many "Star Pirates" would be blown up. This was really a bit outrageous.

Especially, there were these swarms of insects that attacked them fearlessly, which made his scalp tingle. He couldn't figure out what the hell these things were.

Over the years, he has followed the Yan'er Star's escort fleet and traveled to many star regions.

He had seen many strange creatures in the universe, but he had never seen such a large group of insects like the Zerg that could survive in space.

At this moment, the exploration mothership shook, and the next moment, the alarm from the ship's intelligent computer sounded.

"Alarm! Alarm!!"

"The mothership has been hit continuously, and the shield energy has dropped to 73%, 69%."

"Damn it, where on earth do all these enemies come from? Have we disturbed the lair of a large pirate group?"

(End of this chapter)