The Age of Giant Ships and Cannons

  Chapter 29 Voyage

  After checking in routinely in the afternoon, Li Qing set up reconnaissance and patrol goals. Li Qing picked up the book and started to study. Occasionally, when he was tired of reading, he raised his head to look at the situation, and chatted with several senior crew members in the bridge.

  Most of these senior crew members are NPC humans, and occasionally there are some innate talents suitable for being captains or crew members, but they are not on board.

  Many people think that whether they should establish a good relationship with the crew is nothing to worry about.

  Li Qing didn't think it was necessary.

  Ordinary crew members don’t need to have any good relationships at all. They are clones, not natural persons, but batches of cannon fodder prepared through genetic technology.

  Senior crew members and captains are actually the same. They die equally in battleship accidents, but they are the senior crew members on the ship and have the most contact with the commander.

  Of course, this situation is only for ordinary captains and senior crew members. If it is an elite captain with a blue name or above, it will be different.

  An elite captain with strong talents can increase the combat power of battleships very high. Such a captain will definitely be valued, and he must be valued.

  The vanguard fleet had already started the jump on the second day, but it was not until the fourth day that Li Qing's **** fleet received the order to jump.

   For this kind of transition, if there is a flagship, the flagship will wrap the entire fleet with a force field and jump together. If there is no flagship, the warship with the shortest transition distance in the fleet will generally be used as the standard.

  Half of this fleet is a cargo ship, it is impossible to be equipped with a five-level jump engine, but it is not the lowest jump engine.

  When the jump is completed, Li Qing checks the jump distance on the star map and confirms that all cargo ships are equipped with the third-generation jump engine, and the maximum jump range is 30 light-years.

   It is about 1,500 light-years away from the transit base to the outpost. Considering the variable distance between galaxies, this means that it takes 60-70 jumps to get there.

  The cooling time of the jump engine is three hours, which means that it will take 210 hours or about 10 days without stopping.

But in fact it is not so smooth, most of the regions can be jumped over directly, but some galaxies cannot be jumped over due to some special anomalies or special geographical environment, especially when entering the depths of the Zutar star field, which is covered with thick nebula , the jump engine will be greatly disturbed, and the low-level jump engine cannot be used at all, and can only be passed through by normal flight.

  In the past few days, the fleet has been jumping non-stop, with a jump of about 30 light years, and it went smoothly without encountering any obstacles.

But when they left the transfer base and entered the nebula in the Zutar star field, Li Qing saw a layer of substantial gray dust in the starry sky for the first time, as if the entire starry sky was covered by a layer of mist. In front of the bridge, it can be seen that not only the visual range has dropped significantly, but even the radar detection range has gradually shrunk.

It is worth mentioning that the command bridge of the battleship is not located in front of the battleship, but is generally located in the middle of the battleship, that is, the central core module. Thick armor package.

The reason why standing in front of the bridge can clearly see the outside of the glass is because the spacecraft's sensors, including a large number of detection and camera lenses, detect everything around it clearly, and then project it under the huge glass in front of the bridge. , so it feels like the bridge is directly exposed, which is not the case.

Like frigates and destroyers, the display form of the bridge is limited. If it is the command flagship of a large fleet, the internal shape of the bridge is round, with transparent glass in all directions. When entering the bridge for the first time, it will give people a kind of protruding bridge. The glass bead-like illusion of the hull can see the starry sky in all directions of the battleship.

  But in fact, the command bridges of these flagships are hidden deep inside the battleships, and it is only possible to see the command bridges unless the battleship shields and thick armor are completely broken.

   To put it bluntly, it is impossible to see the command bridge of the battleship from the outside. The interior is only designed in this way, just to give the captain and commander a sense of experience in the starry sky.

  It looks like the cold starry sky is outside the thick glass, but in fact there is thick alloy armor outside the glass.

The jump stage is fairly safe, because the landing points are all random, even in the same galaxy, the landing points will be slightly different from the star map, and this is slightly different, in the real starry sky, it is thousands of Tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of kilometers, even if there is internal support, it is difficult to ambush.

  So the reconnaissance in the early stage is actually a formality, and the real possible danger is in the star field near the outpost.

Time passed during the leap, and on the ninth day, the fleet arrived at the location again. Li Qing saw the reconnaissance channel light up and turn it on to project a young man in the military uniform of the expeditionary force. He introduced himself once before. His name is Lu Qing, and he is a member of the Tianhe Lu family. He said with a blank expression:

"The fleet has arrived at the predetermined location, and there will be many galaxies that cannot even enter at sub-light speed. At the same time, this star field is dominated by a super-large pirate group called Lester. We have now entered the edge of their sphere of influence. From now on At the beginning, the reconnaissance team cheered up, and the reconnaissance range was expanded to at least one million kilometers, and they signed in every half an hour to indicate safety, and when the timeout expired, an accident occurred by default.”

  After posting the task, the man's projection disappeared. Li Qing opened another branch channel with only two people, and said to Li Min:

   "Let's divide according to the previous method, I will be in front of you and you will be behind."

"Can."

  The two destroyers quickly left the team and flew into the distance.

The arrangement was the same as when he first set off, but this time he did not dare to set up to follow the main fleet to patrol, but turned on the spacecraft sensor to the maximum, uninterrupted scanning around, and even personally synchronized the radar scan image scanned by the sensor to himself, Watch with the crew that hosts the radar sensor.

  In space, the radar scan is centered on itself, and the scan image is a huge sphere composed of thin lines, and itself is in the center of the sphere.

   "Beep beep!"

  A clear siren sounded, and a red light lit up somewhere on the right edge of the scanned image. He looked over immediately, and nineteen light spots appeared.

He immediately stretched left and right on the radar scanning map with both hands, and the radar scanning map was stretched and expanded immediately, and the nineteen light spots became nineteen battleship outlines composed of countless rays. It is a pirate cruiser, two pirate destroyers, and seventeen pirate gunboats.

   "Go around to the right and stop after 1,000 kilometers."

  The fleet issued orders immediately, the battleship trembled slightly, and the change of the destroyer could be felt from the change of the radar scanning picture.

  The battleship circled an arc and narrowed the distance between the two sides, and included all the nineteen light spots in the scanned image. Feeling that there were no other warships behind the nineteen pirate ships, Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief and ordered:

   "Send the radar scan back, keep the radar scan."

  In less than half a minute, Li Qing received an order from Lu Qing, who commanded the reconnaissance force in the large fleet:

   "Continue to observe for a quarter of an hour, if there is no abnormality, give up the observation and return to the team."

"OK."

  Turn off the communication, Li Qing ordered his subordinates to continue to observe from a distance.

  Although the cruiser is one level higher than the destroyer, and normally the detection range of the fifth-level sensor is farther than that of the destroyer, the pirate ship does not need to use such a high-level radar.

   To put it bluntly, pirate ships like various modifications to enhance firepower and armor, but the shields are generally weaker than conventional warships.

  In addition, the level of various functional accessories of the pirate ship is not high, from the reactor to the jump engine propeller, etc., the average level is lower than the player configuration.

  He kept a distance to observe for a full fifteen minutes, until he left, none of the nineteen pirate ships found him, let alone a huge caravan a million kilometers away.

Afterwards, the caravan continued to drive normally. It seemed that neither the leap nor the meaning of entering the superluminal speed had been thought of. A reconnaissance ship went to a certain place for reconnaissance.

   It can be seen that they are quite familiar with this place, as if they have known the danger for a long time.

  Li Qing obeyed the instructions honestly, and went wherever he was told, but at the same time of carrying out the mission, he carefully wrote down Lu Qing's instructions. This is all the command experience of a large fleet, although it is only experience in reconnaissance.

  Although there are only two ships now, there will always be a time in the future when I command a huge fleet. If I can accumulate some experience now, I will accumulate some, so that I won’t be in a hurry and be at a loss when the time comes.

Lu Qing was born in the Lu family of Tianhe, which was a more powerful military leader than the Li family of Qinghe. It is not clear about Lu Qing's specific background, but he can become a member of this large team composed of hundreds of noble family children. His command is enough to explain his excellence.

  Time passed by so slowly. Although Li Qing kept vigilant, he couldn't help but relax after a long time.

  At a certain moment, the communication channel suddenly opened, and before he could react, he heard a loud roar and a slight tremor from the channel.

   Lu Qing’s projection in the center of the light curtain had an extremely gloomy face, and he ordered loudly:

   "Everyone shrinks the reconnaissance range to 500,000 kilometers, cheer up and increase the frequency of reconnaissance, and notify me immediately if there is any abnormality."

He did not explain that the sound of shelling, which was obviously the least large-scale main gun level, could be heard by them through communication. This must be an attack that directly attacked his warship. This surprised Li Qing. You must know that Lu Qing At this time, even the middle of the caravan can be attacked, so...

  He immediately sent a message to Li Lie to inquire, and Li Lie sent back a message after about ten seconds:

   "Just now a large pirate fleet rushed straight into the fleet, and has already handed over the main force, but don't worry too much, it can still handle it."

  Li Qingqi said:

   "Why did the pirate fleet rush over directly, did you get the news in advance?"

   "No, it's just that the other side's reconnaissance made a mistake just now, and a few pirate ships were missed, and the news of the fleet was leaked."

"Uh"

"By the way, don't make such a mistake. This trip will gather most of everyone's assets. I have invested more than seven billion star dollars. If there is any accident, you will be held accountable at that time. It will not be easy in the future .”

   "I'll keep an eye out."

  Li Qing clicked his tongue. Fortunately, all his materials are stored in the universe in his palm, otherwise he would have to be nervous and worried.

   Next, he asked about Li Lie's battle situation every half hour, and got a general idea of ​​the situation there.

  The pirate fleet rushing over is from the Lester Pirate Group. There are eleven battleships, hundreds of cruisers and destroyers, and nearly two thousand pirate gunboats. The scale is not small, and it is obviously prepared.

  It's a pity that the **** fleet is stronger. Not only is the fleet stronger on paper, but the quality of the warships is also higher. Basically, they are equipped with four and five tiers. The most important thing is that the fleet commander is powerful.

The commander of the fleet is Yu Yuefei. This beauty of the Yu family not only possesses the purple epic-level command talent, but also has awakened psychic power. The superposition of the two abilities has a ridiculously high bonus to the fleet. Under her command, there is no How much time it took to easily defeat a similar number of pirate fleets.

  It's a pity that Li Qing was not in the headquarters, so he didn't see the fierce battle. He only intercepted a few fleeing pirate gunboats, which is considered bloody.

  After the battle, Lu Qing directly transferred the player who made the mistake back in the channel, and replaced him with a new destroyer.

  Although there was no penalty, being transferred away under the watchful eyes of everyone was not only very embarrassing.

The key point is that most of the fleet belong to wealthy families, and most of them are children of nobles. If the news spreads, it will definitely affect their reputation. Reputation is very important to children of nobles. This punishment can be compared to a huge fine of several billion Even more serious.

   No one interceded, nor dared to intercede.

   Not to mention gauges and the like, but no one is sure whether it was a mistake or deliberately let people in. After all, it is up to 2.8 trillion materials, and no one can guarantee whether someone has other thoughts.

   You must know that although the Lester Pirate Group is only an NPC-based force, that was before. Now with the establishment of the outpost, this pirate group has become a force that players can join to open the reputation system.

  This means that players can join this pirate group, turn on the reputation, and then

  For pirates, successful robbery is the most direct way to increase reputation. The stronger the target of the robbery, the higher the value, and the more reputation will be improved.

   And such a huge caravan, once the robbery is successful, not only can it gain super high prestige, but the supplies of this caravan are as high as 2.8 trillion star yuan, which can also make ambitious people rich overnight.

  Even if you can only get a part of it, it is a staggeringly rich fund, and someone will definitely take this risk.

  (end of this chapter)