The ships in the temporary combined fleet received the order and evacuated immediately. The booster engine on the back of the battleship suddenly lit up with bright flames, pushing the hull toward the meteorite belt below.

Although there is no resistance in space, changing the inertia of a heavy ship is not an easy task. If the fleet wants to hide behind the meteorite belt, it will take more than ten seconds of continuous acceleration.

The crew members and commanders on the bridge turned pale when they saw the Vegels disappearing from the optical sensor screen, and knew in their hearts that these ferocious black battleships were no longer there.

The optical sensors receive electromagnetic signals that propagate at the speed of light, so when the combined fleet saw the fleeting red beam in the distance, the Vegel fleet was already galloping towards the sky star at a warp speed that was dozens or hundreds of times faster than the speed of light.

Come.

Therefore, even though the combined fleet made an emergency evasion, there was no guarantee that they would be able to escape Weigel's pursuit.

As expected.

A few seconds later, violent gravitational fluctuations appeared on the sensor readings of each capital ship. Immediately afterwards, the frightening black and red fleet instantly appeared at the edge of the gravity well of the Sky Star.

An alarm suddenly sounded among the combined fleet.

"Quick, take advantage of the opponent's energy recharge period to suppress fire. Don't let their main guns fire!"

Viscount Wright had relatively rich experience in space warfare, so when he gave the decisive order, the adjutant also hurriedly notified the Sky Star Fleet of countermeasures.

Two Jaeger-class ships and more than 20 Aquitens-class cruisers immediately used turbolaser cannons to fire rapidly, firing at the Weigel fleet that had not yet stopped with an absolutely rapid and accurate shooting principle.

The rate of fire of the heavy turbolaser cannon was very fast, enough to fire three rounds of barrages before the Veegls fired back. Although it was not accurate enough, a ball of light still bloomed on the Veegls battleship.

Hit!

It takes time for the energy supplying the warp drive to flow back, and the Vegls haven't had time to raise their shields yet.

"Okay, keep firing, just suppress them!"

Viscount Wright, who was sitting on the main seat, looked calmer, but his brows furrowed again the next moment.

"What are those native pigs doing? Don't you know how to fire in coordination!"

The adjutant also glanced at the tablet in his hand with an ugly expression, and said quickly: "Their ships have a limited range and cannot hit that far..."

It was a fact that the Behemoth-class battle cruiser had a short range, but it sounded like a lame excuse to Viscount Wright.

"unlucky!"

Viscount Wright was so angry that he wanted to curse.

He wished he could pause time immediately, then teleport over and throw these stupid natives out of the airlock, and then send his own people to take over, lest these prodigal things waste their resources and implicate him to death.

There are 3 Blood Blades and 10 Shining Halberds in the Weigel fleet. These capital ships all have bow main guns, and the firepower of the remaining fleet of the Empire is simply not enough to completely suppress them.

Before the three rounds of salvos ended, a shield was raised on the surface of the Weigel battleship to block subsequent attacks.

The shield magnetic field will collapse the constrained magnetic field surrounding the plasma cluster, causing the high-energy plasma inside to explode in advance and turn into light rain and dissipate in the shield force field.

A few sporadic plasma blasts can't even weaken the shield strength much, they just create fireworks on the shield in vain.

Suppression by firepower is no longer possible.

But fortunately, after a short delay, the combined fleet was already very close to the meteorite belt, and they could immediately hide behind the meteorite to avoid the main guns of the Weigel fleet.

At this time, the Weigel fleet repeated its old tricks, and the bows of the Shining Halberds unfolded again. The readings on the energy detection radar went up all the way, and the alarm sounded rapidly again.

The three Blood Blade-class battleships, which did not need these preparation steps, opened fire directly, and three high-energy lasers shone on an Aquitens-class cruiser.

The battleship's huge energy spanned the icy vacuum and was continuously projected onto the cruiser. After only the third second of exposure, the cruiser's deflector shield was directly overloaded and paralyzed.

The laser immediately came into contact with the alloy ship plate, and the thick shell armor melted and vaporized at a speed visible to the naked eye. Just after a second, a red light suddenly came out from the other side of the ship's hull. The red lights intersected for a moment, and then went out one after another.

But then, the unlucky cruiser exploded, and the energy core instantly lost control. The destructive flames devoured everything inside the ship, and then blew the stainless steel battleship into pieces.

The scattered shrapnel hit the surrounding friendly ships, and the slight vibration made everyone turn pale, fearing that their own ship would be the next victim.

soon,

The remaining 10 Shining Halberds also opened fire one after another, but their speed was slower after all. They only had time to break through the shields of the two Aquitens-class ships, and the combined fleet had all hid in the shooting blind spot blocked by meteorites.

I don't dare to show my head easily anymore.

The battle situation was somewhat stalemate for a while,

The combined fleet was greatly wary of the power of the Weigel's main guns and was unwilling to easily show up to fight back. However, out of caution, the Weigel people had no plans to approach the meteorite belt rashly.

But peace is only temporary.

The Weigel fleet is strong. In addition to the 13 battleships and 1 aircraft carrier that arrived, there are still as many as 72 Deathhalberd cruisers and hundreds of Horn-class destroyers.

As for the smaller spacecraft, because there is no space to install a warp engine, it cannot follow the fleet, unless the Vegel people have a mothership that can take the entire fleet to hyperspace jump.

Despite this, Weigel still has enough strength to deal with the situation at hand.

"Inform those stupid natives and tell them not to show their heads. We will rely on this meteorite belt to circle the enemy. Their capital ships must have a shooting angle if they want to take advantage of their firepower, so it is absolutely impossible to risk chasing through the meteorite belt.

Kill us!"

Viscount Wright is not a loser. The empire has been at war with the Vigor people for many years, and a lot of information on the Vigor ships has been collected.

The Weigel battleships have a slender body shape. Although the front surface to be bombarded is reduced, it will be more difficult to adjust the attitude, and they are not flexible.

If you only use the main gun for long-distance sniping, you only need to fine-tune the bow. However, as long as you are caught in a melee, the design of the bow axis gun will become very cumbersome.

then,

As long as the opponent's main guns can't fire, Viscount Wright believes that the battle can still be fought.

At least we can hold on until the Imperial reinforcements arrive!

But unfortunately,

He obviously didn't know that Lu Feng didn't send a distress signal for him. The reinforcements might be Lu Feng, but they would never be the Empire.

Macan knew what the imperial people were planning, but he didn't expect that the empire really hid a miscellaneous fleet here. He thought Viscount Wright was just struggling in vain.

"Is this a Behemoth? How can there be such an ancient battleship here? It still looks new... Is there a ruin hidden here?"

Macan's eyes lit up, and his heart became more greedy.

The ancestors of the Weigel people made their fortune by digging graves. Now there are the ruins of Goblin Heavy Industry and Interstellar Manufacturing Group on the territory of Macan, so it is not surprising to know the Behemoth Class.

Since the other party is determined to lead "Qin King around the pillar" with me around the meteorite, then I will play with them.

"Order, the cruise fleet cooperates with the carrier-based aircraft to divide into two groups, bypass the meteorite belt, outflank the enemy fleet from both directions, crush them, and bring victory to me!"

"As you wish, Lord."

As Macan's order was issued, a large number of cruisers and destroyers in the fleet immediately broke away from the formation, and then converged towards both ends of the meteorite belt in the distance. Only a small number of escort formations were left on the main fleet side.

Macan is confident that there is no fleet in this galaxy that can pose a threat to his main fleet. If there is, then leaving a few more escort formations will have little effect.

The main function of the escort formation is to assist and act as an anti-aircraft fire network to prevent the battleships from being concentrated by bombers during a melee.

At this time, the battleship was still far away from the meteorite belt, and it was impossible for the opponent's fighter planes to attack them in a big way, so Macan made such a judgment.

This is indeed the case.

After discovering that Macan had sent a large number of cruisers and destroyers to encircle and suppress them, the combined fleet felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy. The Sky Star Fleet, which was entering the battlefield for the first time, had sweaty palms and heavy breathing.

"Don't panic, as long as the opponent's capital ships don't join the battle, we still have a chance to win!"

Viscount Wright encouraged his fleet in the channel, and at the same time worriedly shared the parameters of the opponent's two types of ships with his cheating teammates.

The Deathhalberd is more than 400 meters long and can be considered a normal-sized cruiser.

However, compared to the traditional long and narrow shape of the Vegel battleship, the Death Halberd adopts a "mountain" shaped hull, and its shape has changed from a single spearhead to a trident with three spearheads, which looks much wider.

Such a unique design is to satisfy its functionality.

First, more steering engines and firepower points can be installed on the hull to facilitate maintaining a flexible posture and abundant interception firepower in melee battles;

The second is to increase the space inside the ship to carry more Weigel interceptors, landing ships and marines.

The Weigel battleship is a pure firepower ship with a small hangar and generally does not care about landing.

In order to share the pressure on the aircraft carrier, each Death Halberd will carry an additional squadron of Lance interceptors and 8 assault landing craft.

The landing craft that captured the Seeker took off from the Deathhalberd cruiser.

As for the unicorn destroyer, this is a mass-produced gunboat equipped with a more flexible small laser cannon and two heavy missile launchers. Its main duties are air defense, anti-frigate and minesweeping.

It can be said that the cooperation of these two types of ships is enough to cope with the deployment of the combined fleet in the meteorite belt.

Whether the opponent wants to rely on the melee in the meteorite belt or create a trap, the Weigel Squadron can strangle the enemy by the throat with a pincer offensive, and then let the main fleet behind it carry out the final blow.

More importantly, the fleet sent by Macan was relatively smaller.

Don't your imperial fleet like to hide behind the meteorite belt? Then these two assault fleets will pass through the meteorite belt, hide in the meteorite belt and attack you!

Of course,

A cruiser of this size cannot go very deep, but as long as it moves around the edge, it is enough to use passing meteorites as a cover.

The Weigel people came with great force, and the combined fleet was forced to fight.

I saw that the remaining Imperial battleships began to release TIE fighters continuously, and at the same time, cruisers and destroyers also moved closer to the meteorite belt. They must not allow the Vigor people to comfortably occupy the favorable position of the meteorite belt.

on the other side,

The Sky Star Fleet, which had been paddling for a long time, finally made some movement. The escort fleet following the battleship followed the Imperial formation and moved closer to the meteorite belt. At the same time, a few Viking fighters took off from the Behemoth class and joined the upcoming battle.
To be continued...