Zhou Shaohang, who had many harvesting experiences, led the fleet to circle outside the galaxy's gravity well for a while, then found a place and drilled in.
After entering the gravity well, let the fleet enter the sub-light speed state and sail towards the marked coordinates.
The so-called gravitational well refers to the maximum gravitational restraint range of the central star of the galaxy on the planets in the galaxy. It is just like the gravitational well range of the solar system, which is Neptune at the edge of the solar system.
Pluto, the former ninth planet, was only a dwarf planet and was not officially a major planet.
During this period, the fleet has been in a state of silence, and communications will not be opened until it reaches the scheduled location.
About three hours later, the fleet finally arrived at the scheduled location. When Fang Chen was awakened by Zhou Shaohang, he found that the fleet had arrived and was at the edge of the asteroid belt. The lead command ship took his fleet into the asteroid belt.
At this time, other people in the fleet also woke up one after another, and the communication channel began to become lively.
"The Scarlet Pioneer Society's mining base is about 80,000 kilometers away from us. Next, we need to fly there through the asteroid belt through normal navigation. The estimated time is about one and a half hours."
"Now, the fleet needs to remain silent and there must be no communication other than the fleet's internal channels."
"According to normal circumstances, a mining base will not have many garrison troops, and it will definitely not be as good as ours. However, there must be patrol fleets and garrison troops in the system, so we do not have enough time. We must complete the harvesting task within an hour after the battle. , regardless of whether the task is completed or not after the timeout, prepare to evacuate immediately!"
At this time, the fleet was already sailing, and Fang Chen's fleet was following behind. In the channel, Zhou Shaohang was introducing the battle plan.
Mainly to introduce it to Fang Chen. The others are all veterans and have done this kind of work more than once.
"You will follow us later. When I don't mention your name specifically, you will be skimming the formation from behind. Of course, if you find an emergency, you can act as appropriate."
"OK."
"Don't worry. We have done this kind of thing many times and have rich experience. There is no danger."
Fang Chen touched the back of his head and laughed.
He really wasn't nervous. He wasn't the one taking the lead anyway. If the situation turned bad later, he could just run away.
With the +5 penetration strength given by his talent, ordinary interference and interception systems will never be able to stop him.
The fleet shuttled rapidly through the asteroid belt, and occasionally saw wild monsters wandering in the asteroid meteorite belt. The smaller ones turned around and ran away when they saw them, while the larger ones turned around to avoid them.
Halfway through the journey, one of the cruisers turned on a silent device equipped in slot A, and then Fang Chen discovered that the battleship's communications were affected. In addition to the fleet's internal communications, other communications were affected, and members of the fleet were all confused. Temporarily unable to communicate.
Although a traitor is unlikely, you still have to be careful.
"The fleet will stop here for a moment!"
Then a specially camouflaged T5-class frigate equipped with a stealth device left the fleet and continued moving forward.
"If you want to harvest by yourself in the future, you must deploy a professional reconnaissance ship to detect the enemy's fleet first, otherwise you will be doomed if you run into their main force at home."
Zhou Shaohang was very responsible and explained every order he issued to Fang Chen.
It is a good thing that someone teaches you seriously. Fang Chen listened carefully and asked some of his doubts from time to time. Zhou Shaohang also answered carefully.
After nearly an hour, the reconnaissance ship successfully returned.
"good news!"
Zhou Shaohang said loudly in the channel:
"The enemy's patrol fleet is not here, so we can defend it normally. This wave can be carried out."
After giving the order, the fleet set sail again.
At this time, some mining ships have begun to appear in the asteroid belt. At the same time, there are monitoring equipment placed by mining bases on some meteorites in the asteroid belt. No matter how careful they are, they cannot avoid it.
However, there was no need to avoid it at this time. At this time, the enemy's guard situation had been figured out. In the channel, Zhou Shaohang ordered the fleet to advance at full speed.
When they emerged from the asteroid belt and saw the mining base built on a giant meteorite and the eleven stored mineral balls around it, the garrison at the mining base was already ready.
But just like Zhou Shaohang said, under normal circumstances there will not be too many troops stationed in the mining base. At this time, there are only 1 cruiser, 5 destroyers, and 36 frigates parked in front of the base.
Without any nonsense, the fleet dispersed according to the previous rehearsal and advanced towards the base.
Several of Fang Chen's warships were parked behind as reserves, protecting the 15 industrial ships that followed.
"Boom boom boom!"
Thick beams of light crossed the sky, and metal cannonballs drew long trajectories under the electromagnetic impulse and rushed towards the opponent's warships. They were blocked by the shields of the warships on both sides, causing ripples to spread out in circles. .
As soon as the two sides engaged in battle, it entered a fierce state.
Under the command of Zhou Shaohang, the battleships gathered enough firepower to blast the two frigates to pieces with each round of bombardment.
But the corresponding enemy's firepower is also not weak. With the same concentrated fire, it is enough to kill a frigate instantly.
"Brothers, that's it, beat me hard!"
The two sides used frigates as cannon fodder to attract firepower. After fifteen rounds of alternating back and forth, all the frigates in the mining base were killed. At this time, the guild relied on the fleet advantage and the remaining 80 or so frigates rushed out of the array and began to besiege the base despite the gunfire. That cruiser.
The size of the fleet is too different, and they are restricted and trapped in the mining base. They cannot delay, so they can only hold on, hoping to hold on longer and wait for the patrol fleet to arrive.
It was a pity that they could not wait until that time. As the fleet completed the encirclement, Fang Chen received a communication from Zhou Shaohang, asking him to take fifteen industrial ships to collect the ore balls near the mining base.
The industrial ship does not need to be controlled by him. It is commanded by professionals. He only needs to protect the industrial ship from being disturbed when it collects ore.
When the composition of the ore ball was scanned out, someone in the channel shouted excitedly:
"This one is going to be released!"
Even if no one explained, Fang Chen knew that this move was about to happen.
The time of their harvest was coincidental. It happened to be the time when the mining base had accumulated enough ore but had not yet had time to transport it away.
The value of gray spar ore balls with a diameter of one kilometer is as high as 40 billion tons, and the price of white spar ore is twice that of gray spar, up to 80 billion.
There are eleven mineral balls here, and even if most of them are gray crystal and limestone, there are still hundreds of billions of stars.
In fact, there must be valuable mineral balls inside.
However, this is only a theoretical benefit. The actual situation is that they do not have the time to collect all the ore.
Because it is plundering, all the ores need to be collected into the cargo hold of the industrial ship before the jump can be made. This cannot be done in a few days, so only the most valuable ores can be collected.
