The Age of Giant Ships and Cannons

That is the killer trump card, if too many people know it and everyone is prepared, it will be difficult to play a miraculous effect in the future.

They didn't know about using Luo Zhen before, but now this ultimate weapon is still in a state of secrecy, and Li Qing will not use it casually in the future. He will use it at a suitable opportunity in the future. reverse the situation.

To put it bluntly, the first appearance must be a big event.

Two hours later, a huge fleet consisting of two dreadnoughts, two flagship aircraft carriers, 750 battleships, 3,000 cruisers, 10,000 destroyers, 20,000 frigates, and 500 transport ships appeared in the galaxy. After a while , Li Qing called out another 2,000 escort ships to mix into the fleet, ready to be used as an assault fleet, and then slowly adjusted the direction and headed towards the galaxy channel.

There is no rush, no need to jump and hurry.

The fleet soon came to the normal channel. Such a large fleet is extremely rare even in Shanhaiguan. As soon as they entered the channel, they received several strange communications.

Li Qing sat in the center of the bridge of the dreadnought, chatting with several strangers with great interest.

Anyway, there is no goal. If you communicate more with these locals, you may get some useful information.

These people are all players who hang around Shanhaiguan, two of them are individual players, and one player named Wu Yingqing takes the merchant route and organizes a small caravan. Every six months, he will prepare a batch of goods to go to a fixed area Star Domain trades with players over there.

Li Qing asked with interest:

"What is the most in-demand commodity here?"

Wu Yingqing replied immediately:

"The most in-demand commodities here are all kinds of warships, and the second-ranked ones are all kinds of food and industrial consumables. The demand for these three is very large, and it can be said that the supply exceeds the demand."

"What's the price of the food? Is it the same as Shanhaiguan?"

Wu Yingqing shook her head with a smile and said:

"Of course it can't be the same. We worked so hard to transport the goods, how could it still be the market price? In the past, the price of a kilogram of rice shipped was between 1.3 and 1.5 star yuan. Now that Bruwan has jointly launched a large-scale raid, the cost of transporting the past Take great risks, the price is at least 2 or more, the deeper the price is, the higher the price is, and the price in the deepest part can be as high as 3-5 star yuan per kilogram."

"Well, it's so expensive!"

"of course."

Li Qing had a doubt in his heart and asked:

"But I was at Zoutar before, why is the price so stable? It has always been one star and one kilogram?"

Wu Yingqing smiled and said:

"I've heard over there that it's a new development zone. Generally speaking, that kind of new development zone will be protected. It's a market economy. Big companies and consortiums are not allowed to disrupt the market. The price will be very stable, but in Shanhaiguan and even the entire United Empire of Mankind Other places are implementing a market economy, determined by the market, it is difficult for you to transport it over a long distance, and the price must be very expensive.”

"Oh!"

Li Qing suddenly remembered that several of his super livable areas that had been transformed into agricultural and animal husbandry areas had been producing grain on a large scale over the years, and the current output could already meet the needs of the entire territory and there was still a surplus. There is not much to gain. It is estimated that in another year or so, there will be a large surplus of production. At that time, perhaps a part of it can be used for Li Qi to form a caravan for trade.

It’s not a problem for him to convert alloys for sale all the time, and it’s impossible for him to stay in Shanhaiguan and trade with other places. It’s just that he’s free at this stage. In a year or two, he’ll be ready to start the Raiders against the Shata United Empire. At that time, how could he have the time to do these things.

Therefore, the territory still needs some stable income.

For example, only one batch of grain is sold every year, and one batch of ore and alloy is sold every year, which is basically enough funds for the construction of the territory.

Anyway, for other lords, the construction of the warship with the largest funding gap is completely self-sufficient, as long as there is enough income to maintain the daily consumption of the territory.

The two didn't chat for too long. After crossing the junction of the high-security and low-security areas in Shanhaiguan, Wu Yingqing was going to go northeast, while Li Jingtun's legion territory was still going north.

As soon as he crossed the junction of the high-security and low-security areas, he got out of the wormhole and saw two fleets fighting at a place more than 100,000 kilometers away from the wormhole. Li Qing immediately regained his spirits when he saw it.

There are two fleets, one is a caravan, the size is about 400 ships, the escort fleet is 1780 ships, and there are only five battleships.

The other is a player pirate fleet, with a total of about 500 battleships and about 20 battleships.

I haven't seen this familiar scene for a long time, Li Qing didn't leave immediately, and ordered the fleet to approach with great interest.

The trade in Shanhaiguan is prosperous, and pirates are naturally rampant. Many players turn into pirates to rob player caravans at the intersections of the waterways, but there are still very few who dare to rob at the edge of Gao'an.

But as soon as he approached, or in other words, his huge fleet just had a tendency to pass, the pirates who were besieging the caravan escort fleet suddenly became nervous, and the pirate captain commanding the fleet hurriedly shouted on the command channel:

"Fuck, that fleet is coming, the Fifth Squadron is at the rear, and the rest of the squadron must retreat!"

"Damn it, who is this big boss who still cares about this kind of nosy!"

"I don't know, the fleet didn't see any identification marks."

"Whoever he is, you still want to get revenge and come back."

"Stop rambling, retreat quickly, if you are caught, you will be finished."

When Li Qing rushed over, the pirate fleet left the rear fleet, and the main force had already distanced itself and jumped away.

After a round of main artillery bombardment, the remaining pirate squads turned into fireballs and sank.

The leader of the caravan thanked him for sending a message of thanks. Li Qing smiled and waved without taking a single cloud.

The following journey allowed him to see the chaos outside Shanhaiguan. The number of pirates was astounding, and all of them were player pirates, which meant that these players did not follow the right path and went to become professional pirates.

With so many numbers and strong strength, many caravans seen along the way seem to be unable to beat them at all.

He was curious about how there were so many pirates and how those small caravans got together. It happened that the star field was still within the radiation range of Shanhaiguan. surprise.

The reason is simple. Most of the small caravans have paid protection fees to some big nearby pirate groups. As long as they get a pass after paying the protection fees, any pirates in the area where this pirate group operates will let them pass.

Most of the small caravans with insufficient strength will pay protection fees, like the caravan he rescued before was attacked obviously without paying protection fees.

Even some large-scale chambers of commerce cannot avoid paying protection fees. Although large caravans are powerful and escort fleets are also strong, there are also big pirates among the pirates, and there are also pirate groups. The Chamber of Commerce could not withstand the siege.

According to the information obtained from Erbo Na, in the star field north of Shanhaiguan, east to the east end of the spiral arm, west to the west end of the spiral arm, tens of thousands of light-years in between, thousands of light-years north and south, There are a total of thirty-three large pirate groups, the weakest one has thousands of battleships, hundreds of thousands of large and small battleships, and the powerful one has tens of thousands of battleships and more than one flagship.

Among them, the top ones are not inferior to some military masters in terms of comprehensive strength, and they are very powerful.

These large-scale pirate groups are all dominated by players and are powerful. They have occupied the border between the northern border of the empire and the Bruwan United Civilization for a long time. Some senior ones have lasted for thousands of years and have been passed down for dozens of generations.

To put it bluntly, they are actually a different kind of territory, but they are unorthodox and cannot join the Imperial Senate.

Such a huge pirate group occupies this area and plunders other players internally. It is a big disaster. They should have been surrounded by the military, but in fact they can always exist and grow to such a degree. No accident should have the military indulge.

The reason is simple, to use them to counterbalance and suppress some pirates derived from the powerful civilization of Bruvan United.

This touches on a star sea rule, the edge of any civilization force will give rise to corresponding pirate forces or rebel forces, which are commonly known as NPCs, wild monsters.

Just like there is a huge pirate force called Lester Pirate Group at the junction of the United Civilization of the Shata Tribe and the Expeditionary Army. There are more than a dozen clans in it, most of them are people from the United Shata Tribe, and a small part are people from the other two other races.

Non-player civilizations such as the Bruwan United Civilization will also touch this rule. In the star field at the junction of the two civilizations, a large number of pirate forces will definitely be derived normally.

With the size of the Bruwan United Civilization, the derived forces such as pirates or rebels are often very powerful.

Correspondingly, human civilization will also spawn a large-scale pirate force.

For this time, it involves the level of civilization strategy. By defaulting to the existence of pirates, let player pirates replace the derived pirate forces, and then use human player pirates to suppress the pirates derived from the Bruvan civilization in the border star field.

That is the so-called control of barbarians by barbarians.

Up to now, the pirates derived from the Bruwan civilization in the border of the two civilizations have long been wiped out, and humans occupy an absolute dominant position in this star field.

Of course, this does not mean that player piracy is legal. The Senate just acquiesced that you exist, but it is not legal. After all, pirate robbery is against the law, and it should be suppressed as it should be.

It’s just that all the big pirates have internal relations, and the movement of the military’s fleet is so big that it can’t be concealed. If you enter, I will retreat, and if you retreat, I will return.

As the scale of pirates grows larger, some of the strongest pirate groups have already reached some unspoken rules by default - paying protection fees to the military, and restricting all small and medium pirates to formulate rules for protection fees in exchange for the military By default it exists.

"It's very interesting."

The second uncle is now a major general of the army leader, and the information he gave included a lot of inside information unknown to outsiders, such as which lieutenant general or army leader the thirty-three super-large pirate groups were related to, etc. Wait.

It is worth mentioning that their Qinghe Li family also invested in a pirate group in this star field, but the scale is not very large, far below the scale level of the 33 super-large pirate groups.

The next journey did not have many turmoil. After all, there were tens of thousands of large and small warships including four flagships, and any pirate with a normal mind would not dare to trouble him.

It has not encountered the sweeping fleet of the Bruvan United, and it is only the beginning of the sweeping. Li Jingtun's legion headquarters is north of Shanhaiguan, about 2100 light-years to the northeast, and about 600 light-years below the horizontal plane, located in two The center line of civilization is to the south, and the sweeping fleet has not yet swept over.

The so-called sinking of the horizontal plane means that the midline of the plane of the spiral arm goes down.

As we all know, the entire river system is a flat plate. The Perseus spiral arm is about 13,400 light-years wide and about 3,000 light-years thick. Among them, Shanhaiguan is located in the middle, and Li Jingtun's legion headquarters sinks about 600 light-years.

The distance of about 2,000 light years can be reached by the next leap of Li Qing's talent increase. In fact, he just jumped to the border star field of Li Jingtun's Fury Legion's sphere of influence, and then stopped at the edge of the planet. Then send a message to Li Jingtun and ask him to come and receive it.

He couldn't jump directly to their headquarters. His four flagships plus 750 battleships, more than 30,000 large and small battleships, were already enough to pose a huge threat to the Nulei Legion. How could they let him jump directly to the headquarters.

You must know that although the conventional warships of the Fury Thunder Legion far surpass him, they only have one flagship.

They can't even pass through the star field near the headquarters, they can only take a detour.

The next step is to wait for Li Jingtun to come and receive it.

But his huge fleet is too eye-catching, and he doesn't hide in any corner, just parked not far from the channel. Occasionally, players will find him a little bit off the channel, so...

Li Jingtun hadn't waited for it yet, but instead waited for a patrol fleet from the Nulei Legion.

A fleet headed by two battleships, including about a hundred large and small battleships, with the logo of the Thunder Legion, stopped far away 100,000 kilometers away and sent a communication.

Li Qing connected, and a young man in a light green uniform looked enviously at the dreadnought projected on another light curtain beside him, and asked very politely:

"I am the patrol team of the Thunderbolt Legion here. I would like to ask, are you waiting for someone here? This is the star field directly controlled by my Thunderbolt Legion. I am familiar with this place, and maybe I can help you. "

Li Qing glanced at him and asked:

"Do you know Li Jingtun?"

Shi Weining froze for a moment, nodded and said:

"He is the chief industrial officer of our legion. I recognize him. Who are you and Chief Li?"

"I'm his cousin, and I'm here to deliver things to him."

There was a surprised expression on Shi Weining's face, and he could clearly see the relaxation of his expression, and immediately said:

"It turned out to be Chief Li's brother, that is one of our own, have you contacted him, I can help you contact him through the internal channel of the Legion?"

Li Qing waved his hand and said:

"No, I've contacted him and he's coming."

As soon as the voice fell, he received a communication from Li Jingtun, and he turned on the projection showing Li Jingtun. He asked excitedly:

"Brother, where are you, I'm already in the border galaxy."

Li Qing sent a coordinate, and Li Jingtun said excitedly:

"I'll be right there!"