From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 423 Military-Industrial Complex Alliance

".That's roughly the situation, Boss! The backup attack team is currently attacking the target building and is expected to complete the breakthrough soon."

"Are you sure the target is inside?"

"It can only be said that it is in there in theory." The young man in charge of the report said nervously with his head down.

"tsk"

Paris, who was sitting opposite him, tutted in dissatisfaction, and then said:
"Don't worry about casualties. Let's fight quickly and decisively. The commander of the Capital Guard has called me countless times. You don't have that much time to waste."

"Yes, boss!"

Soon, the order from the top made the attacking team speed up the pace. With the promise of a high bounty, these elite "desperadoes" from multiple private military companies began to attack the building regardless of casualties.
When the Capital Guard's 'rapid' reaction force surrounded the building, two HCPs cleared the way and demolished the wall, and several heavy power armors rushed into the building, only to find a group of armed personnel with heavy casualties and confused faces, as well as several combat puppets lying on the ground.

"So many casualties from fighting a few combat puppets?"

The officer of the security force looked at the scene in front of him with some doubts, but everything that happened today, including the order from his immediate superior, made him know that there were some things that he shouldn't ask about.
On the other side, after Paris learned that the target was not in the building, she was stunned for a moment, then sneered.

"Oh, it seems there is a 'noble' helping you behind the scenes."

"Boss, the ultimate goal is to escape from the capital. Should we find a way to set up control at several airports?" asked the young man next to Paris.

"What you can think of, others can think of too. Not to mention this mysterious force. Since they dare to intercept Van Vleet, it means they must have a complete plan."

Paris shook her head and continued, "Forget it. The commotion today is already big enough. We will have to contact the relevant departments in the capital one by one to deal with the aftermath."

"So we're just going to let them go? Just now another team sent us news that there were only some combat puppets in Guterres' bar. He and his family members also disappeared."

"It's nothing strange. These two people have always been in contact. It's not surprising that they disappeared together." Paris stood up and walked out of the room, while continuing:

"You know what? I have a feeling that this mysterious force that hides itself may not be unfamiliar to us, and we will soon have a round of 'close contact' with it."

Paris' words made the young man ponder, and then he suddenly realized and said, "You mean Atlas? But why? Aren't Van Vliet and Guterres hidden behind because of Atlas?"

“After being captured by Atlas, these two stayed there for quite a while. Who knows if they reached some kind of agreement?

And don’t you think the style of this mysterious force today is somewhat similar to Atlas? They have advanced technical capabilities and strategic planning capabilities, and they have fully understood our actions and made preparations in advance. It is exactly the same as how they defeated the Federation Army in the Pyra Galaxy. "

"Then what should we do now?"

"The main plan remains unchanged. Prepare to attack Atlas' asteroid base. Once we flatten them, these bluffing tactics will naturally lose their effectiveness."
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20 days later, UD74290 asteroid belt.

A huge fleet broke away from the jump and slowly slid into the material universe. The wave-shaped logos painted on each warship explained their identity - a fleet of a private defense company under the NuTao Group.

The 18 battleships of the Federation Navy temporarily "affiliated" with the Raging Waves, plus more than 220 light cruisers, destroyers, and frigates, are already one of the largest private fleets in the entire Federation. However, at this moment in the UD74290 asteroid belt, this fleet is just one of the huge joint fleets.

The joint fleet composed of more than 30 leading federal companies may be the largest unofficial fleet in the history of the federation.

Under Paris' instigation, these companies basically brought out all of their main forces. Counting the Nutao Group fleet which was also almost fully deployed, the total number of ships in this joint fleet reached an unprecedented 1402, including 112 battleships of various types.

It can be said that the number of ships has exceeded the number of five fleets previously predicted by Atlas.

But this is not the entire strength of this military-industrial complex joint fleet. 4000 kilometers away from the huge box-shaped formation of the joint fleet, another fleet is also gathering.

However, compared to the corporate fleets of the military-industrial complex, which are composed of recently retired or active warships, the ships in this fleet look more or less shabby.

There is not a single battleship among the more than 400 ships, and even the number of relatively new military warships is not large. The majority are old-fashioned ships that have long been withdrawn from the Federal Navy's combat sequence, as well as armed merchant ships converted from civilian ships.

Such a fleet configuration also fully illustrates the identity of this fleet - pirates.

Megan Ford, commander of the combined fleet, was on the flagship of the Raging Fire Group Fleet, the Kraken-class battleship HMS Hood. She looked at the pirate fleet captured by the optical sensor on the screen and said:
"I didn't expect the boss would call these rabble over as well."

"Yeah, I don't know how Mrs. Paris brought these guys together."

Megan's adjutant, Bell, who was recruited from the Federal Navy like him, also shook his head while looking at the picture on the screen.

Hearing Bell's words, Megan smiled and whispered:
"I have heard some rumors about this. It is said that the boss has established some connections with several larger pirate groups in order to ensure the safety of the group's fleet. At the same time, she has the ability to make these people leave their pirate status and become regular pirates."

"You mean we were recruited by the Federal Navy? Just these rubbish that can't even form a formation?" Bell's eyes widened involuntarily. He never expected to hear such an answer.

"Actually, this is nothing to be surprised about. The navy is very short of manpower right now. Although these pirates are not good enough, at least they have experience in fleet warfare." Megan changed to a comfortable position in the captain's seat and continued:
"Besides, they have to be lucky enough to be recruited. In this joint operation, these pirates are just cannon fodder. Their biggest role is to help us disperse the firepower of the Atlas fleet."

"That's too cautious! Although I heard that the Atlas Group does have something, how many warships can they alone gather? If we count the pirates, we have more than 1800 ships. That's enough to start a war. Even if we use ramming, we can probably ram all of Atlas' ships, right?"

"It won't hurt to be cautious. If all of our boats capsize in the gutter, it would be a disgrace to us."

As Megan spoke, she looked at the virtual screen that presented the command interface, which displayed the situation of each fleet in the joint fleet.

"According to the plan, we should be the last fleet to arrive. All the fleets should be here by now, right?"

"Yes, sir, the combined fleet has been assembled." Bell's tone unconsciously rose a lot. As the adjutant of a fleet with 1800 warships of various types, this was an experience he had never had in the Federal Navy.

"Very good, pass on my order, all ships sail at combat speed, and prepare to attack."

(End of this chapter)