The Age of Giant Ships and Cannons

  Chapter 216 Powerful Pirate Group

   That's the trump card. If too many people know about 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 **** 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 urgent matter, and there is no need to jump to hurry.

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

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

  Anyway, there is no goal. If you communicate more with these locals, you may be able to 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 great 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 place is 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 here in 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 per 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.

  So 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 for the funds needed for the construction of the territory.

  Anyway, for other lords, the construction of the warship, which has 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 talk 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 army 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.

  Two fleets, one is a caravan, with a size of about 400 ships, 170 or 80 **** fleets, and only five battleships.

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

   It's been a long time since I saw this familiar scene. 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 incarnate as pirates and rob player caravans at various waterway intersections, but there are still very few who dare to rob at the edge of Gao'an.

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

   "Fuck, that fleet is coming, the Fifth Squadron is at the rear, and the others are retreating!"

   "Damn it, who is this boss who is still meddling in this kind of business!"

   "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 rest of the pirate squad turned into fireballs and sank.

  The leader of the caravan sent a thank you message, Li Qing smiled and waved without taking a single cloud.

  The next 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.

  There are so many caravans and their strength is so strong, 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 large 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 small caravans with insufficient strength will pay protection fees. Like the caravan he saved before, they were attacked obviously without paying protection fees.

Even some large-scale chambers of commerce cannot avoid paying protection fees. Although large caravans are powerful and **** 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 overall 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 very simple, they are used to check and balance 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 and 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 like 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 the first time, it involved 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.

   It 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 large-scale pirates have internal relations, and the military’s movement of the fleet can’t be concealed so much. If you enter, I will retreat, and if you retreat, I will return.

As the scale of pirates grows, 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 military support. It exists by default.

   "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 will not have many turmoil. After all, there are tens of thousands of large and small warships including four flagships, and any pirate with a normal mind will 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 centerline of the cantilever plane 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 can't jump directly to their headquarters. His four flagships plus 750 battleships, more than 30,000 large and small battleships, are enough to pose a huge threat to the Nu Lei 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.

   It is impossible to pass through the star field near the headquarters even by way, and can only take a detour.

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

  However, his huge fleet is too eye-catching, and he is not hiding 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 Thunderbolt Legion stopped far away and sent a communication 100,000 kilometers away.

  Li Qing got connected, and a young man in a light green uniform looked enviously at the dreadnought displayed on another light curtain projection, 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 army. I recognize him. Who are you and Chief Li?"

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

  Shi Weining had a surprised expression on his face, and it was obvious that his expression was relaxed, and he said immediately:

   "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 hands and said:

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

   As soon as the voice fell, he received a communication from Li Jingtun. He opened 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!"

  (end of this chapter)