Chapter 549, Hunting Time

Chapter 549, Hunting Time
While the main fleet of the alliance led by Gu Hang pierced the heart of the enemy like a sharp sword, the Fury Fleet led by Adler Paulitus and Wang Mengsong did not do nothing.

They abandoned one strategic location after another, but quietly launched their counterattack in the alliance-controlled area.

They avoided the Alliance's detection, shuttled through the endless darkness like ghosts, and entered the area controlled by the Alliance.

Their target was the three battlecruisers left behind by the Alliance.

They really had no way to resist the main force of the alliance and were unwilling to fight a strategic decisive battle. However, after the main force of the alliance left, relying on two battle barges and a retribution-class battleship, they were fully capable of stealing the alliance's butt.

The extra battle barge is the flagship of the New World Torch: the Torchlight.

It had been under repair before and only recently returned to the battlefield.

The three main battleships far outweigh the three battlecruisers left behind by the Alliance in terms of frontal combat capability.

In a head-on line-up confrontation, one Retribution-class ship could take down three battlecruisers, not to mention two battle barges.

However, the battlecruiser's mobility advantage still exists. How stupid would the Alliance Navy have to be to choose to confront the Fury Fleet head-on?

Relying on their mobility, the three battlecruisers are not so easy to be caught.

Paulitos also knew that it would not be easy to successfully lure out and encircle the three battlecruisers of the Alliance.

But you can try, and once you succeed, the rewards will be huge.

A squadron of several small ships selected an Allied transport fleet to harass.

This is very common. In the past few months, the two sides have clashed many times over such attacks and counterattacks.

But this time, the Fury Fleet chose to increase its stakes.

There were two Moon-class cruisers in the attacking squadron, which showed that they knew that the Alliance's escort force had been strengthened, so they also increased their manpower deployment.

The attacked Alliance transport fleet, under the cover of the escort team, fled to the orbit of a fortified planet on the route and held its ground.

Generally speaking, at this point, the Fury Fleet should have retreated.

The strength of the alliance's escort fleet was not very good, the combat effectiveness of some armed merchant ships was also very poor, and the planetary orbital defense system that was temporarily built in a few months was also quite imperfect...

However, it was a complete set of defensive measures after all. Relying on two Moon-class ships as the main force, it would definitely not be able to take it down in a short time.

After a long time, there might be a chance; but before that time came, the Alliance's remaining battle patrol arrived.

By then, if you run too slowly, the Moon-class is not a high-speed cruiser or a light cruiser, and it will be difficult to escape if you are caught by a battlecruiser.

However, this time, the Fury's plundering fleet showed some eagerness for quick success, and they launched a fierce attack on the Alliance transport fleet that was defending the city.

It was not until they detected that the battlecruiser was already teleporting in the star tunnel to this galaxy that they woke up as if from a dream, gave up unwillingly, turned around and ran away.

But before they reached the jump point, three Alliance battlecruisers arrived and rushed over fiercely.

Two Moon-class ships, this victory has a very strong appeal to the remaining Raging Owl, Flying Wing, and Koroga.

This is a rare opportunity to take advantage of and destroy part of the Fury Fleet's forces and weaken its overall strength. Moon-class cruisers are also precious large ships. Destroying two of them will also cause significant damage to the fleet's strength.

However, this is only the first step of the Raging Flame Fleet's plan.

The two "panicked" Moon-class ships, as well as the squadron they brought with them, hurried to catch up, but could only reach the jump point and start the jump when they were within the range of the three Holy Grail-class ships. During this process, many warships were destroyed by the explosion.

Then, the captains of the three Holy Grail ships that arrived at the jump point exchanged ideas with each other. Finally, Major General Bai Qifan, the fleet commander, made a decision:

Chase!

They also considered the issue of traps, but quickly ruled that out.

The enemy's hasty escape didn't look fake.

And if the intention is really to lure the enemy deep into our territory, then there must be a trap on the other side.

But the other side of this jump point is also the Alliance controlled area. They have not received any reports of enemy fleet activities on the other side, and they have conducted an astropathic communication and contacted the space station deployed at the opposite jump point, but have not received any reports of enemy traces.

In this case, the risk of pursuit is not high.

So, the three battlecruisers and their younger brothers also started to move.

After three Terran days, they had almost completed the astral tunnel and were about to leave and return to the real universe.

However, at this moment, the psychics serving as navigators on the ship suddenly issued intensive warnings: they detected the presence of enemy ships at the jump point, and there were three huge ships!
Now, the three Holy Grail-class captains were all panicked.

Or did you fall into a trap?
But at this point, there is no turning back.

If they had known this information a few or ten hours earlier, they might have been able to terminate the jump and return to evacuate.

But now, it’s no longer possible.

It was too late to ask why the observatory tower in this galaxy did not observe in advance that the main force of enemy ships had arrived in this star system; nor was it possible to ask why the warning space station at the jump point did not transmit any information at all.

These questions were important before the fact, but they are no longer relevant at this moment.

What they need to consider is how to get out of the trap alive.

The only thing to be thankful for was that the Fury Fleet, as the ambushers, did not want to scare away the Alliance ships and did not ambush them in advance. It was not until the Alliance ships had jumped to the point where they could no longer turn around that they lifted their silence, suddenly appeared, and quickly rushed to the jump point.

In this case, the Alliance's three Holy Grail-class ships would not have to face heavy fire immediately after arriving in the real universe, right after completing the jump, before switching the jump engine to the conventional engine, and before opening the void shield, which is their most vulnerable stage.

However, the situation remains extremely urgent.

When the Alliance ships had just finished putting up their shields and starting their engines, the enemy ships had already arrived.

Do you want to start the warp immediately and run again?

They quickly rejected the decision.

During the phase of re-activating the jump, facing the firepower of three giant ships, with the fragile bodies of the Holy Grail-class ships, at least two of them would die in the process of re-activating the jump.

This is unacceptable.

Two battlecruisers exploded. Regardless of whether Fleet Commander Bai Qifan died here or not, he would definitely be brought to a military court afterwards.

Forget about the other small boats, they can be sacrificed, but the big ship must be saved!

The three Holy Grails began to maneuver at full speed!
(End of this chapter)