star war lord

Chapter 216 A Powerful Pirate Group

That is a trump card. If too many people know about it and everyone is on guard, it will be difficult to use it again in the future.

They didn't know that Luo Zhen was used before. Now this ultimate weapon is still kept secret. Li Qing will not use it casually. He will use it at a suitable opportunity in the future, relying on the terrifying power of the ultimate weapon to determine the cauldron or the world in one fell swoop. Turn the tables.

To put it bluntly, you must do something big for your first appearance.

Two hours later, a huge fleet consisting of two dreadnoughts, two flagship aircraft carriers, 750 battleships, 3000 cruisers, 10000 destroyers, 20000 frigates, and 500 transport ships appeared in the galaxy. After a while, , Li Qing mobilized another 2000 escort ships to mix into the fleet, preparing to use them as an assault fleet, and then slowly adjusted the direction and sailed towards the galaxy channel.

There is no urgent matter, no need to jump and rush.

The fleet soon arrived at the regular waterway. Such a large fleet was extremely rare even in Shanhaiguan. As soon as it entered the waterway, it received several unfamiliar communications.

Li Qing was sitting in the middle of the bridge of the dreadnought, chatting with a few 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 out near Shanhaiguan. Two of them are individual players. 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 Territory trades with players over there.

Li Qing asked with interest:

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

Wu Yingqing immediately replied:
"The most in-demand commodities here are various warships, followed by various foods and industrial consumables. The demand for these three types is very high, and it can be said that the supply exceeds supply."

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

Wu Yingqing smiled and shook his head:
"Of course it can't be the same. How can it be that the market price is still the same after we worked so hard to transport the goods? In the past, the price of transporting a kilogram of rice was between 1.3 and 1.5 stars. Now that the Buluan joint raids are underway, the price of transporting it is so high. If you take a huge risk, the price will be at least 2 or more. The deeper you go, the higher the price will be. The deepest price can be as high as 3-5 stars 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 have heard that it is a new development area over there. Generally speaking, such new development areas will be protected and have a market economy. Large companies and consortiums are not allowed to disrupt the market. Prices will be very stable. But in Shanhaiguan and even the entire United Human Empire 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 to fund the construction of the territory.

Anyway, for other lords, the construction of warships, which has the biggest funding gap, is completely funded by himself, 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 high security and low security areas and emerged from the wormhole, he saw two fleets fighting at a distance of more than [-] kilometers away from the wormhole. Li Qing immediately became energetic when he saw it.

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

The other is a player pirate fleet, with a total of about [-], and about [-] 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 developed, and pirates are naturally rampant. A large number of players transform into pirates and rob player caravans at various waterway intersections, but there are still very few who dare to rob on the edge of high security.

But as soon as he moved over, or his huge fleet just had a tendency to move over, the pirates who were besieging the caravan escort fleet suddenly became nervous. The pirate captain commanding the fleet hurriedly shouted in the command channel:
"Fuck, that fleet is coming, the fifth squadron is at the rear, the others should retreat quickly!"

"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 arrived, the pirate fleet left behind 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 sent a thank you message with great gratitude. Li Qing smiled and waved his hand, not taking away 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 strength, many of the caravans seen along the way seemed impossible to defeat.

He was very curious about how there were so many pirates and how those small caravans got together, and the star field they were in happened to be within the radiation range of Shanhaiguan. He asked his second uncle directly, and then asked the caravan players who passed by, and the results he got made him feel surprise.

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

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

Even some large-scale chambers of commerce cannot avoid paying protection fees. Although the large caravans are powerful and the escort fleets are also strong, there are also large pirates among the pirates, and there are also pirate groups. One or two companies cannot afford it, so they join more than a dozen companies to join the big business. The Chamber of Commerce could not withstand the siege.

According to the information obtained from Er Bo, in the star field north of Shanhaiguan, from the east end of the spiral arm in the east to the west end of the spiral arm in the west, the star field is tens of thousands of light years wide and thousands of light years from north to south. There are a total of 33 large-scale pirate groups. The weakest one has thousands of battleships and 10,000+ large and small battleships, and the powerful one has tens of thousands of battleships and more than one flagship.

Among them, the top ones have a comprehensive strength that is not inferior to that of some military leaders and are very powerful.

These large pirate groups are all controlled by players and are powerful. They have been entrenched on the border between the northern border of the empire and the Brunwan 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 an alternative 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, they are used to check and suppress some pirates derived from the powerful civilization of the Bruwan Alliance.

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 Shatta Tribe United Civilization and the Expeditionary Force. There are more than a dozen clans in it, most of them are people from the Shatta Tribe United, and a small part are people from the other two foreign tribes.

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, normally a large number of pirate forces will definitely be derived.

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.

This time involves the level of civilization strategy. By defaulting to the existence of pirates, player pirates are allowed to replace the derived pirate forces, and then human player pirates are used to suppress the pirates derived from the Bruwan civilization in the border star field.

This is the so-called use of barbarians to control 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 only acquiesces that you exist, but it is illegal. After all, pirate robbery is illegal, and it will be suppressed when it should be suppressed.

It's just that all large-scale pirates have internal connections. The military's movement of fleets is so big that it can't be concealed. If you advance, I will retreat, and if you retreat, I will return. It is difficult to have much suppressive effect.

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

"It's very interesting."

The second uncle is now the major general of the army, and the information he gave includes a lot of inside information that outsiders don't know, such as which army lieutenant general the 33 super large pirate groups are related to, or which army leader they are related to, etc.

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 rest of the journey didn't have many twists and turns. After all, he had tens of thousands of large and small warships including four flagships, and no pirate in his right mind would dare to cause trouble for him.

We have not encountered the Bruwan joint sweep fleet. It is just the beginning of the sweep. Li Jingtun's legion headquarters is north of Shanhaiguan, about 2100 light-years northeast, and about 600 light-years below the horizon. It is located between two The center line of civilization is to the south, and the sweeping fleet has not yet swept over.

This so-called horizontal plane sinking refers to the downward direction of the center line of the spiral arm plane.

As we all know, the entire river system is a flat plate. The Perseus spiral arm is about 1500 to 600 light-years wide and about [-] light-years thick. It is divided into upper and lower layers in the middle, each about [-] light-years thick. Among them, Shanhaiguan is located in the middle, and Li Jingtun's legion headquarters has sunk about [-] light years.

The distance of about two thousand light years can be reached by Li Qing's talent increase with the next jump. In fact, he jumped to the boundary star field of Li Jingtun's Raging Thunder Legion's influence in one jump, and then found a planet edge to stop. 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 3 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 Raging Thunder Legion far exceed his, they only have one flagship.

Even the borrowed passage cannot pass through the star field near the headquarters, and can only be detoured.

The next step is to wait for Li Jingtun to come over 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 if they deviate slightly from the channel, so.
Before Li Jingtun could wait, he was waiting for a patrol fleet from the Raging Thunder Legion.

A fleet headed by two battleships, including about a hundred large and small battleships, with the logo of the Raging Thunder Legion, was stationed [-] kilometers away and sent communications.

Li Qing connected, and a young man in a light green uniform looked back enviously from the dreadnought displayed on another light screen projection on the side, and asked very politely:
"I am the patrol team of the Raging Thunder Legion here. I would like to take the liberty to ask. Are you waiting for someone here? This area is directly under the control of the Raging Thunder Legion. I am quite familiar with this place and may be able to 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 industrial director of our army. I recognize him. Who are you and Director Li?"

"I'm his cousin and I'm here to deliver something 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 turns out he is Commander Li's brother. He is one of our own. Have you contacted him? Can I help you contact him through the internal channel of the legion?"

Li Qing waved his hand and said:
"No need, I have contacted him and he is coming over."

As soon as he finished speaking, he received a communication from Li Jingtun. He opened the projection of Li Jingtun and 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 there soon!"

(End of this chapter)