Interstellar: Start as a cleaner.

Chapter 1290 The Biggest Winner (6400+ words)

The Pirate Alliance and the Federal State of Madhya have both unwittingly made a huge bet this time!
The pirate alliance believed that with sixteen pirate crews deployed, they could go toe-to-toe with the Seventh Fleet.

Moreover, the location chosen by the pirate alliance, besides the space jump portal from the Seventh Fleet, also has space jump portals leading to four other locations.

Of course, the distances of the space jump channels in these different locations are different.

In such a well-connected place, the pirate alliance was confident that if they couldn't defeat these pirate groups, they could simply let them run away.

These pirate groups thought the same way: if they couldn't beat the Seventh Fleet, could they outrun their comrades?

The Seventh Fleet was also full of confidence. Although they knew that the pirate group in front of them had been trying to lure them, they were confident that there were two other squadrons to help them.

Thus, this place unwittingly became the site of the largest interstellar war in human history.

Of course, if you really want to count them, Yang Bo's five C-class warships disguised as John Lee can also be considered part of the Federation's fleet.

Therefore, the Federation's strength completely overwhelmed the Pirate Alliance in this war.

The Federation's Seventh Fleet destroyed another Class D warship belonging to the pirate alliance of the Witch Pirates.

And the two sides are getting closer and closer.

However, by this time, the Seventh Fleet had also discovered the minefield.

Meanwhile, the pirate fleet to which the Witch Pirates belonged also obtained the minefield navigation map, because some of the bombs in the minefield were smart bombs.

These smart bombs have friend-or-foe identification systems.

They will give way when they detect someone as one of their own.

The Federation Seventh Fleet's attack frequency is increasing.
The previous pirate groups were getting closer as the distance between them decreased.

The firing frequency of laser cannons will increase as the distance gets closer, reducing the need for such high power to achieve the same attack effect.

However, the Seventh Fleet now has to use energy cannons to clear mines.

Moreover, at this distance, the Seventh Fleet is unable to deploy its aircraft and other equipment to clear the minefield.

The turning point came six hours later.

Six hours later, the four pirate crews of the Witch Pirates were navigating through a minefield laid by their own men.

At this time, the other two federal fleets relied on the minefield radar data provided by the Seventh Fleet.

They opened fire directly on the minefield and the combined fleet of the Witch Pirates.

In other words, the minefield is now facing attacks from Federation fleets from three directions.

At the same time, both of these fleets also activated their active radars.

The four pirate crews of the Pirate Alliance's second reserve force suddenly discovered that a Federation fleet had appeared behind them.

Meanwhile, a detachment supported by the Federation also discovered the Pirate Alliance's second reserve force.

Therefore, this squadron targeted the Pirate Alliance's second reserve force.

The four pirate crews of the Pirate Alliance's second reserve force were terrified.

But it was too late, because the four pirate crews were silent and had stopped.

The main reason was that the Federation's squadron was close enough that it took out a Class C warship, a Class D warship, and two Class E warships in a single salvo.

Meanwhile, the combined fleet of the Witch Pirates was passing through the minefield.

They also encountered attacks from the Federation fleet on the flank.

What made things even more difficult for the Witch Pirates' combined fleet was the minefield laid by their own people.

The minefield was facing continuous clearing efforts from the Seventh Fleet and a Federation squadron.

Meanwhile, the combined fleet, which included the Witch Pirates, exposed its flank to a Federation squadron.

The Federation's detachment launched a fierce attack on the Combined Fleet from the flank.

The combined fleet to which the Witch Pirates belonged was caught off guard.

It mainly involved two separate fleets launching a surprise attack.

These two squadrons shared radar data signals from the Seventh Fleet.

The Pirate Alliance never dreamed that the Federation would deploy such a powerful fleet!
The pirate alliance ordered the combined fleet, including the Witch Pirates and the first and second reserve teams that had already been exposed, to evacuate completely.

Actually, these pirates would have run away even without being ordered to; they're not stupid.

The Pirate Alliance's last hidden third reserve force is now in a bit of a predicament.

Originally, the second and third reserve teams were positioned on both sides of the Seventh Fleet's route.

The original plan was for these two fleets to attack the Seventh Fleet from behind after it entered the minefield.

But who could have imagined that a Federation squadron would suddenly appear behind the second reserve, and another Federation squadron would appear in another direction.

Now even the Pirate Alliance's third reserve team doesn't dare to show its face.

Fortunately, the third reserve team was hiding in a place that the Federation's main fleet and the other two sub-fleets could not detect with their active radar!
The Pirate Alliance's Third Reserve Team obtained the locations of these Federation warships through information sharing within the Pirate Alliance.

"hey-hey!"

"The opportunity has come!" Yang Bo, hiding in another star field, chuckled when he saw this situation!
Yang Bo's only concern with his previous plans was that the Federation's Seventh Fleet would come to his star system!

Yang Bo also needs to run away in advance, because he knows that if he faces the Federation's Seventh Fleet, they might attack him directly instead of fighting the pirates.

Because it poses a greater threat to Madhya Pradesh.

The current location of the Pirate Alliance's Third Reserve Team will be right behind the Seventh Fleet.

"I'll send a message to the federal government when the time is right."

"At that time, the Federation's Seventh Fleet will not chase other pirate groups into other star systems, but will prioritize dealing with the Pirate Alliance's Third Reserve Team located on its flank and rear!" Yang Bo's little scheme was loud and clear.

The combined fleet of the Pirate Alliance and the Witch Pirates, along with the first reserve force, fled in one direction.

The second reserve team, being too close to a Federation fleet, had its four pirate groups sail directly towards it.

Because the Pirate Alliance's second fleet was stationed in one place.

Running away now would only expose the warship's greatest weakness to the Federation fleet.

Because the performance of the two sides' warships is inherently different, and the squadron has A-class and B-class warships, while the pirate alliance's reserve force only has C-class warships!
Therefore, the pirate alliance's reserve force of four pirate crews formed a battle formation.

Then they directly engaged in a head-on battle with the Federation's fleet.

Therefore, the direction in which this reserve force fled was the space passage into which the Federation fleet entered.

Another federal fleet is working with the Seventh Fleet to strike the Combined Fleet, which is home to the Witch Pirates, while also clearing mines.

The combined fleet of the Witch Pirates and the first reserve pirate force were in the same direction!
The minefield laid by the pirate alliance not only failed to hinder the Seventh Fleet, but also had a significant impact on the combined fleet to which the Witch Pirates were located.

Although these bombs do not explode on their own, the violent energy fluctuations and explosions they produce after being detonated have a significant impact on the entire fleet, as they can interfere with radar and even affect the energy turrets on the outside of the warships!

Because these energy turrets cannot possibly have armor as thick as that of a warship, and energy turrets cannot possibly have energy shields.

Therefore, energy turrets are relatively vulnerable in combat, which is why there are so many fighter jets and mechs in interstellar warfare.

Because these fighter jets can attack these turrets!

A few hours later, the Federation's Seventh Fleet was passing through a minefield laid by the Pirate Alliance, where there were now very few bombs left.

However, at that moment, the federal intelligence agencies received another email.

Federal intelligence agencies were shocked when they received the email.

The email indicated that there was a pirate alliance reserve force behind the Seventh Fleet, and also provided a general direction.

Federal intelligence officials were unsure of the authenticity of the intelligence and quickly reported it to their superiors.

Upon receiving this intelligence, the Federal President, Vice President, and Chief of the General Staff of the Federal Armed Forces relayed it directly to the Seventh Fleet.

He also ordered the Seventh Fleet to make an emergency turn.

The president and vice president are among those who dare not gamble.

If the intelligence is false, at worst it will just be a waste of time. But if the intelligence is true, then this pirate alliance reserve force will pose a significant threat to the Seventh Fleet.

The Federation Seventh Fleet turned.

However, another squadron was pursuing the combined fleet that included the Witch Pirates, as well as the Pirate Alliance's first reserve force.

Moreover, all eight pirate groups exposed the warships' greatest weaknesses to the Federation fleet!
Therefore, the combined fleet, including the Witch Pirates, began to separate from the first reserve force!
This star system has five spatial channels: one for the Seventh Fleet and two for the squadrons.

These three spatial passages have little to do with the combined fleet and the first reserve force where the Witch Pirates are located.

Therefore, the combined fleet of the Witch Pirates and the first reserve team of the Pirate Alliance fled to the other two spatial passages!

Meanwhile, the Federation's squadron relentlessly pursued and attacked the combined fleet, which included the Witch Pirates.

Because the Federation's squadron came from the flank, it inflicted significant damage on the Combined Fleet.

In just a few short hours, the combined fleet has lost one Class C warship, three Class D warships, and six Class E warships!
The combined fleet to which the Witch Pirates belonged was also unlucky.

On the one hand, it exposed the side to the Federation fleet.

On the other hand, the energy impact of bomb explosions in the minefield also affects their own radar!

The location of the Federation fleet is unclear.

Once they were out of the minefield, the Federation's squadron was already behind them.

Therefore, the combined fleet to which the Witch Pirates belonged suffered heavy losses.

What angered the Witch Pirate Alliance fleet even more was that the Pirate Alliance's first reserve team, which was supposed to be waiting in front, had now turned tail and run away!

It ran faster than me, so I took the brunt of the Federation fleet's firepower.

This is what pirates believed: as long as I can run faster than my companions, I am safe.

A dead thief is better than a poor thief!
The Federation fleet, of course, could not pursue the First Reserve Team, which was further away, so it directly engaged the Allied Fleet where the Witch Pirates were located.

Yang Bo's location happened to be in another star region of the space passage where the Pirate Alliance's first reserve team was located.

Meanwhile, the Pirate Alliance's second reserve force was engaged in fierce combat with a federal fleet.

The two sides are now like ancient naval battles, passing each other by, with their energy cannons firing at full speed.

The Federation fleet has Class A and Class B warships.

Therefore, the Pirate Alliance's second reserve force suffered heavy losses. Two C-class warships, three D-class warships, six E-class warships, and eleven F-class warships were lost; the entire second reserve force lost more than fifty percent of its ships!

The Federation fleet, on the other hand, only lost one E-class warship.

The main reason is that the energy cannons of the Federation's A-class and B-class warships not only have high power, but also a large number of energy cannons. In addition, the energy shields of these two classes of warships are very strong!

Furthermore, the Federation fleet released a large number of drones in advance.

These drones launched a close-range attack on the Pirate Alliance's second reserve team.

The Pirate Alliance's second reserve force was already weaker than the Federation's fleet, and it also had to allocate some of its firepower to defend against these drones, because these unmanned combat aircraft could attack the turrets!

Of course, the second reserve force had escaped by brushing past the Federation fleet, because by the time the Federation fleet turned around and gave chase, the distance between the two sides would be much greater.

In reality, interstellar warfare isn't as grand and sophisticated as people imagine.

Because of the speed, power, and range of radar and energy cannons, the war between the two sides was basically like that of cannon warships in the ancient age of navigation.

Because by the time the radar detects the enemy attacking, the enemy has already been hit by the energy cannon.

Because radar detection has a reaction time, by which time the enemy's energy cannon has already hit you.

Therefore, interstellar warfare is all about defense, as well as the number and power of energy cannons.

Two hours later, the Federation's Seventh Fleet discovered the hidden Pirate Alliance Third Squadron.

Meanwhile, the Pirate Alliance's Third Fleet remained foolishly hidden in that location.

The main problem is that the Pirate Alliance's first and second reserve forces are too far from the Seventh Fleet.

Although the combined fleet to which the Witch Pirates belonged was not far from the Seventh Fleet, everyone in the combined fleet was currently cursing the Pirate Alliance for not sharing any data with them!

Therefore, the Third Squadron was unaware that the Seventh Fleet had changed course.

The Witch Pirates suspected there were internal strife within the pirate alliance, otherwise they wouldn't have encountered this situation today. What was supposed to be a well-laid trap has now turned into a trap they've been ambushed by.

The Pirate Alliance's Third Fleet realized it had been exposed the moment it was detected by the Federation's Seventh Fleet's active radar, and quickly started its engines to escape!

Unfortunately, the Federation's Seventh Fleet was too close, because the Federation's Seventh Fleet knew roughly where these people were hiding.

Because the radar blind spot only has a few points, and Yang Bo provided the approximate location.

Therefore, the moment the active radar is turned on, a salvo is fired directly at the target area!
They also directly utilized the planet card vision of the Pirate Alliance's third reserve team.

Then, in the first round, the Pirate Alliance's third reserve force lost one C-class warship, two D-class warships, and one E-class warship.

Therefore, all the warships of the four pirate groups in the third reserve of the pirate alliance scattered and fled.

It's like stirring up a hornet's nest.

In fact, these pirates were desperate because they couldn't outrun the regular army's warships if they tried to run like this!

The main problem is that someone touched me right under my nose; the distance was too close.

Because the Third Reserve Team's position is awkward, the nearest spatial passage is the one the Seventh Fleet entered through.

The third reserve team dared not go into this space passage because they were afraid of further support from the Federation, so they fled directly into the depths of space!

The entire fleet broke up into smaller units, with all the warships fleeing separately into the vast starry sky!

However, this doomed them to destruction, as the Seventh Fleet also began to divide its forces.

Yang Bo estimated that the Pirate Alliance's third reserve team would be completely wiped out within a few hours at most.

Without utilizing space jump points, their performance is simply no match for regular warships in space, especially considering the relatively close distance between them.

"Hehe!!" And Yang Bo was finally about to reap the rewards.

Nine hours later, the Pirate Alliance's first reserve team passed through the spatial passage.

These four pirate groups dare not stop now. They have already agreed to escape through the other two space passages in this public star system.

At this time, the Pirate Alliance's third reserve force had been completely wiped out.

The Federation Seventh Fleet is currently capturing prisoners!
The Federation fleet, which was engaged in direct combat with the Pirate Alliance's second reserve force, has turned around and is now pursuing the Pirate Alliance's second reserve force. Moreover, the Federation has dispatched another fleet ahead to intercept the enemy.

Meanwhile, all of the C-class warships in the combined fleet to which the Witch Pirates belonged were destroyed.

There are two Class D warships remaining, three Class E warships remaining, and five Class F warships remaining.

The combined fleet suffered losses exceeding 95 percent!

The Pirate Alliance's combined fleet consists of four Class C warships, eight Class D warships, sixteen Class E warships, and twenty-four Class F warships.

The Combined Fleet was already being closely pursued by the Seventh Fleet, and then it was attacked from the side by a detachment, and after passing through the space jump tunnel, it scattered.

However, the Federation fleet directly split up and pursued the remaining two C-class warships for four hours before destroying them.

So far, in this fishing operation by the Pirate Alliance, the combined fleet including the Witch Pirates has suffered a 95% loss, the third reserve force has been completely wiped out, and the second reserve force has lost more than 50%.

To date, the Pirate Alliance has lost ten Class C warships and more than twenty Class D warships.

Madhya Pradesh has released news and combat videos.

This signifies a major victory.

The world was in an uproar, with no one expecting that the Federal State of Madhya Pradesh and the Pirate Alliance would wage such a massive war.

The number of warships deployed in this battle reached the number of interstellar wars in human history.

The four pirate crews of the Pirate Alliance's first reserve team were just celebrating their escape when they unexpectedly encountered huge trouble.

"I am John Lee, the Governor of Calaya!"

"Now I order you to get off my Class C warship."

"You only have five minutes!" A voice that struck fear into the hearts of all pirates suddenly rang out in the public communication channel of the Pirate Alliance's first reserve team.

Then the sound of active radar detection was heard.

Along with countless energy cannons, an E-class warship was directly destroyed by the sudden energy cannon attack.

Immediately afterwards, the passive radars of the four pirate groups' warships detected five class warships on their flanks.

The familiar voice! The familiar recipe! And the familiar process!
They warned while attacking!
"What is that bastard John Lee doing here?!"

"How did that bastard even get here?!"

"That son of a bitch, John Lee!"

"Shameless, despicable, and vile! Who is the real pirate here?!"

This was the first vice-captain of a pirate crew. He was completely stunned and started cursing loudly because John Lee's five C-class warships were in such a good position.

Moreover, we had just escaped from the jaws of death, but we never expected to be ambushed by others!

"I'll repeat myself, you have four minutes and thirty seconds left." The voice came through the public channel a second time. Of course, the energy cannons continued to fire, but it was clear that their power was not very high. At this distance, this power was not enough to have a fatal impact on a Class C warship.

Because of the C-class warship, Lee John has now shamelessly tacitly acknowledged that it is his warship.

"Shameless, despicable, and vile!"

"How did this bastard even get here?!" The four pirate captains cursed loudly in the pirate alliance's virtual conference room.

At this moment, the pirate captain whose ship Yang Bo had robbed earlier said leisurely, "Just a few days ago, he robbed us of two C-class warships!"

"You bastards, why didn't you say so sooner!"

"If we had known that John Lee's fleet was in that place, we wouldn't have come here!" The four pirate captains who were being robbed by John Lee heard the other party's words and, upon learning the location where they were being robbed, immediately realized that the place was not far from where John Lee was now, and the time and distance were about the same!

In other words, John Lee probably received the information from within the Federation and rushed over to lie in ambush here.

"Why should we tell you we've been robbed?"

"Don't you know intelligence is valuable?"

"Look at how the Alliance Council provides us with intelligence—when has it ever been free?"

"You deserved to be robbed." The two pirate captains who were robbed by Yang Bo felt much better now.

The two pirate captains joined forces with the Chuqi pirate gang to commit robbery.

My two pirate crews were unlucky enough to run into John Lee.

Of course, it's much better than those pirate groups that were completely wiped out this time.

Because John Lee only wanted the C-class warship, and didn't even want the loot from it.

The strength of the pirate crews that participated this time was directly halved.

The warships are gone, and so are the people.

Everyone now demands an explanation from the council.

Because this operation was led by the council!

Moreover, at the beginning, these pirate groups did not know that the council was conducting a fishing operation; they thought it was a normal mission.

During this period, the Pirate Alliance's first reserve force had two E-class warships destroyed by John Lee's fleet.

Furthermore, both Class C and Class D warships suffered damage to varying degrees.

The leaders of the four pirate crews had no choice but to quickly issue orders to abandon the C-level.

Because others have already tried it, resisting to the end will result in even greater losses.

It can be said that Yang Bo has a firm grasp on human nature!
The pirates on these C-class warships are no longer in the mood to fight!

For pirates in a pirate crew, their lives are their own, and their warships are their boss's!
Moreover, John Lee has a very good reputation and credibility. As long as they give up the C-class warship, John Lee will not attack these people.

Furthermore, John Lee allowed these pirates to take their personal belongings with them.

On the contrary, those who opposed John Lee did not have a good ending.

The main problem is that all four pirate fleets' warships were exposed to the energy cannons of Lee John's five Class C ships!

Moreover, five minutes is simply not enough time for these warships to adjust their attack posture.

Even if they split up, there wouldn't be enough time to change direction. If John Lee discovers that the four warships are trying to escape, he might unleash his full firepower.

"Feeling great!!" Yang Bo had a firm grasp on human nature. He watched as the four pirate groups handed over remote control of four C-class warships to him. He only had three warships on this trip, but he would have nine warships when he returned.

"If the people of the Federal Central State find out, they'll be furious!" Yang Bo remotely controlled the four C-class warships to change course, while the other warships of the Pirate Alliance's first reserve team quickly took their four C-class warship comrades and ran away.

(End of this chapter)