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In the boundless deep sky, black starships are moving along a near straight trajectory, moving towards the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars.

The end of the voyage is Ceres.

The target is a pirate space base about 0.03 astronomical units from Ceres!

Speaking of air thieves active in the asteroid belt, it is a long time.

Even after the first starlight cargo ship attack in the 50s of the last century, the term air thief entered people’s vision through the news media.

As the scale of the aerospace industry continues to expand, asteroid belt mining has gradually become a low-cost, high-yield industry, which has led to a large number of spacecraft moving from the Earth-Moon system to the asteroid belt.

Everyone is counting on being able to get rich overnight. From 500,000 asteroids and hundreds of millions of meteorite fragments, a large pile of gold or a precious metal more expensive than gold has been discovered, and driven by this extreme desire for wealth Below, naturally, a group of lawbreakers who were eager to reap without sowing and at the same time hesitate to take risks were born.

With the legal blanks in the asteroid belt and the limited binding power of countries in this area, they have modified other spacecraft purchased or leased and attacked other civilian mining ships or mining stations. The government and regional alliances have a headache.

The complex meteorite environment makes it difficult for large starships to station in this area for a long time, and if it is only a small ship or a space base, it is difficult to guarantee the scale advantage of the regular army on the battlefield.

If deployed in a decentralized manner, those military installations could easily be targeted by air thieves. And if it is deployed centrally, although it guarantees the battle strength, it is basically equal to the display in the face of billions of kilometers of battlefield width and limited visibility.

After all, you ca n’t expect the empty thieves to always hit their heads against the steel plate and drill themselves into the cage.

In contrast, the pirates who flow between the asteroid belt and Mars, can rely on small ships and smuggled arms to get rich.

On the one hand, this is because Mars’s complex social environment provides breeding soil for air thieves active in the asteroid belt, and on the other hand, because of the pampering of some regimes or regional alliances.

After all, the goods stolen from competitors are always cheaper than the goods that flow into the market through normal channels. Besides, they can also limit the development of competitors, and by the way, they can digest the surplus arms in their own homes.

Although at intervals, the Pan-Asian Cooperation will dispatch fleets to focus on the asteroid belts in a certain area, but the results achieved are not great.

In the first place, there is always news leaked in advance, and in the second place, it is too expensive to send the fleet to the asteroid belt to perform the mission.

In terms of this operation, Huashan, as the command ship, is the lightest aircraft carrier in the Pan-Asia-Pacific Air Force. The two cruisers and five destroyers escorted are all of the same type with lighter tonnage. That kind.

But even so, once you enter the range of the asteroid belt. The cost of this war is bound to be an expensive to expensive number …

“Send a carrier-based aircraft to investigate the nearby airspace, alert the destroyer peripherally, open the cruiser magazine, use the EMP bomb, and find that the anomalous target is close to the direct lock-in attack.”

“Yes!”

The edges of the asteroid belt are getting closer.

On the bridge.

With the command of the commander, twelve carrier-based drones ejected and took off from the carrier Huashan, just like one after another silver white bullet, and moved inside the asteroid belt.

Although the air thieves are mostly backward, it is difficult to pose a substantial threat to the regular army of any regional alliance on the front battlefield, but they usually use the terrain advantage to deal with the regular army very smartly.

For example, nuclear warheads are installed inside asteroids with relatively stable orbits and small size. When a regular warship approaches, a nuclear warhead detonates, and the hull is damaged by projectile high-temperature meteorite.

For example, some cruise missiles hidden behind meteorites, drones carrying explosives or anti-armor weapons, and even small attack boats with a bunch of bulk weapons.

While threatening mining stations in the vicinity, these air thieves can always cause trouble to the ships of the regular army in unexpected places.

The work of these carrier-based aircraft is responsible for the investigation of the nearby battlefield environment, clearing the traps left by the air thieves, and locking those potential threats …

In the bridge.

Gaze intently at the holographic three-dimensional star chart suspended on the command table, the commander’s brows behind his hands can not help but frown slightly.

It has been almost half an hour since the launch of the carrier-based aircraft. However, no trace of thunder or automatic weapons has been found in this area.

Experiences who have worked with empty thieves for many years told him that this group of empty thieves may be a little unusual.

“Report, news from forward reconnaissance ship, unknown space station found near 0.03 astronomical unit of Ceres.”

The commander immediately ordered the report from his subordinates.

“Modeling scan data.”

“Yes!”

The light blue image appeared on the command table, and a space station constructed of a three-dimensional, three-dimensional holographic grid quickly appeared in front of everyone.

Like most civilian mining stations, this space station is embedded in a small asteroid and occupies a quarter of the asteroid’s volume.

Due to the high content of metal deposits in the surrounding area, a natural “electromagnetic wave black hole” has formed. If you do not take a closer look, you will not find the existence of this space station at all.

Staring at the space station, frowned, a military consultant standing next to the command table, said.

“It’s weird.”

Usually, when their carrier aircraft approached this location, not to mention that the two sides had begun a fierce exchange of fire. At least the air thief hiding in the space station could not react at all.

However, the current situation is that the entire space station and the surrounding airspace are quiet, and only one base is located there alone.

“It’s weird,” nodded, a dignified expression emerged from the commander’s eyes, and said to himself, “We’ve dispatched such a large fleet, they can’t react at all. Even radar It ’s broken, and you ca n’t even notice it by visual observation. ”

“Will they just go out for hunting?”

“It’s not like it. Intuition tells me it’s not easy to hide what’s inside.”

After saying this, the commander pondered for a while and spoke ordered.

“Ready to send ground troops.”

“No matter what’s inside, just go in and look understood.”

Marine consultant: “Are you going to launch an infrasound missile?”

“No, there are no weapons observed on the surface of the space station, and the armed forces should not be strong. This operation is different from the past. We need several captives.” Looking at the holographic image on the command table, the commander decided Calm up, with a serious tone of voice, “Ready for the third orbital airborne brigade! Send three commando teams, ready to storm!”

As the order was issued, six shuttle-like landing crafts launched from the aircraft carrier, setting up one after the other two parallel triangular formations, following a straight trajectory towards the space station.

Although it is a strong attack, it does not mean to fill it with flesh and blood.

The first three landing crafts hit the space station’s shell first. As a burst of sparks splattered, a gushing metal jet poured into the space station, releasing a round of suppression fire to the internal facilities and personnel.

A dozen aerodynamic drones were released from the three landing crafts, and broke into the interior along the gap in the outer layer of the space station, quickly occupying the favorable terrain in the space station, and feeding back the situation on the battlefield to the next three vessels The commando on the landing craft and the AI ​​battlefield analysis system on the aircraft carrier.

Then there was another round of steel collision.

The last three landing craft hit the space station directly from three different angles, just like three nails. As the door blast opened, three groups of assaulters broke into the space station from three directions. In cooperation with the drone released earlier, the moved towards the space station launched an offensive.

However …

Unexpected things happen.

You can’t even see a living here …