Chapter 549, Hunting Time

While the main fleet of the alliance led by Gu Hang stabbed at the heart of the enemy like a sharp sword, the Fury Fleet led by Adler Paulitos 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 a ghost, 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 ass.

The extra battle barge was the flagship of the New World Torch: 'Torch Light'.

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

The three main ships, in terms of frontal combat power, greatly exceeded the three battlecruisers left behind by the alliance.

In a head-on battle, a Retribution-class ship can knock down three battlecruisers, not to mention two battle barges.

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

Relying on mobility, three battlecruisers are not so easy to catch.

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

But you can try, and once you succeed, you will gain a lot.

A squadron composed of multiple small ships selected an Alliance transport fleet for harassment.

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

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

There are two Moon-class cruisers in the attacking squadron, pretending that they know that the Alliance escort force has been strengthened, so they have also increased their manpower investment.

The attacked Alliance transport fleet, under the cover of the escort team, ran to a planetary orbit that had been fortified on the route and held on the spot.

Generally speaking, at this point, the Fury Fleet should have withdrawn obediently.

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

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

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

At that time, if they ran slowly, the Moon-class was not a high-speed cruiser or a light cruiser, and it would be difficult to escape if they were caught by the battlecruisers.

However, this time, the Fury's looting fleet showed some eagerness for quick success and they attacked the Alliance transport fleet that was defending.

It was not until they detected that the battlecruiser was already in the star tunnel to this galaxy that they woke up from their dream, unwilling to give up, and turned around to run away.

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

Two Moon-class ships, this result is quite attractive to the remaining Angry Owl, Wing, and Koroga.

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

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

The two "panicked" Moon-class ships and the squadrons they brought with them hurriedly rushed, but they could only reach the jump point and start the jump when they entered the range of the three Holy Grail-class ships.

In this process, many warships have been shot and damaged.

Then, the captains of the three Holy Grails 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 problem of traps, but quickly ruled it out.

The enemy's hasty escape did not seem fake.

And if it was really to lure the enemy deep into the territory, there must be traps on the other side.

But the other side of this jump point was also the Alliance-controlled area. They had not received any reports of enemy fleets on the other side, and they had conducted an astropathic communication and contacted the space station deployed at the jump point on the other side, but they had not received any reports of enemy traces.

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

So, the three battlecruisers, along with their younger brothers, also started the jump.

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

However, at this moment, the psykers who served as navigators on the ship suddenly issued intensive warnings: they had detected the presence of enemy ships at the jump point, and there were three giant ships!

Now, the three Holy Grail-class captains were all panicking.

Or did they step into a trap?

But now, there was 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 was 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 the enemy ships had arrived in this star system; nor could they ask why the warning space station at the jump point did not send out any information.

These questions were very important beforehand, but they were no longer meaningful at this moment.

What they had to consider was how to get out of the trap alive.

The only thing to be thankful for was that the Fury Fleet, as an ambusher, did not want to scare away the Alliance ships and did not ambush them in advance. They did not cancel their silence until the Alliance ships were unable to turn around. They suddenly appeared and rushed to the jump point.

In this case, the three Holy Grail-class ships of the Alliance would not face the most vulnerable stage of the jump just after they arrived in the real universe, before they switched the jump engine to the conventional engine and opened the void shield.

However, the situation was still very urgent.

When the Alliance ships had just completed the shield and engine startup, the enemy ships had arrived.

Should they start the jump immediately and run?

They quickly rejected this decision.

When they started the jump again, they faced the firepower of three giant ships. With the fragile body of the Holy Grail-class, at least two of them would die in the process of starting the jump.

This was unacceptable.

Two battlecruisers were destroyed. Fleet Commander Bai Qifan would definitely be brought to court-martial no matter if he died here or not.

Forget about the other small boats. They would be sacrificed. The big ships must be saved!

The three Holy Grails began to maneuver at full speed!