1485 The Last Madness (1/2)

The pirates were a group of thugs who relied on plundering merchant ships. Although they were cruel, their equipment was not so great. Their fleet was mostly composed of armed merchant ships. Occasionally, they would even get hold of several police ships if one or two could be obtained. For the pirates, a retired frigate was like a pie in the sky.

So, while they may frighten the merchants, once they were faced with a regular army, the pirates would immediately lose their nerve.

Under Aurelia's command, the 5th Fleet's Bombardier Class Corvettes fired a salvo, and a dozen of the pirate fleet's armed merchant ships were blown into smithereens.

A little pirate captain shouted, ”Boss, the enemy's firepower too strong, we can't charge through!”

”Keep charging through!” replied Germoff, shouting even louder than the captain.

”Yes…”

Faced with their leader's tyrannical abuse, although the little pirates clearly knew that they were on a suicide mission, they still gritted their teeth and continued to charge forward.

Germoff's eyes showed a hint of madness. ”Move further! Move further, or I'll let all of you die together!”

At this time, on the 5th Fleet's flagship, the adjutant was also reporting to Aurelia, ”Ma'am, the pirates are still charging, something's not quite right!”

Aurelia nodded. ”Hmm, this band of pirates must have cooked up a scheme! Otherwise, there's no way they would take the initiative to die!”

She had been in the army for many years, and had countless experience in bandit-suppressing. When facing a regular army, it was still possible for the pirates to escape under certain circumstances. And this initiative to charge often meant that the pirates were desperate!

Pirates were terrible when they were desperate. Because they robbed merchant ships all year round, it was quite possible for them to get their hands on some horrifying stuff. Once they fought together, although defeating the regular army was impossible, the pirates could still cause them some serious losses.

”Issue a general order to the fleet—shut down the main engine, activate the reverse thrusters, and move the fleet in reverse. Grizzly Bear Class Hypercruisers, attack with full firepower. Bombardier Class Corvettes, load the cluster warheads and fire at will!”

Aurelia made this decision to prevent the pirates from closing the distance between them. Instead, she allowed the 5th Fleet to retreat, keeping their current distance from the pirates, and used the firepower of their warships to destroy the pirate fleet without taking any damage.

With the order issued by Aurelia, the 5th Fleet began to slowly retreat. While retreating, they wildly fired countless missiles and depleted uranium bombs at the pirate fleet, instantly causing them huge losses.

If things went on like this, the enemy would kill them all before they were able to even touch a single hair on their heads.

Germoff slammed his chair violently. ”Damn! These guys are too cunning!”

If he didn't close the gap between them, he would have absolutely no way to play his trump card. In this case, he wasn't even qualified to let his opponent bury him!

Seeing that his own fleet was suffering heavy losses, and that the business he was struggling to manage was about to be destroyed, Germoff wanted nothing more than to cause extreme pain to the Trade Federation forces in front of him!

But his pure hatred wouldn't do him any good. By order of Aurelia, Jiang Fei's fleet was consistently keeping a certain distance from the pirates. Meanwhile, their raging artillery fire was destroying the pirates' spaceships one by one. In just twenty minutes, the pirate fleet had shrunk to almost a third of its original size.

”All charge at full speed!”

”Order the other ships to block the front!”

”Everyone, deactivate shields and divert all power to your engines!”

”Let your engines operate in overload. I don't care what you do, you must catch up to those guys!”

Because his fleet was being eroded so quickly, Germoff was incredibly anxious. It was now or never. If he did not risk his life now, in a few minutes, he would no longer even be able to do so!