Chapter 221 Taking the Initiative

"Wang Shuhua, ask about the progress of the evacuation work on Violet Star? I have some problems here..."

After a long while, Wang Shuhua's voice came from the fleet channel: "They have been speeding up as much as possible, but it will take at least 7 hours."

"Let them do it as soon as possible, and let the evacuees only take their personal belongings and throw away the rest."

"They have already done so, but most of the last batch are elderly and children, and the evacuation speed is limited..."

"How could this be? Shouldn't the elderly and children be evacuated first?" Qi Yiming was very surprised by Wang Shuhua's statement.

"This... seems to be a default habit on Violet Star. No matter what danger they encounter, the strong young people will be evacuated first, and the elderly and children will stay last."

"What a bullshit habit!!"

In fact, Wang Shuhua was also helpless when he first heard the news, but when the people on Violet Star explained it to him, Wang Shuhua understood their approach a lot.

In fact, the living conditions on Violet Star were very poor. Although the planetary environment was not so bad that humans could not survive, it was difficult for food crops to survive on Violet Star.

Therefore, famine often occurred on Violet Star. Before this problem was completely solved, the humans living here could only sacrifice the elderly and the young in times of crisis and leave the strong young people in order to continue the population.

In fact, this situation had happened before humans stepped out of their home planet, but later, as time went by, the living environment of humans improved, and when they encountered crises, they no longer needed to consider the survival of the population, this habit was slowly changed.

After all, everyone has childhood and old age, and no one wants to be abandoned when they are in these two age groups.

The humans on Violet Star have just passed this stage, so this habit has not been completely changed, which is why the elderly and children were left behind to evacuate at the end.

Qi Yiming grew up with the education of respecting the elderly and loving the young. Now that this situation has occurred, even if Qi Yiming fights to the death, he must buy enough time for the evacuation of Violet Star.

"Damn it!! I won't fight..."

After a curse, Qi Yiming commanded the Xuefeng to the minefield where the enemy minesweepers were concentrated.

"All gun crews fire forward...charge at maximum power..."

As Qi Yiming issued clear instructions one after another, all the crew members on the Xuefeng quickly completed their assigned tasks.

"Particle light spears are charged and ready to go..."

"Xuefeng starts fortress mode..."

"Heavy hammer completes torpedo loading..."

"Missile launch nest completes missile reloading..."

"Gun crews 1 to 11 complete charging..."

The ship's radio kept reporting on the completion of preparations at various posts.

When all preparations were completed, Qi Yiming took a deep breath and suddenly waved his right hand, which had been raised high: "Target, the minefield directly in front of this ship, all gun crews fire."

The white light from the particle light spears once again illuminated the surroundings of the Xuefeng, and thousands of bursting lasers and several purple high-energy beams were mixed between the thick high-energy particle streams, instantly passing through the minefield in front of the Xuefeng.

The instantaneous attack energy released by the Xuefeng was very terrifying.

After sweeping the minefield, all the attack energy directly vaporized the coalition minesweepers that were in the front row and the workboats they released.

The remaining energy injured the minesweepers that were slightly behind.

For a time, the captains of the coalition minesweepers were in danger, and they wanted to stick their warships firmly behind the friendly ships, so that the friendly ships could block the next round of fatal attacks from the Xuefeng.

However, after the Xuefeng completed the attack, the captains of these minesweepers were delighted to find that the minefield that the Xuefeng's attack energy had just passed through was actually swept away, and the cleared channel was just enough for two battleships to pass side by side.

This attack channel has reached the minimum requirements of the coalition headquarters. Kong Qingchao, who had just survived a near-death experience, immediately reported the situation here to the fleet behind.

He now wanted to turn the bow of the ship and escape back to the rear of the coalition fleet immediately. The front line is too dangerous now.

Soon Kong Qingchao received the retreat order from the fleet headquarters.

Kong Qingchao didn't have time to recover the workboat that had been released, so he ordered the navigator to turn the bow of the ship immediately to evacuate the minefield.

However, what made him desperate was that the second attack of the Xuefeng had arrived just as his ship had completed the work of turning the bow.

Kong Qingchao first felt that the hull of his ship was shaking violently for a long time. After the shaking ended, more than a dozen red and purple warning messages flashed on the battleship injury panel in front of him.

"Warning... The tail engine was hit by a high-energy impact, and the power dropped by 80%..."

When Kong Qingchao saw this message, he was completely desperate. There was actually no difference between a power drop of 80% and a loss of power.

"Abandon ship... Everyone abandon ship..." Kong Qingchao immediately connected to the ship's broadcast and ordered everyone to abandon ship.

For a while, Kong Qingchao's ship was in chaos, and the launch ports of the escape pods were crowded with people. Some people even pulled out their guns to kill their former comrades in order to get into the few escape pods one step ahead.

But the Xuefeng was like the god of death, paying no attention to these ant-like existences in front of it, and fired another round of salvos from its entire battery.

After a burst of white light mixed with purple and red high-energy beams, Kong Qingchao and his ship disappeared where he had just been.

After Lv Zhenyang learned that the passage was opened by Xuefeng himself, he no longer cared about the fate of those minesweepers.

He immediately ordered the fleet to take dozens of battleships as the vanguard and enter the attack passage that had just been cleared under the fierce attack of Xuefeng.

But when these warships entered the attack passage opened for them by Xuefeng Haruko, everyone regretted it.

Because the surrounding air mines severely restricted their range of activities, so that all warships did not have enough space to avoid the attack of Xuefeng.

After entering this attack passage, they could only watch Xuefeng charge and fire all their gun groups.

Then they watched their ships being vaporized by the super-high energy attack in fear, but they could do nothing. The warship commanders could not even command their ships to adjust the bow direction in the narrow attack passage.

Lv Zhenyang also found something wrong at this time, but he had no choice but to have only this one attack passage.

This was the path that Xuefeng had taken the initiative to open up for them, so even though he knew it was a trap, he could only harden his heart and force the fleet to attack from this path.

Although the attack strength of Xuefeng's main gun was amazing, it was still impossible to completely vaporize the wreckage of the Allied battleships in a few rounds of bombardment.

So the subsequent warships quickly passed through the attack path that Xuefeng had specially opened up for them, bearing the wreckage of the warship in front.

However, what worried the captains of the attacking fleet was the high-energy particle flow fired by Xuefeng's particle light spear.

Less than 5 minutes had passed since Xuefeng completed the first particle light spear launch, and the particle light spear had not yet finished cooling.

They didn't know whether they could still move forward against the wreckage of friendly ships as before when the particle light spear attacked again.

So now they could only order the navigator to push the engine power to the maximum, so as to pass through this minefield before Xuefeng launched the particle light spear next time.