Seeing Roy's hesitation, Chen Chao knew that something unexpected might have happened here, so he ordered the navigation group to increase the output of the detection array and expand the scope of the detection.

They also adjusted the posture of Budapest and prepared to slowly go deep into the star system at sub-light speed. In this way, they drove towards the planet where the replicate people's base was located at a lower speed.

Most of the replicas living on the inner ring planet named "Ilos". If nothing unexpected happens, as long as they arrive there, all questions will be reasonably explained.

After more than ten minutes of high-speed cruise, the planet named Ilos finally entered the tactical detection range of Budapest.

Just as they opened all the communication channels and were about to approach this inner orbital planet in a peaceful manner, a dense electronic sound warning suddenly came from the electronic warfare group. Then came the report of the person in charge of the electronic warfare group.

: "Sir, we just detected multiple targets in the direction of 105,403. It seems that two fleets are fighting in this area. There are currently 40 in the warring parties... Oh no, there are 62 warships..."

While reporting, the person in charge of the electronic warfare team sent a large amount of brush data from both sides who had just detected to the main control hologram in front of Chen Chao.

Soon, dozens of battleship symbols marked with numbers were displayed on the hologram. Each symbol represents a battleship, and the numbers marked on the symbol are their basic information, such as location, distance, length and estimated tonnage.

There are only these basic data on the hologram at present, but they do not have models of warships on both sides as they usually do. After all, they are too far from those warring areas, and are 4 astronomical units away.

At this distance, their warships could only detect two fleets in the distance, but could not observe them clearly. Their ship-borne optical equipment is not as good as the level of being able to see several small, hundreds of meters long warships 600 million kilometers away.

Even if you can see clearly, it is a fool to use optical equipment to observe the battle situation at this distance. Because at this distance, the natural time difference generated by the speed limit of light will make the information observed by the equipment have no tactical value.

So Chen Chao did not ask the electronic warfare team to give clearer marks, but just quickly scanned the hologram sent to him to analyze the situation and estimate whether they were qualified to join.

According to the data on the figure, two unknown fleets are fighting outside an asteroid belt four astronomical units away from them. Although the overall firefighting intensity between the two sides of the warring parties is not high, the fighting seems to be very fierce.

Among the two sides of the war, one of them was obviously at a disadvantage in equipment conditions, with only 17 ships having a low tonnage. The weapons standards were also uneven (in fact, they were all armed merchant ships)

The other side is obviously rich and powerful, with 14 large-tonnage regular warships and more than 20 auxiliary warships, occupying a very obvious quantitative and quality advantage.

Logically speaking, such a powerful advantage is enough to make the powerful side win quickly. However, according to the figure, the current situation of the battle is "a bit" strange.

First of all, although Chen Chao and the others did not know how long the space battle had been going on and the specific camps of the two sides had not yet been determined, there were already wreckage of two warships near the combat area. And one was one of the two sides.

This is not particularly strange. After all, it is not impossible for a fleet with weak equipment to destroy the opponent's weak warships.

What is really incredible is that although the larger fleet has a comprehensive equipment advantage in theory, they are now being beaten by the small fleet behind them. They are still fighting and running while fighting. It is obviously covering the auxiliary ship behind them to escape from the star system.

This situation is really strange. Small tonnage warships chased the enemy's large tonnage warships that had the advantage in numbers, and also gained the upper hand! The incredible level of this matter itself is simply a level that subverts people's worldview.

Because of analogy, the current situation is probably the same as when you see more than a dozen ordinary-performance torpedo boats chasing more than a dozen high-tech destroyers and dozens of submarines and supply ships in the naval battle on the main plane. It is simply illogical.

Just as Shen Chao was trying hard to figure out what was going on here, Roy had already seen through the limited data on the figure that he was the specific identity of both parties.

: "That's the federal government's fleet. Damn it, they invaded our galaxy again!" Roy's tone was surprised, angry and anxious. His fists were even tightly clenched, obviously wanting to find something to beat him up.

This is also easy to understand. He went home with joy and wanted to use his eloquence to bring his friends to the current external organization of the Time and Space Parliament, get rid of the difficult life in this plane and live a good life.

As a result, as soon as he came back, he saw the government army sending fleets to encircle and suppress the enemy before he could see him. His friends were not sure about their lives and death... If anyone had encountered such a situation, he would not be able to calm down.

The moment he saw the data of the fleets of both sides on the hologram, he reacted. After all, he was an important military leader of the Copyright Base here and had fought with the federal government's fleet many times before.

He was very familiar with the combat conditions and styles of the replicant and the federal government, so he could roughly understand what was happening here as soon as he looked at the data on the picture.

It is obvious that the federal government is now freeing up its hands to deal with them, and in order to clear the instability of the border, they tore up the border ceasefire agreement signed by people a few years ago and sent a fleet to clear their territory.

Similar things have happened before, but they have never been so large, so after a few hard battles, they still saved this hard-won base and used it as a base to widely store other replicants.

: "Captain, we have to go and help..." Thinking of this, Roy turned around and asked Shen Qiao to help. Although the battle situation seemed strange, the small fleet of the Copyer seemed to be suppressing the opponent's fight, but he was not happy.

With rich experience in confrontation with the government fleet, he knew that although the federal government's fleet was not particularly well organized and trained, the senior leaders were still very ***k.

But the combat effectiveness of their fleet is not only so small. It is impossible for such a large-scale fleet to be unable to defeat the small fleet that they replicated. So there must be something unexpected here that they have not yet figured out.

: "Okay, needless to say, Roy, we will help." Shen Chao agreed without thinking after hearing Roy's request.

He had carefully observed the intensity of the firefighting between the two sides in the war, and finally confirmed that neither side in the war had enough firepower to penetrate Budapest's shields and armor.

So if you intervene, there is no substantial danger to them. Since there is no danger, he has no reason to refuse Roy's reasonable request.

Besides, when he was on the road, he was still thinking about how to show his strength when recruiting replicators peacefully to avoid being unable to stop the situation after recruiting a large number of replicators in the future.

Originally, he hadn't come up with any good way to show his muscles peacefully, but now this situation has provided him with a possibility. Can they fully demonstrate their muscles through powerful support and replicate people's fleets? They can not only show their strength, but also have "peaceful" methods.

: "The government troops on the opposite side, I'm sorry, who asked you to come and clear out today? Please help me with the current human background..." Chen Chao silently contempted for the people in the federal government fleet in the distance in his heart, and then ordered the entire ship to enter the state of combat without hesitation.

Under his order, the Budapest entered a state of emergency for the first time (there were too few people before, so there was no need for this), and the harsh combat alarm sounded. Almost everyone on the warship except the medical team took action and rushed to their respective combat posts.

The navigation team began to warm up the mass effect core and input jump coordinates. The fire control team opened their observation and independent computing systems and conducted pre-war self-tests on the main guns. The prepared secondary gun gunners also ran to the operating position.

After receiving the combat alarm, more than 200 Marines on the 5 and 6 decks, they put on their own combat armor, received their weapons, and rushed to the flight deck to assemble under the command of several soldiers and officers.

The pilots living on Deck 8 also quickly assembled under the organization of several soldiers and commanders and came to the flight deck to enter the pilot seats of shuttles and fighters.

If the artillery battle cannot be resolved in a short period of time, Chen Chao will also consider sending these pilots who have not completed training for a while to fly the space fighter plane out to fight.

Although in the world of mass effect, space fighters are basically a so-called existence in cosmic warfare, in this plane without shields and super-large warships, the combat effectiveness of space fighters that can carry two-ton cracked torpedoes running around is not an ordinary bunker.

One minute and 40 seconds after Shen Chao's preparation order was issued, all the combat personnel on the ship arrived at their respective posts, and the entire ship was ready for combat.

After receiving the reports prepared by all departments, Chen Chao immediately issued a short-range jump order. Budapest, which had just jumped out of the super-light speed realm for less than half an hour, disappeared into the starry sky again, and rushed to the battlefield 600 million kilometers away at an ultra-high speed of 240 times the speed of light.

About half a minute later, they completed the jump, and the Budapest suddenly appeared on the edge of the battlefield between the two sides of the war. It was only a few thousand kilometers away from the two sides of the war.

At this time, the two sides were very close to each other, and the closest warships between the two sides were only more than 100 kilometers apart. In the cosmic war, being so close was almost like a face-to-face.

: "All the starboard secondary guns are ready... to start shooting in segments..." Chen Chao saw that the jump was just right, so he issued an order to attack the opposite federal government fleet. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!