Chapter 133 Fleet Sets Out

As soon as Xuefeng left the jump, a patrol fleet quickly approached Xuefeng and asked Qi Yiming to show his identity card.

Qi Yiming handed the communicator with identity recognition function brought from the volunteer registration office to the communications chief. After the communications chief negotiated, Qi Yiming was soon guided to the place where the volunteer warships assembled.

Qi Yiming's arrival did not attract everyone's attention. Only when Qi Yiming joined the fleet command channel, several people welcomed Qi Yiming.

Qi Yiming responded politely and asked who was the commander of this fleet.

When he learned that the commander went to the flagship of the Seventh Fleet to attend a meeting, everyone was waiting for the commander to come back to arrange combat tasks.

Qi Yiming fortunately let the crew of Xuefeng change shifts and take a rest.

Because he knew that as long as the fleet set out, they would have very few opportunities to rest, and sometimes they would even work non-stop for several days and nights. It would be best to seize all the free time from now on to let the crew rest.

While everyone was waiting, more and more volunteer warships joined the fleet, until the area specially designated for them was filled with warships of various levels, and their commander then commanded his ship to rejoin the fleet.

Qi Yiming, who was dozing in the captain's chair, suddenly found a huge single-person image on the fleet command channel on the holographic screen.

Judging from his appearance, this man was definitely no more than 40 years old. He was wearing the military uniform of the Yunhuan Federation. He first saluted everyone and then began to speak.

"Hello everyone, my name is Yang Longjie, and I am the commander of our volunteer fleet..." The person on the holographic screen first made a simple self-introduction.

Qi Yiming judged from Yang Longjie's eyes that he could see through life and death that this commander must have experienced several major battles, and it was highly likely that he was promoted on the front line.

As expected by Qi Yiming, Yang Longjie was indeed promoted on the front line, and he was promoted several levels in a row. According to him, this situation is common in the current regular fleet of the Yunhuan Federation.

Qi Yiming could only smile bitterly. There are only two possible situations for the younger senior officers.

One is that this army was just established not long ago, or this army suffered a series of defeats and suffered heavy losses of senior officers.

Qi Yiming believes that the fleet of the Yunhuan Federation definitely belongs to the second situation.

But this is also a very helpless thing.

After a brief self-introduction, Yang Longjie sent a fleet organization table to each warship.

Xuefeng was assigned to a full fleet led by a battlecruiser. According to the Yunhuan Federation's classification of fleet levels, his fleet belongs to a Class B full fleet.

Class B full fleet is led by a battlecruiser, with 2 cruisers, 5 destroyers, 10 frigates and a small transport ship.

After inputting the fleet information into the shipboard intelligent brain, Xuefeng quickly received the commander's order to assemble.

After finding the fleet he belonged to, the other team members had already arrived.

Qi Yiming said sorry and commanded the Xuefeng to enter the position assigned to him.

Lei Ming glanced at the fleet organization table and confirmed that all the warships under his command were in place. Then he said to his temporary subordinates in the re-deployed fleet command channel: "Hello everyone, my name is Lei Ming... You can call me Lei..."

After a simple self-introduction, Qi Yiming roughly understood the composition of the captains of this B-class full-strength fleet. They were all free mercenaries from various countries, all coming for the high bounty.

This made Qi Yiming a little bit amused. He originally thought that these people really came here for a higher purpose, but after all this time, they were still here for money.

Qi Yiming instantly lost confidence in this fleet composed of volunteers.

But now it is impossible to leave, and he can only bite the bullet and go to the battlefield with these people. Qi Yiming can only pray that this fleet will not lose too quickly, so as to give him more time to escape.

After listening to everyone's self-introduction, Lei Ming continued, "I have no other requirements for you, but you must obey orders... Of course, I will not issue orders that are too outrageous, and we will be assigned to the logistics fleet of the Seventh Fleet to maintain the safety of the supply line."

When the captains heard that they were only going to escort the logistics transport ship, the fleet channel instantly became lively.

"Hey... I thought we would be sent to the front line. Although the front line pays the most money, I heard that the death rate on the front line is particularly high. We have been fighting those bugs for half a year, and no one has ever seen a wounded soldier retreating from the front line." A captain with a pointed mouth and monkey cheeks shouted in the fleet command channel. Qi Yiming remembered that this person called himself Monkey, just as the name suggests, but it should be a nickname.

"Yes... I heard it too..."

Everyone wanted to discuss but was interrupted by Lei Ming: "I hope you don't believe the rumors about the battlefield. We just need to do our job well, and when the service period is over, you can go home with a large bounty."

Lei Ming paused and waited for the fleet channel to quiet down again before continuing: "According to the order of the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Fleet, no matter what level of full-strength fleet, the dual-chief system must be implemented. As the chief officer of our fleet, I need to select one from everyone as my adjutant, so that I can take over the command after I leave the battlefield."

Qi Yiming understood the meaning of this life. On the front line of fighting against the Zerg, both ordinary combat personnel and commanders at all levels of the fleet suffered heavy losses.

The dual-chief system was established to prevent the fleet commander from suddenly dying and causing the fleet to collapse.

As a veteran who had fought hard with the Zerg for several years, Qi Yiming certainly understood the horror of the Zerg and the habits of the Zerg. Therefore, Qi Yiming was prepared to recommend himself based on the purpose of playing as much role as a human being as he could since he was here.

But before he could speak, some captains had already started to make a fuss.

Qi Yiming observed that most of the people who were making a fuss were nominating Zhang Lei, the captain of another cruiser. It seemed that they should be a small group. I don't know how the fleet organization table was allocated at that time.

The most taboo in the army is the emergence of small groups, which will have an extremely adverse impact on the command of the superiors.

Qi Yiming, who was originally going to recommend himself, gave up this idea in an instant, because he knew that if he really became the second commander of this fleet, all his energy would probably be spent on how to deal with this small group.

Lei Ming also saw that there was a small group in his fleet, and his originally relaxed brows frowned instantly.

Originally, he was going to select a second commander who would convince everyone through some small competitions, but since a small group had already appeared in the fleet, in order to prevent internal strife within the fleet, he could only reluctantly promote Zhang Lei to the second commander of the fleet and report to the higher-level command department.