Chapter 2356 The disastrous defeat of Anselm (Part 2)
2357. Disastrous defeat at Anselm (middle)
On the bridge of the castrated version of the Infinity-class super aircraft carrier, the Neimoidia, Admiral Mal-Took stood in front of the holographic combat star map and continuously issued instructions to direct the fleet operations.
Because the scale of this fleet is so huge, the energy required to command it is also very large. The number of T-series tactical robots standing next to him has increased to 4, each assisting him in commanding this claw-shaped robot. The four attack directions of the array are the four claws.
Some people may ask why such a large number of warships should be used intensively. Wouldn't this cause waste?
However, in fact, it was not that General Mar-Touk did not want to divide his forces to attack, but that he had no choice but to do so. The fleet formation of the Commercial Combined Fleet is not scientific, and the number of capital ships is too few, so it can only make up for the shortcomings of the insufficient number of capital ships through a large number of light cruisers.
Moreover, the commercial combined fleet in his hands actually has hidden dangers.
This fleet includes 1,500 Undertaker-class light cruisers and 1,000 Osprey-class light cruisers. These two types of light cruisers account for about half of his fleet! Other new warships include the Raven-class heavy destroyer and the Promotion-class heavy destroyer, with a combined number of approximately 500 ships.
In addition, there are the Valkyrie-class guided missile frigates, Javelin-class guided missile frigates, Guard-class anti-aircraft destroyers, Brown Bear-class heavy destroyers, Hoshiko-class maintenance drone carriers and Blue Sky-class command cruisers commonly used by the Kingdom of Dawn Navy.
The reason why there are so many Undertaker-class light cruisers and Osprey-class light cruisers is that, to put it bluntly, this was Newt Gunray and Thorn Hill's fault.
After they obtained the Caldari and Gallente warship technologies in "EVE" through the Freemasonry Alliance, they excitedly started the construction work on their own. They didn't even seek advice from the Kingdom of Dawn's military, and directly selected their favorite warships and started building them in large quantities.
Newt Gunray chose the Undertaker-class light cruiser, because the main body of this battleship was a modified cargo ship, so the Trade Federation restored some of the functions of the cargo ship and planned to use this battleship to start its own business. What is the origin of the Trade Federation? Transport!
Thornhill chose the Osprey-class light cruiser because this kind of warship can be equipped with mining lasers. Is he planning to mine?
In short, this led to the fact that when Ling Liang promoted and supervised the preparations for the Zero Operation Plan and discovered the obviously abnormal shipbuilding plan of the Trade Federation and the Interstellar Banking Association, the Undertaker-class light cruisers and Osprey-class light cruisers had already Nearly two thousand ships have been built!
The Undertaker class and the Osprey class can't be said to be useless, but they are obviously not used that way! And it is obvious that such a huge quantity is not needed!
Ling Liang, furious, immediately scolded the Trade Federation and the Interstellar Banking Association and asked them to make rectifications within a time limit. At the same time, a team of military experts was sent to the north to supervise their shipbuilding work.
So there were the Raven-class guided missile destroyers and Promotion-class destroyers that were later designed and built. Among them, the Raven-class guided missile destroyer is a warship that uses medium-range missiles as its main attack method. It serves as a powerful complement to the Javelin-class guided missile frigates and Valkyrie-class guided missile frigates.
The Promotion-class destroyer is a warship specially designed to fight against enemy frigates and light cruisers. It has extremely high maneuverability and extremely powerful firepower, and its fire control system is also very excellent.
Not only that, Ling Liang also asked them to immediately dismantle the Osprey-class mining laser and change the Undertaker-class cargo bay back to its proper turret equipment. But even so, the large number of Osprey and Undertaker classes still had a great impact on the formation of the fleet. This is also an important reason why Mar-Touk did not divide his troops - he brought all these warships with the mentality of "build them all, don't use them in vain".
Anyway, the Trade Federation and the Interstellar Banking Association are very wealthy, so they don’t care about the extra fuel money, right?
In the current battle, Admiral Mar-Tuk deployed all the Undertaker-class light cruisers at the front of the formation. The revised Undertaker class is 310 meters long. This warship is heavily armored and extremely fast, but lacks long-range attack methods. It can be said to be an upgraded version of the Brown Bear class heavy destroyer.
The Undertaker-class light cruiser with its reinforced front armor module can even withstand several direct shots from the Imperial-class Star Destroyer!
These warships accelerated wildly and rushed towards the formation of the imperial fleet. The operators inside the battleships are all robots, and they are simply not afraid of death. This is also the biggest feature of these battleships-that is, they can be used as high-quality cannon fodder!
The Valkyrie-class guided missile frigates, Raven-class guided missile destroyers, and Javelin-class guided missile frigates formed three levels of missile attacks: near, medium, and far, providing fire cover for the Undertaker class that rushed forward.
At the same time, the Osprey-class light cruiser was cruising around in its own formation. This kind of warship is a multi-functional warship equipped with a drone home port. In addition to being equipped with hundreds of Acolyte-class drones, it can also provide battlefield support through armor repair modules, electronic warfare modules and other functions. They are also important to ensure that the Undertaker-class light cruiser can successfully break into the local formation.
But even so, the Undertaker-class as high-quality cannon fodder and the Osprey-class as support ships are obviously too numerous. So Mal-Tuk simply went up with all A's regardless!
The group of Undertaker-class light cruisers that attacked simultaneously from four directions did cause a lot of trouble for the Imperial fleet. They were already having a huge headache when facing the improved and smaller new warships in the Kingdom of Dawn fleet. Now there are so many The light cruiser that looked like a dump truck rushed over, giving them even more headaches.
The most disgusting thing is that these dump trucks are fast and can withstand beatings. An Imperial-class Star Destroyer deployed ten turrets and fired a salvo, but it failed to destroy it! The Undertaker-class ship was on fire, but it was still charging wildly!
Gilad-Pellaeon had no choice but to let his light cruiser rush forward immediately to try to block the Undertaker-class that was rushing over at high speed, so that these battleships would not affect his formation.
However... when everyone in the Imperial Fleet focused their attention on the Commercial Combined Fleet, a sudden change occurred!
The planet Gullah-Anselm suddenly activated its planetary shield! At the same time, the orbital defense weapons on the planet were aimed at the sky and fired at the imperial warships!
The defensive turrets on the spaceports were also firing on all cylinders, aiming at the Imperial-class Star Destroyer that was just around the corner and pouring out all their firepower!
At the same time, violent explosions occurred inside many Imperial-class Star Destroyers! The explosions, without exception, all came from the hangar platform.
Those were the transport ships transporting supplies from the planet Grad-Anselm, and they blew themselves up! !
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