Chapter 1668 Battle of Broken Horn (12)
October 12, 1390, Star Cluster Era.
At 1950 hours standard time, a huge explosion of unknown cause was recorded in the main fleet of the Red Maple Republic. It was judged to be an unknown and extremely risky weapon, and the source was temporarily unknown.
At the same time, the secret tactical fleet arrived at Broken Point in advance and used the absorber. Optical camouflage stealth and specially-made thrusters secretly arrived at the attack position and launched a surprise attack on the Red Maple Republic reactor jammer.
The experimental ion beam thunder-marked sea snake cannon fired three salvos, totaling twelve rounds from the classified tactical fleet. Visual confirmation failed to destroy the reactor jammer, but caused it to be severely damaged and lost its ability to maneuver and operate normally. The classified tactical fleet immediately left the battlefield.
At 2030 standard time, the cruiser formation recovered the carrier-based aircraft and disengaged, and then returned to the third forward base for maintenance and supplies.
The Spinning Water Federation Command realized that the Battle of Broken Point was not only huge in scale. Due to the poor survivability of the cruiser, even the harassment mission was incompetent. Since then, it has not been deployed to Broken Point and has always carried out patrols and escorts during the battle. and reconnaissance missions.
At 2140 standard time, two reinforcement fleets from the Red Maple Republic arrived. The severely damaged reactor jammer tried to take the opportunity to evacuate the battlefield, but twenty minutes later, two reinforcement fleets from the Spinning Water Federation arrived and successfully prevented it from escaping.
October 13, 1390, Star Cluster Era.
At 0111 standard time, the battle was still going on. The Ninth Fleet of the Red Maple Republic suffered heavy casualties and had to withdraw from the battle. The loss rate of the First, Third and Fifth Fleets of the Spinwater Federation exceeded 20%.
At 0602 standard time, the Planet Fortress fortress cannon completed emergency repairs and was launched. It was confirmed that 151 battleships were destroyed, the reactor jammer was completely silenced, and the Red Maple Republic lost the ability to end the battle quickly.
At 0813 standard time, the Spinning Water Federation reinforcement fleet arrived to replace the severely damaged First Fleet. There was intelligence indicating that the Red Maple Republic was mobilizing the remaining fleet.
At 1031 hours standard time, reinforcements from the Red Maple Republic arrived, totaling three fleets. However, due to the fact that they were all old ships and the crews lacked training, they were unable to exert their large-scale combat effectiveness.
Meanwhile, Princess Leia decides to intervene on the battlefield.
At 1515 standard time, the Spinning Water Federation once again withdrew two fleets and reinforced one fleet. The two sides maintained a pattern of withdrawing 2 to 4 fleets and rotating them every day until the end of the battle.
October 16, 1390, Star Cluster Era.
At 0203 hours standard time, nearly five days of large-scale fleet artillery battle ended with the withdrawal of the Red Maple Republic. Both sides suffered extremely serious damage in this battle.
The 3rd, 9th, 17th to 22nd fleets of the Red Maple Republic were completely wiped out, and the loss rates of the remaining participating fleets ranged from 30% to 75%.
In this battle, both sides dispatched fleets more than 20 times, and the number of Broken Horn battleships exceeded 30,000 at the time. It was not only the largest battle in the history of the Star Alliance, but also the largest battle in the known universe.
The Red Maple Republic lost more than 7,000 warships, several fleets were completely eliminated, and countless personnel were lost.
The Spinning Water Federation lost more than 5,000 ships, but due to the retreat of the Red Maple Republic, a large number of ships and personnel could still be recovered, and the actual casualties were not as high as statistically speaking.
However, after this battle, the Spinning Water Federation also temporarily lost the ability to move forward, and had to carry out emergency repairs and personnel supplies for damaged ships.
In the Red Maple Republic, almost all of the elite fleets have been wiped out. Currently, only the First Fleet still retains relatively complete combat effectiveness. The rest of the fleets are new recruits that have been established for no more than three months and are unable to defend the capital system. After the war, the largest protest march since the war broke out in the capital system of the Red Maple Republic. This time, even the police responsible for maintaining order were among them. The people demanded an explanation of the rationality of the war and peace talks with the Spinning Water Federation. Demanded the restoration of the imperial government.
In the end, the demonstrations and protests were temporarily ended by the entry of the army to suppress them, but almost no one was working in the most important factories, and the severely damaged fleet was extremely difficult to supply and repair.
The royalists took the opportunity to exert force, and Princess Leia repeatedly intervened in the Red Maple Republic's internal broadcast lines. The dissatisfaction among the people reached its peak, and radicals have already launched attacks on officials.
As far as the results are concerned, it is not accurate to say who won in the final battle at Broken Point. It was basically a lose-lose situation.
But if you consider the post-war period, there is no doubt that the Spinwater Federation has a greater advantage.
Although the people in their rear are gradually accumulating dissatisfaction with the war, it has not yet reached the point of getting out of control. After all, compared to the battle reports of how many enemies have been wiped out, at least everyone knows that the front is constantly being pushed forward.
The people of the Red Maple Republic were already very suspicious of the launch of this war. If they could win the war all the way and end it quickly, the people would not say much.
The results were not only reversed, but the lives of the people themselves were also seriously affected, and it was foreseeable that dissatisfaction broke out.
And this is mixed with the fanning of the royalists. Many older people will begin to miss the grand occasion when the empire was still there, which further intensifies the dissatisfaction with the republican government.
As the battle ended, dissatisfaction and great panic began to spread. Demonstrations were just the mildest form of expression, and for a while the public security was completely chaotic.
Any family that can afford it will choose to take advantage of the opportunity and escape quickly. Every day, the space port is crowded with people hoping to get a ticket. People who have no choice will also choose to hide in remote rural areas to try to avoid the coming war. .
Although people also know that the Spinning Water Federation cannot be at their doorsteps immediately, panic still causes a large number of people to crowd the transportation system, which in turn leads to the paralysis of the transportation system.
This war is almost over, and there is only one final step left.
The Swan only joined the battle on the first day, and then lay in the dock for overhaul.
The consequences of facing the main fleet were very serious. The Swan received six rounds, four of which missed the target, and two of which were weakened by the shield and directly hit the armor plate. Two of the five engines were no longer able to operate. The left The wings hanging on the sides of the mine spreaders were completely melted and disappeared. More than two hundred attitude control nozzles needed to be replaced, about 30% of the armor plates needed to be completely reinstalled, and about 10% of the wiring needed to be re-laid.
In short, it can be driven back, partly because of the strength of the damage control, and partly because of the strength of the Swan's airtight door, otherwise it would have been over.
Of the total 112 warships in the cruising fleet commanded by the Swan, more than 70 needed repairs, and the rest could only be towed back after the battle, resulting in heavy losses.
Despite the shipyard's efforts to repair it, Swan was unable to regain the ability to redeploy before the end of the battle.
All I can say is that I dodged a bullet.
(End of chapter)