Chapter 552 The bloody battle at Bespin (eight)
550. The bloody battle at Bespin (eight)
A full 4,500 fighter jets Wuyang Wuyang took off, surrounding the Republic fleet, and the Republic fleet 47 warships are rushing into the Bespin planet at high speed.
There is no doubt that this is a very risky move, because if you force a landing before repelling the opponent's fleet, no matter how you cover it, the landing ship will always be exposed to the opponent's firepower. Down.
But the Republic Fleet Commander, Admiral Maglen, could only make this risky decision.
Now that the war situation has developed, it has become very clear. The number of warships on both sides is almost the same. The Republic has 47 ships left out of 60, and the Fourth Civilization has 59 ships left out of 70. The Republic's warships have the advantage in total shield capacity, but the Fourth Civilization's firepower Significantly stronger.
If an artillery battle begins, according to computer calculations, the Galactic Republic fleet will be defeated within 20 hours.
But the Republic's fighter fleet has an absolute advantage, with a total number of 15,600 versus 10,000, and 9,000 of the 10,000 fighter jets of the Fourth Civilization are ultra-light Vulture robot fighters.
In other words, in a normal battle between the two sides, taking into account the strength of the carrier-based aircraft, the Republic's fleet is indeed capable of completely destroying the fourth civilization's fleet.
But the problem arises here, the stealth fighter!
The emergence of stealth fighters made the Galactic Republic fleet's fighter groups dare not fight far away from the warships. As a result, they were unable to effectively attack the opponent's warships, and the advantage was impossible to talk about.
Therefore, Admiral Maglen’s choice was very wise. He raided Bespin, forced a landing, and forced the fighters of the Fourth Civilization to come to cover and fight on the fixed battlefield of Bespin Floating City!
The two Jedi Masters Green Betty and Aiden Ward and their apprentices are also preparing to join the battle.
However, when she was about to set off, Green Betty suddenly frowned. She and Aiden Ward looked at each other, walked a few steps quickly to the battlefield holographic star map, stared at the star map, and then He looked back at the porthole.
"Any questions? General." Admiral McGrane asked.
Green-Betty stretched out his furry fingers, clicked on a blank area on the star map, and said: "Here."
"This is..." Admiral McGrane frowned.
"And here...here...here..." Green Betty began to mark on the star map.
Ayden Ward also came over, clicked in an area near Bespin's largest floating city, Cloud City, and said: "Here, I feel death."
The two Jedi masters kept marking on the star map while sensing, and finally made more than a hundred marks!
Seeing these dense markings, which almost semi-surrounded the landing zone selected by their fleet, Admiral McGrane was shocked, "Could it be... that this is a trap for the separatists?!"
"Notify the fleet to separate some turrets and shoot at these targets with the lowest power to prevent accidental damage to the floating city." Green-Betty said.
The order was immediately executed. The fleet detached some turrets, lowered the power and fired directly at the place indicated by Green Betty!
It doesn’t matter if you open fire, it actually pokes a hornet’s nest!
In more than a hundred places, only a few of the exploratory shots failed, while others actually showed energy ripples under the attack!
"It's an energy shield!! Invisible!!" Admiral McGlenn was shocked. He was now allergic to the word invisibility.
"This is a separatist stealth hangar platform! There are 80 seats!" an adjutant said from the side.
"The radar has a large number of weak reactions! Stealth fighters have taken off! The number is between 600 and 900!" the radar soldier reported immediately.
"The main fleet of the separatists is making moves! They are starting to accelerate!"
"A large number of vulture robot fighters took off from the direction of the floating city! 2,400 in number! There are also small spaceships of unknown type, the number 400 ships!”
Green-Betty said firmly: "I think we have seen through the Separatist conspiracy. Their rhythm has been disrupted. This is our best chance! Attack immediately! Forcefully land on the planet Bespin!"
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When the Republic fleet suddenly opened fire on those invisible hangar platforms without warning, Matt Horner gritted his teeth, and even he, who had always been calm, couldn't help but curse for the second time. The voice came, "Damn Jedi!"
"It is recommended to attack immediately before the hangar platform is destroyed." The T-series tactical robot on the side said.
Matt Horner nodded, this is the only way now.
That's what war is like, you can never predict how the other side will play, and that's still the case now. The Republic fleet was forced to force a landing by stealth fighters, and the Fourth Civilization's fleet had to take the initiative because of the Jedi Master's precognitive ability.
The planet Bespin must not be given up, because no matter how remote it is, it is also part of the Corellian Trade Route, one of the largest hyperspace routes in the galaxy. If the Fourth Civilization retreats here, they will lose their strategic initiative with the establishment of the 19th Legion of the Galactic Republic, because the messy hyperspace lanes near the Endor system are not conducive to the movement of large fleets.
So if the planet Bespin is lost, the Fourth Civilization will spend 5 times or even more to regain it.
700 ghost fighters took the initiative to attack, and 2,400 Vulture robot fighters to assist in the defense of the floating city also took off to cover. Not only that, Matt Horner ordered the main fleet of the fourth civilization to start pressing forward, which would Dealing a greater blow to the Republic fleet.
Another larger-scale air battle once again started near the Bespin Life Zone!
The 4,500 fighter jets of the Galactic Republic and the 3,100 fighter jets of the Fourth Civilization, the huge fleet collided fiercely in space like locusts.
The Ghost fighter activated the stealth mode, and the Gemini II air-to-air missiles were launched crazily at the beginning of the battle. Thousands of missiles were fired overwhelmingly. At the same time, the close-range anti-aircraft guns on the Republic's Jaeger-class battlecruisers and the Fourth Civilization's stealth hangars were all deployed, and countless small lasers lit up all the time, like a net.
The Gemini II air-to-air missile is an improved version of the Gemini missile. It is equipped with an anti-material warhead, a more advanced propulsion engine and an enemy tracking system. It has more than 10 advantages over ordinary Gemini missiles. times the damage capability, and the anti-matter warhead allows the missile's proximity explosion system to have sufficient lethality at a distance of 1 kilometer from the target.
After being launched, these missiles changed directions irregularly in the air, but the enemy tracking system always locked on their targets!
Countless explosions exploded among the Republic's fleet, and countless fighter jets were destroyed. The missiles launched by the Republic's fighter jets at the same time also exploded among the cluster of Vulture robot fighter jets. These 3.6-meter-long ultra-light fighter jets were like swatting flies. They were shot down one by one.
But the invisible Phantom fighter is always the biggest threat! Although they took the initiative to attack, the distance was close to the distance at which the Jaeger-class battlecruiser's radar could detect the stealth, but after all, the Jaeger-class battlecruiser had to share the radar data with its subordinate fighters, and then let the pilots make real-time judgments on tactics. The movement was a beat too slow after all.
A large number of fighter jets from both sides were destroyed, and no more than 20 of them were shot down!
But even so, the landing ship in the Galactic Republic fleet still took off without fear of death! They have enough fighters to protect them. Even if they are completely at a disadvantage against the ghost fighters, they can at least attract firepower to the transport ship.
Four squadrons of Y-wing bombers broke into Yuncheng. While dropping bombs at the scheduled landing site, transport ships loaded with Marines began to land one after another. These were also the first batch to set foot on Yuncheng. of the Republic Marines.
The ground battle between the two sides finally begins!
The ghost fighters of the fourth civilization also began to target the transport ships that kept going back and forth between the floating cities, but their numbers were not enough after all. With the guidance of the warships, the fighters of the Republic would more or less have a fight. At this time, the Republic fighter group with an absolute advantage in numbers was finally able to compete with the Phantom fighters with a large number of battle losses.
The Republic fleet continued to take off fighter jets, and Admiral McGrane was also desperate. He used every fighter jet he could take off and began to continuously expand the landing area.
Thousands of transport ships began to burn the flames of war into every floating city in Bespin's life zone! Moreover, due to the guidance of Jedi Master Green Betty, the minefields pre-arranged by Matt Horner were completely ineffective. Except for 4 transport aircraft that were accidentally forced into the air minefield by ghost fighters and hit mines and exploded, the other air minefields were completely disabled. Nothing was achieved.
At this moment, the third trump card that Tang Xiao prepared for the Galactic Republic’s fighter sea finally showed its fangs!
A group of V-19 Riptide Fighters are fighting a group of Vulture Robot Fighters. Although they cannot fight against the invisible Phantom Fighters, the V-19 Riptide Fighters still have no problem dealing with the Vulture Robot Fighters.
The Republic pilots drove fighter jets to nimbly avoid the shots of the robot fighters. Their shields could withstand several shots from the Vulture robot fighters, while they continued to fire blaster beams to destroy those vulnerable targets.
"There are three radar reactions ahead! They are stealth fighters!" A pilot said loudly while looking at the shared data sent from the flight control center of the Jaeger-class battlecruiser.
"Launch concussion missiles!" Several V-19 fighters launched concussion missiles. This air-to-air missile used by the Galactic Republic still has a proximity-explosion system, but its efficiency is lower than that of the Gemini II missile.
At the same time as the missiles were launched, the Phantom fighters had already begun to turn and avoid. Their weak radar signals made the shock missiles slow to respond. At this time, the Vulture fighters on the other side rushed over and intercepted all these missiles without any impact. Result!
"This is the U-9 Squadron. We encountered a separatist stealth fighter and requested fire support!" The squadron leader immediately sent a request for help message.
"Received. The AF turret and AL turret of the Sea of Fire battleship will provide 20 seconds of coverage shooting." The flight controller replied immediately.
Almost at the same time, dense laser beams were fired, and several Vulture robot fighters were shot down. Three ghost fighters were also illuminated by lasers for a few tenths of a second, but they were immediately helped by the auxiliary system. He drove down and accelerated to avoid it.
"Wait a minute! I've locked on a stealth fighter!" A V-19 pilot exclaimed, and then immediately pressed the button and unleashed a burst of intense shooting.
The ghost fighter was driven away by the battleship's close-in firepower. It did not pay attention to the lock of the Republic fighter here. It was suddenly hit by several blaster beams. The energy shield was broken and the invisibility was broken. Immediately afterwards It was destroyed by the crossfire of other V-19 fighter jets!
"Yeah!!! We killed a stealth fighter! Hahahaha! We succeeded!!" The Republic pilots cheered loudly, as excited as if they had won the war.
But their joy did not last long, as five small spacecraft suddenly rushed towards them!
According to the radar scan, this kind of spacecraft is about 31 meters long, trapezoidal, with two very conspicuous gun barrels in the front, and an uncoordinated engine at the rear end, which looks like a flea. Same.
"Unknown targets appear! Kill them!" the squadron leader said immediately. He turned on the fire control radar and began to lock on these spacecraft.
"As long as they can't be invisible, these small separatist boats are not enough for us to fight!" a pilot said in the communication channel.
The fighter squadron immediately deployed into a claw-shaped array for air combat and flew straight towards these small spacecraft.
However, at this moment, the fire control radar locks of almost every fighter in the entire squadron failed! These small spacecraft spread out with incredible flexibility and performed evasive maneuvers. Their acceleration and steering flexibility were no less than that of fighter jets!
Not only that, a ray emitter under these small spacecrafts emits a beam of light that shines on the Republic fighters.
The fighter pilot who was illuminated by the beam screamed loudly, "The engine output continues to decrease! My fighter plane is malfunctioning!"
"Rock! Follow the formation! Don't fall..." No After the squadron leader finished speaking, an enemy small spacecraft came around, aimed at the Republic fighter that had lost speed, and opened fire!
With just one shot, the V-19 Torrent fighter jet was blown to pieces with its shield and body!
This is not over yet. The strange beam emitters on these small spacecrafts begin to shine on the next target. As long as they are illuminated by this beam, the engine output of the fighter jets will decrease sharply. In such a dangerous and tragic air battle, Losing speed means...
Losing life!
This kind of small spacecraft is the Manghan-class and Spear-class light frigates. They are the third secret weapon used by Tang Xiao to deal with Republic fighter jets!
The Spear-class frigate can emit rays that affect the engine power of enemy ships, while the rays emitted by the Manghan-class frigate can disintegrate the armor of enemy ships.
However, due to power and technical issues, these two types of rays cannot be enlarged, and their ability to penetrate shields is insufficient. So Tang Xiao asked the military to produce more Spear-class light frigates. Fighters can't beat them, and frigates can't catch up. This is the positioning of these two frigates, dedicated to fighting against the Republic's fighter jets! -
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