Chapter 1618 The opening of the second battlefield
1618. The opening of the second battlefield
“Reinforcements! Our reinforcements have arrived!!”
“We are saved!! ”
The sound of joy filled the fleet communications of the Galactic Republic, as if a drowning man had grabbed the last straw and been dragged ashore.
Looking at this posture, it seems that they did not come to actively invade the Yago-Dur system, but were the passive defensive side.
Even the commander-in-chief of the fleet, Gideon Tarkin, had cold sweat on his forehead. He knew that he had made a miscalculation before. He miscalculated the strength of the Separatist fleet and their determination to attack. He even miscalculated that the initial defeat actually started with the Galactic Republic's most powerful fighter formation.
It’s no wonder they were so scared, because they were indeed at the gate of hell.
If the reinforcements arrive another hour later, then maybe they will really be annihilated!
This is no joke! Because at that time, the swarm drones had completely taken control of the situation, destroying the Galactic Republic's fighter formations, disrupting the formation of the Republic fleet, and attracting the firepower of the Republic warships. The main fleet of the Dawn Principality, which followed closely, had begun to concentrate its firepower on bombing the Galactic Republic's warships!
The transmatter electromagnetic gun of the Cole-class battlecruiser and the particle light spear of the Catastrophe-class battlecruiser. These powerful weapons will exert more and more terrifying power as the distance between the fleets of the two sides continues to shrink. Especially the latter, at a distance of about 1 light minute, it is almost impossible to avoid!
The Jaeger-class battlecruiser can only withstand a maximum of 5 shots when attacked by particle light spears, but in actual combat, it is often destroyed in less than 5 shots.
Defeat is almost a doomed outcome.
But...
Reinforcements have arrived!
40 Jaeger-class battlecruisers and 100 small and medium-sized battleships!
The Governor of the 20th Army of the Republic, Octavian Grant, who was in the rear, showed his keen strategic sense. He did not send fewer warships according to the scheduled plan, and brought more engineering ships. and supply ships, but after learning that the separatist fleet took the initiative to attack, he decisively dispatched his main fleet!
The 40 Jaeger-class battlecruisers can theoretically carry 16,000 aircraft!
Now the Galactic Republic has learned its previous lessons and will not fully load the Jaeger-class battlecruisers, because a fully loaded Jaeger-class battlecruiser will not only reduce the efficiency of take-off and landing fighters, but will also be destroyed. suffered heavy losses!
You must know that the Jaeger-class battlecruiser is no longer a symbol of invincibility on the battlefield - on the contrary, it means that the skin is thin but the inside is big.
However, even with the current standard aircraft capacity of the Republic Navy, a Jaeger-class aircraft still has more than 250 fighters.
Now that the reinforcements have arrived, the number of fighter jets in the Galactic Republic is almost equal to that of swarm drones!
This gave frontline fleet commander Gideon Tarkin greater confidence. He immediately ordered the fleet that came for reinforcements to immediately take off fighter formations and join the battle to protect his own warships from swarm drones. attack.
At the same time, after reinforcements arrived, Gideon Tarkin was finally free. He ordered all Knight-class Star Destroyers to immediately form a combat formation, using his flagship, the Will. Taking the II-class dreadnought as the lead, and gathering all the Aquitens-class light cruisers as a mobile force...
Launch an assault!
Target——
Separatism, Archon-class aircraft carrier!
He has already understood that the extremely threatening swarm drones all operate with this huge 3175-meter-long aircraft carrier as the core!
As for the Sova-class aircraft carriers at the back, they only exist as warehouses for carrying drones in drone operations, and they play a supporting role in flight control and command.
The control core of these swarm drones is on the Archon-class aircraft carrier!
As long as this Archon-class aircraft carrier can be destroyed, all swarm drones will become headless flies! Then the battle will return to the track they expected!
You have a particle light spear, it’s okay, I’ll use a shield ship to resist, and hundreds of thousands of shield capacitors are waiting to be replaced; you have an interstellar base, it’s okay, I will build my own logistics base and slowly consume it with you ;You have a fleet of powerful battleships that are matched with each other. It's okay. The number of my battleships is at least five times that of yours!
Isn’t this bad? Is everyone happy after fighting this battle? You idiots in the outer ring are only meant to be backgrounds, aren't you?
Why do you want to do this?
Gideon Tarkin, with his usual sense of superiority and keen control of the battlefield, issued the assault order.
The assault formation directly faced the intensive firepower of the Dawn Principality fleet!
At this time, the swarm drones were recovering supplies and charging in batches after launching their last attack. Gideon Tarkin's attack hit the Dawn Principality fleet at its weakest moment!
The 60-seat XX-9 heavy turbolaser cannon on the Knight-class Star Destroyer fired powerful and densely packed turbolaser beams. The extremely powerful firepower covered the Dawn Principality fleet like raindrops.
For a time, countless explosive fires and countless destructive rays of light exploded in the fleets of both sides!
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At the same time...the bridge of the Archon-class aircraft carrier Eridanus, the flagship of the Dawn Principality fleet.
"General! A large number of reinforcements from the Galactic Republic have arrived, and they are launching an assault on our ship!" the adjutant said loudly.
Admiral Matt Horner, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of the Principality of Dawn and Commander-in-Chief of the Yago-Durr System Campaign, stood with his hands behind his back as straight as a compass in the center of the bridge, looking at the holographic battle in front of him. Star map.
On the star map, the Republic fleet separated some warships into a forward formation, took off a large number of fighter jets to cover them, and launched a resolute assault towards its own formation.
However, Matt Horner just shook his head and said: "Do they want to attack? It seems that they also discovered that the Eridanus is controlling those swarm drones."
"General, there is no room for error on the Eridanos," the adjutant said.
Matt Horner nodded and issued the order, "Order all Catastrophe-class battlecruisers to launch a salvo against the enemy's flagship, the Commander II-class dreadnought! The Cole-class battlecruisers move forward to cover , the other battleships began to turn around and retreat!"
"Yes!" All 20 disaster-class battlecruisers immediately began to charge their particle light spears and adjust their hulls. Aiming at Gideon Tarkin's flagship, the Will Commander II-class dreadnought fired a salvo!
Twenty powerful particle light spears arrived in an instant. Even though the Commander II was already evading the attack, he was still hit by several shots.
The huge power of this salvo even caused a fire in one of the shield capacitor compartments of the Will! Under such terrifying power, Gideon Tarkin did not dare to continue the assault with his flagship, because according to the staff's deduction, if it continued to move forward, the Commander II-class dreadnought could withstand at most three to four attacks. If you fire a single salvo, you will be hit hard.
More importantly, on the console of the Commander II-class dreadnought, the alarm kept ringing. Their energy systems and weapons systems have been interfered with by the other side, preventing them from exerting their maximum firepower.
Under such circumstances, Gideon Tarkin also understood that even a giant ship like the Commander II-class dreadnought was in real danger of being sunk!
So, he ordered to stop the assault and retreat.
The Republic Assault Fleet conducted a brief assault with heavy thunder and small rain. After firing a burst of fierce artillery fire, it also began to retreat.
When Admiral Matt Horner saw this scene, he did not order his fleet to continue the pursuit, but continued to maintain the retreat order.
The Dawn Principality fleet retreated to the best fire coverage of the two Agonev-class interstellar bases, and then began to re-adjust the formation and send the damaged warships to the Jivin shipyard. Make emergency repairs.
During the attack launched by the Republic Fleet, seven Cole-class battlecruisers of the Dawn Principality Fleet were also severely damaged. One of them had lost power and was towed back with tractor beams by the other three battleships. of.
The firepower of the Republic Fleet is actually very powerful. There are a total of 600 twin-mounted heavy-duty turbolaser cannons on the 10 Knight-class ships, and the XX-9 turbolaser cannon has a very fast rate of fire. Under such firepower coverage Next, the battleships of the Dawn Principality are also difficult to resist.
If there were not Dunov-class battlecruisers that continuously provided shield replenishment, and Doomsday Arena-class battlecruisers with full power that interfered with the opponent's Commander II-class dreadnoughts, then this loss would still have been Bigger!
Not to mention anything else, the powerful firepower of the Commander II alone is enough to destroy the capital ships of the Dawn Principality in a short time. You must know that in order to fight against the separatist Titan battleship Xuanwu, Kuat Dynamic Shipyard urgently installed several super laser cannons on this type of battleship.
In the Battle of Eriadu System at that time, the firepower of the three Commander II-class dreadnoughts was also able to effectively damage the Xuanwu.
Although huge and clumsy, this kind of battleship is still very powerful. On the battlefield without the Titan battleship Xuanwu, it is still the overlord on the battlefield.
In the previous battle, the two sides mainly fired at each other from a distance, and later took off swarm drones as the main attack force. Therefore, only three Martha-class guided missile heavy cruisers in the Kingdom of Dawn's fleet were damaged, and the damage was not severe. With the strong industrial capabilities of the Jiwen people, they could be repaired quickly.
As for why it was the Martha class that was damaged at that stage of the battle, it was mainly because at that time, the Martha class guided missile heavy cruisers all rushed to the front of the formation in order to better enter the launch angle. . When the formation was set up later, the Cole-class battlecruisers naturally pushed forward.
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Gideon Tarkin is in a very bad mood right now, and he is very frustrated.
His plan was interrupted by Admiral Matt Horner's bold assault, and during the battle between the two sides, he was almost defeated by the annoying swarm drones, and later He made up his mind to carry out the assault, but had to terminate it.
The powerful electronic warfare capabilities of the Separatists were once again on display. The Commander II-class dreadnought was restricted by the opponent's Doomsday Battlefield-class battlecruiser, and was blocked by the opponent's powerful particle light spear. The concentrated fire volley directly extinguished the anger in Gideon Tarkin's heart.
When he gave the order to terminate the assault and begin to retreat, Gideon Tarkin's heart was filled with humiliation.
Now he vowed in his heart that he must let the separatists repay the humiliation he suffered tenfold!
But what he didn't know was that the commander-in-chief of the Dawn Principality, General Matt Horner, was also very aggrieved.
Because of this battle, it seems that the fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn took advantage. They achieved a very good battle loss ratio, with 1 battleship paralyzed, 6 battleships severely damaged, and 3 battleships severely damaged. At the cost of minor damage to the ship, it destroyed 5 Jaeger-class battlecruisers before and after the Galactic Republic, severely damaged 17 ships, and shot down more than 3,000 Republic fighter jets!
But such a battle loss ratio cannot bring victory in this battle.
Admiral Matt Horner knows this very well.
And the reason why he was very aggrieved was because the opposing commander was also very decisive, whether he decided to put his flagship on top to stabilize the battle situation when facing his powerful assault, or he did not hesitate to send a large number of troops from the rear. The fleet is extremely fast, or it may later launch a determined assault targeting its core of control, the Archon-class aircraft carrier.
Judging from these decisions, the opposing commander is also a very powerful and powerful person.
This also allowed Matt Horner to take advantage of the Galactic Republic's unpreparedness to launch an assault and prepare to destroy the opponent's logistics base. His plan finally came to nothing.
One of the five shield ships was destroyed, but the remaining four shield ships still maintained a small safe area for the Republic fleet to rest and maintain.
In other words, although he used the powerful combat capabilities of the swarm drones to knock the Republic fleet to the ground and beat it up, he still failed to achieve his strategic goal in the end.
In the following battle, we can only continue to fight head-on...
Until...
What Bacher-Banak said, the day that strong astronomical phenomenon arrives .
......
On this day, a fierce battle broke out in the Yago-Dur system - 20BBY, the evening of July 21st.
In a hidden unmanned galaxy in the core circle of the Milky Way, another unprecedentedly large fleet is already making final preparations!
I only saw that in this originally barren galaxy, a large number of space stations, space docks, space factories, and space warehouses have been built, forming a huge advanced base.
And close to the star of this unmanned galaxy, a huge disk-shaped device with a diameter of more than 20,000 meters has been completely completed. On the periphery of the star, hundreds of energy collection devices spread out huge solar sails tens of kilometers wide, and then concentrated the huge energy and injected it into the disk!
Everything is ready!
(End of this chapter)