Chapter 218 Kill the imperial dog!
Ryan Timler's order may seem a little reckless.
After all, after discovering what appeared to be a federal fleet, and even though the other party had more ships than his own, he continued to order an attack.
But if you look at it from the perspective of this imperial baron, you will find that his order is not illogical.
Although the Timler family has been passed down to his generation, the title has been reduced from viscount to baron, and the fiefdom is only half the area of the planet.
In the empire's aristocratic system, they were basically at the lowest end of the pyramid.
According to common sense, such a family usually manages its own one-third-acre land carefully and conducts "sustainable fishing" for the people on the territory.
And try to avoid events that may lead to a significant decline in the family's strength, and do everything possible to preserve the legacy passed down by our ancestors.
However, the Timler family is still slightly different from most other imperial nobles.
That is, their family belongs to the military aristocracy in the imperial aristocracy classification.
Ryan Timler's grandfather, Kyle Timler, the first generation head of the family, was a fierce man who followed the late emperor to fight against the Federation and quell the rebellion.
It was precisely because of his outstanding military exploits that he was awarded the title of Imperial Viscount by the late emperor after the war.
Although he is not a hereditary noble, he has entered the class of 'superior man' and was given half a planet as a fiefdom.
His father, Baden Timler, was also granted the title of Viscount Kyle Timler because of his experience in military service and his outstanding performance in counter-insurgency battles.
So even the third-generation head of the family, Ryan Timler, still had the title of baron.
Although his father asked Ryan not to work hard anymore before his death and just keep the family business.
But no matter what, Ryan Timler still has the fearless and war-like blood of a military aristocrat flowing in his body.
He usually focuses on running various family affairs, but he also has a dream of leading an army on the battlefield.
In addition, the intelligence sent back by the reconnaissance boat did not specifically mention that there were ships of heavy cruise level and above in the opponent's fleet.
This shows that the federal fleet ahead has at most a light cruiser stationed there.
After all, with the size of heavy cruisers, battle cruisers, and battleships, although the reconnaissance boats are relatively far apart, they can still be clearly distinguished.
In the fleet battle between the Empire and the Federation, it is commonplace to suffer some losses in terms of numbers.
So whether it is a commander of the Royal Navy or a military noble like Ryan Timler, he has long been used to it.
"It's just three more ships. The empire's warships have never been judged by their numbers."
Ryan Timler said calmly.
The family fleet commander Ron Schneider, sitting next to him on the captain's seat, also nodded in agreement.
Having served as the captain of a heavy cruiser in the Royal Navy of the Star Dragon Empire, he was recruited into the family by Ryan Timler after his retirement as the commander of the family fleet.
This is also the final destination of most Royal Navy captains who have not been promoted to the nobility.
Currently, the Timler family fleet maintains its high-speed advance formation, preparing to move to a favorable position near the asteroid.
This asteroid belt formed by the decomposition of planets is a relatively complex battlefield environment in fleet operations.
Many captains are even willing to fight at the edge of the gravity well, rather than engage in a firefight in the asteroid belt.
These asteroids, which are distributed in large numbers on this battlefield and whose mass is measured in billions of tons, are a nightmare for all helmsmen, observers and radar operators.
During the maneuver of the fleet, Ryan Timler and his family fleet commander also judged that the opponent was not a regular army of the federal navy.
Bacheng is the private arm of Atlas Mining.
After all, according to the combat style of the Federation Navy, it is absolutely impossible to have only such a small number of ships in this kind of zone.
Moreover, the smallest escort detachment in the federal navy generally has more than 25 ships.
The 18 ships discovered so far are a bit fussy no matter how you look at them.
With this judgment, Ryan Timler's willingness to fight became even more determined.
The Timler family is also the military aristocracy of the empire. Although it is not that strong now, it may still have to stay away when encountering the regular army of the federal navy.
But he was not afraid at all of the private armed forces of the Federation in front of him.
Just do it and that’s it.
Just when the fleet commander of the Timler family and his own family master were guessing the true identity of the opposite ship.
The two commanders of the Mary Bay Industrial and Yaoguang Defense Combined Fleets also reached an agreement.
That’s ‘kill these imperial dogs’.
Right now, the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire are in a state of war, and the two sides are inherently hostile.
Coupled with the media's exaggeration, the hostility towards the Star Dragon Empire within the Federation has now reached its peak. Some bold private armed forces in the border areas have already begun hunting and killing enemy civilian ships and lone warships.
And now, this ‘Imperial Company’ registered in the Thousand Stars Empire has had a small friction with them.
Now they are ready to have a battle with the United Fleet.
In this case, our own side still has an advantage in the number of ships. How could the two commanders from Mary Bay Industries and Yaoguang Defense be intimidated?
Although in the era when mankind had just entered beyond-visual-range combat, the bloody nature of direct confrontation on the battlefield gradually turned into the "xiaoxiaole" on the computer screen.
The front-line troops are often in a somewhat confused state, destroying enemies who don't know where they are, or being blasted to pieces by attacks that don't know where they come from.
The commander in the rear just watched the series of casualty figures and the ever-changing front lines on the screen, playing this game called 'war'.
But now, at least the sailors of the navy and civilian armed forces have recovered the iron blood of the era when humans had not yet left the Blue Star and used heavy artillery to bombard them on the sea.
The confrontation between the heavy metal ion jet and the deflection force field is like the confrontation between the multi-ton armor-piercing projectile and the hundreds of millimeters thick main armor belt.
In the confrontation, which was measured in seconds, the bloody spirit deep in the hearts of these sailors was reawakened.
One hour and fifty-eight minutes later, after constant maneuvering and closing the distance, the two fleets sailed into the asteroid gravel belt almost simultaneously.
Since there are no large celestial bodies nearby, in the battle in this environment, neither side uses the 'celestial coordinate method' commonly used near large celestial bodies, but uses relative positions to confirm coordinates.
If we take the position of the combined fleet as the origin, then we can look at the latest reconnaissance information returned by the reconnaissance boat combined with the results of multiple scans by the fleet's long-wave radar.
The Timler family's fleet is at a position where their axial angle is 34 degrees, their normal angle is 25 degrees, and their straight-line distance is 34,000 kilometers.
Generally speaking, at this position, both sides can already start some exploratory shooting to allow the shipboard control personality to calculate parameters.
After all, in different cosmic environments, the gravitational field is changing all the time.
Especially this kind of asteroid belt full of broken stars requires continuous shooting to calculate the best parameters.
But the bad thing is that these huge asteroids also block the main gun rays of both sides.
Often when the commanders of both sides are about to give the order to fire, they find that the other side's ship is suddenly obscured by an asteroid.
In this torturous atmosphere, the two fleets carefully shuttled through the asteroid belt and shortened the straight-line distance to twelve thousand kilometers.
At this time, both sides had basically figured out each other's fleet configuration.
One side has more destroyers, while the other side has two light cruisers.
Although each has certain advantages and disadvantages, at this point, the option of 'retreating from battle' has long been forgotten by the commanders of both sides.
In the north pole direction of this battlefield, there is an asteroid rubble belt with a maximum diameter of only a few kilometers.
An HCP painted in dark gray space camouflage was being carefully transferred from the surface of an asteroid to another.
The back of its shoulder armor is not equipped with a weapon rack like other HCPs.
But two groups of large composite investigation units.
The main monitor on its head has also been obviously modified. The overly enlarged size makes this HCP look as funny as a big-headed doll.
At this moment, the pilot in the cockpit was nervously operating the composite reconnaissance unit to 'overlook' the battlefield about 10,000 kilometers away.
Although the thermostatic device built into the heavy-duty hydraulic anti-gravity suit was keeping running, the former Yaoguang Defense pilot's forehead was still covered with sweat.
Of course, being alone in this dangerous position, doing such a dangerous job.
If it were anyone else in the Atlas HCP squadron, they wouldn't be any better than him.
Oh, except for my current boss and HCP squadron commander, that guy is a lunatic.
If it were him, he might be laughing in the cockpit!
Thinking of the boss who drove the 'Red Devil' across the entire squadron in the simulated battle, the pilot couldn't help but shudder.
“Damn it, if the bonus offered by Boss wasn’t high enough, I wouldn’t be doing this job!”
After adjusting the final parameters, the pilot switched to the operation of the communication unit interface, and then decisively pressed the volumetric light button representing 'information transmission'.
“But if the bonus is this big next time, then it’s not impossible to do it again.”
The detection results of optical, red ultraviolet, long wave and synthetic aperture radar were temporarily arranged here The neutrino communication satellite in the area was transmitted to the Ares 60,000 kilometers away.
On the bridge, Randall and others were nervously staring at the picture synthesized by the shipboard control personality on the big screen.
When stars suddenly lit up in the deathly silent asteroid belt, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
“After waiting for so long, the fight finally started!”
(End of this chapter)