Chapter 1,618 The opening of the second battlefield
1618, the opening of the second battlefield
"Reinforcements! Our reinforcements have arrived!
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"We are saved!
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Voices of joy filled the Galactic Republic's fleet communications, 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 ones passively defending.
Even the commander-in-chief of the fleet, Gideon Tarkin, had cold sweat on his forehead. He knew that he had miscalculated before. He had miscalculated the strength of the Separatist fleet, their determination to attack, and even more miscalculated the final plan.
The initial rout actually started with the Galactic Republic's most powerful fighter formation.
It's no wonder they were so scared, because they had indeed walked through the gates of hell.
If the reinforcements arrive another hour later, then maybe they will really be wiped out!
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 that followed closely had already
Begin to concentrate your firepower on bombing the Galactic Republic's battleships!
The transmatter railgun 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 both sides continues to shrink. Especially
The latter is almost impossible to avoid at a distance of about 1 light minute!
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!
Octavian Grant, the governor of the 20th Army of the Republic at the rear, showed his keen strategic sense. He did not send fewer warships and bring more engineering ships and supply ships according to the scheduled plan, but
After learning that the separatist fleet had taken 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 suffer heavy losses when it is destroyed.
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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 after the reinforcements have arrived, the number of fighter jets in the Galactic Republic has almost equaled 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 drone attacks.
At the same time, after reinforcements arrived, Gideon Tarkin finally had his hands free. He ordered all Knight-class Star Destroyers to immediately form a combat formation, with his flagship, the Will Commander II-class dreadnought as the
Forerunner, 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 subsequent Sowa-class aircraft carriers, they only exist as warehouses for carrying drones in drone operations, and 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 you will spend it slowly; you have to match each other's combat capabilities
Powerful fleet, it's okay, my number of battleships is at least five times yours!
Isn't it good that this is it? Is everyone happy to finish this battle happily? You idiots in the outer ring are only qualified to be the background, aren't you?
Why bother bringing this up?
Gideon Tarkin, with his usual sense of superiority and keen control of the battlefield, issued the assault order.
The assault formation faced the intensive firepower of the Dawn Principality fleet and faced it directly!
At this time, the swarm drones were recovering supplies and charging in batches after launching the last attack. Gideon Tarkin's attack happened to hit the Dawn Principality fleet when it was at its weakest!
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 flagship of the Dawn Principality fleet, the Archon-class aircraft carrier Eridanus bridge.
"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 combat star map in front of him.
On the star map, the Republic fleet separated a part of its warships into a vanguard formation, took off a large number of fighter jets to provide cover, 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 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 Disaster-class battlecruisers to launch a salvo attack on the enemy's flagship, the Commander II-class dreadnought! The Cole-class battlecruisers move forward to cover, and other battleships begin to turn around.
Retreat! Retreat one by one to the protection of the interstellar base!"
"yes!"
All 20 Cataclysm-class battlecruisers immediately began to charge their particle lances, and adjusted their hull angles to fire a salvo at Gideon Tarkin's flagship, the Commander II-class Dreadnought!
20 powerful particle light spears arrived in an instant. Even though the Commander II was already trying to evade 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! With such terrifying power, Gideon Tarkin did not dare to continue the assault with his flagship, because according to the staff's instructions
According to deductions, if we continue to move forward, the Commander II-class dreadnought can withstand at most three to four salvos before it will be severely damaged.
More importantly, on the console of the Commander II-class dreadnought, the alarm kept ringing. Their energy system and weapon system had been interfered with by the other party, and they were unable to exert 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!
Therefore, he ordered to stop the assault and retreat.
The Republic's assault fleet conducted a brief assault with heavy thunder and light 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 for 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 by the other three battleships using tractor beams.
The firepower of the Republic's fleet is actually very powerful. There are a total of 600 twin heavy 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, the battleships of the Dawn Principality
It’s also hard to resist.
If there were not Dunov-class battlecruisers that continuously provided shield replenishment, and Doomsday Arena-class battlecruisers that were fully powered to interfere with the opponent's Commander II-class dreadnoughts, then this loss would have been even greater!
Not to mention anything else, the powerful firepower of the Commander II class alone is enough to destroy the capital ships of the Dawn Principality in a short period of time. You must know that in order to fight against the separatist Titan battleship Xuanwu, the Quat Power Dockyard was on this type of battleship.
Several super laser cannons were installed urgently.
During 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 this kind of huge and clumsy battleship is still powerful, it is still the overlord on the battlefield without the Titan battleship Xuanwu.
In the previous battle, because the two sides mainly fired at each other from a long distance, and later took off swarm drones as the main attack force, only three Martha-class guided missile heavy cruisers in the Dawn Principality's fleet were damaged.
Moreover, the damage was not serious, and with the strong industrial capabilities of the Jiwen people, it 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, in order to better enter the launch angle, the Martha class missile cruisers all rushed to the front of the formation. Later, they moved away.
During the formation, the Cole-class battlecruisers naturally pushed forward.
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Gideon Tarkin is in a very bad mood right now, and is very frustrated.
His plan was interrupted by Admiral Matt Horner's daring assault, and during the battle between the two sides, he was almost defeated by the annoying swarm drones. Later, he made up his mind to conduct the assault.
, also had to be terminated.
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 unable to function. It was also fired at by the opponent's powerful particle light spear, 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 feeling very aggrieved.
Because in this battle, on the surface, the fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn took advantage. They achieved a very good battle loss ratio. At the cost of 1 battleship being paralyzed, 6 battleships being severely damaged, and 3 battleships being slightly damaged,
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!
However, 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 opponent's 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 ultimately 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 next battle, we can only continue to fight head-on...
until……
Bach-Barnak said that the day when a strong astronomical phenomenon arrived.
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On this day, a fierce battle broke out in the Yago-Dur system - 20 BBY, the evening of July 21.
In a hidden unmanned galaxy in the core circle of the Milky Way, another unprecedentedly large fleet is already making final preparations!
I can only see 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 forward 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 put
Huge energy is concentrated and injected into the disk!