Reinforcements from both sides are constantly arriving. In the middle of this hyperspace channel, in an unnamed space, the encounter gradually turns into a decisive battle!
Gilad Pellaeon's judgment was not wrong. The geth ambushed nearly 10,000 warships in this direction, deployed in several different hyperspace channels. Among them, the number of 600 to 800 meter long dreadnoughts reached
3,000 ships, such a force is extremely powerful.
After encountering the Imperial fleet, geth warships from other directions also rushed in for reinforcements. Some of these warships returned to the planet Anxin, and then went to the battlefield through the hyperspace channel for reinforcements. Others went in the opposite direction, directly
Break into the newly surrendered planet of Grad-Anselm.
So on the planet Grad-Anselm, a battle broke out with part of the follow-up fleet of the Geth warship Gilad Pellaeon that had attacked.
The two sides are now engaged in three battles at the same time in the middle of the two hyperspace lanes and on the planet Grad-Anselm.
Gilad Pellaeon had already made arrangements and kept training. Therefore, the imperial fleets in these three directions all changed their formations into Pellaeon rings to meet them, and the battle directly entered a fierce stage.
However, although the geth fleet has an absolute advantage in terms of numbers, this advantage is not particularly large. The geth fleet has 10,000 battleships, and because geth battleships are generally small in size, only 3,000 of them are dreadnoughts.
Gilad Pellaeon's fleet has a total of 800 battleships, half of which are Imperial-class Star Destroyers. In addition, there are more than 2,000 small and medium-sized battleships, including various types of light cruisers, heavy cruisers, frigates, etc.
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Therefore, the actual strength advantage of the geth fleet is only about 3 to 4 times.
Moreover, the performance of the warships on both sides has actually widened a huge gap.
The geth's battleships have not undergone much improvement since the Clone Wars until now. They are still the same type of battleships, and there has not been much technological innovation.
During the Clone Wars, the Geth Dreadnoughts could overwhelm the Jaeger-class battlecruisers, but against the Imperial-class Star Destroyers, there was no possibility of resistance.
This is also true. The Jaeger-class battlecruiser only has 8 main guns in total and the power is limited. A large amount of space is used for the hangar platform, and the protection capability is also very insufficient. However, the Imperial-class Star Destroyer has 60 main guns, and
There are another 60 plasma cannons dedicated to attacking shields, and the hangar platform has been reduced to a quarter of the Jaeger-level, with more space to accommodate the huge L-A2B solar furnace reactor and more
Thick armor.
From the Jaeger-class to the Imperial-class, this is a leap. One Imperial-class can easily destroy ten Jaeger-class ships. Therefore, the Geth Dreadnought is no match at all.
But the strength of Geth has sounded the alarm to Gilad Pellaeon, and he is very nervous now. It is not because the Geth fleet cannot defeat it, but because Geth can gather heavy troops in this direction, so
It is possible that they also have such a huge fleet in other directions!!
And what frightened him even more was that he never knew that the Geth had so many spaceships!
Before this, every time the Geth fleet appeared, it was a fleet of 300 ships. Every time it sortied out, the larger one would have 3 or 4 fleets and more than a thousand warships, and the smaller one would only have one fleet.
The fleet hit and ran.
This has long made the Galactic Empire have a misjudgment, believing that the geth may only have so much productivity, and harassment is no problem, but it is almost impossible to directly threaten the hinterland of the empire.
But now, the appearance of nearly 10,000 battleships has told Gilad Pellaeon that the geth really have the ability to fight all the way to the inner circle!
Looking at the holographic image of the battlefield where the fierce battle was taking place, Admiral Gilad Pellaeon once again felt extremely regretful. He believed that this active attack was definitely a mistake, and he might have fallen into the geth's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain!
Now that the battlefield situation has begun to stabilize, he began to figure out whether to retreat back to the planet Gullah-Anselm or continue to attack the planet Anselm...
The two sides fought fiercely for 17 hours. On September 19, the Geth fleet abandoned the wreckage of more than 3,000 warships and began to retreat. After the Geth fleet retreated, Gilad Pellaeon also began to gather his remaining forces.
In the fleet and the three battlefields combined, he lost a total of 70 capital ships and more than 200 small and medium-sized battleships, and many of the remaining battleships were scarred.
But after all, they also caused very heavy losses to the Geth fleet. It can be said that this huge Geth fleet is disabled and has almost no ability to continue attacking.
Rather than searching for and chasing small-scale geth fleets that are harassing everywhere around the world, it is better to solve them all at once in such a decisive battle.
Gilad-Pellaeon held a fleet military meeting to discuss the current battlefield situation.
Compared with his worries, the victory of this encounter made officers at all levels in the fleet feel very optimistic. Almost all officers believed that the victory should be pursued. Moreover, one of the combat staff also made an offer that was difficult to refuse.
Reason - If they give up this opportunity, it may be difficult to find another opportunity to fight a decisive battle with a large geth fleet. At the same time, they also believe that if they continue to attack the planet Anxin, there will probably be no more resistance.
Because the main force of the Commercial Combined Fleet is currently attacking the Northern Outer Rim Star Region under the leadership of Admiral Mar-Tuk. Under such a division of forces, if they still have such a large fleet on Anxin Planet, it will be enough to threaten them.
In terms of the main fleet, this means that the Kingdom of Dawn has already had an absolutely superior force in the northern region. This is simply impossible.
If they had such an absolute advantage, they would never wait until now.
Gilad Pellaeon was convinced. At the same time, he also believed that it should not retreat after the initial victory. He also believed that the current Galactic Empire had experienced a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Kira Planet and the Outer Rim Star Region.
After a series of completely lost blows, such a reversal is needed from both a strategic and tactical perspective.
He ordered the fleet to temporarily return to the planet Grad-Anselm for rest and replenishment, which would take about three days.
This decision is understandable, because after this tragic battle, many battleships in his fleet are not in good condition. And it is not bad, but not very bad. Basically, a day or two of supplies and repairs will be enough.
Can restore the best condition.
Therefore, Gilard Perrine plans to take a rest before attacking, so that he will be more confident.
However, he had not thought at this moment that it was the three days of delay that caused his main fleet to almost not return to the base of the Bilbulin planet alive!!
At this moment, Admiral Mar-Tuk's fleet is turning back! (End of this chapter)