Chapter 2351 The decisive battle on Anxin Planet (Part 1)
2352, The decisive battle on Anxin Planet (Part 1)
Admiral Gilad Pellaeon has also received the news that Admiral Mal Took led the Merchant Combined Fleet to turn back.
After Admiral Mal-Took captured the planet Agamar, he immediately turned back with his troops and returned to the planet Mequito to rest and recuperate. It seemed that he was preparing to reinforce the planet Anxin.
The Anxin Planet is the core and the gateway of the entire Malarian Alliance. From the perspective of the Milky Way Plane Star Map, the main hyperspace channels in the star region where the Malarian Alliance is located are generally in the shape of a cross, and the Anxin Planet is the center of this cross.
.The planets of Grad-Anselm and Dorin currently occupied by the Galactic Empire fleet are the section below this cross.
Therefore, it is not difficult to see that after occupying the planet Dorin, the Geth vigorously built factories on the planet Dorin. It seemed that they planned to build this planet into a fortress planet in order to protect the planet Gullah-Anselm and Anxin.
Planetary.
In fact, the Malarian Alliance has now formed an independent special economic zone with the Anxin planet as its core. This special economic zone has developed and grown with trade with the Chiss Territory in the unknown star field as its main source of income. So although the Malarian Alliance
Relatively speaking, the industry is not developed, but it is also a very important star area in the northern region controlled by the Kingdom of Dawn.
Therefore, it is not difficult to guess that Mar-Tuk led his army to return.
But Admiral Gilad Pellaeon has made up his mind to capture the planet Anxin! As mentioned before, the planet Anxin is located at the center of the cross-shaped hyperspace channel. Even if he does not continue to penetrate into the Malarian Alliance, he only needs to capture Anxin.
Planet, then it can also gain huge strategic benefits.
Capturing the Anxin planet and stationing the imperial fleet here is equivalent to controlling the entire Malarian Alliance and destroying the core of the alliance. Then the alliance will directly perish. After that, stationed on the Anxin planet, you can attack, retreat or defend.
, and can also guard the passage to the unknown star field.
Such an important planet must not be let go.
Admiral Gilad Pellaeon believes that he has enough troops to capture the planet Anxin. He currently has 700 capital ships, including 300 Imperial-class Star Destroyers and two Commander II-class dreadnoughts. His strength can be described as
Strong for a while.
On the other hand, the Geth fleet had just suffered heavy losses. The huge fleet of 10,000 warships suffered heavy losses in a head-to-head battle with the Imperial fleet, and it was difficult for the remaining warships to regain their combat effectiveness.
At this moment, taking advantage of the victory to attack Planet Anxin, it is very likely that there will be no disadvantages.
The only thing that needs to be worried about now is the commercial fleet led by Admiral Mar-Touk.
Gilad Pellaeon had also heard about this general who could be said to be the only one who could fight among the soft-hearted Neimoidians. He participated in the entire Clone War and was unknown from the beginning.
When the book was passed on, he was entrusted with important tasks by Tang Xiao. In the subsequent wars, he did not betray Tang Xiao's trust and participated in many battles with outstanding achievements.
Although he is not as dazzling as super-famous generals such as Severance Tann and Ling Liang, he can complete his tasks excellently every time and rarely makes mistakes. The saying that a good fighter has no outstanding achievements is to describe him like this
of generals.
In fact, such a general is actually the most troublesome on the battlefield. Because you can hardly expect him to make any mistakes. He will always fight step by step and not give you any loopholes. Even if you can defeat him, the price paid will definitely not be small.
On the contrary, fighting against those generals who claim to be geniuses and facing their so-called genius tactics are actually, to put it bluntly, mostly big gambles. Winning is brilliant, but losing will be particularly miserable. Facing this kind of enemy
, I actually like Gerald Perrine, because he himself is a very stable type.
At the same time, the battle on the planet Kira also sounded the alarm to every officer of the Galactic Empire Navy - their warships may have really created a generation gap between them and the Kingdom of Dawn in terms of combat capabilities and technical content!
In other words, unless you have an absolute advantage, try not to engage in a head-on decisive battle with the Kingdom of Dawn's main fleet. This has become a consensus among officers at all levels of the Imperial Navy.
At the same time, it can also be found that the naval officers of the Kingdom of Dawn also think so. The evidence is that they rarely divide their troops now, and they all gather their fleets together and constantly seek opportunities for fleet battles.
Gilad Pellaeon decided to make a time difference. He knew that Mal-Tuk was currently on the planet Agama. From there to the planet Anxin, if you go through the hyperspace channel, you need to make a large circle and a large fleet.
If so, it will take at least 7 to 8 days.
This is because the commercial combined fleet only has more than 200 capital ships and more than 5,000 small and medium-sized warships. When small and medium-sized warships are on a long-distance attack, because the hyperspace engine level is not enough, the distance of a single jump is far.
Not as good as large battleships, so they need more jumps.
In fact, this is a point that Kuat Dynamics Shipyard repeatedly raised when promoting their Imperial-class Star Destroyers. That is, the Imperial-class can meet the needs of combat in various situations, so most of the time, only the Imperial-class Star Destroyer is needed.
A formation can solve all problems. In this way, a pure Empire-class Star Destroyer formation will also have very high maneuverability.
At least on this point, Kuat Dynamic Shipyard did not talk nonsense.
Then, regarding the issue of the Star Gate, Gilad Pellaeon also considered it. He judged that the commercial alliance in the North, that is, the alliance of the Interstellar Banking Association, the Trade Federation, and the Fourth Group, is likely to have also built the Star Gate.
Door.
There is almost certainly a star gate on their home planet of Mejito. However, in terms of the current control area and strategic importance, apart from the Mejito planet, it is the only one that has the time to build it, and its strategic significance is also
An important enough planet is the planet Oud-Mantel - the former capital of the Eighth Army.
However, the industry on the planet Ord-Mantel is not developed. Before, it was mainly tourism, black finance and casino business. It was a military base built after the Galactic Republic used it as the capital of the Eighth Army. Therefore, it is often called there.
Mantel Military Depot.
Therefore, even if it is necessary to build a star gate there, it is very difficult. The Kingdom of Dawn has not yet demonstrated the ability to build a star gate wherever it goes. Of course, if there is, the Galaxy Empire can just surrender directly.
Therefore, Gilad Pellaeon judged that Admiral Mal-Tuk was the fastest and needed to first return to the Mechito planet from the Agama planet, and then use the star gate to quickly move from the Mechito planet to Alder-Man
Ter planet, and finally move from the Oude-Mantel planet to the Anxin planet. This process takes about four days.
So, starting from the planet Ord-Mantel, he went to the Vortex and Vicondor planets between the Dorin planets to set up defenses layer by layer. He deployed a large number of hyperspace blockers and a large number of
Air mines slow down the advance of the Mar-Touk fleet.
He judged that in this way, the mobility advantage of the stargate from the planet Mejitor to the planet Oud-Mantel could be offset. It would take seven days for Mal-Tuk to come to reinforce the planet Anxin.
Then, he only needs to capture the Anxin Planet within seven days!
Now that Geth's fleet has been severely damaged, seven days is totally fine!
On September 23, Gilad Pellaeon once again led the fleet to set off. This time, because he severely damaged the geth fleet, he was more confident. He directly divided his fleet into eight according to the conditions of the hyperspace channel.
A formation, simultaneously proceeding from the 8 branch channels leading to the planet Anxin!
In this way, even if a hyperspace blocker is set up on Anxin's planet, he can still have his main fleet reach the target within one day!
On September 24, the first batch of 500 capital ships and 1,200 small and medium-sized battleships of the Imperial Fleet arrived at Anxin Planet. Without any surprise, Anxin Planet had activated its planetary shield, and the defense fleet of the Malarian Alliance was also waiting here.
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Not only that, the geth fleet here also has as many as 4,000 ships.
Now the relationship between Geth and the Kingdom of Dawn, they just stopped pretending! Anyway, Geth controls the electromagnetic environment of the battlefield as always, and the battlefield situation here cannot be transmitted back to the empire at the first time. So next, as long as the imperial warship
If we kill them all, no one will know about Dawn Kingdom’s collusion with the Geth!
Gilad Pellaeon did not waste a minute and immediately commanded his fleet to attack the planet Anxin, and the battle broke out instantly!
The defense fleet of the Mararian Alliance has assembled more than 50 capital ships here, most of which are second-line battleships that were eliminated by the Kingdom of Dawn, and 1,000 small and medium-sized battleships. These small and medium-sized battleships are diverse, and some are eliminated by the Kingdom of Dawn.
, some were bought on the black market, and some were obtained from the remaining fleets of the Confederation of Independent Systems!
Not only that, an Agonev-class interstellar base has also been deployed above the north and south poles of the Anding planet.
The defensive fleet relied on the interstellar base, fixed defense facilities and planetary shields to engage in a fierce frontal battle with the imperial fleet. The battle instantly became extremely fierce.
As an autonomous dominion, the soldiers of the Mararian Alliance were extremely motivated to fight. For them, this battle was about protecting their homeland. None of their warships flinched, they just opened fire wildly.
Moreover, the defense fleet is also organized in an orderly manner. The injured warships immediately retreat to the protection of the planetary shield, or hide behind the Agonev-class interstellar base, and then receive emergency repairs. If the damage is serious, they will be directly pulled back to the planet.
In the atmosphere, repairs will be carried out in the dock there.
But most of the time, facing the powerful firepower of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, the warship that can get the opportunity to repair is considered to have won the jackpot.
Only one Revenge-class destroyer was seen maneuvering along the edge of the planetary shield while waiting for an opportunity to shoot with the powerful pulse laser cannon in front. This type of destroyer is the first regular warship built by the Fourth Civilization, with a length of 108.7 meters.
, its characteristic is that its main gun is very powerful, which is its only advantage.
Therefore, the Revenge class has long been eliminated.
The Revenge-class destroyer's shot hit an Imperial-class Star Destroyer about 50,000 kilometers away very accurately, but this time the main gun shot only caused a small ripple on the Star Destroyer's deflector shield.
There was no response after that.
At the same time, a piercing siren sounded on the bridge of the Revenge-class destroyer! This was locked by the fire control radar!
The battleship captain quickly ordered an evasion, and at the same time notified the planet command to temporarily lower the planetary shield in his area to allow his battleship to pass through, thereby using the planetary shield to resist the attack.
But it was a step too late!
I saw several consecutive red turbo laser beams fired instantly, hitting the Revenge-class hull almost instantly!
Among the several rounds of turbo laser beams, the turret of the first round was deflected due to electronic interference from the Geth. The beam emitted by another turret of the second round hit directly, and this one turbo laser beam directly hit the target.
A Revenge-class destroyer was completely blown to pieces!
These small battleships are so desperate when facing the Empire-class Star Destroyer!
At this moment, the Geth warships also rushed forward bravely and fearlessly. The 4,000 warships were the warships in better condition that had been preserved from the previous blockade.
In order to block the advance of the Imperial fleet, the Geth really tried their best in that battle without any reservations.
And this time, the Geth also showed their own characteristics, and continued to advance against the powerful firepower of the Imperial warships! The Geth warships were very flexible. They immediately dispersed in all directions at the beginning of the battle, and then moved towards them from all directions.
The Imperial fleet is outflanking.
Now the Imperial fleet is not arranged in a Pellaeon ring, but in an attack formation, which means that all the warships are aiming at the Anxin planet with their bows and moving at full speed. In this way, the fragile tail of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer is gone.
Protect!
The goal of the geth warships is very clear. At all costs, they must bypass the side and rear of the Imperial fleet and launch an attack from the weak point of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer.
Admiral Gilad-Pellaeon's response is also very simple - move forward, move forward, and move forward again! Until the planetary shield of Anxin is destroyed, a landing is launched, and the planet is completely occupied!
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The battle has been going on for four hours, and the situation is still extremely tense. Although the Imperial fleet is fighting desperately, it is still unable to break through the defense of the defensive fleet and launch an orbital bombardment of the planetary shield.
However, General Gilad Pellaeon was already certain of his victory!
Because the rate of loss of warships on the defensive fleet is much greater than that of the imperial fleet! In other words, as time goes by and the battle losses on both sides increase, the gap between the two sides will snowball!
Gilad Pellaeon connected to the public channel and started persuading the Anxin Planet to surrender, [... You have been defeated and there is no possibility of victory! Stop resisting and surrender immediately and strive for leniency! Otherwise, we will use
Orbital bombing responds to your stubborn resistance at this moment!】
The answer from Anxin Planet is only one word - [Get out!]
Gilad Pellaeon didn't know where their confidence came from, but he ordered the attack to continue to teach Planet Anxin a lesson.
However, when the battle continued for another day, and Anxin's defense fleet had suffered heavy losses and was almost unable to fight anymore, on the bridge of Admiral Gilad-Pellaeon's flagship, the radar sensor department suddenly heard a
There was a shrill siren!
The radar officer stumbled over and said loudly: "General! It's bad! Large-scale hyperspace jump fluctuations have been detected!!!"