(The summary of the previous chapter was supplemented by the Broadsword fighter.)
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After engaging those scaled-down warships, Admiral Gilad Perrine immediately understood that although these warships were much smaller in size, their combat capabilities had not decreased at all!
The most obvious one is the scaled-down version of the Cole-class battlecruiser. This battlecruiser was once reduced from 1,300 meters in length to 837.2 meters in length, a full circle smaller, and more than doubled in size.
And according to the situation of the scaled-down version of the Cole class that is currently fighting, these battleships are equipped with a very huge double-mounted super-matter electromagnetic gun above and below the hull, which has never been seen before. And this super-matter gun
The caliber of the electromagnetic gun has been reduced to 20 meters, but the firepower is still very terrifying. The power of the two twin-mounted cannons is naturally far greater than the previous single-shot axis-based cannon.
The technological progress of the Kingdom of Dawn can be seen from these two turrets. In order to install the huge 40-meter-caliber super-matter electromagnetic gun, the former Cole-class was made into a half-axis base gun. The entire launch system
More than 500 meters long! And now, those 20
The length of the 1-meter-caliber super-material electromagnetic gun is only 142 meters, and the length of the turret is only 208 meters, and it is also a twin-mounted gun! The form of the turret is also much more flexible than the previous half-axis-based gun.
It can aim at the target without turning the battleship.
Without greatly weakening the firepower, directly dividing the firepower point into four will not only be more flexible, but also cover a larger area, and the firepower will be doubled.
At the same time, the front end of the battleship was replaced with a huge semi-axis-based laser cannon, which also has very terrifying firepower. But compared to the firepower, what is even more amazing is that the scaled-down version of the Cole class can not only bear the burden of becoming a twin-mounted
In addition to the super-matter electromagnetic gun, can you afford such a semi-axis-based laser cannon?! Does this mean that the energy level of the scaled-down version of the Cole-class has reached or even exceeded the previous 1300-meter model?!
After seeing this series of astonishing numbers, Gilad Pellaeon now understood. This is the upgrade and improvement of the warships being carried out by the Kingdom of Dawn!
And it is obvious that the upgrading and improvement work is the research and development and construction completed by the Kingdom of Dawn in the north. Comparing the main fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn in the Battle of Planet Kira, you can understand that the main battleship in that direction is the Apocalypse-class battleship.
There are Hells Angel-class, Armageddon-class, Catastrophe-class, Paladin-class battlecruisers, as well as Cole-class and Dunov-class battlecruisers, but they are all ordinary models.
This shows that this upgrade and refit has not yet been equipped to the southern border where the Kingdom of Dawn is located. In contrast, the fleets on the northern border rarely see Hells Angel-class battlecruisers and disaster-class battlecruisers.
There are no Apocalypse-class battleships and Archon-class aircraft carriers visible, which also shows that the origin of these battleships is not in the North.
The clear distinction between warship models in the two directions fully illustrates that the Kingdom of Dawn has not completely completed the upgrading of its navy. Many warships were built but before they could be deployed, the Galactic Empire came to attack them.
But now, these words will not help the battle situation at all. Admiral Gilad Pellaeon looked at the battle situation, his expression gradually became serious.
Although his fleet occupies the advantage in quantity and size at the moment, Admiral Mal-Tuk's fleet, which is mainly composed of cruisers, can already compete with his Star Destroyers! But according to intelligence, Mal-Took's fleet is dominated by cruisers.
Admiral Tuke's commercial combined fleet has a total of more than 200 capital ships and more than 5,000 small and medium-sized warships!
If those small and medium-sized warships that have not yet arrived are also these new warships, then when follow-up reinforcements arrive, this commercial combined fleet will definitely not be able to deal with it on its own!
The best option at the moment is to retreat. But Gilad Pellaeon also understands that he cannot retreat yet, otherwise he will not be able to give an explanation to Dunne Wessex and Emperor Palpatine.
"Call the ships to continue turning and move forward, and get out of the gravity well of the Anxin planet as soon as possible!" Gilad Pellaeon gave the order. He decided to fight outside the planet's gravity well, so that on the one hand, he could stay away from the planet's defense facilities.
Due to the revolution of the planet, the Agonev-class interstellar bases above the north and south poles can no longer threaten themselves. On the other hand, it also allows their warships to start hyperspace jumps as soon as possible and leave this galaxy.
At the same time as making this decision, General Gilad Pellaeon also acquiesced that he could not achieve his strategic goals.
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At the same time, the flagship of the Commercial Combined Fleet, the super aircraft carrier Neimoidia.
"General, the imperial fleet is maneuvering in the opposite direction of the planet's revolution." The T-series tactical robot said to Admiral Mal-Took.
"They want to escape! Don't give them this chance! Let me catch up and entangle them!" Admiral Mar-Tuk touched his smooth chin and said sternly.
"Our strength is still insufficient. In the past three hours, another 40 Victory II-class Star Destroyers have arrived on the battlefield. Now we continue to pursue, without the fire support of the planet's defense facilities, we may face greater battle losses.
"The T-series tactical robot said, "According to the current strategic deployment, excessive losses of the new warships we originally planned to assign to Dawn Planet will affect our combat plan."
"Hmm..." Admiral Mar-Tuk looked serious and fell silent and began to think.
This tactical robot is right. He really cannot bear too much loss. Because of the commercial combined fleet in his hands, why is the ratio of battleships so unbalanced? It is the same as Gilad Pellaeon's judgment. It is because of the outbreak of the war.
It was too hasty and the deployment of new warships has not been completed.
According to the original plan, the Kingdom of Dawn should provide a batch of Hell's Angel-class, Paladin-class, Disaster-class, Doomsday Battlefield-class battlecruisers and other capital ships, and then send a batch of Cole II-class and Martha II-class battleships here.
, the Minotaur class and other new battleships passed there. Later, they became the Third Task Force on the planet Mequito.
However, this plan was interrupted by the outbreak of the war, so Mal-Took, under the urging of Lott Dude, the current chairman of the Trade Federation, and San Hill, co-chairman of the Interstellar Banking Association, transferred the current battleships here
They all organized themselves into a combined commercial fleet and joined the battle.
However, such a hasty formation naturally resulted in a strange organization with cruisers as the mainstay and not many battleships. Although the combat effectiveness is still very strong, without the thick-skinned battleships to attract frontal firepower, relying solely on
If a cruiser goes into a head-on confrontation with the opponent's Imperial-class Star Destroyer, even if it can win, it will definitely suffer a lot of losses.
To put it another way, isn't this the reason why the Kingdom of Dawn is building a large number of Hells Angel-class battlecruisers?
After thinking for a while, Admiral Mal-Took waved his hand and said to the other direction: "Call Skywalker over."
"Roger." The tactical robot responded, and then its electronic eyes flashed for a while and sent out the command.
After a while, a girl walked over from the other side of the bridge.
This girl is not old, only about 10 years old, and her blue skin and red eyes clearly show that she is a Chiss. Behind her, there are two adult Chiss women, who are specialized in
The attendant who takes care of this girl.
"When will our reinforcements arrive?" Mar-Tuk asked directly.
The Chisi girl clasped her hands together and closed her eyes, and began to meditate. After a long time, she opened her eyes, shook her head and said: "The road to heaven has not been opened, the 'tangle' is still chaotic, and it is still unnavigable. I
It needs to be sensed again after half a day."
She seemed a little weak, and the woman behind her quickly supported her.
"Half a day...and you still can't be sure?" Mar-Tuk frowned.
"Yes." The Chiss girl nodded and replied, her voice becoming weak.
"Go down and rest." Mar-Tuk waved his hand and asked the girl to leave and rest.
These girls are all Chiss ‘Skywalkers’, the Chiss’ unique hyperspace navigators.
As we all know, in the unknown star field, because the hyperspace channels are very chaotic, some channels can even change in an hour or two. Therefore, the traditional hyperspace navigation technology cannot be used in the unknown star field. Therefore, it can be seen that the vast majority of
The civilization living in the unknown star field has never been able to step out of its own planet in its entire life.
Only a few civilizations that can master the navigation of this super chaotic hyperspace channel called the "Tangle" can develop and grow into a huge country with multiple planets.
For example, the bio-battery technology of the Xilu Empire, the telepathy of the Grisk Hegemony, and the Chissland's Skywalker.
Skywalkers are basically young girls, generally no more than 13 years old, and they are all Force-sensitive. According to Chiss research, female Force-sensitives no more than 13 years old can be trained to deal with hyperspace.
The waterway creates a very strange feeling.
Through this induction, these girls can guide the spacecraft to make a successful hyperspace jump and pass through the unpredictable 'tangle'. This kind of induction is called the "Third Horizon" by the Chiss.
The reason why Admiral Mal-Took was able to lead the commercial combined fleet to the planet Anxin in just three days this time was because of the power of these "Skywalkers".
The Kingdom of Dawn did build a star gate in the north, but unlike the Galactic Empire's alarming judgment, the Kingdom of Dawn's construction of star gates was far from the point where they could be built at will and then form a network.
Because the phase cores of these star gates can only be manufactured by Vasari phase engineers, and because the Vasari people have not yet fully recovered their previous technology, the output is not high, but the cost is frighteningly high.
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In the north, the Kingdom of Dawn has built a total of two star gates, both of which are on the Mechito planet. One star gate leads directly to the Dawn planet, while the other star gate leads to the Chiss Territory.
As for the question that Gilad Pellaeon has been worried about, whether there is a star gate on the planet Oud-Mantel, the answer is - not at all. At least one of his judgments is correct, that is, Oud-Mantel
The industry on your planet is not developed, so it is indeed very difficult to build a star gate there.
It's just that once bitten by a snake, it has been feared for ten years. During the Battle of Planet Kira, the Galactic Empire was severely deceived by the mobility of the Star Gate, and almost 1,000 capital ships and the entire southern territory of the galaxy were deprived.
Therefore, everyone in the empire has changed their minds when talking about star gates. They even think that the Kingdom of Dawn has built star gates everywhere!
Gilad Pellaeon really didn't expect that even though he had considered the Star Gate issue very seriously, the one who tricked him this time was still the Star Gate!
But now he is still in the dark.
Mal-Tuk did not choose to go from the planet Oud-Mantle to the planet Anxin through the Namadi Corridor. Not only was it a long way, but he could think with his toes that the imperial fleet must be heavily fortified along the way and wanted reinforcements.
An Anxin planet is simply impossible.
So he directly sent his fleet to the Chiss Territory through the star gate, and then brought the "Skywalkers" who were already in place there, and then directly from the Chiss Territory to the Anxin planet through the hyperspace channel.
With the help of Skywalker's third vision, his fleet passed through the 'tangle' very quickly, making this roundabout operation very successful. Sure enough, they arrived at the battlefield before the Anxin planet fell, giving the Imperial fleet a small shock.
But there is still a problem, because the size of the commercial combined fleet is too large, so even with Skywalker's navigation, after the first fleet passes, the hyperspace fluctuations are extremely violent, making the tangle even more chaotic, and it is impossible to find any
A navigable waterway.
So Admiral Mar-Took now finds his backup fleet delayed.
After thinking for a while, Admiral Mal-Took said to the T-series tactical robot: "Stop the pursuit and recover all the battleships! Tell the geth to stop chasing them and return them all to the gravity well range of the planet Anxin and follow the planet's revolution."
"Roger!"
Admiral Maltuk looked at the holographic combat star map coldly, touched his chin, and smiled coldly: "So, now that I am showing weakness, how should you choose? Gilad Pellaeon
General..."
After the two sides engaged in battle, all kinds of encrypted and unencrypted communications were flying all over the sky, so the code-breaking departments of both fleets could more or less decipher the contents of the other's communications. At least they could do it if they knew the number of the other's fleet and the name of the commander.
Arrived.
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The problem posed by Mar-Took really stumped Gilad Pellaeon. He looked at the retreating Kingdom of Dawn fleet and fell into deep thought.
"Why didn't they pursue? What about the momentum at the beginning of the battle?" Gilad Perrine murmured to himself, "Is this to lure the enemy deeper? Or do they have an ulterior motive? Or... they are...
Waiting for reinforcements?”
An intelligence officer came over at this time and said to Gilad Pellaeon: "The intelligence from the planet Oud Mantel confirmed that the separatist fleet is not there. This shows that Mal Took may
We did bring all the battleships here."
"So that means he is indeed waiting for reinforcements?" Gilad Perrine's face became serious.