Chapter 1649: Yago-Dur Cannon Battle (4)
1649, Yago-Dur Cannon Battle (4)
In Gideon Tarkin's fleet, nearly every warship had trained its turbolasers on Starbase B and opened fire wildly. The Knight-class ships were one thing, but even the Hunter Class vessels had tilted their hulls forward and used their MXX-9 heavy turbolaser cannons to bombard it relentlessly.
Under such circumstances, the entire Republic fleet was left dumbfounded by the sudden attack of the Swarm Drones, unable to take any effective action at all!
The Knight-class ships at least had forty point-defense turrets. The Hunter Class vessels, which entrusted all of their anti-air defenses to their carrier-based fighters, were completely helpless at a time like this!
Faced with the Swarm Drones' attack, the Republic fleet almost immediately descended into chaos! These drones had all flown out from Starbase B, practically plunging straight into the Republic fleet's formation the instant they took off!
More than 20,000 drones launched a frenzied bombardment, giving every Republic warship the personal attention of over a hundred drones on average! Such a saturated attack was simply beyond their ability to handle.
At the same time, under Matt Hona's command, the Duchy of Dawn fleet launched a determined counterattack!
No matter how badly these warships had been suppressed by the Republic fleet before, they now threw all caution aside. Even if their ships were severely damaged, they charged forward to fire a salvo with whatever main guns remained intact.
Even the twenty Calamity-class battlecruisers no longer avoided the Republic's high-speed assault fleet. They stopped their evasive maneuvers and unleashed their Particle Beam Lances at full output!
The fighters escorting the Republic warships were almost entirely wiped out in barely twenty minutes! With the electromagnetic radiation storm disrupting communications, they could hardly receive guidance from their motherships' flight control