1303. The ending of Rendili (Part 2)
At this point in the battle, the technical data of Conqueror-class battleship is actually very clear to Galactic Republic. Including data such as the number of main guns, main gun power, and shield capacity, relatively accurate data can be obtained quickly after repeated scanning on the battlefield.
The data of High-Energy Directed Ion Pulse Cannon, the most important technical parameter of Conqueror-class battleship, has also been recorded.
After all, the two super battleships Malevolence and Plague had a huge shadow on Galactic Republic. Therefore, in order to speed up the construction, Conqueror-class, the second ship Destruction, has not been significantly modified in all aspects. Many data are also very clear for Republic military.
In particular, Republic military also mastered these key data through multiple studies and scans, including the range, rate of fire, and pulse wave diffusion speed and range of the ion pulse cannon.
It should be noted that the High-Energy Directed Ion Pulse Cannon used by Conqueror-class battleship is not actually a light speed weapon. The name of this weapon has 'directional' added in front of it, which is actually a definition of the weapon's attributes. EMP itself is diffusive, but if you want to make it directional, magnetic field confinement is required.
So in fact, the flight speed of the pulse emitted by the directional ion pulse cannon is equal to the moving speed of the electromagnetic field, which is actually not fast. At least in the hands of top-notch Jedi Knight like Anakin-Skywalker, you can still escape by driving the spacecraft to maximum acceleration.
Therefore, in the battles near Rendili Planet in the past few days, Trinald-Lieutenant General Skarrid calculated the range of the opponent's Destruction battleship's directional ion pulse cannon to fight, and it worked every time. As soon as Destruction fired, he outflanked it, forcing the opponent's warships to retreat to cover Destruction.
After all, the biggest weakness of Conqueror-class is that it has a large number of main guns but insufficient power. At the same time, the number of carrier-based aircraft is small, making it difficult to cope with the bombing of a large-scale fighter group.
For a time, even when facing Galactic Republic military's famous players - Sefrans-Tann, Skarrid gained confidence. He began to think that it was not that Tann was too strong, but that the genius himself had not yet had a fair chance to compete with Tann.
Now the opportunity has come, and under direct confrontation, it seems that Tann is nothing more than that.
Therefore, Lieutenant General Skarrid is still well-prepared for Rendili Defense Fleet's sudden change of formation this time. He did have the strength to match his confidence, and he immediately judged that the opponent's change of formation should be to focus their firepower on both sides of the formation. It seemed that they wanted to cope with his side's tactical maneuver when Destruction's ion pulse cannon fired.
"All battleships, keep their distance and maneuver to the right wing! They want to divide their forces into two wings, so I will focus on attacking one side!" Lieutenant General Skarrid said sharply, "Krosso! Your position cannot be avoided! Stop advancing immediately, supply all energy to Deflector Shield and the counter-pulse device, and prepare to resist the impact!"
"Yes!"
However, just when he gave the order and his Republic task force started to maneuver tactically, a sudden change occurred!
Suddenly an extremely bright flash came on!
"General! The ion pulse cannon of the enemy ship Destruction has been detected and fired!!" a soldier in the sensing department screamed.
"What?!" Skarrid was shocked. He rushed over and grabbed the soldier's hair and asked loudly, "According to the previous scan results, what is the charging rate of Destruction's ion pulse cannon?!"
"If we follow the charging speed before Destruction, they haven't finished charging yet!" the soldier quickly replied.
"Fire when it is half charged?" Skarrid suddenly had an ominous premonition, and he suddenly thought, "Wait a minute! If the charge is only half, then Destruction's steering has not moved to the position we predicted! Recalculate immediately!"
However, before he could finish his words, suddenly an extremely dazzling light came from all the portholes of the battleship! Immediately afterwards, all the electronic systems in the Knight-class Star Destroyer he was on began to flash violently!
"Asshole! Destruction is coming in my direction! Increase the energy supply of the anti-pulse system immediately!" Lieutenant General Skarrid said loudly.
Before he finished speaking, he only saw the adjutant pointing at the holographic combat star map and saying, "General! Something is wrong! The opponent's fleet formation has changed!"
Lieutenant General Skarrid turned around suddenly and saw that on the holographic combat star map, the situation of both fleets had completely changed!
According to the previous changes in the formations of the fleets of both sides, Rendili Defense Fleet is unfolding the warships with Destruction as the core into a four-Claw Formation, while Republic fleet is constantly spreading the warships and letting all the warships maneuver to one side.
If this trend develops, then it is very likely that one wing of Rendili Defense Fleet suffered a concentrated attack from Republic fleet, and had to call back warships from other directions to assist. As a result, the formation was once again disrupted, and their plan to attack Republic fleet relying on Destruction's powerful directional ion pulse cannon would once again fail.
But now, Destruction fired earlier than expected! At this time, Destruction's steering was not completed. It was actually leaning towards the other side of the Republic fleet formation. At the same time, the Rendili Defense Fleet battleship, which had seemed a bit messy in organizing the attack, had unknowingly entered a completely different attack position at this moment!
And at the same time that Destruction opened fire, Rendili Defense Fleet gathered the five most powerful warships - 4 Victory I-class Star Destroyer and 1 Knight-class Star Destroyer that was previously captured by Das-Malthael, and directly launched a surprise attack on Republic fleet! And the route they took to launch the raid was the attack range of the ion pulse cannon that they initially expected from Skarrid!
Now, as the ion pulse cannon fires before it is fully charged, the attack range is also reduced, which is equivalent to the direction where the five Star Destroyers started to attack, which is exactly the direction that Republic warship had avoided before!
They pierced directly into the formation of the Galactic Republic special service fleet like a sharp sword, and used ion pulse cannons to restrict the movement of the Galactic Republic flagship.
Republic fleet's formation was split into two. About one-third of the battleships were blocked by Rendili Defense Fleet, while the remaining two-thirds of the battleships were still maneuvering in one direction as planned, getting further and further away from the battlefield! If they want to support them, they must first complete the U-turn, and Rendili Defense Fleet's other battleships obviously cannot let them leave so easily!
Destruction is on full fire! 500 medium-sized Turbolaser guns poured out firepower crazily at the two Knight-class Star Destroyers on Republic fleet's side! The 4 Victory I-classs and 1 captured Knight-class aimed at the 6 lone Hunter Class Battlecruisers and opened fire fiercely!
In the direction of the main gun position above the Knight-class Star Destroyer hull, the 20 heavy Turbolaser gun turrets on the starboard side began to turn, aiming at one of the Hunter Class! As for Hunter Class, which is facing the enemy directly, only 4 turrets in this direction can fight back!
Following the captain's order, the 20 odd-numbered heavy artillery turrets on the starboard side of Knight-class opened fire! 5 seconds later, the even-numbered turret fired another salvo!
Two main gun salvos fired, and the powerful power instantly shattered Hunter Class's Deflector Shield!
At the same time, Destruction battleship has also divided 180 turrets to aim in this direction. Although the densely packed medium-sized Turbolaser cannons have limited damage to Deflector Shield, they can have a very significant effect on the single-layer armor of Hunter Class Battlecruiser!
Under the continuous bombardment, countless balls of fire exploded from the ship above the Hunter Class. The main gun position on the port side was destroyed. A big hole was blown out of the Hangar Platform. Thick smoke billowed out. The warship began to try to turn and escape, but in the chaos, it crashed into another Hunter Class!