1304. The ending of Rendili (Part 2)
"Stabilize the formation! Hold still! The fourth and fifth formations turn immediately!" Lieutenant General Skarrid roared loudly into the communication.
However, the response coming from the communicator was obscured by the louder interference noise, and it was impossible to know whether his instructions were conveyed.
Destruction's artillery fire is still continuing, but for Knight-class Star Destroyer, with its huge body of 1,600 meters and its strong protective capabilities in exchange for giving up miscellaneous functions, even if there is no Deflector Shield in a short period of time, there is no need to worry about being fatally damaged by Destruction's intensive but limited power bombardment.
"Deflector Shield has completed the cycle and is starting up!" the soldiers in the shield team reported loudly.
"The engine has been overhauled and the energy core has been restarted!"
"Main battery columns 1, 3, and 4 have restarted!"
"Fire Control Radar is back to work! Please direct the sighting of the target!"
Various systems on the battleship quickly began to recover. Obviously, the Destruction ion pulse cannon, which was not fully charged, could only have a certain impact on Knight-class for a short period of time.
But in just a few minutes, the situation on the entire battlefield has undergone earth-shaking changes!
If Trinald-Lieutenant General Skarrid could study Sefrans-Tann's previous battles, then he would understand that what Sefrans-Tann often does is to paralyze or restrict the opponent's command system before she launches a counterattack.
Then he will understand that this attack on his ship Knight-class Star Destroyer is just the beginning of a series of actions from Sefrans-Tann!
When Lieutenant General Skarrid's flagship finally restored communication, he suddenly discovered that almost one-third of the warships at the rear of his fleet had suffered heavy damage and were desperately resisting. But two-thirds of the battleships in front were already in a mess. Some wanted to turn, and some wanted to attack. As a result, the formation became wider and wider. Instead, they fell into the counter-encirclement of small and medium-sized battleships mainly Rendili Defense Fleet and Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser!
Only then did he see that those Rendili Defense Fleet battleships seemed to come alive!
Almost every warship is performing independent tactical maneuvers, but when viewed in the context of the entire battle, these tactical maneuvers have their own roles, and each warship Republic fleet was targeted in a targeted manner.
Compared with the rigid and dull performance of the past few days, he is completely different!
Now Republic fleet is divided into two, and the formation is completely disrupted. All warships are almost fighting independently. The most fatal thing for them is that in fact, such melee is not what Galactic Republic's current main battleship Hunter Class is good at!
The fleet Skarrid currently has in hand, because the fighter group was previously devastated by Das-Malthael, there is not much left, and the remaining fighters can only serve as a cover. In such a melee situation, Hunter Class Battlecruiser's structure that lacks explosion-proof compartments and only has a single layer of armor has become its biggest weakness!
In fact, there is no need to compare Knight-class, just compare Hunter Class and Imperial-class. Hunter Class is 1,137 meters long, has strong shields, speed, and artillery fire, and has a maximum carrying capacity of 420 aircraft. Imperial-class is 1,600 meters long, and has a maximum carrying capacity of only 72 aircraft, but you have to know that the size of Imperial-class is at least three times that of Hunter Class.
Now you know how much it costs to pay for Hunter Class's sky-high air capacity - basically every inch of space on the battleship is used. If you look at the cross-section, there are no armored isolation belts or explosion-proof compartments inside the battleship!
This means that no matter how thick the single layer of armor of Hunter Class is or how it uses the most advanced armor materials, it is still essentially a shield resistance ship.
In this face-to-face confrontation, Hunter Class faced Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser who had twice their number, and was no match at all. Because Dreadnought-class is a pure gunboat!
This is the situation that Skarrid's fleet is facing now - his fleet was directly disrupted by Sefrans-Tann's formation in a single attack, and then put up a desperate resistance in an extremely disadvantageous state!
At this moment, Rendili Defense Fleet's formation changed again!
Those Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, who were fighting with the front two-thirds of the battleships Republic fleet, suddenly rushed towards the rear one-third of the battleships where Skarrid was!
In the melee just now, these Dreadnought-class had completed the turn without even realizing it!
More dense artillery fire than before exploded around, and Republic fleet had fallen into chaos. There was no response at all to Rendili Defense Fleet who was constantly making flexible tactical maneuvers!
Republic fleet Two-thirds of the battleships in the front section once again began to turn towards the assault, and the formation became chaotic again!
Lieutenant General Skarrid looked at the holographic combat star map, his face turned pale.
Now he knows that the only way to preserve his strength as much as possible is to let all the battleships escape individually, and then run to the edge of the galaxy to regroup!
Sefrans-Tann finally revealed her fangs belonging to the 'famous general'! She proved the difference between famous generals and ordinary generals in less than an hour and a single assault.
In the past few days, the real reason why Rendili Defense Fleet acted rigid and dull was that Sefrans-Tann had not yet completed the adjustment and unification of the internal command systems of these battleships! In those days, in order not to waste Destruction's powerful combat power, she used the simplest tactics, letting Destruction fight in front, while other warships fired black guns from behind.
To put it bluntly, I was just teasing Lieutenant General Skarrid.
During those few days, she once again shot many corrupt and incompetent Rendili mid-level officers, and then added a group of young, energetic and energetic recruits. These recruits, combined with the robot team headed by T-series tactical robot, built a battleship command team that, although not very efficient, was absolutely obedient.
Only then did Lieutenant General Skarrid understand that Sefrans-Tann had never used Destruction's powerful directional particle pulse cannon as a main battle weapon. Her real purpose of using this weapon was only to disrupt the deployment of her fleet, divide her fleet's formation, and create conditions for other warships under her to launch attacks.
But it's too late to know this now!
Lieutenant General Skarrid shouted loudly in the command channel, trying his best to adjust the formation of his battleships, hoping to reorganize his fleet and no longer fight independently. But his adjustments could never keep up with the rhythm of Sefrans-Tann. Often when he just made adjustments, he would find that Sefrans-Tann had already set a trap for him!
On a complex battlefield, such a trap is actually not that big. Maybe one of your warships suddenly encountered the opponent's main gun salvo while turning, or the main gun's best range of fire was blocked by your own warship a few seconds before firing... Although it is small, countless such small traps add up...
This has become a completely irreversible defeat for Republic fleet!
But just when Lieutenant General Skarrid almost fell into despair, another cutting-edge fleet finally entered the battlefield - the other half of the Rendili Defense Fleet battleships led by Lieutenant General Jane-Dodonna, which was captured by Galactic Republic!
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