1610. Protracted War
20BBY, July 21, Galactic Standard Time 2 o'clock in the morning.
Dozens more logistics ships arrived in the Yago-Dur system. Under the protection of five shield ships, they were connected with the logistics ships that arrived earlier, forming a logistics base that includes spaceship maintenance, field hospitals, ammunition processing and other functions.
During this process, the Galaxy Republic 20th Army main fleet has always maintained a force composition including 30 Hunter Class Battlecruiser, 10 Knight-class Star Destroyer, 1 Commander II-class Dreadnought, and 70 small and medium-sized warships.
These battleships kept firing at the defenders of the Yago-Dur system at a distance of 10 light minutes, but all had little effect. Even if they were targeting the planet Yago-Dur, considering the powerful Planetary Shield on the planet, such firepower was simply not enough.
At this time, suddenly dozens of bright beams of light suddenly lit up, shining on the shield ship's unfolded shield!
Almost at the same time, the powerful shields deployed by the five shield ships collapsed instantly! After these powerful beams were extinguished, a small red straight beam and a spiral beam were left on the trajectory.
"General! It's the opponent's Particle Beam Lance!" On the Commander II-class Dreadnought bridge, the adjutant came over and said to Gideon-Tarkin, "Quantity 20! The opponent has at least 20 Calamity-class battlecruiser!"
Gideon-Tarkin was not frightened by such a force. He just snorted and said, "Separatists is still worth the money... 20 Calamity-class. That's good. In this way, the pressure on our other front will be much better."
Unlike his brother, Gideon-Tarkin is a very traditional soldier. He pays much more attention to the military than to politics. However, because of this, his climb is far inferior to that of his brother. Although he has achieved good results in previous wars, he now has to rely on his brother's relationship to become Republic Navy Admiral and command a powerful fleet on his own.
He then ordered, "Let the shield ship replace the capacitor immediately and start to keep moving! Don't let the opponent's Particle Beam Lance hit us too easily!"
"Yes!"
"The replaced capacitor was directly fired towards the planet with Mass Driver! It's not bad to recycle the waste." Gideon continued, "There must be Separatists hyperspace detectors in the airspace near us to target their Particle Beam Lance! Send fighter jets to clean it up! At the same time, deploy our own hyperspace detectors!"
"Yes!"
For such a situation, Gideon-Tarkin had already anticipated it before setting off. After all, Calamity-class battlecruiser equipped with Particle Beam Lance has already been listed as one of the most dangerous battleships by Galactic Republic Navy.
The supply ships that accompanied the shield ships had already prepared a large number of replacement shield capacitors. Moreover, on the umbrella-shaped structure of the shield ship, the position of the umbrella handle is where the shield capacitor is installed. There is not much protection at all where capacitors are installed, and several loading and unloading openings are even directly exposed.
In this case, changing the shield capacitor is very fast.
Moreover, the overloaded shield capacitors that were replaced were already high-temperature objects with temperatures reaching tens of thousands of degrees. As Gideon-Tarkin said, these high-temperature discarded capacitors are directly loaded into Mass Driver and launched toward the Yago-Dur galaxy.
In the vacuum of the universe, there is no means of dissipating heat at all, so no matter how far or fast it flies, these shield capacitors still maintain that ultra-high temperature. This is equivalent to a large number of high-temperature incendiary bombs!
At the same time, the five shield ships also began to move, and the logistics spacecraft protected by the shield ships also moved with them. This movement speed is not fast, it just keeps moving and does not stay in place and serve as a target for Particle Beam Lance.
And from Hunter Class Battlecruiser, more than 2,000 fighter jets took off. These fighter jets carried detection scanners and began to conduct a detailed scan of the surrounding airspace. They will look for the hyperspace probe Separatists that is likely to be nearby and destroy it.
As mentioned before, because Particle Beam Lance is an ultra-long-distance light speed attack, aiming must rely on a hyperspace detector to achieve real-time target feedback. Otherwise, even Particle Beam Lance will be difficult to aim at a long distance.
For example, on the current battlefield, it takes Particle Beam Lance 10 minutes to reach the target. If the conventional detection method is used, even if it is a light speed sensor, it will take 10 minutes to scan the other party's information and send it back. Then launch Particle Beam Lance, that's another 10 minutes, and back and forth, that's 20 minutes. Particle Beam Lance is a point-to-point attack again. In 20 minutes, the opponent can wash his face and brush his teeth and then evade.
Therefore, as long as the hyperspace detector deployed by Separatists is cleared, the power of Particle Beam Lance can be limited to the greatest extent!
This is the countermeasure developed by Galactic Republic Supreme Strategic Command's military experts against Particle Beam Lance!
Compared with Ankollon-class Titan warship, which is composed of multiple systems, Particle Beam Lance, which has only a single system, still has many ways to deal with it.
Just like how to fight against Xuanwu Titan warship now, Supreme Strategic Command has been arguing for several months with no result.
According to the instructions of Gideon-Tarkin, the Republic 20th Army fleet continued to maintain a distance of 10 light minutes, and continued to fire at the Yago-Dur system, and also fired the replaced waste capacitors. In short, no matter how disgusting it is, we always keep a distance and never take the initiative to attack.
And he also established a simple logistics base, which kept moving at all times and cleared away the surrounding hyperspace detectors, reducing the hit rate of Particle Beam Lance.
The main function of this logistics base is to serve as a material transfer station, and he has established two such material transfer stations in the unmanned star systems around the planet Yago-Dur!
The base of the unmanned galaxy serves as a second-level transit, sorting out a large amount of materials transported from the rear and sending them to the front-line first-level transit.
In this series of material transfers, adequate supply of logistical materials is ensured to the greatest extent.
That's right! After Gideon-Tarkin studied the results of the previous Octavian-Grant attacks against the Yago-Dur system, they came up with the combat policy after careful consideration - a protracted war!
Rather than sitting in the back office and thinking about how to launch a fleet attack in the Three-Body galaxy, which has very complicated gravity and electromagnetic fields, it is better to go directly there, stand firm on the spot, and slowly think about how to fight!