1617. Reinforcements arrive
Countless Swarm Droness are flying in swarms in space. They are fast and deadly, constantly looking for targets, and then swarm up, firing countless plasma rays, and keep firing and attacking until the target is completely destroyed!
The Galactic Republic fighters simply cannot catch up with these Swarm Droness. Even if they enter a trailing attack position, they are often thrown away within a few shots.
After that, these fighter formations gave up on confronting these drones. They adjusted their strategies and began to focus on driving them away. Launching missiles and lasers from far away forces these drones to lose their targets in constant evasion.
But this tactic can only delay death.
Swarm Drones is still wreaking havoc on the battlefield, destroying fighter formations, attacking battleships, and breaking away with one blow, not giving the opponent any chance to counterattack!
In fact, there are many ways to combat these Swarm Drones. In "StarCraft", Zerg's confrontation method is simple and crude. A direct backhand is a super double. If you come over with 10,000 drones, I will directly throw over 100,000 bugs. And the way humans fight is through firepower coverage! Use the powerful firepower of Valkyrie missile frigate to directly form a devastating missile saturation attack, leaving no gaps in the entire airspace!
Unfortunately, Galactic Republic currently does not have either method. It relies on a numerically inferior fighter formation to chase Swarm Drones. The result is actually obvious.
In "StarCraft", you use Wraith fighter to play with those drones without attacking the aircraft carrier itself, and you will know how miserable it is...
And now on the bridge of Republic fleet flagship, Commander II-class Dreadnought the Will.
"I need an answer! How come such a small drone can launch such a powerful weapon!!" Gideon-Tarkin shouted.
"General, we have done a lot of scanning and observation, and currently we can only confirm that those drones use plasma rays, which accelerate the stream of charged particles to the speed of light to instantly transfer huge energy. First of all, we must be sure that the weapon systems of these drones are more advanced than we imagined, because we also have similar weapons, but it is simply impossible to achieve such a volume/power ratio." An engineer came over and said.
"No matter how advanced it is, can it be so advanced that it can rely on such a micro-drone, and it can actually shake our battlecruisers?" Gideon-Tarkin asked coldly.
The engineer shook his head and said, "This is the point, the abnormal volume/power ratio. We have also detected the existence of wireless links between these drones and their motherships. It is possible that long-range energy transmission can give their weapons a brief boost... But this is too incredible, so it can only be a guess."
"Remote energy transmission with tens of thousands of drones at the same time? Is this technically possible?" Gideon-Tarkin asked.
"If you asked me to build such a system, I would tell you to look for it in science fiction novels." The engineer answered straightforwardly.
Gideon-Tarkin took a deep breath, said nothing, and just looked at the holographic star map.
Through the picture projected from the holographic star map, it can be seen that their fleet is now about to collapse. 4 Hunter Class Battlecruisers were destroyed, 11 were severely damaged, and almost all the remaining ones were more or less damaged.
Their fighter formations suffered even more heavy losses. Almost the entire battlefield was littered with fragments of V-wing fighter and V-19 fighter jets, and the mutilated corpses of pilots were also scattered everywhere.
Now that Swarm Drones's energy has bottomed out, the mothership has begun to be recovered in batches for charging and repair. But Republic fleet couldn't relax because Duchy of Dawn's warship had already attacked, and the two sides were engaged in a fierce artillery battle.
Hypermatter Railgun, Particle Beam Lance, Fire Cloud series missile, these powerful long-range firepower are the terrible threats that Republic fleet needs to face now.
In order to gain an advantage in the artillery battle, just now, Gideon-Tarkin had to order the fighter formation to continue taking off and attack Duchy of Dawn fleet.
But the hidden danger is that when Swarm Drones strikes again, how much combat capability will these exhausted pilots have left in front of the swarm?
The only consolation is that the 10 Knight-class Star Destroyer finally survived the attack by Swarm Drones, but now how long they can hold on, Gideon-Tarkin is not optimistic.
"Send the order! The Will moves forward! Move towards the front line of the battlefield!" Gideon-Tarkin made up his mind.
"General! Under the current battlefield situation, if we advance rashly, there is no doubt that Separatists's firepower will concentrate on our ship!" The adjutant was shocked.
"Reinforcements will arrive soon! Before that, we must not be defeated! Move forward!" Gideon-Tarkin shouted.
"Yes!" The adjutant did not dare to disobey and immediately conveyed the order to the controller, "Right rudder 11! Turn immediately! The engine output is increased by 40%! Forward!"
The huge body of Commander II-class Dreadnought began to turn, and the 8,000-meter-long long ship body was like a Big Mac. It was the undisputed overlord in this battlefield!
The powerful main gun fires continuously. These turrets are deployed in a circle around the battleship. Each time it fires, the beam emitted will light up the entire battleship.
Without any surprise, a piercing alarm sounded on the console of the Will. This was a signal that was aimed at by Fire Control Radar and a main gun-level weapon was being charged!
"Left rudder 7! The bow of the ship sinks 12 degrees!" The adjutant continued to issue instructions, causing the warship to begin to evade.
Sure enough, two rounds of Particle Beam Lance shot over the battleship in an instant. Even if they did not hit directly, the terrifying energy contained in them still caused a burst of energy fluctuations in the battleship's shield.
More artillery fire is focused here, and more particle beams are launched! However, Commander II-class Dreadnought is a giant ship with a length of 8,000 meters after all. It was hit by three Particle Beam Lance rounds in the short time before the battleship broke out. Although the shield system alarmed frantically, it still resisted.
After those Swarm Drones completed charging, their offensive on the battlefield became crazy again. They began to focus on this Commander II-class Dreadnought, which invisibly reduced the pressure on other warships.
An hour after the fierce exchange of fire between the two sides, white light finally flickered in the cosmic space, and then 140 battleships left hyperspace and appeared in the Yago-Dur system!
These include 40 Hunter Class Battlecruiser and 100 small and medium-sized warships.
The strategies of the Governor of the 20th Republic Army, Octavian-Grant are beginning to show results. A large number of Republic warship have been assembled in the advance bases built in the surrounding unmanned systems in advance. Now it is very convenient for reinforcements to come and join the battle!