1618. The opening of the second battlefield
"Reinforcements! Our reinforcements have arrived!!"
"We are saved!!"
The sound of joy filled the Republic Fleet communication, as if a drowning person had grabbed the last straw and been dragged ashore.
Looking at this posture, it seems that they did not come to actively invade the Yago-Dur system, but were the passive defensive side.
Even Fleet Commander Gideon-Tarkin's forehead was covered in cold sweat. He knew that he had miscalculated before. He miscalculated the strength of Separatist fleet, their determination to attack, and even more miscalculated that the initial defeat actually started with Galactic Republic's most powerful fighter formation.
It's no wonder they were so scared, because they had indeed walked through the gates of hell.
If the reinforcements arrive another hour later, then maybe they will really be wiped out!
This is no joke! Because at that time Swarm Drones had completely taken control of the situation, destroying Galactic Republic's fighter formation, disrupting Republic fleet's formation, and attracting Republic warship's firepower. The main fleet of Duchy of Dawn, which followed closely, has begun to concentrate its firepower on bombing the warships of Galactic Republic!
Kohl-class Battlecruiser's Hypermatter Railgun, Calamity-class battlecruiser's Particle Beam Lance, these powerful weapons will exert more and more terrifying power as the distance between the fleets of both sides continues to shrink. Especially the latter, at a distance of about 1 light minute, it is almost impossible to avoid!
Under the attack of Particle Beam Lance, Hunter Class Battlecruiser can only withstand 5 rounds at most, but in actual combat, it is often destroyed before 5 rounds.
Defeat is almost a doomed outcome.
But...
Reinforcements have arrived!
40 Hunter Class Battlecruiser and 100 small and medium-sized warships!
Governor of the 20th Republic Army Octavian-Grant, who was in the rear, showed his keen strategic sense. He did not send fewer warships and bring more engineering ships and supply ships according to the scheduled plan. Instead, after learning that Separatist fleet took the initiative to attack, he decisively dispatched his main fleet!
40 Hunter Class Battlecruiser, the theoretical carrying capacity has reached 16,000 aircraft!
Now Galactic Republic has learned the lessons from the past and will not fully load Hunter Class Battlecruiser, because a fully loaded Hunter Class will not only reduce the efficiency of the take-off and landing fighter, but will also suffer heavy losses when it is destroyed!
You must know that Hunter Class Battlecruiser is no longer a symbol of invincibility on the battlefield - on the contrary, it means that the skin is thin but the inside is big.
However, even with the current standard aircraft capacity of Republic Navy, a Hunter Class still has more than 250 fighters.
Now after the reinforcements have arrived, the number of fighter jets of Galactic Republic is almost the same as that of Swarm Drones!
This gave the frontline Fleet Commander Gideon-Tarkin greater confidence. He immediately ordered the fleet that came for reinforcements to immediately take off the fighter formation and join the battle to protect his own warships from Swarm Drones's attack.
At the same time, after reinforcements arrived, Gideon-Tarkin finally had their hands free. He ordered all Knight-class Star Destroyer to immediately form a combat formation, with his flagship, the Will No. Commander II-class Dreadnought, as the leader, and then gathered all Aquitenes-class light cruiser as a mobile force...
Launch an assault!
Goal——
Separatists, Consul-class aircraft carrier!
He has already understood that the extremely threatening Swarm Drones all operates with this huge 3175-meter-long aircraft carrier as its core!
As for the latter Sova-class Carrier, they only exist as a warehouse for carrying drones in drone operations, and play a supporting role in flight control and command.
The control core of these Swarm Drones is on Consul-class aircraft carrier!
As long as this Consul-class aircraft carrier can be destroyed, all Swarm Drones will become headless flies! Then the battle will return to the track they expected!
You have Particle Beam Lance, it's okay, I'll use shield ships to fight hard, and hundreds of thousands of shield capacitors are waiting to be replaced; you have an interstellar base, it's okay, I will build my own logistics base and you will consume it slowly; you have fleets with strong combat capabilities that match each other, it's okay, my number of battleships is at least five times that of yours!
Isn't that bad? Is everyone happy after fighting this battle? You Outer Rim idiots are only qualified to be backgrounds, aren't you?
Why bother bringing this up?
Gideon-Tarkin issued the assault order with his usual sense of superiority and keen control of the battlefield.
The assault formation faced the intensive firepower of Duchy of Dawn fleet directly!
At this time, Swarm Drones was recovering supplies and charging in batches after launching the last attack. This attack by Gideon-Tarkin happened to hit Duchy of Dawn fleet when he was at his weakest!
The 60 XX-9 heavy-duty Turbolaser cannons on the Knight-class Star Destroyer launched powerful and dense Turbolaser beams. The extremely powerful firepower covered the Duchy of Dawn fleet like raindrops.
For a time, countless explosive fires and countless destructive rays of light exploded in the fleets of both sides!
At the same time...Duchy of Dawn fleet flagship, Consul-class aircraft carrier Eridanus bridge.
"General! A large number of reinforcements from Galactic Republic have arrived, and they are launching an assault on our ship!" the adjutant said loudly.
Commander of the Duchy of Dawn Navy, Chief of the Yago-Dur System Battle Commander Matt-Admiral Horner stood in the center of the bridge as straight as a compass with his hands behind his back, looking at the holographic combat star map in front of him.
On the star map, Republic fleet separated a part of the warships to form a forward formation, took off a large number of fighter jets to provide cover, and launched a resolute assault towards its own formation.
However, Matt-Hona just shook their heads and said, "Do they want to attack? It seems that Eridanus is controlling those Swarm Drones."
"General, Eridanus cannot afford to lose anything," the adjutant said.
Matt-Hona nodded and issued the order, "Order all Calamity-class battlecruiser to fire a salvo at the enemy flagship, Commander II-class Dreadnought! Kohl-class Battlecruiser moves forward to cover, and other warships begin to turn around and retreat! Retreat to the protection of the interstellar base one by one!"
"Yes!"
All 20 Calamity-class battlecruiser immediately began to charge Particle Beam Lance, and adjusted the angle of the ship to aim at the flagship of Gideon-Tarkin. The Will Commander II-class Dreadnought fired a salvo!
Twenty powerful Particle Beam Lances arrived in an instant. Even though Commander II-class was already evading the attack, it was still hit several times.
The huge power of this salvo even caused a fire in one of the shield capacitor compartments of the Will! Under such terrifying power, Gideon-Tarkin did not dare to continue to let their flagships continue to attack, because according to the Staff Department's deduction, if they continued to advance, Commander II-class Dreadnought could withstand at most three to four salvos before it would be severely damaged.
More importantly, on the console of Commander II-class Dreadnought, the alarm kept ringing. Their energy systems and weapons systems have been interfered with by the other party and cannot exert their maximum firepower.
Under such circumstances, Gideon-Tarkin also understood that even a giant ship like Commander II-class Dreadnought was in real danger of being sunk!
Therefore, he ordered to stop the assault and retreat.
The Galactic Republic assault fleet conducted a brief assault with heavy thunder and light rain. After firing a burst of fierce artillery fire, it also began to retreat.
Matt-Admiral Horner Seeing this scene, he did not order his fleet to continue the pursuit, but continued to maintain the retreat order.
Duchy of Dawn fleet retreated to the best fire coverage of the two Agonev-class star base, and then began to readjust the formation, and sent the damaged warship to the Givin dock for emergency repairs.
During the attack launched by Republic fleet, Duchy of Dawn fleet and seven Kohl-class Battlecruiser were severely damaged. One of them had lost power and was towed back with tractor beams by the other three warships.
The firepower of Republic fleet is actually very powerful. There are a total of 600 double-mounted heavy-duty Turbolaser cannons on the 10 Knight-classs, and the XX-9 Turbolaser cannons have a very fast rate of fire. Under such firepower coverage, the Duchy of Dawn warships are also difficult to resist.
If Durov-class Battlecruiser hadn't continued to provide shield replenishment, and Doomsday Battlefield-class battlecruiser's full power interfered with the opponent's Commander II-class Dreadnought, then the loss would have been even greater!
If nothing else, the powerful firepower of Commander II-class alone is enough to destroy the battleship of Duchy of Dawn in a short time. You must know that in order to counter Xuanwu Titan warship and Kuat Drive Yards of Separatists, several super laser cannons were urgently installed on this type of battleship.
Among the Eriadu System Campaigns at that time, the firepower of the three Commander II-class Dreadnoughts could also effectively damage the Xuanwus.
Although this kind of huge and clumsy warship is still powerful, it is still the overlord on the battlefield without Xuanwu Titan warship.
In the previous battle, because the two sides mainly fired at each other from a long distance, and then Swarm Drones took off as the main attack force. Therefore, only three Duchy of Dawn's fleet and Martha-class missile heavy cruiser were damaged, and the damage was not serious. With the strong industrial capabilities of the Givin, they could be repaired quickly.
As for why it was Masha-class who was injured at that stage of combat, it was mainly because at that time, Martha-class missile heavy cruiser all jumped to the front of the formation in order to better enter the launch angle. And when the formation was set up later, Kohl-class Battlecruiser naturally stepped forward.
Gideon-Tarkin is in a very bad mood now and feels very frustrated.
His plan was interrupted by the bold assault of Matt-Admiral Horner, and during the battle between the two sides, he was almost defeated by the annoying Swarm Drones. Later, he made up his mind to carry out the assault, but had to terminate it.
The powerful electronic warfare capability of Separatists was once again on display. Commander II-class Dreadnought was restricted by the opponent's Doomsday Battlefield-class battlecruiser and unable to exert its power. It was also fired by the opponent's powerful Particle Beam Lance, which directly extinguished the anger in the hearts of Gideon-Tarkin.
When the order was given to terminate the assault and begin to retreat, Gideon-Tarkin's heart was filled with humiliation.
Now he swore in his heart that he must let Separatists repay the humiliation he suffered tenfold!
But what he didn't know was that the commander-in-chief of Duchy of Dawn, Matt-Admiral Horner, was also feeling very aggrieved.
Because of this battle, it seemed that Duchy of Dawn's fleet took advantage of it. They achieved a very good battle loss ratio. At the cost of 1 battleship being paralyzed, 6 battleships being seriously damaged, and 3 battleships being slightly damaged, 5 Hunter Class Battlecruisers before and after Galactic Republic were destroyed, 17 were seriously damaged, and more than 3,000 Galactic Republic fighters were shot down!
However, such a battle loss ratio cannot bring victory in this battle.
Matt-Admiral Horner knows this very well.
And the reason why he was very aggrieved was because the opponent Commander was also very decisive, whether it was decisively letting his flagship go up to stabilize the battle situation when facing his powerful assault, or sending a large fleet to the rear without hesitation at a very fast speed, or later targeting his core of control - Consul-class aircraft carrier to launch a resolute assault.
Judging from these decisions, the opponent Commander is also a very powerful and powerful person.
This also allowed Matt-Hona to launch an assault while Galactic Republic was caught off guard, and their plan to destroy the opponent's logistics base finally came to nothing.
One of the five shield ships was destroyed, but the remaining four shield ships still maintained a small safe area for Republic fleet to rest and maintain.
In other words, although he used Swarm Drones's powerful combat capabilities to knock Republic fleet to the ground and beat him up, he still failed to achieve his strategic goal in the end.
In the next battle, we can only continue to fight head-on...
Until...
What Baher-Banak said was the day when a strong astronomical phenomenon arrived.
On this day, a fierce battle broke out in the Yago-Dur system - 20BBY, the evening of July 21st.
In a hidden unmanned galaxy in Core Worlds, the Milky Way, another unprecedentedly large fleet is already making final preparations!
I can only see that in this originally barren galaxy, a large number of space stations, Space Shipyard, space factories, and space warehouses have been built, forming a huge advanced base.
And close to the star of this unmanned galaxy, a huge disk-shaped device with a diameter of more than 20,000 meters has been completely completed. On the periphery of the star, hundreds of energy collection devices spread out huge solar sails tens of kilometers wide, and then concentrated the huge energy and injected it into the disk!
Everything is ready!