1630. Haunted Fleet
Galactic Republic Expeditionary Force Fourth Battlegroup When 20 Hunter Class Battlecruisers and 5 Acclamator-class assault ships arrived at the Annaj Planet outer space battlefield, the first three battle groups were already in a precarious situation.
First Battlegroup There are only 11 Invincible-class battleship ships left out of 20, and it seems that their current positions are desperately moving closer to the direction of Third Battlegroup. In the nearby airspace, fighter formations from both sides were fighting bloody battles.
But the Second Battlegroup side is particularly weird. Out of the 10 Knight-class Star Destroyer and 5 Hunter Class Battlecruiser, there are now only 6 Knight-class and 4 Hunter Class left. The other warships are floating crookedly in space, and have even been blown into huge gaps. They are completely paralyzed at a glance.
The strange thing is that Second Battlegroup all the surviving warships are parked in place, with no intention of moving at all.
At the same time, Third Battlegroup was fighting fiercely with Separatist fleet, and was obviously at a disadvantage. Separatists dispatched 8 Behemoth-class battlecruiser and was bombing them indiscriminately!
Yamato Cannon fired continuously, exploding on Hunter Class and Knight-class's Deflector Shield, leaving the wreckage of three Hunter Class Battlecruisers around. Obviously, in such an artillery battle, they were completely defeated!
Third Battlegroup 20 Hunter Class Battlecruiser and 5 Knight-class Star Destroyer. This kind of force should have been an absolute advantage. However, as for Separatists, an unknown number of Calamity-class battlecruiser were hidden in the shadow of a satellite near Annaj Planet and kept firing from a distance. The powerful firepower made Republic fleet retreat steadily.
The strange thing is that although both First Battlegroup and Third Battlegroup are in a hard fight, and anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that Second Battlegroup is also extremely miserable, but neither the first nor Third Battlegroup has any intention of getting closer to Second Battlegroup. On the contrary, they are still fighting and retreating, heading away from that side.
It's as if what's over there is not the severely damaged Second Battlegroup, but a terrifying space monster!
The lonely Second Battlegroup is still parked there, with nothing around it. There were no fighter jets taking off or returning home, and there were no other enemy ships. Even friendly forces were moving away. It was not even known who and how the lost warships were sunk.
"This is Fourth Battlegroup! Commander on site will report the situation immediately!" Fourth Battlegroup Commander said loudly in the communication.
"This is First Battlegroup! Requesting assembly!"
[This is Second Battlegroup, requesting assembly.]
"The third battle... No!! Don't go!! Ignore them!!"
A string of voices called Company One came from the communication, some were urgent, some were gloomy, and some were frightened.
"What happened!?" Fourth Battlegroup Commander frowned and looked at the two faces distorted with fear that appeared on the screen in front of him, "Second Battlegroup, is your video call system malfunctioning?"
[This is Second Battlegroup, requesting reinforcements.]Second Battlegroup The gloomy voice over there is still repeating.
"Second Battlegroup, it has been completely destroyed... the reason... is unknown..." Third Battlegroup's Commander's voice was trembling.
"Total annihilation? But he is still there..."
"Over there... they are all people who should be dead..." First Battlegroup Commander's voice was even more crying.
"But..."
"Stop talking! The battle situation is urgent! Stay away from Second Battlegroup, let's regroup! Separatists's offensive is very fierce!" Third Battlegroup Commander yelled hysterically, "Take off fighter jets to support! We can't hold on anymore!!"
"... Understood! The fighter formation takes off immediately! The Acclamator-class assault ship formation retreats away from the battlefield! Each ship enters the combat position!" Fourth Battlegroup Commander finally made up his mind and gave the order loudly.
"The new combat communication frequency has been sent to you individually through encrypted communication. Let's leave this channel." Third Battlegroup Commander said.
[This is Second Battlegroup, save us.]
"This is the second Pi... Dou Qun, save us... Pi la..." The voice was low, hoarse, and lifeless.
Drops of black blood flowed down and into the microphone, causing bursts of noise. The lips of the mouth that was speaking had turned purple, and a big hole had been blown open on the chin. The flesh and blood were bloody, and black, smelly blood was constantly flowing down the hole in the chin.
A small piece of the face had been blown off, and next to the wound hole, there was still cerebral cortex tissue and gray-white brain matter.
[... Save us...] Second Battlegroup's Commander has long become a rotting corpse. He shot himself directly from his chin with a blaster.
But death is not his end.
He was still sitting on the main seat of the bridge, swaying, holding a communicator and constantly sending distress messages.
The main lighting in the bridge has been extinguished, and the red light of the backup power supply illuminates this not-too-large bridge space, making this already extremely scary place even more like a death hell!
Dead... everyone is dead...
But they were still moving, staying at their original posts, swaying, and seemingly unable to stand firmly.
Everyone is highly corrupted and appears to have been dead for days.
Who could have known that just a few hours ago, they were still alive and kicking!
This battleship has become a steel coffin! No, the entire Second Battlegroup battleship is already like this!
The battle is still going on. Volgograd-Kanidi seized the opportunity of Second Battlegroup's complete destruction and sent their own fleet to launch an attack on Republic Third Battlegroup, the strongest one at present.
Behemoth-class battlecruiser comes forward, Calamity-class battlecruiser hides in the dark and uses Particle Beam Lance to attack remotely.
Under the strong electronic interference, it is difficult for Republic fleet's radar to find the location of these Calamity-class battlecruiser, and naturally there is no way to fight back.
Duchy of Dawn fleet continued to attack, forcing Republic First and Third Battlegroups to continuously retreat and retreat, making it impossible for them to continue to develop their formation.
Even if Fourth Battlegroup arrives, he can't turn the tide of the battle!
Obviously, judging from the configuration of the first four battle groups of Galactic Republic, their plan is very obvious.
First, the old Invincible-class battleship was used as the leader. First Battlegroup was used for fire reconnaissance to attract the attention of the defenders.
Second Battlegroup has a total of 10 Knight-class Star Destroyer. It is obvious that after the second batch arrived, it further contained the Duchy of Dawn defenders through long-range bombardment.
Next, Third Battlegroup, 20 Hunter Classs and 5 Knight-classs will completely gain a foothold. Whether it is a fighter formation or fleet artillery battle, they will form a very powerful combat effectiveness, making Duchy of Dawn defenders unable to start.
Then, Fourth Battlegroup and 20 Hunter Class Battlecruiser escorted 5 Acclamator-class assault ship. It was obvious that they wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to launch a landing!
What a beautiful thought!
A mocking smile appeared below Volgograd-Kanidi and Big Beard. Who made this plan? It's really about me being the main player. I don't care about how the other party responds. I only care about how to achieve my own tactics.
Obviously student style.
The so-called student style is that you can't say that his tactical arrangement is wrong. On the contrary, his tactical arrangements and troop ratio were better than anyone else's. Judging from the formation of fighter jets taking off, it is obvious that the opponent Commander has carefully calculated the ratio of carrier-based aircraft and has targeted configurations for different combat stages.
But... the battlefield is changing rapidly, and no one is obliged to follow your rhythm.
What Volgograd-Kanidi did was to strike hard and accurately without giving Republic fleet any chance to stabilize his position! It is to make them fall into the quagmire of battle from the second they escape from the hyperspace jump, and cannot escape.
He was not without worries, because the hyperspace jump used by Galactic Republic this time was somewhat abnormal. Because of normal hyperspace jumps, although the landing point can be adjusted, generally speaking, it must follow the direction of the hyperspace channel.
The essence of hyperspace channels is actually a series of safe passages in the vast hyperspace that avoid all mass projections. Therefore, if you want to reach your destination through such a passage, it is naturally impossible for you to twist and turn in the passage and then come out from the other direction - then this is not a channel, but simply a calm high sea.
Hyperspace has never been so quiet.
But this time, after Galactic Republic's battleships left hyperspace, their landing range was very large, and they were completely out of the scope of hyperspace channels!
If anything, it can even be described as Galactic Republic They can adjust the angle of the hyperspace channel!
How is this possible?!
Duchy of Dawn's technology database contains many super-light navigation technologies, ranging from wormholes to star gates. But none of the technologies involved in hyperspace channels can adjust the angle of hyperspace channels!
This can only be understood as Galactic Republic has been immersed in the technology of hyperspace channels for tens of thousands of years. Their understanding of hyperspace is even higher than that in the Duchy of Dawn database!
If they are allowed to continue to increase their troops from different directions, then with Galactic Republic's absolutely superior strength, they will soon form a siege on Annaj Planet, forcing the defenders to divide their forces for defense, making their troops even more stretched.
This can only show that Galactic Republic came prepared, and was even prepared to accomplish all the results in one battle! So Volgograd-Kanidi absolutely cannot allow this to happen!
He commanded the fleet to continue attacking. Even after Galactic Republic Fourth Battlegroup arrived, he did not stop and continued to attack! Keep pressing their formation! This will prevent their follow-up reinforcements from continuing to expand.
And... Kanidi looked in the direction of Second Battlegroup.
That man... the man respectfully known as Grand Duke of Dawn...
He just destroyed an entire Galactic Republic most advanced Star Destroyer battle group! The 10 Knight-class Star Destroyers have never suffered such heavy losses since the advent of the Knight-class Star Destroyer.
But in front of this Grand Duke of Dawn and Sith Lord, those Star Destroyer are like toys.
Is this... his power...
Volgograd-Kanidi did not hide his disgust for Tang Xiao. Not long after he woke up, he had always wanted to take a production position and was assigned to be a pirate by Tang Xiao. Later, he was asked to go to Kuna Cluster to bear the aggressive war behavior of the domineering Ayrou.
From that time on, he knew that he and Tang Xiao were not the same person.
However, he can only admit that the current leader of Fourth Civilization can only be Tang Xiao. If it were someone else, maybe the entire Fourth Civilization family could be wiped out in less than half a year.
This has nothing to do with ability, but because from the day Fourth Civilization set foot on Dawn Star Planet, the road he followed was the road planned by Tang Xiao - the road of war.
According to Volgograd-Kanidi, the road to war is the road to destruction.
Before the doomed destruction, what he wanted was to build Modell Sector into a place where people could live and work in peace and contentment during the war. Even if it's just a part, that's enough.
But when Republic Fleet broke through the impossible channel and came to Modell Sector, he realized that he had underestimated Galactic Republic, underestimated this war, and also underestimated... Tang Xiao!
Modell Sector's future, from this moment on, is no longer under the control of this star region itself.
In the future... what else can be done? Volgograd-Kanidi sighed secretly in his heart.
On the battlefield, Republic Fleet continued to retreat. After paying heavy losses, except for Second Battlegroup, which had become a dead end, the other three battle groups finally joined together, with a strength of more than 50 battleships, which was considered capable of fighting.
The battleship formations supported each other, and the fighter formations resolutely intercepted enemy aircraft after taking off, finally preventing the battle from collapsing.
Finally, the white light of hyperspace flashed violently, and Fifth Battlegroup arrived on the battlefield!
The general flagship of the expeditionary force - Commander-class Dreadnought Tagge, is at the core of Fifth Battlegroup!
The huge force of 40 Hunter Class Battlecruiser and 5 Governor-class battleship immediately changed the strength of both the enemy and ourselves.
"What on earth... happened?!" Seeing Republic fleet who was retreating steadily, Cassio-Tagge roared loudly.
"Archangel of Death..." Sa-Kuis turned his head and looked in the direction of Second Battlegroup. Although they were more than 100,000 kilometers apart and couldn't be seen with the naked eye, the Force still accurately judged the result in his perception, "It turned out to be Archangel of Death who took action himself!"
He said gloomily, "Forget it! If we can kill him, Western Reaches's war will be over!"
"We are not his opponents, don't act rashly." Gian Droga, who had been hiding himself under the hood, said slowly.
"Are we here just to watch a show?" Sa Kuis said displeased.
"Lord Sidious, we have already made arrangements..." A cruel smile appeared on the corner of Zhan Droga's mouth under his hood.