1634. Half a catty or eight taels
Annaj Planet In the battlefield in outer space, the fleets of both sides almost collided with each other in an extremely violent manner.
Under the command of Volgograd-Kanidi, Duchy of Dawn fleet 10 Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser rushed directly to the front, turned the ship sideways, and opened fire with eight heavy laser cannons on the sides!
Galactic Republic fleet's intensive firepower also poured in, and most of the firepower was directed at the Hell's Angels at the front. However, Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser is equipped with thick armor and strong electrothermal armor coating, which effectively absorbed the firepower of Turbolaser cannon, making their attack futile.
Republic fleet commander Cassio-Tagge also quickly discovered the clues. He ordered his last five Knight-class Star Destroyers currently here to serve as the leader, and then sent the five 4000-meter-level Governor-classs to cover and conduct a forward attack.
Knight-class Star Destroyer In addition to 60 XX-9 double-mounted heavy-duty Turbolaser cannons, it is also equipped with 60 ion cannons specifically used to destroy shields. It's just that the ion cannon has a short range and needs to be close before it can exert its power.
Cassio-Tagge As top students, they still have some real qualities. He discovered the heat-absorbing function of Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser's outer armor from the battlefield data scan, and immediately thought of letting Knight-class Star Destroyer's ion cannon attack to increase the energy supply pressure of Hell Angel-class through electromagnetic damage.
But the number of Knight-class Star Destroyer was still too small after all. Governor-class battleship also had 40 ion cannons installed on its heavy hull, which could also provide some help, so Cassio-Tagge also sent Governor-class aboard.
Volgograd-Kanidi also responded tit for tat. He immediately ordered Calamity-class battlecruiser in the rear to aim at Republic fleet Governor-class battleship and shoot. Particle Beam Lance's powerful power and light-speed attack speed pose the most direct threat to the Governor-class battlecruiser!
And the five Durov-class Battlecruiser moved closer to Hell Angel-class, using their own engine overload and remote power transmission equipment to quickly replenish energy for Hell Angel-class to avoid armor coating failure due to power outage. Once the armor coating fails, the outer armor belt will quickly melt and fall off under intensive attacks, exposing the fragile internal structure of the battleship.
At the same time, Behemoth-class battlecruiser began to use Yamato Cannon to launch bombings against Hunter Class Battlecruiser of Republic fleet. After all, Hunter Class Battlecruiser had the advantage in numbers, and the shelling from both sides was temporarily ineffective.
At this moment, a variable occurs in Second Battlegroup!
That fleet of the dead!
Das-Malthael flew the fighter jet to take off again after Red Comet completed charging. Unsurprisingly, Force-sensitive on the other side of Galactic Republic also took off dozens of Eta-2 fighter jets to attack.
But this time, Darth-Malthael took a completely different approach!
On the one hand, he ordered the 6 Knight-class Star Destroyers and 4 Hunter Class Battlecruisers of Second Battlegroup to rush forward in a completely indomitable manner, pretending to be in collision. At the same time, the warships continued to fire.
Although under the control of those walking zombies, the bombardment was almost inaccurate, but the firepower density of Knight-class's 60 XX-9 heavy Turbolaser cannons was still able to hit a lot of artillery fire.
At the same time, Das-Malthael also began to focus on traveling and did not engage in head-on combat with those ETA-2 fighters.
On the contrary, he also started flying towards Republic fleet at high speed. And he repeated his old trick. Once he found out that the opponent was chasing him, he immediately hid himself under the cover of Second Battlegroup's firepower and continued to advance.
This trick was indeed tried and true. After noticing Red Comet's actions, the dozens of ETA-2 fighter jets wanted to rush forward, but were forced back by Second Battlegroup's anti-aircraft firepower. And Das-Malthael was determined not to fight them head-on. He just looked for every opportunity to get closer to Republic fleet.
Seeing this, Galactic Republic fleet Zong Commander Cassio-Tagge had no choice but to let his fleet start to retreat to avoid Second Battlegroup. At the same time, 200 fighter jets were taken off to reinforce, intending to continue to entangle Das-Malthael.
So under the unreasonable attack of Dath-Malthael and Second Battlegroup, the battle situation once again turned into a situation of chasing and escaping at the same time.
In such a battle, Duchy of Dawn's fleet naturally had the advantage, destroying Galactic Republic 4 and Hunter Class Battlecruiser in the pursuit battle. However, they only had two Hell Angel-classs that were severely damaged and needed to be towed back for repairs.
Republic fleet also unexpectedly discovered this time that in such a battlefield situation of running away from the enemy, Hunter Class performed much better than Knight-class.
Because of the weird turret arrangement of Hunter Class Battlecruiser, the eight XX-9 heavy Turbolaser gun turrets are installed with four on each side on both sides of the bridge, that is, at the rear end of the battleship. The front section of Hunter Class is all Hangar Platform, so naturally the turret cannot be installed.
In this way, when the two sides are facing the enemy head-on, it is difficult for the Hunter Class to use its full firepower. However, when escaping, because the turrets are all in the rear half, you only need to raise the bow a little, and you can still use your full firepower with your back to the enemy ship.
I don't know what the chief designer of Hunter Class, Willix-Blythex, would think in his heart when he knew that his proud work actually played a great role in the escape.
In this battle, Das-Malthael chased Republic warship for more than 200,000 kilometers, and continued to deal with the ETA-2 fighters driven by Dark Side Force sensitive. Second Battlegroup is also charging forward crazily under the control of the B-1 combat robot and the walking dead.
In the end, Das-Malthael shot down five ETA-2 fighters again, and also rushed over and used Death Force to control two Hunter Class Battlecruisers that failed to escape.
As for Second Battlegroup, all four Hunter Class Battlecruisers were destroyed under the extreme fear of Galactic Republic, but he became crazy in shooting.
In this battle, Darth-Malthael received a notification from the hyperspace outpost, saying that he stopped because of another fluctuation in the hyperspace.
Duchy of Dawn's fleet and Death Fleet Second Battlegroup returned to the outside of the Annaj Planet defense line and re-armed.
Thirty minutes later, white light flashed violently, and 20 Hunter Class Battlecruiser jumped out of hyperspace and appeared in Annaj system.
Galactic Republic Sixth Battlegroup arrives on the battlefield!
The situation on the battlefield began to shift in an extremely unfavorable direction for Duchy of Dawn.
There is no doubt that Galactic Republic will have a seventh, eighth, and even Ninth Battlegroup! But Duchy of Dawn, there are no more reinforcements.