1635. Winning by surprise
Das-Malthael returned to Hangar Platform, a ship of Knight-class Star Destroyer, and the ground crew composed of B-1 combat robots immediately came over to refuel his Red Comet, replenish energy, and replace the capacitor.
At this time, a blue-painted B-1 combat robot Commander came over and said, "Sir, those Low-Temperature Humans were seriously damaged in the battle, and we need to replenish them."
"Low-Temperature Humans?" Das-Malthael was stunned by this strange title.
"Sir, those Low-Temperature Humans processors are too low-level and cannot execute the buffer program when attacked. When the battleship vibrates, it hits the console and cannot get up." B-1 robot Commander said.
"Notify the planet command center and send more B-1 robots up." Das-Malthael said.
"Roger Roger!" B-1 robot Commander performed a military salute that looked funny.
Das-Malthael also ignored these B-1 combat robots who had learned new terms for some reason. He went straight to the bridge of the battleship and connected the communication with Commander Volgograd-Kanidi.
"Your Excellency." Volgograd-Kanidi said straight to the point, "According to the current situation, we cannot defend Annaj system... We don't know how many battleships Galactic Republic has, but according to what the little girl Rendili StarDrive said, the number will not be less than 300."
"In other words, less than half of their troops are here now?" Das-Malthael said in a cold tone, "There are about 110 warships here now. Counting those destroyed and captured by us, there are almost 150."
"This is just an optimistic estimate. I don't think that as a competitor, Kuat Drive Yards will let the representatives of Rendili StarDrive see all their background." Volgograd-Kanidi said, "And our main battleships are only 80. Even if we add more than 300 small battleships, we cannot withstand an offensive like Galactic Republic."
Galactic Republic The number of kilometer-level battleships that can be sent here is comparable to the number of frigates on our side... Das-Malthael looked grim.
The gap in productivity between the two sides is indeed huge.
Duchy of Dawn Before the war, there were about 150 to 200 main battleships. The main battleships at that time were basically Kohl-class Battlecruiser and Hiigaran-class battlecruiser, and even the number of Martha-class missile heavy cruiser was not large. After several fierce battles with Galactic Republic, this fleet suffered heavy losses from Battle of Terminus and basically lost its ability to actively attack.
At that time, including Das-Malthael, Fourth Civilization Supreme Military Command had already begun to formulate a plan to use Terminus Planet, the main transportation road of Outer Rim, as a base to confront Galactic Republic. But by some mistake, when Sefrans-Tann led Plague Titan warship to be hunted down by almost all Galactic Republic, they accidentally found Blade Fleet.
Then they snatched 178 of Blade Fleet's total 200 Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser ships, and used this as the core to reorganize a wave of offensive that was completely beyond Galactic Republic's expectations. Finally occupying Eriadu, firmly occupying Mid Rim's most important transportation hub, making Fourth Civilization's strategic space extremely vast.
In the next approximately nine months (ten months a year in the world of "Star Wars"), Fourth Civilization quietly completed the replacement of naval warships.
In cooperation with corporate giants such as InterGalactic Banking Clan, Trade Federation, and with the help of Salarian, a series of new warships such as Behemoth-class battlecruiser, Calamity-class battlecruiser, Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser, Doomsday Battlefield-class battlecruiser, etc. have been developed.
Then these new warships also formed effective combat effectiveness. In these 9 months, Duchy of Dawn obtained about 120 ships. Except for the small number of new warships defended in the Yago-Dur system, the others are all here.
You must know that the production of these warships must also deduct those retained by the corporate giants themselves, as well as the number delivered to Fourth Group for use in Northern Territory battlefield operations-adding these together, the total production of new warships can be almost close to 300 ships.
Compared with before the war, the industrial level of Duchy of Dawn can be said to have improved rapidly. And in the future, if Rendili Trade Route can be opened up and Rendili Planet's population and industrial capacity can be digested, Duchy of Dawn's industrial development will have a long period of dividends.
But even so, facing the industrial production capacity of Galactic Republic, it is still a drop in the bucket.
"Your Excellency, we must consider the worst case scenario." Volgograd-Kanidi said.
"Tell me about your plan." Das-Malthael asked directly.
"If we let both of us compete head-on with fleet strength, we will definitely lose. Even with your power, we can only contain a small number of the opponent's warships. I believe that when the number of Republic fleet's warships exceeds 200, they will launch an attack that cannot be resisted." Kanidi said.
"Why 200 ships?"
"With 200 capital ships, they can divide the fleet into three, and each direction can ensure that they are evenly matched with all our defensive fleets." Kanidi said, "Actually, I think they rely on this weird hyperspace jump method to constantly escape from hyperspace in different directions. Their original intention is to form a direct encirclement and then launch attacks in all directions..."
He looked at Dath-Malthael with a hint of fear in his eyes, "But because of your powerful power, their plan was thwarted. So they will only assemble the fleet in one direction and then divide their forces to attack. Although this will put less pressure on our dispersed defense, their strength is still substantial."
"Since you can't fight head-on, what method can you use to win by surprise?" Das-Malthael asked.
"I don't have the commanding genius like Sefrans-General Tann. I can't win by surprise in such a situation where both sides are almost clear-cut." Volgograd-Kanidi shook his head and sighed, "But I do have a plan to disperse Galactic Republic's troops."
"Say."
"Give them more combat goals." Kanidi said, "They have come from afar, and what they urgently need most is to occupy a planet as an advance base. Annaj Planet is the best choice... Now the residents on the planet are constantly evacuating towards the suburbs. We can deliberately expose the loopholes and let Galactic Republic land on the planet..."
His voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he murmured, "I just hope that after the victory, you will not forget the contribution of the Modell Sector people..."