1691.Battle of Dawn (9)
The early arrival of C Battlegroup injected new hope into the officers and soldiers of Galactic Republic Expeditionary Force A and Battlegroup B who were in despair.
That's right! There is hope! It's not the most desperate time yet!
Although those frigates are numerous in number, their biggest weakness is still very obvious when facing battleships - they lack decisive and lethal firepower!
So although it seems that it has been passively beaten and looks extremely miserable, there are not many Hunter Class Battlecruiser that have been completely destroyed. Moreover, most of these destroyed warships were destroyed by Glory mothership, and some were destroyed by large warships such as Hiigaran-class battlecruiser and Generous-class Communications Escort.
Of the Hunter Class Battlecruiser that were actually destroyed by the frigates, there were only two of them.
And now almost all Republic warships on the battlefield know how to go around Glory mothership. After all, Glory mothership is a civilian ship, and its steering and flexibility cannot be compared with professional warships. Moreover, this mothership is a shield-resistant ship through and through, and its armor's defensive power is very limited. Therefore, even though Tang Xiao pretends to be leading the charge, it is actually used very cautiously.
If this continues, as long as we can join up with C Battlegroup who is standing firm on the spot, let alone the final victory, there is still a chance of at least escaping unscathed!
Return to Annaj system and join forces with more than 100 warships over there. You still have an invincible fleet here!
Almost all Republic warship who were still able to move turned their engines to maximum speed and flew quickly in the direction of C Battlegroup. Even if the large number of frigates kept firing at them, they just pretended they couldn't see it!
Now the captains of these battleships have only one purpose in mind - to reunite with C Battlegroup!
However... a dazzling light flashed instantly...
The countless pairs of eyes staring in the direction of C Battlegroup were all stunned...
That's the explosion of fire!
It is from C Battlegroup!
I only saw one of the Hunter Class Battlecruiser being torn apart by this terrible explosion. The collapse of the material caused huge damage, causing a huge wound at the tail end of the battleship! And more explosions continued to occur, continuing to explode along this wound, and then directly to the bridge!
As the bridge disintegrated, the battleship was completely broken into three pieces in the explosion...
Every Galactic Republic officer and soldier on the battlefield was completely stunned!
What happened? Why was a good Hunter Class Battlecruiser destroyed in just a few seconds?
Commander of C Battlegroup? He did not panic in the face of such a sudden attack, nor did he even react in any way.
That's right, because the Hunter Class Battlecruiser that exploded is the flagship of C Battlegroup!
Before anyone could react, there was another extremely violent explosion! The second Hunter Class Battlecruiser was blown up! And the explosion also came from the rear end of the battleship!!
This is not over yet, the third ship Hunter Class also exploded!
"The enemy is behind!!" The radar soldier of one of the battleships pointed at the radar screen and screamed loudly.
Sure enough, I could only see a few extremely weak signals looming on the radar screen. Their position is just behind C Battlegroup, like a group of swimming sharks!
The battleship C Battlegroup was concentrating on taking off its fighter jets, and at the same time, it was firing from a long distance to provide long-range fire support to A and Battlegroup B, who were under siege.
From the perspective of the captains of each of their battleships, there is a fierce battle going on over there at A. Battlegroup B, and since they are located far away from the battlefield, it is naturally safe here. All of their attention was focused on the battle ahead. They never expected that there would be an ambush here in the face of the powerful Republic fleet!
And how did such a big Endor system, Separatists person manage to ambush a fleet that had just escaped from hyperspace?
C Battlegroup, who woke up from a dream after being attacked, only then remembered to quickly turn on the Anti-Stealth radar and conduct a full scan of his rear.
But it's too late! The invisible killer has already been ambushing them!
Purification-class Black Stealth Special Operations Ship! There are 20 ships!
These Stealth Ship had already been ambush in this airspace that closed off Hyperspace Jammer, and then when Republic fleet had just left hyperspace, they immediately rushed over at high speed and launched the powerful Super Proton Torpedo at close range!
At such a distance, Republic warship had no time to intercept and were hit one after another by surprise. And their flagship was directly sunk in the first wave of attacks!
This is the usual tactic of Sefrans-Tann - to find the opponent's flagship through the Force's perception, and then suddenly launch a targeted decapitation operation, causing the enemy fleet to lose command in the first wave of attacks!
But now, with Das-Malthael personally in charge, it is naturally easy to use Force sense to reach the opponent's flagship.
As for why they knew Republic fleet had reinforcements? Naturally, it was because Duchy of Dawn fleet, who was fighting on the side of Annaj Planet, reported back that there were still 30 warships gathering and did not participate in the landing operation against Annaj Planet.
Instantly losing their flagship, the leaderless C Battlegroup immediately began to attack those Purification-class Black Stealth Special Operations Ship! The fighter jet group pounced on fiercely.
But these Purification-class Black Stealth Special Operations Ship are also extremely fierce. Even if they are targeted by a fighter formation, they will approach those Hunter Class Battlecruiser at full power, and then launch the powerful Super Proton Torpedo.
The fourth ship... the fifth ship... the sixth ship!
One Hunter Class Battlecruiser was destroyed one after another! These battleships with only a single layer of armor cannot withstand the attack of Super Proton Torpedo!
But soon, Purification-class Black Stealth Special Operations Ship was besieged by the chasing Galactic Republic fighter group, and losses soon occurred. After 7 or 8 ships were destroyed, the remaining ones turned on their cloaking devices again and fled at high speed.
At this time, among the C Battlegroup formation, the wreckage of a total of 9 Hunter Class Battlecruisers was slowly floating!
In less than 20 minutes, 9 Hunter Classs were destroyed!
Being ambushed and letting Purification-class Black Stealth Special Operations Ship approach so close, whoever comes will die!
While the nine Hunter Class Battlecruiser C Battlegroup were destroyed, they were also destroyed by the resistance of all Republic fleet officers and soldiers, including Cassio-Tagge the Will!
Purification-class Black Stealth Special Operations Ship is naturally also on Republic Navy's blacklist. Among the Planet Kira Campaigns that appeared for the first time, they were famous for destroying five Knight-class Star Destroyers in a short period of time.
But Cassio-Tagge made no preparations for this potential threat! Because even Galactic Republic himself had no idea what kind of warship it was.
He will also pay a high price for this!
At this moment, it seemed to Cassio-Tagge that the spacecraft using unknown stealth technology had not all been wiped out. Since they were able to wipe out nine C Battlegroup Hunter Class Battlecruisers in a short period of time, when the dense frigate group on the battlefield here rushes over, the invisible killer mixed in the countless frigates will be even more terrifying!
At this point in the battle, for Galactic Republic Expeditionary Fleet, this means catastrophe!!!
Thanks to Dao Wu Huaxia for tipping 300 Qidian Coin!!