2351. Malarian Alliance Battle (下下下)
Reinforcements from both sides are constantly arriving. In the middle of this hyperspace channel, in an unnamed space, the encounter gradually turns into a decisive battle!
Gillard-Perine's judgment was not wrong. Geth ambush nearly 10,000 warships in this direction, deployed in several different hyperspace channels. Among them, the number of dreadnoughts with a length of 600 to 800 meters has reached 3,000. Such a force is extremely powerful.
After encountering Imperial fleet, Geth warship from other directions also rushed to reinforce. Some of these battleships returned to Ansion Planet, and then went to the battlefield via the hyperspace channel for reinforcements, while the other part went in the opposite direction and directly broke into the recently surrendered planet Gel-Anselm.
So on the planet Gulla-Anselm, a battle broke out among part of the follow-up fleet of Geth warship Gillard-Perine that had attacked.
The two sides are now engaged in three battles at the same time in the middle of the two hyperspace channels and on the planet Gulla-Anselm.
Gillard-Perine had already made arrangements and kept training. Therefore, Imperial fleet from these three directions also changed their formations to Peren Ring to meet them, and the battle directly entered a fierce stage.
However, although Geth fleet has an absolute advantage in quantity, this advantage is not particularly large. Geth fleet has 10,000 battleships, and because Geth warship is generally small in size, only 3,000 of them are dreadnoughts.
The Gillard-Perine fleet has a total of 800 battleships, half of which are Imperial-class Star Destroyer. In addition, there are more than 2,000 small and medium-sized warships, including various types of Light Cruiser, Heavy Cruiser, frigates, etc.
Therefore, the actual strength advantage of Geth fleet is only about 3 to 4 times.
Moreover, the performance of the warships on both sides has actually widened a huge gap.
Geth warships From Clone Wars to now, there haven't been many improvements. It's still the same battleship type, and there hasn't been much technological innovation.
During the Clone Wars period, Geth Dreadnought could defeat Hunter Class Battlecruiser, but facing Imperial-class Star Destroyer, there was no possibility of resistance at all.
This is also true, Hunter Class Battlecruiser only has 8 main guns in total and its power is limited, and a lot of space is used for Hangar Platform, and its protective capabilities are also very insufficient. But Imperial-class Star Destroyer has 60 main guns, and there are another 60 plasma cannons specifically used to attack shields. Hangar Platform has also been reduced to a quarter of Hunter Class, with more space to accommodate the huge L-A2B solar furnace reactor and thicker armor.
From Hunter Class to Imperial-class, this is a leap. One Imperial-class can easily destroy ten Hunter Class. Therefore, Geth Dreadnought is no match at all.
But the strength of Geth has sounded the alarm to Gillard-Perine, and he is very nervous now. It's not because Geth fleet can't defeat it, but because Geth can gather heavy troops in this direction, then they may have such a huge fleet in other directions!!
What frightened him even more was that he never knew that Geth had so many spaceships!
Before this, every time Geth fleet appeared, it was in a fleet of 300 ships. Every time it attacked, the larger ones would have 3 or 4 fleets and more than a thousand warships, and the smaller ones would just be one fleet hit and run.
This has led to a long-standing misjudgment on the Galactic Empire's side, believing that Geth may only have so much productivity, and harassment is no problem, but it is almost impossible to directly threaten the Empire's hinterland.
But now, the appearance of nearly 10,000 warships tells Gillard-Perine, Geth, that they really have the ability to fight all the way to Core Worlds!
Looking at the holographic image of the battlefield where the fierce battle was taking place, General Gillard-Perine once again felt extremely regretful. He believed that this active attack was definitely a mistake, and he might have fallen into Geth's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain!
Now that the battlefield situation has begun to stabilize, he began to figure out whether to retreat back to the planet Anselm, or continue to attack Ansion Planet...
The two sides fought fiercely for 17 hours. On September 19, Geth fleet abandoned the wreckage of more than 3,000 warships and began to retreat. After Geth fleet retreated, Gillard-Perine also began to gather the remaining fleet. Adding up the three battlefields, he lost a total of 70 battleships and more than 200 small and medium-sized warships, and many of the remaining warships were scarred.
But after all, they also caused very heavy losses to Geth fleet. It can be said that this huge Geth fleet has been disabled and has almost no ability to continue attacking.
Rather than searching for and chasing Geth fleet, who is harassing small groups all over the world, it is better to solve it all at once in such a decisive battle.
Gillard-Perine held a fleet military meeting to discuss the current battlefield situation.
Compared with his worries, the victory of this encounter made officers at all levels in the fleet feel very optimistic. Almost all officers believed that they should pursue the victory. And one of the combat staff also put forward a reason that was difficult to refuse - if you give up this opportunity, it may be difficult to find another opportunity to have a decisive battle with the large-scale Geth fleet. At the same time, they also believed that if they continued to attack Ansion Planet, there would probably be no more resistance.
Because now the main force of Commerce Guild Fleet is attacking Northern Territory Outer Rim Territories under the leadership of General Mar-Turk. Under the premise of dividing the troops in this way, if they are still in If Ansion Planet still has such a large fleet, which is enough to threaten their main fleet, then this means that Kingdom of Dawn has already had an absolutely superior force in Northern Sector. This is simply impossible.
If they had such an absolute advantage, they would never wait until now.
Gillard-Perine was convinced. At the same time, he also believed that it should not retreat after the initial victory. He also believed that the current Galactic Empire, after the disastrous defeat of Planet Kira Campaign and the complete loss of Outer Rim Territories, needed such a reversal from both a strategic and tactical perspective.
He ordered the fleet to temporarily return to the planet Gel-Anselm for a rest and replenishment, which would take about three days.
This decision was understandable, because after this tragic battle, many battleships in his fleet were in poor condition. And it's not bad, but it's not terrible. Basically, it can be restored to its best condition with a day or two of replenishment and repair.
Therefore, Gillard-Perine plans to rest before attacking, which will give them greater confidence.
However, he had not thought at this moment that it was these three days of delay that almost prevented his main fleet from returning to Bilbrin Planet's station alive!!
At this moment, Admiral Mar-Tuk's fleet is turning back!