2352. Decisive Battle Ansion Planet (Part 1)
Generals Gillard-Perine have also received news of the return of General Maltuk led by Commerce Guild Fleet.
After General Mar-Tuk captured Agamar Planet (Agamar), he immediately turned back with his troops and returned to Makito to rest and recuperate. It seemed that he was preparing to reinforce Ansion Planet.
Ansion Planet is the core and portal of the entire Malarian Alliance. Judging from the plane star map of the Milky Way, the main hyperspace channel in the star area where Malarian Alliance is located is generally in the shape of a cross, and Ansion Planet is the center of this cross. The planets Gulla-Anselm and Dorin Planet currently occupied by Galactic Empire fleet are the section below this cross.
So it is not difficult to see that after Geth occupied Dorin Planet, it vigorously built a factory in Dorin Planet. It seemed that it planned to build this planet into a fortress planet to protect the planet Anselm and Ansion Planet.
In fact, Malarian Alliance has now formed an independent special economic zone with Ansion Planet as the core. This special economic zone has developed and grown with trade with Unknown Regions Chiss territory as its main source of income. Therefore, although Malarian Alliance's industry is relatively undeveloped, it is also a very important star area for Kingdom of Dawn's control area in Northern Territory.
Therefore, it is not difficult to guess that Mar-Touk led his army to return.
But Generals Gillard-Perine have made up their minds to capture Ansion Planet! As mentioned before, Ansion Planet is located at the center of the cross-shaped hyperspace channel. Even if he does not continue to penetrate Malarian Alliance and only needs to capture Ansion Planet, he will still get huge strategic benefits.
Capturing Ansion Planet and stationing Imperial fleet here is equivalent to controlling the entire Malarian Alliance, and also destroying the core of the alliance, then the alliance will directly perish. Afterwards, stationed at Ansion Planet can advance, attack, retreat or defend, and can also guard the passage to Unknown Regions.
Such an important planet must not be let go.
Admiral Gillard-Perine believes that the forces in his hands are enough to capture Ansion Planet. He currently has 700 capital ships, including 300 Imperial-class Star Destroyer and two Commander II-class Dreadnought. His military strength can be described as strong for a while.
On the other hand, Geth fleet had just suffered a heavy blow. The huge fleet of 10,000 warships suffered heavy losses in the head-to-head battle with Imperial fleet, and it was difficult for the remaining warships to regain their combat effectiveness.
At this moment, taking advantage of the victory to attack Ansion Planet, it is very likely that there will be no disadvantage.
The only thing that needs to be worried about now is Commerce Guild Fleet led by General Mar-Touk.
Gillard-Perine has also heard about this general who can be said to be the only one who can fight among Neimoidian who are full of softies. He participated in the whole process of Clone Wars, and was entrusted with important tasks by Tang Xiao from the beginning when he was still unknown. In the subsequent wars, he lived up to Tang Xiao's trust and participated in many battles with outstanding results.
Although he is not as dazzling as Sefrans-Tann and Ling Liang, he can complete his tasks well every time and rarely makes mistakes. The saying that those who are good at fighting have no great achievements is to describe generals like him.
In fact, such generals are actually the most troublesome on the battlefield. Because you can hardly expect him to make any mistakes. He will always play step by step and not give you any loopholes. Even if you can defeat him, the price paid will definitely not be small.
On the contrary, fighting against those generals who claim to be geniuses, and facing their so-called genius tactics, in fact, to put it bluntly, most of them are big gambles. Winning is brilliant, but losing will also lead to a particularly miserable fall. Facing this kind of enemy, Gillard-Perine actually quite likes it, because he himself is a very stable type.
At the same time, the battle of Kira planet also sounded the alarm to every officer of Galactic Empire Navy - their warships may have really opened up a generation gap with Kingdom of Dawn in terms of combat capabilities and technical content!
In other words, unless you have an absolute advantage, try not to engage in a head-on battle with the main fleet of Kingdom of Dawn. This has become the consensus of officers at all levels in Imperial Navy.
At the same time, it can also be found that the naval officer Kingdom of Dawn thinks so too. The evidence is that they rarely divide their forces now. They all gather their fleets together and constantly seek opportunities for fleet decisive battles.
Gillard-Perine decided to make a time difference. He knew that Mar-Tuk was now at Agamar Planet. From there to Ansion Planet, if you go through the hyperspace channel, you need to make a big circle. For a large fleet, it will take at least 7 to 8 days.
This is because the Commerce Guild Fleet has only more than 200 capital ships and more than 5,000 other small and medium-sized warships. When small and medium-sized warships are on a long-distance attack, due to the insufficient level of the hyperspace engine, the distance of a single jump is far less than that of large warships, so they need more jumps.
In fact, this is a point that Kuat Drive Yards repeatedly raised when promoting their Imperial-class Star Destroyer. That is, Imperial-class can meet various combat situations, so most of the time only the formation of Imperial-class Star Destroyer can solve all problems. In this way, the pure Imperial-class Star Destroyer formation has very high mobility.
At least on this point, Kuat Drive Yards is not talking nonsense.
Then, regarding the issue of star gates, Gillard-Perine also considered it. He judged that Corporate Alliances of Northern Territory, that is, the combination of the InterGalactic Banking Clan, Trade Federation, and Fourth Group, most likely also built the Star Gate.
There is almost certainly a star gate on their home base Makito. However, in terms of the current control area and strategic importance, apart from Makito, the only planet that has this time to build and whose strategic significance is important enough is the Oud-Mantel planet - the former capital of the Eighth Army.
However, the industry on the planet Ode-Mantel is not developed. Before, it was mainly based on tourism, black finance and casino business. It was a military base built after Galactic Republic used it as the capital of the Eighth Army. Therefore, it is often called Mantellian Outpost.
Therefore, even if it is necessary to build a star gate there, it will be very difficult. Kingdom of Dawn has not yet shown the ability to build star gates wherever he goes. Of course, if there is, Galactic Empire can just surrender.
Therefore, Gillard-Perine judged that Admiral Mar-Tuk was the fastest and needed to first return to Makito from Agamar Planet, then use the stargate to quickly move from Makito to the Oud-Mantel planet, and finally move from the Oud-Mantel planet towards Ansion Planet. This process takes about four days.
So, he started from the Ord-Mantel planet and went to Vortex Planet (Vortex) and Vicondo Planet (Vicondor) between Dorin Planet to set up defenses layer by layer. A large number of Interdictor and a large number of air mines were deployed to slow down the advance of the Mar-Tuk fleet.
He judged that this would offset the mobility advantage of Makito's stargate to the planet Oud-Mantel. It would take seven days for Mal-Tuk to come over to reinforce Ansion Planet.
Then, he only needs to capture Ansion Planet within seven days!
Now Geth fleet is suffering a heavy blow, seven days is totally fine!
On September 23, Gillard-Perine once again led the fleet to set off. This time, because he severely damaged Geth fleet, he was more confident. He directly divided his fleet into eight formations according to the conditions of the hyperspace channel, and set off from the eight branch channels leading to Ansion Planet!
In this way, even if Ansion Planet sets up Interdictor, he can still have his main fleet reach the target within one day!
On September 24, Imperial fleet's first batch of 500 battleships and a fleet of 1,200 small and medium-sized warships arrived at Ansion Planet. Without any surprise, Ansion Planet has activated Planetary Shield, and Malarian Alliance's defense fleet is also waiting here.
Not only that, there are as many as 4,000 Geth fleet ships here.
Now the relationship between Geth and Kingdom of Dawn, they just stopped pretending! Anyway, Geth controls the electromagnetic environment of the battlefield as always. The battlefield situation here cannot be transmitted back to the Empire's country at the first time. Then, as long as all the the Empire warships are killed, no one will know about Kingdom of Dawn's collusion with Geth!
Gillard-Perine did not waste a minute, and immediately commanded his fleet to attack Ansion Planet, and the battle broke out instantly!
Malarian Alliance's defense fleet gathered more than 50 battleships here, most of which were second-line battleships eliminated by Kingdom of Dawn, as well as 1,000 small and medium-sized battleships. There are all kinds of small and medium-sized battleships, some were eliminated by Kingdom of Dawn, some were bought on the black market, and some were obtained from the remaining fleet of Confederacy of Independent Systems!
Not only that, a Agonev-class star base is also deployed above the north and south poles of the Anding planet.
The defense fleet relied on the interstellar base, fixed defense facilities and Planetary Shield to launch a fierce frontal battle with Imperial fleet. The battle situation instantly became extremely tragic.
As an autonomous territory, the soldiers of the Malarian Alliance have extremely high fighting spirit. For them, this battle is to protect their home and country. None of their warships flinched, they just opened fire wildly.
Moreover, the defense fleet was also organized in an orderly manner. The injured warships immediately retreated to the cover of Planetary Shield, or hid behind Agonev-class star base, and then underwent emergency repairs. If the damage is serious, it will be pulled directly back into the planet's atmosphere and repaired in the dock there.
But most of the time, facing the powerful firepower of Imperial-class Star Destroyer, the warship that can get the opportunity to repair is considered to have won the first prize.
Only one Revenge-class destroyer was seen maneuvering along the edge of Planetary Shield while waiting for an opportunity to shoot with the powerful Pulse Laser cannon in front. This type of destroyer is the first regular warship built by Fourth Civilization. It is 108.7 meters long. It is characterized by its very powerful main gun, which is its only advantage.
Therefore, Revenge-class has long been eliminated.
The Revenge-class destroyer's shot hit the Imperial-class Star Destroyer about 50,000 kilometers away very accurately. However, this main gun shot only caused a small ripple on the Star Destroyer's Deflector Shield, and then there was no response.
At the same time, a shrill alarm sounded on the bridge of Revenge-class destroyer! This is locked by Fire Control Radar!
The battleship captain quickly ordered evasion, and at the same time notified the planet command center to temporarily lower the Planetary Shield in his area so that his battleship could pass through, thereby using Planetary Shield to resist the attack.
But it was a step too late!
I saw several consecutive red Turbolaser beams fired instantly, hitting the Revenge-class's hull almost instantly!
Among these several rounds of Turbolaser, the turret of the first round was deflected due to the electronic interference of Geth. The beam emitted by another turret of the second round hit directly, and this Turbolaser beam directly blew the entire Revenge-class destroyer into pieces!
These small warships were so desperate when facing Imperial-class Star Destroyer!
At this moment, Geth warships also rushed forward bravely and fearlessly. The 4,000 warships are warships that were preserved in the previous blockade and are in good condition.
In order to block the advance of Imperial fleet, Geth really tried his best in that battle without any reservation.
And this time, Geth also showed its own characteristics and continued to advance against the powerful firepower of the the Empire battleship! Geth warship is very flexible. They immediately spread out in all directions at the beginning of the battle, and then outflanked Imperial fleet from all directions.
Now Imperial fleet is not arranged in Peren Ring, but in an attack formation, which means that all the warships are aiming at Ansion Planet with their bows and moving forward at full speed. In this way, the fragile tail of Imperial-class Star Destroyer is no longer protected!
Geth warship's goal is very clear. At all costs, he must go around Imperial fleet's side and rear and launch an attack from Imperial-class Star Destroyer's weak point.
General Gillard-Perine's response is also very simple - move forward, move forward, and move forward again! Until Planetary Shield destroys Ansion Planet, launches a landing, and completely takes over the planet!
The battle has been going on for 4 hours, and the situation is still extremely tense. Although Imperial fleet was fighting desperately, he was still unable to break through the defense fleet and launched Orbital Bombardment against Planetary Shield.
However, General Gillard-Perine is already certain of his victory!
Because the loss speed of the warships on the defensive fleet is much greater than Imperial fleet! In other words, as time goes by and the battle losses on both sides increase, the gap between the two sides will snowball!
Gillard-Perine connected to the public channel and started persuading Ansion Planet to surrender, [... You have been defeated and there is no possibility of victory! Stop resisting and surrender immediately and seek leniency! Otherwise, we will respond to your stubborn resistance at this moment with Orbital Bombardment!]
Ansion Planet's answer is only one word - [Go away!]
Gillard-Perine didn't know where their confidence came from, but they ordered the attack to continue to teach Ansion Planet a lesson.
However, when the battle continued for another day, Ansion Planet's defense fleet had suffered heavy losses and was almost unable to fight anymore. On the bridge of the flagship of Admiral Gillard-Perine, a piercing alarm suddenly came from the radar sensing department!
The radar officer stumbled over and said loudly, "General! It's bad! Large-scale hyperspace jump fluctuations have been detected!!!"