2649. Fight again Bilbrin Planet
The number of Kingdom of Dawn fleet currently assembled in Bilbrin Planet has reached 120 battleships and 350 Heavy Cruiser! In addition, there are more than 600 frigates to Light Cruiser, which is roughly equivalent to half of the number of Northern Fleet this time.
The fleet Galactic Empire defends Bilbrin Planet currently has 550 capital ships and more than 2,700 small and medium-sized warships. Galactic Empire's Northern Territory The four major armies, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th armies, have a total of 3,500 capital ships. However, due to the destruction of the 8th Army, the remaining three armies must defend a vast space, so 2,000 of the 3,500 capital ships are used for defense in various places.
At the same time, since Kingdom of Dawn also sent more than 50 capital ships to attack Dantooine on the edge of Northern Territory, the Empire also had to send 100 capital ships to fight. Seventh Legion also sent 40 Imperial-class Star Destroyer in two groups to penetrate Unknown Regions, preparing to harass the rear of Chiss territory.
So at this moment, on the planet Palin-Minor, the administrative center of Northern Territory, a powerful force of up to 700 battleships is stationed. Therefore, the fleet currently defending Bilbrin Planet led by Lieutenant General Dagon-Niel is actually about half of the Northern Territory mobile fleet.
Although on the surface Lieutenant General Dagon-Niel is on the defensive and can still get fire support from Bilbrin Planet's local factories and thousands of armed asteroids in the periphery, so the advantage in military strength is very huge, but in fact, General Trench In this direction, there are eight Divinity-class battleship, two Titan warship, two Eternal-class Super Carrier, and three Consul-class aircraft carrier, which can be said to be super battleships.
Especially Archangel Titan warship was extremely terrifying. Its two attacks forced Galactic Empire to muster the strength of the entire fleet to fight against it!
Therefore, Lieutenant General Dagon-Niel also believes that once General Trench gathers the most powerful warships to launch a surprise attack, his defense line is likely to be broken through, thus putting Bilbrin Planet under threat.
Therefore, Lieutenant General Dagon-Niel kept making requests to his boss, General Commander, the highest military commander in the entire Northern Sector - General Gillard-Perine, hoping that Perine could put enough pressure on Kingdom of Dawn to prevent them from sending more warships.
Gillard-Perine led the mobile fleet originally used to defend the planet Palin-Minor. He finally convinced Dunn-Vesex, who just wanted to stay in his hometown, and continued to increase the force to 450 capital ships and 2,000 small and medium-sized warships to attack the planet Oud-Mantel.
The Kingdom of Dawn force defending the planet Ord-Mantel consists of 150 capital ships, 350 Heavy Cruiser ships, and more than 2,000 small and medium-sized warships. And since there is no Titan warship in charge, the gap in strength between the two sides is not too big.
In this direction, neither side intends to fight desperately, but only intends to contain the other party.
On 9BBY, on May 20th, General Trench first started a war with Bilbrin Planet!
Archangel Titan warship rushed directly to the front, and Doomsday Weapon launched directly after completing charging! After the terrifying energy beam directly penetrated the Imperial-class Star Destroyer from beginning to end, it swept across three armed asteroids, and there was an explosion of flames wherever it passed.
Immediately afterwards, Particle Beam Lance equipped by Calamity-class battlecruiser and Paladin-class battlecruiser also bombarded Galactic Empire's defense line indiscriminately.
Divinity-class battleship lined up at the front of the line, Flagship-class laser array flashed continuously, and the powerful X-ray instantly projected destructive energy.
In the center of the array, Kohl II-class Heavy Cruiser, Behemoth-class battlecruiser, and Minotaur-class Heavy Cruiser also opened fire with their own medium and long-range firepower, forming a three-dimensional fire network.
Eternal-class Super Carrier and Consul-class drone carriers were at the rear of the line. They did not take off fighter jets and drones immediately. They just let the capital ships of both sides bombard each other.
After receiving the notification of the attack, the Empire Defense Fleet Commander Dagon-Niel is now taking command Bilbrin Planet. Having learned the lessons from the previous Horst-General Strege, Lieutenant General Niel decided not to fly on the flagship to avoid being possessed by Doomsday Weapon.
Anyway, at this moment, in the Bilbrin Planet fleet, except for the three Commander II-class Dreadnoughts, there is no warship that can serve as the flagship. After all, Commander II-class Dreadnought is a modified product of the Clone Wars period. Although the length reaches 8,000 meters, its combat effectiveness is not high. Riding Commander II-class Dreadnought as the flagship does not feel as safe as the 4,800-meter Archon MK-II.
Dagon-Niel ordered his fleet to be dispersed and divided into hundreds of small combat formations to fight hidden behind armed asteroids. In this way, the risk of being named one by one by Archangel Titan warship and Doomsday Weapon can be minimized.
The small armed asteroids are three to four kilometers in diameter, and the larger ones are even hundreds of kilometers in diameter. They are equipped with independent energy reactors and Deflector Shield generators, as well as heavy Turbolaser cannons. Most of these things are dismantled from old battleships that have been eliminated before, and they can play some role.
And the most important thing is that these armed asteroids are natural bunkers.
Facing the attack of Kingdom of Dawn, 700 Imperial-class Star Destroyer also responded with powerful firepower! Compared with Kingdom of Dawn fleet's attack method which mainly uses beams of light, Imperial fleet's counterattack is like rain! A single salvo is thousands of Turbolaser beams! And the rate of fire is also very fast, the XX-9 heavy Turbolaser gun can fire 40 times per minute!
The attack like raindrops fell on Kingdom of Dawn fleet's formation, and countless light green energy ripples immediately lit up, even on Divinity-class battleship who was not equipped with an energy shield!
Taowu Titan warship, unfolded Fleet Shield in the first time!
Not only that, Archangel Titan warship also activates Phenomenon Generator, which strengthens our entire fleet.
Under the circumstances of the ebb and flow, although the troops were at an absolute disadvantage, they still suppressed Imperial Defense Fleet steadily. Archangel Titan warship and Doomsday Weapon started charging for the second time.
As long as Doomsday Weapon is there, each launch can steadily destroy Imperial fleet's warships, causing them to continue to suffer losses.
It seems that General Trench is very satisfied with this exchange.
The battle to storm Bilbrin Planet has entered its most intense state from the very beginning!
Less than 10 minutes after the battle began, both sides began to suffer battle losses. Imperial fleet, 18 Imperial-class Star Destroyer were sunk, and Kingdom of Dawn also had one Divinity-class battleship that was seriously damaged and began to retreat. At the same time, 3 Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser were sunk, and 3 Martha-class missile heavy cruiser were sunk.
Neither side took off fighter formations because they both believed that with both sides in a tight formation, forcing fighter formations to attack would only lead to greater losses.
The fierce battle lasted for 4 hours, with both sides carrying out almost constant long-range shelling.
During this period of fighting, Galaxy Imperial Defense Fleet lost 82 battleships and more than 300 small and medium-sized warships. Kingdom of Dawn lost 20 battleships and Heavy Cruiser, and 76 small and medium-sized warships.
In fact, the main reason why Galactic Empire's defense fleet suffered such shocking losses was Archangel Titan warship's Doomsday Weapon. In this battle, Doomsday Weapon was launched four times in total. Just these four launches destroyed 19 Imperial-class Star Destroyer!
Moreover, the shooting of Doomsday Weapon caused a vacancy in the Imperial fleet defense formation, which gave other warships the opportunity to take advantage of it. Calculated in this way, at least half of the battle losses were related to Archangel Titan warship.
After using Phenomenon Generator and launching Doomsday Weapon four more times, Archangel Titan warship began to turn around and retreat, while Taowu Titan warship, with the help of three Durov-class Battlecruisers, deployed Fleet Shield again, covering the entire fleet and quickly completing the U-turn and establishing a safe distance from the planet's defense line.
Kingdom of Dawn arranged 10 Dawn's Radiance-class mothership about 5 light hours away from Bilbrin Planet. Although this kind of mothership is only 2,300 meters high, it is equipped with various industrial facilities and interstellar docks. After unfolding, it is combined into a small military base to provide maintenance for the fleet.
The 10 Dawn's Radiance-class motherships have been fully deployed, including hospital space stations, fighter hangars, interstellar docks, battleship docks, entertainment centers, starry sky canteens and other facilities are also ready.
A large number of engineering ships and transport ships are shuttled through this small interstellar city, some are building more facilities, while others are transporting various materials.
From time to time, more spaceships arrive here through the hyperspace channel, bringing more supplies.
Bilbrin system For Kingdom of Dawn, the only advantage is that there are a large number of asteroids here, so they can use local materials, smelt these asteroids to obtain materials, and then build various parts to maintain the battleship.
Although most of these locally sourced parts and materials are not up to standard, at least they are still sufficient in such a battlefield environment.
In this small military base, there are also some Vasari engineering ships that are busy. These engineering ships have already started the preliminary construction work of the star gate.
In fact, it was not that Lieutenant General Galactic Empire fleet Commander Dagon-Niel had never had the idea of this military base, but King of the North Dunn-Vesex's order to preserve strength first made him give up this crazy plan.
Previously, Horst-General Strege launched an offensive hastily, but in the end they were unable to even capture the opponent's two small-scale fleets with the core of Titan warship. Now that the opponent has set up defenses here, and if they take the initiative to attack again, although it cannot be said that defeat is certain, heavy losses are inevitable.
If this is the result, Dunn-Vesex must shoot him!
Therefore, Lieutenant General Dagon-Niel's biggest hope is a steady stream of backup and General Gillard-Perine's containment on the planet Oud-Mantel.
Galactic Empire still attaches great importance to the offensive and defensive battles of Bilbrin Planet. In order to strengthen the determination of Dunn-Vesex to guard here, Imperial Supreme Strategic Command is not stingy with combat materials and gives them whatever they ask for. Therefore, Lieutenant General Dagon-Niel's current support is still very sufficient.
As long as the war situation does not evolve to the point where large-scale losses are imminent, Dunn-Vesex will not order the withdrawal of troops.
But even so, the intensity of this attack made Dagon-Niel feel scared. Because if this offensive continues, his battle losses will be greatly increased. By then, it is really hard to say whether Dunn-Vesex, who are dedicated to maintaining their strength, will stick to Bilbrin Planet.
Dagon-Niel began to deploy his defenses more cautiously. He was now not thinking about how to attack the forward base arranged by General Trench, but was thinking about how to preserve his fleet in the next offensive.
However, just as he was standing in front of the holographic combat star map and thinking carefully, suddenly, an officer from the sensor department ran over quickly and said loudly, "Niel General! Separatist fleet station has abnormal hyperspace fluctuations!!"
"Abnormal fluctuations? What's going on?" Dagon-Niel frowned, "Is that Archangel Titan warship deploying its navigation beacon to guide reinforcements again?"
"No, the fluctuation this time is much stronger than before! And the frequency of the fluctuation is completely different from before. It's like... it's like..." the officer gestured for a while, and said with a pale face, "It's like he's leaving here."
"Leave?" Dagon-Niel took five seconds to digest this information, and then he felt cold all over his body, "What did you say?! Leave??"
He strode towards the sensor department. At this time, a soldier shouted, "Confirm the hyperspace fluctuation!! The opponent's two Titan warship have started their hyperspace engines and left the system!!"
"Separatists are you crazy?!" Dagon-Niel exclaimed, "Bilbrin system's hyperspace channel is very complicated, and we have also set up a large number of Interdictor. They finally got here, and now they have to retreat? Then won't their previous efforts and sacrifices be in vain?"
He suddenly thought of a possibility, turned around and said to his adjutant and staff officer, "Could they retreat and then go to the planet Oude Mantel?"
The adjutant nodded and said, "The possibility is very high. Then this offensive just now was to attract our attention... Maybe Separatists found that Bilbrin Planet was too easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it gave up."
The staff officer also said, "We should notify Gillard-General Perine immediately. It should take three to four days to maneuver from here to the Ord-Mantel planet. Let the two Titan warship struggle for a while in the chaotic hyperspace environment of Bilbrin system."
Dagon-Niel nodded and asked the adjutant to quickly inform Admiral Gillard-Perine about the retreat of the two Titan warship.
At the same time, he was also thinking about a question - should he take the initiative to attack Kingdom of Dawn's military base?
However, just one day after he prepared for the attack, news of the explosion suddenly came from the planet Oud-Mantel!
Two Titan warship! Appear on the battlefield of Ord-Mantel planet!!