2650. Battle of Ord-Mantle Planet
The two Titan warships took just one day to make a big circle and arrived directly at the Oud-Mantel planet battlefield!
At this time, Admiral Gillard-Perine, who was commanding the fleet attack, was completely unprepared!
He has indeed been informed that Kingdom of Dawn and two Titan warship left from Bilbrin Planet with an unknown destination, and they were probably heading to the planet Oud-Mantel.
But the problem is that the hyperspace channel of Bilbrin system is very complicated. Just getting in and out of this galaxy takes a lot of time and requires many jumps before leaving. The main thing is to avoid several Blackholes in the surroundings. The hyperspace turbulence generated by those Blackholes is a huge threat to navigation.
The reason why Galactic Empire is able to master several secret waterways is because they have mastered the gravitational operation rules of Blackhole around Bilbrin system. The operation rules of Blackhole are difficult to analyze without spending a lot of time analyzing.
Then, because there is no direct channel connection between the Ord-Mantel planet and Bilbrin Planet, we can only go around from the directions of Dorin Planet and Vortex Planet, so it actually takes a lot of time.
When the invasion offensive was launched before, Kingdom of Dawn was unable to analyze the operating rules of Blackhole, so it had no choice but to use two Titan warships to attack directly. And a large number of their fleets are gathered at Dorin Planet, waiting for the guidance of Hyperspace Beacon from Archangel Titan warship.
Therefore, after receiving the news that the two Titan warships had left the battlefield, Admirals Gillard-Perine not only did not get nervous, but instead told Lieutenant General Dagon-Niel to be careful to avoid being killed by Titan warship.
As for Gillard-Perine, he is not too worried. According to estimates, even if Titan warship really maneuvers towards himself, there will still be three or four days. He can slowly retreat after calmly adjusting his formation.
And he can't retreat rashly now, he must continue to maintain pressure on the planet Oude Mantle. Otherwise, if he was frightened by the opponent and ran away, he would definitely be chased when he retreated. To revive this huge fleet of 450 battleships again, it would definitely take much longer than the two Titan warship running around.
What's more, his current fleet has a very large number of small and medium-sized warships, reaching 2,000. He is also worried that these warships will suffer more losses when they retreat.
So the result is that Admiral Gillard-Perine is still maintaining his offensive against the planet Oud-Mantel one day later.
It was at this time that the sensing department sent an early warning, telling him that large-scale hyperspace fluctuations had been detected. Immediately afterwards, two Titan warship appeared on the battlefield!!
Seeing this scene, General Gillard-Perine almost stopped his heart!
Especially when he saw the two Titan warship rushing towards the battle site non-stop, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.
You know, in the current situation, Imperial fleet is on the offensive! Moreover, the strength of Kingdom of Dawn fleet defending on the opposite side is almost the same as that of Imperial fleet, and the Oud-Mantel planet also has fire support from Agonev-class star base and a large number of defense facilities.
That is to say, there are 350 Heavy Cruisers among the Kingdom of Dawn fleets. Although the combat effectiveness is comparable to that of a battleship, after all, the size is much smaller than the 1,600-meter Imperial-class Star Destroyer, and it cannot be calculated directly on a one-to-one basis. With such a small advantage, Gillard-Perine can maintain the offense.
Moreover, he never expected much success from this attack. As long as he could delay Kingdom of Dawn fleet and prevent them from gathering more troops to attack Bilbrin Planet, that would be enough.
But now, with the arrival of two Titan warship, the balance of forces between the two sides has immediately changed!
The strengthening effect of Titan warship on a fleet is far more than just adding two more super battleships. Whether it is Fleet Shield of Ankollon-class Titan warship or Phenomenon Generator of Archangel-class Titan Warship, they are powerful forces that can determine the outcome of a battle.
"Retreat immediately! Retreat! Quick!" Gillard-Perine roared loudly. He no longer had much to worry about. He had to get out of the battle as soon as possible before Titan warship entered the battlefield.
There is not much time left for him now!
The two Titan warships left the hyperspace channel very close to the battlefield. It is impossible for a normal hyperspace jump to get so close to the planet. But this is not the most abnormal thing. What is really abnormal is the speed at which they come!!
"How is it possible! How is it possible to come here now!!" Gillard-Perine punched the console.
After receiving the retreat order, the warships in Imperial fleet immediately turned toward one side of the battlefield according to the retreat plan, and gradually distanced themselves while maintaining fire suppression as much as possible.
You must not turn around at this time. The result can only be a massacre.
However, it is absolutely impossible for General Trench, who is commanding the battle on Archangel Titan warship, to give him this opportunity.
"Expand, attack formation. All ships, attack. Tsk tsk tsk tsk..." General Trench used his pointer to hit the combat star chart, and a spot of light was drawn on the holographic projection, which happened to be at the position of Imperial fleet!
Kingdom of Dawn fleet has long been ready to go. The high-speed maneuver of Titan warship has been planned for a long time. Therefore, all the warships were still in a very conservative defensive formation before, but now, they are rushing out like an arrow!
Currently in Kingdom of Dawn's navy, basically all warships above 5,000 meters have replaced their hyperspace engines with Forerunner technology's jump engines. Warships equipped with jump engines can ignore the influence of gravity wells to a great extent.
In the hyperspace channel, the biggest obstacle actually comes from the gravity of those very large stars. Correspondingly, the hyperspace maneuverability of the jump engine is also much faster.
In order to complete this raid, Vasari and Phase Engineer also contributed a lot. When they built the stargate foundation at Bilbrin Planet's forward base, the first thing they built was the phase beacon. This phase beacon is just a device used by the star gate to locate it. It is relatively simple to build, but it is very fragile and can be easily destroyed. Generally speaking, it will not be built first.
But Phase Engineer first built the phase beacon, and the location where this beacon pointed was the planet Oud-Mantel!
There is also a stargate under construction on the planet Oude Mantel, but it is not yet completed. However, the installation of the phase beacon on this unfinished stargate has also been completed. In this way, although these two star gates are far from being navigable, they can already complete direction guidance.
For Titan warship who has the jump engine installed, with the guidance of the phase beacon, they can jump in a faster channel.
In fact, even without passing the phase beacon, the time it took for the two Titan warships to maneuver to the planet Oud-Mantel was only about two days, which was less than half the time estimated by the Galactic Empires.
Regarding the mobility of the jump engine, Galactic Empire Intelligence Bureau does not have a clear understanding at all!
Under the leadership of two Titan warship, General Trench launched a general attack! After Taowu Titan warship entered the combat position, it immediately deployed Fleet Shield. A light green light curtain enveloped the row of Kingdom of Dawn battleships in front. Divinity-class battleship and Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser in the front row immediately began to rampage!
The wave of fire suppression used by Imperial fleet to cover the retreat was absorbed by Fleet Shield, allowing Kingdom of Dawn fleet to avoid a sudden attack and suffer counterattack damage. Then they launched an attack formation and launched a determined attack on Imperial fleet.
The battlefield situation instantly became extremely tragic. Countless lasers and missiles poured out like raindrops, almost lighting up the entire starry sky.
General Trench commands Divinity-class battleship and Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser to rush towards Imperial fleet at the fastest speed. These two warships are almost identical and have extremely powerful voltage-type cladding armor. Unless they are concentrated by Imperial-class Star Destroyer, they will be difficult to sink.
Moreover, the firepower of Oracle-class and Hell Angel-class is arranged on both sides. When they rush into the Imperial-class fleet formation, they can fully exert their side firepower.
Admiral Gillard-Perine knew that these rough-skinned warships must not break into his formation. He immediately ordered the fighter formations to take off to cover the retreat of the battleships, and ordered the bombers to circle behind Divinity-class battleship and use Proton Torpedo to directly attack the warship's fragile engine.
But General Trench also responded tit for tat. He also took off his fighter jets and directly faced them, launching an assault on the Galactic Empire's fighter formation.
Among the Kingdom of Dawn fleet on the planet Oud-Mantel, there are not many Sabre-class fighter. Most of these most advanced fighters are given to the combat formations of Eternal-class Super Carrier. But it is still equipped with the new F-41 Blade-class fighter, which is used in combat with Viking fighter. The performance of the fighter jets and the quality of the pilots who join Rebirth Plan are still not comparable to the Galactic Empire fighter formation!
Archangel Titan warship had already deployed Phenomenon Generator, and then began to charge Doomsday Weapon. The sight of the terrifying energy that was constantly condensing made Gillard-Perine tremble with fear. When he saw that the bow of Titan warship was constantly adjusting, he understood that his flagship had been locked.
Because the Assertor-class Dreadnought scheduled to be equipped for him has not arrived yet, so currently his flagship is only a Imperial II-class Star Destroyer. This thing is not enough for one Doomsday Weapon!
Without hesitation, Admiral Gillard-Perine immediately ordered the evacuation. He quickly left his flagship in a shuttle and flew to the other Star Destroyer at the rear of the battlefield.
However, at this moment, an F-41 Blade-class fighter that was originally chasing TIE bomber focused on the Lambda-class shuttlecraft that suddenly took off. The Broadsword immediately lost its original target and activated its afterburner system to fly over at high speed.
The sirens targeted by Fire Control Radar kept ringing, and Admiral Gillard-Perine who was in the shuttle seemed to hear the end of his life! The guard next to him quickly put on his space suit and took him to the entrance of the rescue capsule to wait, preparing to put him into the rescue capsule and launch him immediately if the situation became critical.
But on a battlefield filled with artillery fire, this would be too dangerous.
At this moment, Blade-class fighter has entered the attack position. The pilot Rosen-Fod who is flying the fighter has cold eyes, always paying attention to the system data inside the helmet that is directly mapped to his pupils.
As the pilot of Rebirth Plan, Rosen-Fod has experienced five deaths in battle. Although he has no memory of being killed in battle, he is still very clear about his death in battle. For a long time, the emotions have long disappeared from his brain, and there are only cold killing instructions.
Unable to bear this change, his wife had already divorced him with his daughter and left his life completely. This is also the outcome of most fighter pilots. But Rosen-Fod has no regrets. Like most other Kingdom of Dawn soldiers, he has only one belief - to finish all wars in their generation.
That's right, for this belief, he would rather turn into a natural disaster!
Although the Lambda-class shuttlecraft in front of him was making frantic evasive maneuvers, and although there were already more than a dozen TIE Advanced X-1 fighter jets rushing over like crazy, Rosen-Fod's heart was still cold. He reacted quickly, and Blade-class fighter also performed a series of violent and complex rolling maneuvers. In the process, he always remained locked on and did not lose his target.
The surrounding the Empire fighters have launched Concussion Missile, but...
"I am the Calamity!!" Rosen-Fod shouted and pressed the launch button.
Almost in the next second, his fighter jet was hit by countless lasers and instantly exploded into a ball of fire. However, the four Gemini-III missiles he launched, equipped with anti-matter warheads, had drawn a complicated curve and hit the shuttle directly!
The Imperial-class Star Destroyer close-in firepower of the ship next to it fired wildly in an attempt to intercept the four missiles, but only one of them was intercepted, and the other three directly hit the shuttle!
A burst of fierce flames flashed instantly, and then, Lambda-class shuttlecraft silently turned into countless fragments and shattered.
Fortunately, at the last moment, Admirals Gillard-Perine were pushed into the rescue capsule and launched out, and were caught by another Imperial-class Star Destroyer with a tractor beam and pulled into the cabin.
At the same time, the light of Doomsday Weapon pierced the entire battlefield!
Four Star Destroyers and more than a dozen Light Cruisers were instantly hit by Doomsday Weapons and were instantly wiped out! Among them are the flagships where Generals Gillard-Perine were located!
This Imperial fleet has completely lost their will to fight. They only have the last thought left, which is to retreat, retreat, retreat!