524. Bloody Battle Bespin (2)
In the cosmic space around Bespin Planet, hundreds of warships were firing on all cylinders, and countless missiles and lasers were flashing continuously. Against the background of the orange planet, red fires exploded one after another, and there was even the light blue space collapse caused by the explosion of Proton Torpedo.
Densely packed Vulture droid fighter flew like flies at high speed around Republic fleet, while continuously emitting lasers and Proton Torpedo. Republic fleet's Z-95 Headhunter fighter relied on this DP-20 gunboat for defense. Under the firepower of the DP-20 gunboat specially developed for small fighters, Vulture droid fighter was destroyed in pieces and became garbage floating in space.
"The opponent's 20 warships are taking a roundabout flank!" the radar soldier reported loudly.
"They want to forcefully land Cloud City, stop them!" Fleet Commander Santamaria immediately ordered, "The CR-90 frigate formation fired salvos at the opponent's outflanking warships! Notify the fighter jets to break away from the formation and intercept the opponent's warships!"
"Concentrated energy reaction detected in Separatist fleet!" a soldier shouted loudly.
"Asshole! Do they still have a secret weapon?" Santamaria called up the information on Kohl-class Battlecruiser in the database. However, like Mabel Garson in Battle of Geonosis two days ago, all he saw was one unknown after another.
A moment later, a dazzling light emitted from the rear of the Dawn Star Planet fleet. Almost at the same time, the largest Corellian Defense Cruiser among the Republic fleets emitted bursts of violent explosions!
"Report! We encountered fire from the enemy's extremely powerful kinetic energy weapons!"
"Lang'en shield overload!"
"Dead Lake lost contact and the bridge was visually destroyed!"
With a bang, Santamaria punched the console, "They actually secretly developed such a powerful kinetic energy weapon!"
"General, unless our Deflector Shield concentrates all its energy on kinetic energy protection, it will be impossible to block the opponent's shots. And if it concentrates on kinetic energy protection, the opponent's high-power laser will also cause us great losses." A technician turned around and said.
Another staff officer said from the side, "The one who is detouring to the flank is Hiigaran-class battlecruiser. According to the records in the database, the two main guns of Hiigaran-class battlecruiser are more powerful than every type of warship we have. We cannot take this risk and expose our fleet to the attack of the main guns of Hiigaran-class!"
"Retreat immediately! Disperse the formation, let's go back and rely on Cloud City to defend!" Santamaria made a prompt decision and issued the order to retreat.
Lord Santamaria, a Corellia noble, initially served in the Corellia defense fleet, and later went to Bespin Planet to serve as a military Commander due to family business. After Confederacy of Independent Systems announced its establishment and declared war with Galactic Republic, and then Chancellor of the Republic Sheev-Palpatine announced the formal establishment of Grand Army of the Republic, he discussed with Miela Figo, the current leader of Cloud City, and decided to remain neutral in the war.
In order to express their determination to be neutral, they expelled Galactic Republic's special envoy, and also directly rejected Confederacy of Independent Systems's solicitation through communications, expressing the same meaning to both parties - remain neutral, welcome to do business, and avoid discussing other matters.
But less than 5 hours after they issued the declaration of neutrality, intelligence came immediately that a large number of Dawn Star Planet fleets were leaving Annaj Planet, and judging from the hyperspace route response, their destination was Bespin!
Seeing that Separatist fleet trampled on their neutrality declaration without hesitation for almost a minute, Miela Figo sent a serious warning to Dawn Star Planet and asked for help from Galactic Republic. And she also asked Santamaria to command Bespin's defense forces to try to delay until Galactic Republic's reinforcements arrived.
Then, an hour later, Bespin Planet issued a public declaration stating that it was resolute to safeguard the unity of Galactic Republic and that it was duty-bound to attack Separatists.
In front of Dawn Star Planet's huge fleet, Bespin couldn't care less that they had just kicked out Galactic Republic's envoy a few hours ago and declared that they would not help each other to maintain neutrality.
Republic Strategic Command also responded quickly. It immediately established a unified command channel with the Bespin defense force, and immediately began to mobilize reinforcements for support. At the same time, it shared the course and orientation of Separatist fleet detected by their hyperspace detection station.
Knowing that the enemy was outnumbered, Santamaria immediately formulated a battle plan. He gathered the 150 warships with the best condition and the strongest firepower among the Bespin defense forces. Knowing the opponent's hyperspace jump coordinates in advance, he directly and severely damaged 6 Kohl-class Battlecruiser with a salvo when the opponent did not open the shield.
However, he still underestimated the combat effectiveness of Kohl-class Battlecruiser and Hiigaran-class battlecruiser. Even if he suffered a blow, Fourth Civilization, Fleet A was still under the impeccable command of Matt-Hona. At the cost of sacrificing 500 Vulture droid fighter, he stood firm and launched a counterattack.
However, when Santamaria commanded the fleet to retreat, the 10 Hiigaran-class battlecruiser that were bypassing the flanks launched a fierce bombardment on them. At the same time, the opponent's Kohl-class Battlecruiser also began to speed up. The four large laser cannons on the bow continued to fire X-ray to shine on the Republic fleet warship.
Republic fleet retreated faster and faster, eventually losing their formation completely and becoming a mess.
At this time, 10 Sova-class Carrier had already flown to Cloud City, and 80 unmanned missile platforms were deployed outside Cloud City, completely blocking Cloud City.
On the way back, Santamaria's fleet ran into the defense line constructed by the unmanned missile platform. The formation was scattered again. They had to leave Cloud City and run to the direction of several other Floating City to regroup.
After breaking up Bespin's fleet, the huge figures of six Luukri-Hok-class battleship slowly approached Cloud City.
Cloud City Among them, more than 1 million residents watched in utter horror as the huge shadow in the sky blocked the light of the star bit by bit, and the huge hull with a diameter of more than 3,000 meters blocked the sky and the sun!
Sova-class Carrier flew more than 400 Wraith fighter. These fighters used Pulse Laser cannons and air-to-ground missiles to violently bomb the outside of Cloud City against the anti-aircraft firepower of Cloud City!
After destroying the anti-aircraft firepower in Cloud City, dozens of C-9979 transport aircraft and 200 APOD-33 transport aircraft took off from Luukri-Hok-class battleship, fully loaded with B-1 combat robots and Fourth Civilization Army, and landed brazenly in Cloud City!