657, Bespin Defense Line
Bespin Planet will be attacked again, which both Tang Xiao and Fourth Civilization's headquarters have long expected. After all, for Dawn Star Planet, Bespin Planet is not only a huge source of resources, but also a very important transportation artery!
This time Tang Xiao's plan for Christophsis, the most critical link is Bespin Planet's hyperspace channel!
Therefore, the construction of the Bespin Planet defense line began to operate in the first second after the planet was captured.
The core part of the defense line is Agonev-class star base!
However, the construction of such a huge interstellar base will take at least a year. This has been confirmed by the Givin. They have built two Agonev-class star base outside their home planet, Yag-Dur.
After all, the Yag-Dur planet is not only the Givin home planet located in Inner Rim, but also because this is where the super shipyard of Ragnarok-class Titan warship is located!
Fortunately, Galactic Republic was not aware that right under their noses, such a low-key and developed the Givin had become a member of Confederacy of Independent Systems, nor did they expect that they would dare to build a super battleship here!
But this is beside the point. At that time, in order to form Bespin Planet's defense line in a short time, the Tang Xiao and Fourth Civilization leaders were racking their brains. Finally, a Master Class architect proposed a plan - using local materials and using Floating City around Bespin Planet as the basis!
The plan was immediately approved and work began immediately. At that time, the Givin dismantled some of the core components that had been built for a long time from the two ready-made Agonev-class star bases around the Yage-Dur planet and secretly transported them to Bespin Planet.
After careful screening, the Engineering Corps team of Fourth Civilization finally selected Shefa City as the core framework of the new Agonev-class star base.
Shefa City is a factory Floating City, with a diameter of 6000 meters and a height of about 7000 meters. The shape is the closest to Agonev-class star base, which is a boxy umbrella shape.
Moreover, this Floating City was originally built as a large factory to process the main structure of Cloud City when Cloud City was built. After Cloud City completed the construction, Shefa City mainly did some material refining and processing work, extracting the gases rich in various elements in Bespin Planet, processing them into some rare materials and then selling them.
In this way, it will be much simpler to transform this Floating City. The materials can be processed directly on site and then installed.
Finally, when choosing the construction team, Fourth Civilization chose Vaxian, who had joined Fourth Civilization not long ago.
They were originally affiliated with Ayrou. Later, Ayrou foolishly started a war with Fourth Civilization. After being beaten up, Fourth Civilization also took advantage of the situation and instigated a rebellion against Vaxian, Tang Xiao personally canonized elder Vaxian as Vaxian Pope, and built a golden altar for them, completely winning the loyalty of Vaxian.
So this time, Vaxian, who wanted to contribute to the Fourth Civilization family, took the initiative to undertake the construction work of Agonev-class star base on Bespin Planet.
They invested 1 million skilled workers in Bespin Planet, and these workers are all excellent engineers. They are very skilled in mechanical processing, manufacturing, and the construction of large buildings. They don't even need to explain too much from Dawn Star Planet's engineers. And most importantly, they are very strong. Even if they cannot control the SCV, they can still complete a lot of construction work.
And what's very amazing is that Vaxian is not only strong, talented in engineering, hard-working, but also very adaptable. They can even survive in the space environment for half an hour after closing all the pores in their body. Another time, because there were some problems with the spaceship transporting supplies, these Vaxians actually worked for a week without food, and they did not fall behind the project progress at all, which greatly impressed Tang Xiaos.
Therefore, with the efforts of all parties, Bespin Planet actually built a magnificent Agonev-class star base in just two months!
In addition, there are 700 Gauss Fire Platform, 300 Hangar Platform, and more than 100 empty minefields.
Now, this solid line of defense is under full attack from the main force of the Galactic Republic's 19th Army!
The huge force of 80 Hunter Class Battlecruiser, 20 Aquitenes-class light cruiser, and 20,000 fighter jets [Note 1] is enough to make any opponent tremble.
As for Fourth Civilization's defenders, except for 5 Kohl-class Battlecruiser and 5 Martha-class heavy cruiser, the others are all small warships. Including 10 Revelation-class light cruiser, 10 Grizzly-class heavy destroyer, 100 Cobalt-class heavy frigate, 150 Garda Flak Frigate, and more than 500 Shriken Class/Stilat Class Light Corvette ships.
In addition, there are more than 120 Pulsar-class light frigate, more than 50 Revenge-class light destroyer, and even the Hammer-class frigate that has been retired from active service have been dragged out and controlled by B-1 robots on the battlefield. Providing support for these warships are 10,000 Vulture droid fighter and 2,000 Wraith fighter.
Igor-Zavalov's deployment for the first stage of this battle is to use a large number of frigates and rely on Agonev-class star base for defense.
Galaxy Republic fleet commander Admiral Magellan also directly assumed a strong attack posture this time. 80 Hunter Class Battlecruiser directly pressed on, relying on powerful firepower and a large number of fighter groups to resolve the battle at once.
In this way, no matter what moves you have, you can only go head-to-head with his fleet! And this has never been something Republic fleet worried about!
Admiral Magellan calls this tactic 'Axe Tactic'. It's like using a tomahawk to chop someone, it goes forward without leaving any stamina. It's nonsense to use seven points of force and save three points. What you want is to chop you to death with one axe, without even using the second blow!
The 80 Hunter Class Battlecruisers withstood the dense firepower of the defenders, and after paying the price of destroying 5 battleships, they approached the range of Cloud City, and used the battleships' powerful sensors to detect all stealth fighters and stealth fire platforms, and directly launched a meat-and-mortar battle with the Fourth Civilization defenders! -
[Note 1: I need to mention here that I have enlarged a lot of data in this book. In terms of setting, the size of the troops in "Star Wars" is very strange. During the Clone Wars process, Battle of Muunilinst used 159 V-19 fighter jets, but they were all called "large-scale use of V-19 fighter jets." This makes me very puzzled. On the one hand, Galactic Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems have tens of thousands of galaxies, and their industrial capabilities are extremely strong. On the other hand, only 3 or 4 Hunter Classs participate in each battle.
But the problem is, even if you only have three Hunter Classs, you still have the capacity to carry more than 1,200 fighter jets, right? And since Galactic Empire can produce 26,000 Imperial-class Star Destroyers in 20 years, then during the Clone Wars period, you won't have single-digit battleships in one battle? This is not reflected in either movies or animations.
Therefore, in many places in this book, I have enlarged the data to a more appropriate size. Of course, the result of this is that the troop strength data and settings of many battles are seriously inconsistent. This is a matter of opinion.]