Chapter 146
Under the command of the command system, the existing 2,333 Chasseur-class Star Destroyers either moved coquettishly or slowly advanced, cutting the entire sky over Coruscant into more than 200 battle areas, large or small.
The fleet of the Independent Confederation itself was inferior to the Chasseur-class in terms of single ship performance, and after losing the advantage of the surprise attack, the Confederate fleet could not reap the benefits at all in the melee of the fleet.
The Disobedience-class destroyers and Generous-class frigates are both frontal firepower superior ships, and the biggest advantage of these two ships is their heavy frontal armor and oversized main guns.
However, the side of the hull is equipped with dozens of proton cannons for close-range shelling like a sail battleship, and the close-range side shelling will not only expose the weakness of the rear hull, but also cannot give full play to the firepower advantage of the frontal giant turbolaser main gun.
It is difficult to understand the combat positioning of such a warship.
The Wanbao Julun-class battleship is congenitally deficient, although it is equipped with hundreds of four-pack turbo laser cannons, and the armor is also particularly heavy. But after all, this is only a giant cargo ship converted into a battleship, lacking the heavy firepower to match its hull size.
After all, this four-pack turbolaser cannon is also standard for other small ships in the Confederate fleet.
As for the Mandate of Heaven class aircraft carrier, this kind of ship carries a huge amount of aircraft, but it is not as powerful as the Wanbao giant ship class, and the firepower is strong, but it is a warship with superior side firepower.
As a result, these expensive and relatively low-performance professional aircraft carriers spent most of their time serving as flagships in the Confederate fleet. And not the position of the main battleship.
It is worth mentioning that after five years of fighting the Clone War, in this battle, the captains of the Chasseur-class sat in the captain's seat for the first time to watch the battle.
Because under such detailed combat instructions, their career as captains has been greatly compressed, and they only need to pay attention to the damage management operations in the ship and the supply operations of the aviation unit.
The battleship, on the other hand, is no longer advancing steadily according to the previous battles, but more like a giant fighter jet, squeezing every cent of the thruster's strength, dodging the enemy's shelling with coquettish movements, or almost always resisting the shelling of the enemy ship with the fullest shield.
Then, there was no ceasefire for naval gun firing.
Fleet concentrated fire, combined anti-aircraft fire, the guns of each battleship hovered on the verge of overheating the barrels.
Except, of course, as the flagship of the Enterprise and its frigates.
After nearly thirty minutes of fierce strangulation, Ian's Enterprise and General Gulliver's Invisible Hand, which were still cruising slowly over Coruscant, were as conspicuous as the lice on the bald man's head.
At this time, according to the detection of General Gulliver's electronically enhanced Invisible Hand, all the Republican troops on the entire battlefield were directly receiving orders from the specially armed Chasseur-class.
In this half hour, the Invisible Hand battle group broke through the layers of defense lines of the Republic's warships, and finally brought the Enterprise into the effective range of the main gun. As for the rest of the fleet?
The other surviving raiding fleets of the Confederation are struggling to join up with friendly ships as much as possible to unite against the Republic's Star Destroyers.
Although the damage was heavy, as long as the Supreme Speaker was captured, everything was worth it.
Now General Grievous has only two ideas, to take out the Specially Armored Hunter class and wait for the Supreme Speaker's capture.
But.........
"General! We can't capture the Speaker! We need support! Yes! "The robot commander who commanded the hostage capture operation in the Speaker's office below, opened the communication with the Invisible Hand.
"Hello." Obi-Wan slashed the robot in front of him with a sword, picked up his communicator, and greeted General Grievous, who couldn't make any expressions.
"Ah!!!! Ahem, cough, ......" General Gullivers let out a humiliating roar, but his wounded lungs did not allow him to continue to grow, and the violent cough stifled most of his roar.
He smashed the holographic projector with a single punch. "I want that ship to be sunk, now!"
The Confederate warships in the Invisible Hand battle group sped up, trying to bring the Enterprise into effective range as quickly as possible.
In the bridge of the Enterprise, Ian takes off the helmet of the Zero system.
"I need water...... Ian was sweating profusely as he took off his helmet, and his hair was all wet. And, because of the intense use of his brain, his whole head is now steaming.
He took the water Padem had brought and took a few large sips to ease his thirst.
"The Zero system still needs to be improved, and it is too taxing on the brain. How's the Death Star Cannon's charge? Ian rubbed his aching temples.
"Charging is almost complete." K2 replied back.
"Once the charge is complete, sink the Ten Thousand Treasure Wheel around the Invisible Hand."
"Understood."
"Let's put this fight to an end." Ian endured his headache and put on his helmet again.
Putting on his helmet again, Ian focused his attention on the Enterprise and her frigate.
The Enterprise, along with her twelve Chasseur-class Star Destroyer escorts, slowly turned, pointing the bow at the Invisible Hand battle group.
"It's like an ancient knight duel......," Pademi muttered as he watched the two battle groups go toe-to-toe and hedge faster.
"The Mini Death Star Cannon is 103% recharged, the target, the enemy battle group Wanbao Giant Wheel Level, strafe begins." Ian gave the order in his head.
The direction of the bow of the Enterprise was determined, the engine power increased suddenly, and the six green lasers in the bow of the Enterprise converged a little.
A huge beam of light shot out from the intersection point, sliding slowly, and slicing past the six Wanbao Giant Ship-class ships of the enemy battle group. Cut off these six battleships like slicing tofu.
"Although one of them has a blaster...... "Pademé looked speechlessly at the enemy ship that had been destroyed at twice the effective range of conventional naval guns.
"The whole ship accelerates, and the main guns are ready for firing." Ian glanced at the wreckage of the battleship that was actually on the surface of the fallen planet. Forcibly turning your attention back to the battle, you know, the mass of the wreckage of the battleship is generally oversized, and in this kind of battle, it is not uncommon for the ship to be blown into two knots and then fall.
Loaded with ammunition, the wreckage of the reactor crashed to the surface, and even a tenth of the hull volume would have smashed a crater more than twenty kilometers in diameter on the surface of the planet.
And the planet Coruscant is a purely urban planet. Except for individual industrial areas and energy supply facilities, etc., the population is small. All the remaining areas are densely populated, and the population of Coruscant as a whole even reaches more than 100 billion.
This one wreck was smashed down, and the casualties of the residents were at least tens of millions.
"Combat units spread out on both sides, opening up faster-than-light to reach the site."
Some of the Chasseurs received a change in the characteristics of the order, and began to resist the attack of enemy ships, and concentrated their firepower, clearing a space without enemy ships.
"Attention units, the dreadnoughts are about to enter the field." In the command line, there is an additional notice.
Then, one Executor-class, two Eclipse-class, and two Blocker-class ships left hyperspace and entered regular space.
"Since you're here, don't go." Master Shakti aboard the Executor looked at the Confederate fleet that had reached a fit with the Republic's fleet, and the muzzles of the two Eclipse-class Silent Silencers appeared with a dazzling glow. "Otherwise, some people will say that we are not hospitable."
Two huge beams of light crossed the battlefield, piercing your ship and my ship in two strings, and it really couldn't wear concentric circles......
"The whole fleet retreats!" General Gullivers looked hatefully at the Enterprise, which was about to enter effective range, as well as the three dreadnoughts and two special ships behind her. General Gullivers clearly knew that if he didn't leave, he wouldn't be able to go.
At the cost of losing hundreds more ships, the Confederate fleet broke away from the ground and sailed away at the speed of light.