Chapter Fifty-Eight: A Starry Sky Covered with War Clouds IV
The current Mimatar rebels are still immature, although they nominally claim to inherit the Mimatar Empire, however, in fact, they are fundamentally polar. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info so the major empires didn't take this republican government seriously at first, and most of them directly classified them as "rebels".
As for the truth, who knows what it is?
At least Lulu, who knew about Mimatar's current situation, was indifferent to the miserable situation of the Mimatar people, and even had a resolute attitude of repression from the beginning. Even justice has its own position, so there is no absolute justice in this world.
The first-class commander of Kansar is a tall Mi man with a fierce expression. He lost his right eye in a battle, although with modern technology there are many ways to regain his sight. However, he himself refused to receive treatment, leaving a terrible scar on his face.
Within the Mimatar Republican government, many people only know him as Kansar, but they don't know that he is actually a survivor of the Costa tribe. To be precise, he is a rare presence of the Costa tribe, and when the vast majority of people died three hundred years ago, and the remaining permanent slaves are never allowed to be pardoned, Kansar, a former Emma slave, now has true freedom.
In the tradition of the Mimatar Empire, the Costa were brave and warlike, but this was not a reason for Kansar to become the commander of the first rank of the Republican Fleet. Although he was obscure and inconspicuous to the famous admirals of other countries, and to be exact, Kansar had never been compared to the famous generals, but he was a man of great ability.
His strength is based on his rich experience in the rebels' resistance to the suppression of Emma's armed forces, and he knows his enemies well, and he knows his own strength, and carefully weighs the pros and cons before making the most advantageous choice. So, he succeeded, and after several successful battles, Kansar became one of the commanders of the young republican fleet.
If the republican government's intelligence system had been stronger, and if the top brass had not been blinded by the great victories that had preceded it, this arguably doomed battle could have been avoided.
However, history has no ifs. So Kansar could only watch his people lose their lives. Not far away, the Federation slaughtered his people very efficiently, and he could only silently look at the rapidly decreasing blue markings on the radar screen on the bridge of the flagship [Merkhammer], and wail silently in his heart.
The flagship of the Kansar was a light cruiser converted from a merchant ship. To be exact, it was once a light cruiser, but after it was decommissioned, it was converted into an armed merchant ship and sold on the market, and then after it fell into the hands of the Republican fleet, it was converted back into a light cruiser.
Although the performance was a significant drop from the original light cruiser, he was still the flagship of the Kansar. Since half a year ago, the Republican Fleet has been blockaded by the major empires, and it is very difficult to supply supplies. Sometimes, even with a large sum of goods, it is not possible to exchange it for a starship from a merchant. Those hateful Imperial military arms dealers would rather sell to a pirate group than to a republican government.
The Merkhammer has not yet been attacked, and not even a beam of its main gun has reached its area - which is why the Merckhammer has survived to this day, and its small size is not enough to withstand an OOO caliber railgun.
Although the scattered formation greatly reduced the lethality of the enemy's large-caliber main guns after the fleet jump, Kansar found himself and his fleet still in a quagmire - they were in the area of operation of the Federation's space fighters.
A portion of the Explorer-class frigates released their own fighters in an attempt to disperse the Federation Navy's warplanes. However, whether it is the performance of the fighter or the ability of the pilot, the gap between the two is too huge. Kansar never imagined that his fighter unit would face off against the fighter force of the Federal Navy.
The facts also show this, the first touch is to collapse, no, the vast majority of fighters did not even survive the first round, just the moment the fighters staggered became a spark. Even if you survive the first time, you will be blown up by fire from unknown sources in the next moment.
In front of the skillful Federation Army, the Mimatar single-plane piloting skills are complete nonsense. If the mercenary wilderness can curry favor with the regular forces of the Federation, then the aviation unit of the Federation Navy will not be a holy place for the top pilots in the universe.
"All Rift-class stepped forward and unleashed the maximum barrage to disperse the enemy's fighters." Kansar roared loudly into the communicator, as if by doing so, he could pass on his determination and will to his subordinates. In fact, there is no need to be so loud at all, and the communication system can generally transmit the sound accurately and clearly.
As a result, the captains and helmsmen of the Rift-class starships worked hard to maneuver and evade, while directing their subordinates to turn on the short-range defense system, and spread barrages around the hull. Standard frigates do have powerful defense systems that can easily keep space fighters out of the effective range of their cannons.
The mixed formation of the Rift-class frigates did protect the huge Hound class to a large extent, and the defenses were weaker than paper, at least not from being turned into fireworks by the Federation pilots like targets.
Kansar's face did not improve after the initial results of his tactics, and the other subordinates lacked military literacy and could not see clearly. However, he could not deceive himself, he clearly knew that this so-called achievement was voluntarily abandoned by the Federal Army. At the time of the Rift, the commander of the Federation Army must have also given the order to temporarily retreat to avoid fearless losses.
But Kansar didn't care, all he wanted was a chance to regroup. The enemy's artillery bombardment and the chaos caused by the fighters prevented his Hound class from using the firepower they deserved. The vast majority of hounds were rejected by the identification system when they wanted to shoot. It is really irritating that one's own people are in the way of the shelling axis, but at the same time, they do not dare to turn off the identification system - the result of this will only be that they will be "mistakenly injured" by friendly forces behind.
Kansar would not have known what order was given by the commander of the Union Army, in fact, the brigade commander Angelott? Colonel Irimpas simply stated her judgment of the enemy's movements: "Watch out for the frigate's defensive barrage."
After that, the officers with air service qualifications will issue codes to the squadron and the detachment commander with reference to the actual situation of the squadron they are responsible for. For example, "R-12-K". Translated into a formal order, it is: urgent, may encounter enemy defensive fire, allow self-detachment.
The detachment-level commander will decipher the code, consider the current situation, and then notify his squad commander of the decision, and the squad commander will lead his subordinates to act according to their current situation.
The model of the Seventh Group was not widely used in the Federal Navy, and in the real elite fighter unit, the command of the air crew officer directly transmitted orders to the detachment level. Since the Seventh Brigade had just been formed, it did not know each other's strength, so in battle, it could only adopt an extensive tree-like command structure.
As it is, even the firepower defense barrage of the Starship Escort Formation can be torn open by elite Federation pilots relying on their personal piloting skills. What's more, the defensive barrage of the Mimatar rebels, which completely relies on computer control and unfolds according to a fixed pattern, is impossible to stop the elite pilots of the Federal Army.
So, while Kansar used his common sense to "overestimate" the enemy as much as possible, the Union planes dispersed as he expected, and most of them were out of close contact.
With a sigh of relief, Kansar yelled at the communicator, trying to get his fleet out in formation. Of course, it's a big, loose kind. Kansar didn't expect his new captains to be able to perfectly line up the attacking phalanx and calmly face the enemy's attacks.
Kansar calculated that he still had 80,000 hounds under his command, which was equivalent to 80,000 battleship guns, and if he was lucky, he could knock down the enemy's large battleship with a single salvo. With enough shooting range, Kansar is sure to win the battle. However, Kansar also knew that after the victory, his fleet would definitely face retaliation from the Union Navy.
However, to Kanssar's astonishment, his orders could not be transmitted to the other starships, and the communication between the flagship and the other starships was disrupted, and the intermittent radio wave communication frightened the uninformed rookies. As a result, the slightly more experienced captains will try to confirm the next move based on the radar display, and the more experienced captains will begin to quietly prepare the retreat route.
Merkhammer was formerly a Galactic Empire starship, and it was once active on the front lines as the vanguard of the Starship Army's electronic warfare. However, the high-power antenna that once protruded from the exterior of the Merckhammer's silver-white hull has been transformed into a large catapult battery after several modifications. So, at this moment, in the face of electronic interference from the Federal Army, [Merkham] is as helpless as its owner Kansar.
"All offense, all offense......" Kansar kept shouting into the communicator. The voice was not a depressed rage, nor a rant of venting, but a command with tragedy. When Kansar knew that this directive was going to happen, there would inevitably be heavy casualties.
Despite the cacophony of communications and frequent interruptions, the flagship's orders were understood by the rookie captains one after another. However, due to the different personal understanding skills of the captains, the already chaotic queue was even more chaotic. Fortunately, at this time, the fighters of the Federation Army failed to fall into the ground, and the space fighters returned to the mothership for replenishment due to the continuous high-intensity energy consumption. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )