The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

168. Battle of Malastal Fjord (3)

A fleet of 200 spaceships is being assembled. These spaceships have a uniform blue and white painting, and are sprayed with a gear-like logo-this is the symbol of the Galactic Republic Navy.

However, even with the logo of the Galactic Republic Navy, this fleet is still extremely shabby compared to the Republic Judicial Fleet, which is declining but still has many kilometer-class cruisers and heavy cruisers.

The core of the fleet is a dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, a battleship with a length of 600 meters, which is the core ship type of the judicial fleet. However, this dreadnought-class heavy cruiser can clearly see the oldness of the hull, and it is obviously a model eliminated from the main fleet.

In addition, there are 20 Consul-class cruisers and 60 CSS-1 Republic-class shuttles. The former is 115 meters long, and the latter is 80 meters long. From this point of view, having 80 spaceships with a length of about 100 meters should be enough to beat the enterprise alliance, most of which are small spaceships with a length of 3 to 50 meters. .

However, both the Consul-class cruiser and the CSS-1 Republic-class shuttle are actually passenger spaceships, which are used by officials at all levels of the Republic to go to various parts of the galaxy to handle official and diplomatic affairs.

In an era when the military expenditure of the Galactic Republic is decreasing day by day, and even the Judicial Fleet is difficult to guarantee the replacement of warships, let alone the defense fleets in these places, it is good to have a few ships that can be used.

Therefore, a large number of CSS-1 and Consul-class cruisers have undergone simple modifications, adding weapon pods, and more or less have some combat capabilities. But they are still passenger spaceships in essence, and it is useless to expect how much combat power these spaceships can have.

In addition, there are as many as 120 PB-950 patrol boats in the fleet. This 37-meter-long small patrol boat was already a product of the Corellia Engineering Company 300 years ago. Because it was cheap and practical, it produced tens of thousands of huge quantities. It belongs to the regional defense fleets of the Galactic Republic. Goods that can be seen everywhere.

A shuttle flew into the formation of the fleet, and flew towards the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser 'Lord' as the flagship. The cruiser hangar platform opened to welcome the shuttle.

A young general about 30 years old, wearing a dark blue Republic Navy uniform and mustache, stepped off the shuttle, saluted the captain who came to greet him, and said, "I am a military officer sent by the Republic. Observer, Captain Woolf-Ularen, is here to assist you in this operation."

After Ruusan's reform, the galaxy basically abandoned all military-related things, so the military ranks of the Galactic Republic army were not high at this time. As the captain of the navy, Woolf Ularen can already command a small fleet. And he has the direct appointment of the speaker, Finnis-Valorum, so others have nothing to say about this appointment.

"Hello, Captain Yularen." The captain also gave a military salute, "Now that all the spaceships have assembled, these are the only spaceships we can find."

"Actually, having a Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser is beyond my expectations. I believe that the pirates found by the Enterprise Alliance are not capable of fighting this giant ship." Wulf-Yularen was very calm Speaking of.

"Let's go, let's go to the bridge." The captain didn't say much, but just led Yularen towards the command center of the bridge.

Walking out of the hangar, you can see that the spaceship is crowded with people almost everywhere. Even if the air filter is working at full capacity, there is still a smell of sweat and feet in the air.

Woolf Yularen frowned slightly, but he also understood the reason—this is an old model of the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser. Although this spaceship is 600 meters long, there are as many as 16,200 people in it! Almost every valve on this battleship needs manual manipulation, which is extremely inefficient.

So later, the Galactic Republic Army put forward a request for improvement to the manufacturer of the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, Rendili Interstellar Engineering Company. Later, Lundili's engineers did come up with a modification plan, reducing the crew of the battleship from 16,200 to 2,204, and also replaced the weapon system and energy system, greatly improving the combat effectiveness.

It's just that I don't know what happened later. The Judicial Fleet of the Republic originally wanted to order 300 new Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers, but only 100 were actually in place. No one can say for sure what happened in the middle, but it can only be thought that a certain official lord ate up the price difference.

Since it is an old model of the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, the combat power needs to be recalculated. Woolf-Ularen began to calculate in his mind the comparison of the combat effectiveness of the two sides in this battle, simulating the combat process over and over again.

When he came to the bridge, Woolf Ularen carefully counted the number of spaceships in the fleet, "20 Consul-class ships, 60 Republic-class ships, 100 PB-950 ships, and 1 Dreadnought-class ship... What about the carrier aircraft? ?”

"There are 12 Z-95 Headhunter fighter jets on our Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser. This is all our carrier-based aircraft." The captain said.

Yularen nodded, "The Z-95 headhunter fighter has excellent performance, and it is definitely enough to deal with the spaceships of pirates and bounty hunters. I have a battle plan..."

He began to arrange his own warships on the holographic projection star map, and said at the same time: "Because our main spaceships, the Consul-class cruiser and the Republic-class shuttle, are refitted from transport ships, the firepower is actually not a big problem, but the largest of these ships The weakness is the lack of flexibility. So what we need is to keep a distance, rely on 12 Z-95 headhunter fighter jets to defend the integrity of our battleship line, and then destroy the opponent with powerful frontal firepower!"

The captain nodded and said, "Okay, you are the commander of this battle, and I agree with your judgment."

Yularen added: "In addition, according to our intelligence, among the pirates and mercenaries hired by the Enterprise Alliance at a large price, there is a huge number of Sycudian pirates. I have fought these pirates before, and the number of their spaceships There are many, but the combat power is very weak, and most of them are modified ships. In fact, if these modified ships were not extremely adaptable by the Sycudians, they would not be able to drive them at all, and they would have died on board if they were replaced by humans."

The captain said: "I understand what you mean. If the battle situation turns into a melee, then the situation is definitely not good for us. But we have a Dreadnought class and 80 large ships with a length of 100 meters. Relying on the superiority of firepower to make those rabble If we can't organize at all, we will win!"

"That's right. The Enterprise Alliance will also have spaceships participating, but the largest of their spaceships should be the 200-meter-long fantail-class destroyer. The performance of this kind of warship is average, and the Enterprise Alliance does not dare to mass-produce. Most importantly, I I don’t think a group of merchants will fight.” Wulf Yularen said confidently.

"Hahahaha! It looks like you have a plan in mind. If that's the case, I don't have anything to worry about!"

"That's it. Hand over the battle plan to the captains of the ships, and get ready to go!" Captain Wulf-Ularen gave instructions confidently.

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[Easter Egg Chapter Attachment 1: Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser. 】

[Easter egg chapter attached picture 2: Captain Woolf Ularen. 】

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