1610. Protracted War
20BBY, July 21, 2:00 a.m. Galaxy Standard Time.
Dozens more logistics ships arrived in the Yago-Dur system. Under the protection of five shield ships, they were connected with the logistics ships that arrived earlier, and jointly formed functions including ship maintenance, field hospitals, ammunition processing, etc. logistics base.
During this process, the main fleet of the 20th Army of the Galactic Republic has only maintained a fleet of 30 Jaeger-class battlecruisers, 10 Knight-class Star Destroyers, 1 Commander II-class dreadnought, and 70 small and medium-sized battleships. Force composition.
These warships kept firing at the defenders of the Yago-Dur system at a distance of 10 light minutes, but all had little effect. Even if they were targeting the planet Yago-Dur, considering the powerful planetary shield on the planet, such firepower was simply not enough.
At this time, suddenly dozens of bright beams of light instantly lit up, shining on the shield ship's unfolded shield!
Almost at the same time, the powerful shields deployed by the five shield ships collapsed instantly! After these powerful beams were extinguished, a small red straight beam and a spiral beam were left on the trajectory.
"General! It's the opponent's particle light spear!" On the bridge of the Commander II-class dreadnought, the adjutant came over and said to Gideon Tarkin, "Quantity 20! The opponent has at least 20 Catastrophe-class battlecruisers!"
Gideon Tarkin was not frightened by such a force. He just snorted and said: "The Separatists are still willing to spend a lot of money... 20 disaster-class ships. That's good. In this way, we have another front. The pressure you endure will be much better.”
Unlike his brother, Gideon Tarkin is a very traditional soldier, and he pays more attention to the military than to politics. However, because of this, his rise is far inferior to that of his brother. Although he has achieved very good results in previous wars, he now has to rely on his brother's relationship to become an admiral of the Republic Navy. , commanding a powerful fleet on his own.
He then ordered, "Let the shield ship replace the capacitor immediately and start to keep moving! Don't let the opponent's particle light spear hit us too easily!"
"yes!"
"The replaced capacitor will be fired directly towards the planet with a mass launcher! It's not a bad idea to recycle the waste." Gideon continued, "There must be Separatist hyperspace probes in the airspace near us to provide them with Aim the particle lance! Send out fighter jets to clean it up! At the same time deploy our own hyperspace detector!"
"yes!"
Gideon Tarkin had already anticipated such a situation before setting off. After all, the Cataclysm-class battlecruiser equipped with particle lances has long been listed as one of the most dangerous battleships by the Galactic Republic Navy.
The supply ships that accompanied the shield ships had already prepared a large number of replacement shield capacitors. Moreover, on the umbrella-shaped structure of the shield ship, the position of the umbrella handle is where the shield capacitor is installed. There is not much protection at all where capacitors are installed, and several loading and unloading openings are even directly accessible.
In this case, changing the shield capacitor is very fast.
Moreover, the overloaded shield capacitors that were replaced were already high-temperature objects with temperatures reaching tens of thousands of degrees. As Gideon Tarkin said, these high-temperature discarded capacitors are directly loaded into the mass transmitter and launched towards the Yago-Dur system.
In the vacuum of the universe, there is no way to dissipate heat at all, so no matter how far or fast it flies, these shield capacitors still maintain that ultra-high temperature. This is equivalent to a large number of high-temperature incendiary bombs!
At the same time, the five shield ships also began to move, and the logistics spacecraft protected by the shield ships also moved with them. This movement speed is not fast, it just keeps moving and does not stay in place and serve as a target for the particle light spear.
And more than 2,000 fighter jets took off from the Jaeger-class battlecruisers. These fighter jets carried detection scanners and began to conduct a detailed scan of the surrounding airspace. They will look for hyperspace probes that the Separatists may have planted nearby and destroy them.
As I said before, because
The particle light spear is an ultra-long-distance light speed attack, so for aiming, it must rely on a hyperspace detector to achieve real-time target feedback. Otherwise, even a particle light spear will be difficult to aim at a long distance.
For example, on the current battlefield, it takes 10 minutes for a particle light spear to reach its target. If the conventional detection method is used, even if it is a light speed sensor, it will take 10 minutes to scan the other party's information and send it back. Then the particle light spear is launched again, that is another 10 minutes, and back and forth is 20 minutes. The particle light spear attacks point to point again. In 20 minutes, the opponent can wash his face, brush his teeth and then evade.
Therefore, as long as the hyperspace detectors deployed by the Separatists are cleared out, the power of the particle spears can be limited to the greatest extent!
This is the countermeasure developed by the military experts of the Supreme Strategic Command of the Galactic Republic against the particle light spear!
Compared to the Ankeron-class Titan battleship, which is composed of multiple systems, there is only a single system of particle light spears. There are still many ways to target it.
Just like how to fight the Titan battleship Xuanwu now, the Supreme Strategic Command has been arguing for several months with no result.
According to Gideon Tarkin's instructions, the Republic's 20th Army fleet continued to maintain a distance of 10 light minutes, and continued to fire at the Yago-Dur system, and also fired the replaced spent capacitors. In short, no matter how disgusting it is, we always keep a distance and never take the initiative to attack.
And he also established a simple logistics base, which kept moving at all times and cleared away the surrounding hyperspace detectors to reduce the hit rate of the particle light spear.
The main function of this logistics base is to serve as a material transfer station, and he has established two such material transfer stations in the unmanned star systems around the planet Yago-Dur!
The base of the unmanned galaxy serves as a second-level transit, sorting out a large amount of materials transported from the rear and sending them to the front-line first-level transit.
In this series of material transfers, adequate supply of logistical materials is ensured to the greatest extent.
That's right! After studying the results of Octavian Grant's previous attack on the Yago-Dur system, Gideon Tarkin came up with the combat policy after careful consideration - a protracted war!
Instead of sitting in the back office thinking about how to launch a fleet attack in this three-body galaxy with very complicated gravity and electromagnetic fields, it is better to go directly there, stand firm on the spot, and slowly think about how to fight!
