Chapter 2128 The Last Hole Card

2128、The last hole card

Ten hunter-class cruisers have entered the atmosphere of the guardian planet. They will enter several main combat areas of the ground battlefield to suppress the continuous attack of the guardian planet robot army, so that the cheerer-class assault The landing craft descended to the ground and retreated carrying the remnants of XIII Corps.

The entire retreat plan will last for three days. In order to ensure the speed of the retreat, the Thirteenth Army will discard all heavy weapons and redundant supplies. It would be a complete defeat, a defeat that would discredit the Republic.

Coruscant has already dispatched the fleet urgently to support the Thirteenth Army in the direction of the Guardian Planet, because if the Blade Fleet breaks through the line of defense, waiting for the fate of the Thirteenth Army will be annihilated! In order to achieve this goal, Speaker Schiff Palpatine stayed up all night, and even used emergency authority several times in a row to directly issue orders to the Republic Fleet. His behavior of worrying about the country and the people moved many congressmen.

But for the guardian planet, it didn't intend to let the Thirteenth Army leave so easily. Although Tang Yu didn't intend to let the Blade Fleet launch a strong attack, whether it was out of his own strategy or to preserve his strength, he definitely wanted to dig a piece of meat from the Republic! !

And the ones in charge of this operation are the most elite troops of the guardian planet - the fanatic troops, and the blood red knights! !

Of course, in the face of the suppression of the firepower of 10 Jaeger-class cruisers, no matter how elite the Zealot troops are, they will not do more than the Mechanical Life Legion, but Tang Yu has already made arrangements!

If the dead Prince Xizuo can talk to Governor Biruer or Master Yoda, then he will definitely tell them a very important message.

During the Battle of the Blade Fleet, the Black Ship, the Fleet of the Predator, never took off a fighter jet from start to finish! None! !

And now all the V-wing fighters of the Republic Fleet are fighting against the Blade Fleet in outer space. Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers are generally regarded as a kind of gunship. Each warship can only carry 12 fighters, but the blade fleet is mainly equipped with P-38 starfighters, which can be regarded as an unexpected surprise. As a product of Palpatine's first batch of military expansion plans, the Razor Fleet was allocated for "political correctness" reasons. It is actually equipped with P-38, which has excellent speed and firepower. The only disadvantage is that death is expensive. Expensive fighter!

In addition, after a month of strong attacks, the Republic Fleet now only has more than 4,000 V-wing fighters and more than 1,000 Y-wing bombers. Negligence, so all were withdrawn from the outer space battlefield.

10 Jaeger-class cruisers that entered the atmosphere,

Because it was originally a suicidal mission, it is even more impossible to bring fighter jets here!

In fact, this choice is understandable, because the air power of the guardian planet has long been disintegrated, so the weak firepower of the V-wing fighter is of little help to ground combat. But who would have thought that Guardian Planet would be so ruthless! I would rather take millions of robots to die, but hold on to those 200 Predator fighters and never use them! !

In the three battlefields of Yucheng, Australia, and Sahara, before the Zealot troops entered the battlefield, the Mechanical Life Legion had already carried out continuous offensives in order to open a breakthrough.

However, just when the hard-working clone army of the Republic thought that although the battle situation was difficult, the worst would be nothing more than that, a sudden change occurred! !

On the huge body of one of the hunter-class cruisers hovering over the Yucheng battlefield, bursts of violent explosions suddenly broke out! ! This light blue explosion flame immediately stunned everyone! !

"Proton torpedo! It's a proton torpedo!!"

"Turn on the air-to-air radar immediately, where did the torpedo come from!!"

"Found enemy fighter jets, the number is 100!!" On the "Sea Monster" hunter-class cruiser that was attacked, the screams of the messengers and radar soldiers came and went.

"The point defense turret is fully fired! Immediately ask for help from the main force of the fleet, we urgently need fighter support!!" The captain roared loudly, but then there was another violent explosion, the battleship shook violently, and the people on the bridge suddenly staggered.

An urgent report came from the damage control unit: "The stern deflector shield was penetrated by a torpedo! The No. 4 engine stalled!!"

"Climb to the height immediately! Tell the other warships to move closer to us and form a crossfire!! Stop firing the turbolaser and concentrate all the energy supply on the deflector shield and the point defense turret!!" The captain roared loudly.

Almost at the same time, boom boom boom! ! The continuous explosion kept ringing! ! After firing the torpedoes, the Predator continued to use ion cannons to attack the near-defense turrets on the cruiser. As the near-defense turrets were destroyed one by one, the anti-aircraft firepower of the Kraken cruiser became weaker and weaker!

In war, whether in the ocean or in space, the contradiction between small and nimble fighters and huge and cumbersome warships always exists. However, as the long-standing war mode has shown, in front of fighter jets, giant battleships are absolutely unstoppable just by relying on the anti-aircraft guns and laser cannons on their bodies! Therefore, in any case, the warship needs the cover of its own fighter planes in order to give full play to its super firepower.

Therefore, generally speaking, in an interstellar war, apart from the main artillery confrontation between the two sides, the battle between fighter jets is also a key factor in determining victory or defeat. Once the battleship is approached by the enemy fleet, it will be very dangerous! And the current cruiser Kraken is in an extremely dangerous state! ! Because they don't have the cover of fighter jets now, and what the Predator fighters are best at is to approach their targets quietly! !

"The enemy fighter has lost its target!!"

"That's a stealth fighter!! My God!!" The radar soldier screamed loudly.

After launching a wave of attacks, those Jagged fighters activated their cloaking devices one after another, and disappeared right under their noses! Only one fighter was shot down during the entire attack!

A total of 5 hunter-class cruisers were assigned to the Yucheng battlefield. After the Kraken was attacked by stealth fighters and suffered heavy damage, other cruisers were worried about being attacked, so they raised their heights and began to move closer. And as a result, there was a short vacuum in front of the Republic Army's position! !

And at this moment, the Zealot troops had already entered the counterattack position! They roared and rushed out! !