The Emperor’s Angel of Death

"Hey, it doesn't make much sense to continue the fight. We can't win, or the Imperials rely on orbital defenses, so it's impossible to lose... We shouldn't fight this battle, wasting those precious warships in vain .”

Let's go and give it a try. 】

Hearing this, Mojaro's deputy immediately whispered:

"My lord, if we don't fight, we can't explain to the Black Heart King... We still have tens of thousands of fighters, if we get close to the Tiao Gang."

"Then send the fleet under the firepower of the orbital station? Didn't you see so many fighter jets? The landing craft and jumping torpedoes only have a hit rate of 16% at most. If so many people die, it may not be possible to win."

Seeing the fearful eyes of his deputy, Mojaro realized that he was throwing meaningless anger. He was known for his calmness among the red pirates, so he took a deep breath and shook his head.

"The Black Heart King underestimated his opponent. He bet all on Endymion, but he ignored it. Although we have been guarding against possible surprise attacks from the empire, we still didn't expect that Angstrom would not survive even a day. live......"

"Sir, what should we do now?"

"How to do…"

Mojaro looked at the chaotic battlefield situation map, and his brain tried to find a way in the huge amount of data, even though he realized that there was almost no chance of a comeback.

Similarly, on the bridge of the Eternal Loyalty, watching the enemy's space hulk lose its function, Soshyan also realized that the opponent had no chance of turning back, and the empire was already invincible in this naval battle.

This battle was not only a tactical or strategic victory. For Soshyan, who had not commanded a large-scale naval battle for a long time, he also gained a lot of new experience, especially the key role played by the large number of fighters in this battle. , giving him a vague new idea about naval warfare tactics.

In fact, it is not that the empire does not have aircraft carrier tactics, but there have always been several contradictions. For example, the range of the empire's existing fighter jets cannot exceed the range of the capital ship's main guns—or it cannot exceed by much.

In addition, the imperial ships put a lot of emphasis on robustness, so that if fighter jets want to cause effective damage, they must have enough numbers to launch attack waves. However, the largest aircraft carrier in the empire, such as the Emperor-class battleship, can generally only carry 6 squadrons of fighter jets. , the limit point is only 8, even if it is a modified special aircraft carrier flagship, such as the Mars-class battlecruiser Jupiter, after canceling the macro gun deck in the front half of the hull, there are only about 12 fighter squadrons, and Such a number of fighters is far from enough to defeat a large cruiser or even a battleship. After all, limited by the number of flight decks and the number of attack waves, the number of fighters that can be put into combat at the same time will never reach this amount.

Moreover, once the number of fighter planes reaches a certain scale, their scheduling and command will also become a severe test. After all, bombardment is a relatively static combat method that only needs to consider shooting parameters, energy output, etc., but fighter planes are dynamic weapons. The state of a formation may change anytime and anywhere.

This series of factors has made aircraft carrier tactics not the main force in the empire, and it is also the reason why the Red Pirates have no defense against this. In fact, before witnessing it with his own eyes, Soshyan didn't take Angstrom's defense fleet seriously. I know, I just think it may cause some trouble.

Of course, there are some special factors for the fighter plane to play such a huge role this time, such as defensive operations, and Angstrom built a large hangar on the satellite, which is equivalent to having a large-capacity and almost unsinkable aircraft in the fleet. The aircraft carrier, coupled with the powerful data processing capabilities of the sages of the Mechanic Cult, allows the formation of fighter planes to be dispatched most effectively, but this does not mean that the sages of the Mechanic Cult are excellent commanders.

In fact, the fundamental purpose of the Mechanicum's armament is to help the Mechanicum to better seek knowledge and "correct" its own truth, and to serve the omniscient Om Messiah. Therefore, no matter how powerful and rich the weapons in their hands are, to a large extent Designed for self-protection, exploration and adventure, and to solve academic contradictions and research problems, most of them are self-defense and experimental elements, and the consideration of systematically participating in large-scale, long-term, and repetitive wars is relatively lacking.

The result is that the fleets of the Skitarii and the Mechanicum are strong on paper, but overall they are still an elite experimental force that lacks unity. The sages among the sages compete with each other and it is difficult to coordinate in a unified manner. What's worse, the sages have relied on a large number of transformations to have the powerful command ability to control the entire skitarii Hongzhi, and even the entire Forge World fleet. Good thing, but this kind of extreme intensive mechanism that lacks a chain of command, once the commander is beheaded or encounters something that cannot be handled, the entire army will not have any means to deal with it.

Just like this time, if Soshyan wasn't in command this time and let Mechanics teach themselves to deal with the invasion of the Red Pirates, then they might only send out all their strength mechanically, without any preparations for the sudden appearance of the hulk, and if the enemy stays away Orbital defense weapons only bombard satellites from a long distance, and they can only sit still and have nothing to do.

But even though many special conditions in the Angstrom naval battle could not be replicated, it still gave Soshyan a lot of inspiration and made him start thinking about the possibility of new naval tactics, although traditional shelling and gang-jumping tactics seem to be able to solve the problem. Some enemies, but it is also possible to encounter opponents who are not easy to handle with these two tactics.

In addition, Suoshyan was also very impressed by Rizal's Deathhawk fighter jets and ghost boats. The Deathhawks are still in the experimental stage, but their combat effectiveness is already considerable, especially for those who like large-scale fighters. Opponents who use the power of the subspace have full anti-interference ability, but they are not without shortcomings. For example, according to Sage Ruiza, they are quite expensive. The value is more than a Leman Russ, and once they enter the atmosphere, the coating will be consumed. In addition, untouchables are rare, and they need to be trained as fighter pilots, so the rarity will rise to a higher level. .

But this kind of fighter plane may still play a miraculous effect at critical moments. Soshyan is considering whether to order a batch from Reza, but these have to wait until the end of the expedition.

"I predict that the enemy may retreat. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com can't let them go so simply. Order the cruiser formations on both sides, and be ready to speed up to contain the enemy at any time."

Just as Soshyan deployed to start the final stage of pursuit, the commander of the Red Pirates made another move that surprised him.

"The enemy ship is suddenly accelerating and approaching."

A bridge officer called out loudly in the communication, and Soshyan immediately zoomed in on the battlefield imaging device, on which red dots marked enemy ships, cold blue marks marked satellites and the defense facilities of Mechanicum, and golden light illuminated the Empire and Mechanicus. Teach the position of the ship.

It can be seen that several obvious bright spots are rapidly approaching the Liuli-3 satellite, which is at least a light cruiser according to its size.

"They're—"

At the same time, the Red Corsair's capital ships all turned, furnace-sized barrels spinning and finding their targets, charged lance turrets flashing like torches.

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