The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1617. Reinforcements arrive

Countless swarm drones are flying in groups in space. They are fast and deadly, constantly looking for targets, and then swarming up, launching countless plasma rays, continuously launching, and continuously attacking until the target is completely destroyed. destroy!

The fighter jets of the Galactic Republic can't catch up with these swarm drones at all, even if they enter the trailing attack position, they are often thrown away without firing a few shots.

After that, these fighter formations had given up confronting these drones head-on. They adjusted their strategy and began to focus on driving them away. Launching missiles and lasers in a distant place forces these drones to lose their targets in constant evasion.

But this tactic can only delay death.

Swarm drones are still raging on the battlefield, destroying fighter formations, attacking warships, and breaking away with one blow, without giving the opponent any chance to fight back!

In fact, there are actually many ways to combat these swarm drones. In "StarCraft", the Zerg's confrontation method is simple and rude, and a direct backhand is a super double. If you come over 10,000 drones, I will directly throw 100,000 bugs over. And the human way of confrontation is fire coverage! Utilize the powerful firepower of the Valkyrie missile frigate to directly form a large area of ​​​​destructive missile saturation attacks, leaving no gaps in the entire airspace!

It's a pity that the Galactic Republic currently has neither of the two methods. The result of relying on the inferior fighter formations to chase the swarm drones is actually obvious.

In "StarCraft", you use ghost fighters to play with those drones without attacking the aircraft carrier body, and you will know how miserable it is...

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And at this moment, on the bridge of the flagship of the Republic Fleet, the Commander II-class dreadnought ship Will.

"I need an answer! Why is such a small drone able to launch such a powerful weapon!!" Gideon Tarkin yelled.

"General, we have gone through a lot of scans and observations. At present, we can only confirm that those drones use plasma rays to transmit huge energy instantly by accelerating the flow of charged particles to the speed of light. First of all, we must be sure that these drones The weapon system of the machine is more advanced than we imagined, because we also have similar weapons, but it is impossible to achieve such a volume/power ratio.” An engineer came over and said.

"No matter how advanced it is, can it be advanced enough to rely on such a micro-drone, can it shake our battlecruiser?" Gideon Tarkin asked coldly.

The engineer shook his head and said: "This is the point, the abnormal volume/power ratio. We also detected that there is a wireless link between these drones and their mothership. It is possible that long-range energy transmission can allow their weapons to get The short-lived increase... But this is too unbelievable, so it can only be a guess."

"Long-range energy transmission with tens of thousands of drones at the same time? Is it technically possible?" Gideon Tarkin asked.

"If you ask me to build such a system, then I will tell you to find it in science fiction." The engineer replied bluntly.

Gideon Tarkin took a deep breath, didn't speak, just looked at the holographic star map.

Through the screen projected by the holographic star map, it can be seen that their fleet is about to collapse. Four Jaeger-class battlecruisers were destroyed, 11 were severely damaged, and almost all of the rest were more or less damaged.

And their fighter formation suffered even more heavy losses. Fragments of V-wing fighters and V-19 fighters were floating almost all over the battlefield, and the mutilated corpses of pilots were also scattered everywhere.

Now that the energy of the swarm drones has bottomed out, the motherships are being recovered in batches for recharging and maintenance. But the Republic Fleet couldn't relax, because the warships of the Duchy of Liming had already charged over, and the two sides were engaged in a fierce artillery battle.

Supermatter electromagnetic guns, particle light spears, and fire cloud series missiles, these powerful long-range firepower are the terrible threats that the Republic fleet needs to face now.

In order to gain an advantage in the artillery battle, just now, Gideon Tarkin had to order the fighter formation to continue to take off and attack the Dawn Principality fleet.

But such a hidden danger is, when the swarm drones strike again, how much combat capability do these exhausted pilots have left in front of the swarm?

The only consolation is that the 10 Knight-class Star Destroyers finally survived the attack of the swarm drones, but now how long they can last, Gideon Tarkin is not optimistic.

"Send the order! The Will will move forward! Move to the forefront of the battlefield!" Gideon Tarkin made up his mind.

"General! In the current battlefield situation, if we advance rashly, there is no doubt that the firepower of the separatists will concentrate on our ship!" The adjutant was shocked.

"Reinforcements will arrive soon! Before this, we must not be routed! Go forward!" Gideon Tarkin shouted.

"Yes!" The adjutant did not dare to disobey, and immediately conveyed the instruction to the controller, "Right rudder 11! Turn immediately! Engine output increased by 40%! Forward!"

The huge body of the Commander II-class dreadnought began to turn, and the 8,000-meter-long long ship looked like a giant, and it was the undisputed overlord in this battlefield!

The powerful main guns are constantly firing. These turrets are deployed in a circle around the battleship. Every time they fire, the beams emitted will light up the entire battleship.

Without any accidents, a piercing alarm sounded on the console of the Will, which was sighted by the fire control radar, and a signal that a main gun-level weapon had been detected was being recharged!

"Left rudder 7! The bow sinks 12 degrees!" The adjutant continued to issue instructions to make the battleship start to evade.

Sure enough, two particle light spears shot across the battleship in an instant. Even if they didn't hit directly, the terrifying energy contained in them still caused energy fluctuations on the battleship's shield.

There are more artillery fire concentrated here, and more plum beams are fired! However, the Commander II-class dreadnought is an 8,000-meter-long giant ship after all. It was hit by three particle light spears in a short period of time when the battleship rushed forward. Although the shield system frantically alarmed, it still resisted.

After those swarm drones were fully charged, their offensive on the battlefield became crazy again. They began to concentrate their targets on the Commander II dreadnought ship, virtually reducing the pressure on other warships.

An hour after the fierce exchange of fire between the two sides, the white light finally flashed in the space, and then 140 warships escaped from the hyperspace and appeared in the Yago-Dur galaxy!

These include 40 hunter-class battlecruisers and 100 small and medium warships.

The strategy of Octavian Grant, Governor of the 20th Army of the Republic, began to show results. A large number of warships of the Republic have been assembled in the forward base built in the surrounding unmanned galaxies in advance, and now it is very convenient to reinforce them and join the battle!