Ten Hunter-class cruisers had entered the atmosphere of the Guardian planet. They would enter several main combat areas of the ground battlefield to suppress the continuous attack of the Guardian robot legion. Only in this way could the Haller-class assault landing craft land on the ground and transport the remnants of the Thirteenth Division to retreat.
The entire retreat plan would last for three days. In order to ensure the speed of retreat, the Thirteenth Division would abandon all heavy weapons and equipment and extra supplies. This would be a complete and utter defeat, a defeat that would cause the Republic to lose all its face.
Coruscant had already urgently dispatched its fleet to support the Thirteenth Division in the direction of the Guardian planet. If the Blade Fleet broke through the defensive line, the Thirteenth Division would be completely annihilated! In order to achieve this goal, President Shiv Palpatine did not sleep at all. He even used emergency authority several times in a row to directly issue orders to the Republic's fleet. His concern for the country and the people touched many members of parliament.
But the Guardian planet did not intend to let the Thirteenth Division leave so easily. Although Tang Yu did not intend to let the Blade Fleet launch an attack, whether it was out of his own strategy or out of consideration for preserving strength, he absolutely had to dig out a piece of meat from the Republic!!
The ones responsible for this operation were the most elite troops of the Guardian planet — the Zealots and the Blood Red Knights!!
Of course, in the face of the firepower of ten Hunter-class cruisers, no matter how elite the Zealots were, they could not do any better than the mechanical legion. But Tang Yu had already made arrangements!
If the dead Prince Xizor could speak to Governor Pilur or Master Yoda, he would have told them a very important piece of information.
In the battle for the Blade Fleet, the Kurofune, the fleet of the Predators, had not taken off a single fighter jet from beginning to end! Not a single one!!
All the V-wing fighters of the Republic's fleet were now fighting the Blade Fleet in outer space. The Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser was generally considered a gunship. Each warship could only carry 12 warships, but the Vanguard fleet was mainly equipped with P-38 space warships, which could be considered an unexpected surprise. As a product of Palpatine's first expansion plan, the Blade Fleet was actually equipped with the P-38, a fighter with excellent speed and firepower. The only drawback was that it was extremely expensive!
In addition, after a month of fierce attacks, the Republic's fleet was now left with a little more than 4,000 V-wing fighters and a little more than 1,000 Y-wing bombers. This air force did not dare to be negligent in the slightest in front of the 2400 P-38s of the Vanguard fleet, so they all retreated to the battlefield in outer space.
The 10 Hunter-class cruisers entering the atmosphere were suicide missions to begin with, so it was even more impossible for them to bring fighter jets!
In fact, there was nothing wrong with this choice because the Guardian Planet's air power had long been disintegrated, so with the weak firepower of the V-wing fighter, it was of little help to the ground battle. But who would have thought that the guardian planet would be so ruthless! He would rather send millions of robots to their deaths than use those 200 Predator fighters!!
In the three battlefields of Yucheng, Australia, and the Sahara, before the Zealots entered the battlefield, the mechanical life army had already carried out continuous attacks in order to break through.
However, just as the Republic's clone army thought that although the situation was tough, the worst that could happen was only this, a sudden change occurred!
One of the Hunter-class cruisers hovering above Yu City suddenly exploded violently on its body!! This light blue explosion caused everyone to be dumbfounded!!
"Proton torpedo! It's a proton torpedo! "
"Turn on the anti-air radar immediately! Where did the torpedo come from!"
"Enemy fighter jets detected, 100 in number!" On the Hunter-class cruiser 'Kraken' that was attacked, the orderlies and radar operators screamed one after another.
"Point defense turrets, fire at full power! Ask for reinforcements immediately, we urgently need fighter jets! " The captain roared, but then there was another violent explosion. The warship shook violently, and the people on the bridge suddenly fell down.
An urgent report came from the damage control unit. "The aft deflector shield has been pierced by the torpedo! Engine number four is off! "
"Increase altitude immediately! Inform the other warships to close in on us and form a crossfire! Stop firing the turbo laser cannons! Concentrate all the energy supply on the deflector shield and point defense turrets! "the captain roared.
Almost at the same time, boom boom boom boom! The continuous explosions continued to ring out! After the Predators fired the torpedoes, they kept attacking the cruiser's close-in turrets with their ion cannons. As the close-in turrets were destroyed one by one, the anti-air firepower of the cruiser 'Kraken' became weaker and weaker!
In war, whether it was in the sea or in space, the contradiction between small and agile fighter jets and huge and cumbersome warships always existed. However, the pattern of war had always shown that in the face of fighter jets, the anti-aircraft cannons and laser cannons on the giant warships were absolutely unable to stop them! Therefore, warships needed the cover of their own fighter jets in order to exert their super firepower to the fullest.
Therefore, in an interstellar war, in addition to the clash of main cannons, the battle between fighter jets was also a key factor in determining victory or defeat. Once the warship was closed in by the enemy's fighter jets, it would be very dangerous! And now, the cruiser 'Kraken' was in an extremely dangerous state! Because they did not have the cover of fighter jets, and the Predator's fighter jets were best at quietly approaching their target!
"The enemy fighter jets have lost their target!"
"Those are stealth fighters! Oh my God! "the radar soldier screamed.
After launching a wave of attacks, the Predator fighters activated their cloaking devices and disappeared right in front of their eyes! Only one fighter jet was shot down during the whole attack!
A total of five Hunter-class cruisers were assigned to the battlefield at Yu City. After the Kraken was attacked by the stealth fighters and suffered heavy damage, the other cruisers were worried about being attacked, so they increased their altitude and began to close in. As a result, there was a short period of vacuum in front of the Chinese Army's position!
At that moment, the Zealots had already entered their counterattack position! They roared and rushed out!
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