2175 、 Miscalculation
Between the two fleets, tens of thousands of fighter jets were entangled like locusts. Dense laser beams and missiles were flashing non-stop. It almost looked like fireworks were being set off in space!
In less than 20 minutes of the air battle, more than 800 fighter jets had been shot down! More than 500 fighter jets had returned due to damage, but they were told that they could not land on the warships and could only wait for further orders. The pilots were injured, the cockpit was leaking, and even the energy compartment was leaking. Many of them could only wait in despair beside the battleship, waiting for death to come.
However, General Tarkin's ruthless order still had an effect. More than 2,000 fighter jets took off from the empty landing platforms of the Hunter-class cruisers and joined the battle. Although the situation was still not optimistic, at least they managed to stabilize the situation until reinforcements arrived!
The dazzling light produced by the hyperspace fluctuations kept flashing. A large number of Hunter Class Cruisers left the hyperspace and appeared on the battlefield! Together with the 50 Hunter-class cruisers that had already entered the battlefield, there were a total of 100 cruisers in total!
However, unlike the previous wave attack that gradually increased their numbers, this time there were 50 more warships. As a result, the width and height of the entire formation had stretched for more than 200 kilometers. Such a formation was not suitable for concentrating their firepower to break through the defense of the Confederation Fleet.
But it was enough to suppress them in terms of numbers. With a ratio of 5 to 1, coupled with their inherent performance advantage, they could completely crush the Confederation Fleet with a single strike!
The increase in the number of warships also meant that there were more landing platforms available. The take-off and landing of fighter jets began to become normal. The new warships that joined the battlefield began to take off more fighter jets, and some of the warships that had run out of fighter jets also began to take in the damaged ones. Even so, in the nearly half an hour of waiting, more than 500 pilots had died.
The 100 Hunter Class Cruisers had more than 40000 carrier-based aircrafts! At the same time, the landing platforms on these 100 warships were enough to take in 8,000 fighter jets at the same time! The number of fighter jets on both sides was instantly pulled to a tie! As for the Confederation Fleet of the Independent Star System, even with five Rukri Hook-class battleships with huge hangars, they only had a total of 24000 fighter jets. The large number of fighter jets that General Trench had used to take off earlier could not cover up the difference in the total number of fighter jets on both sides!
"Retreat." General Trench waved the pointer in his hand and calmly gave the order.
"But General, if we retreat now, the Republic Fleet will destroy Planet Mulkana's network space station. Moreover, we still have a Rukri Hook-class battleship whose core has capsized! "A staff officer said worriedly.
"According to the battle simulation, without reinforcements, our formation will be broken within 60 minutes, and we will be completely destroyed within 10 minutes. There are only two options now. First, let General Emma's fleet come to support us. Second, retreat, "the tactical robot that had been standing next to Trench said.
"Retreat. "Then hide in the outer orbit and wait for the landing. of Make them unable to look at each other, then we'll have more opportunities, hehehe … "Trench made his decision.
This way, the area that the Republic Fleet needed to take care of would be larger. Because of the global scale of the landing, they also had to disperse the fleet across the globe to prevent the Confederation Fleet from concentrating their forces in one area. In this way, the Republic Fleet, which had the advantage in numbers but had to divide their forces to defend, and the Confederation Fleet, which had the advantage in numbers but could concentrate their forces, would close the gap to a certain extent.
The reason for doing this was also to display the true strength of the guardian planet — land battle! It was a very simple principle. A cloned soldier needed about five years from the time an embryo was created to mature. On the other hand, for Tang Yu to build a T-2 combat robot, it would take about ten minutes!
Alright, this was a bit of a bully. Then let's calculate it according to the birth of a mechanical life. First, a computer program of artificial intelligence level was needed. If it was given to a computer to program, it would take about five minutes. Of course, this kind of computer program could be directly copied and pasted, so there was almost no time cost. After that, the storage device of this program had to be placed in a special data storage device and sealed in the Holy Mountain. After that, when Tang Yu was occasionally free and bored, he would go to the core of the Holy Mountain, expand the mechanical domain, and guide these programs that had not yet awakened. This process did not take a fixed time, but generally in three to five days at most, these programs would show signs of awakening.
Finally, these awakened artificial intelligence programs would be added to the virtual world of the Holy Mountain, so that they could further learn and evolve on their own. And because of the computing power of the artificial intelligence itself, it would only take a few minutes to finish reading an entire library of books, so it would take about two to three months for these artificial intelligence to finally evolve into mechanical lives. And most importantly, because of the existence of the Holy Mountain, these mechanical lives would not really die when they went out to carry out missions, but could be used repeatedly.
Therefore, in this way … it was still a bit of a bully.
Therefore, all along, the generals of the guardian planet, including Jane Connor, Peacock, and the others, were very willing to fight a land battle with the Republic, because this was a deal that would definitely be profitable. Just like now, Admiral Trench had such a plan.
The Confederation fleet began to retreat. The Rukeri Hook-class battleship that could not move because the core spaceship had overturned on the ground was abandoned, and the crew evacuated on transport ships, leaving only the mechanical life crew to hold their posts. Not only that, the seven network space stations also started their engines and began to move to the other side of Planet Murkana. These space stations could not be defended anymore, but it was better to buy as much time as possible.
As for the spaceport, after Admiral Trench gave the order to retreat, they also began to evacuate the people, lowered the energy shield, and shut down the weapon system, sending a message of surrender to the Republic fleet.
The Republic fleet now had 94 Hunter-class cruisers left. These cruisers immediately went to take control of the periphery of Planet Murkana, and more than ten battleships scattered to destroy the seven network space stations. Once these space stations were destroyed, the network signals emitted from Planet Murkana would no longer be able to cover the entire Milky Way, and there would no longer be a threat.
Admiral Wilhoff Tarkin looked at the Confederation fleet in the distance with a smile on his face, as well as the Rukeri Hook-class battleship that could not move and was being besieged by more than 20 Hunter-class cruisers. A look of satisfaction appeared on his face. Then, he glanced at the spaceport and casually waved his hand …
Immediately afterward, dozens of battleships turned around at the same time, their main cannons began to charge, and then … fired at the spaceport that had completely given up resistance and issued a surrender notice!
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