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Chapter 2356: The Defeat of Anselm (Part )

2357. The Defeat of Anselm (Part )
On the bridge of the castrated Infinity-class supercarrier, Neimoidia, Admiral Mal-Tuk stood in front of a holographic combat star map and continuously issued orders, commanding the fleet's operations.

Because the scale of this fleet is so huge, the energy required to command it is also very huge. At this moment, the number of T-series tactical robots standing beside him has increased to 4, assisting him in commanding the four attack directions of this claw-shaped array, that is, the four claws.

Some people may ask why such a large number of warships should be concentrated for use. Wouldn't this be a waste?
However, in fact, it was not that Admiral Mal-Tuk did not want to split his forces to attack, but that he had no choice but to do so. The fleet composition of the Commercial Combined Fleet was not scientific, and the number of capital ships was too small, so it could only use a large number of light cruisers to make up for the lack of capital ships.

Moreover, the commercial fleet in his hands actually has hidden dangers.

This fleet includes 1500 Undertaker-class light cruisers and 1000 Osprey-class light cruisers. These two types of light cruisers account for about half of his fleet! Other new warships include Raven-class heavy destroyers and Promoter-class heavy destroyers, totaling about 500 ships.

In addition, there are warships such as the Valkyrie-class missile frigate, Javelin-class missile frigate, Guard-class air defense destroyer, Brown Bear-class heavy destroyer, Starchild-class maintenance drone mothership and Blue Sky-class command cruiser commonly used by the Dawn Kingdom Navy.

To put it bluntly, the reason why there are so many Undertaker-class light cruisers and Osprey-class light cruisers is the fault of Newt Gunray and Thorn Hill.

After they obtained the battleship technology of Caldari and Gallente in EVE through the Freemason Alliance, they excitedly started the construction work on their own. They did not even seek the opinion of the Dawn Kingdom military, but directly selected the battleships they liked the most and started to build a large number of them.

Newt Gunray chose the Undertaker-class light cruiser, because the main body of this warship was converted from a cargo ship, so the Trade Federation restored some of the functions of the cargo ship and planned to use this warship to do their old business. What is the Trade Federation's old business? Transportation!
Sang-Hill chose the Osprey-class light cruiser because this type of warship can be equipped with mining lasers. Is he planning to mine?

In short, this led to the fact that when Ling Liang was promoting and supervising the preparations for Operation Zero and discovered the obviously abnormal shipbuilding plans of the Trade Federation and the Interstellar Banking Association, nearly two thousand Undertaker-class light cruisers and Osprey-class light cruisers had already been built!

The Undertaker and Osprey class can't be said to be useless, but it's obvious that they are not used in this way! And it's also obvious that such a large number is not needed!

Ling Liang, who was furious, immediately scolded the Trade Union and the Interstellar Banking Association and demanded that they make corrections within a certain period of time. At the same time, he sent a military expert group to the North to supervise their shipbuilding work.

As a result, the Raven-class guided missile destroyers and the Promoter-class guided missile destroyers were designed and built later. Among them, the Raven-class guided missile destroyer is a warship that uses medium-range missiles as its main attack method, serving as a powerful supplement to the Javelin-class guided missile frigate and the Valkyrie-class guided missile frigate.

The Promoter-class destroyer is a warship specially designed to fight against enemy frigates and light cruisers. It has extremely high maneuverability and extremely powerful firepower, and its fire control system is also very excellent.

Not only that, Ling Liang also asked them to immediately remove the mining lasers of the Osprey class and replace the cargo hold of the Undertaker class with the proper turret equipment. But even so, the large number of Ospreys and Undertaker classes still had a great impact on the fleet's formation. This was also an important reason why Mal-Tuk did not divide his troops - he took all these warships with the mentality of "it's a waste if I don't use them".

Anyway, the Trade Federation and the Interstellar Banking Association are wealthy and powerful, so they don’t care about the extra fuel money, right?

In this battle, Admiral Mal-Tuk deployed all the Undertaker-class light cruisers at the front of the formation. After the revision, the Undertaker-class is 310 meters long. This kind of warship has thick armor and is extremely fast, but lacks long-range attack means. It can be said to be an upgraded version of the Brown Bear-class heavy destroyer.

The Undertaker-class light cruiser with enhanced front armor modules can even withstand several head-on shots from an Imperial-class Star Destroyer!
These warships accelerated madly and rushed towards the formation of the Imperial Fleet. The operators inside the warships were all robots, and they were fearless and brave. This was also the biggest feature of these warships - they were used as high-quality cannon fodder!
The Valkyrie-class missile frigates, Raven-class missile destroyers and Javelin-class missile frigates constitute three levels of missile attacks: near, medium and long range, providing fire cover for the Undertaker-class that is rushing forward.

At the same time, the Osprey-class light cruisers were cruising around in their own formation. This type of warship is a multi-functional warship equipped with a drone homeport. In addition to being equipped with hundreds of Acolyte-class drones, it can also provide battlefield support through armor repair modules, electronic warfare modules and other functions. They are also an important reliance for ensuring that the Undertaker-class light cruisers can successfully break into the enemy formation.

But even so, the Undertaker class, which was a high-quality cannon fodder, and the Osprey class, which was a support ship, were clearly too many in number. So Mal-Tuk simply ignored them all and attacked!
The cluster of Undertaker-class light cruisers that attacked simultaneously from four directions did cause great trouble to the Imperial Fleet. They were already having a headache facing the improved, miniaturized new warships in the Kingdom of Dawn's fleet, and now so many light cruisers that looked like mud trucks were rushing towards them, which made them even more troubled.

The worst thing was that these dump trucks were fast and resistant to attack. An Imperial-class Star Destroyer fired a salvo from ten turrets but failed to destroy them! The Undertaker was on fire but was still advancing madly!

Girard Perrine had no choice but to order his light cruiser to rush forward immediately to try to stop the Undertaker-class ships that were rushing towards him at high speed and prevent these warships from affecting his formation.

However... when everyone in the Imperial Fleet focused their attention on the Commercial Combined Fleet, something strange happened!

The planet Gler-Anselm suddenly activated its planetary shield! At the same time, the orbital defense weapons on the planet were pointed at the sky and fired at the Imperial warships!
The defense turrets on the spaceports also opened fire at full power, pouring all their firepower out at the Imperial-class Star Destroyers that were within reach!

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At the same time, violent explosions occurred inside many Imperial-class Star Destroyers! All the explosions came from the hangar platforms without exception.

Those transport ships carrying supplies from the planet Gle-Anselm exploded! !

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