From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 218 Kill the imperial dog!
Ryan Timler's order may seem reckless.

After all, after discovering what appeared to be a federal fleet, and even though the other party had more ships than his own, he continued to order an attack.

But if you look at it from the perspective of the Imperial Baron, you will find that his order is not illogical.

Although the Timler family has been passed down to his generation, the title has been reduced from viscount to baron, and the fiefdom is only half the size of the planet.

In the empire's aristocratic system, they were basically at the lowest end of the pyramid.

According to common sense, such a family usually manages its own one-third of an acre of land carefully and conducts "sustainable fishing" for the people on the territory.

And try to avoid events that may lead to a significant decline in the family's strength, and do everything possible to preserve the legacy passed down by the ancestors.

However, the Timler family is still slightly different from most other imperial nobles.

That is, their family belongs to the military aristocracy in the imperial aristocracy classification.

Ryan Timler's grandfather, Kyle Timler, the first generation head of the family, was a fierce man who followed the late emperor to fight against the Federation and quell the rebellion.

Although his father asked Ryan not to work hard anymore before his death and just keep the family business.

Ryan Timler said calmly.

He once served as the captain of a heavy cruiser in the Royal Navy of the Star Dragon Empire. After retiring, he was recruited into the family by Ryan Timler and served as the commander of the family fleet.

These asteroids, which are distributed in large numbers on this battlefield and whose mass is measured in billions of tons, are a nightmare for all helmsmen, observers and radar operators.

His father, Baden Timler, was also granted the title of viscount Kyle Timler because of his military service experience and outstanding performance in counter-insurgency battles.

This asteroid belt formed by the decomposition of planets is a relatively complex battlefield environment in fleet operations.

So even the third-generation head of the family, Ryan Timler, still had the title of baron.

So whether it is a commander of the Royal Navy or a military aristocrat like Ryan Timler, he has long been used to it.

At present, the Timler family's fleet maintains a high-speed advance formation, preparing to move to a favorable position near the asteroid.

It was precisely because of his outstanding military exploits that he was awarded the title of Imperial Viscount by the late emperor after the war.

"It's just three more ships. The empire's warships have never been judged by their numbers."

Many captains are even willing to fight at the edge of the gravity well, rather than engage in a firefight in the asteroid belt.

After all, with the size of heavy cruisers, battle cruisers, and battleships, although the reconnaissance boats are relatively far apart, they can still be clearly distinguished.

Although he is not a hereditary noble, he has entered the class of 'superior man' and was given half a planet as a fiefdom.

This shows that the federal fleet ahead has at most a light cruiser stationed there.

Although he usually focuses on running various family affairs, he also has a dream of leading an army on the battlefield.

In addition, the intelligence sent back by the reconnaissance boat did not specifically mention that there were ships of heavy patrol or above in the opponent's fleet.

This is also the final destination for most Royal Navy captains who did not rise to the nobility.

In the fleet battle between the Empire and the Federation, it is commonplace to suffer some losses in terms of numbers.

But no matter what, Ryan Timler still has the fearless and war-like blood of a military aristocrat flowing in his body.

The family fleet commander Ron Schneider, sitting next to him on the captain's seat, also nodded in agreement.

During the maneuver of the fleet, Ryan Timler and his family fleet commander also judged that the opponent was not a regular army of the federal navy.

Eighty percent are the private arm of Atlas Mining.

After all, according to the combat style of the Federation Navy, it is absolutely impossible to have only such a small number of ships in this kind of zone.

Moreover, the smallest escort detachment in the federal navy generally has more than 25 ships.

The 18 ships that have been discovered now are a bit fussy no matter how you look at them.

With this judgment, Ryan Timler's willingness to fight is even stronger.

The Timler family is also the military aristocracy of the empire. Although it is not that strong now, it may still have to stay away from the regular army of the federal navy.

But he was not afraid at all of the federal private armed forces in front of him.

Just do it and that's it.

Just when the fleet commander of the Timler family and his own family master were guessing the true identity of the opposite ship.

The two commanders of the Mary Bay Industrial and Yaoguang Defense joint fleets also reached an agreement.

That's 'Kill these imperial dogs'.

Currently, the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire are in a state of war, and the two sides are already hostile.

Coupled with the media's exaggeration, the hostility towards the Star Dragon Empire within the Federation has now reached its peak. Some bold private armed forces in the border areas have already begun hunting and killing enemy civilian ships and lone warships.

But now, this 'Imperial Company' registered in the Thousand Stars Empire has had some friction with them.

Now he has put on a posture of wanting to have a battle with the United Fleet.

In this case, our own side still has an advantage in the number of ships. How could the two commanders from Mary Bay Industries and Yaoguang Defense be intimidated?

Although in the era when humans had just entered beyond-visual-range combat, the bloody nature of direct confrontation on the battlefield gradually turned into a "xiaoxiaole" on the computer screen.

Front-line troops are often in a somewhat confused state, destroying enemies who don't know where they are, or being blasted to pieces by attacks that don't know where they come from.

The commander at the rear just watched the series of casualty figures and the ever-changing front lines on the screen, playing this game called 'war'.

But now, at least the crews of the navy and civilian armed forces have recovered the iron blood of the era when humans had not yet left the Blue Star and used heavy artillery to bombard them on the sea.

The confrontation between the heavy metal ion jet and the deflection force field seemed like the confrontation between several tons of armor-piercing projectiles and the main armor belt hundreds of millimeters thick.

In the confrontation that was measured in seconds, the bloodiness deep in the hearts of these crews was reawakened.

One hour and fifty-eight minutes later, after constant maneuvering and closing the distance, the two fleets sailed into the asteroid gravel belt almost simultaneously.

Since there are no large celestial bodies nearby, in the battle in this environment, neither side uses the 'celestial coordinate method' commonly used near large celestial bodies, but uses relative positions to confirm coordinates.

If we take the position of the combined fleet as the origin, then we can look at the latest reconnaissance information returned by the reconnaissance boat combined with the results of multiple scans by the fleet's long-wave radar.

The Timler family's fleet is at a position where their axial angle is 34 degrees, their normal angle is 25 degrees, and their straight-line distance is kilometers.

Generally speaking, at this position, both sides can already start some exploratory shooting to allow the shipboard control personality to calculate parameters.

After all, the gravitational field is changing all the time in different cosmic environments.

Especially this kind of asteroid belt full of broken stars requires continuous shooting to calculate the optimal parameters.

But the bad thing is that these huge asteroids also block the main gun rays of both sides.

Often when the commanders of both sides are about to give the order to fire, they find that the other side's ship is suddenly obscured by an asteroid.

In this torturous atmosphere, the two fleets carefully shuttled through the asteroid belt and shortened the straight-line distance to twelve thousand kilometers.

At this time, both sides had basically figured out each other's fleet configuration.

One side has more destroyers, the other has two light cruisers.

Although each has certain advantages and disadvantages, at this point, the option of 'retreating from battle' has long been forgotten by the commanders of both sides.

In the north pole direction of this battlefield, there is an asteroid rubble belt with a maximum diameter of only a few kilometers.

An HCP painted in dark gray space camouflage was being carefully transferred from the surface of an asteroid to another.

The back of its shoulder armor is not equipped with a weapon rack like other HCPs.

Rather, they are two groups of large-scale composite investigation units.

Its main head monitor has also been obviously modified. The overly enlarged size makes this HCP look as funny as a big-headed doll.

At this moment, the pilot in the cockpit was nervously operating the composite reconnaissance unit, overlooking the battlefield about 10,000 kilometers away.

Although the thermostatic device built into the heavy-duty hydraulic anti-gravity suit was keeping running, the former Yaoguang Defense pilot's forehead was still covered with sweat.

Of course, being alone in this dangerous position, doing such a dangerous job.

If it were anyone else in the Atlas HCP squadron, they wouldn't be any better than him.

Oh, except for my current boss and HCP squadron commander, that guy is a lunatic.

If it were him, he might be laughing in the cockpit!
Thinking of the boss who drove the 'Red Demon' across the entire squadron in the simulated battle, the pilot couldn't help but shudder.

"Damn it, if the bonus offered by Boss wasn't high enough, I wouldn't be doing this job!"

After adjusting the final parameters, the pilot switched to the operation interface of the communication unit, and then decisively pressed the integrated light button representing 'information transmission'.

"But if the bonus is this big next time, then it's not impossible to do it again."

The detection results of optical, red-ultraviolet, long-wave and synthetic aperture radars were transmitted to Ares 60,000 kilometers away through the neutrino communication satellite temporarily deployed in this area.

On the bridge, Randall and others were nervously staring at the picture synthesized by the shipboard control personality on the big screen.

When tiny flashes of stars suddenly lit up in the deathly silent asteroid belt, everyone heaved a sigh of relief.

"After waiting for so long, the fight finally started!"

(End of this chapter)