The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

Chapter 1710 Yago-Dur Counterattack (4)

1710. Yago-Durr Counterattack (4)

Five slender battleships escorted a group of transport ships to the Yago-Dur system. After handing over the supplies on the transport ships, these five battleships stayed and joined Gideon Tarkin's fleet.

Vindicator-class heavy cruiser!

This heavy cruiser is 600 meters long and roughly triangular in shape. Its overall structure is similar to that of the Galactic Republic's most advanced Knight-class Star Destroyers and Archon-class Star Destroyers, but the hull is more slender and flatter.

And a very conspicuous feature is that the turret layout of the Vindicator-class heavy cruiser is different from the centralized layout of 20 turrets and one main gun group of the Knight-class Star Destroyer. It adopts a decentralized layout.

A total of 20 single-tube light turbolaser cannons, 25 quadruple turbolaser cannons, 10 point defense laser cannons, 20 point defense light ion cannons, and 3 100,000-ton tractor beams are installed.

This kind of firepower arrangement can be very clearly seen. The Defender-class heavy cruiser is completely based on small battleships and fighter jets. Compare this to the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, which is also 600 meters long. The latter is equipped with 8 single-tube heavy-duty turbolaser cannons.

On the tall rear bridge of the battleship, the latest fire control system with powerful performance is installed, which can lock on and cover all targets around it without any blind spots. For small battleships and fighter jets, as long as they enter the firepower network of the Vindicator-class heavy cruiser, there is almost no possibility of survival!

This is the first large warship designed and built by Republic Cina Systems Company (I made a mistake in the previous article, it is not called Cina Fleet System now. It is now called Republic Cina Systems)!

Before that, Republic Cina Systems was actually mainly engaged in the production of spacecraft engines, main engines and control systems. And because of the special nature of the products they sell, this company actually secretly provided battleship engines to the Confederation of Independent Systems before.

Later, the Speaker of the Republic, Sheev Palpatine, felt that the Quart Power Shipyard was not very reliable, and coupled with the betrayal of Rendili Star Power Company, he decided to support another industrial enterprise. That's why Republic Cina Systems was selected.

Palpatine directly seized on Republic Sina Systems' secret sales of engines to the Confederacy of Independent Systems and forced them to submit. Then he dissolved the company's original board of directors and installed his own cronies into the reorganized company.

The reorganization of Republic Sina Systems has not yet been completed, but with the capital injection secretly arranged by Palpatine, they still completed the design and manufacture of the conventional engines for the Knight-class Star Destroyer. After receiving this huge order , designed and manufactured the Vindicator-class heavy cruiser (the process of the Republic's Sina system transforming into the Sina fleet system, is actually the process of the company's fortune. There are some changes from the original plot, but overall it is similar. The plot will slowly change in the future. account).

After all, for Republic Cina Systems, fire control systems and engines are exactly what they are best at, and this is also the area where the Vindicator-class heavy cruiser excels.

Gideon Tarkin was extremely happy about the arrival of the Vindicator-class heavy cruiser, because now on the battlefield of Yago-Dur, the enemy forces he feared most were the Archon-class aircraft carrier and the 20,000 drones. Swarm of drones!

After reviewing the detailed combat data, he believed that as long as these 10 Defender-class heavy cruisers joined, his next offensive would be unstoppable!

The main air defense force of the Republic Fleet before, in addition to its own fighter fleet, was the DP-20 gunboat. The design concept of this 120-meter-long frigate-class warship is also to fight against small spacecraft and fighter jets, but after all, the combat capabilities of this warship have begun to lag behind the battlefield.

Moreover, the DP-20 is, after all, a spaceship designed by Corellia Engineering Company for caravan escort. This largest and oldest industrial giant has not completely invested in military manufacturing, but continues to be silent in the field of civilian ships. Get rich.

Therefore, on the battlefield, the DP-20 gunboats were often targeted by small high-speed warships sent by the Principality of Dawn, and then were destroyed in large numbers.

Among the fleets of the Principality of Dawn, there are many types of warships that can perform this task. Among them, the one that has killed the most DP-20 gunboats is the Brown Bear-class heavy destroyer! This 288-meter-long heavy destroyer is fast, powerful, powerful and thickly armored, but lacks range and flexibility. But once it targets the DP-20, it will hit it with precision.

But if it is replaced by a Vindicator-class heavy cruiser, then it is estimated that only capital ship-level battleships can compete with the navy of the Principality of Dawn!

This is a huge advantage!

Gideon Tarkin stood on the bridge of the flagship, looking out the window at the five new warships that were slowly approaching the barges one after another, temporarily moored for maintenance and overhaul. The excitement on his face could no longer be suppressed.

"But why are there only 5? And there are 5 Vindicators?" Gideon Tarkin asked with a frown.

Behind him was a director of Republic Sina Systems Company. The director said respectfully: "When there were five other Vindicator-class ships making long-distance hyperspace jumps, their hyperspace engines were damaged to varying degrees. Now, It is being repaired at the forward base at the rear and should be repaired within two or three days. In addition, all systems of these prototype ships are operating very normally. I think this will be a successful actual combat test."

"Will it take another two or three days?" Gideon Tarkin frowned, his good mood just now ruined a lot.

Because his intuition told him that he might have waited too long.

The separatist fleet on the opposite side had thwarted his attack in the previous battle and caused heavy losses to him. It has not taken any more actions. Instead, it has been gathering near the Yago-Dur system and even sent its own The formation shrank very far back, as if they were unable to defend.

Normally, shouldn't we take advantage of the victory and pursue it? Even if you don't continue the pursuit, it's appropriate to release more high-speed warships to harass your own transportation lines, right?

But the opponent didn't make any of these moves at all, he just defended and defended!

So now, should we attack, or should we wait a few more days? These two options came to Gideon Tarkin's mind. And both options have their own advantages, which makes even Gideon Tarkin, who is an official, hesitant.

After thinking for a long time, what kept coming to Gideon Tarkin's mind was that he confidently launched an attack during the last battle, fully believing that the Separatist Archon-class aircraft carriers and swarm drones would be difficult to fight in the electromagnetic storm. It worked, but everyone was hit hard!

Indeed, swarm drones are too powerful and weird. If there are only 5 Defender-class ships, what should we do if the other party comes out with something else?

There are only two or three days left, just wait!

Wait for all 10 Defender-class ships to arrive before launching the attack! This is more secure!

It took Gideon Tarkin a full five minutes to finally make this decision...

This was a decision that he regretted deeply after the battle!