The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2357, The Defeat of Anselm (Medium)

On the bridge of the castrated Infinity-class supercarrier, Neimoidia, Admiral Mal-Tuk stood in front of the holographic combat star map and continuously issued orders to command the fleet.

Because the scale of this fleet is so large, it takes a lot of energy to command. 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 want to ask why such a large number of warships should be used together. Wouldn't this cause waste?

However, in fact, it is not that Admiral Mal-Tuk does not want to divide his troops to attack, but that he can only choose this way. The fleet composition of the Commercial Combined Fleet is not scientific, and the number of battleships is too small, so a large number of light cruisers can only be used to make up for the lack of battleships.

Moreover, the Commercial Combined Fleet in his hands actually has hidden dangers.

This fleet includes 1,500 Undertaker-class light cruisers and 1,000 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 frigates, Javelin-class missile frigates, Guard-class air defense destroyers, Brown Bear-class heavy destroyers, Star Child-class repair drone motherships and Blue Sky-class command cruisers commonly used by the Dawn Kingdom Navy.

The reason why there are so many Undertaker-class light cruisers and Osprey-class light cruisers is that it was Newt Gunray and Sang Hill who had the problem.

After they obtained the warship 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 opinions of the Dawn Kingdom military, and directly chose the warships 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 is a modified cargo ship, so the Trade Union restored some of the functions of the cargo ship and planned to use this warship to do its old business. What is the Trade Union's old business? Transportation!

Sang-Hill chose the Osprey-class light cruiser, because this warship can be equipped with mining lasers. Is he going to mine?

In short, this led to the fact that when Ling Liang promoted and supervised the preparations for Operation Zero and discovered the obviously abnormal shipbuilding plan of the Trade Union and the Interstellar Banking Association, nearly two thousand Undertaker-class light cruisers and Osprey-class light cruisers had been built!

The Undertaker-class and Osprey-class cannot be said to be useless, but it is obviously not used in this way! And it is also obvious that such a large number is not needed!

Ling Liang, who was angry and embarrassed, immediately scolded the Trade Union and the Interstellar Banking Association and asked them to make corrections within a time limit. At the same time, a military expert group was sent to the North to supervise their shipbuilding work.

So there were the Raven-class missile destroyers and Promoter-class destroyers that 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 means, 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 used 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 dismantle the mining laser of the Osprey-class and change the cargo hold of the Undertaker-class back to the proper turret equipment.

But even so, the large number of Osprey-class and Undertaker-class still had a great impact on the formation of the fleet. This is also an important reason why Mal-Tuk did not divide his troops-he completely took all these warships with the mentality of "it's all built, it's a waste if it's not used".

Anyway, the Trade Union and the Interstellar Banking Association are rich and powerful, and they don't care about the extra fuel money, right?

In the current battle, Admiral Mal-Tuk deployed all the Undertaker-class light cruisers at the forefront of the formation. The modified Undertaker class is 310 meters long. This warship has thick armor and extremely fast speed, 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 strengthened front armor modules can even withstand several shots from the Imperial class Star Destroyer head-on!

These warships accelerated madly and rushed towards the formation of the Imperial fleet. The operators in the warships are all robots, and they are simply fearless. This is also the biggest feature of these warships-that is, they are used as high-quality cannon fodder!

The Valkyrie class missile frigate, the Raven class missile destroyer and the Javelin class missile frigate constitute three levels of missile attacks at close, medium and long distances, providing fire cover for the Undertaker class that rushed forward.

At the same time, the Osprey class light cruiser was cruising around in its own formation. This 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 support to ensure that the Undertaker-class light cruisers can successfully break into the enemy formation.

However, even so, the Undertaker-class as high-quality cannon fodder and the Osprey-class as support ships are obviously too many. So Mal-Tuk simply ignored them all and attacked!

The Undertaker-class light cruiser clusters that attacked from four directions simultaneously did cause great trouble to the Imperial Fleet. They were already having a headache facing the improved and miniaturized new warships in the Kingdom of Dawn Fleet. Now so many light cruisers that looked like dump trucks were rushing over, which made them even more worried.

The most annoying thing was that these dump trucks were fast and quite durable. An Imperial-class Star Destroyer fired a volley of fire from ten turrets, but it failed to destroy it! The Undertaker-class was on fire, but it was still rushing forward madly!

Girard-Pellaeon had to let his light cruiser rush up immediately to try to stop the Undertaker-class that was rushing over at high speed, so as not to let these warships affect 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 aimed at the sky and fired at the Imperial warships!

The defense turrets on the spaceports also opened fire at full power, aiming at the Imperial-class Star Destroyers that were close at hand and pouring out all their firepower!

At the same time, many Imperial-class Star Destroyers exploded violently inside! Without exception, the explosions all came from the hangar platform.

Those were the transport ships carrying supplies from the planet Gle-Anselm, and they exploded! !

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