The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2359, The Defeat of Anselm (Part 2)

A large group of Undertaker-class light cruisers have now broken into the formation of the Imperial Fleet, and are fighting with a large number of Imperial warships.

At this time, Girard Pellaeon saw what it meant to be a rolling knife and a shit-stirring stick.

After entering the melee state, because they did not have to directly face the powerful frontal firepower of the Imperial-class Star Destroyers, these warships had more room to play. Especially those Aquitens-class light cruisers and Nightwatch-class frigates deployed by Girard Pellaeon at the rear of the formation, after engaging in a firefight with the Undertaker-class, they found that something was not right.

After being attacked, the Undertaker-class light cruisers immediately began to launch a ray stream with a large number of nanorobots to quickly repair the surrounding warships. Not only that, these warships were originally located in the warehouse, but now they are equipped with several rapid-fire turrets, pouring out a large number of powerful shells in a short period of time!

In a corner of the battlefield, a formation of ten Undertaker-class light cruisers rushed towards a Victory II-class star destroyer fiercely. The Victory II-class star destroyer was already adjusting its direction. After discovering this formation, it turned its guns and fired a volley.

The Undertaker-class ship in the front was immediately engulfed in a sea of ​​fire, its main armor belt was melted, and its internal facilities were on fire. However, almost at the same time, several Undertaker-class ships around immediately fired a light green light to illuminate the area, and the fire in the illuminated area was quickly extinguished, and the armor was also recovering rapidly.

Trillions of nanorobots are repairing the damaged spacecraft at a speed visible to the naked eye, not only the outer armor, but even the damaged equipment can be restored to a certain extent!

At the same time, several other Undertaker-class ships have broken through at high speed, approaching from the top, bottom, left and right directions, and then extended four turrets from their cargo holds to aim at the Victory II-class ship and fired wildly.

The firepower of 10 Undertaker-class light cruisers actually caused the bridge of the Victory II-class Star Destroyer to keep alarming! According to computer analysis, what they fired looked like a beam of light, but in fact it was detected by the computer as both energy and kinetic attacks! And the power was very huge!

This Victory II-class Star Destroyer was also constantly firing back, and the heavy turbolaser cannon soon severely damaged the other two Undertaker-class ships. However, these warships were injured but not sunk, and they were quickly withdrawn during the remote repair of other warships. The deflector shield of the Victory II-class was also broken at this moment!

"What kind of guns are these ships using?! It's impossible for them to have such power!" The captain of the Victory II-class Star Destroyer exclaimed, and he quickly ordered his warship to retreat, not daring to entangle with these light cruisers.

At the same time, this is also the voice of most of the captains of the Imperial warships who exchanged fire with the Undertaker-class light cruisers on the battlefield. Why is the firepower of these light cruisers so powerful?

However, despite their sighs, the Imperial Navy officers also realized that although these Undertaker-class ships had strong firepower, their range was extremely limited, so they had to rush to close range to exert their firepower.

On the other side of the battlefield, seeing that his fleet had completely destroyed the Imperial Fleet's formation, Admiral Mal-Tuk smiled with satisfaction. He waved his hand and said, "Don't give these Imperial guys a chance to breathe! Let the Undertaker-class formation continue to charge and fight! Don't worry about the losses!"

"Roger!" The T-series tactical robot immediately passed the order down.

The reason why Admiral Mal-Tuk was not distressed was, on the one hand, because the Trade Alliance that manufactured the Undertaker-class ships was indeed not short of money, and on the other hand, it was also because the first batch of Undertaker-class ships produced were actually defective products according to the standards of the Dawn Kingdom Navy.

During the initial construction, Newt Gunray had people retain the huge cargo hold of the Undertaker-class ships, intending to use this type of warship as an armed cargo ship. Therefore, the initial Undertaker-class ships actually had very weak firepower and were equipped with a remote repair system that could remotely repair other warships with nanorobots.

This kind of warship naturally cannot be sent to the battlefield. Therefore, after being scolded by General Ling Liang, the Trade Union modified these warships. They reduced the capacity of the cargo hold and installed four heavy ion blasters.

The ion blaster is a new type of artillery that the Trade Union analyzed from Gallente's technological data. The shooting force of this artillery is to split rare metals into subatomic particle spheres, and then use magnetic field constraints to launch them. This attack can sometimes even pass through without triggering the deflector shield. After hitting the armor, the subatomic particles can directly penetrate into the middle of the armor metal and then release energy, causing extremely serious damage to the armor.

However, the disadvantage is that this state cannot last long. After firing, the magnetic field constraint can only last for about 0.7 seconds at most.

This results in the range of the ion blaster being only a few dozen kilometers.

Of course, since the performance of these modified Undertaker-class ships is not up to standard, the navy officers and soldiers of the Galactic Empire have not paid much attention to this weapon that will become one of their nightmares in the future. They just think that these ugly cruisers that look like mud trucks have strong firepower.

These Undertaker-class ships are just troublemakers and annoying, but so far in the battle, the number of Imperial warships sunk by Undertaker-class ships is still very small.

However, at this moment, the brief chaos caused by the sudden betrayal of the planet Gler-Anselm allowed the Undertaker class to break into the center of the Imperial Fleet's formation. This allowed the other warships of the Commercial Union Fleet to maximize their firepower, whether it was the two twin-mounted hypermatter electromagnetic guns of the Cole II-class battlecruiser or the Yamato guns of the Minotaur-class heavy cruiser, these were truly powerful firepower outputs.

Facing the aggressive Commercial Union Fleet, Girard-Pellaeon once again backed down. He had already judged that if this battle continued like this, his fleet would definitely suffer very serious losses.

If it were before, the Galactic Empire would not be afraid of competing with the Principality of Dawn in terms of losses, but now, after losing nearly 1,000 battleships in a battle on the planet Kira, the Galactic Empire no longer had such confidence.

What's more, Girard-Pellaeon's fleet was now drawn from the defense lines of various places. Once this fleet suffered serious losses, it would mean that the defense line he had worked hard to build for ten years would become riddled with holes!

And in such a strategic situation, don't expect much reinforcement from the Galactic Empire!

Girard Peraune was a very decisive person. He immediately issued an order, "Notify all ships to withdraw from the battle one by one and prepare to retreat!" He must not wait until he really couldn't win before retreating. If that happened, it would not be a retreat, but a massacre.

However, just as he gave the order, the radar soldier screamed at the side, "General!! A fleet appeared behind us!! It's the Geth!! It's the Geth!!!"