This time, the Battle of Angustorm will be commanded by Soshiyan himself. In order to maximize the combat effectiveness of the coalition forces, he unified the command of all squadrons, including the Riza fleet, into the meditator data link of the Eternal Loyal. This is a huge challenge. Although the command center of the Eternal Loyal has undergone many strengthening and transformations, it is the first time to process such a huge battlefield data. In order to prevent accidents, Soshiyan even mobilized ten data sages from Angustorm to take on part of the computing functions with the Riza sages.
In addition, Angstrom's flagship Alloy Maroon will serve as the deputy flagship of the Expeditionary Force and the Mechanical Cultivation Combined Fleet, as well as the fighter flight control center of the entire fleet. The captain is still the original but the tactical command is temporarily responsible for the fourth company commander Lothar. He also assisted him by several sages and more than a dozen experts in other fields.
When comparing the strength of our enemy and our fleet, Soshiyang did not ignore another advantage of his side, that is, the fighter jet formation.
The fighter formation occupies an important position in Angustom's planetary defense system. Not only are large-scale hangars and flight decks deployed on orbital stations, but also solid bunker hangars were built on several satellites. Among the entire Angustom planetary defense forces, there are 480 Furious Interceptor Flying Wings and 240 Star Eagle Bomber Flying Wings, totaling more than 60,000 space fighters.
Although fighter jets are far less than naval guns in the Imperial Navy, just like what often happens in primeval forests, the most powerful beasts may also be bitten to death by the tiniest insects. However, when the number of fighter jets reaches a certain scale, it is impossible to ignore their damage as large as battleships. The only shortcoming restricts fighter jets is the range and limited combat time. After all, the fleet's firefighting distance is often tens of thousands of kilometers, and the fighter jets may go for half of the fuel round-trip fuel, and there is not much remaining combat time at all.
However, this time it is a defensive operation, and relying on satellites to combat the enemy can alleviate this shortcoming to the greatest extent. In addition, whether it is Angustorm's main ship or Astart's combat barge, the number of flight decks is greater than that of other ships, which can also provide a temporary transit station for fighter formations fighting on the frontline.
In order to achieve such combat purposes, Soshiyan sets the strong combat barges in front, using them as fleet barriers to resist the enemy's possible firepower, and on the other hand, they serve as support nodes for front-line fighter formations.
In addition, the system of the orbital defense station was finally started again with the efforts of more than a dozen data craftsmen. Although some of the functions are still paralyzed, at least the weapon system can be used.
On the busy bridge, Soshiyang stared at the tactical imager. What swam in the void in front of him was the powerful opponent he was facing. Three huge battleships hung in the air above the holographic projection platform, surrounded by tiny, flickering light spots, which represent the second-level battleship.
Those three battleships were the strongest battleships of the Red Pirates, and they all left many notories in the records of the Empire.
The first is the Battleship of the Betrayer-class Battleship, the Betrayer-class is a battleship built using many lost technologies of the Mechanism. Its history can be traced back to the time when the Empire was born. Now no Betrayer is serving the Empire. From the 31st to 34th millennium, at least five of this type of ships have betrayed the Emperor's Light. The Torture is the oldest one. Its engine was destroyed during the Spartan War. After helplessly floating into a mined asteroid belt, it was occupied by rebel pirates.
After many years of twists and turns, it fell into the hands of Huron, who was still the leader of the Star Claw Battle at that time. After hundreds of years of restoration, it became part of the powerful fleet of the Star Claw Battle. However, it had already lost before the actual combat. It also escaped into the depths of the vortex as Huron's hidden power. For more than a hundred years after Huron launched revenge on the empire in the name of the Black Heart King, the crimes committed by the Torture were numerous, including but not limited to destroying dozens of key space stations of the empire and participating in several large-scale plundering activities against the empire.
The second ship was the Retribution-class battleship, Desperate Prayer, which was taken back from the subspace by the Red Pirates fifty years ago, and after a series of transformations, it was even more powerful than before.
The third ship is the Conqueror-class battleship Pathos. As a very ancient ship model, it was sealed in a naval port in the Storm Star Domain due to the aging of the engine and main structure. Later, the port was attacked by Red Pirates, and the old ship was also plundered and regained its strong combat power after major transformation.
Although these three battleships have different models, they have a unified feature, that is, their long-distance artillery capabilities are very powerful, which is not good news.
"It is said that it has entered the range, but the enemy's flagship has not opened fire yet and is still moving. It is likely to target Liuli No. 3."
As the first company commander of the Empire Fist, Laisand also has rich experience in naval battles, so he came to the flagship as Soshiyang's deputy.
Hearing his words, Soshiyang drew a line on the tactical drawing with his hand.
"The opponent will enter our farthest range in about twenty minutes. If they continue to move forty minutes according to the current route and speed, they will enter the farthest range of the giant light spear array of planetary orbit stations, but I think they will not move forward again when they come here."
He then turned to the communications chief.
"To send a message to the Alloy Truth, the first batch of fighter formations and bomber formations on Liuli 3 took off ten minutes later."
"yes!"
The subsequent development of the matter confirmed Soshyan's idea. The Red Pirates' forward began to turn after approaching the range of the Imperial Fleet and became a standard shelling formation. Obviously, they also worked hard on Angustorm and were very clear about the firepower distribution and range of the orbital defense system that cast the world.
Then, the several main ships with the farthest range in the Red Pirates fleet suddenly opened fire, and the target was aimed directly at Liuli No. 3.
The dazzling spots passed by the observation windows of all ships. The powerful shooting made the entire star body of Liuli 3 seem to shake, and the surface of the deserted satellite was split into huge gullies.
But most importantly, the hidden Star Fort dock was exposed.
The Red Pirates found that the target did not hesitate and immediately launched a second round of main gun volley in a very short time. If they hit, they would directly destroy the unfinished star castle.
However, something that surprised the commander of the Red Pirate Fleet.
The thick Void Shield that rose at some point absorbed all the firepower, and the Star Castle was intact!
It turned out that although the energy system of Star Castle has not been completely completed, after an hour of unremitting efforts by the sages, they successfully connected the energy system of the dock with Star Castle, which successfully started the giant Void Shield Generator that had been installed.
As one of the most powerful void weapons in the empire, the defense of the Ramirez-level star castle is self-evident. With sufficient energy, the enemy's long-distance bombardment did not shake its void shield at all.
Chapter completed!