"Oh, it doesn't make much sense to continue fighting. We can't win, or the imperial people are relying on their orbital defense, so they can't lose... We shouldn't have fought this battle and wasted those precious warships in vain."
Hearing this, Mogaro's deputy next to him whispered:
"Sir, if we don't fight, we can't explain to the Black Heart King... We still have tens of thousands of warriors, if we approach the Jue Gang."
"Then send the fleet to the firepower of the orbital station? Haven't you seen so many fighters? The landing craft and jumping torpedoes have a maximum hit rate of 16%. If so many people die, they may not be able to get it."
Seeing the deputy's fearful gaze, Mogaro realized that he was emitting meaningless fire. He had always been known for his calmness among the Red Pirates, so he took a deep breath and shook his head.
"The Blackheart King underestimated his opponent. He bet on Endymion, but ignored this. Although we have been guarding against the possible surprise attack of the Empire, we still didn't expect that Angustorm could not hold on for even a day..."
"Sir, what should we do now?"
"what to do……"
Mogaro looked at the chaotic battlefield situation chart, his brain tried to find a way in the vast amount of data, even though he realized that there was almost no possibility of a turnaround.
Similarly, watching the enemy's space waste ship lose its effect on the bridge of the Eternal Loyal, Soshiyan also realized that his opponent had no chance to turn the tables, and this naval warfare empire was invincible.
This battle is not only a tactical or strategic victory, but also gained many new feelings and experiences for Soshiyan, who has not commanded a large-scale naval battle for a long time. Especially the key role played by massive fighter jets in this battle, which gave him vaguely new ideas about naval combat tactics.
In fact, the Empire does not have aircraft carrier tactics, but there have always been several contradictions, such as the range of the Empire's existing fighter jets cannot exceed the main gun range of the main battleship - or in other words, it cannot exceed much.
In addition, the Imperial ships emphasize strongness, so that if fighter jets want to cause effective damage, they must have enough attack waves. The Empire's largest aircraft carrier, such as the Emperor-class battleship, can generally only carry 6 fighter squadrons, and only 8 fighter squadrons at the limit point. Even if it is a modified special aircraft carrier flagship, such as the Mars-class battle cruiser, the Jupiter, has cancelled the macro gun deck in the front half of the hull. It is far from enough to defeat a large cruiser or even a battleship. After all, due to the limited number of flight decks, attack waves and other issues, fighter jets that can be put into combat at the same time will never reach this number.
Moreover, once the number of fighter jets reaches a certain scale, their dispatch and command will also become a severe test. After all, shelling is a relatively static combat method, and only shooting parameters, energy output, etc. need to be considered. However, fighter jets are a dynamic weapon, and the status of each formation may change anytime and anywhere.
This series of factors has made the aircraft carrier tactics not the main force in the empire, and it is also the reason why the Red Pirates are not prepared for it. In fact, before witnessing it with their own eyes, Soshyan had no understanding of Angustorm's defensive aircraft group, and simply believed that it might cause some trouble.
Of course, there are some special factors that can play such a huge role this time, such as defense operations, and Angustorm built a large hangar on the satellite, which is equivalent to a huge aircraft carrier in the fleet with almost no sinking capacity. Coupled with the powerful data processing capabilities of the sages of the Mechanical Cult, the fighter formations can be dispatched most effectively, but this does not mean that the sages of the Mechanical Cult are excellent commanders.
In fact, the fundamental purpose of the arming of the Mechanical Education is to help the Mechanical Education better seek knowledge and "correct" its own truth, and serve the omniscient Ohm Messiah. Therefore, no matter how powerful and rich the weapons in their hands are, they are also designed to protect themselves, explore and take risks, solve academic contradictions and research problems. Among them, self-defense and experiments are mostly inclusive, and systematic considerations for large-scale, long-term, and repetitive wars are relatively lacking.
The result is that the paper data of the Apostles and Mechanical Fleets is very powerful, but overall it is still an elite experimental force that lacks unity. Not only does it lack consistent weapons, but it may be difficult to uniformly dispatch in large-scale battles due to the mutual infight between the commanding sages. What's worse, the sages have a strong command ability to control the entire Apostles and even the entire forged world fleet through a large-scale transformation. This seems to be a good thing. However, this extremely intensive mechanism lacking the command chain will not have any means of response once the commander is beheaded or encountered an unprocessable one.
Just like this time if Soshiyan had not been in charge of command and let the machinery teach themselves to deal with the invasion of the Red Pirates, they might only mechanically send all the forces in their hands, without any preparation for the sudden appearance of waste ships, and if the enemy is far away from orbit and only bombard the satellites at a long distance, they will have to sit on the spot without any help.
But even though many special conditions in the Angstrom naval battle cannot be replicated, it still gave Soshyan a lot of inspiration, allowing him to start thinking about the possibility of new naval tactics. Although traditional artillery and jump gang tactics seem to solve most of the enemies, it is not certain to encounter opponents that are difficult to deal with both tactics.
In addition, Reza's Dead Silent Goshawk fighter jets and ghost boats also left a very deep impression on Soshyang. Dead Silent Goshawks are still in the experimental stage, but the combat effectiveness they show is already quite considerable, especially for opponents who like to use subspace power on a large scale. The anti-interference ability is simply full, but it is not without shortcomings. For example, according to Reza's sage, they are quite expensive. The total value of the thin layer of spirit-removing coating outside the body is more than a Riemanlus. Once they enter and exit the atmosphere, the coating will be consumed. In addition, those who do not contact are already rare and need to be able to receive training from the fighter pilot, and the rarity level is even higher than that.
However, such fighter jets may still perform miraculously at critical moments. Soshyan considered whether to order a batch from Riza, but these have to be discussed after the expedition is over.
"I expect the enemy to retreat, but I can't let them go so easily, and order the cruiser formations on both sides to be ready to accelerate and restrain the enemy at any time."
Just as Soshyan was deploying to start the final stage of the pursuit, the Red Pirates commander made another move that surprised him.
"The enemy ship suddenly accelerates to approach."
A bridge officer called out loud during the communication, and Soshiyan immediately amplified the battlefield imager, with red dots marking enemy ships on it, cold blue marking the defense facilities of satellites and Mechanics, and golden light illuminating the positions of the Empire and Mechanics ships.
You can see several obvious highlights quickly approaching the Liuli 3 satellite, and according to the size, it is at least a light cruiser.
"They are—"
Chapter completed!