Chapter 218: Kill the Empire Dogs!

Ryan Timler's order seemed a bit reckless.

After all, he continued to order an attack when he discovered a suspected federal fleet and the enemy had more ships than his own.

But if you look at it from the perspective of this imperial baron, you will find that his order is not illogical.

Although the Timler family has been passed down to his generation, the title has been reduced from viscount to baron, and the fiefdom is only half the size of a planet.

In the imperial aristocratic system, it is basically at the bottom of the pyramid.

According to common sense, such a family usually manages its own land carefully and "sustainably exhausts the pond to fish" for the people on the territory.

And try to avoid events that may cause a sharp decline in the family's strength, and try every means to defend the foundation passed down by the ancestors.

However, the Timler family is still a little different from most other imperial nobles.

That is, their family belongs to the military nobles in the classification of imperial nobles.

Ryan Timler's grandfather, Kyle Timler, the first generation head of the family, was a tough guy who followed the late emperor to fight the Federation and suppress the rebellion.

It was precisely because of his outstanding military exploits that he was granted the title of Imperial Viscount by the late emperor after the war.

Although he was not a hereditary noble, he had entered the class of "superior people" and was also granted half a planet as a fiefdom.

And his father, Baden Timler, was also granted the title of Viscount of Kyle Timler because of his experience in military service and his outstanding performance in suppressing the rebellion.

So until the third generation head of the family, Ryan Timler, there was still a baron title.

Although his father asked Ryan not to fight anymore before his death, just to keep the family business.

But no matter what, Ryan Timler still has the brave and warlike blood of military nobles in his body.

He usually focuses on managing the family affairs, but in fact he also has a dream of leading the army to gallop on the battlefield.

In addition, the intelligence sent back by the reconnaissance boat did not specifically mention that there were heavy cruisers or above in the opponent's fleet.

This means that the federal fleet in front of them has at most light cruisers.

After all, with the size of heavy cruisers, battle cruisers, and battleships, the reconnaissance boat can still clearly distinguish them even though it is far away.

In the fleet battle between the Empire and the Federation, it is common to suffer a loss in numbers.

So whether it is the commander of the Royal Navy or military nobles like Ryan Timler, they have long been accustomed to it.

"It's just three more ships. The Empire's warships have never been determined by numbers."

Ryan Timler said calmly.

Ron Schneider, the commander of the family fleet sitting next to him in the captain's seat, also nodded in agreement.

He had served as the captain of a heavy cruiser in the Star Dragon Empire Royal Navy. After retiring, he was recruited into the family by Ryan Timler to serve as the commander of the family fleet.

This is also the final destination of most Royal Navy captains who have not been promoted to nobles.

At present, the fleet of the Timler family maintains a high-speed formation and is ready to move to a favorable position near the asteroid.

This asteroid belt formed by the decomposition of the planet is a relatively complex battlefield environment in fleet operations.

Many captains are even willing to fight at the edge of the gravity well rather than engage in a firefight in the asteroid belt.

These asteroids, which are distributed in large quantities on this battlefield and are calculated in units of billions of tons, are the nightmare of all helmsmen, observers and radar operators.

During the fleet maneuver, Ryan Timler and his family fleet commander also judged that the opponent should not be the regular army of the Federal Navy.

It is probably the private armed forces of Atlas Mining.

After all, according to the combat style of the Federal Navy, if you come to such a no-man's land, it is absolutely impossible to have only such a small number of ships.

And the smallest escort detachment in the Federal Navy generally has more than 25 ships.

The 18 ships that have been discovered now are a bit stingy no matter how you look at them.

With this judgment, Ryan Timler's willingness to fight became more determined.

The Timler family is a military noble of the empire. Although its current strength is not that strong, it may still have to retreat when encountering the regular army of the Federation Navy.

But he is not afraid of these private armed forces of the Federation in front of him.

Just do it.

Just as the fleet commander of the Timler family and his own head of the family were guessing the true identity of the opposite ship.

The two commanders of the Mary Bay Industrial and Yaoguang Defense Joint Fleet also reached a consensus.

That is to "kill these imperial dogs".

At present, the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire are at war, and the two sides are hostile.

Coupled with the media's hype, the hostility of the Federation to the Star Dragon Empire has reached its peak.

Some bold private armed forces in the border areas have long begun hunting enemy national ships and lone warships.

And now, this "Imperial Company" registered in the Thousand Star Empire has had minor frictions with them.

Now it is posing as if it wants to fight a big battle with the Joint Fleet.

In this situation, our side still has the advantage in the number of ships. How could the two commanders from Mary Bay Industries and Yaoguang Defense be afraid?

Although humans have just entered the era of beyond-visual-range warfare, the bloodiness of direct confrontation on the battlefield has gradually become a "candy game" on the computer screen.

The front-line troops are often in a state of confusion, destroying enemies who are unknown, or being bombarded by attacks from unknown places.

The commanders in the rear are just looking at the series of casualties and the changing battle lines on the screen to play this game called "war".

But now, at least in the navy and civilian armed forces, the iron blood of the era when humans had not yet left the blue planet and used heavy artillery to bombard each other on the sea has been restored.

The confrontation between heavy metal ion jets and deflection force fields is like the confrontation between several tons of armor-piercing shells and hundreds of millimeters thick main armor belts.

In the confrontation calculated in seconds, the bloodiness deep in the hearts of these crew members was reawakened.

One hour and fifty-eight minutes later, after continuous maneuvers and closing the distance, the two fleets almost simultaneously entered the asteroid rubble belt.

Since there are no large celestial bodies nearby, neither side used the "celestial coordinate method" commonly used near large celestial bodies in the battle in this environment, but confirmed the coordinates by relative position.

If we take the position of the joint fleet as the origin, then the latest reconnaissance intelligence sent back by the reconnaissance boat is combined with the results of multiple scans of the fleet's long-wave radar.

The fleet of the Timler family is at a position where their axial angle is 34 degrees, the normal angle is 25 degrees, and the straight-line distance is 34,000 kilometers.

Generally speaking, at this position, both sides can start some tentative shooting to allow the ship-borne control personality to calculate parameters.

After all, in different cosmic environments, the gravitational field is constantly changing.

Especially in this asteroid belt full of broken stars, it is even more necessary to calculate the best parameters through continuous shooting.

But the bad thing is that these huge asteroids also blocked the main gun beams of both sides.

Often when the commanders of both sides are ready to order to open fire, they find that the other side's ships are suddenly blocked by an asteroid again.

In this torturous atmosphere, the two fleets carefully shuttled through the asteroid belt and shortened the straight-line distance to 12,000 kilometers.

At this time, both sides basically understood each other's fleet configuration.

One side had more destroyers, while the other side had two light cruisers.

Although each side had certain advantages and disadvantages, at this point, the option of "retreating at the last minute" had long been thrown behind the commanders of both sides.

In the north pole of this battlefield, in an asteroid rubble belt with a maximum diameter of only a few kilometers.

A HCP painted in dark gray space camouflage was carefully transferred from the surface of an asteroid to another asteroid.

Unlike other HCPs, the back of its shoulder armor was not equipped with a weapon rack.

Instead, it had two large composite reconnaissance units.

Its head main monitor was also obviously modified, and the overly enlarged volume made the appearance of this HCP look as funny as a big-headed doll.

At this moment, the pilot in the cockpit was nervously operating the composite reconnaissance unit to "overlook" the battlefield about 10,000 kilometers away.

Although the thermostatic device built into the heavy hydraulic anti-gravity suit was running, the forehead of the former Yaoguang Defense pilot was still covered with sweat.

Of course, he was alone in this dangerous position, doing such a dangerous job.

If other people from the Atlas HCP squadron came, they would not be much better than him.

Oh, except for his current boss and HCP squadron commander, that guy is a lunatic.

If he came, he might be laughing in the cockpit right now!

Thinking of the boss who swept the entire squadron in the simulated battle with the "Red Devil", the pilot couldn't help shuddering.

"Damn, if the boss didn't offer a high enough bonus, I wouldn't do this job!"

After adjusting the last parameter, the pilot switched to the operation interface of the communication unit, and then decisively pressed the volume light button representing "information transmission".

"But if the bonus is this much next time, then it's not impossible to do it again."

The detection results of optical, red ultraviolet, long wave and synthetic aperture radar were transmitted to the Ares 60,000 kilometers away through the neutrino communication satellite temporarily deployed in this area.

On the bridge, Randall and others were staring at the screen on the big screen after the synthesis of the shipboard control personality.

When the dead silent asteroid belt suddenly lit up with twinkling lights, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"After waiting for so long, the fight finally started!"