Legends of Galactic Heroes - The Sleeping Dragon

Chapter 28

Battle of Fenris: Part one

16 hours after the meeting aboard the Rio Grande, the other imperial fleets grouped together. They were angry to the fact that they couldn't take the alliancr fleets out piece by piece because they were all grouped together. The Alliance have the overall numbers that they saved and the Imperial fleets had 2.5 times that number of the ships that were fielded. And the only fleet that hasn't showed up was the fleet under Kircheis as he was working on keeping the garrison fleet from Iserlohn at bay.

The organization was such as they were all ready for combat.

For the Imperials the center comprised of the Mecklinger, Reuenthal, Mittermeyer, and Kessler Fleets, the support forces being the Lutz and Wahlen Fleets, the guard force of Reinhard were Bismarck and Baldwin Fleets and the Flanking Fleets were the Kempf Fleet of the left flank of it and the remaining fleets sat on the right flank.

As for the Alliance the center force was comprised of the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th fleets as the 1st Fleet had also had minimal losses. For the support force were the 8th and 12th fleets as long range and firepower were needed to a specific area and had to respond quickly and the flanking forces comprised of the 9th of the right flank which would face Kempf, and the 10th on the other which would face the Black Lancers and the other 3 fleets. Along with the 16th Fleet waiting in reserve to counter fast attacking enemies and were to protect the transport fleet as well. But the 13th Fleet waited in silence into the plan yang had set..

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Fenris Starzone

1st Fleet flagship: Charlemagne.

The large flagship sat as the Admiral Harrow was sleeping with his beret over his face. Suddenly a large klaxxon alarm happens and the entire ship is awake along with the rest of the 1st fleet.

"Admiral! We have incoming enemy ships!" Yelled the sensor operator as the admiral was wide awake.

"When will they arrive?"

"At their current speed: 5 minutes!"

"All right! All ships open gun and missle ports and start firing when the enemy is in effective firing ranges! Kubersly; contact the other fleets!"

Kubersly saluted, "yes, sir, at once sir, inform the other fleets: Enemy fleet incoming!"

5th Fleet Flagship: Rio Grande

"All ships and all fleets, enter into combat!" Yelled Bewcock as the klaxxon alarms are blaring across the large Ajax class ships.

5 minutes later

Bridge of the Rio Grande, 16:08 Heinessenpolis Timezone

"All ships, open fire!"

"Aye, sir! All ships, open fire! Repeat, all ships, open fire!"

The enemy's coming in too strongly, Bucock thought as he studied the screen.

"Keep that front tight, maximum bombardment! I don't want to see any of those Reichflotte units slipping through the main line." Bucock ordered as tens of thousands of energy beams were exchanged on the viewscreen all around him. Impact explosions blossomed here and there on both sides.