The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2253: Mandalore Civil War (VII)

Less than three days after capturing the city of Sekbi, the Vizsla government forces were forced to abandon the city and retreat in a panic. During the retreat, they blew up the last water supply equipment in the city and blew up the dust shield controller, making the reconstruction of the city extremely difficult and costly.

It was obvious that they were very reluctant to retreat. After all, in order to occupy the city of Sekbi, they paid a heavy price of nearly 8000 deaths and more than 3 injuries.

But they had to retreat because the army had been completely cut off from supplies.

The Vizsla government army that attacked the city of Sekbi consisted of seven corps with a total strength of more than 7. Such an army would consume a huge amount of supplies for each day of fighting. They originally planned to capture the city within three days, but it actually took more than a week, which meant that the army had long run out of ammunition supplies.

Food is easy to deal with, as it can be replenished directly in the city, but ammunition and water become huge problems.

The cities on Mandalore were generally short of water, and the resolute resistance of Secbi City also caused the Vizsla government troops to quickly finish the water they carried with them. In addition, when the city residents were evacuated, they would rather pour out the water that was inconvenient to take away than leave it for the invaders, which made the water shortage in the army extremely serious.

The city’s water supply facilities were severely damaged in the war. Although they finally occupied the city, in order to allow the soldiers to replenish water as soon as possible, the army had to stay in the city for a long time. Only after all the soldiers were replenished could they proceed with the next combat plan.

  This army's long stay in the city created a huge security risk - because they were short of ammunition!

Super Vizsla did build a huge army of 2 to 300 million people, but he did not have a military-industrial system that could support such a large army. After he built this army, he was like a child admiring his toys, happily watching this unprecedented army and laughing, but he overlooked the most critical thing -

supply!

The supplies consumed by an idle army and an army in combat are completely different! In normal times, this army can only fire a few shots during training, a few shots into the air when suppressing riots, and a few shots into the heads of the main criminals, and that's it. According to the capacity of the high-pressure gas tank in the blaster rifle, it can generally sustain 400 to 700 rounds of shooting. Such a gas tank can be used for at least several months at normal times.

Moreover, Mandalore did not produce explosive gas, and weapons and ammunition had to be imported almost entirely. But the Galactic Empire was too lazy to pay attention to him, and although the Principality of Dawn had Bespin, one of the largest sources of explosive gas, it was even less likely to sell ammunition to him.

Therefore, the army established by Super Vizsla relied on purchases on the black market and the accumulation of weak local production capacity bit by bit. On weekdays, they could maintain basic training and bully civilians. There was no problem with that.

But once they were on the battlefield, a soldier could use up a can of explosive gas for several months, but now he could fire it all in less than 5 minutes! This was also related to the low morale and training of these soldiers, because once they faced the oncoming hail of bullets on the battlefield, their first reaction was to hide behind the bunker and shoot at the opposite side, and they would not let go once they pulled the trigger.

  Therefore, even after Super-Vizla declared war on the people of the entire Mandalore planet, he did not send out all his troops, but only sent out about 80 troops. However, these 80 troops consumed all the supplies he had accumulated for two or three years in just one day!

This is the true face of war!

Super Vizsla's original plan was that after he launched the attack and brutally massacred a group of stubborn people, the frightened civilians would immediately kneel down and surrender, and the war would end in a week at most. But he underestimated the people's determination to resist after being forced into a desperate situation!

Almost everywhere, the Vizsla government forces encountered the most stubborn resistance. Even if the resistance fighters were holding sticks, they would fight to the end with the government forces armed with live ammunition! What's more terrible is that in order to expand the scope of attack and create fear and chaos throughout the planet, Super-Vizsla divided his army into more than a hundred groups and deployed them everywhere.

However, the results of his efforts to gain widespread support did not materialize, and requests for supplies came to him like snowflakes.

The Vizsla government army simply did not have the ability to supply more than a hundred armies all over the world at the same time! As a result, the lack of food and water, ammunition, medicine, and even the inability to treat the wounded became a common problem.

Back to the city of Sekbi, it was a very wrong decision for the more than 9 troops here to stay in a city environment with complex terrain and lurking dangers just to drink water after fighting a hard battle for more than a week and lacking ammunition supplies.

As a result, serious consequences finally occurred.

Jango Fett led his super soldiers to attack the ships and transport convoys carrying supplies to Secbi City, which made the army exhausted. The convoy was attacked and the supplies were destroyed. The morale of the 9-strong army collapsed completely. The commander could no longer effectively command the troops. The entire army retreated uncontrollably and left the city.

This retreat also made the results of the previous week's battle come to naught. People died in vain, money was wasted, and ammunition was wasted.

  The battle in Sikebi City also completely exposed the paper tiger nature of Super Vizsla to everyone on the planet! Those who were originally wavering, wanting to overthrow Super Vizsla's rule on the one hand, but fearing his powerful army on the other, now immediately raised the banner of rebellion without hesitation!

On the other hand, Super Vizsla realized the huge mistake he had made, so he could only make up for it and began to withdraw his troops from all over the place to the cities that were still loyal to him to rest and regroup.

But this is easier said than done. For an army scattered across hundreds of battlefields on the planet to retreat is a huge challenge both tactically and strategically, or in terms of the most realistic transportation capabilities.

The rebels led by Bo-Katan Kryze took this opportunity to launch a counterattack!

In several local battlefields, the rebels launched a counterattack when the Vizsla government army ran out of ammunition and food. The Brick-Arrol-class airspeeders that had been reluctant to use before were finally deployed to the battlefield and began to concentrate on attacking the Vizsla government army's defense line, causing the army to retreat step by step.

  The rebels began to push the front line in one direction gradually towards the capital city of Sundari!

At this moment, there are only 5 days left until the coronation ceremony that Super Vizsla has been clamoring for! (End of this chapter)