The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2319 Next Target

2320, the next goal

The fleet stationed on the planet Kira was completely wiped out! The second ship of the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, the Lusankaya, was sunk! The planetary shield of the planet Kira was breached!
The series of news was like a heavy hammer, which directly stunned the Galactic Empire’s military.

Countless imperial military scientists have deduced countless possibilities for this war, but none of them could foresee such a disastrous defeat as the current one!
A complete fiasco!
Since the Galactic Republic, there have been countless battles of varying sizes between the Galactic Republic and the Principality of Dawn, but none of them was as disastrous as this one, with no chance of fighting back! In the past, even if they were defeated, the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire could still inflict equally heavy damage to the Principality of Dawn with their own powerful national strength.

Even if it means killing one thousand enemies and losing five thousand of their own, they can afford the loss.

That is why the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire were able to use their national strength to suppress the Principality of Dawn, forcing them to live in a corner, blocking the planets Yago-Dur and Eriadu, and preventing them from making any progress.

However, the battle that took place on the planet Kira this time completely destroyed the Galactic Empire's long-held confidence!
Because in this battle, the Principality of Dawn proved that they could reduce the loss ratio to 1:100 even with a similar number of warships! Even the Galactic Empire could not afford such an exchange ratio!
The gap between the two sides in terms of technology, tactics and strategy has even largely surpassed the gap in national strength and size.

The battle of the planet Kira made all the top military officials of the empire realize very deeply that defeat has become an option that must be taken into consideration.

In order to respond as quickly as possible, Emperor Palpatine personally ordered Darth Vader, who was attacking the planet Rendili, to quickly lead his troops back to the center of the empire for repairs, and immediately set about forming a more powerful mobile fleet to intercept the extremely powerful fleet of the Principality of Dawn.

According to the Imperial military's estimate, this fleet would need at least 3000 capital ships and at least four Executor-class Super Star Destroyers to have a chance of victory. However, a fleet of this size has exceeded the carrying capacity of any hyperspace channel in the Milky Way and cannot be assembled directly at once.

Therefore, the Imperial military's plan is to choose a battlefield and deal with the fleet of the Principality of Dawn in a defensive posture.

Therefore, at this time, the movements of the main fleet of the Principality of Dawn are very critical.

Based on the fact that the Principality of Dawn can quickly maneuver through the stargate, and the intelligence department's experience of the battle on the planet Kira, they have determined that there is a stargate link between the planets Eriadu and Yago-Dur. Then a very realistic situation is that another fortress planet of the Galactic Empire, the planet Fondo, is likely to face the threat of the Principality of Dawn.

However, Fangduo Planet is not as powerful as Kira Planet. Fangduo Planet itself is one of the largest industrial centers in the Galactic Empire and has a very large industrial capacity. Therefore, the defense power of Fangduo Planet is more than a hundred times that of Kira Planet!
If a battle breaks out on the planet Fangduo, then perhaps this will be the best opportunity for the Galactic Empire to inflict heavy damage on the Principality of Dawn's fleet.

But the most feared thing now is that the Principality of Dawn will not attack Fangduo Planet, but attack other places instead. And after the fall of Kira Planet, the Principality of Dawn has opened up the Hydia Channel. Through this channel, they can directly expand their sphere of influence to the area close to the inner ring of the Milky Way!

While the military was busy formulating a battle plan and searching for available warships, Emperor Palpatine also personally issued an order to the planet Kira: the surface of the planet must be completely defended, and Kira must be used as a solid fortress to hold back the Principality of Dawn!

At the same time, the Galactic Empire military will do its best to ensure the supply of materials to the planet Kira and support the ground forces to put up the most resolute resistance to the invading forces of the Principality of Dawn.

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At this moment, Severance Tann was discussing the next battle plan with Ling Liang.

In fact, it is better to say that it is a one-sided arrangement and deployment of Severance Tann than a discussion. She is now invincible in the Milky Way and is the undisputed number one general in the Milky Way. She can even be said to be an invincible general! This makes her, who is already arrogant and proud, even more arrogant.

Naturally, she couldn't take Ling Liang seriously.

Severance Tann let Ling Liang continue to command the ground landing operations on the Kira planet for a very good reason - Ling Liang was the governor of the Seswena star region, and her military position was also the Army General, not the Navy. So as an army officer, commanding the landing operations was no problem.

As for Severance Tann herself, she was planning a crazy battle plan, and this plan was exactly what the Galactic Empire’s military was most worried about - the planet Fondor!
Fangduo Planet is a planet that is completely factory-like. Yes, it is factory-like. In other words, the entire planet is a huge factory. On the surface of the planet, there are cooling towers, manufacturing centers, loading and unloading platforms, underground mining platforms, steam tunnels, and power stations everywhere. There is no green on the entire planet, only hot metal.

This is one of the most important industrial planets in the Galactic Empire, and it is also one of the only two planets that can produce Executor-class Super Star Destroyers. The other planet is Kuat.

Although Fangduo Planet did not build an industrial star ring like Kuat Planet, the densely packed space docks, spaceports, and armed space stations still formed an iron wall around Fangduo Planet.

Moreover, the population of Fangduo planet itself is not large, only about 50 billion, but the planet has tens of billions of engineering robots to maintain the operation of countless factories.

It can be said that once Fangduo Planet is captured, the industrial capacity of the Galactic Empire will directly drop by one tenth! This is no exaggeration! And because many parts produced here are cut off, before reorganizing production, the industrial capacity of the Galactic Empire may drop by as much as a quarter!

However, the difficulty of conquering this place is incomparable to that of the planet Kira.

For example, the tactic of long-range bombing with particle light spears is not a concern for Fangduo Planet. After all, particle light spears are only used to deal with the firepower of warships. This firepower is not enough to bombard planetary shields and fixed interstellar facilities. With Fangduo Planet's production capacity, it may not be able to attack faster than they can repair.

At the same time, once Fangduo Planet is attacked, the warships produced on the planet will no longer be supplied to other places, and will be used exclusively for defense. Then the planet will have a steady supply of warships, and even if the battle spreads to the ground of the planet, the ground forces will face the production of hundreds of thousands of combat robots every day!

The self-sustaining ability of a fleet is certainly more than enough to fight against those planets with insufficient industrialization, but if compared with a completely industrialized planet like Fangduo, it is completely insufficient.

But Severance Tann was not afraid at all. She left a small number of warships to Ling Liang to maintain the blockade of Kira Planet, and led the main fleet back to Dawn Planet. Her fleet will rest on Dawn Planet for three days, and then will directly attack Fangduo Planet!
...At the same time, under the command of General Ling, the Principality of Dawn officially launched its ground landing operation on the planet Kira!

According to Operation Zero, the best place to occupy the planet is Kira, because there are a large number of factories and docks on the planet, which can serve as a very important forward supply base.

Because in the Sethvenna sector, the planet Eriadu is just a fortress planet, and its industrial capacity is not high. And the other industrial center of the Sethvenna sector, the Sullust Triangle Industrial Zone, is still too far away from the front line compared to the planet Kira.

If we can occupy the planet Kira relatively completely, then logistical supplies will be very convenient in subsequent military operations, and the success rate of Operation Zero will be greater.

Of course, Ling Liang was fully prepared to quickly defeat the defenders of the Galactic Empire in the landing operation.

At 8:8 on the evening of August 22, Galactic Standard Time, three Whale-class passenger ships arrived in the outer space of the planet Kira and joined Ling Liang's First Task Force.

These three Giant Whale-class passenger ships are all black and appear to have undergone some modifications, so they should not be used to transport immigrants.

What is even more disturbing is that all of these spacecraft have a huge red and white umbrella-shaped logo spray-painted on them.

Umbrella Pharmaceutical Group!

Two hours later, Ling Liang gave an order and the landing operation officially began!
20 Cole-class battlecruisers and 40 Victory II-class star destroyers began to descend in altitude. The Victory II-class star destroyers were on alert in the surroundings, and the Cole-class battlecruisers launched hundreds of super-large-yield nuclear bombs at the surface of the planet.

The ground anti-aircraft firepower of the planet Kira was firing almost crazily, but Ling Liang's fleet was also attacking the ground with turbolaser cannons while launching nuclear bombs.

For a moment, the bombed area on the planet's surface was ablaze with flames, and the terrible explosions and flames stretched over an area of ​​hundreds of kilometers!

Then, five Kosov-class battlecruisers began to descend. These ugly warships, which looked like coal carriers, were equipped with a large number of airdrop capsules. After reaching the appropriate altitude, these airdrop capsules were launched towards the ground one after another.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Thousands of airdrop pods crashed to the ground. As they landed, the micro-bombs inside the airdrop pods exploded. The airdrop pods instantly disintegrated and more than a dozen screaming Inchoris rushed out from inside!
This is the Injori Avenger 103!
These are all Incholi people produced through cloning technology, and through the transformation of the T virus, they have become the most terrifying biological weapons. This is also one of the most powerful land combat units of the Principality of Dawn. The 103 type is the third improved model of the Incholi Avenger. This type of Incholi Avenger has a greatly improved IQ and can use various firearms freely. It no longer needs to carry a B-1 combat robot on its back as a long-range fire support.

After landing, the roaring Injori Avengers began to rush towards the predetermined target, and any moving target along the way would be torn into pieces by them!
The Injori Avengers were used as the vanguard of the landing operation by orbital airdrop, which was actually the basic operation of the Dawn Principality Army. However, this time, strange things began to happen.

The Principality of Dawn did not deploy APOD-33 transport aircraft and Pelican transport aircraft to send regular ground forces to the surface of the planet to cooperate with the Inchori Avengers as before. They simply lowered the three strange Whale-class passenger ships and entered the planet's atmosphere under the escort of several Victory II-class Star Destroyers.

This extremely fragile passenger spaceship soon became the priority target of ground anti-aircraft firepower. The slow and fragile passenger spaceship soon exploded violently under the concentrated attack of countless anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missiles, and then disintegrated and fell.

The Victory II-class Star Destroyers that were acting as escorts did not seem to have time to be sad about the crash of these spaceships. They symbolically fired at the ground, completely destroying several anti-aircraft fire points that had just been exposed, then increased their altitude and returned to outer space outside the planet.

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At this moment, in a ground orbital defense system base on the surface of the planet Kira, the defenders of the position were repairing the orbital defense cannon they were stationed at.

This is an extremely huge super cannon, the V-150 Planet Defender Orbital Cannon.

The main body of the cannon is a sphere with a diameter of more than 20 meters, and in the center of the sphere is a set of huge barrels 18 meters long. This super cannon fires extremely powerful particle beams, but because it has to pass through the atmosphere, the maximum range is only 20 to kilometers. But even so, this range is enough, and it is a deadly threat to warships in outer space.

But the disadvantage is that the firing window of this orbital defense cannon is very short. Once it rotates to the other side with the rotation of the planet, it will not be able to hit the target. At the same time, this cannon is also very expensive and requires a series of power supply systems and defense facilities. Ordinary planets generally do not spend the price of a cruiser to install such equipment that can only provide limited protection.

However, the planet Kira is different after all. There are more than 40 sets of these V-150 Planet Defender Orbital Cannons installed on this planet.

The V-150 cannon on this position was bombed by the Dawn Principality fighter formation in the previous battle. More than a dozen ghost fighters fired ground-to-ground missiles at the cannon, breaking the cannon's deflector shield and damaging the cannon's cooling system. Now the engineers are urgently repairing it.

However, for these defenders, this also means that they will have a rare rest time. After all, the stealth fighters of the Principality of Dawn should not be interested in patronizing this cannon that has already failed to fire.

In addition to the patrolling soldiers, many defenders came out of the underground fortifications, breathed in the fresh air outside, pointed at the flames flickering in the sky from time to time, and talked about the war happening in the distance.

Most of these soldiers were ordinary conscripts. They were not equipped with the Galactic Empire's iconic white polymer alloy armor, but gray army uniforms.

They were already numb to this war. They didn't know what was happening in the center of the empire. They only knew that they had to do their duty until the day when the planet's capital was captured, and then they would raise their hands and surrender to end it all.

Several soldiers were chatting, and one of them suddenly felt something bite him on the back of his neck. He slapped it and it seemed to be a mosquito. He wiped his hands on the rocks nearby and continued to chat with his comrades.