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Chapter 2333: The First Battle of Fangduo (I)

2334. The First Battle of Fangduo (I)

While Dunn-Wessex was planning a counterattack, Severance-Tann's long-planned offensive against Fondor, the industrial center of the Galactic Empire and the fortress planet that blocked the Dawn Kingdom's invasion of the inner ring, finally began!
At 8:20 a.m. on August 6, Galactic Standard Time, the Kingdom of Dawn's fleet departed from the planet Yago-Dur and entered a hyperspace jump.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, accompanied by a burst of white light, the Dawn Kingdom fleet left the hyperspace state, arrived at an area 60 light minutes away from the planet Fangduo, and began to reorganize the fleet.

塞弗兰丝-坦恩带来了黎明王国第一、第二特混舰队的几乎全部主力战舰，主力舰总数900艘！后续兵力不断抵达，到8月20日晚上21点，各类辅助战舰和中型、小型战舰的数量也已经达到5000多艘。其中最先进也是最强大的牛头人级重巡洋舰250艘！
The first Fangduo Planet Battle broke out completely!

Fangduo is the second planet in the Fangduo system. The current position of the Kingdom of Dawn fleet is roughly near the orbit of the third planet. Severance Tann deployed her fleet within the gravity well of Planet No. 3 to keep the fleet in the orbit of Planet No. 3.

Based on the current position of the orbits of Planet Fangduo and Planet No. 3, the two planets will be roughly in the same direction of the star in the center of the galaxy in the next two years.

The Dawn Kingdom fleet, which also included 20 Raz-class heavy engineering ships, began to build a spaceport around Planet No. . At the same time, it also sent specialized mining engineering ships to land on the desolate Planet No. to build a planetary mine and some heavy facilities.

It seemed that Severance Tann was determined to fight a protracted war. However, it was a little strange that the facilities she arranged and the location of the fleet were all on the other side of Planet No. 3, which meant that unless she stuck her head out, Planet No. 3 would be between her fleet and Planet Fangduo.

The fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn includes 2 Anchoron-class Titan battleships, 10 Revelation-class battleships, 10 Archon-class aircraft carriers, 20 Sova-class aircraft carriers, 450 Hell's Angels-class battlecruisers, 80 Doomsday-class battlecruisers, 50 Paladin-class battlecruisers, 60 Disaster-class battlecruisers, 100 Cole-class battlecruisers, 50 Dunov-class battlecruisers, and 100 Behemoth-class battlecruisers!
Such a powerful and terrifying fleet was the first to appear since the Fourth Civilization came to this galaxy! And because of the power of this fleet in the battle of Kira Planet, the commander of the Galactic Empire Fleet had no intention of taking the initiative to attack.

Octavian Grant, governor of the 20th Army of the Galactic Empire, personally commanded the battle from the planet Fondo. At the same time, Admiral Gideon Tarkin, the younger brother of Wilhuff Tarkin, governor of the th Army, also served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the battle.

The commander-in-chief is naturally Darth Vader, but the fleet he leads is still repairing and gathering in the center of the empire and has not yet arrived at the planet Fondo.

The fleet currently stationed on the planet Fangduo includes 1300 battleships, including an Executor-class Super Star Destroyer Morak as the flagship, and 1 Commander II-class dreadnoughts. In terms of fleet composition, it is mainly Imperial-class Star Destroyers, with a number of more than 6 ships.

At the same time, Fangduo Planet was already on high alert. The highest level of planetary shield had been activated, and the orbital defense system that covered almost the entire planet was on high alert, including more than 120 sets of V-150 Planet Defender orbital cannons.

In the synchronous orbit outside the planet, there are also a large number of space docks, armed space stations, space ports, and a large number of missile platforms.

Not only that, on Fangduo, a planet that has been completely industrialized, countless factories have been built day and night, sending all kinds of war materials including warships and missiles into outer space.

Within the distance of 5 to 10 light minutes from the planet, there are more than 1200 billion air mines deployed!
In order to meet the huge material needs of Fangduo Planet and the navigation needs of the huge fleet of 3000 battleships that the Imperial Military is planning, Fangduo Planet has begun to build a hyperspace stabilizer.

This hyperspace stabilizer was invented by Kuat Power Dockyard. It was once used to raid the Model Sector. It is an improved version of a device that can stabilize hyperspace lanes. The improved version of the hyperspace stabilizer can already be used for ordinary hyperspace lanes. Its main function is actually very simple, which is to use the built-in navigation system to help the fleet passing through to perform navigation calculations, and at the same time stabilize the hyperspace fluctuations caused by large-scale navigation. In other words, all ships that jump through the hyperspace stabilizer have the effect of increasing the level of the hyperspace engine by about two levels. Hyperspace jumps are faster, farther, and more warships can pass through.

However, compared with Stargate technology, this is just a cheap version of the device, which is already the highest hyperspace technology of the Galactic Empire.

But now it is being used on the planet Fangduo. This hyperspace stabilizer, which is expected to be completed within half a month, will bring an endless supply of reinforcements and supplies to the planet.

The Galactic Empire Military Supreme Command issued a death order to the defenders of the planet Fangduo: defend the planet to the death, not retreat a single step, and completely block the Separatist fleet here!

Once the planet is lost, all officers above the rank of captain, from the Governor Octavius ​​Grant on down, will be executed!!
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At three o'clock in the morning of August 8, 21 Paladin-class battlecruisers and 50 Disaster-class battlecruisers began firing at multiple enemy planets!
The dazzling light of the particle light spear began to shine, and 110 light beams pierced directly into Fangduo Planet and surrounding space facilities.

100 Cole-class battlecruisers also used their 40-meter-caliber hypermatter electromagnetic cannons to bombard the planet. Although the speed of the giant projectiles fired by the hypermatter electromagnetic cannons was almost a snail's pace compared to the particle light spears, it had an unlimited range after all, and could still play a role in bombing planetary defense facilities.

The bombardment of particle light spears and hypermatter electromagnetic cannons set off waves of violent explosions on the space facilities around the planet Fangduo! Occasionally, attacks that landed on the planetary shield would also cause a ripple of energy.

However, this level of attack could not shake the defense of Fangduo Planet. Almost at the same time as the bombing began, countless densely packed engineering ships took off to repair damaged parts, replace overloaded shield capacitors, and weld cracked main armor belts.

Everything is so orderly.

In the face of Fangduo Planet's huge and almost unlimited industrial production capacity, their defensive power will only grow stronger!

The bombing continued without causing any harm. However, at about 15: that afternoon, something strange happened!

The hyperspace sensor of the Imperial Fleet's flagship, the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer Morak, suddenly sounded an alarm, and less than a minute later, an armed space station outside the planet Fangduo suddenly exploded! !
The explosion was so violent that it destroyed the large space station, which was over 10000 meters long, in an instant! The fireball produced by the explosion was nearly 20000 meters in diameter! The power of the explosion even affected several other space facilities nearby! There was also an Imperial-class Star Destroyer nearby, which was directly blown away in the explosion. The deflector shield was directly shattered, and the warship kept spinning and flying for more than 3000 kilometers before it barely stopped!
The horrific explosion left everyone, including the Moff Octavian Grant and Deputy Commander Gideon Tarkin, stunned.

What the hell is this? What happened? How did it happen?
No one could answer them. There were only countless burning fragments and debris flying around the area where the explosion had just occurred.

Such a huge space station just disappeared like that?