The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2336: The First Battle of Fangduo (Part )
2337. The First Battle of Fangduo (Part )
boom! boom! ! boom! ! !

The dull sound of bombing continued to ring out, and Octavian Grant, the governor of the 20th Army of the Galactic Empire, looked at the sky with an extremely gloomy face.

The continuous bombing has lasted for three days. During these three days, on average, once every five hours, a nuclear bomb with a huge size and even greater power will arrive as expected and accurately hit the planetary shield of Fangduo.

The continuous bombing of the gigaton equivalent nuclear bombs put enormous pressure on the planetary shield of Fangduo. Octavian Grant has arranged for three industrial enterprises on the planet to continuously produce shield capacitors to meet the needs of the planetary shield.

Now, with every bombing, the planetary shield will incur huge energy losses to neutralize the power of the nuclear bomb.

The shield system is like this. If it is a battleship armor belt, this kind of attack with a wide spread and low power per unit area may not even be a tickle. However, the planetary shield must consume an equal amount or even more energy to neutralize this attack.

This is why 99.999% of the planets in the Milky Way cannot afford the cost of planetary shields. The reason is expensive. Not only is it expensive to buy, but it is even more expensive to use. For some planets with less developed industries, the power generation of the entire planet may be swallowed up by the planetary shield in one round of bombing.

Octavian Grant had just signed an order to transform thirteen factories on the planet to produce more shield capacitors, and also to add more reactor units to more than seventy power stations on the planet. More supplies were also being delivered from the rear of the Galactic Empire.

But even so, it would take at least a month for these things to become real energy and replenish the planetary shield. And now Fangduo Planet's planetary shield does not have a month to waste!
According to calculations, Fangduo's planetary shield can only hold out for two weeks at most under the current intensity of bombing every five hours!
But in the current situation, they absolutely cannot take the initiative to attack. He had forced Gideon Tarkin to take the initiative to attack once before, but Gideon was also worried that his warship would suffer serious damage, so he quickly withdrew after a feint. But even so, this encounter was extremely thrilling, which also verified the military's estimate - to defeat this powerful fleet led by the famous general Severance Tann, more than three times the force must be used.

So according to the advice of Admiral Gideon Tarkin, Octavian Grant also issued an order - strictly prohibiting the war!
Even if the enemy's secret weapons continue to bombard the planetary shield, they will never go into battle, and will never give the Dawn Kingdom's fleet any chance for a fleet decisive battle! Wait for Darth Vader's reinforcements to arrive, and then fight to the death.

But just when the Galactic Empire defenders were terrified, the commander of the Dawn Kingdom fleet, Severance Tann, made another surprising move.

When the main fleets of both sides were facing each other in the air between the two planets Fangduo and Planet No. 3, the optical sensors of the Imperial Fleet suddenly sent back an extremely shocking picture!

On the screen, dozens of Raz-class heavy engineering ships of the Kingdom of Dawn are assembling a very large annular space facility! The diameter of this space facility is about 50 kilometers, and the surrounding annular structure is under intensive construction, and many complex machines are being installed.

The sections that have already been installed have a ferocious, crustacean-like style with dark red and black colors, which makes people feel creepy.

No one needs to explain. The shape alone has already made it clear to everyone - this thing is a star gate! ! Although the Galactic Empire is sure that there is a star gate in the Kingdom of Dawn and has seen photos, this star gate under construction is the first time they have seen it with their own eyes!
There is no doubt that once this star gate is completed, Fangduo Planet will be included in the star gate network of the Kingdom of Dawn. At that time, it may be more convenient for the Kingdom of Dawn to transport various supplies and fleet reinforcements to Fangduo Planet than for the Galactic Empire!

Once the star gate is completed, no one knows where the war situation on Fangduo Planet will go!
Now, Governor Octavian Grant and Admiral Gideon Tarkin are once again faced with a dilemma - the planet Fondo is constantly being attacked by mysterious nuclear bombs, and the planetary shield can only support about two weeks. At the same time, the Separatists are building a stargate, and once it is completed, their logistical support will be endless!
So, should they take the initiative to attack and destroy the Star Gate, and maybe even get some of its debris for research? Or should they continue to shrink in the face of the nuclear bombs and the Star Gate right under their noses?

After a long consideration, Octavian Grant and Gideon Tarkin finally made their choice - Turtle!

The power they have now is not enough to confront the fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn head-on.

About 10 days passed in this confrontation, until August 8rd.

At this moment, battlefields in other parts of the Milky Way also began to fight. In the direction of the planet Mingban, the fleet led by "Barab Butcher" had defeated the small number of defense fleets of the Galactic Empire and began to land on the planet. The land battle had already broken out, and the reinforcement fleet of the Galactic Empire was heading towards the planet Mingban.

In the western part of the Milky Way, the fleet of the reorganized Freedak Volunteer Engineering Corps is fighting fiercely with the fleet of the Galactic Empire near the planet Parmant, and has already gained the upper hand. The defense of Parmant Harbor is about to begin.

At the same time, the rebel forces on the planets in this direction that have rebelled have begun to attack the garrison camps of the Galactic Empire, and the situation is not optimistic.

In the north, Dunn Wessex ordered Admiral Gilad Pellaeon to immediately organize a fleet and prepare to launch a counterattack. More than 800 warships have assembled at Paarin Minor, the capital of the Ninth Army, and have begun to move out, aiming directly at the previously captured capital of the Eighth Army, Ord-Mantell!
In the direction of the Mandalore star region, the Galactic Empire fleet withdrew from the star region after receiving the order from the Supreme Command. When the fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn was about to pursue, their headquarters, Akiva, was suddenly attacked by an unknown fleet, and the fleet commander had to return to support.

At the same time, in the direction of Chiss Territory, after defeating Admiral Chiara's main fleet, Vice Admiral Thrawn became famous in the Galactic Empire's army like a supernova. Dunn-Wessex was ecstatic and sent as many warships as possible to Chiss Territory, hoping that Vice Admiral Thrawn could further expand the victory.

In this chaos, the Galactic Empire was losing ground. They kept retreating in the border areas and gave up a large number of planets. The Imperial fleet was defeated in almost every battle, and their rule in the outer rim of the galaxy was in jeopardy.

The Outer Rim territories, which had been in turmoil since the war between the Galactic Empire and the Trade Federation began, were now truly under a fatal threat. Currently, the Galactic Empire could still control less than half of the Outer Rim!
What is even more fatal is that under such circumstances, even the attitude of Hutt Space has begun to become ambiguous!
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