The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2351. Battle of the Mararian Alliance (Part )
Reinforcements from both sides were constantly arriving, and in the middle of this hyperspace channel, in the nameless space, the encounter gradually turned into a decisive battle!
Gilad Perrine's judgment was not wrong. The Geth had ambushed nearly 10000 warships in this direction, deployed in several different hyperspace channels. Among them, there were 600 dreadnoughts of 800 to 3000 meters in length. Such a force was extremely powerful.

When they encountered the Imperial fleet, Geth warships from other directions also rushed to reinforce. Some of these warships returned to Anxin Planet and then went to the battlefield to reinforce through the hyperspace channel, while others went the other way and directly broke into the newly surrendered planet of Gler-Anselm.

So on the planet Geller-Anselm, a battle broke out between the Geth battleship Gilad Pellaeon and part of its follow-up fleet that had attacked.

Three battles now broke out simultaneously between the two hyperspace lanes and on the planet Guler-Anselm.

Gilad Pellaeon had made arrangements in advance and had been training regularly, so the imperial fleets in these three directions all changed their formations into the Pellaeon Ring to meet the attack, and the battle entered a white-hot stage.

However, although the geth fleet has an absolute advantage in numbers, this advantage is not particularly large. The geth fleet has 10000 warships, and because the geth warships are generally small in size, only 3000 of them are dreadnoughts.

Gilad Pellaeon's fleet has a total of 800 battleships, half of which are Imperial-class Star Destroyers. In addition, there are more than 2000 small and medium-sized warships, including various types of light cruisers, heavy cruisers, frigates, etc.

Therefore, the actual strength advantage of the Geth fleet is only about 3 to 4 times.

Moreover, the performance of the warships of both sides has actually opened up a huge gap.

The Geth warships have not seen much improvement from the beginning of the Clone Wars to the present. They are still the same types of warships, and there has not been much technological innovation.

During the Clone Wars, the Geth Dreadnought could overwhelm the Venator-class Battlecruiser, but faced with the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, it had no chance of resistance at all.

That's right, the Jaeger-class battlecruiser only has 8 main guns with limited power, and a lot of space is used for the hangar platform, and the protection capability is also very insufficient. But the Imperial-class Star Destroyer has 60 main guns, and another 60 plasma cannons specifically used to attack shields, and the hangar platform is reduced to a quarter of the Jaeger-class, with more space to accommodate the huge L-A2B solar furnace reactor and heavier armor.

From the Jaeger class to the Imperial class, this is a leap. One Imperial class can easily destroy ten Jaeger class ships. Therefore, the Geth dreadnought is no match at all.

But the strength of the Geth army sounded the alarm for Gilad Pellaeon, and he was very nervous. It was not because the Geth fleet was invincible, but because if the Geth could gather heavy troops in this direction, then they might also have such a large fleet in other directions! !
What terrified him even more was that he never knew that the Geth had so many spaceships!
Before this, every time the Geth fleet appeared, it was composed of 300 ships. Each time they attacked, the larger fleets would consist of 3 or 4 fleets, with more than a thousand warships, and the smaller fleets would just fight and run.

This has led to a long-standing misjudgment on the part of the Galactic Empire, which believed that the productivity of the Geth might be limited. They could harass them, but it was almost impossible for them to directly threaten the heartland of the Empire.

But now, the appearance of nearly 10000 warships told Gilad Pellaeon that the Geth really had the ability to kill all the way to the core circle!

Looking at the holographic image of the battlefield where the fierce battle was going on, Admiral Gilad Pellaeon once again felt extremely regretful. He thought that this active attack was definitely a mistake, and it was very likely that he would fall into the trap of the Geth! Now that the situation on the battlefield has begun to stabilize, he began to consider whether to retreat back to the planet Gler-Anselm or continue to attack the planet Anxin...

The two sides fought for 17 hours. On September 9, the Geth fleet left behind more than 19 wreckages and began to retreat. After the Geth fleet retreated, Gilad Pellaeon also began to gather his remaining fleet. In the three battlefields combined, he lost a total of 3000 capital ships and more than 70 small and medium-sized warships, and many of the remaining warships were badly damaged.

But after all, they also caused very heavy losses to the Geth fleet. It can be said that this huge Geth fleet has been crippled and has almost no ability to continue attacking.

Rather than searching for and chasing the small-scale, harassing Geth fleet all over the world, it would be better to solve the problem once and for all in a decisive battle like this.

Gilad Peraeon convened a fleet military meeting to discuss the current battlefield situation.

Compared to his worries, the victory of this encounter made officers at all levels in the fleet feel very optimistic. Almost all officers believed that they should pursue the victory. And one of the combat staff also put forward a reason that was hard to refuse - if they gave up this opportunity, it might be difficult to find another opportunity to fight a decisive battle with a large-scale Geth fleet. At the same time, they also believed that if they continued to attack Anxin Planet, there would probably be no more resistance.

Because now the main force of the Commercial Combined Fleet is attacking the outer ring star region of the North under the leadership of Admiral Mal-Tuk. Under the premise of such a division of forces, if they still have such a large-scale fleet on the planet Anxin, which is enough to threaten their main fleet, then this means that the Kingdom of Dawn has already possessed an absolute advantage in military strength in the northern region, which is simply impossible.

If they had such an absolute advantage, they would definitely not have waited until now.

Gilad Pellaeon was convinced, and at the same time, he also believed that they should not retreat after achieving initial victory. He also believed that the current Galactic Empire, after the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Kira and the complete loss of the Outer Rim Star Region, needed such a reversal both from a strategic and tactical perspective.

He ordered the fleet to temporarily return to the planet Gler-Anselm for rest and replenishment, which would take about three days.

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This decision was understandable, because after this tragic battle, many of his fleet's warships were in poor condition. And to say it was not good, it was not terrible. Basically, they could be restored to their best condition after a day or two of replenishment and repair.

Therefore, Girard Perrine plans to rest before attacking, so that he will have a greater chance of success.

However, he had not yet realized that it was the three days of delay that almost prevented his main fleet from returning to the base on the planet Bilbrin alive! !

At this moment, Admiral Mal-Tuk's fleet is turning back! (End of this chapter)