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Chapter 2351: The Final Battle on Anxin Planet (Part )

2352. The Final Battle on Planet Anxin (Part )
Admiral Gilad Perrine had also received the news that Admiral Mal-Tuk had returned with the Commercial Fleet.

After conquering Agamar, Admiral Mal-Tuk immediately led his troops back to Mygeeto to rest and recuperate, apparently preparing to reinforce Anxin.

Anxin Planet is the core and gateway of the entire Mararian Alliance. From the galactic star map, the main hyperspace channel of the star region where the Mararian Alliance is located is roughly in the shape of a cross, and Anxin Planet is the center of this cross. The planets of Gler-Anselm and Dolin, which are currently occupied by the Galactic Empire Fleet, are the section below this cross.

Therefore, it is not difficult to see that after occupying the planet Dolin, the Geth vigorously built factories on the planet Dolin. It seems that they intend to build this planet into a fortress planet to protect the planets Gler-Anselm and Anxin.

In fact, the Malarian Union has now formed an independent special economic zone with Anxin Planet as its core. This special economic zone has grown and developed with trade with the unknown star region Chiss Territory as its main source of income. So although the Malarian Union is relatively underdeveloped in industry, it is also a very important star region in the northern border of the Kingdom of Dawn's control area.

So it is not difficult to guess that Mal-Tuk would lead his army back.

But Admiral Gilad Perrine has made up his mind to capture Anxin Planet! As mentioned before, Anxin Planet is located in the center of the cross-shaped hyperspace channel. Even if he does not continue to go deep into the Mararian Alliance, he can get huge strategic benefits by capturing Anxin Planet.

Conquering Anxin Planet and stationing the Imperial Fleet there would be equivalent to controlling the entire Mararian Alliance and destroying the core of the Alliance, which would directly destroy the Alliance. Afterwards, the troops stationed on Anxin Planet could attack or defend, and could also block the passage to the unknown star region.

Such an important planet must not be let go.

Admiral Gilad Pellaeon believed that the troops he had were sufficient to capture the planet Anxin. He currently had 700 capital ships, including 300 Imperial-class Star Destroyers and two Commander II-class dreadnoughts. His military force was extremely powerful.

On the other hand, the Geth fleet had just suffered a severe blow. The huge fleet consisting of 10000 warships suffered heavy losses in the head-on battle with the Imperial fleet, and the remaining warships could hardly form combat effectiveness.

If we take advantage of the victory to attack Anxin Planet at this moment, we will probably be successful.

The only thing to worry about now is the commercial fleet led by Admiral Mal-Tuk.

Gilad Pellaeon had also heard of this general who was the only capable fighter among the Neimoidians, who were full of wimps. He participated in the entire Clone Wars, and was entrusted with important tasks by Tang Xiao when he was still unknown at the beginning. In the subsequent wars, he did not disappoint Tang Xiao's trust, participated in many battles, and achieved remarkable results.

Although he was not as dazzling as the super generals such as Severance Tann and Ling Liang, he was able to complete his tasks excellently every time and rarely made mistakes. The saying "a good warrior has no great achievements" is used to describe generals like him.

In fact, such a general is the most troublesome on the battlefield. Because you can hardly expect him to make any mistakes. He will always follow the plan and fight steadily, not giving you any loopholes. Even if you can defeat him, the price you pay will definitely be high.

On the contrary, when confronting those self-proclaimed genius generals and facing their so-called genius tactics, in fact, to put it bluntly, most of them are just gambles. Winning is glorious, but losing will also be a particularly miserable fall. Facing such an enemy, Gilad Perrine actually likes it, because he himself is a very stable type.

At the same time, the battle of the planet Kira also sounded a wake-up call to every officer of the Galactic Empire Navy - their warships may have really opened up a generation gap between them and the Kingdom of Dawn in terms of combat capability and technical content!
In other words, unless one has an absolute advantage, one should avoid a head-on battle with the Kingdom of Dawn's main fleet as much as possible. This has become a consensus among officers at all levels of the Imperial Navy.

At the same time, it can be found that the naval officers of the Kingdom of Dawn also think so. The evidence is that they rarely divide their troops now, and they gather their fleets together and constantly seek opportunities for fleet decisive battles.

Gilad Pellaeon decided to create a time difference. He knew that Mal-Tuk was currently on the planet Agamar. To get from there to the planet Anxin through the hyperspace channel, he would need to go around a big circle. A large-scale fleet would need at least 7 to 8 days.

This is because the commercial joint fleet only has more than 200 battleships, and the rest are more than 5000 small and medium-sized warships. During long-distance raids, the small and medium-sized warships cannot travel as far as large warships in a single jump because their hyperspace engines are not high enough, so they need more jumps.

In fact, this is a point that Kuat Power Dockyard repeatedly mentioned when promoting their Imperial-class Star Destroyers. That is, the Imperial-class can meet the needs of combat in various situations, so most of the time, a formation of Imperial-class Star Destroyers is enough to solve all problems. In this way, a formation of pure Imperial-class Star Destroyers is also very maneuverable.

At least on this point, Kuat Power Dockyard did not lie.

Then, Gilad Perrine also considered the issue of the stargate. He judged that the Northern Business Alliance, that is, the Interstellar Banking Association, the Trade Union, and the Fourth Group, might have also built a stargate.

There is almost certainly a stargate on their home planet, Mygeeto. But in terms of the current controlled area and strategic importance, apart from Mygeeto, the only planet that has the time to build a stargate and is strategically important enough is Ord-Mantell, the former capital of the Eighth Army.

However, the industry of Ord-Mantell was not developed. Previously, it was mainly engaged in tourism, black finance and casino business. It was built as a military base after the Galactic Republic used it as the capital of the Eighth Army. Therefore, it is often called Mantell Military Station.

Therefore, even if they want to build a stargate there, it is very difficult. The Kingdom of Dawn has not yet demonstrated the ability to build a stargate wherever it goes. Of course, if it does, the Galactic Empire will just surrender.

Therefore, Gilad Perrine judged that even if Admiral Mal-Tuk could travel the fastest, he would need to first return to Mygeeto from Agamar, then use the stargate to quickly move from Mygeeto to Odd-Mantell, and finally head towards Anxin from Odd-Mantell. This process would take about four days.

So, he started from Od-Mantell and went to Vortex and Vicondor between Dolin to set up defenses. He deployed a large number of hyperspace blockers and air mines to slow down the advance of the Mal-Tuk fleet. He judged that this would offset the mobility advantage of the stargate from Mygeeto to Od-Mantell. It would take Mal-Tuk seven days to come to reinforce Anxin.

Then, he only needs to capture the Anxin planet within seven days!
Now the Geth fleet has suffered heavy damage, seven days is definitely enough!

On September 9, Gilad Pellaeon led his fleet out again. This time, because he had dealt a heavy blow to the Geth fleet, he was more confident. He directly divided his fleet into eight formations according to the conditions of the hyperspace channel, and set out from the eight branch channels leading to the planet Anxin at the same time!
In this way, even if a hyperspace blocker is set up on the Anxin planet, he can still make his main fleet reach the target within one day!
On September 9, the first batch of 24 battleships and 500 small and medium-sized warships of the Imperial Fleet arrived at Anxin Planet. As expected, Anxin Planet had already activated its planetary shield, and the Mararian Alliance's defense fleet was also on standby.

Not only that, the Geth fleet also has as many as 4000 ships here.

Now that the relationship between the Geth and the Kingdom of Dawn is known, they simply stopped pretending! Anyway, the Geth still controlled the electromagnetic environment of the battlefield as always, and the battlefield situation here could not be transmitted back to the Empire in the first place. So next, as long as all the Imperial warships were destroyed, no one would know that the Kingdom of Dawn was colluding with the Geth!

Girard Perrine did not waste a minute and immediately commanded his fleet to attack the planet Anxin, and the battle broke out instantly!
The Mararian Alliance's defense fleet gathered more than 50 battleships here, most of which were second-tier battleships eliminated by the Kingdom of Dawn, and 1000 small and medium-sized battleships. These small and medium-sized battleships were varied, some were eliminated by the Kingdom of Dawn, some were bought on the black market, and some were bought from the remnant fleet of the Confederation of Independent Systems!
Not only that, an Argonev-class interstellar base has been deployed above the north and south poles of the planet Anxing.

The defense fleet relied on interstellar bases, fixed defense facilities and planetary shields to engage in a head-on battle with the Imperial fleet. The battle situation instantly became extremely tragic.

As an autonomous region, the soldiers of the Mararian Alliance were extremely motivated to fight. For them, this battle was about defending their country. None of their warships retreated, but just fired crazily.

The defense fleet was well organized, and damaged warships immediately retreated to the protection of the planetary shield or hid behind the Argonev-class interstellar base for emergency repairs. If the damage was serious, they were directly pulled back into the planet's atmosphere and repaired in the dock there.

However, most of the time, facing the powerful firepower of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, any warship that can get a chance to repair is considered to have won the first prize.

I only saw a Revenge-class destroyer maneuvering along the edge of the planetary shield while waiting for an opportunity to fire with the powerful pulse laser cannon in front of it. This type of destroyer is the first regular warship built by the Fourth Civilization. It is 108.7 meters long and its main gun is very powerful, which is also its only advantage.

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Therefore, the Vengeance class has long been eliminated.

The shooting of this Revenge-class destroyer hit an Imperial-class Star Destroyer about 50000 kilometers away very accurately, but this time the main gun shot only caused a tiny ripple on the deflector shield of the Star Destroyer, and then there was no response.

At the same time, a piercing alarm sounded on the bridge of the Revenge-class destroyer! It was locked by the fire control radar!

The battleship captain quickly gave the order to evade and at the same time notified the planetary command to temporarily lower the planetary shield in his area so that his battleship could pass through and use the planetary shield to resist the attack.

But it was too late!
All I saw was several consecutive red turbolaser beams shooting at me instantly, hitting the Revenge-class ship's hull almost instantly!

Of these several turbolaser beams, the first one hit the turret deflected by the electronic interference of the Geth, and the second one fired by another turret hit directly. This single turbolaser beam blew the entire Revengeance-class destroyer into pieces!
These small warships are so desperate when facing the Imperial-class Star Destroyers!

At this moment, the Geth warships also rushed forward bravely. 4000 warships were the ones that survived the previous blocking battle and were in relatively good condition.

In order to stop the advance of the Imperial fleet, the Geth really fought with all their might in that battle, without holding back at all.

This time, the Geth also showed their own characteristics, and continued to advance despite the powerful firepower of the Imperial warships! The Geth warships were very flexible. They immediately spread out in all directions at the beginning of the battle, and then outflanked the Imperial fleet from all directions.

Now the Imperial fleet was not arranged in the Pellaeon Ring, but in an attack formation, which meant that all the warships were heading towards the Anxin Planet with their bows pointed at them. In this way, the fragile tail of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer was left unprotected!

The goal of the Geth warship was very clear. It was to bypass the flank and rear of the Imperial fleet at all costs and launch an attack from the weak point of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer.

Admiral Gilad Perrine's response was also very simple - forward, forward, and forward again! Until the planetary shield of Anxin was destroyed, the landing was launched, and the planet was completely occupied!
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The battle had been going on for four hours and the situation was still extremely tense. Although the Imperial Fleet was fighting desperately, it was still unable to break through the defense of the defense fleet and launch an orbital bombardment of the planetary shield.

However, Admiral Gilad Perrine has already been certain of his victory!
Because the rate of loss of warships on the defense fleet side is much greater than that of the imperial fleet! In other words, as time goes by, the losses of both sides increase, and the gap between the two sides will snowball!
Gilad Perrine connected to the public channel and started to persuade Anxin Planet to surrender, […You have already been defeated, there is no possibility of winning! Stop resisting and surrender immediately, and strive for leniency! Otherwise, we will respond to your stubborn resistance with orbital bombardment! ]

The answer from Anxin Planet was just one word - [Get lost!]

Gilad Perrine didn't know where their confidence came from, but he ordered the attack to continue and teach Anxin Planet a lesson.

However, when the battle lasted another day and the defense fleet of Anxin Planet had suffered heavy losses and was almost unable to fight again, on the bridge of Admiral Gilad Perrine's flagship, a shrill alarm suddenly came from the radar sensor department!
The radar officer stumbled over and shouted, "General! This is bad! A large-scale hyperspace jump wave has been detected!!!"