The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2375: The Empire Strikes Back (I)

The Executor's huge body was very conspicuous even on the battlefield of space. The scene of 5000 heavy turbolaser cannons firing in unison was also extremely spectacular, with dense red beams flashing continuously, pouring out like rain.

Opposite the Executor, the Xuanwu Titan battleship was like a lone boat in the storm, and was on the verge of collapsing in front of the Executor.

It's not just because the 19000-meter-long Basalt Titan battleship is obviously like child's play in the face of the Executor's 9400-meter-long super-huge body, but also because of the difference in firepower between the two sides!
Countless explosions exploded on the battleship. Even though it had a thick main armor belt, even though it was equipped with electric heating armor, and even though it had activated the violent defense mode, allowing countless nanorobots to repair the damaged armor at a speed visible to the naked eye, the Xuanwu Titan battleship was still seriously damaged in the face of the crazy attacks of the Executioner-class.

The wall-like interior of the hull on both sides of the Xuanwu battleship once again emitted a dark red light. As the powerful reactor provided a huge amount of energy, a light green light once again appeared on all the Dawn Kingdom battleships within a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers, including the Xuanwu itself.

Fleet Shield!

The Executor Super Star Destroyer doesn't care about all that. No matter whether you have fleet shield or violent defense, you just open fire at full power. In one word - explosion!

The pale green light covering the Titan battleship Basalt dissipated at an extremely fast speed. Every bright red turbo laser beam fired from the Super Star Destroyer Executor that hit the fleet's shield would neutralize a portion of the shield's energy.

Even the fleet’s shields could not withstand the concentrated bombardment of 5000 turbolaser cannons!
The fleet's shield was broken, and dense explosions fell on the main armor belt of the battleship again. However, with the buffer of the fleet's shield, trillions of nanorobots in violent defense mode have repaired a lot of the broken armor belts, so they can withstand more attacks.

At the same time, five Dunov-class battlecruisers have arrived behind the Titan battleship Xuanwu, also running at full power to provide more energy supply for the Xuanwu, increase reactor output, and directly project shield energy.

There is no doubt that Ling Liang is also doing his best to support the Xuanwu Titan battleship. Because as long as the Xuanwu is still there, the fleet is still there!

Compared to the Titan battleship Basalt which was suppressed by the Super Star Destroyer Executor and was unable to breathe, the situation of other battleships on the battlefield of the Kingdom of Dawn was much better.

The Titan battleship Xuanwu almost spared no effort to continuously activate the fleet shield, which provided very strong protection for the Dawn Kingdom warships arranged in dense formations.

Under the protection of the fleet's shield, 80 Hell's Angels-class battlecruisers have been holding on until now despite the powerful firepower of hundreds of Imperial-class Star Destroyers!

The Hell Angel class battlecruisers were famous for their strong and heavy armor, and were equipped with voltage-type thermal armor, which could minimize the damage to the armor caused by high temperatures. This made the battlecruisers like a wall blocking the way, allowing the frantic Imperial fleet to crash into them without making a breakthrough.

For the Galactic Empire's warships, thanks to the excellent performance of the turbolaser cannon, the voltage-type thermal armor equipped on the Hell Angels-class battlecruisers cannot completely offset the shooting of the turbolaser cannon. After all, the attack of the turbolaser cannon is the explosive gas heated into plasma. In addition to the high temperature, such an attack also has a powerful explosive power, which can attack the Hell Angels-class battlecruisers.

At a distance of 20 light seconds from the battlefield, 40 Disaster-class battlecruisers were also continuously using particle light spears for long-range shooting. They were also the main firepower output of the Kingdom of Dawn fleet.

In addition, on the battlefield, the Fire Cloud series missile attacks of the Martha-class missile heavy cruiser and the hypermatter electromagnetic cannons of the Cole-class battlecruiser can also pose a significant threat to the Imperial-class Star Destroyer.

However, the Imperial fleet was simply too large! By October 10, the number of Imperial-class Star Destroyers participating in the battle on the planet Yago-Dur had increased to 7! This was after a full day of fighting, with more than 550 destroyed and more than 20 severely damaged!
In other words, on the first day of fighting, the Galactic Empire Navy suffered more than 50 casualties!

The Dawn Kingdom's guard fleet also suffered very serious losses, but under the cover of the fleet shields continuously launched by the Titan battleship Xuanwu, most of the warships were only seriously damaged, but rarely sunk.

After a day of fighting, 6 Hell Angels-class battlecruisers were sunk and 42 were severely damaged. Two other battleships were also sunk and 2 were severely damaged. Compared with the heavy losses of the Imperial Fleet, the losses of the Kingdom of Dawn Fleet were negligible.

But Darth Vader's offensive did not stop. Not only that, in the battle so far, he had not deployed any warships other than the Imperial-class Star Destroyers.

He used the powerful Imperial-class Star Destroyer as a huge and crude battle-axe. Even though the technical content was insufficient and the shooting was flawed, the huge body of 1600 meters and the terrifying energy output of the L-A2B solar furnace reactor were enough to offset the Dawn Kingdom's sophisticated and high-end technological advantages!
Darth Vader's plan was very direct - he directly deployed all the Imperial-class Star Destroyers as the vanguard, and after opening up the situation, he gradually deployed Victory II-class Star Destroyers, as well as second-line ships such as various light cruisers and heavy cruisers to expand the results of the victory.

He is not an indecisive wimp like Admiral Michael Unser, such a useless person! On the other side of his soul is Anakin Skywalker! He is a super commander who participated in almost all large-scale military operations of the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars!

Facing the powerful battleships of the Kingdom of Dawn, if one still fights with the mentality of "having both", then the result will be that one will get nothing.

Darth Vader assembled more than 2100 battleships on the planet Fondo! This was his Death Squadron, plus the fleet that attacked the planet Rendili before, plus the defenders of the planet Fondo, a huge force gathered from three aspects.

This fleet is almost the entire mobile fleet of the Galactic Empire!

This time, Darth Vader is determined to launch an attack even if it means destroying the entire mobile fleet!
It was precisely because of the misjudgment of his determination that Operation Zero, which hoped to tie down the Imperial Fleet and form a strategic siege as soon as possible, suffered a heavy blow.

On the afternoon of October 10, the Titan battleship Xuanwu was severely damaged, and General Ling Liang ordered Xuanwu to withdraw from the battle. At the same time, the Super Star Destroyer Executor was also severely damaged and began to retreat. However, at this time, the other warships of the First Task Force of the Kingdom of Dawn suddenly felt a sharp increase in pressure and also began to suffer serious losses.

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As for the Dawn Planet, they began to dispatch as many warships as possible from the surrounding areas to reinforce. Facing Darth Vader's attack, they even looked a little embarrassed.

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At this time, a difficult choice was placed before Admiral Severance Tann.

Should we take a detour to attack multiple planets, or return directly to add the planet Yago-Dur?

The attacking side has many planets, and it is obvious that they are still implementing Operation Zero. Taking advantage of the absence of the main fleet of the Galactic Empire and cooperating with the Death Star artillery, there is a great chance of capturing them.

But the problem is that the planet Yago-Dur can no longer hold on! (End of this chapter)