The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2320, Next Target

The fleet stationed on the planet Kira was completely wiped out! The second ship of the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, the Lusankaya, was sunk! The planetary shield of the planet Kira was breached!

A series of news was almost like a heavy hammer, directly knocking the Galactic Empire military stunned.

Countless imperial military scientists have deduced countless possibilities for this war, but none of them could foresee such a disastrous defeat as now!

A complete and utter defeat!

Since the period of the Galactic Republic, there have been countless large and small battles between the Galactic Republic and the Principality of Dawn, but none of them was like this, a disastrous defeat without any ability to fight back! In the past, even if they failed, the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire could rely on their strong national strength to cause the same heavy damage to the Principality of Dawn.

Even if they killed 1,000 enemies and lost 5,000 of their own, they could afford the loss.

Therefore, the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire could suppress the Principality of Dawn with their national strength advantage, forcing them to live in peace in a corner, blocking the planets of Yago-Dur and Eriadu, and not making any progress.

However, the battle on the planet Kira this time completely destroyed the confidence that the Galactic Empire had maintained for a long time!

Because the Principality of Dawn proved in this battle that they could reduce the battle loss ratio to one to one hundred with the same number of warships! Such an exchange ratio is absolutely unbearable even for the Galactic Empire!

The gap between the two sides in terms of technology, tactics and strategy has even largely surpassed the gap between national strength and size.

The battle on the planet Kira made all the top military officials of the Empire realize very deeply that defeat has become an option that must be considered.

In order to respond as soon as possible, Emperor Palpatine personally ordered Darth Vader, who was attacking the planet Rendili, to quickly lead his troops back to the center of the Empire for repairs, and immediately set about forming a more powerful mobile fleet to intercept the extremely powerful fleet of the Principality of Dawn.

According to the Imperial military's estimate, this fleet needs at least 3,000 battleships and at least 4 Executor-class Super Star Destroyers to have the possibility of victory. But such a fleet has exceeded the carrying capacity of any hyperspace channel in the Milky Way and cannot be assembled directly at one time.

Therefore, the plan of the Imperial military is to choose a battlefield to deal with the fleet of the Principality of Dawn in a defensive combat posture.

Therefore, at this time, the movement of the main fleet of the Principality of Dawn is very critical.

According to the fact that the Principality of Dawn can quickly maneuver through the star gate, and the intelligence department has determined that there is a star gate link between the planets Eriadu and Yago-Duer based on the process of the battle of the planet Kira. Then a very realistic situation is that another fortress planet of the Galactic Empire, Fangduo, is likely to face the threat of the Principality of Dawn.

However, Fangduo is not as powerful as Kira. Fangduo itself is one of the largest industrial centers of the Galactic Empire and has a very large industrial capacity. Therefore, the defensive power of Fangduo is more than a hundred times that of Kira!

If the battle breaks out on Fangduo, then perhaps this will be the best opportunity for the Galactic Empire to severely damage the fleet of the Principality of Dawn.

But now the most feared thing is that the Principality of Dawn will not attack Fangduo, but attack other places instead. And after the fall of Kira, the Principality of Dawn has opened up the Hydia Channel. Through this channel, they can expand their sphere of influence directly to the area close to the inner ring of the Milky Way!

While the military was busy formulating combat plans and scavenging for available warships, Emperor Palpatine also personally issued an order to Kira: the surface of the planet must be completely defended, and Kira must be used as a solid fortress to hold the Principality of Dawn back!

At the same time, the military of the Galactic Empire will also try its best to ensure the supply of materials to Kira, and support the ground forces to resist the invasion of the Principality of Dawn with the most resolute resistance.

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At this time, Severance-Tan was also discussing the next combat plan with Ling Liang.

In fact, it is better to say that it is a unilateral arrangement and deployment of Severance-Tan. She is now invincible in the Milky Way. She is the well-deserved first general in the Milky Way, and can even be said to be an invincible general! This makes her, who was already arrogant and arrogant, even more arrogant.

Naturally, she couldn't take Ling Liang seriously.

Severance Tann let Ling Liang continue to command the ground landing operations on the Kira planet for a very good reason - Ling Liang was the governor of the Seswena star region, and her military position was also the Army General, not the Navy. So as an army, commanding the landing operations, this is no problem.

As for Severance Tann herself, she was planning a crazy combat plan, and this plan was exactly what the Galactic Empire military was most worried about - Fondor!

Fondor is a planet that is completely factory-based. Yes, it is factory-based. In other words, the entire planet is completely a huge factory. On the ground of the planet, there are cooling towers, manufacturing centers, loading and unloading platforms, underground mining platforms, steam tunnels, and power stations everywhere. There is no green on the entire planet, only hot metal.

This is one of the most important industrial planets in the Galactic Empire, and it is also one of the only two planets that can produce Executor-class super star destroyers. The other planet is Kuat.

Although Fangduo did not build an industrial star ring like Kuat, the dense space docks, spaceports, and armed space stations still formed an iron wall around Fangduo.

And Fangduo itself has a small population of only about 5 billion, but the planet has tens of billions of engineering robots to maintain the operation of these countless factories.

It can be said that once Fangduo is captured, the industrial capacity of the Galactic Empire will directly drop by one-tenth! This is no exaggeration! And because of the supply cuts of many parts produced here, the industrial capacity of the Galactic Empire may drop by as much as a quarter before reorganizing production!

But if you want to capture this place, the difficulty is completely incomparable to that of Kira.

For example, the tactic of long-range bombing with particle light spears is completely unnecessary for Fangduo. After all, particle light spears are only firepower to deal with warships. They are not enough to bombard planetary shields and fixed interstellar facilities. With the production capacity of Fangduo Planet, they may not be able to attack faster than they can repair.

At the same time, once Fangduo Planet is attacked, the warships produced by the planet will no longer be supplied to other places, and will be used exclusively for defense. Then this planet will have a steady supply of warships. Even if the battle spreads to the ground of the planet, the ground forces will face the production of hundreds of thousands of combat robots every day!

With the self-sustaining ability of a fleet, it is certainly more than enough to fight against those planets with insufficient industrialization, but if compared with a completely industrialized planet like Fangduo Planet, it is completely insufficient.

But Severance-Tann did not have any fear at all. After leaving a small number of warships to Ling Liang to maintain the blockade of Kira Planet, she led the main fleet back to Dawn Planet. Her fleet will be repaired on Dawn Planet for three days, and then will directly attack Fangduo Planet!

…    At the same time, under the command of General Ling, the Dawn Principality officially launched the ground landing operation on the planet Kira!

According to the Zero Operation Plan, the planet Kira is best to be occupied directly. Because there are a large number of factories and docks on this planet, which can be used as a very important forward supply base.

Because in the Sesvenna star region, the planet Eriadu is only a fortress planet, and its industrial capacity is actually not high. The industrial center of the other Sesvenna star region, the Saluste Triangle Industrial Zone, is still too far away from the front line compared to the planet Kira.

If the planet Kira can be occupied relatively completely, then in the subsequent military operations, the logistics supply will be very convenient, and the success rate of the Zero Operation Plan will be greater.

Of course, Ling Liang is still fully prepared to be able to quickly defeat the defenders of the Galactic Empire in the landing operation.

At 22:00 on the evening of August 8, the Galactic Standard Time, three whale-class passenger ships flew to the outer space of the planet Kira and joined Ling Liang's first task force.

The three giant whale-class passenger ships were all black and seemed to have undergone some modifications. They were not used to transport immigrants.

What was even more disturbing was that a huge red and white umbrella logo was sprayed on all of these ships.

Umbrella Pharmaceutical Group!

Two hours later, Ling Liang gave an order and the landing operation officially began!

20 Cole-class battlecruisers and 40 Victory II-class star destroyers began to descend. The Victory II-class star destroyers were on alert around them, and the Cole-class battlecruisers launched hundreds of super-large nuclear bombs on the surface of the planet.

The ground anti-aircraft firepower of the Kira planet was almost crazy, but Ling Liang's fleet was also attacking the ground with turbolaser cannons while launching nuclear bombs.

For a time, the area on the surface of the planet that was bombed was ablaze, and the terrible explosion and flames almost stretched for hundreds of kilometers!

Then 5 Kosov-class battlecruisers began to descend. This ugly warship, which looked like a coal carrier, was equipped with a large number of airborne capsules. After reaching the appropriate height, these airdrop pods were launched towards the ground one after another.

Boom! Boom! Boom!! Thousands of airdrop pods hit the ground. As they landed, the micro-bombs inside the airdrop pods exploded, and the airdrop pods instantly disintegrated and separated, and more than a dozen howling Incholi rushed out from inside!

This is the Incholi Avenger 103!

These are all Incholi produced through cloning technology, and through the transformation of the T virus, they have become the most terrifying biological weapons. This is also one of the most powerful land combat units of the Principality of Dawn. The 103 type is the third improved model of the Incholi Avenger. The IQ of this type of Incholi Avenger has been greatly improved. It can use various firearms freely and no longer needs to carry a B-1 combat robot on its back as long-range fire support.

After landing, the roaring Incholi Avengers began to rush towards the predetermined target, and any moving targets along the way would be completely torn into pieces by them!

The Injori Avengers were used as the vanguard of the landing operation by orbital airdrop, which was actually the basic operation of the Dawn Principality Army. However, this time, strange things began to happen.

The Principality of Dawn did not deploy APOD-33 transport aircraft and Pelican transport aircraft to send regular land forces to the surface of the planet to cooperate with the Injori Avengers as before. They just lowered the altitude of the three strange whale-class passenger ships and entered the planet's atmosphere under the escort of several Victory II-class star destroyers.

This extremely fragile passenger ship soon became the priority target of ground anti-aircraft firepower. The slow and fragile passenger ship soon exploded violently under the concentrated attack of countless anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missiles, and then disintegrated and fell.

The Victory II-class star destroyers that served as escorts did not seem to have time to feel sad about the fall of these ships. They symbolically fired at the ground, completely destroyed several anti-aircraft firepower points that had just been exposed, and then increased their altitude and returned to the outer space of the planet.

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At this moment, in a ground orbital defense system base on the ground of Kira planet, the defenders of the position were repairing the orbital defense cannon they were stationed at.

This is an extremely huge super cannon, the V-150 Planet Defender Orbital Cannon.

The main body of the cannon is a sphere with a diameter of more than 100 meters, and in the center of the sphere is a set of huge barrels 20 meters long. This super cannon emits extremely powerful particle beams. Because it has to pass through the atmosphere, the maximum range is only 180,000 to 200,000 kilometers. But even so, this range is enough, and it is a fatal threat to warships in outer space.

But the disadvantage is that the shooting window of this orbital defense cannon is very short. Once it turns to the other side with the rotation of the planet, it will not be able to hit the target. At the same time, this cannon is also very expensive and requires a series of power supply systems and defense facilities. Ordinary planets generally do not spend the price of a cruiser to install this equipment that can only provide limited protection.

However, the planet Kira is different after all. A total of more than 40 sets of this V-150 Planet Defender Orbital Cannon are installed on this planet.

The V-150 cannon on this position was bombed by the fighter formation of the Principality of Dawn in the previous battle. More than a dozen ghost fighters fired ground-to-ground missiles at the cannon, breaking the cannon's deflector shield and blowing up the cannon's cooling system. Engineers are now urgently repairing it.

However, for these defenders, this also means that they will have a rare rest time. After all, the stealth fighters of the Principality of Dawn should not be interested in patronizing this cannon that has already misfired.

In addition to the patrolling soldiers, many defenders walked out of the underground fortifications, breathed the fresh air outside, pointed at the flashing fire in the sky from time to time and talked about the war happening in the distance.

Most of these soldiers are ordinary conscripts. They are not equipped with the iconic white polymer alloy armor of the Galactic Empire, but gray army uniforms.

This war has actually been numb to them. They don't know what happened in the center of the empire. They only know that they need to perform their duties until the day when the capital of the planet is captured, and then they will raise their hands and surrender to end it all.

Several soldiers were chatting, and one of them suddenly felt something bite him on the back of his neck. He slapped it and it seemed to be a mosquito. He wiped his hands on the rocks nearby and continued to chat with his comrades.