The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2352, Decisive Battle of Anxin Planet (Part 1)

Admiral Gilad Pellaeon has also received the news that Admiral Mal-Tuk has led the Commercial Combined Fleet back.

After conquering Agamar, Admiral Mal-Tuk immediately led his troops back to Mykito for rest and recuperation, apparently preparing to reinforce Anxin Planet.

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 Gler-Anselm and Dolin, currently occupied by the Galactic Empire Fleet, are the section below this cross.

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

In fact, the Mararian Alliance 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 Chiss Territory in the unknown star field as its main source of income. So although the Mararian Alliance is relatively underdeveloped in industry, it is also a very important star region in the northern border of the Dawn Kingdom's control area.

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

But Admiral Gilad-Pellaeon 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 only needs to capture Anxin Planet, then he can get huge strategic benefits.

Capturing Anxin Planet and stationing the Imperial Fleet here is equivalent to controlling the entire Mararian Alliance and destroying the core of the alliance, then the alliance will directly perish. Afterwards, the troops stationed on Anxin Planet can attack and defend, and can also control the passage to the unknown star field.

Such an important planet must not be let go.

Admiral Gilad Pellaeon believes that the forces he has are enough to capture the planet Anxin. He currently has 700 battleships, including 300 Imperial-class Star Destroyers and two Commander II-class dreadnoughts. His forces are very strong.

On the other hand, the fleet of Geth has just suffered a heavy blow. The huge fleet of 10,000 warships suffered heavy losses in the head-on battle with the Imperial fleet, and it is difficult for the remaining warships to form combat effectiveness.

At this moment, it is likely to be unstoppable to attack the planet Anxin.

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

Gilad Pellaeon has also heard of this general who can fight among the Neimoidians, who are full of soft eggs. He participated in the Clone Wars throughout the whole process, and was entrusted with important tasks by Tang Xiao when he was still unknown at the beginning. In the subsequent wars, he did not live up to Tang Xiao's trust and participated in many battles with remarkable achievements.

Although he is not as dazzling as super generals like Severance Tann and Ling Liang, he can complete his tasks excellently every time and rarely makes mistakes. The so-called good warriors have no glorious achievements, which describes generals like him.

In fact, such generals are the most troublesome on the battlefield. Because you can hardly expect him to make any mistakes, he will always follow the rules and make steady progress, not giving you any flaws. Even if you can defeat him, the price you pay is definitely not small.

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

At the same time, the battle of Kira also sounded the alarm for every officer of the Galactic Empire Navy-their warships, in terms of combat capability and technical content, may really have opened up a generation gap with the Kingdom of Dawn!

That is to say, unless you have an absolute advantage, you should try not to fight head-on with the main fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn. This has become the consensus of 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 all gather their fleets together, constantly seeking opportunities for fleet decisive battles.

Girard-Pellaeon decided to create a time difference. He knew that Mal-Tuk was now on the planet Agamar. If he went from there to the planet Anxin through the hyperspace channel, he would need to go around a big circle. It would take at least 7 to 8 days for a large fleet.

This is because the commercial joint fleet has only more than 200 main battleships, and more than 5,000 other small and medium-sized warships. In the long-distance raid, the distance of a single jump of small and medium-sized warships is far less than that of large warships because the level of the hyperspace engine is not enough, so they need more jumps.

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

At least this point, Kuat Power Dockyard did not say anything nonsense.

Then, Gilad Peraune also considered the issue of the stargate. He judged that the North's business alliance, that is, the alliance of the Interstellar Banking Association, the Trade Union, and the Fourth Group, was likely to have built a stargate.

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

But Od-Mantell's industry is not developed. It was mainly based on tourism, black finance and casino businesses before. 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 the Mantel Military Station.

Therefore, even if a stargate is to be built 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 there is, the Galactic Empire can just surrender directly.

Therefore, Gilad Pellaeon judged that Admiral Mal-Tuk would be the fastest, but he would need to first return to Mykito from Agamar, then use the stargate from Mykito to quickly move to Od-Mantell, and finally move from Od-Mantell to Anxin. This process would take about four days.

So, he set up defenses on Vortex and Vicondor between Od-Mantell and Dolin. A large number of hyperspace blockers and air mines were deployed to slow down the advance of Mal-Tuk's fleet.

He judged that this would offset the mobility advantage of the stargate from Mykito to Od-Mantell, and it would take Mal-Tuk seven days to come to reinforce Anxin.

Then, he only needed to capture Anxin within seven days!

Now that the Geth fleet had suffered a heavy blow, seven days was enough!

On September 23, Gilad Pellaeon led the fleet to set off again. This time, because he had severely damaged the Geth fleet, he was more confident. He directly divided his fleet into eight formations according to the situation of the hyperspace channel, and set out from the eight branch channels leading to Anxin Planet at the same time!

In this way, even if Anxin Planet set up a hyperspace blocker, he could still get his main fleet to the target within one day!

On September 24, the first batch of 500 battleships and 1,200 small and medium-sized warships of the Imperial Fleet arrived at Anxin Planet. Without any surprise, Anxin Planet has opened the planetary shield, and the defense fleet of the Mararian Alliance is also waiting here.

Not only that, the Geth fleet also has as many as 4,000 ships here.

Now the relationship between the Geth and the Kingdom of Dawn, they just don't pretend! Anyway, the Geth controls the electromagnetic environment of the battlefield as always, and the battlefield situation here cannot be transmitted back to the Empire in the first time. Then, as long as all the Imperial warships are killed, no one will know that the Kingdom of Dawn is colluding with the Geth!

Gilad Pellaeon did not waste a minute and immediately commanded his fleet to attack the planet Anxin, and the battle broke out instantly!

The defense fleet of the Mararian Alliance gathered more than 50 battleships here, most of which were second-line warships eliminated by the Kingdom of Dawn, and 1,000 small and medium-sized warships. These small and medium-sized warships are varied, some of which 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 was deployed above the north and south poles of the planet Anxin.

Relying on interstellar bases, fixed defense facilities and planetary shields, the defense fleet launched a head-on battle with the Imperial Fleet. The battle situation instantly became extremely tragic.

As a dominion, the soldiers of the Mararian Alliance were extremely motivated to fight, and this battle was to defend their country. None of their warships retreated, but just fired wildly.

And the defense fleet was well organized. The injured warships immediately retreated to the protection of the planetary shield, or hid behind the Argonev-class interstellar base, and then received 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, the warships that were able to get repair opportunities were considered to have won the first prize.

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

Therefore, the Revenge class has long been eliminated.

The shooting of this Revenge-class destroyer hit an Imperial-class Star Destroyer about 50,000 kilometers away very accurately, but this time the main gun shooting 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 captain of the battleship quickly ordered evasion and 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!

I only saw several consecutive red turbolaser beams shooting at me instantly, and they hit the hull of the Vengeance-class ship almost instantly!

And these several turbolaser beams, the first turret was deflected by the electronic interference of the Geth, and the second beam fired by another turret hit directly, and this turbolaser beam directly blew the entire Vengeance-class destroyer into pieces!

These small warships were so desperate when facing the Imperial-class Star Destroyer!

At this moment, the Geth warships also rushed forward bravely. 4,000 warships were preserved in the previous blocking battle and were in better condition.

In order to block the advance of the Imperial fleet, the Geth really tried their best in that battle without any reservation.

And this time, the Geth also played their own characteristics, still advancing against the powerful firepower of the Imperial warships! The Geth warships are very flexible. They immediately spread out in all directions at the beginning of the battle, and then surrounded the Imperial fleet from all directions.

Now the Imperial Fleet is not arranged in the Pellaeon Ring, but in an attack formation, which means that all the warships are heading towards Anxin Planet at full speed. In this way, the vulnerable tail of the Imperial Star Destroyer is unprotected!

The goal of the Geth warship is very clear. At all costs, it must bypass the side and rear of the Imperial Fleet and launch an attack from the weak point of the Imperial Star Destroyer.

Admiral Gilad Pellaeon's response is also very simple-advance, advance, and advance again! Until the planetary shield of Anxin Planet is destroyed, a landing is launched, and the planet is completely occupied!

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The battle has been going on for 4 hours, and the battle situation is still extremely tense. Although the Imperial Fleet is also fighting desperately, it still cannot break through the defense of the defensive fleet and launch an orbital bombing of the planetary shield.

However, Admiral Gilad Pellaeon has already determined his victory!

Because the loss rate of the warships on the side of the defensive fleet is much greater than that of the Imperial Fleet! In other words, as time goes by, the losses of both sides will increase, and the gap between the two sides will increase like a snowball!

Girard-Pellaeon connected to the public channel and started to persuade Anxin Planet to surrender, [… You have been defeated and there is no possibility of winning! Stop resisting and surrender immediately, and strive for leniency! Otherwise, we will respond to your stubborn resistance at this moment with orbital bombardment! ]

Anxin Planet's answer was only one word-[Get lost! ]

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

However, when the battle lasted for another day, Anxin Planet's defense fleet had suffered heavy losses and was almost unable to fight again. On the bridge of Admiral Girard-Pellaeon's flagship, a shrill alarm suddenly came from the radar sensor department!

The radar department officer stumbled over and shouted: "General! It's not good! Large-scale hyperspace jump fluctuations have been detected!!!"