The Fourth Scourge of Star Wars - Chapter 2349

2329. Blooming on all sides

Tang Xiao proclaimed himself king, and the Dawn Principality was reorganized into the Kingdom of Dawn. This explosive news meant that nothing could be changed for the Galaxy Empire.

In fact, 10 years ago, when the Liming Principality was established, there were already signs of a complete rift, but at that time Tang Xiao still left some leeway and just called himself Grand Duke without going any further. Compared to him, Count Dooku, who was trying to reorganize the Confederacy of Independent Systems into the Federation and claiming to be the head of state, dealt a greater blow to the Galactic Republic.

So after that, when the Principality of Dawn and the Galactic Empire make separate peace, the two sides can reach an agreement – because the most basic point is that the two parties make peace and the Principality of Dawn surrenders to the Galaxy Empire. This has a prerequisite, and that is Dawn The Principality was at least within the scope of being able to submit to the Galactic Empire.

To put it bluntly, with the title of Grand Duke, the Galactic Empire can still admit it with pinching of its nose. But if you go one step further, for example, if you were the King of Dawn at that time, it would be impossible. The Galactic Empire would not accept the canonization of a king under any circumstances. This is tantamount to a challenge to Palpatine’s own throne!

This throne is different from the kings of many monarchical planets in the Milky Way. This is the king canonized by the Galactic Empire. This meaning runs through the entire Milky Way, rather than being self-serving in a certain planet.

For example, there are many monarchy planets, not to mention kings, even emperors can see many of them. However, it is absolutely impossible for the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire to recognize them on any official occasion. They can only enjoy themselves on their own planet.

Therefore, at that time, Tang Xiao still left a certain amount of room for claiming to be Grand Duke. He planned to make peace with Palpatine at that time. But now that he calls himself king, the concept is completely different. This means that he has placed himself on an equal footing with Palpatine, and this means that both parties are destined to end up in a life-or-death situation, whether openly or privately!

In fact, this is what Tang Xiao did.

The day after he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself king, on August 14, the Kingdom of Dawn launched a full-scale attack on the Galactic Empire from multiple directions at the same time!

In the direction of the planet Christophsis, because the control of the Galactic Empire in this remote area has weakened, the planet defense fleet chose to take the initiative. After annihilating a patrol fleet of the Galactic Empire before, the fleet now attacked again, but it did not Instead of advancing towards the hinterland of the Galactic Empire, he chose to march towards the planet Rylos!

The Galactic Empire wanted to rebuild the 14th Army that was destroyed during the Clone Wars. Therefore, after retaking the planet Rylos, the Galactic Empire invested a lot of resources in preparing to rebuild the 14th Army. In fact, this is why the Galactic Empire wants to regain control of this star region with the planet Rylos as its center.

However, under the destruction of the Rebel Army, the Galactic Empire’s plan to rebuild the 14th Army was shattered. At the same time, as the Galactic Empire went to war against the Trade Federation, the access to the outer ring star area was blocked by the Trade Federation, and the planet Rylos was completely destroyed. beyond the control of the rebels.

This time, the planet Christofsis dispatched 40 battleships and more than 200 light cruisers to sweep the planet Rylos and completely eliminate the remaining empire forces in this sector.

The Galactic Empire does have some fleets in this direction used to suppress the rebels, and the goal of the fleet on the planet Christophsis is to completely annihilate them.

The person commanding this branch fleet is Lieutenant General Tomwens from “Command and Conquer: Generals”, and he also has an adjutant. This adjutant is somewhat mysterious. He is not tall and always wears a mask. Others call him, “Major General C”.

The squadron of the planet Christophsis had a firefight with the Imperial Defense Fleet on the planet Rodia that day.

On the other hand, there is another fleet setting off from the planet Mequito. This is the combined fleet of the Interstellar Banking Association, the Trade Federation, and the Fourth Group. The tentative codename of this fleet in the Kingdom of Dawn is the Commercial Combined Fleet.

The commercial combined fleet includes more than 200 capital ships, which does not seem to be particularly large, but the number of small and medium-sized warships in this fleet has reached more than 5,000! Still a huge force.

The Commercial Combined Fleet also did not choose to attack the hinterland of the Galactic Empire. They mainly used small and medium-sized warships. If they attacked the Galactic Empire’s defense line, they would suffer heavy losses. Therefore, this fleet, led by the famous Neimoidian general Mar-Tuk, advanced eastward.

Obviously, Admiral Mal-Turk’s purpose is to first clean up the outer planets of the 8th, 9th, and 10th legions of the Galactic Empire, and then conduct a roundabout outflank.

On the front, the Galactic Empire, under the leadership of Admiral Gilad Pellaeon, built two lines of defense. They are the Birbrin planet defense line in the south and the Palin-Minor planet defense line in the north. These two solid defense lines are defended by tens of thousands of small and medium-sized warships and a total of 2,500 capital ships. They are indestructible.

The reason why Admiral Mal-Took dared to face such a huge main fleet of the Galactic Empire and still dared to send his own main fleet to make a detour was because his biggest reliance was the Geth!

After several years of development, the geth is now crazy. They are building factories, mining resources, and building warships almost non-stop.

The fleet of the Geth has increased from about 50 ships ten years ago to more than 300 ships. And more than 300 ships are just the organization of one of their fleets! How many fleets does the Geth have? Even Tang Xiao is not clear now.

The only thing that can be made clear at present is that the Geth are almost constantly attacking the defense line of the Galactic Empire. They don’t concentrate many troops each time, but they are very flexible in combat, and they only rely on mobile combat. They never engage in fleet decisive battles with the Galactic Empire.

The Geth are almost unscrupulous on the battlefield. They deceive, disguise, show weakness, and lure. Various means even make people feel that they are not like mechanical life, but more like a cunning intelligent creature.

And the Geth have widely used warp navigation technology. Their attack is very broad. There is no rear in the Galactic Empire’s defense line, because you don’t know when a fleet of Geth fleets will suddenly appear next to your logistics base.

The biggest difference between the Geth as mechanical life and humans is that as long as there is energy, they have almost unlimited life. The most important thing is that they can stay on standby for a long time, without food, entertainment, balanced nutrition or morale, just stay there.

Compared to Darth Vader’s three-month warp voyage to raid the planet of Rendili, the boring atmosphere and tense pressure made the morale of his entire fleet fall to the bottom, and they were almost unable to fight. The Geth don’t have this problem. Even if they have been sailing at warp speed for several years, they are exactly the same as when they set out. So in order to prevent the Geth fleet from sneaking around, Gilad Pellaeon can only use the dumbest and most effective method-deployment everywhere. Deploy mobile fleets at almost every key point, and rush to help as soon as the traces of the Geth are found.

At the same time, the logistics supply line is always kept changing once a month to prevent the Geth from taking the same route for a long time and being directly attacked by the Geth.

In order to maintain such a line of defense, the entire northern front needs to deploy a large fleet. When the number of fleets in the Northern War Zone was the largest, it even reached more than 3,500 battleships, close to the scale of more than 80,000 small and medium-sized warships!

Therefore, although the Northern War Zone of the Galactic Empire seems to have a large number of troops, in fact, they are always in a state of being distracted and exhausted, and basically have no ability to counterattack. And if it weren’t for the outstanding ability of Gilad Pellaeon, who had been promoted to admiral, this line of defense would have been riddled with holes under the attacks of the Geth from all sides.

In the past 10 years, Gilad Pellaeon has grown from a major to an admiral. On the one hand, this is because of Dunn Wessex’s exceptional promotion, and on the other hand, it also shows his excellent talent!

And it seems that in order to support Admiral Mal-Touk’s offensive outside the North, the Geth also assembled more than 900 warships on the planet of Bilbrin, a total of three fleets, preparing for a large-scale attack!

By the way, because the Geth warships do not have internal facilities such as life support systems, living systems, and barracks, their warships are generally small. Therefore, the Galactic Empire often directly counts the number of the Geth fleet, instead of calculating the number of kilometer-class battleships and small and medium-sized warships separately as it does on its side.

Similarly, in the Mandalore sector, the Dawn Kingdom fleet originally stationed on the planet Akiva is now taking the initiative to attack. This fleet is smaller in size, but it has an Infinity-class supercarrier, which also poses a huge threat to the Galactic Empire.

Although Severance Tann is not in command here now, the command system she left behind can still run smoothly and launched an attack on the Galactic Empire’s fleet in the Mandalore sector.

The Galactic Empire only maintains a small fleet in the Mandalore sector, mainly to monitor the situation in the Mandalore sector, and does not have the ability to launch a strategic attack. Now facing the attack led by the Infinity-class supercarrier, this imperial fleet is also facing a catastrophe!

However, for the Galactic Empire, the disaster is not over yet.

On August 15, the planet Mingban occupied by the Galactic Empire was attacked by a large fleet, and according to intelligence, this fleet turned out to be from Hutt space!

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Galactic Empire immediately questioned the current ruler of the Hutts, Oruba-Gorensla, severely, but Oruba-Gorensla said that the fleet belonged to the remnants of the Independent System Confederation, and he was powerless and dared not take any hostile actions against the fleet.

And Oruba-Gorensla also said very innocently that if the Galactic Empire could annihilate these annoying separatist remnants, then he would even be willing to pay the Galactic Empire a considerable bounty.

For the commander of the fleet that raided the planet Mingban, no one knows his specific identity at present, but he only knows that he has a title-“The Butcher of the Planet Barab”!

This is not over yet. After Tang Xiao declared himself king, the planet Dak suddenly jumped out. The Quarren rebuilt the Free Dak Volunteer Engineering Corps and organized a fleet to attack the Port of Parmant, which was once the largest industrial center of the Independent System Confederation!

This wave of offensive by the Quarren was very strange, because they seemed to have received fleet reinforcements from other places, and the number of battleships reached 100! The intelligence department of the Galactic Empire is conducting intensive reconnaissance, trying to find out where the Quarren fleet came from.

However, the Quarren’s rebellion was not smooth sailing. Their actions were severely opposed by the Mon Calamari people on the planet. For example, the commander of this fleet was originally intended to be led by General Ackbar, a Mon Calamari general, but General Ackbar refused the appointment.

The Mon Calamari people firmly opposed re-entering the war, and said that it was because of the Quarren’s wrong stance during the Clone Wars that Dak eventually became a defeated planet and was severely sanctioned by the Galactic Empire.

Now the Quarren want to jump up and join the war again, and once again want to resist the extremely powerful Galactic Empire? The Mon Calamari people believe that this time, the Quarren are still on the wrong side, and this time, it may bring a catastrophe to Dak!

However, now with the support of the Kingdom of Dawn, the Quarren’s power on Dak is far greater than that of the Mon Calamari, so the situation on Dak is relatively stable.

There are three main reasons why the Quarren dared to revolt at this time.

First, they actually got the support of the Given people in secret. It was mentioned before that the Givens had secretly begun to build a stargate and migrate to Lothal. They also brought a huge dock and factory, as well as a fleet from the stargate. This fleet was the reinforcements that the Quarren received.

Second, the planet Dak was located in a remote area. After the war between the Galactic Empire and the Trade Federation, the Empire’s control over the outer ring of the Milky Way further declined. Therefore, although the planet Dak was also closely monitored by the Galactic Empire, this monitoring was very fragile and was easily cleared by the Quarren.

The last and most critical point was that the epic victory of the planet Kira gave the Quarren great confidence. They firmly believed that this time, it was the end of the Galactic Empire! Their resistance will surely win the final victory!

Not only Dak, but also the planets that were once the core of the Independent Galaxy Confederation, including the sub-planet of Laxus, the planet of Semirs, the planet of Felucia, and the planet of Geonosis, also raised the banner of rebellion and launched an uprising.

These planets have one thing in common, that is, although they were defeated, they believed that it was only the defeat of Count Dooku, but not the defeat of separatism.

Because the planet Dawn still stands! (End of this chapter)