The Fourth Scourge of Star Wars - Chapter 2454
2431, Cutting off one arm
The administrative core of the Northern War Zone of the Galactic Empire, the planet Palin-Minor.
A white light flashed, and a dilapidated fleet appeared in the space outside the planet. The fleet looked extremely miserable. The shields of almost every warship were broken, the main armor belt was riddled with holes, and there were many places on fire and smoking.
There is no doubt that this is the fleet led by Thrawn returning victoriously.
The fleet initially had a scale of more than 800 battleships, but Admiral Gilad-Pellaeon commanded the fleet to launch a campaign against the Malarian Alliance, but was defeated by Mal-Tuk and suffered heavy losses. Later, when Mal-Tuk attacked the planet Bilbrin, under the command of Vice Admiral Ozil, he forcibly counterattacked and lost another battle.
By that time, there was not much left in this fleet. After receiving some reinforcements, the number of battleships barely reached 300, and many warships were more or less injured.
Thrawn defeated Admiral Mal-Touk’s aggressive merchant fleet with such a fleet!
Afterwards, he received some reinforcements, which kept the number of his main battleships at around 300. But you have to know that this was the third battle this fleet had fought in a row.
Then, Severance Tann, who had been famous for a long time and was known as the strongest general in the galaxy, attacked again with the Titan battleship, the Envoy, which was known as the strongest battleship in the galaxy. If light cruisers are included, Severance Tann’s force is equivalent to twice that of Thrawn!
Moreover, the quality of the warships of both sides is incomparable. The Hell Angels-class battlecruisers need the Imperial-class Star Destroyers to fight against them. Other battlecruisers including the Behemoth-class, Doomsday Battlefield-class, and Dunov-class are also more powerful than the Victory II-class Star Destroyers. The most important thing is that these warships all complement each other and have their own characteristics.
However, with such a broken fleet, after being reinforced by the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, which was obviously inferior to the God-Envoy, Thrawn actually fought a tie with Severance Tann, and the losses of both sides were similar!
In fact, the Kingdom of Dawn lost 870,000 people, and the Galactic Empire lost more than 1.2 million people. The difference of more than 400,000 deaths was purely due to the fact that the Kingdom of Dawn’s warships carried fewer crew members!
Even at the end of the battle, Thrawn still led this remnant army to cover the retreat of Governor Dunn-Wessex’s favorite Super Star Destroyer, the Lila, before they returned to the planet Palin-Minor.
Standing next to Thrawn, Adjutant Leir Benting could no longer hide his excitement in his eyes. He shouted: “General! We won! We really won!! Even the Separatist Titan battleships stopped in front of us!!”
The other officers around also cheered.
Indeed, it was not easy! It was not easy! Especially now, most of the officers and soldiers standing on the flagship have participated in the series of battles in the North. No one knows better than them how powerful the warships of the Kingdom of Dawn are, how excellent the commanders are, and how strange the technology is.
However, they won, really won! Even the so-called invincible Titan warship was hit and caught fire, and had to return to the port for overhaul.
Such a fleet, such naval officers and soldiers, such a commander, don’t they deserve a warm welcome? Don’t they deserve flowers and applause?
However, Admiral Thrawn, who created this miracle, just stood there quietly, motionless, with no expression on his face.
“General?” Leir-Benting asked tentatively. After he saw Thrawn’s expression, he suddenly understood something, and his face suddenly turned pale, “No… No way?”
“Yes, Colonel Leir. Yes.” Thrawn shook his head.
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Thrawn’s fleet was indeed welcomed with the warmest welcome. After his fleet left hyperspace, he saw the new fleet led by the Super Star Destroyer Lila and Dunn-Wessex waiting here.
The Lila was in the middle, and the other warships were on both sides.
Although it looked miserable and there were still many fires on the ship, the Lila still looked so majestic under the protection of Dunn-Wessex’s neat fleet.
The communication was completely silent. Although the battle was indeed grand, there were no flowers, no applause, no cheers, only silence, and the fleet on the opposite side.
Thrawn sighed slightly.
At the same time, the console of the Chimera suddenly issued an extremely sharp alarm!
“General! We…we are locked by the fire control radar!!” The radar soldier screamed, “The one who locked us…no, it’s…it’s the Super Star Destroyer Leela!”
“General…they…” Rayle Benting showed a sad look in his eyes, he already understood everything.
“Chimera calling Leela, we are our own people! We are our own people!” The signalman began to call, but there was no response.
Just now, he fought bloody battles with them, and even used his huge body and powerful shield to resist the attack of the Titan battleship of the God Messenger for them many times. It can be said that if it weren’t for the fearless battle of the Super Star Destroyer Leela, they would not even be qualified to stand opposite the Super Star Destroyer of the God Messenger!
However, now, the Leela pointed its guns at them, at the comrades who were fighting side by side a few hours ago…
Please…collect 6…books…!
Without any hesitation.
“No need to call. Lower the shield, shut down the engine, shut down the weapon system.” Thrawn said.
“General…we, we won?” The radar soldier turned around and looked at Thrawn blankly.
“Who knows?” Thrawn said this lightly, then saluted the other officers and soldiers on the bridge, turned around and walked out.
He went straight to the hangar platform, meticulously arranged his white military uniform, and then stood there like a sculpture.
A moment later, a Lambda-class shuttle flew in and stopped in front of Thrawn unceremoniously. The hatch opened, and dozens of clone soldiers wearing white polymer alloy armor came down. These soldiers immediately picked up their blaster rifles and drove away all the others here. At the same time, several of them came to Thrawn.
An Imperial Navy officer in a gray uniform and a colonel badge came over, looked at Thrawn and said coldly: “Chiss, Mis-Ro-Nurudo-Thrawn. You are suspected of 17 charges including dereliction of duty, disobeying military orders, and causing large-scale casualties due to wrong command. According to the order of Dunn Wessex, the governor of the Imperial Ninth Army, you are stripped of your position as admiral and immediately sent to the Northern Military Court for trial.” (End of this chapter)