Chapter 2319 Next Target
2320. Next target
The fleet stationed on the planet Kira was completely annihilated! The second ship of the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, the Lusangaya, was sunk! The planetary shield of Planet Kira has been breached!
A series of news was almost like a heavy hammer, directly defeating the Galactic Empire's military.
Countless imperial military scientists have deduced countless possibilities for this war, but none of them could foresee such a disastrous defeat!
A complete fiasco!
Since the days of the Galactic Republic, there have been countless large and small battles with the Principality of Dawn, but none of them have been like this, a disastrous defeat without any power to fight back! In the past, even if they failed, the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire could use their powerful national power to cause equally heavy damage to the Principality of Dawn.
Even if they kill a thousand enemies and lose five thousand, they can afford the loss.
Therefore, the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire were able to suppress the Principality of Dawn with their superiority in national power, leaving them unable to make any progress, blocking the planets Yago-Dur and Eriadu.
However, this time the battle on the planet Kira completely destroyed the long-held confidence of the Galactic Empire!
Because in this battle, the Principality of Dawn proved that they could already bring the battle loss ratio to one to one hundred when the number of battleships was equal! Even the Galactic Empire cannot afford such an exchange ratio!
The gap between the two sides in technology, tactics and strategy has even exceeded the gap between national strength and size to a large extent.
The battle on the planet Kira made all the top military officials of the empire deeply aware that defeat had become an option that must be considered.
In order to respond as quickly as possible, Emperor Palpatine personally ordered Darth Vader, who was attacking the planet Rendili, to quickly lead his army back to the center of the empire for repairs, and immediately began to form a more powerful mobile fleet to prepare Intercept the extremely powerful fleet of the Principality of Dawn.
According to the estimates of the imperial military, this fleet needs at least 3,000 capital ships and at least 4 Executor-class super Star Destroyers to be able to defeat it. However, a fleet of this size has exceeded the carrying capacity of any hyperspace channel in the galaxy, and cannot be assembled directly at once.
Therefore, the imperial military's plan is to choose a battlefield and use a defensive posture to deal with the Dawn Principality's fleet.
Therefore, at this time, the movement of the main fleet of the Dawn Principality is very critical.
Based on the fact that the Dawn Principality can move quickly through the star gate, and the Intelligence Department's experience of the battle on the planet Kira, they have determined that there is a gap between the planet Eriadu and the planet Yago-Dur. There is a stargate link. Then a very real situation is that Fondo Planet, another fortress planet of the Galactic Empire, is likely to face the threat of the Dawn Principality soon.
However, the Fondo planet is no better than the Kira planet. The Fondo planet itself is one of the largest industrial centers in the Galactic Empire and has a very large industrial production capacity. Therefore, the defense power of Fangduo Planet is more than a hundred times that of Kira Planet!
If the battle breaks out on the planet Fondo, then perhaps this will be the best chance for the Galactic Empire to severely damage the Dawn Principality fleet.
But what they are most afraid of now is that the Dawn Principality will not attack the Fangduo planet, but instead attack other places. And after the fall of Kira Planet, the Principality of Dawn has opened the Hydia Channel. Through this channel, they can directly expand their sphere of influence to areas close to the inner ring of the Milky Way!
While the military was intensively formulating a battle plan and searching for available warships, Emperor Palpatine also personally issued an order to the planet Kira: The surface of the planet must be completely defended, and the planet Kira should be used as a solid fortress to protect the Principality of Dawn. Hold on!
At the same time, the Galactic Empire military will try its best to ensure the material supplies of the Kira planet and support the ground troops to carry out the most resolute resistance against the invading forces of the Principality of Dawn.
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At this time, Severance Tann was also discussing the next battle plan with Ling Liang.
In fact, it was a discussion rather than a unilateral arrangement and arrangement by Severance Tann. She now travels across the galaxy and is invincible. She is the well-deserved number one general in the galaxy, and can even be said to be an invincible general! This made her, who was already arrogant and arrogant, even more domineering.
Naturally, she couldn't take Ling Liang seriously.
Severance Tann asked Ling Liang to continue commanding the ground landing operations on the planet Kira for a very good reason - while Ling Liang served as the governor of the Seswenna sector, her military position was also that of an army general. Belongs to the Navy. Therefore, as an army, there is no problem in commanding landing operations.
As for Severance Tann herself, she is planning a crazy battle plan, and this plan is exactly what the Galactic Empire military is most worried about - the planet Fondor!
Fangduo Planet is a planet where the entire planet is completely factory-based. Yes, it is factory-based. In other words, the entire planet is completely a huge factory. On the surface of the planet, there are cooling towers, manufacturing centers, loading and unloading platforms, underground goaf platforms, steam tunnels, and power stations everywhere. There is no green left on the entire planet, only hot metal.
This is one of the most important industrial planets in the Galactic Empire, and it is also the only planet currently capable of producing Executor-class super Star Destroyers. The other planet is the planet Kuat.
Although Fangduo Planet does not have an industrial star ring like Kuat Planet, dense space docks, space ports, and armed space stations still form an iron wall around Fangduo Planet.
Moreover, the population of Fangduo Planet itself is not large, only about 5 billion, but the planet has tens of billions of engineering robots to maintain the operation of countless factories.
It can be said that once the Fangduo planet is captured, the industrial production capacity of the Galactic Empire will directly drop by one-tenth! This is no exaggeration! And due to the interruption of supply of many parts produced here, the Galactic Empire's industrial production capacity may drop by as much as a quarter before production is reorganized!
But if you want to capture this place, the difficulty is completely incomparable with that of Kira Planet.
For example, using the tactic of long-range bombing with particle light spears, there is no need to worry about Fangduo Planet. After all, particle light spears are only used to deal with battleships. They are used to bomb planetary shields and fixed interstellar facilities. This firepower is not enough. With the production capacity of many planets, they may not be able to fight as fast as they can repair.
At the same time, once the 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 battleships, and even if the battle spreads to the surface of the planet, then the ground forces will face the production of hundreds of thousands of combat robots every day!
The self-sustainability of a fleet is certainly more than enough to fight against planets that are not sufficiently industrialized, but if compared with a completely factory-based planet like Fangduo Planet, it is completely inadequate.
But Severance Tann had no fear at all. After leaving a small number of warships to Ling Liang to maintain the blockade of the planet Kira, she led the main fleet back to the Dawn Planet. Her fleet will undergo three days of repairs on the Dawn Planet, and after that, it will directly attack the Fangduo Planet!
...At the same time, under the command of General Ling, the Dawn Principality's ground landing operation on the planet Kira has officially begun!
According to the Zero Operation Plan, the planet Kira is best able to be captured directly. Because there are a large number of factories and shipyards on this planet, they can serve as a very important forward supply base.
Because in the Sethwenna sector, the planet Eriadu is just a fortress planet, and its industrial production capacity is actually not high. The Salest Triangle Industrial Zone, the other industrial center in the Seswenna star sector, is still too far from the front line compared to the planet Kira.
And if the Kira planet can be captured relatively completely, then logistical supplies will be very convenient in subsequent military operations, and the success rate of Operation Zero will be greater.
Of course, Ling Liang was fully prepared to quickly defeat the defenders of the Galaxy Empire during the landing operation.
At 22:00 pm on August 8th, Galaxy Standard Time, three whale-class passenger spacecraft arrived in the outer space of the planet Kira and merged with Lingliang's First Task Force.
These three whale-class passenger spacecraft are all black and appear to have been modified. They should not be used to transport immigrants.
What's even more disturbing is that a huge red and white umbrella-shaped logo is spray-painted on these spaceships.
Umbrella Pharmaceutical Group!
Two hours later, Ling Liang gave the order and the landing operation officially began!
20 Cole-class battlecruisers and 40 Victory II-class Star Destroyers began to lower their altitude. Victory II-class Star Destroyers were on alert around them, and the Cole-class battlecruisers launched hundreds of super-large-yield nuclear bombs on the surface of the planet.
The ground anti-aircraft firepower of Planet Kira was almost crazy, but Ling Liang's fleet was also attacking the ground with turbolaser cannons while launching nuclear bombs.
For a time, the bombed area on the planet's surface was blazing into the sky, and the terrible explosions and flames almost stretched over an area of hundreds of kilometers!
Immediately afterwards, the five Kesov-class battlecruisers began to lower their altitude. This ugly battleship, which looked like a coal ship, was equipped with a large number of drop cabins. After reaching a suitable altitude, these airborne capsules were launched towards the ground.
boom! boom! boom! ! Thousands of airborne pods hit the ground. As they landed, the mini-bombs inside the airborne pods exploded. The airborne pods instantly disintegrated and more than a dozen howling Inchori rushed out from inside!
This is the Injoli Avenger Type 103!
These are all Inchori produced through cloning technology, and transformed by the T virus, making them the most terrifying biological weapons. This is also one of the most powerful land combat units in the Principality of Dawn. Type 103 is the third improved model of the Injori Avenger. The IQ of this model of Inchori Avenger has been greatly improved, and it can now use various firearms freely without having to carry them on its back. A B-1 combat robot served as long-range fire support.
After landing, the roaring Incholi Avengers began to rush towards the intended target. Any target that moved along the way would be completely torn into pieces by them!
The Inchori Avengers conduct orbital airdrops as the vanguard of landing operations. This is actually the basic operation of the Dawn Principality Army. But this time, strange things started to happen.
The Principality of Dawn did not invest in APOD-33 transport aircraft and Pelican transport aircraft to send regular marine troops to the surface of the planet to cooperate with the Inchori Avengers' operations as before. They just lowered the three strange whale-class passenger spacecraft and entered the planet's atmosphere under the escort of several Victory II-class Star Destroyers.
This extremely fragile passenger spacecraft soon became a priority target of ground anti-aircraft fire. The slow and fragile passenger spacecraft 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 serving as escorts seemed to have no time to feel sad about the crash of these spacecrafts. They symbolically fired at the ground, completely destroying the several anti-aircraft firepower points just exposed, then raised their altitude and returned. Planet outer space.
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At this moment, in a ground orbital defense system base on the planet Kira, the defenders 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 giant cannon is a sphere with a diameter of more than 100 meters. In the center of the sphere is a set of huge barrels 20 meters long. This super cannon fires an extremely powerful particle beam. Because it has to pass through the atmosphere, its 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 kind of orbital defense cannon is very short. Once it moves to the other side with the rotation of the planet, it will not be able to hit the target. At the same time, this kind of giant cannon is also very expensive and requires a series of power supply systems and defense facilities. Ordinary planets generally will not spend the price of a cruiser to install this kind of equipment that can only provide limited protection.
However, Planet Kira is different after all. There are more than 40 sets of these V-150 Planet Defender orbital cannons installed on this planet.
The V-150 cannon on this position was bombed by a Dawn Principality fighter formation in a previous battle. More than a dozen Phantom fighter jets fired ground-attack missiles at the cannon, destroying the cannon's deflector shield and damaging the cannon. cooling system. Engineers are now making emergency repairs.
But for these defenders, this also means that they will have a rare period of rest. After all, those stealth fighter jets from the Principality of Dawn should have no interest in patronizing this dead cannon again.
In addition to the patrolling soldiers, many defenders came out of the underground fortifications, breathed the fresh air outside, pointed to the flickering firelight on the horizon and talked about the war taking place 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 become numb to them. They didn't know what was happening in the center of the empire. They only knew that they needed to fulfill their duties until the day the planet's capital was captured, and they would surrender and end it all.
Several soldiers were chatting when one of them suddenly felt something sting him on the back of his neck. He slapped it casually and seemed to kill a mosquito. He wiped his hands on the rocks nearby, and then chatted happily with his comrades.