The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1618. Opening of the Second Battlefield

"Reinforcements! Our reinforcements have arrived!!"

"We are saved!!"

Cries of joy filled the Galactic Republic's fleet communications, as if a drowning man had been dragged ashore at the last straw.

Looking at this posture, it seems that they did not come to actively invade the Yago-Dur galaxy, but the side that passively defended.

Even the commander of the fleet, Gideon Tarkin, had cold sweat on his forehead, knowing that he had miscalculated. He miscalculated the strength of the separatist fleet, and also miscalculated their determination to attack, and even more miscalculated that the initial rout began with the most powerful fighter formation of the Galactic Republic.

It's no wonder they were so scared, because they really did walk through the gate of hell.

If the reinforcements were an hour late, maybe they would have been wiped out!

This is no joke! Because at that time, the swarm drones had completely controlled the situation, destroying the fighter formation of the Galactic Republic, disrupting the formation of the Republic fleet, and attracting the firepower of the Republic warships. And the main fleet of the Principality of Dawn, which followed closely, has already concentrated its firepower on bombing the warships of the Galactic Republic!

The supermatter electromagnetic gun of the Cole-class battlecruiser and the particle light spear of the disaster-class battlecruiser, these powerful weapons will exert more and more terrifying power as the distance between the two fleets continues to shrink. Especially the latter, at a distance of about 1 light minute, it is almost impossible to dodge!

Under the attack of the particle light spear, the hunter-class battlecruiser can only withstand 5 rounds at most, but in actual combat, it will often be destroyed after less than 5 rounds.

Defeat is almost a doomed ending.

but……

Reinforcements have arrived!

40 Jaeger-class battlecruisers and 100 small and medium warships!

Octavian Grant, the governor of the 20th Army of the Republic in the rear, showed his keen strategic sense. He did not send fewer warships according to the scheduled plan, and brought more engineering ships and supply ships. After learning that the separatist fleet took the initiative to attack, he decisively dispatched his main fleet!

With 40 Jaeger-class battlecruisers, the theoretical carrying capacity has reached 16,000!

Now the Galactic Republic has learned the previous lesson and will not fill up the Jaeger-class battlecruiser, because a fully loaded Jaeger-class will not only reduce the efficiency of taking off and landing fighter jets, but will also suffer heavy losses when it is destroyed !

You must know that the Hunter-class battlecruiser is no longer a symbol of invincibility on the battlefield-that on the contrary means that the skin is thin and the stuff is big.

However, even with the current standard aircraft capacity of the Republic Navy, a Jaeger-class still has more than 250 fighter jets.

Now after the arrival of reinforcements, the number of fighter jets in the Galactic Republic is almost the same as that of swarm drones!

This gave the front-line fleet commander Gideon Tarkin greater confidence. He immediately ordered the reinforcement fleet to immediately take off the fighter formation and join the battle to protect his warships from the swarm drone attack.

At the same time, after reinforcements arrived, Gideon Tarkin was finally able to free up his hands. He ordered all the Knight-class Star Destroyers to immediately form a combat formation, with his flagship, the Commander II-class dreadnought ship Will as the leader. For the lead, we are gathering all the Arquitens-class light cruisers as a mobile force...

Launch an assault!

Target--

Separatism, the Archon-class aircraft carrier!

He already understood that the extremely threatening swarm drones were all based on this huge 3175-meter-long aircraft carrier!

As for the later Sowa-class aircraft carriers, they only exist as warehouses for carrying drones in drone operations, and they play an auxiliary role in flight control and command.

The control core of these swarm drones is on the Consul-class aircraft carrier!

As long as this Archon-class aircraft carrier can be destroyed, all swarm drones will become headless chickens! Then the battle will return to their expected track!

You have a particle light spear, it’s okay, I use a shield ship to fight hard, hundreds of thousands of sets of shield capacitors are waiting to be replaced; you have an interstellar base, it’s okay, I will build my own logistics base to consume slowly with you; you have mutual matching combat power Powerful fleet, it's okay, my number of warships is at least five times that of yours!

Isn't that good? Is everyone happy after finishing this battle happily? You mud legs of the outer ring are only worthy of being background panels, aren't you?

Why do you still want to make this out?

With his usual sense of superiority and keen control over the battlefield, Gideon Tarkin gave the assault order.

The assault formation directly went up against the dense firepower of the Duchy of Liming's fleet!

At this time, the swarm drones were recovering supplies and recharging in batches after launching the last attack. Gideon Tarkin's assault just hit the time when the Duchy of Dawn's fleet was at its weakest!

The 60 XX-9 heavy-duty turbolaser cannons on the Knight-class Star Destroyer fired powerful and dense turbolaser beams, and the extremely powerful firepower covered the fleet of the Principality of Dawn like raindrops.

For a time, countless explosive flames and countless destructive lights exploded in the fleets of both sides!

...

At the same time...the flagship of the Duchy of Dawn's fleet, the bridge of the Consul-class aircraft carrier Hae.

"General! A large number of reinforcements from the Galactic Republic have arrived, and they are launching an assault on our ship!" The adjutant said loudly.

Admiral Matt Horner, Commander-in-Chief of the Duchy of Dawn's Navy and Commander-in-Chief of the Yago-Dur Galaxy Battle, stood in the center of the bridge as straight as a compass, with his hands behind his back, looking at the holographic combat star map in front of him.

On the star map, the Republic Fleet divided some warships to form a frontal formation, and took off a large number of fighter jets to cover it, and launched a resolute assault on its own formation.

However, Matt Horner just shook his head and said, "Are they going to attack? It seems that they also discovered that the Po Jiang is controlling the swarm drones."

"General, there is no room for loss on the Poe," said the adjutant.

Matt Horner nodded and gave an order, "Order all the Disaster-class battlecruisers to fire at the enemy flagship, the Commander II-class dreadnought! The Cole-class battlecruiser moved forward to cover, and the other battleships began to turn around. Withdraw! Retreat to the protection range of the interstellar base one by one!"

"yes!"

All 20 disaster-class battlecruisers immediately began to charge the particle light spears, and adjusted the angle of the hull, aiming at Gideon Tarkin's flagship, the Will Commander II-class dreadnought fired a salvo!

20 powerful particle light spears arrived in no time, even though Commander II was already doing evasive agitation, it was still hit several times.

The huge power of this volley even caused a fire in one of the shield capacitor compartments of the will! Under such terrifying power, Gideon Tarkin did not dare to continue to let his flagship continue to assault, because according to the deduction of the staff department, if it continues to advance, the Commander II-class dreadnought can resist at most three to four One volley and you will be hit hard.

More importantly, on the console of the Commander II dreadnought, the alarm sounded continuously. Their energy systems and weapon systems have been interfered by the opponent, unable to exert their maximum firepower.

Under such circumstances, Gideon Tarkin also understood that even a giant ship like the Commander II dreadnought is in real danger of being sunk!

So he ordered to stop the assault and retreat.

The Republic Assault Fleet carried out a brief assault with heavy thunder and little rain, and after firing a burst of violent artillery fire, it also began to retreat.

Admiral Matt Horner saw this scene, and he did not order his fleet to continue the pursuit, but continued to maintain the retreat command.

The Dawn Principality fleet withdrew to the best firepower coverage of the two Argonev-class interstellar bases, and then began to re-adjust the formation, and sent the damaged warships to the Givin shipyard for emergency repairs.

During this assault launched by the Republic Fleet, seven Cole-class battlecruisers in the Dawn Principality Fleet also suffered severe damage. One of them lost power and was dragged back by the other three battleships with tractor beams.

The firepower of the Republic Fleet is actually very powerful. There are a total of 600 double-mounted heavy-duty turbolaser cannons on the 10 Knights, and the XX-9 turbolaser cannon has a very fast rate of fire. Under the coverage of such firepower, the warships of the Duchy of Dawn It is also hard to resist.

If it weren't for the fact that the Dunov-class battlecruisers continued to provide shield replenishment, and the power of the doomsday battlefield-class battlecruisers was fully turned on to interfere with the opponent's Commander II-class dreadnought, then this loss would be even greater!

Among other things, the powerful firepower of the Commander II class alone is enough to destroy the capital ship of the Principality of Dawn in a short time. You must know that in order to fight against the separatist Titan battleship Xuanwu, the Kuat Power Dockyard urgently installed several super laser cannons on this type of battleship.

During the Battle of the Eliadu Galaxy at that time, the firepower of the three Commander II-class dreadnoughts was also able to effectively damage the Xuanwu.

Although this kind of warship is huge and clumsy, it is still full of power. On the battlefield without the Titan battleship Xuanwu, it is still the overlord on the battlefield.

In the previous battles, because the two sides mainly shot each other from a long distance, and later took off the swarm drones as the main attack force. Therefore, only three Martha-class missile heavy cruisers in the fleet of the Principality of Dawn were damaged, and the damage was not deep. With the strong industrial capabilities of the Ji Wen people, they can be repaired soon.

As for why the Martha class was the one that suffered the most damage at that stage of the battle, it was mainly because at that time, the Martha class guided missile heavy cruisers all protruded to the front of the formation in order to better enter the launch angle. And when the battle was set up later, the Cole-class battlecruiser naturally went up.

...

Gideon Tarkin is in a very bad mood right now, and very aggrieved.

His plan was interrupted by Admiral Matt Horner's bold assault, and in the middle of the battle between the two sides, he was almost defeated by the annoying swarm drone, and later he made up his mind to carry out the assault , also had to be terminated.

The powerful electronic warfare capabilities of Separatism were once again displayed. The Commander II-class dreadnought was restricted by the opponent's doomsday battlefield-class battlecruiser and could not be used. Suppressed the anger in Gideon Tarkin's heart.

Gideon Tarkin was filled with humiliation when he ordered the assault to be terminated and the retreat began.

Now he swears in his heart that he must let the separatism repay the humiliation he suffered tenfold!

But what he didn't know was that General Matt Horner, the commander-in-chief of the Principality of Dawn, was also very aggrieved.

Because of this battle, on the surface, the fleet of the Principality of Dawn took advantage of it, and they achieved a very good battle loss ratio. At the cost of 1 battleship being paralyzed, 6 battleships being heavily damaged, and 3 battleships being slightly injured, It destroyed 5 Jaeger-class battlecruisers before and after the Galactic Republic, severely damaged 17 ships, and shot down more than 3,000 Republic fighters!

But such a battle loss ratio cannot bring victory in this battle.

Admiral Matt Horner is well aware of this.

And the reason why he was very aggrieved was because the opposing commander was also very decisive, whether it was decisively letting his flagship go up to stabilize the battle in the face of his own powerful assault, or sending a large number of troops from the rear without hesitation. The fleet is also extremely fast, or it may launch a resolute assault targeting its own control core - the Archon-class aircraft carrier.

Judging from these decisions, the opponent's commander is also a very powerful and powerful figure.

This also allowed Matt Horner to launch an assault while the Galactic Republic was caught off guard, and his plan to destroy the opponent's logistics base eventually fell through.

One of the five shield ships was destroyed, but the remaining four shield ships still held up a small safe area for the Republic fleet to rest and maintain.

In other words, although he used the powerful combat capabilities of the swarm drones to beat the Republic Fleet to the ground, he still failed to achieve his strategic goals in the end.

In the ensuing battle, we can only continue to head-to-head...

until……

The day when a strong astronomical phenomenon came, as Baher-Barnack said.

...

On this day when a fierce battle broke out on the side of the Yago-Dur galaxy - 20BBY, ​​the night of July 21st.

In a hidden uninhabited galaxy in the core circle of the Milky Way, another unprecedentedly large fleet is already making final preparations!

I can only see that in this originally barren galaxy, a large number of space stations, space docks, space factories, and space warehouses have now been built, and a huge forward base has been built.

And near the star of this uninhabited galaxy, a huge disc-shaped device with a diameter of more than 20,000 meters has also been completely completed. On the periphery of the star, hundreds of sets of energy harvesting devices spread out huge solar sails tens of kilometers wide, and then concentrate a huge amount of energy and inject it into that disc!

Everything is ready!