The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2336. Secret Weapon (Part 2)

"Let's not talk about it for now! Now we have determined that the Separatists have a secret weapon that can make a huge nuclear bomb appear on the battlefield without warning and hit one of our space stations very accurately!" Gideon -When Tarkin said this, he felt his voice trembling a little.

Bang! He punched the table again and knocked an unplaced cup onto the ground. The juice inside spilled all over the floor, forming a large stain on the expensive carpet.

Admiral Gideon said viciously: "If the opponent is targeting the space station this time, what about the next time? Is it our flagship? This time it is a nuclear bomb. What if it is a proton torpedo next time?"

Everyone present took a breath.

Indeed, the 19,000-meter-long Executor-class super Star Destroyer they were sitting on, the Morak, was much larger than the space station array that had just been blown up! !

And if the separatists really want to launch a super giant proton torpedo with a length of 80 meters, then the Morak really can't handle it! You know, even the super-heavy proton torpedo launched from the Ogre-class siege cruiser is only 30 meters long, and 25 meters of it are propellers and electronic components. The proton warhead is only about 3 meters long.

However, this 80-meter-long thing doesn't look like it has propellers. In other words, this whole thing is a complete, insanely large warhead! !

"Immediately... let the warship maneuver to avoid it! Don't stop for a moment!" The captain of the Morak quickly turned around and gave the order loudly.

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At the same time, in the outer orbit of Planet 3, the Kingdom of Dawn fleet is stationed.

On the bridge of the flagship Titan battleship Yuanzhu, a senior engineer wearing a black military uniform came to the fleet commander-in-chief Severance Tann and said in a low voice: "General Tann, the number one commander of the Death Star artillery. The launch failed and did not hit the target..."

The existence of the Death Star cannon is the top secret even within the Kingdom of Dawn. Among this fleet, only this senior engineer knows about the Death Star cannon. In addition, he also has a technical team to provide Severance- Tann provided technical support related to the Death Star cannon and collected actual combat data.

"What do you mean you didn't hit the target?" Severance Tann was a little confused.

The Death Star cannon is currently the top-secret super weapon of the Kingdom of Dawn. It is a weapon that can launch super-large nuclear bombs to directly attack planets tens of thousands of light-years away. This 70-kilometer-long launcher is currently located on the planet Hoth.

Because of its extremely long range, this weapon is almost impossible to counter. However, because the range is so long, the Death Star cannon can only be used to target planet-level targets. After all, the orbit of the planet is fixed, and it is so big that it cannot hit even small targets.

The engineer in black sighed and said: "This first launch accidentally hit a space station of the Galactic Empire. It failed to explode the planetary shield. Therefore, we are not yet sure about the actual combat effectiveness of the Death Star artillery against the planetary shield. How much damage is done..."

"Hit an armed space station?" Severance Tann smiled coldly, "I would like to ask you how you can hit an armed space station with a Death Star cannon."

"This... can only be said to be a problem of extremely low probability..." Cold sweat flowed from the forehead of the engineer in black.

Indeed, if hitting a planet with a Death Star cannon is described as hitting an apple with a sniper rifle from 10,000 meters away, then hitting an armed space station is equivalent to hitting a grain of sand. This probability cannot be said to be non-existent, it is almost impossible.

"Hmph. When is the next attack?" Tann asked.

"The charging time of the Death Star cannon is about 5 hours, and the time it takes for the shells to be fired from the planet Hoth to the planet Fondo is about 26 hours. In other words, the second attack will not arrive until 31 hours later." said the black-clad engineer .

"Let the Death Star artillery stop firing first," Severance Tann said. "It's rare that you have created a miracle. I would like to see how the Imperial Navy people plan to react."

"Yes." The engineer in black immediately walked over and asked the technicians on the Death Star cannon to pause firing through hyperspace communication.

The entire Fondo planet battlefield fell into an eerie silence for a while. Except for the continuous bombardment by the Catastrophe-class, Paladin-class, and Cole-class battlecruisers, there was basically no movement from both sides.

Of course, the engineering team of the Kingdom of Dawn is not idle. They have invested a large number of engineering ships and engineering robots to build an advance base on Planet Three all the time.

Sure enough, after about 2 hours, the defenders of the Galactic Empire began to take action.

They separated out a fleet of about 400 capital ships and 2,000 small and medium-sized warships and began to move in the direction of Planet Three.

A sneer appeared on the corner of Severance Tann's mouth, and she immediately ordered, "Call the ships to form a defensive formation and not to go to war. Let all the warships that bombard from long range come back."

"yes!"

This Imperial fleet did come to take the initiative to attack, because a space station was directly destroyed, which forced Admiral Gideon Tarkin to make a choice. He was worried that this kind of bombing would continue, so he detached some warships to take the initiative to attack, hoping to put some pressure on the separatist fleet that had been standing still.

He believed that there must be a reason why this kind of unpredictable nuclear attack had not been used before, and it was not launched until Severance-Tann's fleet arrived at the planet Fondo. It is very likely that the opponent's fleet provided navigation for this nuclear attack.

It was not until August 22 that the Imperial Fleet approached Planet No. 3 and carried out a long-range orbital bombing on the planet. Severance-Tann then ordered his fleet to take the initiative to meet it.

At this time, it was already the third day since the Dawn Kingdom Fleet arrived at Planet Fondo, and the fleets of both sides had their first exchange of fire near Planet No. 3.

There was almost no suspense in this battle. In the fleet of the Dawn Kingdom, the Archon-class aircraft carrier launched tens of thousands of unmanned interceptors, which flew densely towards the Imperial Fleet. At the same time, other warships continued to fire while advancing. And the first to bear the brunt were the 10 aggressive Divine Revelation-class battleships!

However, the Imperial fleet did not intend to fight a decisive battle. While they were firing back, they began to turn and fly to the other side, preparing to leave the battlefield.

At the same time, another part of the Imperial fleet also began to advance, launching long-range attacks on the Kingdom of Dawn fleet to cover the retreat of the vanguard fleet.

In this exchange of fire, the Galactic Empire lost 11 Imperial-class Star Destroyers and more than 40 small and medium-sized warships of various types. And Severance-Tan did not continue to pursue, but returned to the outer space of Planet No. 3, continued to let Planet No. 3 block the detection, and continued to stay put.

The fleet of the Galactic Empire once again reaffirmed its intention to retreat. After returning to the defense system of the planet Fangduo, it never came out again.

Severance-Tan also ordered the Death Star artillery to continue to fire and bombard. In the next few days, the Death Star artillery fired 19 shells, all of which accurately hit the planet Fangduo. And this time, no unlucky space station was hit.

The continuous bombing of billion-ton nuclear bombs made the Imperial Fleet Commander Gideon Tarkin upset.