The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2338, the destruction of the 17th Army

In such a chaotic situation, it is conceivable that the Imperial military will be involved in a lot of energy, so Governor Octavian Grant and Admiral Gideon Tarkin can only watch the star gate built by the Kingdom of Dawn on the planet Fangduo gradually taking shape.

The Kingdom of Dawn seems to have used a large number of pre-installed parts and then sent them directly. For this reason, they specially dispatched a small fleet to continuously clear the hyperspace channel from the planet Yago-Dur to the planet Fangduo to avoid being intercepted by the Galactic Empire Fleet.

Although the Imperial Fleet is currently unable to intercept.

As a result, in just over a week, the star gate being built next to the third planet of the Fangduo system has actually taken shape! !

This construction speed shocked Octavian Grant, because if the star gate is built at this speed, then the Kingdom of Dawn will be able to build a complete star gate network in a short time. From this, it can be inferred that the interior of the Kingdom of Dawn is likely to be completely covered by the star gate network!

This is simply too terrible!

But now, the defenders of Fangduo Planet dare not take the initiative to attack and destroy this star gate. Because they can't defeat this powerful fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn at all.

However, soon, something happened that made Octavian Grant even more entangled.

On August 34, Admiral Severance Tann suddenly changed her direction and took away two-thirds of the fleet attacking Fangduo Planet. This huge fleet began to turn around, turned on the hyperspace engine, and left just like that!

Severance Tann took away the Taowu Titan battleship, all the God-inspired battleships, 7 Archon-class aircraft carriers, and most of the battleships.

Only more than 300 battleships headed by the Xuanwu Titan battleship and more than 2,000 small and medium-sized battleships are still stationed on the third planet of the Fangduo Galaxy. General Ling also arrived here at this moment, took over the command of this fleet, and reorganized the first task force.

This behavior is a complete slap in the face and provocation!

According to the intelligence of the Imperial Intelligence Agency, Severance Tann's fleet returned to the planet Yago-Dur that night, and then took more than half a day to appear on the planet Eriadu tens of thousands of light years away, and then came to the occupied planet Kira.

Such a series of maneuvers, her huge fleet was completed in less than two days!

On September 1, the Second Task Force of the Kingdom of Dawn led by Severance Tann completely surrounded the planet Vogel. The defense fleet of the planet Vogel was declared annihilated after resisting for less than two hours.

During this process, the defenders of the planet Fangduo remained silent. Even if Severance Tann withdrew most of the fleet in front of them and did not make any covert large-scale attack on the planet Vogel, Octavian Grant and Gideon Tarkin did not dare to make any unusual moves.

They had a huge force of 1,000 battleships, but they were afraid of the 300 battleships left by General Ling and did not dare to attack.

The reason was the "Star Gate" under construction!

With the Titan battleship Xuanwu and more than 180 Hell Angels-class battlecruisers, Gideon Tarkin believed that he could not defeat General Ling's fleet in a short time. And if he could not win quickly, the star gate next to him would probably send a large number of reinforcements.

Severance Tann's fleet might come from the star gate on the same day and destroy them all!

That's right, although Severance Tann moved to Kira in two days and then launched an attack on Vogel, did these two days really take two days, or did Tann deliberately slow down to give them an illusion?

Once a misjudgment occurs, the thing that Gideon Tarkin dared not to do the most now will happen - a fleet decisive battle!

If it loses in the fleet decisive battle, Fangduo will follow the footsteps of Kira - losing all the fleets in the decisive battle, and then the separatists will easily land on the planet and occupy it in a short time!

In other words, if the fleet is still there, even if the planet is bombed to pieces, there is still a chance. However, if the fleet is gone, then the planet will become a fish on the chopping board, with no resistance.

Governor Octavian Grant can only send a message to the Imperial Center, indicating that he is not strong enough and cannot take the initiative to attack. He hopes that the Imperial military will organize another fleet to intercept Severance Tann's main fleet.

So in such hesitation, on September 3, Vogel, who had only resisted for two days, announced its surrender, and the 17th Army of the Galactic Empire was declared destroyed!

At this point, you may be confused. Why was the 17th Army of the Galactic Empire so easily destroyed in two days? Previously, whether it was the 19th Army, the 18th Army, or the 14th Army destroyed by the Techno-Union, or the 8th Army destroyed in the North, these legions had put up a very determined resistance, and were finally destroyed after a long battle.

But in fact, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion by listing the planets under the jurisdiction of the 17th Army of the Galactic Empire.

The Galactic Republic began to divide the 20 major legions, among which the 17th Army was also known as the Chrome Shield, with its capital on the planet Vogel. It has jurisdiction over the planets Naboo, Ennako, Malastar, Harunkar, Kalinda, Kira, and Pax...

Does it look familiar?

Yes, in fact, the 17th Army has been beaten to pieces.

Since the Kingdom of Dawn occupied Eriadu and destroyed the 18th Army, every military action they took in this direction was fought on the territory of the 17th Army.

Including the Battle of Malastar and the Battle of Harunkar that broke out in the middle of the Clone Wars; and the Battle of Ennako launched by General Ling at the end of the Clone Wars in order to contain the Galactic Republic. Then there is this time, when Severance-Tan lured the Imperial Fleet to Naboo and annihilated it in one fell swoop, and then invaded and occupied the fortress of Kira.

After this series of battles, the military strength of the 17th Army had long been destroyed, and the administrative system was also riddled with holes. After Malastar and Harunkar were occupied by the Kingdom of Dawn, their own jurisdiction was also fragmented, the most important hyperspace channel was cut off, and it became difficult to provide support.

So even though the transportation location of Vogel is actually more suitable for controlling the hyperspace channel and is closer to Eriadu, in order to intercept the Kingdom of Dawn, the Galactic Empire set up a military base and stationed troops on Kira, but did not choose Vogel. This is the reason.

The 17th Army has long been in name only. Their Governor Lynch-Hauser has long abandoned Vogel and ran to the center of the Empire to work remotely.

This time, Severance-Tan just nailed the coffin lid of the 17th Army completely. (End of this chapter)