The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2351, Battle of the Mararian Alliance (next, next, next)

Reinforcements from both sides are constantly coming. In the middle of this hyperspace channel, in the nameless space, the encounter gradually turned into a decisive battle!

Girard Pellaeon's judgment was not wrong. The Geth ambushed nearly 10,000 warships in this direction, deployed in several different hyperspace channels. Among them, the number of 600 to 800-meter-long dreadnoughts reached 3,000, which is an extremely powerful force.

After encountering the Imperial fleet, Geth warships from other directions also rushed to reinforce. Some of these warships returned to the planet Anxin, and then went to the battlefield to reinforce through the hyperspace channel, while the other part went the other way and directly broke into the planet Geller-Anselm, which had just surrendered.

So on the planet Geller-Anselm, the Geth warships that attacked and part of the follow-up fleet of Girard Pellaeon engaged in a battle.

The two sides are now fighting three battles in the middle of the two hyperspace lanes and on the planet Gler-Anselm.

Girard Pellaeon had made arrangements in advance and was training regularly, so the Imperial fleets in these three directions all changed their formations to the Pellaeon Ring to meet the attack, and the battle entered a white-hot stage.

However, although the number of the Geth fleet is absolutely superior, this advantage is not particularly large. The Geth fleet has 10,000 warships, and because the size of Geth warships is generally small, only 3,000 of them are dreadnoughts.

Girard Pellaeon's fleet has a total of 800 capital ships, half of which are Imperial-class star destroyers, and more than 2,000 small and medium-sized warships, including various types of light cruisers, heavy cruisers, frigates, etc.

Therefore, the actual strength advantage of the Geth fleet is only about 3 to 4 times.

In addition, the performance of the warships of both sides has actually opened up a huge gap.

From the beginning of the Clone Wars to the present, there have not been many improvements to the warships of the Geth. They are still the same types of warships, and there has not been much innovation in technology.

During the Clone Wars, the Geth dreadnoughts could suppress the Jaeger-class battlecruisers, but they had no chance of resistance against the Imperial-class Star Destroyers.

That's right. The Jaeger-class battlecruisers only have 8 main guns with limited power, and a lot of space is used for the hangar platform, and the protection capability is also very insufficient. But the Imperial-class Star Destroyer has 60 main guns, and another 60 plasma cannons specifically used to attack shields, and the hangar platform is reduced to a quarter of the Jaeger-class, with more space to accommodate the huge L-A2B solar furnace reactor and heavier armor.

From the Jaeger-class to the Imperial-class, this is a leap. One Imperial-class can easily destroy ten Jaeger-class ships. Therefore, the Geth dreadnoughts are no match at all.

But the strength of the Geth has sounded the alarm for Gilad Pellaeon, and he is now very nervous. It's not because the Geth fleet is invincible, but because the Geth can gather heavy troops in this direction, so they may also have such a large fleet in other directions! !

And what scares him even more is that he never knew that the Geth actually had so many ships!

Before this, every time the Geth fleet appeared, it was a fleet of 300 ships. Every time it attacked, the larger fleets were only 3 or 4 fleets, more than a thousand warships, and the smaller fleets were just one fleet that hit and ran.

This has long made the Galactic Empire misjudge that the Geth may have only so much productivity. Harassment is no problem, but it is almost impossible to directly threaten the heartland of the empire.

But now, the appearance of nearly 10,000 warships tells Gilad Pellaeon that the Geth really has the ability to kill all the way to the core circle!

Looking at the holographic image of the battlefield where the fierce battle is taking place, Admiral Gilad Pellaeon once again felt extremely regretful. He believed that this active attack was definitely a mistake, and it was very likely that he would fall into the Geth's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain!

Now that the battlefield situation has begun to stabilize, he began to consider whether to retreat back to the planet Gler-Anselm or continue to attack the planet Anxin...

The two sides fought for 17 hours. On September 19, the Geth fleet left behind the wreckage of more than 3,000 warships and began to retreat. After the Geth fleet retreated, Gilad Pellaeon also began to gather his remaining fleet. In the three battlefields combined, he lost a total of 70 battleships and more than 200 small and medium-sized warships, and many of the remaining warships were scarred.

But after all, they also caused very heavy losses to the Geth fleet. It can be said that this huge Geth fleet has been crippled and has almost no ability to continue attacking.

Compared with searching and chasing small-scale Geth fleets all over the world, it is better to solve them all at once in such a decisive battle.

Gilad Pellaeon convened a fleet military meeting to discuss the current battlefield situation.

Compared to his worries, the victory of this encounter made officers at all levels in the fleet feel very optimistic. Almost all officers believed that they should pursue the victory. And one of the combat staff also put forward a reason that was hard to refuse - if they gave up this opportunity, it might be difficult to find another opportunity to fight a decisive battle with a large-scale Geth fleet. At the same time, they also believed that if they continued to attack Anxin Planet, there would probably be no more resistance.

Because the main force of the Commercial Union Fleet is now attacking the Outer Ring Star Region under the leadership of Admiral Mal-Tuk. Under the premise of such a division of forces, if they still have such a large fleet on the planet Anxin, which is enough to threaten their main fleet, then this means that the Kingdom of Dawn has already had an absolute advantage in the northern region, which is impossible.

If they have such an absolute advantage, they will never wait until now.

Girard-Pellaeon was convinced, and at the same time he also believed that he should not retreat after achieving an initial victory. He also believed that the current Galactic Empire, after the disastrous defeat of the Battle of Kira Planet and the complete loss of the Outer Ring Star Region, needs such a reversal from both a strategic and tactical perspective.

He ordered the fleet to temporarily return to the planet Gler-Anselm for a rest and replenishment, which would take about three days.

This decision was understandable, because after this tragic battle, many of his fleet's warships were not in good condition. And to say it was not good, it was not very bad. Basically, one or two days of replenishment and repair would restore them to their best condition.

Therefore, Gilad Perrine planned to rest before attacking, so that he would have a better chance.

However, he had not thought that it was the three days of delay that almost prevented his main fleet from returning to the base on the planet Bilbrin alive! !

At this moment, Admiral Mal-Tuk's fleet was turning back! (End of this chapter)