The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

Chapter 2373 Darth Vader's Counterattack

2374, Darth Vader's Counterattack

Ord Pardron, the outer ring of the Milky Way, on the edge of Hutt Space.

This planet is the headquarters of the Iron Lance, the 13th Army of the Galactic Empire. Since the era of the Galactic Republic, the military has monitored the entire Hutt Space from here.

However, with the end of the Hutt Civil War, the Gorensla family has become the only one in power and tried to establish a unified Hutt regime. The control of the 13th Army has been greatly challenged and has gradually lost its deterrent power over Hutt Space.

The last news they got was that the Gorensla family was working with a group of "interstellar pirates" to develop their own pirate ship fleet.

After the Galactic Empire declared war on the Kingdom of Dawn, the Gorensla family had been claiming that the Hutts would remain neutral, but in fact took this opportunity to cut off the connection between Hutt Space and the Galactic Empire.

And after that, a fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn departed from Christophsis and, after defeating the patrol fleet of the Galactic Empire on the planet Farin, broke into the Hutt space and began a fierce exchange of fire with the Thirteenth Army.

The commander of the Kingdom of Dawn who commanded this fleet, according to the communications intercepted by the Galactic Empire, was named C and was a major general. No one knew his real name, nor did anyone know what he looked like - because he always wore a mask.

Compared with the power to independently command a fleet, the rank of major general was obviously low, and it was unknown why.

However, General C commanded his own fleet and defeated the fleet of the Galactic Empire many times.

Although the Galactic Empire had almost no power near the planet Christophsis in the southern border, the unknown General C still showed his outstanding ability by repeatedly defeating the Imperial fleet.

With the severance of the connection between the Outer Rim Star Region and the Empire's homeland, on September 29, 11BBY, General C led the fleet to begin besieging the planet Ode-Padron.

The governor of the 13th Army, Biruul, had already fled back, but he didn't have the courage to return to the center of the Empire, so he could only flee to Alderaan.

On October 4, General Severance Tann led the main force of the Kingdom of Dawn and the Second Task Force to capture Karatooin in the East, entered the jurisdiction of the 12th Army of the Galactic Empire, defeated an Imperial defense fleet on the planet Boonta, and approached the planet of Salukami.

Just as the Galactic Republic had previously besieged Salukami, it opened the passage to the core area of ​​the Confederation of Independent Systems. Now, if Salukami is captured by Severance Tann, the Kingdom of Dawn will be able to contact the core planets of the Confederation of Independent Systems, such as Semirs, Felucia, and Laxus, and further expand the results of the war.

However, the Galactic Empire could no longer tolerate it.

On October 6, the Dark Lord Darth Vader led the main fleet of the Galactic Empire with the Death Squadron as the core from the planet Fondo to attack the planet Yago-Dur!

And according to the precise calculations of astronomers, the Yago-Dur system is in a stable period at the moment, that is to say, attacking at this time will not follow the footsteps of the last Yago-Dur system battle, because it is unable to cope with the sudden astronomical phenomenon and thus fall into a desperate situation.

Darth Vader's attack made the Dawn Kingdom's plan to quickly take over the entire Outer Ring Star Region and the Middle Ring Star Region completely bankrupt.

Originally, according to the plan, at least two Death Star cannons were used to continuously bombard the Fangduo planet, keeping the Fangduo planet on the verge of collapse. In this way, the Imperial Fleet will be more cautious in choosing whether to abandon this industrial core and take the initiative to attack.

This can at least create a favorable environment for General Severance Tann's actions, and at least buy her enough time to capture the Salukami planet and gain sufficient strategic advantages.

But now, due to Darth Vader's decisive and resolute attack, Admiral Severance Tann had to lead the fleet to evacuate from the front line of the Salukami planet and prepare to return to the territory of the Dawn Kingdom. Severance Tann still underestimated Darth Vader's determination to attack. In fact, the Dark Lord not only did not have any scruples because of the continuous bombardment of multiple planets by the Death Star cannon, but was also not frightened by the disastrous defeat of Kira. On the contrary, this stimulated the ferocity in his heart and vowed to give the Kingdom of Dawn a fatal blow!

At the same time, General Ling Liang led the First Task Force, with the Titan battleship Xuanwu as the core, to defend the planet Yago-Dur, preparing to delay time and wait for Severance Tann's fleet to return.

That afternoon, led by the Executor Super Star Destroyer, the Imperial Fleet broke away from the hyperspace jump and appeared on the planet Yago-Dur.

Almost at the same time, the Disaster-class Battlecruiser opened fire, and dozens of dazzling lights lit up the cold universe of the Yago-Dur galaxy.

The third Yago-Dur Battle began!

Under the command of Darth Vader, the Imperial Fleet rushed towards the planet Yago-Dur like crazy. Just as Anakin Skywalker did during the Clone Wars - attack, attack, and attack again!

Before General Severance Tann's main fleet came back to help, capture the planet Yago-Dur! Darth Vader's determination to attack this time was extremely firm, even if Severance Tann chose to change his home and lead the main fleet to directly raid the planet Fondo, he would not hesitate!

No matter what, Darth Vader now has only one goal - Yago-Dur Planet!! He would rather lose Fangduo Planet, an industrial world that took thousands of years to build, than remove the thorn in the eyes of Yago-Dur Planet for the Galactic Empire!

Darth Vader invested more than 300 Imperial-class Star Destroyers in the first wave of offensive, and the fleet from Fangduo Planet was still coming in an endless stream.

Such a crazy attack made General Ling Liang feel great pressure.

Darth Vader was simply crazy. He commanded his Executor Super Star Destroyer to charge directly at the front. The crazy firepower of up to 5,000 heavy turbolaser cannons was almost uninterruptedly poured on the Titan Battleship Xuanwu!

And in fact, it also proved that only in this way can the advantages of the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer be maximized! Compared to the Lusankaya Super Star Destroyer, which was besieged and finally sunk in an extremely frustrating battle, the Executor's crazy firing now obviously poses a fatal threat to the Xuanwu Titan Battleship!

General Ling Liang had to send ten Doomsday Battlefield-class battlecruisers to fire at the Executor with powerful electric destruction devices to weaken the firepower of the Super Star Destroyer as much as possible. The Xuanwu's shield was broken three hours after the battle began, and it is now relying on the fleet shield and its own extremely heavy armor to resist.