The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2375, The Empire Strikes Back (I)

The Executor Star Destroyer's huge body is very conspicuous even on the cosmic battlefield. The scene of 5,000 heavy turbolaser cannons firing in unison is also very spectacular, with dense red beams flashing continuously, pouring out like rain.

Opposite the Executor, the Black Tortoise Titan battleship is like a lone boat in the wind and rain, swaying in front of the Executor.

Not only because the 19,000-meter-long Black Tortoise Titan battleship is obviously like a child's play in the face of the Executor's super-huge body, but also because of the difference in firepower between the two sides!

Countless explosions exploded on the battleship. Even with a thick main armor belt, even with electric heating armor installed, even with the violent defense mode turned on, allowing countless nanorobots to repair damaged armor at a speed visible to the naked eye, facing the crazy attack of the Executor-class, the Black Tortoise Titan battleship was still seriously damaged.

The wall-like interior of the ship on both sides of the Xuanwu battleship once again emitted a dark red light. As the powerful reactor provided a huge amount of energy, a light green light once again appeared on all the Dawn Kingdom battleships within a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers, including the Xuanwu itself.

Fleet shield!

The Executor Super Star Destroyer didn't care about so much. Whether you were a fleet shield or violent defense, you just opened fire at full power. In one word - explosion!

The light green light covering the Xuanwu Titan battleship dissipated at a very fast speed. Every bright red turbo laser beam fired by the Executor Super Star Destroyer hitting the fleet shield would neutralize part of the shield energy.

And the concentrated bombardment of 5,000 turbo laser cannons was unbearable even for the fleet shield!

The fleet shield was broken, and dense explosions fell on the main armor belt of the battleship again. However, with the buffer of the fleet shield, the trillions of nanorobots in the violent defense mode have repaired a lot of the broken armor belts, and can withstand more attacks.

At the same time, five Dunov-class battlecruisers have come behind the Titan battleship Xuanwu, and they are also fully powered to provide more energy supply for the Titan battleship Xuanwu, increase reactor output, and directly project shield energy.

Undoubtedly, Ling Liang is also doing his best to support the Titan battleship Xuanwu. Because as long as the Xuanwu is still there, the fleet is still there!

Compared with the Titan battleship Xuanwu being suppressed by the Super Star Destroyer Executor, the situation of other battleships on the battlefield of the Kingdom of Dawn is much better.

The Titan battleship Xuanwu almost spared no effort to open the fleet shield continuously, which made the Kingdom of Dawn battleships in dense formations receive very strong protection.

Under the protection of the fleet shield, 80 Hell Angel-class battlecruisers have almost been able to withstand the powerful firepower of hundreds of Imperial-class Star Destroyers until now!

The Hell Angel-class battlecruisers are famous for their powerful and heavy armor, and are equipped with voltage-type thermal armor, which can minimize the damage to the armor caused by high temperatures. This makes this kind of battlecruiser like a wall blocking the front, allowing the crazy attacking Imperial fleet to hit it hard, but it did not make a breakthrough.

For the battleships of the Galactic Empire, thanks to the excellent performance of the turbolaser cannon, the voltage-type thermal armor equipped on the Hell Angel-class battlecruiser cannot completely offset the shooting of the turbolaser cannon. After all, the attack of the turbolaser cannon is the explosive gas heated into plasma. In addition to the high temperature, such an attack also has a powerful explosion power, which can attack the Hell Angel-class battlecruiser.

At a distance of 20 light seconds from the battlefield, 40 disaster-class battlecruisers are also using particle light spears to shoot remotely without interruption. They are also the main firepower output of the Dawn Kingdom Fleet.

In addition, on the battlefield, the Fire Cloud series missile attack of the Martha-class missile heavy cruiser and the hypermatter electromagnetic gun of the Cole-class battlecruiser can also pose a significant threat to the Imperial-class Star Destroyer.

However, the number of the Imperial fleet is too large!

By October 7, the number of Imperial-class Star Destroyers participating in the battle on the planet Yago-Dur had increased to 550! This was the result of a whole day of fighting, with more than 20 destroyed and more than 50 severely damaged!

In other words, in the first day of fighting, the Galactic Empire Navy suffered more than 500,000 casualties!

The Dawn Kingdom's guard fleet also suffered very serious losses, but under the cover of the fleet shields continuously launched by the Titan battleship Basalt, most of the warships were only severely damaged, but rarely sunk.

After a day of fighting, 6 Hell Angel-class battlecruisers were sunk and 42 were severely damaged. Two other battleships were also sunk and 19 were severely damaged. Compared with the heavy losses of the Imperial Fleet, the losses of the Dawn Kingdom Fleet can only be said to be insignificant.

But Darth Vader's offensive did not stop. Not only that, he had not invested any warships other than the Imperial-class Star Destroyers in the battle so far.

He used the powerful Imperial-class Star Destroyer as a huge and crude battle-axe. Even though the technical content was insufficient and the shooting was flawed, the huge body of 1,600 meters and the terrifying energy output of the L-A2B solar furnace reactor were enough to offset the Dawn Kingdom's sophisticated and high-end technological advantages!

Darth Vader's plan was very direct - he directly deployed all the Imperial-class Star Destroyers as the vanguard, and after opening up the situation, he gradually deployed Victory II-class Star Destroyers, as well as various light cruisers, heavy cruisers and other second-line ships to expand the results.

He is not an indecisive wimp like Admiral Michel Unser, such a useless thing! On the other side of his soul is Anakin Skywalker! He is a super commander who participated in almost all large-scale military operations of the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars!

Facing the powerful battleships of the Kingdom of Dawn, he still fights with the mentality of "both want and want", then the result can only be nothing.

Darth Vader assembled more than 2,100 battleships on the planet Fondo! This is his Death Squadron, plus the fleet that attacked the planet Rendili before, plus the defenders of the planet Fondo, a huge force gathered from three aspects.

This fleet is almost the entire mobile fleet of the Galactic Empire!

And this time Darth Vader is determined to destroy the mobile fleet and launch an attack!

It was precisely because of his misjudgment of his determination that Operation Zero, which hoped to contain the Imperial Fleet and form a strategic siege as soon as possible, suffered a heavy blow.

On the afternoon of October 7, the Titan battleship Xuanwu was seriously damaged, and General Ling Liang ordered Xuanwu to withdraw from the battle. At the same time, the Super Star Destroyer Executor was also seriously damaged and began to retreat. However, at this time, the other warships of the First Task Force of the Kingdom of Dawn suddenly felt a sharp increase in pressure and began to suffer serious losses.

As for the Dawn planet, it began to dispatch as many warships as possible from the surrounding areas to reinforce. Facing the offensive of Darth Vader, they even looked a little embarrassed.

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At this time, a difficult choice was also placed in front of Admiral Severance Tann.

Should it be a detour to attack multiple planets, or return directly to add Yago-Dur planet?

The attacking multiple planets are obviously still the implementation of Operation Zero. Taking advantage of the absence of the main fleet of the Galactic Empire, with the help of the Death Star artillery, there is a high probability of capturing it.

But the problem is that the planet Yago-Dur can no longer hold on! (End of this chapter)