The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

700、Stopped Footsteps

After the Ewoks joined the battle, the plans of the Lottas to fight guerrilla warfare on the planet fell through. The ensuing revenge and purge suddenly swept the entire planet.

Millions of people were implicated and arrested, and then sent to work in the harsh conditions of the mines. It is estimated that three out of ten will survive.

However, the Lota people are fierce by nature after all, even so, they still set off several armed riots. After completing the capture mission, Huang Yehao's unit made several attacks to fight the militants.

Huang Yehao and Cummings witnessed with their own eyes the process in which the weapons in the hands of the militants changed from rocket launchers and blaster rifles to pistols, homemade bombs, and then to wooden sticks and long knives, but the resistance continued.

Their blood is also getting colder and colder, and their gazes looking across the battlefield are also getting colder.

There is a saying that is true, you cannot change the war, so you can only wait for the war to change you.

As the time entered September of 22BBY, the flames of resistance on planet Lota and Planet Harvin gradually extinguished. No matter how much hatred the residents of these two planets felt in their hearts, they could only bury it deeply in their hearts. Order was gradually restored, and workers, farmers, and administrators returned to their posts one after another, and then began to work under the supervision of robots.

While continuing to wipe out the remaining forces of the 19th Army, the Fourth Civilization also began to adjust its defense forces in a targeted manner.

Planet Karl, which was an important line of defense for the 19th Army, is no longer so important. The Fourth Civilization began to move its defense forces northward to the Golden Rock planet to which the Granites belonged. This place can block the imminent move of the 20th Army of the Republic, and it can also secretly support the activities of the Ji Wen people on the planet Jager-Dur. Once the news that the Ji Wen people are members of the Confederation of Independent Galaxies can no longer be concealed, then the Golden Rock planet will be the support An important fulcrum of Yager-Durr's planetary defense operations.

The Laz-class heavy engineering ship began to go to the Golden Rock planet and began to build a brand new Argonev-class interstellar base. The huge mineral transport ship of the United Mining Group keeps going back and forth between Planet Karl and Planet Golden Rock, transporting the wreckage of the heavily armed space stations of the Republic that were originally destroyed on the planet Karl's defense line, as part of the raw materials for the construction of the interstellar base.

And once this Agniev-class interstellar base is completed, the Granites can only completely submit to the fourth civilization, otherwise, this interstellar base is capable of burning glass directly on the Golden Rock planet.

In addition, the fourth civilization A fleet captured the planet Manpha (Manpha), and directly stationed here. There are tens of millions of Shawda Ubbs living on the planet Manfa. This is a small amphibious race with very backward civilization and technology. It has not yet gotten rid of the primitive tribal society and is just beginning to integrate into the republic society. primary level.

However, there is still a spaceport on the planet Manfa, Shanpan Spaceport.

After the fourth civilization occupied Manfa Planet, Shanpan Port became busy, and the daily cargo throughput almost immediately made this small space port almost explode. As a last resort, Matt Horner could only withdraw two-thirds of the fleet to the rear.

The deployment on Manfa Planet is mainly to threaten the border transportation hub of the 18th Army of the Republic - Terminus Planet, which is also the place that Matt Horner has never forgotten before, hoping to use the power of the Plague to conquer it.

In fact, his opinion is not unreasonable, because if you want to attack the planet Terminus, the only and most convenient hyperspace channel is through the planet Manfa.

However, the backward planet Manfa is simply unable to support the logistical supplies for large-scale fleet operations, while the planet Terminus has a complete industrial and logistics system. The two huge differences make the Fourth Civilization's influence on the planet Terminus The offense was very tough.

On the contrary, once the planet Terminus can be captured, the fourth civilization's strategic space against the 18th Army will suddenly become clear, not to mention occupying an advantage, at least it can be retracted freely.

So if you can use the power of the Plague to conquer it in one fell swoop, then you don't have to worry about the logistics of Planet Manfa anymore. It's a pity that Tang Xiao finally chose another more radical and risky plan of Severance Tann——

Assault on Kato-Nimoidia.

But as Tang Xiao said, this is a decision from the perspective of Darth Malthael.

After all, the reason why the Trade Federation joined the Confederation of Independent Galaxies was that on the one hand, his master, Hego Damask II, was the one who set the bridge, but in the end Newt Gunley was promoted to the position of Governor of the Trade Federation, and the Trade Federation The person who was pulled into the ranks of separatism was Darth Sidious.

So the Trade Federation can be said to be the direct line of Darth Sidious - of course, the kind of direct line that is fattened and slaughtered.

However, the direct line is the direct line after all, and now the Trade Union still follows Darth Sidious's orders to act.

However, for Darth Malthael, the cowardly and vacillating Newt Gunray was an object to be won, and one that must be won!

Now Newt Gunley has a good relationship with Fourth Civilization. The main reason is that he thinks that Tang Xiao, like him, was dragged aboard by Darth Sidious, so he feels sympathy for each other. But if you start with such a relationship, and then slowly plant the fear of Darth Malthael in Newt Gunray's heart, there is a chance to win Newt Gunray over.

Sending the Plague directly into Cato-Neimoidia was an opportunity to show Newt Gunray the mighty power of the dark side of Darth Malthael.

You must know that the end of the Clone Wars began after Newt Gunley entered the password to shut down all the combat robots in the entire Federation of Independent Galaxies.

Why Darth Sidious has the confidence to say that he wants the war to end when he wants it to end, this is one of the biggest reliances.

If this reliance becomes Darth Malthael's, it would be too temple.

Compared with this, it is not so unacceptable to throw Matt Horner into the swamp of the planet Manfa, struggle to expand the spaceport and build infrastructure.

The B Fleet led by Lin Nanyi is temporarily stationed on the planet Glenson. On the one hand, it echoes the planet Harvin, and guards this planet, which can be said to be the most important planet of the fourth civilization besides the Dawn star. On the other hand, On the one hand, it occupies this hyperspace channel that can lead directly to the capital of the 18th Army of the Republic - the planet Eliadu.

Undoubtedly, this hyperspace channel was cut off by countless air mines and hyperspace blockers, and it was impossible to go directly there, but it has also become a direct fleet confrontation point between the Fourth Civilization and the 18th Army.

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During this period of time, the Fourth Civilization actually had no room for further expansion, so Tang Xiao focused his energy on consolidating the rule of the occupied area.

But it doesn't mean that he can let the governor of the 18th Army of the Galactic Republic, the famous Wilhuff Tarkin in the future, be able to sleep peacefully.

Others don't know what will happen to Tarkin's future, but Tang Xiao knows it all.

As the first high-level governor of the Galactic Empire after the establishment of the Galactic Empire, and the highest-ranking military leader under the Emperor Darth Sidious, Willhuff Tarkin, in the foreseeable future, will be a Very tricky and powerful enemies!