The Fourth Scourge of Star Wars

2373, Reorganize the defense line

"Are these bombers all driven by Jedi Knights?" Thrawn said solemnly, "Are you sure?"

"No ordinary person or robot can fly a flying machine at such a speed. Only we can use the Force." Egri said coldly.

"The Kingdom of Dawn cannot have this number of Jedi Knights, and even those who have escaped the net of the Jedi Knights will not choose to serve the Kingdom of Dawn." Thrawn said lightly.

However, although he said this, he had already begun to issue instructions to the staff department to adjust the fleet formation.

One thing that is very different from other generals is that he will not wait until something is truly confirmed before making a decision. For example, now, although he is not sure whether there are 200 Jedi Knights on the opposite side, he only needs to make sure that the opposite side has sent such a fleet to intercept, and he is fully confident that he will be completely destroyed here, then this is enough.

Under his command, although the Imperial Fleet made a gesture of rushing towards the Chiss Fleet to fight a decisive battle, in fact, it has already begun to prepare for retreat.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! ! The Chimera Imperial-class Star Destroyer shook violently, and the soldiers in the control center shouted: "General! Our ship's shield has been broken, and the enemy bombers are bombing our ship's engine!"

"How is the calculation of the hyperspace jump?" Thrawn asked instead.

"It will take 20 minutes to prepare." Egri replied.

"Abandon the ship and transfer to another warship." Thrawn whispered to Egri, "Don't interrupt the process of the hyperspace jump. 20 minutes, can you do it?"

"Do you think we have no chance of winning?" Egri asked.

"Even if there is still a chance of winning, we should not gamble. This is the battlefield chosen by the enemy. We have no reason to persist. Evacuate as soon as possible and preserve our strength." Thrawn said.

"Then, without further ado, let's go." Egri walked out of the bridge without saying a word.

...

On the Sky-class drone carrier, each drone corresponds to a linker and a sacrificial group. The 12-member sacrificial group continued to chant hymns, continuously providing their spirits and spiritual energy to the linkers, and the linkers directly bound their souls to the Holy Land drone bomber.

It was equivalent to that the bomber had become her body at this moment. Any of her thoughts could be received by the bomber instantly and acted immediately.

Coupled with the enhanced spiritual energy of the sacrificial group, each linker could exert a control level comparable to that of a Jedi Knight!

In the center of the entire spaceship temple, there was also a chief priest who was responsible for connecting the spiritual energy and spirit of all linkers to form a combat network and coordinate operations at all times.

120 sacrificial groups performed rituals on their respective altars to control the drone bombers to attack. When the situation was critical, the chanting became more intense and high-pitched, and when the bomber was leaving the battle, the chanting gradually became soothing.

At this time, one of the linkers suddenly spit out a large mouthful of blood, and blood also gushed out of her ears and nose, and her 12-member sacrificial group also staggered at this moment.

The drone bomber they controlled was shot down! The medical priests who had been on standby immediately went forward to check and found that the linker had died, and most of the priests were seriously injured, and 2 people were killed. These medical priests immediately carried out emergency treatment and transferred the injured to the medical room.

The linker and the bomber merged into one. If the bomber was shot down, the soul of the linker would also be severely damaged, and the chance of survival would be very small.

Some bombers were hit by anti-aircraft fire. Although they were not shot down, they were also severely damaged. The linker was also injured, but she still had half her life left. The reserve priests immediately took over her control and drove the damaged bomber back.

On the fleet flagship, Vice Admiral Lin Nanyi looked at the battlefield, his eyes full of admiration, "The Holy Advent Sect is indeed powerful... Your fighters are completely comparable to the Jedi Knights. Although both are controlled by the Force, your combat methods are completely different from those of the Archon-class aircraft carriers..."

"The path of unity is vast and boundless, so naturally there will be different understandings." A priest of the Holy Advent Sect standing next to Lin Nanyi said lightly.

"That's good." Lin Nanyi nodded slightly, and he kept paying attention to the holographic combat star map. It can be seen from the battle situation on the star map that the Imperial Fleet has obviously discovered the powerful combat capabilities of the Sky-class drone carriers, and they are trying to rush over to destroy the two drone carriers.

But Lin Nanyi obviously won't give them this opportunity. He ordered all the warships to maintain their formation and not give the Imperial warships any chance to take advantage of it.

Now, the Dawn Kingdom's troops in the Chis Territory are stretched to the limit. If the battle can be resolved by drone carriers, he doesn't want a fleet decisive battle.

In any case, that is an Imperial-class Star Destroyer.

Although there are countless ways to destroy an Imperial-class Star Destroyer in the Dawn Kingdom Navy, if it comes to a one-on-one duel, there are really not many kilometer-class battleships of the same level that can defeat an Imperial-class Star Destroyer.

Even the most advanced Hell Angels-class battlecruisers can only fight the Imperial-class Star Destroyer on equal terms at most. Other second-generation battleships, including the Cole II-class, can no longer defeat the Imperial-class in a single duel. If we continue to move up, only the level of the Divine Revelation-class battleship can relatively easily kill the Imperial-class.

There is no way. The size of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer is too large. The length of 1,600 meters makes its volume almost two to three times that of all the kilometer-class Star Destroyers currently in service in the Kingdom of Dawn. The energy level improvement brought by this is even more obvious.

Of course, if the combat efficiency and construction cost are taken into account, that is another matter.

In the current situation, the Imperial Fleet actively rushed towards its own fleet, which would definitely be the best result. Not only does it not have to confront the Imperial Fleet head-on, but it can also continue to detour and give the Holy Coming bomber enough bombing time.

However, as the battle progressed, Lin Nanyi finally found something wrong. Because as the Imperial Fleet continued to charge, their formation did not unfold into an attack formation, but always maintained a mobile formation. This is unreasonable!

"No! They want to run away!!" Lin Nanyi shouted, "Order all ships to open fire immediately! Chase the Imperial fleet! Don't let them run away!!"

But his order was still a step late. The Imperial fleet fired a fake shot in the direction of Lin Nanyi, and then decisively started the hyperspace engine, and disappeared in an instant under the bombing of the Holy Bomber.

Only three Imperial-class Star Destroyers were left here because their hyperspace jumps were disturbed and failed.

"Asshole! He actually planned to escape from the beginning! Did he see through my strategy of showing weakness?" Lin Nanyi frowned.

But he didn't care much, because he also successfully blocked the Imperial fleet.

Because he had been playing chess with Thrawn in the air for the past few days, Thrawn's actions were unpredictable, so he didn't have time to set up a hyperspace blocker in advance, so it was difficult to really block the opponent somewhere and catch them all in one fell swoop. After all, the Imperial-class Star Destroyers are also famous for their toughness.

However, due to Thrawn's reckless advance this time, he had the opportunity to shoot down more than half of the warships of the Imperial Fleet in this blocking battle, including 5 Imperial-class Star Destroyers. Lin Nanyi is still very satisfied with this result.

Now it is basically certain that this force of the Galactic Empire will retreat to the mainland and will not continue to threaten the Chis Territory. Then next, they can concentrate on cleaning up the rebel forces in the Chis Territory.

However, if Lin Nanyi knew who escaped from his hands this time and what he was about to do, maybe he would order all the warships to attack frantically from the beginning, no matter what the result, try to keep the opponent as completely as possible!

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At the same time, on October 1, 11 BBY, the Dawn Kingdom Commercial Combined Fleet arrived at the defense line of the Bilbrin planet.

The governor of the Ninth Army of the Galactic Empire, Dunn Wessex, the King of the North, personally went to the headquarters of the entire Northern War Zone and the capital of the Ninth Army, the planet of Palin Minor, to supervise the battle.

He initially tried to bring Admiral Gilad Pellaeon back from the Inquisition, but failed. The Inquisition refused to release him and insisted that Gilad Pellaeon was fully responsible for the failure of the Imperial Fleet in the Mararian Alliance Campaign.

Dunn Wessex could only ask Darth Vader for help. Fortunately, there was no feud between him and Darth Vader. After explaining the defense situation in the North, Darth Vader agreed to rescue him. Anyway, Darth Vader had no good feelings towards the Inquisition controlled by the Black Hole, so he was very happy to take this opportunity to disgust the Black Hole.

However, this matter was still quite complicated, and the failure of the Mararian Alliance Campaign was also on the table. It would take some time to rescue Gilad Pellaeon at this time. Moreover, Darth Vader was gathering the fleet on the planet Fondo and preparing to launch a counterattack. He did not have the energy to return to the center of the Empire to deal with Gilad Pellaeon's affairs for the time being.

Dunn Wessex could only appoint Vice Admiral Kendal Ozzel as the commander to go to the planet Bilbrin to organize defense.

Vice Admiral Ozier had no military achievements before this. He was a member of the famous Ozier family in the core circle. He served as a lecturer at the Coruscant Naval Academy during the Clone Wars. He had a rich theoretical foundation, but almost no practical experience.

At present, Dunn-Wessex could not find a suitable commander for a while, so he planned to give Kendall-Ozier a chance. Anyway, when talking with Vice Admiral Ozier before, Dunn-Wessex was still quite impressed by his set of naval combat theories.

On October 3, the vanguard of the Commercial Union Fleet entered the planet Bilbrin, but was immediately blocked by the complex hyperspace channel and dense asteroid belt.

Vice Admiral Kendall-Ozier immediately organized his fleet into 10 high-speed assault formations, mainly light cruisers, and attacked from all sides. As long as he found any trace of the Commercial Union Fleet, he would immediately go to intercept it and never give the Commercial Union Fleet any chance to gain a foothold.

After a few days, I don’t know how effective it was, but at least it was still in full swing.

No one knew what the Commercial Combined Fleet was planning, and their desire to attack did not seem strong. They just kept sending small groups of troops to harass, and each time they appeared in a different location.

But soon, Vice Admiral Kendall Ozier found the pattern of their actions. He took the initiative to attack and destroyed the light cruisers sent by the Commercial Union Fleet to harass them in an encounter. Among them were 20 Undertaker-class light cruisers and Osprey-class light cruisers, which was a small victory.

This made Vice Admiral Kendall Ozier complacent with the current situation. He believed that as long as he continued like this, the defense line of the planet Bilbrin would be extremely stable.

At this time, because the Jedi Knights appeared in the North, the Imperial Inquisition sent Senior Inquisitor Volytar to lead 6 Inquisitors.

These Inquisitors were independent of the command system. Their only combat order was to kill the Jedi Knights, and they had the power to act completely independently.

On October 4, Vice Admiral Thrawn led the fleet back to the North and went to the planet Palin Minor to report on the battle to Dunn Wessex.

Thrawn was driven out of the unknown star region in disgrace, which made Dunn-Wessex somewhat unhappy. However, since he had brought a glorious victory after all, Dunn did not blame him.

Dunn-Wessex originally planned to let Lieutenant Thrawn continue to be responsible for the defense of the planet Bilbrin in the future, but he gave up the idea. After all, Thrawn was once the deputy general of Gilad Pellaeon, and he had a better understanding of the overall situation of the defense line. In addition, Lieutenant General Kendall Ozier is doing a good job on the defense line of the planet Bilbrin now, so there is no reason to replace him now.

Thrawn is also a lieutenant general, and there is no reason for him to be the adjutant of Lieutenant General Kendall Ozier in the past. Therefore, Dunn-Wessex asked Thrawn to take over the work of Admiral Gilad Pellaeon and fully preside over the command of the overall northern defense line.

At present, the overall war situation of the Galactic Empire is very dangerous, and the imperial military currently has high hopes for the counterattack plan of the Death Squadron in Darth Vader's hands, so their orders to the North are also mainly defensive.

As long as the fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn does not threaten the core circle of the Milky Way, everything will be fine.

However, in order to cooperate with Darth Vader's counterattack plan, although the North had just suffered a defeat, it still saved a lot of warships, so reinforcements will not be given to the North.

Even though Dunn Wessex applied for this many times and even met with Palpatine in person, he did not get permission.

On October 7, the situation suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse. The Commercial Combined Fleet suddenly changed its previous combat style of small fleets to gather a large fleet and raid the planet of Bilbrin!

Lieutenant General Kendall Ozil immediately dispatched troops and fought tit-for-tat, and the battle broke out again on the outskirts of the planet of Bilbrin!