The Fourth Scourge of Star Wars

2394, The bankruptcy of Operation Zero (Part 2)

However, the Galactic Empire has an extremely deep foundation after all, and its current strength is still extremely strong. Things soon took a turn for the better.

The first thing was that Yago-Dur was blown up by Darth Vader.

Although it will take at least 55 years to truly destroy Yago-Dur, by that time, the grass on the grave of the Galactic Empire will probably be 30 meters high.

But it has a very important meaning, that is, Yago-Dur can no longer be used as a military base.

The underground city of Yago-Dur, which was blown off by the explosion, was severely damaged, and considering the earthquake that was happening on the planet at any time, it was too late to evacuate supplies and personnel from the planet. How could it be possible to store supplies here?

Therefore, it can be foreseen that in the future, a large number of transport ships will be concentrated on Yago-Dur, and a large number of people will be transferred to Losar through the star gate.

This will occupy a large amount of transportation power, and at the same time, the supplies stored on the planet will be consumed in large quantities. In this way, Yago-Dur will no longer be able to maintain its huge industrial system.

With less supplies and no industrial system, Yago-Dur will not be able to station a main fleet for a long time, and can only serve as a transit station at most.

Now the headquarters of the Kingdom of Dawn on this front will be temporarily moved back to the planet of Jinyan.

Jinyan is the home planet of the Gran people. It has a certain industrial base and a large population. It is no problem to use it as the headquarters of the main fleet. But the problem is that if this place is used as the headquarters, it will be difficult to launch further attacks on the Galactic Empire.

Therefore, the Supreme General Staff of the Kingdom of Dawn began to discuss two plans: first, occupy Bestine IV as soon as possible, and then set up a forward base on Bestine IV. Second, set up the forward base on Fangduo.

This is not to say that Fangduo is not good, but because Alexia Ashford has now established her own mother nest on Fangduo. How the environment of Fangduo will change in the future, no one knows at present, but Alexia once said that if the mother nest is established, Fangduo will not be suitable for human habitation.

However, Alexia Ashford was injured by Hydra, the Grand Inquisitor of the Imperial Inquisition, and she is sleeping to repair the damage, so it is impossible to verify it directly with her.

Moreover, after the planet Yago-Dur lost its function as a military base, there is another very serious problem, that is, the range of activities of the Galactic Empire's fleet has become larger!

The current situation is probably like this:

Although Severance Tann and Darth Vader have fought to exchange homes, in fact, there is still a relatively long distance between the planet Fangduo and the planet Yago-Dur.

At present, in terms of the military strength of both sides, Darth Vader has more than 2,200 battleships and 13,000 small and medium-sized warships; Severance Tann's second task force has more than 800 battleships and more than 4,000 small and medium-sized warships; Ling Liang's first task force has 200 battleships and 1,200 small and medium-sized warships.

Such a large force, especially on the side of the Galactic Empire, is difficult to deploy on the battlefield of a planet. For example, when Darth Vader attacked Yago-Dur, if he had already suppressed Ling Liang's first task force, and if he rushed forward and pressed all the warships here, it would be extremely stupid.

The first big problem is the capacity of the hyperspace channel. The navigation of a super-large fleet will intensify the hyperspace fluctuations, making the navigation of subsequent warships extremely unstable. This will cause a temporary interruption of the hyperspace channel.

The huge fleet is concentrated in one place, and the logistical pressure brought is extremely huge. The most intuitive manifestation of the huge logistical pressure is more transport fleets and the stretched escort fleet. Not to mention that it is also planned to land on Yago-Dur!

Once the army begins to land, the supplies it consumes will be even greater. Heavy vehicles, ammunition, wounded, etc., the demand for these materials will make the officials of the logistics department want to commit suicide one by one.

So in this way, whether it is the interstellar pirates or the harassment fleets sent by the Kingdom of Dawn, I am afraid that they will laugh so hard that their back teeth are exposed, and then turn the empire's logistics transportation lines upside down.

Therefore, Darth Vader established forward bases in the nine star systems in the rear. In addition to his Death Squadron, which was the main force, the other fleets were scattered in these nine star systems. In this way, on the one hand, the logistics transportation lines can be controlled and stabilized, and on the other hand, the local supply of those fleets will also reduce the pressure of transportation.

Even if the front-line operations fail, the troops in these forward bases can come to reinforce at the first time and will not miss the opportunity.

Moreover, it goes without saying that the plan of changing one supply line into nine supply lines is more stable. There is no need to worry about the transportation volume problem, nor the overload problem of the hyperspace channel, and even the escort problem can be solved. It is simply perfect.

Therefore, from the planet Yago-Dur to the planet Fangduo, a large area of ​​the star region in between is actually under the control of Darth Vader.

The reason why Severance Tann was able to raid Fangduo was that she actually took another route. Darth Vader set out from Fangduo to attack Yago-Dur. From the perspective of the flat star map, he attacked from north to south; and before that, Severance Tann was attacking the 12th Army of the Galactic Empire in the eastern part of the Milky Way. She rushed back day and night and attacked from east to west.

And on the way to attack Fangduo, Severance Tann also captured Bestin. And the logistical supplies for her attack on Fangduo were actually robbed on Bestin. Because Bestin is also an industrially developed planet, and at the same time, it is a planet with most of its surface covered by the ocean, with rich resources, it is still possible to support Severance Tann's fleet in a short period of time.

This is also the reason why Severance Tann was always anxious when attacking Fangduo-because relying solely on looting on Bestin cannot support the operations of her fleet for a long time. Even now, many riots have broken out on Bestin, and Severance Tann's control over the planet is declining.

So it can be seen that with the capture of Fondo by Severance Tann, Darth Vader blew up Yago-Dur, and now the battle lines of both sides have become a situation of you in me and me in you, which is very complicated.

Darth Vader has forward bases in nine star systems, and Severance Tann also controls Fondo and Bestin. Now they are restraining each other, and they can neither continue to attack the hinterland of the other side nor completely ignore the existence of the other side's fleet. If the fleet is to fight a decisive battle, both sides are still unwilling, so the situation has become a circle around each other.

On January 27, Severance Tann attacked Darth Vader's forward base on German planet, and the Death Squadron immediately went to reinforce, and the two sides fought outside German planet.

The battle lasted less than half a day, with Tann losing 7 battleships and Darth Vader losing 23 battleships, before the Death Squadron retreated. The forward base on the planet Gehrman was destroyed by Severance Tann's orbital bombardment.