1061. The day of decisive battle (3)
21BBY, July 1st. This day is also one of Fourth Civilization's legal Boxing Days. There is no special reason. It is said that their leader Tang Xiao just tapped a few dates on the calendar with a wave of his hand and then decided on it. As for its significance, naturally there are a large number of sociologists and humanists to supplement it.
Eriadu, outer space.
A large number of Fourth Civilization fleet gathered here, constantly launching nuclear missiles and Proton Torpedo towards the heavily surrounded Eriadu. Terrible explosions continue to explode on the planet Planetary Shield. The energy ripples set off by each explosion on Planetary Shield are at least hundreds of kilometers in diameter. Some large explosions can even cause a scene like a storm within a range of thousands of kilometers of Planetary Shield!
Behind this large group of fleets, two Dawn's Radiance-class motherships were parked there, with all cabins and construction modules fully unfolded, becoming two huge space factories that continuously produced war supplies.
Hundreds of transport ships took off from Eriadu satellite. They first came to the three Luukri-Hok-class battleship in the outer orbit of the satellite for distribution and transfer, and then sent a large amount of combat materials to the fleet or the mothership to support this battle.
Capturing Eriadu satellite is a key part of this battle. Facing the highly industrialized planet Eriadu, with the hyperspace channel almost closed, the war resources on the satellite are the key factor to meet the needs of the fleet.
Not only Eriadu satellite, Eriadu system, including Talastra Planet, interstellar mines on several other planets have also begun operations, transporting large amounts of resources to satellites.
Planetary Shield, which attacks a planet, competes for resources and energy.
After cutting off foreign aid and occupying other planets in the galaxy, Fourth Civilization's fleet finally gained the upper hand!
Now the Fourth Civilization fleet has even begun to make arrangements for what will happen after occupying the planet. More than a dozen Raloz-class Heavy Constructors have begun to lay out basic structures on the outer orbits of the north and south poles of the planet at the same time, and have begun to build two Agonev-class star bases.
After communicating with the sensor department, a staff officer raised his wrist and received a piece of data with Omni-tool. Then he quickly came to the center of the bridge and looked at Fleet Commander who was sitting at attention. Admiral of the Navy Sefrans-Tann stood at attention and saluted, then transferred the data to Omni-tool of Tann, and said, "General, according to calculations, we will break through Planetary Shield of Eriadu within the next 5 to 8 hours!"
Sefrans-Tann looked at the light screen that appeared on Omni-tool, nodded with a cold face and said, "Notify Ling Liang to let her army perform well. There are less than two months left in the hyperspace storm, and Eriadu must be captured within this time!"
"But... didn't General Ling say at the last military meeting that it would be almost impossible to capture Airi within two months..." Before the staff official finished speaking, he was glared at by Sefrans-Tann's cold eyes, and he lowered his head and did not dare to speak.
Sefrans-Tann stood up from his seat, came to the porthole, crossed his arms, looked at the flaming planet outside the window, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
In the direction of Eriadu satellite, transport ships and landing ships took off one after another. Among these small and medium-sized warships, the huge and flat bodies of five Corsev Battlecruiser also began to slowly rise into the air, adjust their direction, and fly in the direction of Eriadu.
Among these spaceships are a full 1.3 million troops!
Eriadu, the capital Eriadu City, the capital of the planet (I am really speechless, I am so annoyed with this planet! This is crazy Eriadu system, Eriadu star, Eriadu, Eriadu satellite, Eriadu City, I'm not done telling you yet, there are Eriadu Shipyard, Eriadu spaceport, Eriadu Launch Center... all of them have the same name! I won't mention it anymore, I changed it to Eri-Xiang City when I came, and it's not easy for me to say hello to Jesus!
Galactic Republic 18th Army Governor Wilhuff-Tarkin had a stern face. He also stood in front of the window, looking up at the flaming sky.
The sky at this moment seemed to have an extremely huge display screen, which was constantly playing flames and light, but he knew that in a few hours, the display screen would shatter, and then the terrifying explosions and flames would fall to the ground without any obstruction.
Eriadu, which once became the business center of Outer Rim of the galaxy with a very developed economy and industry, finally faced the final moment after more than three months of back-and-forth fighting.
"Your Majesty the Governor, the Eri-Xiang City underground command center has been prepared. Please move there to command operations." A staff officer came over and said.
Tarkin took a deep look at the burning sky, did not speak, just turned around and left.
Arriving at the underground command center hundreds of meters deep, hundreds of Commander and staff members at all levels were already busy. In the center is a very huge holographic projection of the planet, which is marked with dense markings. This is the deployment of tens of thousands of military important locations on the entire planet.
On the bustling planet Eriadu, an impenetrable ground defense line is being built.
But from another perspective, that's not the case...
On the surface of the planet, the once bustling cities are now lifeless. The streets are full of skinny and hungry people. In front of the only few food distribution points, countless people line up in long queues. They hold random containers in their hands, waiting for the arrival of the next food distribution.
Almost everyone's face was numb and expressionless.
Even when they occasionally looked up at the burning sky, there was no wave on their faces. They didn't even feel the slightest fear about the sea of fire that might be about to fall.
Some soldiers were patrolling with guns, each of them wearing a black mask, which could hide their expressions that may also be panic. But the black masks also obscured their humanity. Once they found someone cutting in line, they would not hesitate to open fire! Then the body was left to rot on the ground, with no one paying attention.
There were several hover trucks slowly moving forward on the street. The surrounding Galactic Republic soldiers wearing simple military uniforms and holding Blaster rifle in their hands walked in front of the crowd. Once they saw someone with a slightly stronger body, they immediately said hello. The person who was called immediately ran over, took a piece of bread and a blaster, climbed onto the truck, and joined their queue.
Only the skinny old, weak, sick and disabled are left, still desperately waiting for the rationed food...
Eriadu, the pre-war population was 22 billion, the current population...
13 billion!