2320. Next target
The fleet stationed at Kira planet was completely wiped out! Executor-class Super Star Destroyer's second ship Lusankya was sunk! Kira planet Planetary Shield has been compromised!
The Company One message was almost like a heavy hammer, directly blinding Imperial military.
Countless the Empire military scientists have deduced countless possibilities for this war, but none of them could foresee such a disastrous defeat like now!
A complete fiasco!
Since the Galactic Republic period, there have been countless large and small battles with Duchy of Dawn, but none of them have been like this, a disastrous defeat without any power to fight back! In the past, even if they failed, Galactic Republic and Galactic Empire could use their strong national power to cause the same heavy damage to Duchy of Dawn.
Even if they kill a thousand enemies and lose five thousand, they can afford the loss.
Therefore, Galactic Republic and Galactic Empire were able to suppress Duchy of Dawn with their superiority in national power, so that they could only settle in a corner, blocking the Yago-Dur planet and Eriadu, unable to make any progress.
However, this battle that took place at Kira planet completely destroyed the self-confidence that Galactic Empire had maintained for a long time!
Because Duchy of Dawn proved in this battle that they can already bring the battle loss ratio to one to one hundred when the number of battleships is equal! Even Galactic Empire cannot afford such an exchange ratio!
The gap between the two sides in technology, tactics and strategy has even exceeded the gap between national strength and size to a large extent.
The battle of Kira planet made all Imperial military executives deeply aware that defeat has become an option that must be considered.
In order to respond as quickly as possible, Emperor Palpatine personally ordered Das-Vader, who was attacking Rendili Planet, to quickly lead his army back to Imperial Center for repairs, and immediately began to form a more powerful mobile fleet, preparing to intercept the extremely powerful fleet of Duchy of Dawn.
According to Imperial military's estimate, this fleet needs at least 3,000 capital ships and at least 4 Executor-class Super Star Destroyer to have the possibility of victory. However, a fleet of this size has exceeded the carrying capacity of any hyperspace channel in the galaxy, and cannot be assembled directly at once.
Therefore, Imperial military's plan is to choose a battlefield and respond to Duchy of Dawn's fleet in a defensive combat posture.
Therefore, at this time, the movement of Duchy of Dawn's main fleet is very critical.
According to the fact that Duchy of Dawn can quickly maneuver through the star gate, and Intelligence Department based on the process of Planet Kira Campaign this time, they have determined that there is a star gate link between Eriadu and the Yago-Dur planet. Then a very real situation is that Galactic Empire's other fortress planet - Fondor Planet, is likely to face the threat of Duchy of Dawn soon.
However, Fondor Planet is no better than Kira planet. Fondor Planet itself is one of the Galactic Empire's largest industrial centers and has a very large industrial production capacity. Therefore, the defensive power of Fondor Planet is more than a hundred times that of Kira planet!
If a battle breaks out on Fondor Planet, then perhaps this will be the best opportunity for the Galactic Empire to severely damage Duchy of Dawn fleet.
But what is most scary now is that Duchy of Dawn will not attack Fondor Planet, but will attack elsewhere. And after the fall of Kira planet, Duchy of Dawn has opened up Hydian Way. Through this channel, they can directly expand their sphere of influence to the area close to Inner Rim of the galaxy!
While the military was intensively formulating a combat plan and searching for available warships everywhere, Emperor Palpatine also personally issued an order to Kira planet: The surface of the planet must be completely defended, and Kira planet should be used as a solid fortress to hold Duchy of Dawn back!
At the same time, Imperial military will try its best to ensure the material supply of Kira planet, supporting the ground forces to carry out the most resolute resistance against Duchy of Dawn's invading troops.
At this time, Sefrans-Tann were also discussing the next battle plan with Ling Liang.
In fact, it is better to say that it is a discussion than a unilateral arrangement and arrangement by Sefrans-Tann. She now travels across the galaxy and is invincible. She is the well-deserved number one general in the galaxy, and can even be said to be an invincible general! This made her, who was already arrogant and arrogant, even more domineering.
Naturally, it is impossible for her to take Ling Liang seriously.
Sefrans-Tann asked Ling Liang to continue commanding Kira planet's ground landing operations for a very good reason - while Ling Liang was serving as Sector Governor Sethvenna, her military position was also Army General, and she did not belong to the navy. Therefore, as an army, there is no problem in commanding landing operations.
As for Sefrans-Tann herself, she is planning a crazy battle plan, and this plan is what Imperial military is most worried about - Fondor Planet (Fondor)!
Fondor Planet is a planet where the entire planet is completely factory-based. Yes, it is factory-based. In other words, the entire planet is completely a huge factory. On the surface of the planet, there are cooling towers, manufacturing centers, loading and unloading platforms, underground goaf platforms, steam tunnels, and power stations everywhere. There is no green left on the entire planet, only hot metal.
This is one of the most important industrial planets for the Galactic Empire, and it is currently the only planet that can produce Executor-class Super Star Destroyer. The other planet is Quat Planet.
Although Fondor Planet did not build an industrial Star Ring like Quat Planet, the densely packed Space Shipyard, spaceports, and armed space stations still formed an iron wall around Fondor Planet.
Moreover, Fondor Planet itself has a small population, only about 5 billion, but the planet has tens of billions of engineering robots to maintain the operation of countless factories.
It can be said that once Fondor Planet is captured, the industrial production capacity of the Galactic Empire will directly drop by one-tenth! This is no exaggeration! And due to the interruption of supply of many parts produced here, Galactic Empire's industrial production capacity may drop by as much as a quarter before production is reorganized!
But if you want to capture this place, the difficulty is completely incomparable with Kira planet.
For example, using the Particle Beam Lance long-range bombing tactic, there is no need to worry about Fondor Planet. After all, Particle Beam Lance is only used to deal with warships. It is used for bombing Planetary Shield and fixed interstellar facilities. This firepower is not enough. With the production capacity of Fondor Planet, it may not be able to fight as fast as they can repair it.
At the same time, once Fondor Planet is attacked, the warships produced by the planet will no longer be supplied to other places and will be used exclusively for defense. Then this planet will have a steady supply of battleships, and even if the battle spreads to the surface of the planet, then the ground forces will face the production of hundreds of thousands of combat robots every day!
The self-sustainability of a fleet is certainly more than enough to fight against planets that are not sufficiently industrialized, but if compared with a completely factory-based planet like Fondor Planet, it is completely inadequate.
But Sefrans-Tann had no fear at all. After leaving a small number of warships for Ling Liang to maintain the blockade on Kira planet, she led the main fleet back to Dawn Star Planet. Her fleet will undergo three days of repairs at Dawn Star Planet, and after that, it will directly attack Fondor Planet!
At the same time, under the command of General Ling, Duchy of Dawn's ground landing operation against Kira planet also officially started!
According to Operation Zero, Kira planet is best to be captured directly. Because there are a large number of factories and shipyards on this planet, they can serve as a very important forward supply base.
Because among Sith Vena star sector, Eriadu is just a fortress planet, and its industrial production capacity is actually not high. Compared with Kira planet, the other industrial center of Sith Vena star sector, Celeste Triangle Industrial Zone, is still too far away from the front line.
And if Kira planet can be captured relatively completely, logistical supplies will be very convenient in subsequent military operations, and the success rate of Operation Zero will also be greater.
Of course, Ling Liang is still fully prepared for the defenders who can quickly defeat Galactic Empire during the landing operation.
Galactic Standard Time At 22:00 on the evening of August 8, three Leviathan-class passenger liner flew to Kira planet's outer space and merged with Ling Liang's First Task Force.
The three Leviathan-class passenger liners are all black and appear to have been modified. They should not be used to transport immigrants.
What is even more unsettling is that these spacecrafts are all spray-painted with a huge red and white umbrella-shaped logo.
Umbrella Pharmaceutical Group!
Two hours later, Ling Liang gave the order and the landing operation officially began!
20 Kohl-class Battlecruiser and 40 Victory II-class Star Destroyer began to lower their altitude. Victory II-class Star Destroyer was on alert around them, and Kohl-class Battlecruiser launched hundreds of super-large-yield nuclear bombs on the surface of the planet.
Kira planet's ground anti-aircraft firepower almost opened fire wildly, but while Ling Liang's fleet was launching nuclear bombs, it was also attacking the ground with Turbolaser cannons.
For a time, the bombed area on the planet's surface was blazing with flames, and the terrible explosions and flames almost stretched for hundreds of kilometers!
Immediately afterwards, the five Corsev Battlecruiser began to lower their altitude. This ugly warship, which looked like a coal ship, was equipped with a large number of airborne pods. After reaching a suitable altitude, these airborne capsules were launched towards the ground.
boom! boom! boom!! Thousands of airborne pods hit the ground. As they landed, the mini-bombs inside the airborne pod exploded. The airborne pod instantly disintegrated and more than a dozen howling Indjori rushed out from inside!
This is Indjori Avenger Type 103!
These are all Indjori produced through cloning technology, and through the transformation of T-Virus, they have become the most terrifying biological weapons. This is also one of Duchy of Dawn's most powerful land combat units. Type 103 is the third improved model of Indjori Vengeance. The IQ of this model of Indjori Vengeance has been greatly improved, and it can now use various firearms freely without having to carry a B-1 combat robot on its back as long-range fire support.
After landing, the roaring Indjori Vengeance began to rush towards the intended target. Any target that moved along the way would be completely torn into pieces by them!
Indjori Vengeance conducts Orbital Drop as the vanguard of the landing operation. This is actually the basic operation of the Duchy of Dawn Army. But this time, strange things started to happen.
Duchy of Dawn did not invest in APOD-33 transport aircraft and Pelican transport to send regular marine troops to the surface of the planet to cooperate with Indjori Vengeance's operations as before. They just lowered the three strange Leviathan-class passenger liners and entered the planet's atmosphere under the protection of several Victory II-class Star Destroyers.
This extremely fragile passenger spacecraft soon became a priority target of ground anti-aircraft fire. The slow and fragile passenger spacecraft soon exploded violently under the concentrated attack of countless anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missiles, and then disintegrated and fell.
Victory II-class Star Destroyer, who was in charge of the escort, seemed to have no time to feel sad about the crash of these spacecrafts. They symbolically fired at the ground, completely destroying the several air defense fire points that had just been exposed, then raised their altitude and returned to the outer space of the planet.
At this moment, in a ground orbital defense system base on Kira planet, the defenders of the position were repairing the orbital defense cannon they were stationed at.
This is an extremely huge super cannon, the V-150 Planet Defender Orbital Cannon.
The main body of the giant cannon is a sphere with a diameter of more than 100 meters. In the center of the sphere is a huge 20-meter-long barrel Group One. This super cannon fires an extremely powerful particle beam. Because it has to pass through the atmosphere, its maximum range is only 180,000 to 200,000 kilometers. But even so, this range is enough, and it is a fatal threat to warships in outer space.
But the disadvantage is that the shooting window of this kind of orbital defense cannon is very short. Once it moves to the other side with the rotation of the planet, it will not be able to hit the target. At the same time, this kind of giant cannon is also very expensive and requires a series of power supply systems and defense facilities. Ordinary planets generally will not spend the price of a cruiser to install this kind of equipment that can only provide limited protection.
However, Kira planet is different after all. There are more than 40 sets of these V-150 planet defender orbital cannons installed on this planet.
The V-150 cannon on this position was bombed by a Duchy of Dawn fighter formation in the previous battle. More than a dozen Wraith fighter fired ground-attack missiles at the cannon, destroying the cannon's Deflector Shield and damaging the cannon's cooling system. Engineers are now making emergency repairs.
But for these defenders, this also means that they will have a rare period of rest. After all, those stealth fighters of Duchy of Dawn probably have no interest in patronizing this dead cannon again.
In addition to the patrolling soldiers, many defenders came out of the underground fortifications, breathed the fresh air outside, pointed to the flickering firelight on the horizon and talked about the war taking place in the distance.
Most of these soldiers are ordinary conscripts. They are not equipped with the Galactic Empire's iconic white polymer alloy armor, but gray army uniforms.
This war has actually become numb to them. They don't know what happened in Imperial Center. They only know that they need to fulfill their duties until the day when the planet's capital is captured, they surrender and end it all.
Several soldiers were chatting when one of them suddenly felt something sting him on the back of his neck. He slapped it casually and seemed to kill a mosquito. He wiped his hands on the Rock beside him, and then chatted happily with his comrades.