2338. The destruction of the 17th Army
In such a chaotic situation, it is conceivable that Imperial military will be involved in a lot of energy, so Generals Octavian-Governor Grant and Gideon-Tarkin can only watch the stargate built by Kingdom of Dawn on Fondor Planet gradually taking shape.
Kingdom of Dawn seems to use a lot of pre-installed parts and then send them directly. For this purpose, they specially dispatched a small fleet to continuously clear the hyperspace channel from the Yago-Dur planet to Fondor Planet to avoid being intercepted by Galactic Empire fleet.
Although Imperial fleet currently does not have the ability to intercept it.
As a result, in just over a week, the star gate being built next to Fondor System Planet Three has begun to take shape!!
This kind of construction speed shocked Octavian-Grant, because if the star gate was built at such a speed, then Kingdom of Dawn would be able to build a complete star gate network in a short time. It can be inferred from this that the interior of Kingdom of Dawn is probably completely covered by the Stargate network!
This is absolutely terrible!
But now, Fondor Planet's defenders dare not take the initiative to destroy this star gate. Because they simply cannot defeat this powerful fleet of Kingdom of Dawn.
However, soon, something happened that made Octavian-Grant even more tangled.
On August 34, Sefrans-Admiral Tann suddenly turned around, and she directly took away two-thirds of the fleet that attacked Fondor Planet. This huge fleet began to turn around, turned on the hyperspace engine, and left just like that!
Sefrans-Tann took away Taowu Titan warship, all Divinity-class battleship, 7 Consul-class aircraft carrier, and most of the battleships.
Only more than 300 capital ships headed by Xuanwu Titan warship and more than 2,000 small and medium-sized warships are still stationed at Fondor System Planet Three. General Ling also arrived here at this moment, taking over the command of this squadron and reorganizing First Task Force.
This behavior is a complete slap in the face and provocation!
According to the intelligence from the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, the fleets of Sefrans-Tann returned to the planet Yago-Dur that night, and then took a little more than half a day to appear at Eriadu, which was tens of thousands of light years away, and then came to Kira planet, which had already been occupied.
With such a series of maneuvers, her huge fleet was completed in less than two days!
On September 1st, Kingdom of Dawn Second Task Force led by Sefrans-Tann completely surrounded Vogel planet (Vogel). Vogel planet's defensive fleet only resisted for less than two hours before being completely destroyed.
During this process, Fondor Planet's defenders remained silent, even though Sefrans-Tann withdrew most of the fleet in front of them without doing anything. Vogel planet, Octavian-Grant and Gideon-Tarkin did not dare to make any changes in the covert and large-scale attack.
They hold a huge force of 1,000 battleships, but they are so afraid of the 300 battleships left behind by General Ling that they dare not take the initiative to attack.
The reason is that the "Star Gate" is under construction!
With Xuanwu Titan warship here, and more than 180 Hell-Angel Class Battlecruisers, Gideon-Tarkin believes that it is impossible to defeat General Ling's fleet in a short time. And if they fail to win quickly, the star gate next to them is likely to send a large number of reinforcements.
The fleets of Sefrans-Tann may come from the star gate that day and then destroy their entire army!
Yes, although Sefrans-Tann moved to Kira planet in two days and then launched an attack on Vogel planet, did these two days really take two days, or did Tann deliberately slow down to give them an illusion?
Once there is a misjudgment, what Gideon-Tarkin least dares to happen will happen - a fleet decisive battle!
If defeated in the fleet decisive battle, Fondor Planet will follow in the footsteps of Kira planet - send off all the fleet in the decisive battle, and then be easily landed on the planet by Separatists, and then occupied in a short period of time!
In other words, if the fleet is still there, even if the planet is riddled with holes, there is still a chance for everything. However, if the fleet is gone, then the planet will become a piece of fish on the chopping block, without any resistance.
Octavian-Governor Grant can only send messages to Imperial Center, indicating that they are not strong enough and cannot take the initiative. It is hoped that Imperial military will organize another fleet to intercept the main fleet of Sefrans-Tann.
So amid such hesitation, on September 3, Vogel planet, which had resisted for only two days, announced its surrender, and Galactic Empire 17th Army declared its destruction!
At this point, you may be confused. Why was Galactic Empire 17th Army destroyed in two days so easily? Before, whether it was 19th Army, 18th Army, or 14th Army that was destroyed by the Technological Alliance, or 8th Army that was destroyed by Northern Territory, these legions put up very determined resistance and were finally destroyed after a long battle.
But in fact, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion by listing the planets governed by the Galactic Empire 17th Army.
Galactic Republic began to divide the 20 legions, among which 17th Army is also known as Chrome Shield (Chrome Shield), and the capital is Vogel planet. Under its jurisdiction are Naboo, Enarc, Malastare, Haruun Kal, Kalinda Planet, Kira planet, Paks Planet...
Sound familiar?
That's right, in fact 17th Army has been riddled with holes for a long time.
Since Kingdom of Dawn occupied Eriadu and destroyed 18th Army, every military operation they conducted in this direction was fought on the territory of the 17th Army.
Including the Malastare battle and Haruun Kal campaign that broke out in the middle of Clone Wars; and the Enarc battle that General Ling launched at the end of Clone Wars in order to contain Galactic Republic. Then this time, Sefrans-Tann lured Imperial fleet to Naboo and annihilated them in one fell swoop, and then invaded and occupied the fortress land Kira planet's battle.
After this series of battles, 17th Army's military power has long been destroyed, and its administrative system is riddled with holes. After Malastare and Haruun Kal were occupied by Kingdom of Dawn, their own jurisdiction was also fragmented. The main hyperspace channel was cut off, making backup difficult.
So why even though Vogel planet's traffic position is actually more suitable for controlling hyperspace channels and is closer to Eriadu, in order to intercept Kingdom of Dawn, Galactic Empire set up a military base and garrisoned troops at Kira planet, but did not choose Vogel planet. This is the reason.
17th Army has long existed in name only. Their governor, Lynch Hauser, had already given up on Vogel planet and went to Imperial Center to work remotely.
This time, Sefrans-Tann just nailed 17th Army's coffin board completely.