2621. Containment and being restrained
Seeing what General Trench's pointer was pointing at, the corners of Tang Xiao's mouth turned up slightly, "Have Tagge family's chess pieces finally begun to take effect... What's the situation over there now?"
"Tagge family has been split... tsk tsk tsk tsk... their eldest son and third son are confronting each other. No one can do anything to anyone. tsk tsk tsk tsk..." General Trench said while stroking his chelicerae at the corner of his mouth.
"What's General Staff Headquarters's opinion?" Tang Xiao asked.
"Send troops to attack Falrin Planet. Tsk tsk tsk tsk..." General Trench pointed a planet with his pointer, "Although, Falrin Planet, it's not important, but... Tsk, tsk, tsk, this is a threat to Druckenwell planet, and it is related to... Tagge family's future. Galactic Empire, tsk, tsk, tsk..."
Tang Xiao nodded and said, "Very good, then, follow the plan. Inflict heavy damage on Galactic Empire's Northern Territory, sweep across the Imperial Seventh Army, and capture the Empire financial center Scipio! I, the imperial commander, will go on a personal expedition! This battle is called Golden Plan! The planned start time is G-day! It is determined to be May 10th!"
"Yes!"
Tang Xiao looked at the holographic star map with cold eyes and said to himself, "Now, I'm out... Dass-Sidious, do you dare to come? Hahahahaha! Hahahahahahaha!!"
In a secret cabin on the bright red Luukri-Hok-class battleship-Red Comet III, the stasis capsule containing the body of the "son" was quietly placed here.
And just when Tang Xiao was laughing wildly, in the bridge command center of Archangel Titan warship, the "daughter" stood next to Tang Xiao, staring at him with hostile eyes. However, she used the Force to hide her figure, so no one or any instrument present could detect her presence.
But Tang Xiao glanced at her sideways, and said sarcastically with the corners of his mouth raised, "Maybe this time, the Force will be in balance."
The "daughter" ignored his taunt and just looked away with a disdainful expression.
The information that Kingdom of Dawn continued to mobilize troops to Northern Territory was learned by the Galactic Empire Intelligence Bureau more than a month ago, and was immediately reported to Imperial Supreme Strategic Command.
Galactic Empire responded immediately and also sent additional troops to Northern Territory. And most importantly, dispatch the newly built Reaper Executor-class Super Star Destroyer to settle in Scipio.
Imperial military is not a fool, and they can naturally see the intention of Dunn-Vesex to only deploy the mobile fleet in the direction of Core Worlds. At the same time, they can also predict that if Kingdom of Dawn launches an offensive in Northern Territory, Scipio will definitely be one of the most important strategic targets.
In order to guard against this Galactic Empire's most important financial center, the military directly sent Reaper there to strengthen its defense. This is actually a political means - on the one hand, it allows InterGalactic Banking Clan (S) to feel at ease and not turn around and surrender; on the other hand, due to the existence of Reaper, it is basically impossible for Scipio to be captured in a short period of time. Then there will be more time for Imperial military to force Dunn-Vesex to send troops for reinforcements.
After all, if Scipio is captured soon, then Dunn-Vesex can still be said to be unable to react or have insufficient strength. But now Imperial fleet with Reaper as the core is fighting in the the Empire financial center. If your fleet continues to stand by, the verdict of treason will be placed on the table of Dunn-Vesex the next day.
But when the troops were transferred to Northern Territory, Imperial military also felt very embarrassed.
The most important aspect is that if Northern Territory continues to increase its troops, then Dunn-Vesex's military power will be too great. According to the governor's authority of Dunn-Vesex, the fleet sent to Northern Territory must be under his unified command. If the reinforcements are sent to Northern Territory, he will directly accept them as ordered. Then Galactic Empire has no choice but to decide how to use these reinforcements.
But Scipio is different.
Because this financial center of the Galactic Empire is located in the galaxy Core Worlds and belongs to the jurisdiction of the Galactic Empire's First System Army - yes, it is the highest priority and most powerful legion of the entire Galactic Empire!
Reaper reinforces Scipio, which seems to strengthen the power of Northern Territory. In fact, together with Guardian, it directly increases the number of Executor-class Super Star Destroyer owned by the First System Army to three!
Of course, after all, Dunn-Vesex's family is still in Core Worlds, and he will not abandon his family to become independent in Northern Territory, but this situation must be guarded against.
On the other hand, Imperial military had always planned to take the initiative to attack, but now he was frightened back by Kingdom of Dawn's sudden troop mobilization. This was also a serious blow to Imperial army's prestige.
The most important reason is that after carefully investigating Kingdom of Dawn's troop deployment, Imperial military felt that he still had a chance.
Therefore, as early as a month ago, Galactic Empire ordered a two-pronged attack to conduct a tentative attack on Kingdom of Dawn's homeland. At the very least, it will disrupt their deployment of troops.
The people who carried out this exploratory attack mission were naturally the two people who currently own the largest mobile fleet - Das-Vader, and Dunn-Vesex!
That's right, Imperial military initially planned to take advantage of the moment Kingdom of Dawn was gathering the fleet to counterattack!
However, things have undergone a series of changes. The Eastern Territory battle broke out briefly. In less than a month, Galactic Empire fell into complete passivity in Eastern Territory, and the super battleship the Eye of Palpatine was damaged. Not only that, Wilhuff-Governor Tarkin's son Garrosh-Tarkin also mysteriously disappeared in this series of battles.
This series of Company One changes caused Das-Vader to postpone his counterattack plan. He planned to stabilize Eastern Territory first and ensure that Garrosh-Tarkin could return to the Galactic Empire - whether alive or a corpse.
He plans to launch another raid on Fondor Planet in a month.
After carefully analyzing the combat situation, General Gillard-Perine, the military commander of Northern Territory, determined that he had no chance to launch a counterattack in the direction of Northern Territory. If you act rashly, you will be counterattacked by the powerful Kingdom of Dawn fleet that is gathering, causing heavy losses.
So as usual, Gillard-Perine once again looked at Unknown Regions, Chiss territory.
He ordered a fleet to be organized, departing from the jurisdiction of the Seventh Army, once again going deep into Unknown Regions and attacking Chiss territory. He hoped that this action could disrupt Kingdom of Dawn's gathering action at Northern Territory and buy him some time.
While Galactic Empire is actively preparing for defense, Kingdom of Dawn has begun to fully roll out Golden Plan.
Northeastern sector of the galaxy, Kingdom of Dawn bought a large number of interstellar pirates, and mobilized the squadron previously retained at Mandalore star sector to launch an attack on Taris.
Taris, in the previous operation of Kingdom of Dawn, transported a large number of Rakghoul, which turned the jurisdiction of the Galactic Empire Northeastern Territory upside down. Therefore, the Galactic Empire exclusion fleet blocked Taris and launched a violent Orbital Bombardment attack on the planet.
But those billions of Rakghoul are all hidden in Taris's Lower City, and Orbital Bombardment will do minimal harm to them. Therefore, Galactic Empire can only send a fleet over to completely block Taris to prevent Kingdom of Dawn from using those Rakghoul to cause trouble again.
Therefore, this time, Kingdom of Dawn mobilized all the strength Northeastern Territory had finally accumulated to attack Taris, which was definitely not a good thing for the Galactic Empire.
Imperial military issued an order requiring Taris's blockade fleet to secure its defense line and not give Kingdom of Dawn fleet any opportunity to take advantage of it. At the same time, they also began to mobilize troops and generals in the rear. Although they had not directly sent reinforcements, they had already begun to gather supplies and warships.
On the other hand, in Eastern Outer Rim.
Because General Grievous is away, Lin Nanyi, who temporarily serves as the governor of Eastern Territory Fleet Commander, brazenly sends troops to blockade Jabiim planet!
At this time, because Lin Nanyi had resigned from the military and set an example, his girlfriend Feng Lisi did not need to avoid suspicion and was transferred to Eastern Territory. This time, Commander, who was responsible for blocking the fleet, surrounded Jabiim planet!
Jabiim planet was hated by Lin Nanyi because he refused entry to Kingdom of Dawn fleet in the previous battle of Eastern Territory. Therefore, according to the combat plan this time, he immediately chose to open the situation from Jabiim planet, and then threatened Kashyyyk planet from the flank.
If we can enter Kashyyyk planet and disperse the fleet that Galactic Empire is suppressing the uprising of Wookiees, then this large area will be occupied by the Rebel Alliance.
The most important thing is that mobilizing troops in this direction makes Tarkin family, who is preparing for Imperial Marshal's status and Imperial Twelfth Army's governor status, very nervous. In order to prevent Eastern Territory's war situation from affecting their future, they also began to push Galactic Empire as far as possible to send troops to reinforce Eastern Territory.
Then, there are Druckenwell planet, Tagge family!
Because the third son of Tagge family, Silas-Tagge, went all the way to Druckenwell planet to raise the flag of rebellion and wanted to overthrow his eldest brother Orman-Tagge, so the two sides are confronting each other. Because it was an internal family matter, Galactic Empire planned to wait and see, but he also maintained a high degree of attention.
After all, Tagge family is one of the most powerful super wealthy families in the Galactic Empire, and they are now in charge of Death Star project. Once something goes wrong with Tagge family, it will inevitably affect His Majesty the Emperor's requirement to complete Death Star within this year!
At this time, Kingdom of Dawn suddenly sent troops from Christophsis to attack Falrin Planet. Although this fleet was not powerful, it also made Galactic Empire very nervous. Because if Silas-Tagge didn't think it through and suddenly turned around and surrendered to Kingdom of Dawn, then this matter would really be a big deal!
In these directions, Galactic Empire must be on guard.
Therefore, this is also the reason why they did not mobilize large-scale fleets from other directions to reinforce Northern Territory.
If this development is followed, King of Dawn Tang Xiao's personal campaign to directly kill Scipio is very likely to achieve its goal. Not only that, you might even have a chance to wander around Imperial Center.
However, things are unpredictable. Although Kingdom of Dawn's actions in all aspects were restraining Galactic Empire's power, Galactic Empire's counterattack still worked.
In an unexpected direction...
9BBY, May 3rd.
When there were only 7 days left before the "G-Day" specified by Golden Plan to launch a full-scale attack, Tang Xiao, who was making final preparations for the general attack at Makito, suddenly received a message.
The sender of the message is——Abathur!
Tang Xiao immediately frowned and opened the message. Since Abathur is now in Unknown Regions, this is just a text message, and it is delayed by a few days.
In other words, this was a message from a few days ago.
The message is very brief, but the content is extremely shocking——
Killiks suddenly rose up and launched an attack on the Chiss territory border!!
Tang Xiao suddenly stood up from the throne and said through gritted teeth, "Killiks? How is this possible! Where do they get the power to threaten the Chiss territory border?!"
General Trench on the other side also came over and looked at the message. He stroked his chelicerae at the corner of his mouth, shook his head and said, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk... there is insufficient information to make an effective judgment. However, Killiks... they should have degraded. tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk..."
Tang Xiao said with a gloomy face, "Kilik Swarm has degraded. This is a fact, and it is a fact confirmed in the Ones's memory! Kilik Swarm's degradation is very complete. They should have lost the ability to travel among the stars long ago!"
"But... Abathur is calm and calm. His request for help is no small matter." General Trench said.
Tang Xiao turned his head and asked Sefrans-Tann: "What do you think?"
Tann lowered his head and said, "For Golden Plan, we have also mobilized Chiss territory's defense fleet. Because according to common sense, Chiss territory does not have large-scale foreign enemies now. Therefore, Kilik Swarm suddenly appeared at this sensitive time, but I am worried about the Galactic Empire."
"You mean, Galactic Empire is guiding Kilik Swarm to rise again?" Tang Xiao asked with a frown.
Sefrans-Tann nodded.
Tang Xiao pondered, and after a moment, he said, "Sefrans-Tann, I will dedicate a fleet to you. You quickly return to Chiss territory, explore and solve Kilik Swarm's affairs! If the battle is successful, you will still be my Fleet Admiral!"
Sefrans-Tann's eyes flashed with joy, but she looked at Tang Xiao again, and then her expression dimmed again.
Tang Xiao smiled coldly and added, "Then, since you can make up for it, you can naturally serve me in the future."
"Yes! I will definitely solve Kilik Swarm's problem." Sefrans-Tann quickly came to Tang Xiao and saluted respectfully.
"How much impact will the division of troops have?" Tang Xiao asked General Trench.
"Tsk tsk tsk tsk... it will have an impact, but I will minimize the impact." General Trench nodded.