2690. The Fall of the Fortress (3)
Both Kingdom of Dawn and Galactic Empire are actively deploying their troops, and Northern Galaxy has become busy again.
On the one hand, Bilbrin Planet and Major General Luo Huacheng continue to consolidate their forward bases, and the fifteen Dawn's Radiance-class industrial motherships are fully under construction, using local materials to produce a large number of facilities and ammunition supplies, including fighter jets and frigates.
At the same time, many Gauss Defense Platform were built in this forward base, and more than a dozen asteroids that were hollowed out due to mining were even simply transformed into armed asteroids.
From the perspective of the Galaxy Imperial Intelligence Department Gate, this action of Major General Luo Huacheng is entirely to prepare for long-term operations, and it does not look like it is going to launch an attack from here in the short term.
And since Lieutenant General Dagon-Niel was arrested and transferred to the military court, his successor naturally did not dare to make the same mistake again, so Bilbrin Planet's the Empire defenders also guarded their defense lines and no longer planned to take the initiative to attack.
Galaxy Imperial Supreme Strategic Command's plan in this direction is naturally to form a long-term confrontation situation, allowing Kingdom of Dawn and Dunn-Vesex to consume each other in Northern Territory. At the same time, it will continue to use the powerful industrial power of Core Worlds to further widen the gap between the two sides. This is what is in the best interest of the Empire.
As for Bilbrin Planet's forward base, Oswald-Tai Hick plans to launch an attack in three months. Because by then, as more Executor-class Super Star Destroyers are completed, he will be able to send additional Dominion Super Star Destroyers and four Assertor-class Dreadnoughts to Scipios. At that time, another crushing offensive can solve everything.
And at this time, Kingdom of Dawn's military operations against Dunn-Vesex also became more frequent.
In addition to multiple attempts to destroy Lila Super Star Destroyer that landed on Doku Planet, Kingdom of Dawn also increased its investment in Dantooine on the edge of Northern Territory.
Now on the ground battlefield of Dantooine, the army troops of Kingdom of Dawn have reached 200,000 people! It also includes a large number of armored units, including 4 armored divisions with confirmed numbers, and more than 6,000 light and heavy armored vehicles, mainly Scorpion tank!
Galactic Empire The ground troops in Dantooine have also increased to more than 500,000 troops, including 150,000 Spaarti clone troopers and 350,000 ordinary the Empire Stormtrooper. In addition, there are about 400,000 locally recruited soldiers used to make up numbers and fill in the lines.
You must know that the entire Dantooine has a statistical permanent population of only about 2 million. Even if the unregistered population is included, the number will definitely not exceed 5 million. On this small planet with a diameter of only more than 9,800 kilometers, the combat forces invested by both sides have reached as much as half of the planet's total population!
These two huge armies are fighting fiercely. This battlefield is also the largest ground battlefield between Kingdom of Dawn and Galactic Empire since the war resumed.
Although Galactic Empire's army is larger in number, they are on the defensive after all and cannot concentrate all their strength to counterattack.
The formation of this ground meat grinder was mainly because the main fleets of both sides were facing each other on the front line of the Palin-Minor planet - Bilbrin Planet, and neither side of Dantooine wanted to give up, so they simply threw all the armies here, and the fleets only retained the most basic escort force.
The intensity of Dantooine's battle further increased, which also made Dunn-Vesex more firm in their judgment.
Now in Northern Territory, since General Gillard-Perine was injured, no one else could persuade Dunn-Vesex. He insisted on hiding behind the defense line of his planet Palin-Minor.
However, at this time, Geth fleet became active again, and they began to use the consumable version of King of Kings-class Battlecruiser numbered T-34-1 to continuously harass the Core Worlds of the Galactic Empire defense line. Both Scipio and Palanci Planet have been harassed by these warships.
Although all of these warships were eventually destroyed, the extremely high speed, thick armor, and extremely powerful short-range particle blast cannons could cause considerable losses to Imperial fleet every time.
This series of actions alerted First System Army's commander-in-chief Oswald-Tai Hick. He repeatedly warned Dunn-Vesex that he must pay attention to Bilbrin Planet's defense. Once he relaxed, he was likely to be attacked by Kingdom of Dawn fleet's Blitz.
In fact, if possible, Oswald-Thailand Hick would actually prefer to send reinforcements directly to Bilbrin Planet. However, from a military perspective, Bilbrin Planet's hyperspace navigation capability is about the same. No matter how many troops there are, the logistics supplies may not be able to keep up.
The political reason is that he and Dunn-Vesex have different defense zones and cannot interfere with the other party's military deployment. Unless you give the fleet to Dunn-Vesex.
But in the next few days, Northern Fleet of Kingdom of Dawn became active again in the direction of the Palin-Minor planet.
On July 15, first, Taowu Titan warship suddenly acted alone, led a fleet north, and launched a tentative attack on Agamar Planet. However, as the northern gateway of the Palin-Minor planet, this planet has very strong defenses and is also stationed by a fleet. Therefore, after a brief exchange of fire between the two sides, Taowu Titan warship temporarily retreated.
On July 17, the first Assertor-class Dreadnought to reinforce Northern Territory arrived on the planet Palin-Minor. Dunn-Vesex was overjoyed and quickly deployed the warship in its core defense area.
On July 18, the installation of the external anti-gravity engine of Lila Super Star Destroyer was completed. A total of more than 3,000 sets of anti-gravity engines are installed on the entire battleship. Only in this way can the 19,000-meter-long Super Star Destroyer break through the constraints of the planet's gravity and fly back into space.
However, the first test failed because the start-up time of more than 180 of the more than 3,000 anti-gravity engines had errors, resulting in uneven force on the warship. If Galactic Empire's engineers hadn't responded quickly, the structure of Lila Super Star Destroyer might have been distorted.
The next debugging work is expected to take another week.
Dunn-Vesex was overjoyed at the arrival of the first Assertor-class Dreadnought, so he didn't take this small setback to heart. He told Imperial military that as long as the second Assertor-class ship is in place and Lila successfully returns to space, he will immediately launch an active attack on Kingdom of Dawn fleet on the planet Ord-Mantel.
Hearing these words, Imperial Marshal Oswald-Tai Hick just sneered and commented, "It's easy to say, but the question is, does he dare? I'm afraid that when it comes time to issue an attack order, he will have to retreat again."
On July 20, Northern Fleet of Kingdom of Dawn began to conduct actual combat exercises on the planet Oud-Mantel. The exercises lasted for three days. The content of the exercises was to forcefully land and occupy a heavily guarded planet.
Galactic Empire Intelligence Department Departments at all levels have paid close attention to this exercise. A large number of intelligence personnel have tried their best to obtain the specific situation of this exercise, hoping to use this to analyze where the imaginary enemy of the exercise is?
Is it the planet Palin-Minor, or Bilbrin Planet.
On July 22, intelligence showed that Kingdom of Dawn was assembling another fleet at Dawn Star Planet. This fleet is another fleet assembled since the last time, Number Three Ship Chaos completed the construction of Ankollon-class Titan warship.
Different from the supporting fleet of Chaos, only a small part of the warships in this fleet are newly built, and most of them are transferred from other defense zones.
Therefore, the deployment of this fleet is also very critical.
Because with the deployment of Chaos to Eriadu, the border defense line of Kingdom of Dawn became complete again. According to their active offensive situation in Northern Territory, this newly assembled fleet is likely to be used for offense!
So, where to attack?
Countless pairs of eyes stared at this fleet.
Reinforcement of Northern Territory is of course the most likely option. However, at this time, the civil war of Tagge family suddenly broke out in Druckenwell planet. At this time, intelligence began to show that Kingdom of Dawn may also take the opportunity to make moves in Southern Territory and cause trouble in the direction of Druckenwell planet.
Since the commander-in-chief of Southern Territory, General Ling, sent troops to directly occupy Naboo on June 20, a month ago, this made it possible for Kingdom of Dawn to achieve this goal. sex, and as more and more intelligence comes in, the possibilities increase rapidly, and in the end Imperial military has to begin to evaluate what will happen if Kingdom of Dawn interferes with Tagge family's civil war.
At least Supreme Strategic Command concluded that the other protagonist of the Tagge family civil war - Silas-Tagge, is in danger of defecting to Kingdom of Dawn.
As a result, the situation became complicated and confusing, and the fleet assembled at Dawn Star Planet became the biggest variable in the current war.
But even so, Galaxy Imperial Intelligence Department still thinks that he has sufficient reaction time.
Because Kingdom of Dawn is building a stargate close to the border, and there is only Makito on Northern Territory. The stargate of the Oud-Mantel planet will take at least one or two months, and the stargate of Bilbrin Planet has just started to be built. Due to the navigation capacity of the hyperspace channel, it will take at least a year to complete.
Even if the star gate of the Oud-Mantel planet is completed, it will take at least three days for the fleet to set off from here and be able to attack Galactic Empire's defense line.
In Southern Territory, the star gate is only available in Eriadu, and Fondor Planet also has a star gate. Among them, Fondor Planet belongs to the protruding part and is surrounded by the Empire's defense line. Unless Kingdom of Dawn plans to attack by force, there will be no suddenness in this direction.
Eriadu's star gate has the same problem. It will take at least several days for the fleet to launch an offensive from here.
Finally, there is Lothal Planet from Eastern Territory. It would be great if Kingdom of Dawn gets reinforcements from here. Because this means that they have no threat to the Empire's core defense line.
It happened unexpectedly on July 23rd.
On the last day of the actual combat exercise, according to the exercise content, Archangel Titan warship prepared to use Doomsday Weapon to bombard an unmanned asteroid as a target. However, when the cannon was fired, an accident suddenly happened!
There seems to be a problem with the energy supply system of Doomsday Weapon, and an explosion suddenly occurred while firing! This explosion was so violent that even in the optical image, a huge burst of fire rising several thousand meters high was visible to the naked eye about 3,000 meters away from the front of Emissary!
Immediately afterwards, this semi-public, intimidating actual combat exercise was immediately stopped, and HoloNet's information was instantly cut off.
Spies and informants on all sides lost their sources of information and had to analyze it from other angles.
First, they detected that a large number of engineering ships entered the Oud-Mantel planet. The hyperspace fluctuations here began to become denser. It was obvious that the number of spacecraft traveling between them had tripled compared to normal conditions.
HoloNet's blockade cannot be carried out for a long time, because it will also cut off the planet's external connections. Therefore, two days later, on July 25, HoloNet was partially released, and at this time, one of the planet's satellites was already in a tight blockade.
Galactic Empire began to use deep space telescopes to investigate the planet Oud-Mantel. They discovered that there was an additional industrial creation in the synchronous orbit of the blocked satellite. It seemed to be an interstellar shipyard, and its size reached more than 20,000 meters. There are many light spots around the interstellar shipyard. Because the resolution of the deep space telescope is not high, it is judged that these light spots are the nozzles of the spacecraft engine.
Then, there should be a large number of spacecraft gathered around this satellite. Moreover, the positions of these light spots are disorganized. Obviously, they cannot be a neatly assembled fleet, so they are most likely engineering ships.
During this period, according to the statistics of the hyperspace outpost, the circulation of Kingdom of Dawn's spacecraft in Northern Territory was very active.
Based on various judgments, Galactic Empire Intelligence Bureau believes that Archangel Titan warship may actually be damaged, and Kingdom of Dawn is making large-scale military adjustments to make up for this loss.
At the same time, the fleet assembled at Dawn Star Planet still did not move.
This made Imperial Intelligence Bureau begin to think that this fleet might not really be prepared for Northern Territory.
On July 26, Taowu Titan warship attacked Agamar Planet again. This time, the two sides exchanged fire for a longer time. After more than an hour of long-distance shooting, Taowu Titan warship retreated.
At this time, due to Kingdom of Dawn's frequent movements, Bilbrin Planet's sudden increase in hyperspace fluctuations became very common.
As usual, the Intelligence Department gate of the Galactic Empire uses the position of Titan warship to judge the direction of the main force of Kingdom of Dawn fleet. Because it's very obvious.
And now, Kingdom of Dawn four ships Titan warship, Xuanwu is next to Fondor Planet, Chaos is next to Eriadu, Taowu is next to Agamar Planet, and Emissary is next to the satellite of the Oud-Mantel planet. This can be confirmed.
Therefore, staring at the blocked satellite of the Oud-Mantel planet has become Imperial Intelligence Bureau's top priority. They used a lot of resources to figure out the damage to Archangel Titan warship.
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