2765. The defeat of Dantooine (Part 1)
Galactic Empire On Dantooine, whether it is the three large cities on the planet's surface and the corresponding defense lines, or the space station and space port set up in outer space, everything is in chaos.
However, Kingdom of Dawn did not seize this opportunity to give Galactic Empire a fatal blow to its deployment in outer space. The main reason was lack of strength.
Kingdom of Dawn The main battleships here are Grey Horse-class escort carrier as well as some frigates and several destroyers. Such a force cannot pose a threat to the huge space station of the Galactic Empire.
After all, Galactic Empire started to set up a base on Dantooine very early. Even if it was not taken seriously at the beginning, there were still some Light Cruiser here. There were even two Victory-class Star Destroyer here at the beginning!
The two Victory-class Star Destroyer were besieged by Sabre-class fighter who suddenly deployed with a group of Wraith fighter and Viking fighter before Galactic Empire realized Kingdom of Dawn's determination to attack here, and were finally blown up.
But that was at that time, and it is still unrealistic to think of using a pure fighter formation to sneak attack the heavily guarded Galactic Empire spaceport now.
The firepower of the fighter jets is still too weak to complete the task of attacking the enemy.
Therefore, after Kingdom of Dawn completely disrupted Galactic Empire's strategic deployment, it immediately increased the reinforcements to the army. A large number of transport ships arrived, loaded with a large number of troops, combat robots, armored vehicles and heavy weapons and equipment, heading towards the Dantooine orbit.
And they took advantage of the current gap when Galactic Empire was unable to launch a counterattack, whether on the ground or in space, and sent another Dawn's Radiance-class industrial mothership over.
In order to allow this industrial carrier to enter the hyperspace channel, shipping on Kingdom of Dawn was even interrupted for a whole day. However, the cost is worth it. If two industrial carriers start construction at the same time, their production capacity will definitely be different from when there was only one before!
However, when General Commander Dai Hongkui was waiting eagerly, he received a message from High Command that this second industrial carrier will not be used to support ground operations. If the Army wants to open up the situation, it still has to rely on its current strength as much as possible.
Then, the Dawn's Radiance-class industrial mothership flew alone to an asteroid belt on the outskirts of the galaxy, not knowing what it was doing.
Although he was confused, General Dai Hongkui was not affected and he began to continue his counterattack plan.
Currently, the four Golden Beetles reinforced by Protoss are deployed on two fronts, Khoonda City and Mosa Settlement, by his side, and they are constantly harassing Galactic Empire's frontline positions.
Galactic Empire had no choice but to concentrate long-range artillery fire on a large scale. As soon as Golden Beetle was discovered, almost all long-range firepower was immediately concentrated to conduct a comprehensive bombing of Golden Beetle's location.
One of the Commander on the Galactic Empire side, General Maximilian-Vels, saw this very clearly. He found that generally speaking, as long as the Mobile Deflector Shield covering Golden Beetle was defeated, the Golden Beetle would immediately be loaded up by a transport aircraft and quickly leave the battlefield, and would never be reluctant to fight.
Therefore, he judged that Golden Beetle's body might be quite fragile, otherwise Kingdom of Dawn would not be so cautious in using such a powerful war machine.
Therefore, Galaxy Imperial army can only use this method to passively drive away Golden Beetle's attacks. However, they will no longer be able to carry out large-scale attacks unless more reinforcements are sent from outer space.
There is no other way, because in addition to Golden Beetle on the frontal battlefield, Galactic Empire must also guard against the possible threat from Caladanian's army.
If the rear landing site is attacked again, then this battle Galactic Empire really cannot be fought.
Even now, one of the four landing sites set up by the Galactic Empire has been destroyed, which doubled the defensive pressure on Khoonda City.
There are three other landing sites, one behind Mosa Settlement and two near the capital Garang.
However, in addition to the daily replenishment of troops, the two landing sites in the capital are mainly responsible for returning wounded soldiers, replenishing food for local residents and workers, transporting high-precision parts to rear factories, replenishing engineering robots and machinery, transporting medicines and even entertainment facilities, etc. They are not entirely used for military purposes.
Therefore, after Khoonda City's landing site was destroyed, it doubled the difficulty of supplying Galactic Empire, and they had to continue to deliver more engineering materials in the next few days.
But in order to suppress Golden Beetle's attack, the frontline troops are in urgent need of more powerful long-range artillery support. And what does long-range artillery fire target? Logistics supplies!
So even if Galactic Empire discovered that Kingdom of Dawn was stabilizing the hyperspace channel for more than a day and no more transport ships arrived, there was nothing they could do.
However, Galactic Empire is struggling, but Kingdom of Dawn does not intend to let him breathe easily. Taking advantage of the window period when Galactic Empire's troops are dispersed and supplies are tight, General Dai Hongkui is quietly deploying the reinforcements he has received during this period.
9BBY, September 20th, is the turning point that determines the direction of the Dantooine campaign.
Galactic Empire Dantooine Two major war zones Commander, Army Lieutenant General Maximilian-Vels, Army Lieutenant General Zell-Johnson returned to the capital Garang together to discuss the next battle plan with members Chief Operations Advisor and Joint Staff Department.
The Dantooine command structure here in the Galactic Empire war zone is very unique. There is no real commander-in-chief Commander. The two people at the same level who are responsible for combat command are General Vels and General Johnson who jointly take charge of the frontline military power, forming a dual-headed command system with both collaboration and checks and balances.
Then in order to coordinate the two people's operations, the position of Chief Operations Advisor was specially set up. Chief Operations Advisor is not responsible for the deployment of combat plans and the issuance of combat instructions. He is only responsible for coordinating between the two. The coordination content is also limited to logistical supplies and troop mobilization. If there is a dispute between the two Commanders in this regard, then Chief Operations Advisor has the final say in this aspect only.
After that, it is entirely up to them to decide how they use the forces in their hands, and Chief Operations Advisor has no right to interfere.
This method is actually a weird one created by King of the North Dunn-Vesex. It not only reflects his ability to check and balance the generals, but also exposes his deep fear of losing control of absolute power. This kind of design that separates power and responsibility and uses the system to create internal friction seems to have stabilized the political balance in the rear, but it has planted the hidden danger of fatal stagnation on the front line.
In the final analysis, Dunn-Vesex is still worried that the power in his hands will be taken away by others. Since the incident of Thrawn, he will never allow another officer under his command to appear in the second place who does not obey orders and still has great fame.
Except for Gillard-Perine, because this young general is really obedient and really grateful to Dunn. He always maintains his own position and does not involve the political field at all. His behavior is very low-key and will not steal Dunn's limelight at all.
The most important thing is that General Perine is very powerful and has very good talents, which allows him to play a very key role in Northern Territory, but he is not so good that Dunn-Vesex is afraid.
At the same time, Gillard-Perine himself is also from Corellian, Core Worlds and Noble House came from the army, and they are very close to Dunn-Vesex in terms of class.
You can't find another person like this in Northern Territory.
Naturally, Dantooine and the two Army General do not receive such treatment.
This is why Lieutenant General Maximilian-Vels was so angry when he learned that the Khoonda City landing site was destroyed - because this meant that the power under his control was greatly weakened, and he was immediately at an absolute disadvantage in the competition with Zell-Johnson.
At the end of Dantooine's battle, regardless of success or failure, this humiliating situation of being confiscated by the enemy in the rear will become a serious and huge demerit for Dunn-Vesex.
Just like the situation of Kingdom of Dawn, it is really difficult for Army General to get ahead, and they all want to seize this rare opportunity.
This time, General Vels and General Johnson were both promoted to lieutenant general when they were dispatched by the military headquarters of the Empire. This promotion is also regarded as a test for them. If the results are not good, then regardless of the rank of lieutenant general, whether they can keep the rank of major general is a question!
In the conference room of the Garang combat command center, Vels and Johnson were arguing fiercely. They both wanted to get more supplies to support their next combat plan.
Lieutenant General Zell-Johnson was a muscular burly man. He was an armored soldier and spoke with a loud voice, like a bell. He loudly mocked General Vels for his disastrous defeat and demoted him to a lower level. It was worthless, and asked Chief Operations Advisor to stop the reinforcements in the direction of Khoonda City, so that General Vels could rest assured and do a good job in defense, and leave the counterattack task to him.
"... Compared with something as complex as launching an attack, you'd better do the most basic defensive work first!" Lieutenant General Johnson said, "You can't even defend the landing site, and you still want to lead a counterattack? Get out of the way! Don't delay the Empire's important event!"
Vels slammed the table and stood up, his face livid but suppressing his anger. "My troops have just experienced a fierce battle, and they are facing Separatists's new elite troops! You should be lucky that this troops did not come to find you, otherwise you would not even have your head now!"
He turned to the combat advisor and said loudly, "What we need to do now is to consolidate the existing defense line, and then launch a counterattack after finding a way to counter the enemy Golden Beetle! This is the safest way!"
"That's nonsense! After all, the number of Golden Beetle is limited, and the troops in my hands are more complete. I should strengthen my troops and launch a counterattack! As long as I can break through Separatists's defense line, my troops can threaten Taikaha Hills in the north (Taikaha Hills), I have sufficient information to show that at least 70% of Separatists's minerals are provided by the mines there!" General Zell-Johnson said.
"Have you forgotten our job?" General Vels retorted, "According to Governor Dunn's order, no matter how we act, we must first ensure the safety of 'The Warren' (The Warren)! Now Separatists is increasing its troops, and their strength is getting stronger! If we continue to advance rashly, we may not even be able to protect our biggest goal!"
"Isn't it because you couldn't stop the threat of Separatists that you were responsible for the previous defeat? My house was not ransacked!" Johnson mocked. "The general who lost the landing site is here to talk about strategy?"
"You try to ask me to log in again?!" Vels was furious.
"What, do you want to fight with me?" Johnson laughed ferociously.
Just when the two were at war with each other, a piece of news suddenly came - a large-scale troop mobilization of Separatists in the direction of Khoonda City was detected, and according to the report of the reconnaissance plane, a large number of unknown types of equipment appeared in the Separatists army!!
Upon hearing the news, General Vels's face suddenly turned pale!
General Zell-Johnson laughed wildly, "You'd better clean up your own crotch first! General Vels! Hahahahaha!"
Maximilian-Vels Now he couldn't care less about this bastard. He rushed out of the door and quickly took his shuttle and headed straight for the front line.
Only General Zell-Johnson was left sitting at the conference table, but at this moment his expression became serious. He stood up and said to Chief Operations Advisor, "It seems that Separatists is going to take action, and I must return to the front line as soon as possible. But there is something I need to remind you..."
He came to the whiteboard used for writing in the front of the conference room, banged twice, punched it with one punch on the left and the other on the right, neither light nor hard. He turned around and said, "Is it useful to punch two punches with even force like this? Of course it is not as good as..."
As he spoke, he struck out with his right fist and struck out with a Heavy Fist sound, directly breaking the whiteboard into pieces!
Then, General Johnson put on his military cap and left without looking back.
At this moment, they did not realize the seriousness of the situation.
When General Maximilian-Vels's shuttle took off, no one noticed that among the ground crew, there was an engineer who unobtrusively adjusted his glasses, and a cold light flashed behind the lenses.
The engineer quietly pressed the encrypted frequency band on his wrist terminal and sent a message.
A moment later, two Sabre-class fighter swooped down from outside the planet's atmosphere, carrying the burning atmosphere like two fireballs! Their purpose was very clear, they were the cars of General Vels!
The air defense siren suddenly sounded loudly in the sky over Garang. However, at this moment, the Lambda-class shuttlecraft that General Vels was riding on had already flown out of Garang's Air Defense Circle, and was surrounded by only four TIE Advanced X-1 fighter jets for escort.
Less than twenty minutes later, the Dantooine command center received an urgent call - General Maximilian-Vels's car was intercepted by Separatists and was confirmed to have crashed 300 kilometers south of Garang!