2771. The Fall of Dantooine (Part 2)
Facts have proved that the strategy of directly assembling this beggars version of King of Kings-class Battlecruiser on Dantooine is simply brilliant! Not only does it greatly shorten the construction period, but it also avoids hyperspace fluctuations caused by passing through the hyperspace channel.
If you really want to bring two Throne-classs, then the hyperspace channel in the direction of Dantooine will need to be stagnant for at least a week. Such a long window period will cause the ground troops on Dantooine to face a shortage of supplies at the least. At the most, it is very likely that Galactic Empire will directly push back and be driven out of the planet when they are running out of ammunition and food!
Now, using this method, the most complex and cutting-edge equipment is directly brought over, and then Dawn's Radiance-class industrial mothership is completely unfolded into a heavy-duty interstellar shipyard, and then the hull structure is cast from local materials in the asteroid belt, which greatly reduces transportation costs and strategic risks.
In addition, the mothership's own processing equipment can also process and manufacture some relatively simple facilities and equipment, such as the battleship's shell armor, support frames and even basic pipeline systems, further improving construction efficiency.
Then there was the miracle of assembling two battlecruisers within a month!
Even if this is just the beggar's version of Throne-class, it can still be said to be a miracle! This process seems simple, but in fact it is very precise and complex.
For example, all parts must be planned in great detail, which parts can be produced locally, which parts need to be carried, how to maximize the resource utilization efficiency and carrying capacity of the industrial mothership, and even the production sequence must be accurately calculated to ensure that each process is seamlessly connected.
At the same time, the Beggar's Edition King of Kings-class Battlecruiser itself is actually the embodiment of returning to nature and the great road Simplicity. It abandons redundant systems and non-core modules, but still maintains combat effectiveness. This is a huge project in itself. The crystallization of learning wisdom. How to make those eight large-scale Neutron Rapid-Fire Cannon operate at the smallest and simplest cost. This topic alone has consumed countless Geth engineering development individuals and a lot of time and resources.
It can be said that even with the current Kuat Drive Yards, it is absolutely impossible for them to build a beggar's version of Imperial-class Star Destroyer within a month!
This thing cannot be solved by simple subtraction.
Therefore, on this battlefield, these two Beggar's Edition King of Kings-class Battlecruiser became the key factor in turning the tide of the battle!
As the garrison in outer space was completely defeated, the more than 2 million Galactic Empire soldiers on the surface of Dantooine were cut off from foreign aid. They now had to rely on local factories to produce all their supplies, from food to medicine, from ammunition to parts, and supplies immediately became extremely scarce.
At the same time, Galactic Empire also suspended reinforcements to the Dantooine galaxy, and in a very serious manner asked those transport ships that were running around to immediately stop using the hyperspace channel. It seemed that they planned to suspend the operation of the channel and send some Star Destroyer to compete with the two Throne-class.
However, those transport ship captains who have been completely frightened always disobey orders. Even if Admirals Gillard-Perine issue military orders in the most stern tone, there are still transport ships trying to turn on the hyperspace engine and escape quietly from time to time.
However, this approach keeps the hyperspace channel active and cannot calm down for navigation Star Destroyer.
As a last resort, Gillard-Perine had no choice but to arrest all the transport ship captains who escaped, and then publicly executed them. The execution video was sent to all levels of officers and soldiers throughout Dantooine, and finally the transport ships running around were stopped.
But the result of this was that the already low morale of the Dantooine defenders became even more hopeless.
However, Kingdom of Dawn did not intend to let go of those transport ships. They sent out a large number of fighter jets to chase them everywhere. No matter where the transport ships went in the galaxy, they would be continuously pursued by frigates and fighter jets.
Sabre-class fighter and Blade-class fighter are both equipped with miniature hyperspace engines. These fighters can make ultra-short hyperspace jumps within the galaxy, leaving those transport ships with nowhere to escape.
Not only that, Kingdom of Dawn also used B-1 combat robots to pilot some of the captured spaceships, and carried out hyperspace jumps in the direction of the Galactic Empire with great fanfare, disrupting the waterway as much as possible, making Galactic Empire's plan to send Star Destroyer over more and more difficult.
Not only that, Kingdom of Dawn also sent some urgently needed precision equipment and parts from the rear to start building Hyperspace Jammer. This simply didn't leave them a way to survive!
So in a situation where both sides were dead, Galactic Empire's transport fleet began to surrender one after another. As soon as many transport ships were targeted by Kingdom of Dawn's fighter jets, they immediately issued a surrender signal and opened their cargo bays to show they were harmless. Then they were allowed to be taken over by Kingdom of Dawn's frigates. All the supplies on the ship were collected, and the crew were escorted to POW camp.
Kingdom of Dawn The soldiers here were also very straightforward. They gave each of the prisoners of war a copy of <Quotations of Tang Xiao>, and then took them to Dantooine, a former military base that was transformed into POW camp. This book will be their only reading for a long time in the future - don't worry about getting bored, because the great King of Dawn Tang Xiao is still alive, so his quotations are constantly being updated.
This makes Dantooine's situation even more desperate.
Lieutenant General Zell-Johnson could initially get a response from the planet Palin-Minor, allowing them to hold their position as firmly as possible. Even if they couldn't hold it, they would need to trade space for time, transport more reinforcements to the rear, and send Star Destroyer over.
However, after Dunn-Governor Vesex returned to the planet Palin-Minor, Zell-Johnson began to get no news from the rear. It seemed that the entire Galactic Empire had been forgotten in this star field. There was no doubt that he had been abandoned.
Not only him, but more than 2 million Galactic Empire soldiers on Dantooine were also abandoned.
At this time, the locals on the planet began to revolt. They began to go on strike, destroy factories, arrest foremen, and attack spaceports.
Such uprisings intensified, and in the end, almost all of the only three large cities on Dantooine fell into chaos.
What makes the Galactic Empire army extremely troublesome is that those Rebel Alliances got a large number of weapons from nowhere. Although they are basically basic assault rifles and Blaster rifles, this gives them the ability to fight guerrilla warfare with the regular army.
Once the fire of uprising is ignited, it is impossible to extinguish it. Galaxy Imperial army is exhausted and unable to suppress the rising uprising movements.
The furious General Zell-Johnson ordered the brutal massacre and purge of those civilians who rose up to resist, but this only led to more intense resistance.
As the resistance in the outer space of the planet was gradually disintegrated, Admiral Dai Hongkui dropped ten of the Incasas-class frigate into the planet's atmosphere.
Although this means that these frigates will not be able to return to outer space without the installation of external engines, it does allow them to exert much more powerful firepower than fighter jets in the atmosphere.
Then, Kingdom of Dawn's ground forces launched a full-scale attack!
Penetrator Siege Tank's 180mm caliber plasma howitzer made a deafening roar. Thor Mech advanced to a suitable area, knelt down and unfolded the four 330mm caliber Punisher Siege Cannon on its back, and continued to fire and bomb.
Even though there are Galactic Empire fighter jets in the sky desperately coming to bomb, the artillery positions remain motionless. The scattering anti-aircraft missiles equipped by Thor Mech make it impossible for those TIE fighter to get close to the effective attack distance.
On the ground, the huge body of M-850 Grizzly Tank ran over Galactic Empire's position, and the two medium-sized Turbolaser cannons were enough to destroy all ground targets that appeared in front of it. What's even more terrifying is that after entering the position, the two quadruple missile launchers on Grizzly Tank began to fire tracking white phosphorus bombs into the air!
These white phosphorus bombs will track the Empire soldiers on the ground, and then drop from the sky to attack.
A large number of soldiers screamed and were burned into black coke by the white phosphorus bombs. Even if they were turned into coke or even bones, the white phosphorus still clung to their bodies and burned.
The Vulture Company team equipped with Vulture flight mecha is constantly circling in the air as if it were a real Vulture, seizing every opportunity to fall from the sky and hunt down the lone the Empire soldiers. Even if there is no chance, the sniper rifles in their hands can accurately hit the target while flying at high speed, directly hitting the the Empire soldiers in the head.
Fourth Legion soldiers roam every corner of the battlefield just like Reaper. There are three of them in a combat team, and they can be seen in almost every battlefield. As long as they appear, they will ruthlessly harvest the lives of the Empire soldiers.
Army soldiers wearing CMC-300 powered armor form the backbone of the battlefield. Sporadic firepower cannot threaten them at all. Facing individual soldiers with small weapons is almost a one-sided massacre!
Finally, a large number of combat robots rushed over like a tide, dragging out all the the Empire soldiers who had been baptized by the elite troops and hiding in dark corners to survive one by one and executed them on the spot one by one.
If you are facing other legions, it is useful to step out and surrender, but if you are discovered by a combat robot, even if you take off your clothes and lie on the ground and shout to surrender, you will only get a bullet in the forehead.
The only thing that can stop the battle robot from shooting is the book <Quotations of Tang Xiao>.
Along the way, you can see a large number of the Galactic Empire soldiers putting <Quotations of Tang Xiao> on their foreheads, holding their heads in their hands and walking towards POW camp in frustration. Some prisoners of war were not even supervised, and they consciously walked towards POW camp to lock themselves up.
Facing Kingdom of Dawn's attack, Galactic Empire's defense line collapsed almost instantly. The number of their troops was four times that of Kingdom of Dawn, but their morale had collapsed and they had no combat effectiveness at all.
The Empire soldiers had almost no fighting spirit. Once they discovered that the offensive on the other side was very fierce, they immediately fled in all directions. The battlefield was littered with discarded white combat armors.
You can often see more than a dozen Kingdom of Dawn soldiers chasing and killing hundreds of the Empire soldiers.
In the end, only those Clone Trooper and K-X series security robots were still resisting, but their unorganized resistance had no effect at all.
The defeat on the front line aggravated the chaos in the rear, and many Imperial army soldiers were even unwilling to suppress the local Rebel Alliance. Zell-Johnson sometimes sent out a commando battalion, but as a result, all the people in the commando battalion had fled before they arrived at the scheduled position!
The chaos in Dantooine lasted until the end of January of the following year, which was 8BBY. It was only then that Army Lieutenant General er-Johnson of the Galactic Empire announced his surrender with his remaining 200,000 the Empire soldiers.
In this month and a half of fighting and killing, more than 600,000 the Empire soldiers lost their lives, and countless others were injured. And the number of the Empire soldiers captured by Kingdom of Dawn reached as many as one million!
But this is not the most terrifying thing. In the outer space of Dantooine, the number of the Empire soldiers and staff at all levels who died with the destruction of the space station and transport ship actually reached 1.4 million!
When attacked in outer space, there is no chance of survival - the injured are zero, and the captured are zero.
Dantooine The POW camp on the ground was crowded with dejected the Empire soldiers. They huddled on the cold ground, staring blankly at the sky beyond the iron fence that did not belong to them.
What awaits them is a long period of labor camps and imprisonment. They have no human rights at all, and their only role is to serve as a labor force to rebuild and repair the three cities on Dantooine that were destroyed by the war.
During this period of time, although Dunn-Vesex had already returned to the planet Palin Minor and brought Imperial Marshal Mateo Bacchi, he did not make any big move. Instead, he brought General Gillard-Perine over, and the three of them held secret talks in a secret conference room all day and night.
Finally, Mateo Bacchi left alone and went to Agamar Planet to make his own preparations. Gillard-Perine reluctantly gave up the rescue of Dantooine Plan to further consolidate its second line of defense. At the same time, set up a large number of Interdictor and hyperspace outposts on the periphery of the Dantooine galaxy to prevent Kingdom of Dawn from launching a surprise attack from this direction.
Dunn-Vesex has been staying on the planet Palin-Minor. His adjutant also discovered that in the following time, mysterious people wearing black robes continued to come and go from his office, with unknown identities.
Obviously, the story of Dantooine is not over yet.
In Imperial Capital, Imperial Center.
The news of the fall of Dantooine did not cause any turmoil at all. This planet is only meaningful to Dunn-Vesex's previous plan to support the self-esteem of the invaders, and it is meaningful to Marshal Mateo Bacchi and "The Warren" in his mouth.
For the Empire and others, it is just a remote planet on the border with no strategic value.