The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2383 Bloody Battle with Fang Duo (VI)
2384: Bloody Battle of Fangduo (VI)
Thinking of the huge nest, the adjutant couldn't help but shudder all over.

It was indeed disgusting, as Severance Tann said, but more of it was... fear.

Because when you see that horrible nest and those horrible mutant creatures, you won't associate these things with anything related to "civilization". All you can think of are words like devouring, destroying, and doomsday.

And this is indeed what Alexia is doing.

On the holographic combat map, it can be seen that the scope of Alexia's nest is rapidly expanding. Those terrible tentacles continue to spread along the ground, and every time they capture a factory or a residential area, they devour all the creatures inside, even the energy sources are no exception, all of which are devoured.

It was incredible that these tentacles did not even spare robots. Judging from the mutated semi-mechanical monsters, it seemed that because there were too few creatures on the planet Fangduo, some mechanical parts were used as skeletons to save some biological materials.

The various monsters that appeared near the nest had increased to nearly 15 in just half a day! Moreover, these monsters continued to expand outwards and had already captured dozens of factories around them.

"General Tann...we should..." The adjutant didn't know what to say at this time.

"Cooperate with her." Severance Tann said coldly, "Send our armored forces to open a gap for Alexia's biological weapons army."

"In fact, some commanders on the front lines have already complained about it. They feel that fighting alongside such a monster is a bit..." The adjutant chose his words carefully.

"Colonel Yi Hai, if you encounter a commander like this, you should know how to deal with it. Do you still need me to teach you?" Severance Tann said in a cold tone, "Stop such thoughts immediately and never let them spread among the army."

"Yes!" The adjutant quickly stood at attention and saluted.

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On the ground of the planet Fondo, Alexia Ashford's lair could no longer be stopped.

There were hundreds of thousands of mutated monsters, some flying in the air and some running on the ground. They attacked from all sides fearlessly, attacking every target around them.

Severance Tann quickly made strategic adjustments. She began to deploy her troops near the nest, using armored units such as Scorpion tanks and M-90 Wolverine anti-aircraft vehicles to provide long-range fire support to Alexia's mutant army.

Although these mutant creatures are powerful, they do have a fatal weakness - that is, they lack long-range firepower. No matter how resistant these biological weapons are, one energy beam can't kill them, and ten beams can't kill them either. Then what about a hundred beams? A thousand beams? And a few large-caliber high-explosive bombs?
Alexia seemed to be trying to solve these problems, including mutating and hatching some creatures that could spray venom remotely and hatching a large number of flying creatures. At the same time, the tentacles that continued to spread underground also began to transport mutant creatures through the underground passages that were opened up, and launched surprise attacks on the other side's multi-planet defenders from behind.

However, these methods are not as effective as the armored division sent by Severance Tann!

So now on the ground battlefield of Fangduo Planet, the defenders of the Galactic Empire saw such a terrifying scene - the invisible Grim Reaper in the sky, the Banshee fighters were constantly bombarding, and the plasma grenades fired by the siege tanks in the distance kept falling. The Scorpion tanks were approaching quickly, and the 90mm caliber electrothermal guns fired a large number of armor-piercing shells at an extremely fast rate of fire, piercing the bunkers, destroying the firing points, and crushing all resistance positions.

Behind them, there was a vast ocean of mutant creatures! ! The number was simply incalculable, and all you could see were countless hideous and terrifying monsters.

Even though the defenders of Fangduo Planet managed to hold their ground with the help of a large number of KX security robots and automatic turrets and blocked the attack of the Dawn Kingdom's armored forces, the tide of mutant creatures did not give them any chance at all!
Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of mutant creatures rushing up, no matter what the defense line is, it will collapse in an instant!

Such despair and fear were beginning to spread outwards from the nest.

After continuously expanding and occupying more energy centers, the huge nest began to wriggle violently. Then, the top of the nest cracked open, and out flew a bloated mutant monster that looked like a meatball, with a diameter of dozens of meters!

After receiving the notification from Alexia Ashford, a Behemoth-class battlecruiser immediately flew over, and dozens of ghost fighters escorted the monster. Then the Behemoth-class battlecruiser extended its mechanical arm for loading and unloading cargo, grabbed the monster, and flew to the other side of the planet.

After flying to an energy power station thousands of kilometers away from the mother nest, the monster lay directly on the energy power station and began to absorb energy. Soon, the monster began to multiply and its size began to grow larger. Then, hatching holes began to grow on its body, and mutant creatures began to hatch from it.

Alexia's nest actually began to split!

As these small nests continue to increase, the mutant creatures she hatches will grow exponentially! It is really only a matter of time before the entire Fangduo planet is completely devoured!

If Tang Xiao was present at such a scene, he would probably sigh: It turns out that the end point of all biological weapons is the insect swarm!
But it is true that the structure of the T-Veronica virus and its ultimate form are really similar to those of the Zerg.

Compared with other viruses that focus more on individual mutation and enhancement, the T-Veronica virus has the strongest sociality because it contains the genes of the queen ant and some plant genes. The complete Veronica virus is built with the queen as the core to form an extremely powerful population.

Isn't this the Zerg?
It can only be said that although humans have worked hard to develop biological weapons, the final destination they have achieved is just the starting point for the Zerg.

In fact, if Alexia Ashford's Veronica group only appeared on the planet Fangduo alone, it would probably be completely destroyed in a few days. Tang Xiao actually knew the form of the Veronica virus from the original setting, but the reason why he still indulged Alexia's research was because the Veronica virus was weaker and more controllable than the Zerg, whether it was the current Zerg or the Killik Zerg. Sometimes, weakness is also an advantage. It's not just about controllability, but also because of such weakness that it can be used by humans. Alexia Ashford produced various byproducts through the research of the T-Veronica virus, including body enhancement, various incredible transplant surgeries and limb regeneration, as well as various targeted drugs with obvious effects, all of which were developed because of the weakness of the T-Veronica virus.

Compared to the Zerg, which are extremely powerful but are useless to the development of human civilization except for biting people everywhere when released, the Veronica virus is undoubtedly more useful.

Just like the T virus that Shirley Birkin is focusing on now, its military use is becoming less and less, and its civilian use is increasing. This is also a very positive example. When technology develops to a certain level, a disaster like the one in Raccoon City will never happen, and it will not cause any threat.

Shirley Birkin is now researching newer and more powerful viruses. It is said that she is currently improving the T virus from the perspective of some deep-sea creatures, and has also applied to retrieve some extremely confidential scientific and technological files from the mothership database. However, there is no result report yet - only two projects have been secretly established, "Abyss" and "Sleepy God".

However, although Alexia's Veronica tribe is weak, its number is extremely large. With the full cooperation of Severance Tann, there are orbital bombings of warships in the sky, targeted strikes by ghost fighters and banshees, armored assaults by scorpion tanks, and long-range support from siege tanks. These forces allow the characteristics of the Veronica tribe to be fully utilized.

What is the biggest difficulty in inter-galactic warfare? — The deployment of forces.

Because if you want to completely occupy a planet through ground combat, rather than just get a glass ball that is completely burned by orbital bombardment, you need to invest a huge ground force. And the food, drink, defecation, ammunition consumption, and medicine supply of such a large army are astronomical. A million troops go out to fight, followed by tens of thousands of transport ships!
Generally speaking, the Galactic Republic's approach is to conduct limited orbital bombardment, cooperate with elite ground forces to directly land near the planet's capital, and then directly capture the planet's administrative center and replace it with an obedient regime. This is also the most labor-saving way.

Or, like the Confederation of Independent Systems, they could just drop a large number of robot armies. The disadvantages are that it is rigid and expensive, and it also requires a large number of ships to transport the robots. The advantage is that it requires very little supply. Considering that the Confederation of Independent Systems is usually the losing side in fleet battles, the low requirement for supply becomes the main factor.

Alexia is now building her own mother nest on the planet Fangduo, which is to skip the step of deploying troops and use local materials to create a large and cheap army.

Once this problem is solved, the conqueror will naturally be invincible in conquering many planets.

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Almost 10 days after Alexia's lair was built, the time had come to 12 BBY, 7 years in the Galactic Empire calendar, and 23 years in the Dawn Kingdom calendar (again, let me remind you that the Star Wars calendar has 35 days in a month and 10 months in a year, and the Dawn Kingdom also uses this calendar, but the way of counting years is different from that of the Galactic Empire).

At this time, Alexia Ashford's nests had appeared in large numbers on the planet Fondo. Millions of mutant creatures, supported by the Dawn Kingdom's air strikes, swept across every inch of the planet like a tide.

The battle situation on Fangduo Planet has begun to deteriorate visibly.

In contrast, the Death Squadron led by Darth Vader was still fighting with the Given garrison in the underground caves of the planet Yago-Dur. This time, Severance Tann's strategy of changing homes had seen the dawn of success.

Although Fangduo Planet has been completely blocked by the fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn, some news still reaches the center of the Empire. And almost none of the news received by the top military officials of the Empire is good news.

From these fragmentary intelligence, the Imperial military only came up with a few key points: the Kingdom of Dawn used biological weapons on a large scale, the organized resistance on Fangduo had been disintegrated, and now basically each industrial zone was fighting on its own. Also, the industrial capacity on Fangduo was still very huge, and a steady stream of robots were being produced, but raw materials were beginning to be in short supply.

However, even from this information, it is easy to draw the conclusion that it is difficult for Fangduo Planet to survive.

This important industrial world must not be lost. This was Emperor Palpatine's firm order in the Imperial Senate. Everyone could imagine that once Fangduo was lost, it would inevitably cause a bloody storm in the military and political circles of the Galactic Empire!
However, at this time, both Palpatine and the Imperial military still approved of Darth Vader's strategy of continuing to besiege Yago-Dur. The reason was actually the same as Severance Tann's judgment - once they withdrew from Yago-Dur and fought another fleet decisive battle, the result would be nothing.

Severance Tann didn't want to return to a state of confrontation, and neither did the Galactic Empire.

Therefore, on the one hand, the Galactic Empire military continued to prepare to reinforce Fangduo Planet, and on the other hand, it also urged Darth Vader to achieve the goal as soon as possible and capture the planet Yago-Dur.

After discussion, the task of reinforcing the planet Fondo fell on Wilhuff Tarkin, the current governor of the Fourth Army of the Galactic Empire. In fact, the closest to the 20th Army to the planet Fondo should be the Second Army. However, the Second Army suffered a disastrous defeat under the leadership of Jedi Master Mace Windu at the end of the Clone Wars, suffered heavy losses, and lost trust, and its political status plummeted, so this important task was postponed to the Fourth Army.

Wilhuff Tarkin currently does not have many warships in his hands. A large number of warships have been transferred to Darth Vader. He does not want to touch this hot potato at all, but Palpatine's order has been given, and he has to find a way.

So he found the black hole.

Black Hole is Palpatine's dark advisor, the behind-the-scenes manipulator of the Imperial Intelligence Agency, and the real leader of the Imperial Inquisition. Although Wilhuff Tarkin has never been interested in things like the Force, he can only turn to Black Hole for help now.

"Multiple planets for reinforcements? Hehehe... Governor Tarkin, you really shouldn't take this mission." In front of Wilhuff Tarkin was a human-shaped shadow, and nothing could be seen inside.

"The strategic position of Fangduo planet is extremely important. His Majesty the Emperor has given me this task, which is also an important responsibility for me. I should not shirk it." Wilhuff Tarkin said this, but the anxious expression was already written on his face, and he did not seem to intend to hide it.

“Hehehe… However, what is happening on the planet Fangduo does concern me. Okay, I will help you, Governor Tarkin…” Black Hole said, “Remember, you owe me a favor.”