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Chapter 2433 Stalemate (Part )

2434: Stalemate (Part )

On March 10, 3 BBY, half a year had passed since the outbreak of the war. Now all fronts had fallen into an eerie calm. Although small-scale conflicts continued, both sides had stopped large-scale military operations.

So at this time, the propaganda machines of the Kingdom of Dawn and the Galactic Empire were fully operational, and both made a big fuss about the progress of the war. Both sides claimed that they had gained the strategic initiative and that defeating the other was just around the corner.

The Kingdom of Dawn boasted about its glorious victory in the Battle of Kira and its feat of taking over many planets. It fought its way to the core planet of the North, Palin-Minor, and blew up Iron Moon, forcing the Empire to retreat like a coward. Their Foreign Ministry spokesperson repeatedly called on the Galactic Empire to count how many of their warships had been destroyed.

At the same time, the Kingdom of Dawn also publicly announced that they will immediately start building a stargate on the planet Fangduo. When the stargate is completed, the planet Fangduo will be as solid as a rock, and the Galactic Empire will never be able to touch a speck of dust on the planet Fangduo again in this lifetime.

However, when the reporter asked whether the other end of the stargate was connected to the Dawn Planet, the spokesperson hesitated and evaded the question, and finally said that it was built in a "suitable star system" in the Model Star Region. Then the reporter further asked whether they were worried about the spread of biological weapons on the Fangduo Planet. The spokesperson of the Kingdom of Dawn used this reporter as an excuse to attack him personally and ended the press conference.

The Galactic Empire accused the Kingdom of Dawn of using evil biological weapons on Fangduo, which caused the deaths of 5 billion civilians on Fangduo. In order to prevent the biological weapons from spreading to other places and causing a humanitarian disaster, the Imperial Army was forced to abandon the planet. The Kingdom of Dawn's shameless sneak attack on Kira was a complete violation of martial ethics, which caught the Imperial Army off guard.

Moreover, the Galactic Empire was bragging about the just concluded Battle of the Two Heroes, claiming that the evil warships built by the Kingdom of Dawn, which sucked the blood and flesh of its people, were completely defeated by the Empire's righteous army and could only run back home in disgrace. The so-called famous general Severance Tann was beaten like a dog in the North by our Northern War God, Governor Dunn Wessex.

Of course, compared to the Kingdom of Dawn, the Galactic Empire's boasting is still a little lacking in confidence. After all, no matter how loud the public opinion is, the battle line will not lie. So far, all the battles, even the Northern Battle that the Galactic Empire is proud of, have been fought within the Empire, and they have not been able to push the battle line to the Kingdom of Dawn.

However, no matter how much verbal attacks the two sides make, it cannot cover up the fact that both sides have stopped their strategic offensive.

Because the real fact is - although the Galactic Empire suffered greater losses, it was larger in size after all; although the Kingdom of Dawn did not suffer much loss, it still lacked some foundation, so after this exchange, the ten years of accumulation of both sides were used up in half a year, and they both retreated back to lick their wounds and prepare for the next large-scale offensive.

As for peace talks? This is absolutely impossible! Even if there is no large-scale offensive, the state of war must still be maintained! I will exhaust you, torture you, and disgust you to death in various ways!

The current battle situation between the two sides is roughly like this:

In the north, after Gilad Pellaeon, who was demoted to lieutenant general, returned to his position, the Galactic Empire continued to preside over the northern defense line, holding the two fortresses of Palin Minor and Bilbrin, while emptying the defense of the outer ring star region in the north. Anyway, if your Kingdom of Dawn wants to attack the outer ring, I will take advantage of your lack of troops to attack your core area.

However, on the planet of Bilbrin, the resistance forces under the command of Major General Bentiras-San-Skarr continued to engage in guerrilla warfare on the ground battlefield, which annoyed the Galactic Empire, but there was nothing they could do. Gilad-Pellaeon's mobile fleet did not dare to make any major moves, so they could only continue to send in more land forces to prepare to encircle and suppress the guerrillas.

In fact, although Gilad Pellaeon was in charge of building the northern defense line, he had suffered too many blows in this place, and it was impossible to say that he had no fear in his heart. Before taking office, Gilad Pellaeon went to talk to Thrawn. It should be impossible, but Wilhuff Tarkin, who was his superior at the time, seemed to want to feed Dunn Wessex a mouthful of shit, so he actually made it happen.

There was a long conversation between Vice Admiral Gilad Pellaeon and Thrawn that lasted for several hours before they set out for the North.

As for the Kingdom of Dawn, they also did not launch an attack because of their limited military strength. They reoccupied the planet of Od-Mantell, but gave up the planet of Isol and began to build a stargate in the outer space of the planet of Od-Mantell.

At the same time, the Chiss Territory also began to send reinforcements. Their first fleet soon set out from the unknown star region, arrived at the planet Anxin, and established contact with the Mararian Alliance.

The Chiss Territory will directly send military commanders and military advisers to join the military system of the Mararian Alliance to make up for the alliance's weak military strength. After all, before this, the military level of the Mararian Alliance itself was basically the same as that of the Galactic Republic, and was far inferior to that of the Galactic Empire.

At the same time, funded by the Mararian Alliance, a stargate from Chiss Territory to the planet Anxin was also started.

Then, the fleet of the Mararian Alliance will enter the planet of Dolin (I will draw a sketch to illustrate the battle situation in the north after the update) to block the planet of Bilbrin. Thus, the two military nodes of Dolin and Od-Mantell are in a confrontation.

The planet Od-Mantell has not built a stargate for the time being, because several corporate giants in the North are now suffering huge losses, and almost all of their industrial capacity is used to build new warships, so their finances and industrial capacity are stretched to the limit and they are unable to afford it. At the same time, the planet Od-Mantell has no defense facilities and is too close to the front line. Once it loses the protection of the fleet, it is likely to be destroyed, which is not worth the loss.

Therefore, it is still necessary to deploy defenses on the planet Ord-Mantell first, build an Argonev-class interstellar base, a Gauss orbital defense platform, a stealth hangar and other equipment, and install a planetary shield for the planet.

At the same time, the planet of Bilbrin also had to be fought for. Admiral Trench separated a part of his few fleets and directly broke into the outer space of the planet. After a firefight with the defenders of the Galactic Empire, he occupied a part of the outer periphery of the planet, thus opening up the transportation line.

Now neither fleet has any plans for a decisive battle. All of them are hiding on one side. In addition to continuously sending troops and supplies to the planet's ground battlefield, they also send fighter jets and high-speed assault ships to harass the opponent's transport ships.

As a result, ground combat became the mainstream on the planet Bilbrin.