The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2520 General Grievous, Attack!

2521. General Grievous, attack!

After the Kingdom of Dawn conquered the Eriadu system, the Sullustans joined their ranks, and as a race with a highly advanced industry, they quickly became an important member of the Fourth Civilization.

It was at this time that Luger Simon returned to his home planet of Sallust and joined the Fourth Group. With his joining, the modification of the battleship Destroyer went more smoothly.

However, because the industrial capacity of Hutt Space was so poor, it took four years to complete the modernization of the battleship Destroyer.

The first appearance of the new Destroyer was during the raid launched by General Grievous against the Galactic Empire's 12th Army half a year ago. In the Battle of the Planet Minban, the extremely powerful warship destroyed three Imperial-class Star Destroyers in a short period of time, shocking the Imperial Fleet.

However, at that time, the purpose of the Dawn Kingdom's Supreme Command was only to seize the opportunity to launch a tentative attack, so General Grievous did not continue to expand the results of the victory, but instead stopped while he was ahead and retreated.

Now, General Grievous' fleet has been replenished, and a large number of the Galactic Empire's 12th Army's fleet has also been transferred to the northeast. With the increase of one and the decrease of the other, it is a good opportunity to launch an attack!

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9BBY, April 1.

The Galactic Empire dispatched 40 battleships and 100 light cruisers to the planet Taris and launched a blockade of the planet.

Soon, they learned about the existence of the underground city through global scanning. However, they had no idea how many Rak Ghouls there were in the underground city, because Rak Ghouls could not be detected by conventional instruments.

Moreover, the underground city buried hundreds of meters deep also made it difficult for the Imperial Fleet to destroy the entire underground city through orbital bombardment. Even if they only blocked those few gaps, it would only be a temporary solution and not a permanent solution.

The better thing to do is to be afraid of thieves stealing. If these Rak zombies are not completely eliminated, there is no guarantee that the monsters inside will be dug out by the Kingdom of Dawn at any time and continue to cause trouble for you.

But this time, the commander of the Galactic Empire's fleet finally did something intelligent. He sent people to find the natives of the planet and learned about the underground city in detail.

Now, they knew that there were billions of Rak ghouls trapped in the dungeon, and recently, a mysterious fleet came, blew up the exit, and took away many ghouls. But even this was just a drop in the bucket, and there were still billions of ghouls in the dungeon!

What's worse is that the actions of the fleets have awakened the sleeping Lark ghouls in the dungeon. Now these monsters are restless, and sporadic monsters often run out and wreak havoc in the city.

At this point, the representatives of the natives of the planet Taris begged the commander of the Imperial fleet, hoping that the Empire could evacuate them to other planets. However, the commander sneered, coldly drove the representatives off the spacecraft, and then issued an order for orbital bombardment.

40 battleships began to launch a continuous and fierce bombardment in the direction of the underground city! For a moment, the mountain range where the underground city was located was engulfed in flames and explosions. Even the atmosphere was ignited, and the air was extremely hot.

With such an intensity of orbital bombardment, I'm afraid the entire surface of the planet will be destroyed!

But the commander of the Empire's fleet didn't care at all. All he cared about was completing his mission and eliminating the culprit who had plunged the northeastern border of the Empire into chaos.

However, things don't always go so smoothly.

Just when the Imperial Fleet put all its energy into orbital bombardment, in order to strengthen firepower, the commander even sent those light cruisers to join the orbital bombardment.

After all, the dungeon is hundreds of meters deep. It was originally a planetary underground fortress built by the former Mandalorian Crusaders to avoid orbital bombing. Ordinary orbital bombing is completely useless. It will only blow a gap in the dungeon and completely free the monsters from their confinement.

Therefore, this orbital bombardment must be thorough! Even if the cost is the destruction of the entire planet of Taris, it doesn't matter. As for the inhabitants of the planet? Are there any? This planet has been completely occupied by billions of monsters, and there is no living person left.

However, at this moment, the Imperial Fleet was suddenly attacked!

The engines of several Imperial-class Star Destroyers were suddenly hit by the proton torpedoes that suddenly appeared, and they were instantly severely damaged! At this time, the commander of the Imperial fleet who was bent on orbital bombing woke up from his dream. He suddenly remembered that the Imperial fleet on the planet Halmade had been attacked by the Dawn Kingdom's Black Hidden Special Service ship before!

But it was too late, Darth Lilith on one of the Purification-class Black Ops ships had already locked onto the location of his flagship.

"Fire." With her cold command, more than 20 proton torpedoes instantly destroyed the engine of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer! The violent explosion exploded from the inside out, and the Imperial commander died in the sea of ​​fire before he could even say his last words.

Afterwards, before the light cruisers turned around, Darth Lilith quickly commanded the Black Hidden Special Forces fleet to evacuate the area.

The leaderless imperial fleet could only abandon all military operations and seek help from the rear.

……

When the news of this highly successful surprise attack reached the planet Saki in the north of Hutt space, a burst of extremely dull and eerie laughter was heard.

“Hahahahaha! Very good! Very good!!” A tall man covered in a black cloak let out a laugh that sounded like it was coming from inside a metal can.

Under the hood of the cloak is an animal bone mask covering a metal head, with a pair of eyes that look like those of a wild beast.

General Grievous!

He walked to the holographic star map with his hands behind his back and called up the star map of the entire war zone. On it, the garrison situation of the Galactic Empire was marked in relatively detail.

"The Galactic Empire will definitely misjudge our strength on the planet Taris!" General Grievous said, "Order the hyperspace outposts to increase monitoring power! As soon as abnormal hyperspace fluctuations are detected, report immediately! In addition, analyze the hyperspace fluctuations in the past three days for me!"

"Roger!" The T-series tactical robot standing next to him responded.

"They... will definitely transfer troops from here." General Grievous pointed to one of the planets on the holographic star map.

Boonta!

"Analysis completed. The hyperspace fluctuations near the planet Bonta have increased by 17% compared to normal. And a larger-scale fluctuation just occurred an hour ago." said the tactical robot.

"Hehehehe..." General Grievous laughed grimly, and then said: "Destruction, attack!"

(End of this chapter)