The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2534: Massacre of the Destroyer

2535: The Massacre of the Destroyer

The surface of the planet Kashyyyk.

The Galactic Empire's ground forces are launching an attack on a Wookiee city. Under the fire cover of 10 huge AT-AT walkers, tens of thousands of stormtroopers in white armor are following 2-M heavy hover tanks towards the settlement.

The AT-AT walker was in a commanding position, and the twin turbolaser cannons mounted on its head kept firing. The devastating firepower blew the Wookiee's firing points set up in the jungle to pieces.

The Wookiees also resisted resolutely. They hid in the woods and under the rocks, and used their own blaster crossbows to fight back. In the sky, the Wookiees also flew their own thopters, which had excellent low-altitude performance, to carry out air strikes against the Imperial Stormtroopers again and again.

Their numbers are several times that of the Imperial Stormtroopers, and every Wookiee warrior is extremely strong. Their tough and thick hair can even withstand the high temperature of blaster rifles to a certain extent. Combined with their rock-like muscles, their speed and strength are far beyond the limits of ordinary people.

This was a confrontation between flesh and steel. The Galactic Empire had obviously suffered in previous battles, and now they had learned their lesson. All combat operations were carried out with the help of their powerful armored forces. AT-AT walkers provided fire support, AT-ST bipedal walkers served as local fulcrums, and 2-M heavy suspension tanks were constantly interspersed... Such tactics made it impossible for the Wookiees to exert their powerful individual strength. After all, even the Inchori, known as the strongest fighting race in the galaxy, could not resist the turbolaser cannon.

In the sky, two Cheering-class assault landing ships hovered at a low altitude of 10000 meters above the ground. Their firepower was even more devastating, and no Wookiee combat group dared to expose themselves outside.

TIE/LN light fighters were raging in the sky, using their high speed and high maneuverability to hunt down the Wookiee Thopters, which were only slightly faster than helicopters at best. The only thing that could threaten these fighters was the Wookiee's few anti-aircraft guns.

There is no doubt that this is a completely unequal battle.

However, the Wookiees did not back down, and they would never back down. The Wookiees hated the Galactic Empire to the core, and they would never give up the resistance.

Because the Wookiees had been exploited and oppressed by the Trade Federation for a long time before the outbreak of the Clone Wars. It was the support and help of the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic that allowed the Wookiees to become independent. Therefore, for the Wookiees, the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order are both their benefactors.

At the same time, the social structure of the Wookiees is relatively loose. They prefer independent and autonomous political systems, and they will never accept authoritarian political systems that restrict themselves with many rules and regulations.

Therefore, after destroying the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order, they exploited them with centralized politics, and at the same time pursued human supremacy, severely discriminating and oppressing all aliens, including the Wookiees. This series of factors made the Wookiees one of the biggest opponents of the Galactic Empire.

Since the establishment of the Galactic Empire, the uprising and resistance of the Wookiees have never stopped in the past ten years. This has caused a lot of headaches for the Galactic Empire, and they have to send troops to suppress them. However, the Wookiees are very powerful, and one Wookiee can easily wipe out a squad of Imperial Stormtroopers, so the troops stationed here cannot be too small.

In the process of continuous resistance and continuous reinforcement, the Galactic Empire has now built more than ten military bases, seven spaceports, and three large space stations on the planet Kashyyyk, plus a powerful garrison of 10 Imperial-class star destroyers. The ground forces exceed 10!

The reason why the planet was not completely burned into glass was mainly because the geographical location of Kashyyyk was too important. In addition, the Wookiees were tenacious, and ordinary orbital bombardment would not only fail to destroy them, but would also make it impossible for the Galactic Empire to gain a foothold here.

However, in addition to burning glass, the Galactic Empire also used other means, including igniting forest fires, releasing poison gas on a large scale, continuous bombing, destroying cities and settlements, and publicly executing the arrested elderly, children, women and children.

But it was no use, the Wookiees' resistance never stopped for a single day.

The democratic members of the Imperial Parliament, led by Bail Organa, also accused the Imperial Army of genocide all day long. They not only exerted pressure in the parliament, but also in public opinion, constantly making the Imperial Army lose face.

So sometimes the Imperial military strongly supports the DS-1 battle station plan, because once the Death Star is completed, if there is a problem, they can just blow it up, and then explain it to you. It will be much simpler. Unlike now, it takes a long time to destroy a planet. Once it takes too long, all kinds of changes will happen.

However, this time, the Galactic Empire's offensive against the Wookiee city hidden in the jungle suddenly stopped!

All we saw were the TIE/LN fighters in the sky turning around and flying towards the Cheering-class assault landing ships in the air. The Imperial-class stormtroopers also turned around and retreated, and the AT-AT walkers began to suppress the fire and prepare to cover their retreat.

The Wookiee warriors who were fighting bloody battles in the jungle were a little confused for a moment, because the Imperial Army had completely controlled the battlefield, the torrent of steel was unstoppable, and the Wookiees were ready to fight to the death.

The encouraged Wookiee warriors rushed out of the jungle howling loudly, roaring and shooting wildly at the retreating Imperial Stormtroopers, venting their anger.

However, at this moment, one of the Wookiee warriors pointed to the sky and let out a loud roar.

More and more soldiers began to notice the changes in the sky. They looked up and saw an extremely terrifying scene!

A vast expanse of fiery red spread across the sky. The sky was burning, and the clouds were ignited! Under the huge impact, even the sky covered with dark clouds was torn apart.

What followed was countless rains of fire falling from the sky!

Yes, literally, rain of fire!

Fireballs of varying sizes fell from the sky, carrying with them burning flames and billowing smoke, smashing to the ground and setting off a series of devastating explosions.

As the fireballs continued to descend, the flames on the surface went out, and people then saw that what was falling were countless twisted metal wreckages!

It was impossible to imagine how much debris had fallen, and the constant rain of fire had caused even more damage than the previous bombing by the Galactic Empire.

You could even see some Imperial transport ships that had taken off into the air being hit by the debris because they were unable to avoid it in time, and then exploded and disintegrated, becoming part of the wreckage.

The Wookiee warriors who had been pursuing the victory just now howled and fled to their underground shelters. At this moment, they suddenly felt that the sky seemed to become brighter, and the surroundings were illuminated by the dazzling flames into a blood red.

Looking up at the sky, I saw a huge triangular diamond-shaped warship, covered in flames, crashing towards the ground!

Not just one, but also a second and a third!

Some of these warships were broken into two pieces, and some of them could not even be distinguished. But the same thing was that they all caught fire and exploded everywhere, and the flames and thick smoke lit up the entire sky!

Finally, one of the warships crashed to the ground, followed by an extremely dazzling flash of light, which even covered the sun's light!

There was no sound, no heat wave, only a gentle breeze... Then, the ground began to tremble, accompanied by boundless fear! Before the sound and shock wave came, everyone at the scene had already felt the call of death. Whether it was the Wookiees or the Imperial soldiers, they all rushed towards the nearest shelter they could find in a panic.

Boom~~~~!! The terrible explosion finally came, the ground kept shaking, and even the AT-AT walkers couldn't stand. Then, a powerful shock wave rushed over with hundreds of meters of dust, directly overturning all the more than ten AT-AT walkers!

Those who failed to dodge in time were blown into the sky like pieces of paper, and then smashed into pieces of meat by the powerful shock wave.

This suppression operation that the Galactic Empire was determined to win turned into an indiscriminate hell of massacre as one battleship after another fell.

The culprit behind this massacre is currently in synchronous orbit around the planet Kashyyyk.

Kingdom of Dawn——Battleship Destruction!

The 7892-meter-long ship was cruising in space, and the densely packed heavy turbolaser cannons on the ship were firing crazily. Next to the Destroyer were four Imperial-class Star Destroyers, which were now in ruins and desperately resisting the Destroyer's crazy attack.

Just like on the ground, it was also a one-sided massacre here.

The Imperial fleets suppressing the Wookiee uprising had never expected to encounter the killer battleship USS Destroyer. At that time, 10 Imperial-class Star Destroyers were monitoring the battle on the ground in the planet's synchronous orbit, and when the USS Destroyer came from behind them, the Star Destroyers were hit by a star destroyer before they could even escape the planet's gravity.

Two Imperial-class Star Destroyers were instantly destroyed by the powerful Star Destroyer Cannon, and then the Destroyer rushed directly over and bombarded the remaining Star Destroyers.

Before they understood what was happening, the high-energy directional electromagnetic pulse cannon of the Destroyer had been fully charged, and it fired from both sides again. Five more Imperial-class Star Destroyers were affected by the electromagnetic pulse cannon, and their electronic equipment was severely damaged. They could only engage in direct combat with the powerful Destroyer in this incomplete state.

In less than an hour, the outcome of this encounter was seen.

One against ten, the Destroyer wins!

Under the interference of powerful electromagnetic pulses, these Star Destroyers couldn't even send out a distress signal. Finally, it was an Imperial base on the other side of the planet that sent out a distress signal, and the 12th Army Headquarters only then knew that the Destroyer had actually run to the planet Kashyyyk!

However, what the 12th Army Governor Thraben did not expect was that Gideon Tarkin simply ignored the distress call and simply sent another fleet to support. He did not directly engage in battle with the Destroy, but only monitored it from a distance.

At this moment, General Grievous was in the battleship USS Destruction. He stared at the holographic star map and shouted, "Keep charging the electromagnetic pulse cannon! Continue shooting with the turbolaser cannon! Kill these little ants first! Hahahaha!"

He laughed out loud as he looked at the lingering Imperial-class Star Destroyer on the battle map.

"General, we have intercepted the communications of the Galactic Empire. A squadron may come to reinforce us." said a T-series tactical robot on the side.

"Just a squadron? It looks like Gideon Tarkin hasn't been hurt yet!" General Grievous waved his hand fiercely, "Let the hyperspace department get ready. We will blow up all the military bases on Kashyyyk, and then go to Lantilis for a tour! I want to see how long Gideon Tarkin can stay calm!"

The four Imperial-class Star Destroyers did not resist for long. Trapped in near-Earth synchronous orbit, they had no way of escaping, let alone resisting the fire of the Destroyer. The final outcome was that they were blown to pieces.

"Prepare for orbital bombardment!" ordered General Grievous.

"There may be a Wookiee settlement below. According to detection, a fierce battle was taking place on the ground just now." said the tactical robot.

"It doesn't matter! Blow up those hairy monkeys together!" General Grievous didn't care.

He has never been a person who cares about the lives of civilians.

Looking at the flames rising on the ground, General Grievous showed a satisfied look in his eyes. The explosions that could be seen in outer space were at least ten kilometers in range. This was a devastating bombing!

However, he was still very cautious and asked the hyperspace control department to keep monitoring at all times and be ready to run away at any time.

"Continue the hyperspace jump calculations. If there are too many Imperial fleets coming, run immediately!" said General Grievous.

However, he made a mistake. He did not notice that on the hyperspace engine's calculation screen, the time required for the hyperspace jump was slowly increasing.

The B-1 combat robots that were controlling the hyperspace engine were operating in an orderly manner. For them, as long as the calculations did not get stuck, then that was normal.

Both General Grievous and the Battleship Destroyer were actually marginal figures in the Kingdom of Dawn, and naturally there were not so many well-trained elite naval soldiers assigned to them.

"Hyperspace fluctuations detected, an Imperial fleet has arrived." A B-1 battle robot turned back to report, "Estimated fleet size: medium."

"Let's fire at them first! Hahahaha!" General Grievous turned around and said.

With a flash of white light, an imperial fleet appeared in space. However, General Grievous, who was monitoring that direction through optical images, suddenly saw a few warships in the fleet that were not in harmony...

There are four more bulges on the upper and lower hull of the Empire-class ship!

General Grievous was shocked, "Interdictor-class Star Destroyer! Something is wrong!"