The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2577: Aggression Like Fire (Part )
2577: Aggression Like Fire (Part )

Following Admiral Gideon Tarkin's order, the Galactic Empire fleet began to divide into four parts in an orderly manner and then leave the battlefield separately.

During this process, Admiral Gideon Tarkin also demonstrated his outstanding command level. Under his coordination and organization, the retreat of the Galactic Empire's warships was orderly and did not give General Grievous' fleet more opportunities.

After all, General Grievous' current formation deployment is not an annihilation operation, but to prevent the Galactic Empire's fleet from destroying the star gate as much as possible.

Therefore, the Revelation-class battleships that broke directly into the middle of the Imperial fleet's formation not only fired crazily and destroyed seven Imperial-class Star Destroyers in succession during the retreat, but also failed to stop them from leaving.

The battle lasted a very short time, from the time General Grievous launched the assault to the time Gideon Tarkin led his troops to retreat, it took less than three hours in total.

The Galactic Empire lost 31 Imperial-class Star Destroyers during this period, most of which were destroyed by the Divine Revelation-class battleships. On General Grievous' side, two Divine Revelation-class battleships were severely damaged, and the main armor belts of three ships were penetrated but no damage was done to the interior.

However, the stargate was still severely damaged. General Grievous immediately contacted the Vasali phase engineer who was still on the planet Edu. The other party told him that the stargate on the planet Lothal would need to be closed for at least two months.

General Grievous also did not stop. He did not directly pursue the Galactic Empire's fleet because they must have come through an unknown hyperspace channel, and he could not follow them without knowing the specific navigation data.

Therefore, it only takes one day for the Galactic Empire fleet to return to the planet Bonta, while General Grievous' fleet needs three days.

However, General Grievous did not stop there.

Under his constant commands, the entire Eastern Dawn Kingdom fleet seemed to come alive and began to carry out large-scale rotations and maneuvers for the purpose of overall strategy.

The first is the fleet located in the industrial center of Kubindi Galaxy. This fleet is the fleet led by General Grievous before. It is mainly provided by the Hutts. Except for 15 Typhoon-class battlecruisers, there are no advanced warships. General Grievous ordered this fleet to move quickly to the planet Lothal.

Because according to the current movements of Palpatine's Eye, it has no intention of destroying the planet Kubindi. It is just wandering around in the Hutt space. It is still on the planet Targon, constantly using electromagnetic waves to control more spaceships and personnel on the planet Targon.

The Eye of Palpatine lacks supplies, especially the core elements needed for hyperspace jumps, so it is currently unable to maneuver long distances.

However, it cannot be ruled out that after learning the news, the Galactic Empire secretly dispatched high-speed warships to deliver the core element to the Eye of Palpatine.

Therefore, before the Eye of Palpatine is reactivated, one's strategic intentions must be realized!
In the next few days, General Grievous demonstrated to Lieutenant General Lin Nanyi what "aggression like fire" really meant! !

After repelling the Galactic Empire fleet, General Grievous led this high-speed fleet to quickly enter the planet Parmenter, and left the five Revelation-class battleships damaged in the last battle at Parmenter Harbor for repair. These five Revelation-class battleships, together with the fleet provided by the Hutts, will ensure the safety of the planet Lothal.

Immediately afterwards, the high-speed fleet headed straight for the planet Dark!
General Grievous was not polite to the Mon Calamari. After the fleet entered the planet Dak, he immediately summoned the Quarren leader Nosori and the Mon Calamari representatives. Nosori arrived, but the Mon Calamari did not send anyone. Only their current highest military commander, General Jarl-Ackbar, told General Grievous coldly through remote communication that the Mon Calamari were extremely angry about the military invasion of the Kingdom of Dawn and reserved the right to use all means.

Here, Nosori was also panicked and begged General Grievous, hoping to resolve the problem of the planet Dark peacefully.

But General Grievous only gave Nosori an ultimatum - the problem of the planet Dak must be solved within three days! What problem?
The problem was written on the ultimatum given to the Mon Calamari, which mainly included immediately providing the most detailed hyperspace route navigation data of the star region around the planet Dark; immediately finding the murderer of the Given Governor Kobor, and handing over the relevant responsible persons to the Principality of Dawn for trial; establishing a joint government on the planet Dark, with the head of government and core members selected by the Kingdom of Dawn from among the Mon Calamari and Quarren.

The ultimatum period is three days.

In other words, these two ultimatums require the Quarren to stand on the side of the Kingdom of Dawn and help put pressure on the Mon Calamari, even using war to completely conquer the Mon Calamari.

After issuing the ultimatum, General Grievous did not stop. After a day of rest in the Quarren spaceport, he immediately led the fleet to the planet Dralt and headed directly to the planet Jabim.

He was not worried that the Mon Calamari would cause any trouble, because the five Revelation-class battleships were in Port Parment. They were very close to the planet Losar, but even closer to the planet Dak...

At the same time, the light cruiser formation sent by General Grievous had also arrived at the destination. They went directly behind the planet Dak and blocked the planet Pakuuni. This was the transit point for the planet Dak to the core channel Pelmeian trade route. This light cruiser formation directly cut off all Mon Calamari navigation.

All Mon Calamari spaceships are required to return immediately, otherwise they will be sunk!

The main external channel of the Dak planet was cut off! And the Pakuni planet was even farther away from the Bonta planet where the Galactic Empire fleet was located. In the case of insufficient fleet strength, Gideon Tarkin did not dare to send the fleet to such a distant place.

That's not all. General Grievous had already contacted Semirth while the fleet was on its way to Jabim. He asked Semirth to immediately block Jabim's trade routes.

Jabimu is not far from Semirth, and Semirth has been fighting against the Galactic Empire. Now that the Kingdom of Dawn is approaching, Semirth was originally their staunch ally, and now it has directly jumped up and explicitly joined the Kingdom of Dawn!
Afterwards, the planet Semirs sent its remaining 20-odd Higra-class battlecruisers to completely block the traffic from the planet Jabimu to the core channel Pelemian trade route. This forced the planet Jabimu's foreign trade to bypass the planet Semirs and go around the planet Bonta controlled by the Galactic Empire.

But Jabimu also had a bad relationship with the Galactic Empire. Their leader, Otto Starktus, was a very radical liberal. Otto Starktus immediately responded angrily to the blockade of Semyrth, saying that Jabimu would fight Semyrth to the end.

But his voice was insignificant after all.

At the same time, the battleship formations left behind by General Grievous, including the Archon-class aircraft carriers, Hell's Angels-class battlecruisers, etc., were approaching the planet Bonta from another direction!
This battleship formation did not participate in the operation to defend the planet Losar, but headed towards the planet Bonta from the beginning. So although it also made a circle, at this time, it had already formed a north-south encirclement of Bonta with General Grievous' high-speed formation!

This series of textbook-like outflanking and detours gave Gideon Tarkin almost no chance to adjust, and he was immediately trapped in the blockade of the Kingdom of Dawn!