The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2621: Pinning and Being Pinned

Seeing where Admiral Trench was pointing, Tang Xiao's mouth curled up slightly, "The pawn of the Tag family is finally starting to take effect... What's the situation over there now?"

"The Tag family has split up...tsk tsk tsk tsk...their eldest son and third son are facing off. No one can do anything to anyone. Tsk tsk tsk tsk..." Admiral Trench said, stroking the claws at the corner of his mouth.

"What is the opinion of the General Staff?" Tang Xiao asked.

"Send troops to attack the planet Farin. Tsk tsk tsk tsk..." Admiral Trench pointed at a planet with his pointer. "Although the planet Farin is not important, but... tsk tsk tsk tsk, this planet threatens the planet Druckenville and is related to... the future of the Tag family. The Galactic Empire will not sit idly by. Tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

Tang Xiao nodded and said, "Very good, then, let's execute it according to the plan. Severely damage the northern border of the Galactic Empire, sweep across the Empire's Seventh Army, and capture the Empire's financial center, the planet Scipio! I will lead the expedition in person! This operation is called the Golden Plan! The planned start time is G-Day! Confirmed to be May 5th!"

"Yes!"

Tang Xiao looked at the holographic star map with cold eyes and said to himself, "Now, I'm out... Darth Sidious, do you dare to come? Hahahaha! Hahahahahaha!!"

In a secret cabin on the bright red Rookery Hook-class battleship, Red Comet III, the stasis chamber containing the body of the "son" lay quietly there.

While Tang Xiao was laughing wildly, in the command center of the bridge of the Titan battleship, the God's Envoy, the "daughter" stood beside Tang Xiao, staring at him with hostility. However, she used the Force to hide her figure, so no one and no instrument could detect her presence.

Tang Xiao glanced at her with a slanted look, and said sarcastically, "Maybe this time, the Force will return to balance."

The "daughter" ignored his taunting and just looked away with a disdainful expression.

……

The information that the Kingdom of Dawn was continuously sending troops to the north was learned by the Galactic Empire Intelligence Agency more than a month ago, and it was immediately reported to the Empire's Supreme Strategic Command.

The Galactic Empire responded immediately, also sending reinforcements to the North. Most importantly, it dispatched the newly built Reaper Executor-class Super Star Destroyer to the planet Scipio.

The Imperial military was not stupid, and they could see Dunn-Wessex's intention to deploy the mobile fleet only in the core circle. At the same time, they could also predict that if the Kingdom of Dawn launched an offensive in the north, Scipio would definitely be one of the most important strategic targets.

In order to guard against the most important financial center of the Galactic Empire, the military sent the Reaper directly there to strengthen the defense. This was actually a political means - on the one hand, it allowed the Interstellar Banking Association (S) to feel at ease and not surrender immediately; on the other hand, due to the existence of the Reaper, Scipio Planet was basically impossible to be captured in a short period of time. Then there would be more time for the Imperial military to force Dunn-Wessex to send reinforcements.

After all, if Scipio was captured quickly, Dunn-Wessex could still say that he was not able to react in time or that he was not strong enough. But now the Imperial Fleet, with the Reaper as its core, is fighting in the Imperial Financial Center. If your fleet continues to stand idly by, the verdict of treason will be placed on Dunn-Wessex's desk the next day.

However, when it came to transferring troops to the north, the Galactic Empire military also felt very embarrassed.

The most important aspect is that if more troops are sent to the North, then Dunn-Wessex's military power will be too great. According to Dunn-Wessex's authority as governor, the fleet sent to the North must be under his unified command, so if reinforcements are sent to the North, he will just accept them all, and then the Galactic Empire will have no say on how to use these reinforcements.

But the planet Scipio is different.

Because the financial center of the Galactic Empire is located in the core circle of the Milky Way, it belongs to the jurisdiction of the First Galaxy Army of the Galactic Empire - yes, it is the most important and most powerful legion in the entire Galactic Empire!
The Reaper's reinforcement of the planet Scipio seemed to be strengthening the power of the North, but in fact, together with the Guardian, it directly increased the number of Executor-class Super Star Destroyers under the First Galaxy Army to three!

Of course, after all, Dunn Wessex's family is still in the core circle, and he will not abandon his family and seek independence in the North, but this situation must be guarded against.

On the other hand, the Galactic Empire's military had actually been planning to take the initiative in the attack, but now it was scared back by the Dawn Kingdom's troop mobilization. This is also a serious blow to the prestige of the Imperial Army.

The most important reason is that after carefully investigating the deployment of the Kingdom of Dawn's troops, the imperial military felt that they still had a chance.

Therefore, as early as a month ago, the Galactic Empire ordered a two-pronged attack to launch a tentative attack on the Kingdom of Dawn's homeland. At the very least, it was to disrupt their troop deployment.

The people who carried out this exploratory attack mission were naturally the two people who currently had the largest mobile fleet - Darth Vader and Dunn Wessex!

That’s right, the Galactic Empire’s military originally planned to launch a counterattack while the Kingdom of Dawn was assembling its fleet!

However, a series of changes took place. The Battle of the East broke out briefly. In less than a month, the Galactic Empire fell into a completely passive position in the East, and the super battleship Eye of Palpatine was damaged. Not only that, Garrosh Tarkin, the son of Governor Wilhuff Tarkin, also mysteriously disappeared during this series of battles.

This series of events caused Darth Vader to postpone his counterattack plan. He planned to stabilize the East first and ensure that Garrosh Tarkin could return to the Galactic Empire - either alive or as a corpse.

He planned to launch a surprise attack on multiple planets in a month.

As for the other counterattack force, Admiral Gilad Peraune, the military commander of the North, after carefully analyzing the combat situation, determined that he had no chance to launch a counterattack in the North. A rash action would instead be counterattacked by the powerful fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn that was gathering, causing heavy losses.

So as usual, Gilad Perrine once again turned his attention to the unknown star region, Chiss Territory.

He ordered a fleet to set out from the Seventh Army's area and once again penetrate the unknown star region to attack Chiss Territory. He hoped that this action could disrupt the Dawn Kingdom's assembly in the north and buy himself some time.

……

While the Galactic Empire was actively preparing for its defense, the Kingdom of Dawn's Golden Plan had already begun to be fully implemented.

In the northeast of the Milky Way, the Kingdom of Dawn bribed a large number of interstellar pirates and mobilized the fleet previously retained in the Mandalore sector to launch an attack on the planet Taris.

In the previous Dawn Kingdom's operation, Talis planet transported a large number of Rak ghouls, which turned the northeastern part of the Galactic Empire upside down. Therefore, the Galactic Empire sent out a fleet to blockade Talis planet and carried out a fierce orbital bombardment on the planet.

But the billions of Rak Ghouls were all hiding in the underground city of Taris, and orbital bombardment had little effect on them. Therefore, the Galactic Empire could only send a fleet to completely blockade Taris to prevent the Kingdom of Dawn from using those Rak Ghouls to cause trouble again. Therefore, this time, the Kingdom of Dawn mobilized all the forces that the Northeast Territory had accumulated with great difficulty to attack Taris, which was definitely not a good thing for the Galactic Empire.

The Galactic Empire military issued an order requiring the blockade fleet of the planet Taris to hold the line firmly and not give the fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn any chance to take advantage. At the same time, they also began to deploy troops in the rear. Although they had not yet sent out reinforcements directly, they had already begun to gather supplies and warships.

On the other hand, in the eastern part of the galaxy.

Because General Grievous was away, Governor Lin Nanyi, who was temporarily serving as the commander of the Eastern Fleet, brazenly sent troops to blockade the planet Jabim!

At this time, because Lin Nanyi had resigned from his military post and set an example, his girlfriend Feng Lisi did not need to avoid suspicion and was transferred to the East Territory. This time, he served as the commander of the blockade fleet and surrounded the planet Jabimu!

Lin Nan had a grudge against Jabimu because it had refused entry to the Kingdom of Dawn's fleet in the previous Eastern Frontier Campaign. Therefore, according to the battle plan, he immediately chose to open the situation from Jabimu and then threaten Kashyyyk from the flank.

If they could enter the planet Kashyyyk and disperse the Galactic Empire's fleet that was suppressing the Wookiee uprising, then this large area would be occupied by the rebels.

Most importantly, the deployment of troops in this direction made the Tarkin family, who were preparing for the position of Imperial Marshal and the position of Governor of the Imperial 12th Army, very nervous. In order to prevent the war situation in the East from affecting their future, they also began to push the Galactic Empire to send troops to reinforce the East as much as possible.

Then, there is the planet Druckenville and the Tag family!
Because the third son of the Tag family, Silas Tag, went all the way to Druckenville to raise the banner of rebellion and wanted to overthrow his eldest brother, Allman Tag, the two sides were in a standoff. Because it was an internal family affair, the Galactic Empire planned to wait and see, but also maintained a high level of attention.

After all, the Tag family is one of the most powerful super families in the Galactic Empire, and they are currently in charge of the Death Star project. If anything goes wrong with the Tag family, it will inevitably affect the Emperor's request to complete the Death Star within this year!

At this time, the Kingdom of Dawn suddenly sent troops from Christophsis to attack the planet of Farin. Although this fleet was not very powerful, it also made the Galactic Empire very nervous. Because if Silas Tagge didn't think it through and suddenly turned around and surrendered to the Kingdom of Dawn, then this matter would really become a big deal!

In these directions the Galactic Empire must be on guard.

Therefore, this is also the reason why they did not mobilize large fleets from other directions to reinforce the North.

If things develop in this way, the Dawn King Tang Xiao's personal expedition to the planet Scipio will most likely achieve its goal. Not only that, there might even be a chance to attack the center of the empire and wander around.

However, things are unpredictable. Although the Kingdom of Dawn's actions in various aspects were restraining the power of the Galactic Empire, the Galactic Empire's counterattack did work after all.

In an unexpected direction...

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9BBY, April 5.

With only seven days left until "G-Day", the day for launching a full-scale offensive as stipulated in the Golden Plan, Tang Xiao, who was making final preparations for the general offensive on the planet Mygeeto, suddenly received a message.

The sender of the message is Abathur!

Tang Xiao frowned immediately and opened the message. Since Abathur was now in an unknown star region, this was just a text message, and it was delayed for a few days.

In other words, this message is from a few days ago.

The message was very brief, but the content was extremely shocking.

The Kiliks suddenly rose up and launched an attack on the border of Chiss Territory!!
Tang Xiao suddenly stood up from the throne and said with gritted teeth: "Kilik people? How is this possible! Where do they get the power to threaten the border of Chis Territory?!"

Admiral Trench on the other side also came over to read the message. He stroked the claws at the corners of his mouth, shook his head and said, "Tsk tsk tsk tsk... Insufficient intelligence, unable to make an effective judgment. However, the Kiliks... They should have degenerated. Tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

Tang Xiao's face was gloomy, and he said: "The Kilik Swarm has degenerated. This is a fact, and it has been confirmed in Taiyi's memory! The Kilik Swarm has degenerated very thoroughly, and they should have lost the ability to travel between stars long ago!"

"But... Abathur, be calm and collected. His request for assistance is of great importance," Admiral Trench said.

Tang Xiao turned his head and asked Severance Tann beside him: "What do you think?"

Tann lowered his head and said, "For the Golden Plan, we have also mobilized the Chiss Territory's defense fleet. Because according to common sense, there are no large-scale foreign enemies in the Chiss Territory right now. Therefore, the sudden appearance of the Kilik Swarm at this sensitive time makes me worry about the Galactic Empire."

"You mean, the Galactic Empire is guiding the Kilik Swarm to rise again?" Tang Xiao asked with a frown.

Severance Tann nodded.

Tang Xiao fell into deep thought. After a moment, he said, "Severance Tann, I will assign a fleet to you. You must return to Chis Territory quickly to investigate and resolve the issue of the Kilik Swarm! If the operation is successful, you will still be my naval marshal!"

A hint of joy flashed in Severance Tann's eyes, but when she looked at Tang Xiao again, her expression dimmed again.

Tang Xiao smiled coldly and added: "Well, since you can make amends, you can naturally serve me in the future."

"Yes! I will definitely solve the problem of the Kilik swarm." Severance Tann hurried to Tang Xiao and saluted respectfully.

"How big of an impact will dividing the troops have?" Tang Xiao asked Admiral Trench.

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk... It will have an impact, but I will minimize it." Admiral Trench nodded. (End of this chapter)