The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2764 The Dawn Kingdom's Counterattack

2764. The Dawn Kingdom's Counterattack
The Kali raid almost immediately paralyzed the entire rear landing base of Konda City. With the outer defenses breached, more than 40,000 Kali warriors penetrated deep into the base, where they wreaked havoc.

The Galactic Empire's vast strategic resources were destroyed, its spaceports were damaged, and many unmanned war machines that had just been transported were seized by the Kali and turned to fire at the Imperial army.

Some of the Kali people underwent special training, specifically learning to drive the Galactic Empire's main armored vehicles, including the AT-AT walker, AT-ST walker, AT-AP walker, and so on. Basically, they can drive all of the Galactic Empire's current armored vehicles except for the 1-H super-heavy hover tank.

Moreover, these Kali people were equipped with universal tools and loaded with decryption modules, ready to crack the system passwords of Imperial armored units.

Ironically, they didn't need this preparation at all.

The reason is quite absurd—because none of these vehicles of the Galactic Empire are locked or encrypted! In order to meet the extremely urgent need for reinforcements at the front and to ensure that these armored vehicles can be sent to the front as soon as possible, they are not encrypted at all, so you can just jump on and drive them.

So you can see the massive AT-AT walkers rampaging through the base, their huge mechanical feet flattening warehouses, and their powerful turbo laser cannons firing incessantly, turning barracks into seas of fire.

Several captured 2-M assault hover tanks could be seen clustered together and advancing in formation, causing widespread destruction within the base.

Even more shockingly, a HAVw-A6 turbo tank was captured by a group of Kali! This tank, which has been used since the Clone Wars, is huge. Its 49.4-meter-long body is practically a land warship, and each of its five pairs of huge wheels is more than four meters high.

The turbo-tank simply rolled over the base without firing a shot; its terrifying size alone was enough to leave only ruins after its frenzied driving.

However, the person who inflicted the most devastating damage on the Galactic Empire's base was not a Kali warrior, but a transport ship pilot.

The transport ship pilot, in a YVX-865 Oro-class heavy cargo ship, swooped down, carrying over 50 Imperial soldiers and more than 500 tons of supplies, and crashed directly into a fuel depot!
The fuel depot's thick armor was directly rammed through by the equally heavily armored cargo ship, and the compressed explosive gas inside the cargo triggered an explosion, completely igniting the fuel.

The fuel used for sub-light-speed travel was originally stored in a solid state, but the fuel depot was breached, and the instantaneous depressurization caused the solid fuel to melt rapidly and evaporate violently! The evaporated fuel ignited upon contact with a flame, forming a high-temperature plasma storm that began to spread everywhere!
One corner of the base was immediately engulfed in flames.

In fact, long before the Kali attacked, many local residents forcibly conscripted by the Galactic Empire had already begun to plot their rebellion. Furthermore, the Galactic Empire's oppressive policies on Dantuin had angered almost all the inhabitants, making intelligence work by the Dawn Kingdom there very successful.

In addition to sending intelligence about the base to the Kali commander-in-chief, the massacrer Bentiras-san-Skar, the laborers had also established an underground command center to coordinate the resistance efforts of the laborers in various areas of the base.

When the Kali attacked, the laborers immediately revolted. They abandoned their work and fled, gathering in relatively safe places such as basements and canteens to avoid the first wave of Kali attacks.

Because the base was under attack, the escape of these laborers went unnoticed by the Imperial army, whose entire focus was on organizing defenses to repel the Kalli invasion. Even the KX security robots ignored the laborers, as they were programmed to be nothing more than exploited laborers.

Then, the stronger and more agile among these laborers began to organize and carry out an orderly resistance.

They opened the warehouse doors for the invading Kali warriors, shut down the laser fences, cut off the power, destroyed the communication base stations, and even seized several armories, arming themselves and pulling the triggers directly into the backs of the beleaguered Imperial soldiers! At the same time, the Kali warriors avoided those areas and did not fire on the places where the laborers were hiding, and they also tried their best not to accidentally injure the revolting laborers during the battle.

In this process, you could say that the Cali warriors were well-trained and had excellent marksmanship, but what really prevented them from accidentally injuring each other in battle was the Imperial soldiers' snow-white polymer alloy armor and the clone soldiers' uniform appearance!

Indeed, although the native Dantuin people have undergone some genetic changes, they are still largely similar to humans. However, the reason why the Kalli warriors can distinguish them so easily is precisely due to the Empire itself.

With such inside and outside cooperation, the Galactic Empire's base quickly collapsed.

Imperial soldiers scattered and were killed one after another. In no time, the entire base was littered with corpses, the bodies of the slain Imperial soldiers piled up in layers.

The burning buildings resembled giant torches, with flames shooting into the sky and thick smoke billowing into the clouds.

Without a doubt, the base has been completely destroyed.

As dawn broke, the Galactic Empire deployed fighter squadrons to launch an air strike against the incoming Kali, but they instead collided head-on with the Dawn Kingdom's fighters...

Sabre style!
That's right, the 10 Sabre fighters deployed on Dantuin did not participate in the battle for the southern highlands of Kunda City; they were sent in this direction!
Even if the battle on the southern highlands yields some results, it's just icing on the cake. But here, at the Galactic Empire's landing base, any victory here is a death knell for the Galactic Empire!

The Imperial fighters that came to reinforce were like moths drawn to a flame, torn to shreds by saber-like precision firepower before they even reached the battlefield. The Galactic Empire's air force wing had to recall fighters from other directions to intensify its air strikes, and the two sides' air forces engaged in fierce combat in this airspace.

However, with the existence of the Sabre fighters, the Galactic Empire's air force suffered extremely high casualty rates, to the point that many pilots refused to fight when they heard that the enemy had Sabre fighters.

This forced the air reinforcements to slow down.

With air support cut off, the Imperial Army Command had no choice but to urgently request General Maximilian Wells, who was launching a fierce offensive at the front, to return to reinforce the troops immediately.

Upon hearing that his own backyard was on fire, General Wells could no longer care about the wretched golden beetles. He immediately turned his troops around and led the remaining army back to the landing base.

The southern highlands that he had painstakingly reclaimed were vacated again and were taken back by the Kingdom of Dawn.

When General Wells saw through his reconnaissance plane that the flying buildings were slowly and steadily heading toward the southern highlands again, he was furious!
General Wells unleashed every curse word he knew into the communications channel for a full hour. He was cursing the commander of the landing zone base, believing that his incompetence and mediocrity were the reason his rear base had been attacked!

But no matter how fiercely he cursed, it was to no avail; the massacre in the direction of the base continued.

The massacre lasted all day, only ceasing when the Kali army was exhausted. They began their orderly retreat, carrying the bodies of their comrades and quickly disappearing into the wilderness. On the way back, General Wells's frontline troops began to encounter remnants fleeing from the landing zone. Most of them were not wearing combat armor, driving hover tanks and hovercraft in a panicked escape.

As for the walking machine? They wouldn't even glance at such a relatively slow vehicle while they were fleeing.

Furthermore, all of these fleeing soldiers suffered extremely severe psychological trauma, and this unequal massacre directly destroyed their will to fight.

Upon returning to the landing site, General Wells found only ruins.

Although most of the buildings in the base were preserved, the facilities inside had been completely destroyed. The warehouses were blown to pieces, and the raging fire in the fuel depot was still burning, making the surrounding air extremely hot.

Inside the spaceport, the docked spaceships were destroyed, and the repair facility had collapsed.

Imperial armored vehicles, captured, turned against, destroyed, and abandoned, were also scattered haphazardly, many even blocking the roads.

What's even more shocking is the corpses scattered all over the ground!

The bodies of Imperial Stormtroopers were almost everywhere, layered upon layer, covering the entire base. Many of these killed soldiers were not wearing combat armor, and some were even unarmed.

At the time of the attack, there were at least 50 soldiers at the base, and less than a quarter of them managed to escape.

This is because the attacks by the Kali people did not have the oppressive feeling of a barrage of gunfire and a massive steel torrent. As a result, many Imperial soldiers who discovered the attack and heard only the sounds of light weapons on the battlefield often chose to stay and fight.

After all, they all believed that their base had hundreds of thousands of troops, enough to drown the invaders with a single spit, and that the current chaos was only temporary.

It wasn't until later, when they witnessed the cold-bloodedness and cruelty of the Kali people, that they understood the horror of the attack, their morale collapsed, and they scattered and fled.

The casualties caused in just one day exceeded the total casualties of the Galactic Empire in the past few months!

General Wells's troops returned to base and found the laborers hiding in the basement and other concealed locations. He also discovered that the number of laborer casualties in the attack was very small.

Looking at the coldness and indifference in the laborers' eyes, he sensed something was amiss. But now that the base was destroyed, cleanup and reconstruction had to begin immediately, and these laborers had to stay and play a role.

Therefore, General Wells simply ordered a few foremen to be arrested and beaten on some pretext, then made the laborers start working immediately. At the same time, he instructed his soldiers to keep a closer eye on the laborers and double their workload.

However, what shocked the Galactic Empire even more than these things was that they received absolutely no warning about this attack.

The landing site was located at the rear of the Dantuin planet's defense perimeter, with several military bases in front of it. These forward bases were unaware of anything unusual when the attack occurred, and their detection systems failed to detect any trace of the enemy. They were attacked right under their noses.

While the successful surprise attack was partly due to their desperate requests for support and the frantic transfer of troops from the rear to the front, the laxity in the rear of the defenses should not have led to this.

Then we can draw an obvious conclusion—a ghostly army has arrived in the Kingdom of Dawn, capable of launching surprise attacks without a sound! And this army is quite large!

It was this concern that led the Galactic Empire to immediately cancel its plans to launch a counterattack on Dantuin and instead focus its efforts on rebuilding its base and strengthening its defenses.

However, the attack on the landing site also cast a shadow over the Galactic Empire's plan to send reinforcements.

Reinforcements from the Empire's rear continued to arrive, but these transport ships remained at the space station on the planet's periphery, hesitant to descend into orbit for fear of being attacked like the landing site.

Even more critically, the space station began to become increasingly crowded, with transport ships waiting to be unloaded almost everywhere.

Moreover, the soldiers inside the transport ship also needed to have their food, water, and toilet needs taken care of; they couldn't be allowed to live on the spaceship indefinitely, which only exacerbated the chaos.

On many occasions, when spaceships fly through this area, they even collide with large chunks of human excrement—all discharged from overburdened transport ships.

And then, disaster struck!

A fighter squadron from the Kingdom of Dawn suddenly launched a surprise attack on a space station in outer space! Among them were 10 Death-like Sabre-type fighter jets!

At this time, the area around the Galactic Empire's space station was extremely crowded and chaotic, and their escort fleet was completely unable to attend to it.

The Dawn Kingdom's fighter squadron was well aware that its numbers were at a significant disadvantage, so it did not linger in battle. Instead, it patrolled around the space station, looking for every opportunity to attack the transport ships that were everywhere!
This was a precise and brutal hunt!

The transport ship, full of soldiers, was destroyed, and countless corpses were scattered and floated in space.

While such an attack did not cripple the Imperial army, it completely disrupted their rhythm.

Seizing this opportunity, transport ships from the Kingdom of Dawn arrived in droves.

The balance of power between the two sides is shifting!