1061. The day of decisive battle (3)
21bby, July 1st. This day is also one of the legal Boxing Days of the Fourth Civilization. There is no special reason. It is said that their leader Tang Xiao directly punched a few dates on the calendar with a wave of his hand and then decided on it. As for its significance, naturally there are a large number of sociologists and humanists to supplement it.
Planet Eriadu, outer space.
A large number of the Fourth Civilization Fleet gathered here, constantly launching nuclear missiles and proton torpedoes towards the heavily surrounded planet Eriadu. Terrible explosions continue to explode on the planet's planetary shield. The energy ripples set off by each explosion on the planetary shield are at least hundreds of kilometers in diameter. Some large explosions can even reach a range of thousands of kilometers on the planetary shield. It creates a scene like a storm!
Behind this large group of fleets, two Dawn-class motherships were parked there. All cabins and construction modules were fully unfolded, becoming two huge space factories that continuously produced war supplies.
Hundreds of transport ships took off from the Eriadu satellite, first came to the three Rookery Hook-class battleships in the outer orbit of the satellite for distribution and transfer, and then sent a large amount of combat materials to the fleet or mother ship. Come aboard and support this battle.
Capturing the Eriadu satellite is a key part of this battle. Facing the highly industrialized planet Eriadu, with the hyperspace lanes almost closed, the war resources on the satellites are the key factor to meet the needs of the fleet.
Not only the Eriadu satellite, but interstellar mines on several other planets in the Eriadu galaxy, including the planet Tarastra, have also begun operations, transporting large amounts of resources to the satellites.
When attacking a planet's planetary shield, the competition is resources, and the competition is energy.
After cutting off foreign aid and occupying other planets in the galaxy, the fleet of the fourth civilization finally gained the upper hand!
Now the fleet of the fourth civilization has even begun to make arrangements for what will happen after occupying the planet. More than a dozen Raz-class heavy engineering ships have begun to lay out basic structures in the outer orbits of the north and south poles of the planet at the same time, and have begun to build two Argos. Nev-class interstellar base.
After communicating with the sensor department at the station, a staff officer raised his wrist and used a universal tool to receive a piece of data. Then he quickly came to the center of the bridge and faced the fleet commander, Admiral Severance Tann, who was sitting at attention. He stood at attention and saluted, then transferred the data to Tann's universal tool and said: "General, according to calculations, we will break through the planetary shield of Eriadu within the next 5 to 8 hours!"
Severance Tann looked at the light screen that appeared on the universal tool, nodded with a cold face and said: "Inform Ling Liang and ask her army to perform well. There are only less than two months left in the hyperspace storm. It must be Within this period of time, capture the planet Eriadu!”
"But...didn't General Ling say at the last military meeting that it would be almost impossible to capture Eli within two months..." Before the staff officer could finish his words, he was glanced at by Severance Tann's cold eyes. He stared, lowered his head and dared not speak.
Severance Tann stood up from her seat, came to the porthole, crossed her arms, looked at the flaming planet outside the window, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
In the direction of the Eriadu satellite, transport ships and landing ships took off one after another. Among these small and medium-sized warships, the huge and flat bodies of the five Kesov-class battlecruisers also began to slowly take off and adjust their direction. Flying towards the direction of the planet Eriadu.
Among these spaceships are a full 1.3 million troops!
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The planet Eriadu, the capital Eriadu city, the capital of the planet (I am really speechless, I am so annoyed with this planet! This is the Eriadu galaxy, the Eriadu star, the Eriadu planet, Eriadu Eriadu Satellite, Eriadu City, I’m not done telling you, there are also Eriadu Dockyard, Eriadu Space Port, Eriadu Launch Center... They all have one name! I won’t mention them anymore, The one who went to Nima was changed to Elixiang City. When the King of Heaven came, he called me by this name. When Jesus came to say hello, it didn’t work!)
Wilhuff Tarkin, the governor of the 18th Army of the Galactic Republic, had a stern face. He also stood in front of the window and looked up at the flaming sky.
The sky at this moment seemed to have an extremely huge display screen, which was constantly playing flames and light, but he understood that in a few hours, this display screen would shatter, and then the terrible explosions and flames would disappear without a trace. The obstruction fell to the ground.
The planet Eriadu, which once became the commercial center of the outer ring of the Milky Way with a very developed economy and industry, finally faced its final moment after more than three months of back-and-forth fighting.
"Your Majesty the Governor, the underground command center in Elixiang City has been prepared. Please move there to command operations." A staff officer came over and said.
Tarkin took a deep look at the burning sky, did not speak, just turned around and left.
Arriving at the underground command center hundreds of meters deep, hundreds of commanders and staff at all levels were already busy. In the center is a very huge holographic projection of the planet, which is marked with dense markings. This is the deployment of tens of thousands of military locations on the entire planet.
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On the bustling planet Eriadu, an impenetrable ground defense line is being built.
But from another perspective, that’s not the case…
On the surface of the planet, the once bustling cities are now lifeless. The streets are full of skinny and hungry people. In front of the few food distribution points, countless people line up in long queues. The found container is held in hand, awaiting the arrival of the next food ration.
Almost everyone's face was numb and expressionless.
Even when they occasionally looked up at the burning sky, there was no wave on their faces. They didn't even feel the slightest fear about the sea of fire that might be about to fall.
Some soldiers are patrolling with guns, each of them wearing a black mask, which can hide their expressions that may also be panic. But the black masks also obscured their humanity. Once they found someone cutting in line, they would not hesitate to open fire! Then the body was left to rot on the ground, with no one paying attention.
There are also several hover trucks slowly moving forward on the street. The surrounding Galactic Republic soldiers wearing simple military uniforms and holding blaster rifles are walking in front of the crowd. Once they see someone with a slightly stronger body, they immediately say hello. The person who was called immediately ran over, took a piece of bread and a blaster, climbed into the truck, and joined their queue.
Only the skinny old, weak, sick and disabled are left, still desperately waiting for the rationed food...
The planet Eriadu had a pre-war population of 22 billion, and the current population...
13 billion!
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