Chapter 535 Painful Decision
533. Painful Decision
On the planet Geonosis, both the battles on the ground and the battles in space have become increasingly fierce.
Trench's fleet continued to launch attacks, and it had already been strangled with the Galactic Republic's fleet, turning into a melee. The fleets of both sides were full of firepower.
The fleet of the Galactic Republic originally had the advantage, but at the beginning of the battle, in order to meet the ground forces, they sent more than half of their warships to fight in the atmosphere of the planet Geonosis. As a result, they were adept at Admiral Trench caught the fighter plane just in time.
Under the completely lifeless attack of the Confederate Fleet of Independent Systems, Admiral Wolf-Yularen could not even delay, so he had to urgently ask for help from the ground.
He is much more experienced than the tactical advisor Mabel Garson who commanded the fleet before. Naturally, he understands that once the space battlefield is defeated, it will be besieged on the surface of Geonosis like the previous fleet. , and this time, they will not have another chance to escape.
But the ground battlefield at this time was also very tight. General Grievous was also not the T-series tactical robot who had previously commanded ground operations. In order to support General Trench's operations, he sent all the robot armies Press them all, and launch a general attack regardless of losses!
In the previous battle, General Grievous had completed his deployment. He first consumed the clone army's ammunition supplies, and then when they were short of ammunition and had to shrink their defenses, he deployed the robot army to all sides of the ruins of the main lair.
Now that the time is right, robots from every direction have launched an attack!
In order to evacuate, Republic commanders must load troops onto spaceships and transport them away, but the more troops are loaded onto spaceships, the smaller the troops left to defend their positions and the greater the pressure.
If it was at the beginning, they could still rely on the aerial fire support of a large number of Republic warships in the sky, but now that the space battlefield is urgent, they have to dispatch warships to space, which further intensifies the ground battlefield. pressure.
At this moment, Admiral Trench's fleet only has 2 Divinity-class destroyers, 3 Defiant-class light destroyers, 6 Generosity-class communications frigates, and 4 Vengeance-class light destroyers. But under his command, these warships, which were already covered with injuries, were still attacking crazily.
Even when the Dream Sisters led the only remaining fighter jets and attacked the Confederate fleet with the help of illusions, they ignored them. Admiral Trench has understood that instead of struggling with these illusions, it is better to focus all firepower on the opponent's warships.
Anyway, your illusion can't turn into warships. Even if it could, these warships are not as flexible as fighter jets. In fact, they are easy to identify. Anyway, you only have more than a hundred fighter jets in total. I will fight for these warships. You exchange! Finally, let’s see if your Force is durable enough or our super-matter engine is durable enough!
The battle situation was indeed as Admiral Trench expected. Luna Dream and Luna Phantom were unable to reverse the situation. Although they led the fighter squadron to severely damage several Confederate warships, the Republic's fleet still suffered heavy losses.
Admiral Trench was confident anyway. Anyway, the fleets lost belonged to the Confederation of Independent Systems and the Galactic Republic, not to Admiral Trench, nor to the Fourth Civilization to which he was truly loyal. And on the contrary, because he caused heavy losses to the Republic in this battle, Admiral Trench will be rewarded.
Among the Republic fleet, all four Invincible-class heavy cruisers were severely damaged and withdrawn from the battle, and three of them were unable to evacuate due to damage to their hyperspace engines. Now Admiral Wolf-Yularen is organizing a shuttle The officers and soldiers on these three warships were picked up by machine to other warships.
Not only that, 10 Karak-class light cruisers, more than 30 CR-70 frigates were destroyed, and 7 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers were severely damaged. If Master Yoda hadn't dispatched battleships in time to support, and the surviving Jedi Knights also flew fighter jets to join the battle, they might really have been wiped out.
In the entire space battlefield area, broken metal fragments and a large number of broken battleship wreckage can be seen everywhere. Countless corpses and robots were thrown out from these wreckage, and some wreckage even appeared in the universe. It is still burning in the vacuum, most of which are engines or energy parts, or life-support facilities that continuously produce oxygen.
But the fierce battle continued, with new warships constantly rushing out of the atmosphere of the planet Geonosis to join the battle, and the advantage of the space battlefield gradually tilted in the direction of the Republic.
However, in contrast, the situation on the ground battlefield gradually collapsed.
There are still 20,000 ordinary soldiers and more than 30,000 clone soldiers holding their positions. As more and more spacecraft are deployed to fight in space, they are no longer able to defend the 600,000 robot army from all directions. The offensive came at the same time.
"Master Yoda, our ground positions have been retreating steadily and cannot be defended." Republic tactical advisor Mabel Garson said, "Now there is only the last Cheer-class ship left on the ground. If we attack the landing ship, even if we fill up all the vacancies on this battleship, we can only accommodate up to 25,000 more people. Moreover, we dare not let the battleship land again. If the landed battleship takes off again, all preparations will be delayed. At least half an hour, not counting the time to load the personnel, we can't wait..." His meaning was obvious, now some of the ground troops must be abandoned.
The faces of the Jedi knights present were all ugly, and Masters Yoda and Windu were silent.
War is always cruel, and you will have to face such a choice one day, but you didn’t expect it to come so early.
"How long can we hold on, the fleet in outer orbit." Master Yoda closed his eyes and asked.
"This is not a question of how long we can last. We cannot let a fleet carrying more than 100,000 soldiers fight in space for a long time...This will turn into a disaster." Mabel Garrison Sen said extremely frustrated.
Master Yoda was silent for a long time and said slowly: "Use your life to help us defend our position...the soldiers who stayed behind. This is a painful choice."
Mabel Garson gritted her teeth and said: "I suggest that clone soldiers be put on board. Their value is much higher than ordinary soldiers. Let me give this order! Everything has nothing to do with the Jedi Order! And! , I am willing to stay and live and die with these soldiers!”
Because his wrong choice made the war passive before, he now decided to take up this responsibility.
Master Yoda closed his eyes and said nothing.
“For the sake of war, Mabel Garson’s choice was correct. Now, as the living, the only thing we can do is to win this war and make the sacrifices of the deceased more valuable. Value." Master Windu said.
Master Yoda suddenly opened his eyes and said: "I will give the order to retreat. I will bear the responsibility for defeat."
His eyes were extremely firm. At this moment, he made the best decision to sacrifice the 20,000 ordinary soldiers to save the clone soldiers as much as possible.
For him to issue this order will undoubtedly bring shame to the reputation of the Jedi Order again, but Master Yoda understands that if he does not do this, he will just put all the blame on Mabel Garson. If he does, he will be in vain as a Jedi who practices the force of light and walks in the light...
Jedi Knight.
Final orders were given, and Master Yoda himself told the soldiers that they must stay and hold on, but after the fleet left, they were allowed to surrender. The Galactic Republic government will also do its best to diplomatically urge the Confederacy of Independent Systems to at least give these captives normal treatment.
The clone army will also have 5,000 people staying, but they don’t have many complaints. Most of the injured asked to stay, but for the 20,000 ordinary soldiers, this decision is extremely cruel. of.
After the order was given, they almost mutinied on the spot, but were suppressed by 5,000 clone soldiers.
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(End of this chapter)