Chapter 778: The battle situation is stalemate
777, the battle situation is stalemate
Battle of Keeling Wasteland, the Fourth Civilization invested 15,000 army soldiers and more than 15,000 combat robots to launch a resolute attack on the Galactic Republic's defense line attack.
The Republic clone army here is the 118th Commando Regiment, with a total of 5,000 people, plus some 3,000 people from the local security forces on the planet Terminus.
The local security forces were naturally on the verge of collapse, but the resistance of the clone army was very tenacious. They arranged their defense lines in an orderly manner and blocked the advancement of the Fourth Civilization Army in most positions.
The combat quality of the Republic clone army is very strong. Even under the indiscriminate bombardment of siege tanks, they still remain calm and counterattack calmly with the help of pre-set positions.
With the fire support of a large number of AT-TE walkers, AT-XT walkers and AV-7 self-propelled artillery, the Republic's position is almost impregnable.
And the Republic, as always, has an absolute advantage in the number of fighter jets on the battlefield. The Vulture robot fighters can only play a harassing role in front of the Republic's fighter jets. Only the Ghost fighter jets can still pose a fatal threat to the Republic's fighter jets.
However, the number of ghost fighters is small after all, and the duration of the stealth device is limited, so there is not much time to take off for combat. Compared to the Galactic Republic, they have enough pilots and enough fighters to rotate.
This is also the biggest difficulty faced by the Fourth Civilization Army. They have to start attacking when the ghost fighters take off for combat. When the ghost fighters retreat, they can only stop the attack and organize defense on the spot.
The clone army seized this opportunity very keenly, and immediately launched a counterattack as soon as the Ghost fighter retreated.
LAAT/I assault transport boats bombarded the Fourth Civilization Army indiscriminately, and V-19 Torrent light fighters also kept swooping down and strafing.
At this time, the army of the fourth civilization can only rely on the giant mecha and M-9 Wolverine anti-aircraft vehicle to resist. Fortunately, these two units have strong air defense capabilities. Otherwise, those brave warriors Like the Confederate Army of Independent Systems on other battlefields, they would suffer heavy losses in the Republic's air strikes.
However, the new Army Lieutenant General of the Fourth Civilization, the legendary tank general Dai Hongkui from "Command and Conquer: Generals" played a great role.
After taking office, he began to conduct rigorous training in the Fourth Civilization Armored Corps, practicing large-scale mixed-arms armor assault tactics. This armored assault tactic also played a great role. Under the command of frontline commander Xiao Guanghua, the Fourth Civilization Armored Corps and the Mechanized Infantry Division first conducted a concentrated assault, and then the relatively slow robots and mechas entered the position. Expand the results.
This is actually an improvement of the blitzkrieg in World War II on a certain blue star, and it became popular again due to the emergence of reliable wheeled equipment in the "Halo" world and armored units equipped with suspension engines in the native world. Brilliant.
When the advancement of armored units no longer relies on roads or flat desert or plain terrain, blitzkrieg tactics have once again become a powerful tactic.
In contrast, the Republic Army, which has just lost its fighting tradition in more than a thousand years of distorted peace, and is still in the stage of learning while fighting, is very unfamiliar with such large-scale legion-level assault tactics. Not adaptable.
You must know that even though the combat qualities of the clone soldiers are extremely high, their training is still outsourced to those excellent bounty hunters.
But all of them are loners and bounty hunters who are good at individual combat naturally cannot teach them these things. The Battle of Keelin Wasteland became a turning point after Huang Yehao's company occupied Highland 1103 and established a powerful artillery position.
After the Galactic Republic army found that it was unable to retake the high ground after several counterattacks, it found that relying on this high ground, the firepower of the Fourth Civilization Army covered an area of more than 50 kilometers around. In this area, the actions of the Republic's army will be greatly affected. If this gap of more than 50 kilometers cannot be closed, their flanks will be greatly threatened, and they may even be in danger of being encircled.
As a result, the Republic army retreated for more than 150 kilometers, once again deployed on the outskirts of Fermos, the capital of the planet Terminus, and prepared for street fighting.
The Fourth Civilization also suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Keeling Wasteland, not only in terms of soldiers, but also in terms of combat supplies. They also had to stop and wait for more supplies to arrive.
This is the focus of the battle between the two sides in the outer space of the planet.
In the battle in outer space, the fleets of both sides were evenly matched. The Galactic Republic had about 70 battleships, while the Fourth Civilization had more than 50. The two sides attacked each other many times, but each time the defending side had the upper hand.
The Fourth Civilization is limited by hyperspace channels and has difficulties in supplying. The Galactic Republic cannot provide endless reinforcements, and the fleets of both sides begin to enter a stalemate.
In the Confederacy of Independent Systems, General Grievous resumed his offensive. He began to organize an army to attack the Bothans’ home planet, the planet Bothans, in order to keep the Bothans, a very useful and highly civilized race, in the Republic. , the 13th Army of the Republic immediately organized almost all fleets to defend with all their strength.
But this is only part of the story. Civil strife broke out on Mon Calamari, the Republic's largest shipbuilding industry planet in the Outer Rim Star Region. The Quarren, who were secretly allied with Count Dooku, rebelled and wanted to challenge those loyal to the Galactic Republic. The two sides have had several conflicts over the Mon Calamari's right to rule the planet.
Severance Tann led the Titan battleship Plague, and after reuniting with the Trade Federation fleet, he lifted the siege of the planet Cato Neimoidia by the Second Army of the Republic and completely annihilated it. The 7th Squadron of the Republic, and this huge fleet with 120 warships is approaching the Nubian planet, the headquarters of the 2nd Army.
Under such circumstances, no matter how good the relationship between 18th Army Governor Wilhuff Tarkin and Speaker Sheev Palpatine is, the Republic cannot continue to provide such uninterrupted reinforcements.
As a result, the battle on the planet Terminus fell into a stalemate, with both sides constantly dispatching fighter jets and light warships to harass the other side's supply lines.
Admiral Matt Horner of the Fourth Civilization also had his own plans. He began to build a large number of Gauss armed platforms and hangar platforms for defense near the hyperspace channel of Manfa Planet, and then occupied On one of the satellites of the planet Terminus, a huge mass launcher began to be built on the satellite.
Once this mass launcher is completed, the Fourth Civilization will be able to launch metal garbage directly from the satellite to bomb the planet Terminus. This can also be regarded as a kind of redirected orbital bombing, but it is not so destructive and will not cause the extinction of planetary species and environmental damage.
(End of this chapter)