Chapter 942 Battle of the Western Region: Attack and Defense of Tarastra (Part 2)
941. Battle of the West: Attack and Defense of Tarastra (Part 2)
3 regiments of the Fourth Civilization Army , more than 11,000 people suffered heavy losses in this landing operation. Even if the transport ship tried its best to rescue them, less than 3,000 people could return.
Seeing such a miserable situation, Army Major General Ling Liang was furious and rushed in front of Severance Tann. The two had a big quarrel again and almost started fighting again.
After that, Ling Liang wrote a detailed report to the Supreme Military Command of the Fourth Civilization. However, he did not ask for Severance Tann to be replaced. He just wanted to block her in the dormitory against her violation of regulations. , dealing with the act of taking an unauthorized decision, and she reserved her right to appeal to the Supreme Court Martial after the battle.
Then, Ling Liang returned to his job and continued to work on this battle. But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the two commanders, Severance Tann and Ling Liang, have completely broken up.
Now that the Fourth Civilization Fleet has destroyed the turret groups set up by the 18th Army of the Republic on four of the satellites of the planet Tarastra, the Republic Fleet found that the war situation was hopeless, so it launched from Tarastra Pull the planet's outer orbit to retreat.
On April 35, the last satellite with a turret group outside the planet Tarastra was blown up, and the fleet of the fourth civilization finally won the first stage of victory.
Then, the Cole-class battlecruisers in the Fourth Civilization Fleet began to collect local materials, collect the wreckage of battleships and fighter jets that were destroyed in the previous battle, smelt them into balls of metal projectiles, and then use super The material electromagnetic gun was fired in the direction of the planet Eriadu.
The war has subsided for the time being...
After experiencing the offensive and defensive battle on the planet Tarastra, both warring parties realized the strength of the other.
Wilhuff Tarkin completely gave up the idea of engaging in a battle with the Fourth Civilization fleet without cover. He retreated all his warships to the planet Eriadu and its satellites. In between, relying on these two stars equipped with planetary shields for defense.
And at this time, on May 2, bad news came again - the actual controller of the planet Salest, the fleet of the Sothrob Company failed to attack the planet Agma again!
The Fourth Civilization has lost 20 of the past 35 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers. Southrob Company has invested more than 2 million B-1 combat robots in landing operations on the planet Agma, but even 1 Taidu didn't come back.
At the same time, bad news also came from the direction of Planet Tibrin!
Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano of the Galactic Republic quietly spread a nanovirus on the planet, which directly paralyzed almost all combat droids on the planet. Experts from the Computer Engineering Department of the Fourth Civilization are working overnight to crack the virus, but there is no result yet.
So now on the planet Tibrin, only the army of the Fourth Civilization cooperates with the local army of the Ishi-Tibu people to resist the extremely elite clone warriors.
The clone army turned from defense to attack, and Anakin Skywalker's master and apprentice took action again, destroying the J-1 heavy proton cannon sent by the Technical Alliance, leaving the only remaining vessel of action, the Cheer. -class assault landing ship once again showed its power.
Fortunately among the misfortunes, the acting governor of the planet, the Dark Disciple Thora Balk, personally took action, defeated Anakin Skywalker, and saved two of the J-1 proton cannons. But in the end he still let the slippery Anakin run away.
But as a result, the battle situation on the Tibrin planet has become extremely dangerous, and even Severance Tann's fleet attacking the Eriadu system also feels a hint of threat from the flanks.
Severance Tann stood on the bridge of the flagship Rookery Hook-class battleship with her hands behind her back, looking at the vast universe outside the porthole window, silent.
After paying a huge price to barely conquer the outer defense line of the Eriadu system, the bad news that came one after another made her understand that it was almost impossible to conquer it in a frontal battle with her own military strength. Planet Eriadu.
Ling Liang was right, she did feel anxious because she had not yet found a way to chew down the iron barrel array. As the battle progressed, huge amounts of supplies were consumed every day, but she was unable to resolve the battle quickly.
Ling Liang’s accusation is very reasonable, but at the same time it is also unreasonable. Those 10,000 people were used to fight for a chance, a small chance, so in Severance Tann's view, failure was normal.
She never cared about the life or death of her subordinates.
But what now? End the war? Impossible... Both she and Tang Xiao knew very well that if they couldn't take advantage of the strong period when they just took over the Blade Fleet to capture the planet Eriadu, there would be even less chance in the future.
Looking at the other side of the porthole, the Cole-class battlecruisers lined up in a row, firing super-matter electromagnetic cannons towards the planet Eriadu, seemed to be setting off fireworks, but there were more , is an outlet for her helplessness.
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At the same time, on the planet Eriadu, the Outer Space Combat Command.
"Enemy kinetic energy weapon fire detected, orbital M-4479, affected by gravity, deflection rate 0.00042%..." A radar soldier turned back and reported to the commander.
"Start the interception procedure." The officer behind him gave the order.
On the military base of the Eriadu satellite, three large orbital defense systems began to turn their huge muzzles and began to aim. Then powerful energy began to accumulate, and then suddenly blasted out with a cannon!
The dull sound of artillery spread far and far...
At the same time, the two CR-70 frigates broke away from the huge fleet array and flew towards the solid metal projectile launched. go.
Three groups of light lit up in the empty and dark universe. This was the light produced when the heavy-duty high-explosive artillery shells launched by the orbital defense system exploded near the solid projectiles.
The huge kinetic energy generated by the explosion caused the metal projectile to deviate from its trajectory, and its speed began to decrease.
"Correction of coordinates, pre-aim... launch!" On the CR-70 frigate, the captain calmly gave the order.
The two frigates immediately launched full-power tractor beams at the corrected coordinates. The invisible beam accurately enveloped the metal projectile. The extremely powerful force began to drag the projectile from two directions at the same time, increasing the speed of the projectile. Lower and lower, lower and lower.
After flying thousands of kilometers, the metal projectile with a diameter of more than 40 meters finally stopped.
The officer in the Republic Combat Command sneered, waved his hand and said: "Let them send this shell to the factory to be melted as raw material, and then remember to send a public channel message to the separatists to thank them for their contribution to Republic Metallurgy. "Contribution to mining."
He deliberately spoke loudly and glanced at the thin figure who had been standing in front of the porthole, standing still with his hands behind his back.
However, there was no reaction from their governor, Wilhuff Tarkin.
(End of this chapter)