Chapter 969: Battle of Tibrin Planet (two-in-one)
968. Battle of Tibrin Planet
Boom! boom! ! A large number of plasma grenades continued to fall from the sky, and then set off waves of terrible explosions on the ground.
Under this powerful fire bombardment, the temporary deflector shield set up by the Republic clone troops was immediately blown to pieces, and the E-WEB blaster machine gun protected by the shield also followed. Got blown up.
"Be careful! It's a siege tank!" A clone soldier just shouted, and the next second he was drowned by artillery fire. The violent explosion blew him up more than ten meters high, and his body was hit by powerful energy. Torn into several pieces.
"Damn it! Where is the AT-TE!! We need firepower for counter-suppression!" A clone frontline commander with a blue armband said loudly.
"There is no AT-TE! There is nothing!" Another soldier on the side roared loudly, almost in the commander's face, and at the same time raised his hand and pointed to the sky.
The commander raised his head and saw only five light frigates over 30 meters long and stubby in the sky flying by. At this moment, more than 20 Galaxy Republic V-19 Riptides flew over from a distance. Light fighter.
However, at this moment, two missile launchers suddenly deployed in front of these light frigates, and then instantly launched 8 missiles. These 8 missiles split again in the air, and then exploded directly in the airspace ahead. A huge explosion zone several kilometers wide!
Boom boom boom boom~~~~! ! !
The firepower coverage of the five frigates directly covered almost the entire combat airspace. Those Republic fighter jets were directly destroyed by the dense explosions before they even had time to dodge!
The remnants of the explosion and the burning wreckage of the Republic fighter jets seemed to rain fire on the horizon, colorful, but full of the desolation of death.
Such a view almost stunned the clone commander...
But then he felt a huge force pulling him behind the ruins aside. Almost in the next second, boom boom boom! ! !
More than a dozen rockets appeared out of thin air, and then plowed the entire place where he was just to the ground! The gravel and sand splashed by the explosion fell down, smashing them into disgrace.
"Commander, now is not the time to be in a daze!" The person who saved the commander was none other than Anakin Skywalker. He pointed at the sky and said loudly: "What do you think these Valkyrie frigates are for? They are covering their Banshee fighter planes!”
The clone commander came back to his senses and looked at the sky. The three Banshee fighters had just exited the stealth system and sped away.
At this time, Captain Rex, the commander of the Torrent Company with Anakin, patted the commander on the shoulder and said: "Okay, Captain Dudley, we still need your company to stabilize here. This position!"
"Damn it! My team was scattered by the bombing just now!" Captain Dudley rushed out again, calling for his scattered soldiers to regroup. stand up.
Boom! boom! boom! ! The sound of explosions was still heard. Looking at the plasma balls falling in the sky, Anakin Skywalker said solemnly: "No, these siege tanks must be killed!"
He shouted into the communication, "Ahsoka! Ahsoka! Where are you now?!"
"Master! Master Ron Shrien was shot down just now! I'm on my way to support!" Ahsoka Tano's urgent voice came from the communication.
Normally she would have called Anakin 'Tian Xingzi' if the situation was not so bad, but now she couldn't care less about joking.
Anakin was startled, "What did you say? The fighter formation that was destroyed just now was led by Master Ron?"
"That's right! He was fighting with a group of people in the sky at the time. A fighter jet flown by a Dark Jedi Knight!" Ahsoka Tano said loudly. Gunshots and explosions could also be heard from the communication. It was obvious that the battle was very fierce. "By the way, what can you do? ?Master!”
"No more, please rescue Master Ron as soon as possible." After Anakin finished speaking, he turned off the communication, and then said to Captain Rex who was standing aside: "It seems that we have to rely on ourselves. We need to launch a surprise attack to kill those attackers." City tank! "
"But what's the plan? This kind of siege tank is very maneuverable. It can complete the recovery work within 10 seconds and move into a marching posture. What's even more shameless is this tank. There is also a strong firepower in the marching posture... Didn't we launch a surprise attack yesterday, but they still ran away?" Captain Rex said.
"The military technology of Dawn Planet is even higher than that of our Republic in many places..." Anakin Skywalker said. He opened the holographic map, pointed at the map that was constantly flashing and changing the situation, and said, "We only have An opportunity... first let our defense line fully retreat, and then when the siege tanks are deployed forward again, rush over and destroy them! The only weakness of the siege tanks is that their range is not as good as the AT-TE's heavy-duty ones! Howitzer."
"This is too risky, General. We are almost at the end of our retreat. The Arata-class assault landing ship is 5 kilometers behind us, and the warship has not yet regained power. . And once this battleship is destroyed and the supplies on it are lost, I think we will starve to death on this Tibrin planet sooner or later," Rex said.
"So I said, this is our only chance." Anakin said.
Captain Rex stared at him for two seconds, then nodded heavily, opened the communication and said: "Captain Dudley, immediately command your people to abandon their current positions and retreat! There are also saber companies, turret companies, and shield companies. ...Retreat at the same time!”
“Yes!”
Anakin said to Rex: “Okay, everyone takes cover!”
Riptide Company! The soldiers immediately hid in the ruins, crawling on the ground to hide.
Sure enough, after more than ten minutes, the constant roar of explosions from the position gradually stopped and was replaced by more intensive gunfire.
The unique three-shot sound of the V-15 Vindicator assault rifle provided by Dawn Planet in the past is very recognizable. It is obvious that after discovering that the Republic soldiers retreated, the Ishi-Tibu people cooperated with the robot army to launch an assault.
"Platoon E, immediately move 10 meters to the 7 o'clock direction...Platoon B, move back to the 6 o'clock direction and give up the abandoned house..." Anakin Skywalker kept saying Such an instruction was issued in the communication.
Under the foresight of the Force, he actually sensed the time and area where these clone soldiers would be discovered when they were hiding, and then told the clone soldiers to avoid them in advance. The sound of footsteps and engines could be heard all around, and the sound of gunshots was getting very close.
The Ishi-Tibu army passed by here, and they didn't even notice that there were more than 100 clone warriors hiding under their noses!
"Not enough...not enough..." Anakin Skywalker was still muttering something to himself, "This still won't succeed."
Suddenly, his ears moved slightly and he heard a different engine. He whispered, "It's the Vulture Chariot! 12 of them! Listen, I have a new plan!"
"What's the plan..."
Before Rex finished speaking , and saw Anakin Skywalker suddenly jump up, and at the same time, he opened the lightsaber in mid-air and made a sudden stroke! At this moment, a vulture chariot passed by at high speed, and the lightsaber in Anakin's hand just passed through the driver's neck, directly cutting off his head!
The out-of-control vulture chariot suddenly hit the wall next to it. Fortunately, these high-speed chariots have safety systems that will automatically slow down without driver control, so they did not crash into pieces.
At the same time, other clone soldiers also stood up from their hiding places and fired at the retreating Vulture Chariot that had just passed through them!
The clone soldiers were extremely elite and reacted very quickly. They understood Anakin's thoughts in an instant and immediately came to cooperate. Moreover, their marksmanship was very accurate. All the drivers driving the Vulture chariots were killed, and only 3 vehicles were destroyed in the process!
Anakin Skywalker had already mounted one of the Vulture Chariots and said: "This is the new plan! Only in this way can we break through the Separatist front!"
Rake Si nodded, jumped on a vulture chariot, nodded to a few people and said, "It's just you, let's go! Others, move forward in concealment and look for opportunities to respond!"
"Yes!"
More than a dozen clone soldiers, working in groups of two, drove the Vulture Chariot at full power, galloping towards the rear of the Ishi-Tibu people's line.
Anakin Skywalker constantly adjusted the route along the way to allow them to avoid the oncoming Ishi-Tibu soldiers who came to intercept them. At the same time, he also locked the area where the siege tanks were located through the Force!
Right ahead, the roar of the engine is very close!
Anakin turned the motor to maximum, and then drove the Vulture Chariot directly to collapse a ruined wall. Behind him, there was the huge figure of a siege tank!
The Vulture Chariot suddenly collided with the siege tank at close range. One second before the impact, Anakin had already stood up, and the lightsaber in his hand instantly cut off the barrel of the siege tank!
While he was still in mid-air, he had already raised his hand. Under the strong force of the force, all the bullets and blaster beams fired were bounced away! Then he fell to the ground, and his body turned into a bolt of lightning and shuttled between several siege tanks, killing all the Ishi-Tibu soldiers around the tank.
Other clone soldiers also began to fight with the defenders guarding these siege tanks. Under such a calculated and unintentional surprise attack, the Ishi-Tibu people were beaten by a mere dozen clone soldiers. There will be flowers and water flowing.
At the same time, the soldiers of Torrent Company who were not riding in the Vulture Chariot also took advantage of the chaos caused by Anakin and others to launch an attack on the separatist army. Not only them, but other companies that were retreating also turned around decisively and launched a counterattack when they found that the separatist army was in some confusion and some were retreating while others were at a loss.
Anakin Skywalker successfully destroyed 8 siege tanks, which reduced the defensive pressure in this direction. At the same time, Ahsoka Tano also rescued the downed Master Ron Shrine and came to join them.
The clone troopers re-stabilized their front. After the brutal and bloody battle continued for another day, the Arata Acclaimer-class assault landing ship behind them, which was heavily damaged and forced to land, finally recovered. With the power, the clone soldiers began to shrink the defense line in an orderly manner and retreated into the battleship.
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On May 11, 21BB, the 41st Storm Legion and the 501st Legion of the Galactic Republic fully retreated from the planet Tibrin.
In this bloody battle, the Republic paid the price of more than 20,000 clone trooper deaths. The 501st Legion and the 41st Storm Legion also suffered heavy losses, and the losses on the Separatist side were even more severe.
Facts have proved that courage cannot close the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides, especially when the robot army was temporarily shut down by the nanovirus. Although the Ishi-Tibu people mobilized a million troops to attack the clone army's front , and also achieved good results, forcing the Republic's troops to continuously retreat.
But their casualties in this battle were 140,000!
This astonishing battle loss ratio was achieved in the later stages of the battle, when the Valkyrie frigate came for reinforcements and the separatists occupied air superiority.
This shows how powerless the ordinary conscripted soldiers on these planets are when faced with clone soldiers, super soldiers who have been cultivated from embryos with the goal of killing machines...< br>
However, despite the heavy losses, the planet Tibrin finally got rid of the rule of the Galactic Republic. Count Dooku's dark disciple, Thora Balk, acted as the acting planetary governor and began to assist the Tibrin planet in establishing a formal planetary government.
And with the defeat of the Battle of Tibrin Planet, the Galactic Republic also lost the possibility of threatening the Fourth Civilization fleet assembled on the planets Dora and Glenson from the rear, allowing the Fourth Civilization's The fleet was able to concentrate all its forces in the direction of the planet Eriadu.
However, this brutal battle left an indelible shadow in the hearts of the soldiers of the 41st Storm Legion. The soldiers of the 41st Storm Legion who participated in this battle dyed their hair red and shaved it into a unique double-striped hairstyle to commemorate the Battle of Tibrin.
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The cruel war is still going on...
However, at the same time, Coruscant, the capital of the Republic, was far away from the battlefield.
There was a crisp sound, and two exquisite crystal wine glasses touched together gently. The lavender precious wine in the wine glasses rippled with the impact, and exuded a charming aroma of wine.
"You are still so charming, Miss Padmé. The war did not take away your youth and beauty from you, you are still the enchanting lady..." Rush Clovis Smiling, he said to Padmé Amidala, who was sitting in front of him, "But just 10 minutes ago, I was worried that your purpose of inviting me to dinner was to put me on the table alive. Swallowed.”
"Hehehehe... you are still so funny, Clovis." His humor made Padmé Amidala laugh out loud. Although the two had broken up for more than a year, Padmé Amidala couldn't help but laugh. Deme also had to admit that Clovis was indeed a very good man.
But now her heart has been filled with another dazzling man, and she can no longer tolerate others.
(End of this chapter)