Chapter 1400. Dexon Meat Grinder (4)
1400. Dexon Meat Grinder (4)
Hearing Tarkin’s words, the adjutant suddenly realized, “So that’s how it is. -Gerrera is a scapegoat? And the reason why you rejected So-Gerrera's proposal and kept the Royal Guard is so that we can get more support when we kill him as the scapegoat?"
Wilhuff Tarkin had a childish expression on his face and said, "I'm glad you finally understand my intentions, that's good."
"The Governor is still far-sighted." The adjutant hurriedly offered. Flattery, "When the time comes, as long as we say a word, those royal guards will immediately send Saw Gerrera's head up... Hahahaha."
But Tarkin immediately looked solemn and said: "Now that you know it, put away all your illusions! Capture the Dexon satellite as soon as possible! Let this battle come to an end as soon as possible! We need to reorganize our offensive and concentrate our forces on The breakthrough has been achieved, and then enough depth has been formed within the city shield!"
"Yes!"
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The battle on the Dirksen satellite! It is still going on. Under the continuous bombing by the fleet and army of the Galactic Republic, the city-level shield of the City of Steel has almost reached its limit, and the shields in many places have begun to show gaps due to insufficient charging.
With the most extreme and precise assistance of the navigation robot, the Galactic Republic fighter pilots rushed into the city while the city shield was flashing, and then in the last few seconds before they were shot down Inside, launch everything that can be launched on your fighter jet! !
The City of Steel's air defense firepower began to suffer losses. Once losses occurred, there would be gaps in the dense fire network. Under this situation, the air power of the Galactic Republic would have more room to move.
Two of the ten huge orbital defense cannons surrounding the city have been captured by the continuous attacks of the Galactic Republic Army. Before the battle to the end, the combat robots also detonated the orbital defense cannons installed in advance. The bombs on the cannon's huge energy core perished together with the Republic Army.
After experiencing an initial comprehensive siege that lasted nearly half a day, the Galactic Republic Army also made adjustments based on the offensive conditions launched at dozens of landing points.
Under the meticulous command of Wilhuff Tarkin, the Republic Army began to abandon those landing points that suffered heavy losses and made poor progress due to heavy attacks by the Separatists, and then focused on the remaining 9 directions. Launch an attack.
These 9 directions are also the directions from which the Galactic Republic Army finally broke into the shield range after paying a lot of casualties.
However, in order to achieve such a result, more than 700,000 Republic soldiers have been buried here.
On the battlefield on the planet Onderon, countless bodies piled up almost like mountains. As for these corpses, the Separatists were basically fighting robots, so it didn't matter. However, the Republic had to use various methods to dispose of these corpses as much as possible.
Since the war began, too many people have died.
Part of the corpses were disposed of on the spot on the planet Dexon, and were thrown into the lava pits and volcanoes created by previous orbital bombings like garbage and burned directly. There are also some wounded people who died on the planet Onderon. Several corpse pits are usually set up on the outskirts of the city for unified treatment.
After that, the Galactic Republic's continuous offensive slowed down a bit, then reorganized its troops, and then launched an overwhelming attack again! However, this time, the situation suddenly changed!
The separatist army, which had been passively defensive, suddenly showed its terrifying fangs!
Scorpion Tank! !
More than 400 Scorpion tanks, under the cover of more than 100 M-9 Wolverine anti-aircraft assault vehicles, drove out of the underground garage of the City of Steel, and then drove directly towards the rear of the Republic army!
At this moment, the Galactic Republic army is focusing its offensive in nine directions, but this also means that there are gaps that cannot be controlled between these places.
And the Scorpion tank group launched a penetration attack from these gaps!
It should be said that Wilhuff Tarkin's command was correct. After all, the City of Steel is a super giant city with a radius of more than 500 kilometers, and it is also a fortress city. Even if the Galactic Republic has an army of 7 million, it is impossible to continuously launch a full-scale offensive on this front with a circumference of one or two thousand kilometers. It is completely correct to concentrate its forces on assaults in certain directions.
However, Governor Tarkin, who wanted to end the battle as soon as possible, was blinded by the passive posture of the Separatists. He focused all his attention on how to launch an attack, but did not expect Kalani The general has always held a counterattack force in his hands.
Scorpion Tank!
Since the analysis of this tank was completed and it entered the fourth civilization’s army equipment sequence, it quickly became the favorite equipment of army generals. Not only because of the excellent performance of the Scorpion tank, but also because the production cost is low enough and the production process is not difficult.
This means that even an ordinary industrial planet will have enough capacity to mass-produce Scorpion tanks.
Originally, army generals did not need to care about production, but the low cost of Scorpion tanks directly resulted in these generals being able to easily obtain a large enough tank group.
Who wouldn’t love a tank like this?
The same is true for the Dexon satellite. After receiving information about the Republic's imminent invasion, in addition to evacuating the original Behemoth-class battlecruiser production line, another important task was to refit part of the production line. Production of Scorpion tanks.
In a few months, this factory group that manufactures thousand-meter-class battleships has produced hundreds of Scorpion tanks.
And now, these tanks hit Wilhuff Tarkin directly in the face!
More than 400 Scorpion tanks were divided into several directions and resolutely interspersed. In order to complete such complex tactical maneuvers, the crews of these Scorpion tanks were all from the Fourth Civilization Army, not just a few B-1 battles. robot!
The Scorpion tank cluster directly cut off the supply lines between several of the Republic Army troops and the rear landing sites, forcing these Republic troops to retreat to defend, or even withdraw from the shield range they had finally penetrated.
After that, these Scorpion tanks directly attacked the artillery position set up by the Republic more than ten kilometers away!
After the frustrated Wilhuff-Tarkin concentrated fighter formations bombarded these Scorpion tanks and finally forced the Scorpion tank group to retreat, the several artillery positions they set up were in a mess.
A total of five precious SPHA-T self-propelled turbolaser cannons were destroyed by this assault!
You must know that the cost of this expensive weapon is comparable to that of a battleship, but it only costs double digits in the entire galaxy!
(End of this chapter)