Chapter 1414. Dexon Meat Grinder (5)
1414. Dexon Meat Grinder (5)
Almost in just one hour, on the planet Onderon More than a dozen spaceports were attacked. And without exception, the attackers were elites with only a few hundred people but extremely powerful combat capabilities!
After the initial explosion attack, the defenders of these spaceports fell into chaos, making them completely unable to stop the attack of these elite teams.
Boom! boom! boom! boom! Violent explosions continued to set off in the cargo loading and unloading area inside the space port, and a large number of expensive combat supplies were blown up. And the purpose of these attackers is very clear - they want to destroy a large number of transport ships of the Galactic Republic!
This is enough material to supply millions of troops for combat. Their team of several hundred people can definitely not destroy them all. Moreover, the tens of thousands of troops guarding and even the hundreds of thousands of troops in the city will soon arrive. If they want to destroy the logistics of the Republic's army, it will be impossible. Can't do it.
However, the goal of the Fourth Army was just to destroy the transport ship, just for a short blank period.
For this purpose, they are willing to sacrifice their lives! After all, all of them have joined the Rebirth Plan. Even if they die in battle, all they will lose is this memory.
The Fourth Legion had actually infiltrated the planet Onderon with the help of General Kalani many months ago and obtained an official status. The battle plan at that time was that they were led by Uru-Ulix. However, because the Fourth Army of the Republic suddenly attacked the planet Semels, Uru-Ulix was urgently transferred to reinforce it.
At the same time, Lieutenant General Dai Hongkui, commander of the armored forces, was also transferred. He was also originally planned to lead the Scorpion Tank Corps on the planet Onderon. After he was transferred, one of his former adjutants commanded the legion. It was also under the leadership of this adjutant who was deeply influenced by Dai Hongkui's true biography that the Scorpion Tank Corps launched successful raids on the Dexon satellite, successfully destroying a large number of artillery positions of the Galactic Republic, as well as the expensive war machine SPHA- T self-propelled artillery.
This battle plan can be said to have been prepared for a long time. The soldiers of the Fourth Army either became porters, factory mechanics, cleaners, or security police, lurking in various ways.
Then when the Galactic Republic attacked Izzy City, all the soldiers of the Fourth Legion stood still and blended into the fleeing crowd to further hide.
After the Galactic Republic occupied Izzy City, they were preparing to turn Izzy City into a logistics base. All this was within General Kalani's calculations.
If the Republic wants to set up a logistics base, it will definitely have to requisition a large number of local industries and hire locals as labor force. So at this time, the soldiers of the Fourth Army can sneak into the city openly again and come into contact with the Milky Way. The Republic's logistics supply base.
Finally, when General Kalani calculated that the Galactic Republic’s investment in transportation and troops on the Dexon satellite had reached its peak, the Fourth Army was dispatched!
The soldiers of the Fourth Legion continued to carry out sabotage at the space port, blowing up supplies, creating obstacles, setting fires everywhere, and taking advantage of the chaos to destroy transport ships.
The spaceports were temporarily paralyzed due to their raids and destruction.
During this short period of time, the nearly 3 million troops on the Dexon satellite did not receive any supplies!
At the same time, following General Kalani’s order, the Fourth Civilization Army on the Dexon satellite also began a counterattack!
More than 10,000 Fourth Civilization Army soldiers, under the cover of more than 100,000 combat robots, launched an attack on the assembly point of the Galactic Republic Army.
These assembly points are temporary command centers established in several places after the Republic Army took control of part of the city. Facilities including field hospitals and ammunition supply points are also set up in these places. These places were crowded with wounded soldiers and piled high with ammunition and supplies.
As long as these assembly points are destroyed, it will deal a heavy blow to the Army of the Galactic Republic!
What was even more deadly was yet to come. The Scorpion tanks were mobilized again, and the remaining approximately 100 tanks launched an attack on the Galactic Republic and several major landing points set up outside the city!
General Kalani was too precise about the timing of this counterattack!
Physically, the Galactic Republic Army has been engaged in high-intensity combat on the planet Dexen for several days. Even though there have been constant rotations of troops, the bodies of these troops are no longer in the best condition. And one of the most important reasons is air quality!
After Wilhuff-Tarkin's previous orbital bombing of the Dirksen satellite, and the incessant bombing after the landing operation began, the atmosphere of the Dirksen satellite has been almost destroyed, and the air is filled with harmful gases. . Soldiers of the Galactic Republic must wear respirators to get out and about, but how good can the respirators issued to millions of soldiers be? It would be nice to be able to protect people from being poisoned.
Under such circumstances, the status of the Republic's army further deteriorated.
From a psychological point of view, Wilhuff Tarkin's previous acquiescence and indulgence in the Republic army was actually to maintain the morale of this motley army. He originally thought that the battle would be over in a few days, so he would be able to act recklessly in these few days. As long as it was not too excessive, it would be acceptable. Anyway, after these few days, everything would return to order.
However, this method of drinking poison to quench thirst became a complete farce after a coup broke out on the planet Onderon and King Ramses Dundup overthrew the Saw Gerrera regime and regained the throne.
Under King Dundup's very tough response, the Republic Army had to restrain itself. After all, Dundup had brought this matter to the Parliament. If left alone, it would have a great impact on Tarkin's political reputation. influence.
But for the Republic Army soldiers, this means that after they return from the meat grinding ground on the Dexon satellite, they will face hard and bland food, crowded tents, strict military discipline, and even paying for a prostitute. Neither would work - almost all of Onderon's native population refused to serve the Republic soldiers.
This has also reduced the psychology and morale of the Republic's army.
Finally, it’s the commander’s laxity.
Previously, the Steel City of Dexon Satellite relied on its city shield to resist, causing heavy losses to the Republic's army, with more than one million casualties. This gave a great psychological shadow to the commanders at all levels of the Galactic Republic.
So after the city shield was finally breached, all the commanders breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the battle would be easier. And this is also true. The defenders of the City of Steel retreated again and again, giving up a large area of the city, which made them feel that they had a chance to win.
Therefore, General Kalani asked his adjutant Liu Zhichao to constantly pay attention to the number of takeoffs and landings of transport ships and the number of troops in the Galactic Republic. When both of them reach their peak, that is when the commander of the Republic wants to complete his victory in one battle and starts to press his biggest trump card!
But the fact is that after giving up a large area of the city's depth, the supplies of the Republic's troops began to be tight. When it comes to airdrops, the complex environment of the city and the ubiquitous cold guns prevent the transport ships from landing casually. When it comes to the ground, because the distance is extended, the supply difficulty is also increased a lot.
So at the perfect time when the Republic's army was at its lowest point physically and mentally, and the commander began to relax and be eager for success, General Kalani launched a counterattack!
These soldiers of the Army of the Fourth Civilization recharge their batteries and share the same hatred of the enemy. They have endured it for a long time!
As a result, the Galactic Republic army almost collapsed at the first touch, and was beaten in several places, with abandoned armor and corpses scattered all over the field.
In order to stabilize the front, Republic commanders had to retreat, abandoning large areas of the captured city. The Fourth Civilization Army's attack was extremely fierce. They didn't even care about the flanks or whether they were going deep alone, they just kept moving forward and breaking through!
In the City of Steel, there are corpses and wreckage left behind after the fierce battle between the two sides.
Although the Galactic Republic currently has nearly 3 million troops deployed on the frontline of the Dexon satellite, which is more than 6 times the number of the Fourth Civilization’s army launching a counterattack, the Republic’s troops are scattered throughout the frontline surrounding the city. , there are not many troops in a single direction.
After the Fourth Civilization launched a counterattack, the Republic Army was in a hurry, and almost all positions were running around for a while. When the Republic commander finally organized several quick reaction forces to block the Fourth Civilization Army, it was already two hours later.
In just two hours, the Galactic Republic's army casualties exceeded 400,000! But at the same time, the separatist robot army also suffered a lot of losses.
At the same time, under the attack of Scorpion tanks, two landing points of the Republic were finally destroyed.
The Republic commander deployed a large number of fighter jets to indiscriminately bomb the counterattacking separatist troops, finally preventing the counterattacking troops from causing further damage.
Under the air force bombing, more than 100 Scorpion tanks were finally wiped out, and Lieutenant General Dai Hongkui's adjutant died heroically.
The Army of the Fourth Civilization once again broke into pieces, entered the buildings and factories in the City of Steel, and after reoccupying these buildings, prepared to use their lives to fight the Galactic Republic to the end!
That's right, the planet Onderon is destined to be undefendable, so the only requirement the Fourth Civilization has for the troops on this planet is to delay the battle for as long as possible and kill as many Republic troops as possible!
All the soldiers of the Fourth Civilization who went to the planet Onderon did not expect to come back alive! They left a suicide note, and those who were willing to participate in the rebirth plan were also given the opportunity to participate in the rebirth plan and join the Fourth Army.
It took the Galactic Republic almost a whole day to recover from this sudden counterattack.
The spaceport on the planet Onderon was retaken, the fire was extinguished, the damaged cargo was disposed of, the landing and maintenance platforms were restored to work, and the transport ship took off again.
The soldiers of the Fourth Legion who raided and destroyed the spaceport, under siege by hundreds of times the enemy, all fought to the last man. But they killed countless soldiers and staff and destroyed goods and supplies! Even after this number was sent to Wilhuff Tarkin, he became furious on the spot, his gentlemanly demeanor no longer existed, and he started swearing directly on the bridge.
The situation on the Dirksen satellite is even more serious!
The army of nearly 3 million suffered a sudden counterattack and was completely defeated. It was finally able to reorganize to stabilize the front and resist the continued advance of the fourth civilization army.
After this chaos, the formation of the republic's army was disrupted, a large amount of combat materials were lost and destroyed, and the wounded from the battle were everywhere, and there was no time to recover them one by one.
And because the spaceport on the planet Onderon was temporarily paralyzed, there was a short window. During this window period, no transport ships took off or landed between the Onderon planet and the Dexon satellite!
However, the Republic army on the Dexon satellite suffered heavy losses, with more than one-third of its personnel reduced. They were in urgent need of a large amount of ammunition and supplies, as well as food, ammunition and other items. What is even more urgent is to send away a large number of wounded!
The environment of the Dirksen satellite has been completely destroyed. If these wounded are left here for too long, the air here alone will kill them!
So after quelling the sabotage at the spaceport on the planet Onderon and repelling the counterattack of the separatist army on the Dexon moon, Governor Wilhuff Tarkin issued an order to immediately concentrate all The transport ship heads to the Dexon satellite! Be sure to help the army on the satellite complete reorganization and supplies as quickly as possible, and restart the offensive as soon as possible!
Under his command, a large number of transport ships took off and flew densely towards the Dexon satellite.
At the same time, he also ordered to send three Cheer-class assault landing ships into the atmosphere of the Dexon satellite to reinforce the operation!
At the same time, on the Dirksen satellite, in the secret hangar platform below the command center, Dr. Zhang Jiarui was wearing a black vest, revealing his explosive muscles. As he walked, he took out a pair of sunglasses and put them on himself superior.
At this moment, his heart was also cold!
Everything that happened after the Galactic Republic occupied Izzy City, he saw clearly through the intelligence personnel on the planet! He hated the crimes committed by the Republic Army and Saw Gerrera, and his disgust for the Galactic Republic could not be greater.
This time, he will not show any mercy!
Dr. Zhang Jiarui came to the hangar platform under a huge gantry, and here, parked is an extremely huge steel beast!
With a height of 20 meters, Zhang Jiarui, a muscular man with a height of nearly 1.9 meters, seems as small as a kitten standing in front of an elephant!
Thor mecha! ! !
And this Thor mecha has undergone a lot of modifications, and its appearance is very different. The most obvious change is that on the back of the Thor mecha, the original Punisher cannon has been removed, and a spherical device is now installed here.
General Kalani's voice also came from the communication, "This is our last card. After playing it, let's take advantage of the chaos and leave."
Zhang Jiarui's lines are like steel. A cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he gave a thumbs up and said: "No problem! Just let me give the Galactic Republic the heaviest blow!"
(End of this chapter)