The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

996. The numbers in this chapter are not auspicious.

Eliadu satellite, Karina crater.

The planetary shield generator on the satellite is naturally the most important facility and needs to be deployed with emphasis, and the Karina crater is a key part of this defense system.

Because the maximum depth of the Karina crater is more than minus 2,100 meters above sea level of the satellite, it is the lowest-lying area of ​​the entire satellite, so the Galactic Republic built a huge geothermal power station here.

It is naturally impossible for the geothermal energy of a mere satellite to support the planetary shield. However, the geothermal energy power station in Karina crater supplies energy for the defense facilities around the planetary shield.

Once the Karina crater is captured, the defense facilities around the planetary shield generator, including shield barriers and defensive artillery, will lose their energy supply. Even if the backup energy is activated, the power will not meet the required standards.

But now, the front of Karina Crater is experiencing an extremely spectacular scene...

2000 AT-PT walking machines cluster charge!

After getting the Blade Fleet before, the 5340 AT-PT walkers in the cargo hold of the battleship were also captured by the fourth civilization and became a very important armor force.

Although the AT-PT is a relatively early model of the Galactic Republic bipedal walking machine family, it also has good performance. It is equipped with a dual-mounted blaster and a concussion grenade launcher. The relatively slender mechanical bipeds allow walking The machine moves forward at the fastest speed of 60 kilometers per hour, and can jump to a height of about 5 meters.

Compared with other bipedal walkers, AT-PT's armor and firepower are relatively average, but its maneuverability and flexibility are very good.

It's just the same, with the disappearance of the Blade Fleet, this bipedal walker designed and manufactured by the Rossana Heavy Engineering Company, a subsidiary of Kuat Power Shipyard, also lost the order of the Galactic Republic.

It's just that compared to Lundili, who lost the order of the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser and was almost injured, the failure of a bipedal walker in the district will not affect the Kuat Power Dock.

They quickly developed two bipedal walkers, AT-XT and AT-RT, and re-entered the military market. They are using these two bipedal walkers as a blueprint to develop the final version of the model - the AT-ST bipedal walker. foot walker.

Major General Ling Liang of the Fourth Civilization Army decisively invested 2,000 AT-PT bipedal walkers in this landing operation, and used them as a mobile trump card in her own hand.

When the Army of the Galactic Republic put the armored troops in Jinghai, trying to threaten the cities and logistics bases occupied by the Fourth Civilization army from the direction of Jinghai, and forced the Fourth Civilization to fight them in Jinghai, Ling Liang directly shot Another trump card – the Injoris!

She asked the Injoli to resist the armored forces of the Galactic Republic alone, and then led 2,000 AT-PTs as the guide, and 3 infantry divisions as the follow-up main force to go straight to the Karina crater!

The extremely fierce battle unfolded in an instant. The Galactic Republic's defenders in this direction gathered more than 50,000 people, but all of them were recruited soldiers. After more than 3 months of training, they were pulled into the battlefield.

Relying on the terrain of Karina crater and a large number of fixed defense facilities, the defenders fired continuously, and dense lasers and missiles spread almost all over the crater.

In the sky, the Galactic Republic's V-19 Riptide light fighter and Z-95 Headhunter general-purpose fighter continued to provide fire support, swooped down to straf with blaster cannons, and launched concussion missile attacks.

But still unable to resist the tide-like offensive of the Fourth Civilization!

At least half of the AT-PT walkers have been modified to remove the concussion grenade launcher and refit it with the same type of Hellfire long-range surface-to-air missile launcher as the giant mecha, except that there is only one set.

A large number of Hellfire long-range surface-to-air missiles posed a great threat to the Air Force of the Galactic Republic, but they continued to dive and fire against the firepower of the missiles.

There are fighter jets being shot down, and AT-PTs being destroyed by artillery fire.

But this cannot stop the resolute advance of the Fourth Civilization Army!

Compared with the conscripts of the Galactic Republic, the Fourth Civilization adopts a universal compulsory military service system, and their soldiers have to undergo more than 2 years of military service training before going to the battlefield. Moreover, they have been instilled with the belief that the three major natural disasters are raging and the fourth natural disaster is rising since they were young, so that their determination to fight is much stronger than those republican conscripts who used to be just miners on satellites and didn't stop eating!

"Kill!!!!" The soldiers of the Fourth Civilization wearing Liberator II combat uniforms rushed up to the crater, picked up the M-15 defender assault rifle or pickaxe sniper rifle in their hands and kept shooting, Small groups charge in skirmish lines.

The fixed fire points on the mountain that were set up behind the rocks and even poured with concrete continued to spew out flames, and the blaster beams fired by the blaster rifles hit like raindrops.

An AT-PT in front jumped up directly and landed in front of a firepower fortification. The dual blaster cannons aimed at the fortification and bombarded it indiscriminately, but it did not break through the fortification, which was more than 2 meters thick and added a layer of polymer and Golden concrete. At this time, on the other side, a 1.4FD light laser cannon erected on the mountain turned its muzzle under the control of the soldiers of the Republic to aim at the AT-PT and fired several shots!

boom! boom! ! A large crater was blown out on the side of the AT-PT, and the whole thing burned. The driver inside was on fire, and while screaming, he opened the hatch with all his strength and wanted to climb out, but he lost all his strength just halfway through the climb, and hung on the hatch door, screaming loudly, and soon there was no sound.

But more soldiers of the Fourth Civilization rushed forward under the cover of the rocks, and shot the operator of the 1.4FD laser cannon to death, then rushed under the fortifications, took out a needle grenade and shot directly from Kong dropped it in.

boom! ! With a small explosion, hundreds of tiny steel needles were shot out from the needle grenade, and they were still bouncing around, killing all 7 or 8 Republic soldiers inside the fortification!

boom! boom! ! A few more AT-PTs jumped up, firing concussion grenades at the Republic's defensive position continuously, suppressing the Republic infantry hiding behind the bunker, and then began to use blasters to point at another sturdy DF-9 above. The anti-infantry turrets are firing wildly!

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Meanwhile, Eliadu Satellite Command Center.

"General! The separatist army has broken through our defenses at Karina Crater! We can't hold on for long." The signalman ran over in panic and said loudly.

Boom! The General of the Republic slammed his fist on the table, "The Jinghai side is full of trash! It's all trash!! Let Ling Liang put all her armored troops into Karina Crater! And they actually lost troops in Jinghai Not to mention, he was taken away from the headquarters!!"

"But the Injoli over the Crystal Sea..." A staff officer wanted to say something, but was interrupted by a sudden news.

"General!! Something is wrong!! The separatist fleet! The separatist fleet is dispatched!!"