The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1395: Dexen Meat Grinder (1)

Hundreds of transport ships swooped down towards the Dirksen satellite and entered the planet's atmosphere. The thick clouds were instantly left behind, and the 500-kilometer steel city on the ground was extremely conspicuous on the ground!

And at the moment when the clouds disappeared, only countless artillery fires were fired from the ground crazily! At this moment, the countless flames almost made people's eyes unable to see things!

The sky is full of fragmented barrages like black clouds, blood-red lasers, and missiles with tail flames. The entire sky is almost airtight, and there is no gap at all!

In addition to these deadly fire nets, there are also countless fighter jets flying around, grabbing any chance to rush down and bomb the light blue city-level shield.

This steel city is equipped with extremely expensive one-way shields, only attacks from the outside to the inside will be intercepted, while attacks from the inside to the outside will not be affected. This is why General Kalani dared to organize the last resistance here.

The anti-aircraft guns on the ground are densely arranged. If a person walks on the streets of the city of steel at this moment, he can only see towering anti-aircraft guns everywhere!

The hemispherical 30mm caliber six-tube electromagnetic machine gun, the turret is 3 meters high. Under the command of the fire control radar, the turret rotates rapidly, and the rotation angle can exceed 30 degrees per second. The six barrels were rotating at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye, and the sound of the machine gun firing was connected into one piece, shooting crazily at a rate of hundreds of rounds per second!

Hundreds of 30mm caliber cannons per second are all proximity fuzes plus delayed detonation fuzes. Even if it can't hit directly, each shell can directly explode and produce fragments when it senses the target within the attack range. If it doesn't hit the target, it will explode directly at a fixed height to form a fragment barrage.

There are also quadruple-mounted anti-aircraft laser cannons. This turret is 5 meters high, and a rapid-fire laser cannon is installed on each of the four mantis-like cantilever arms on both sides. Compared with the 30mm six-tube electromagnetic cannon, this anti-aircraft laser cannon emphasizes point-to-point attacks. After the fire control radar locks on the target, the four laser cannons fire together, burning the target into a ball of fire within a few seconds!

In addition to this, a large number of anti-aircraft missile towers were also deployed. Although this kind of missile turret comes from the technology of "StarCraft", its structural construction is actually very simple, and all the technical content is on the fire control system and missiles. Regardless of the launch, the Longbow II air defense missiles that could switch targets midway were launched densely into the sky, making the already crowded sky even more chaotic.

Not to mention that there are large groups of combat robots on the ground, including B-1 combat robots, B-2 super combat robots and destroyer robots, and they also aim their weapons at the sky and shoot wildly.

Even under the protection of the shield, those firepower and explosions cannot fall into the city of steel, but the flames fired by the countless anti-aircraft firepower can also illuminate the whole city red!

But no matter how bombed by the fighter groups of the Galactic Republic, the city-level shield of the city of steel is still extremely strong. Under the cover of the shield, the crazy anti-aircraft firepower unscrupulously poured out its own firepower. In the factories in the city, countless automated machines produced various missiles and energy capacitors non-stop. The missiles that were still warm were sent to the air defense position, and then ignited and launched. Finally, a Republic fighter jet Body exploded.

The transport ships of the Galactic Republic have tried their best to penetrate the defense. They really want to land directly into the city and start the landing operation directly in the center. However, if they want to enter the range of the city's shield, they must reduce their speed to the level of the shield's reaction. Below the speed threshold, otherwise, it will be directly blocked outside by the shield magnetic field as a weapon attack.

Such a result is equivalent to the spaceship hitting a red-hot iron wall directly.

However, the speed threshold of this city-level energy shield has been calculated by the central computer of the Republic battleship. Not surprisingly, Separatism directly adjusted the speed threshold of the shield to the lowest gear, making it almost impossible for the aircraft to pass.

Anyway, they no longer have fighter jets, and all they have are ground air defense forces. In fact, all the fighter jets have been used up in the outer orbit armed space station and the battle on the surface of the planet Onderon in the previous few days of battle.

Therefore, the only thing the Republic's transport ship can do is to fly to the periphery of the city-level shield, put down the landing troops, and advance on the ground.

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"Quick! Quick! Get off the ship as soon as possible! Don't stay! Don't stay!!" An officer shouted hysterically to the soldiers in the cabin, and then drove them to swarm down, leaving the spaceship as soon as possible so that the spaceship could take off as soon as possible.

boom! ! There was a violent explosion not far away! I only saw a transport ship being hit by the long-range firepower of the Separatists, and was immediately blown into a burning fireball in the explosion! Countless spaceship fragments fell in the sky, and there were even more stumps and broken arms! All from those Republic soldiers who didn't get off the ship in time!

Seeing this terrifying scene, the soldiers of the Republic did not dare to stay for a second, and hurriedly ran towards the bottom of the spaceship.

There are more soldiers who have landed before rushing forward desperately, firing wildly with all the weapons they can use while rushing forward, without any aiming at all - anyway, there is no need to aim, at a place a few kilometers away from them place, a light blue light curtain blocked all incoming firepower.

boom! boom! ! From the inside of the city, a large number of powerful shells are constantly falling. This is the heavy multifunctional howitzer of the siege tank!

"Quick! Quick! Go forward! You can only wait for death if you stay here!" The officer was still shouting loudly. He pushed the shoulders of every soldier who passed in front of him to make them quicken their pace.

The transport ship behind him was preparing to take off, but suddenly, a shell fell from the sky and directly hit the transport ship! With a loud bang, the transport ship that had just risen less than 10 meters was instantly slapped to the ground by the huge impact of the shell, and at the same time a violent explosion was instantly set off!

The soldiers who were a little closer to the transport ship were immediately blown away by the explosion, and the officer was blown away by the explosion more than ten meters away, his body almost twisted into twists by the powerful force.

"Come on!!!" This hell-like scene stimulated the soldiers of the Republic, and they also let out a bold cry of killing hysterically, and charged in the direction of the city of steel.

The transport plane is still landing, putting armored vehicles on the ground one by one.

Before the AT-TE walker got off the transport plane, the anti-infantry scattered laser cannon in front was already firing, and the gunner on the cannon behind was already in position, and it also fired without much aiming.

The powerful shells of the heavy-duty howitzer exploded clusters of fireballs tens of meters in diameter on the city shield.

The army of the Galactic Republic has also learned how to behave now. Seeing that the separatist army on Planet Dawn often uses a mixture of live ammunition and energy weapons, they have followed suit. Now the heavy howitzers on AT-TE's back are all prepared high-explosive live ammunition, which is to cause more kinetic energy damage to the shield of Dawn Star.

Around the City of Steel, the Galactic Republic has established more than a dozen landing sites, launching fierce attacks from different directions.