The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

777 , The Battle Situation Stalemate

In the Battle of Killin Wasteland, the Fourth Civilization invested 15,000 army soldiers and more than 15,000 battle robots to launch a resolute attack on the defense line of the Galactic Republic.

The clone army of the Republic here is the 118th Assault Regiment with a total of 5,000 people, plus some 3,000 people from the local security forces on the planet Terminus.

Those local security forces were naturally vulnerable, but the resistance of the clone army was very tenacious. They arranged defense lines in an orderly manner, and blocked the advancement of the Fourth Civilization Army in most positions.

The combat quality of the Republic clone army is very strong. Even under the indiscriminate bombardment of the siege tanks, they still remain calm, relying on the pre-set positions to counterattack calmly.

With the firepower of a large number of AT-TE walkers, AT-XT walkers and AV-7 self-propelled artillery, the Republic's position is almost impenetrable.

Moreover, the Republic, as always, has an absolute advantage in the number of fighters on the battlefield. The vulture robot fighters can only harass the fighters of the Republic, and only the Ghost fighters can pose a fatal threat to the fighters of the Republic.

But after all, the number of ghost fighters is small, and the duration of the cloaking device is limited, and there is not much time to take off for combat. Compared to the Galactic Republic, they have enough pilots and enough fighters to rotate.

This is also the biggest difficulty faced by the Army of the Fourth Civilization. They have to start attacking when the ghost fighters take off to fight, and when the ghost fighters retreat, they can only stop attacking and organize defenses on the spot.

The clone army seized this opportunity very keenly, and launched a counterattack as soon as the Wraith fighter retreated.

The LAAT/I assault transport boats bombarded the Fourth Civilization Army indiscriminately, and the V-19 Torrent light fighters also continuously swooped down and strafed.

At this time, the army of the Fourth Civilization can only rely on giant mechs and M-9 Wolverine anti-aircraft tanks to resist. Fortunately, these two units have strong anti-aircraft capabilities, otherwise, those brave fighters will compete with other battlefields. Like the Confederation of Independent Systems forces in the United States, they suffered heavy losses in the Republic's air raids.

However, the new Lieutenant General of the Fourth Civilization, the legendary tank general Dai Hongkui from "Command and Conquer: Generals" played a great role.

After he took office, he began to conduct rigorous training in the Fourth Civilization Armored Corps, rehearsing large-scale combined arms armor assault tactics. And this armored assault tactic also played a huge role. Under the command of the frontline commander Xiao Guanghua, the Fourth Civilization Armored Corps and the Mechanized Infantry Division first carried out a concentrated assault, and then those relatively slow robots and mechas entered the position. Expand the victories.

This is actually a modification of the blitzkrieg of World War II on a certain blue star, and it is here again because of the reliable wheeled equipment of the "Halo" world and the armored units with suspension engines installed in the home world. splendor.

When the advancement of armored units no longer depends on roads or flat desert and plain terrain, blitzkrieg tactics become powerful tactics again.

In contrast, the army of the Republic, which has just lost its combat tradition in the distorted peace of more than a thousand years, and is still in the stage of fighting, groping and learning, is very uncomfortable with such large-scale regiment-level assault tactics.

You must know that even if the combat quality of clone soldiers is extremely high, their training work is still outsourced to those excellent bounty hunters.

And all of them are lone rangers, and bounty hunters who are good at individual combat naturally cannot teach them these things.

After Huang Yehao's company occupied the 1103 highland and established a strong artillery position, the battle in the Keelin Wasteland became a turning point.

After several counterattacks, the army of the Galactic Republic found that it was impossible to recapture the high ground, and found that relying on this high ground, the firepower of the Fourth Civilization Army covered an area of ​​more than 50 kilometers around. In this area, the actions of the Republic Army will be greatly affected. If the gap of more than 50 kilometers cannot be closed, their flanks will be greatly threatened, and they may even be in danger of being encircled.

Therefore, the army of the Republic retreated more than 150 kilometers in a row, and once again deployed defenses on the outskirts of Fermos, the capital of the planet Terminus, and made preparations for street fighting.

The Fourth Civilization also suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Killin Wasteland, not only in terms of soldiers, but also in combat supplies. They also had to stop, waiting for more supplies to arrive.

This is the focus of the battle between the two sides in the outer space of the planet.

In the battle in outer space, the fleets of both sides are evenly matched. The Galactic Republic has about 70 warships, while the Fourth Civilization has more than 50 ships. The two sides attacked each other many times, but each time the defensive side had the upper hand.

The fourth civilization is limited by the hyperspace channel, and it is difficult to supply, and the Galactic Republic cannot provide endless reinforcements, and the fleets of the two sides have begun to fall into a stalemate.

In the Confederacy of Independent Systems, General Grievous resumed his offensive. He began to organize an army to attack the Bosavi planet, the home planet of the Bothans. In order to keep the Bothans, a very useful and highly civilized race, in the Republic, the 13th Army of the Republic immediately Organize almost all fleets to defend with all their might.

But this is only a part. Civil strife broke out on the planet Mon Calamari, the largest shipbuilding industrial planet in the Outer Rim region. There have been several conflicts between the two sides over the dominance of the planet.

And Severance Tann led the Titan battleship Plague, and after converging with the fleet of the Trade Union, lifted the siege of the Second Army of the Republic on the planet Cato-Neimoidia, wiped out the 7th Fleet of the Republic, And this huge fleet of 120 warships is approaching the Nubian planet, the headquarters of the Second Army.

Under such circumstances, no matter how good the relationship between the governor of the 18th Army, Wilhof Tarkin, and the Speaker Schiff Palpatine is, the Republic really cannot continue such uninterrupted reinforcements.

As a result, the battle on the planet Terminus fell into a stalemate, and both sides continued to dispatch fighter jets and light warships to harass each other's supply lines.

Admiral Matt Horner of the Fourth Civilization also had his own plans. He began to build a large number of Gaussian armed platforms and hangar platforms in the direction of the hyperspace channel of the planet Manfa for defense, and then occupied the planet Terminus One of the satellites started building a huge mass launcher on the satellite.

Once this mass launcher is completed, the fourth civilization will be able to directly bomb the planet Terminus with metal garbage from the satellite. This can also be regarded as a kind of orbital bombing with a change of direction, but the destructive power is not so great, and it will not cause the extinction of planetary species and environmental damage.