The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

940. The Battle of the Western Territory: The Attack and Defense of Tarastra (Part 2)

The Eliadu galaxy, the planet Tarastra.

The fleet of the Fourth Civilization has already begun to occupy a greater advantage in this battlefield. The governor of the 18th Army of the Republic, Wilhof Tarkin, has discovered that even if the strength of the two fleets is equal, it is difficult for them to shake Severan. Si Tann's formation.

What's more, although the Republic's fleet is large in number, it cannot form a reasonable match.

Because in comparison, the fleets of the Fourth Civilization are basically built in the same era. At the beginning of the design and construction, the tactical coordination between each other was considered, so the combination can often achieve the effect of 1+1\u003e2 .

However, many of the warships of the Galactic Republic are designs spanning hundreds of thousands of years, and these warships were built for various purposes. For example, the Invincible-class battlecruiser was used as the main battleship during the Sith War. The battlefield positioning was the same as that of the Jaeger-class battlecruiser, but because of its slow speed, it was difficult to keep up with the rhythm of modern battleships.

Another example is the Prosecutor-class battleship, which is basically a warship built under the restrictions of the treaty after the Lusan reform. The main purpose is to deter by force, or to garrison near some important planets.

Others, such as the CR-70 frigate used to defend the route, the DP-20 gunboat used to destroy pirates, etc... It can be said that various functions overlap with each other. In such a large-scale battle, it is only necessary to swarm up up.

This not only did not match, but also put great pressure on logistics due to the complicated warship models.

The Supreme Strategic Command of the Republic no longer has enough logistics fleets to meet the needs of the front line, and has to ask several major ship manufacturers to provide support for their own warships.

To put it bluntly, you are in charge of the Jaeger-class and Arquitect-class warships produced by you at the Quarter Power Dockyard, and you are in charge of your own CR series frigates and DP-20 gunboats at the Corellia Engineering Company.

These warships have different parts, different specifications, and different ages. As a result, the logistics supply is even more chaotic. Almost every day, a large number of transport ships arrive at the planet Eliadu.

It can be said that if it were not for the extremely powerful Galactic Republic, if other forces came over, the logistics would have been completely dragged down by such a miscellaneous fleet.

Governor Tarkin also tried his best to command more than 300 of the warships to fight around the planet Tarastra, but still not only one-third of their number, but all of them are the Fourth Civilization Fleet of thousand-meter-class warships opponent.

But at the same time, Severance Tann's side was not feeling well either. The turret groups set up on five of the satellites around the planet Tarastra were no fun, and caused extremely serious damage to the Fourth Civilization Fleet during the battle.

The battle lasted for about 10 days. As of April 32, the Fourth Civilization had lost 14 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers and 1 Cole-class battlecruiser. Among them, 4 Dreadnoughts were destroyed on the spot, and the rest were destroyed. It was dragged back, but there is no way to move it without a year and a half of overhaul.

In addition, more than 20 Dreadnought-class ships were more or less damaged and unable to exert their full combat effectiveness.

At this time, only the last 2 of the 5 satellites with turret groups left, No. 2 and No. 6 satellites. Severance Tann put forward a combat plan, wanting to send the army to land, forcefully occupy one of the satellites, and then build a temporary space port on it to take off, land, maintain and repair drones, and provide support for the fleet.

But for this plan, Army Major General Ling Liang, the deputy commander of the campaign, firmly opposed it. She believed that sending the army to forcibly land under such circumstances would be tantamount to sending the army to their deaths! Because neither of these two satellites has an atmosphere, they cannot survive at all, and it is difficult to operate on them unless special equipment is used.

Severance Tann had changed her attitude towards the hard-working Ling Liang before, but this time the objection once again aroused her hostility towards the army. She scolded Ling Liang at the military meeting, saying that she would not cooperate with the navy's actions, because tens of thousands of navy soldiers had lost their lives in this battle so far.

Occupying one of the satellites is also to reduce the loss of the navy.

In her opinion, Ling Liang refused this battle on behalf of the army because he wanted to put the conflict between the two armies above the success or failure of the battle.

Ling Liang is not to be outdone, her military knowledge is also very rich, and she also has a strong appeal. She said that Severance-Tann's plan was an act of dumping the blame, because now her own side doesn't know the situation inside the two satellites at all. Regardless of the harsh environment, whether the battle will be successful or not will be questioned. Worst case scenario, what if the base under the Republic's turret group explodes?

Temporarily build a maintenance drone spaceport on such a satellite with a harsh environment that can satisfy a large fleet? This requires a huge number of transport fleets and engineering fleets, and it is simply impossible under the eyes of the Republic Fleet.

She said very sharply that Severance Tann proposed this plan out of fear! Because she was no longer sure of victory in the face of the iron barrel formation of the Republic, so she was extremely anxious and wanted to do something to give herself some psychological comfort.

And for this little bit of psychological comfort, is it necessary to fill in the lives of army soldiers?

Severance Tann became furious after hearing these words, and almost wanted to draw out her lightsaber and cut someone down. The military meeting turned into a scene of quarrels, and finally broke up unhappy.

The next day, Severance Tann ordered Adi Gallia, the former Jedi master who participated in the battle, to block Ling Liang in the dormitory, and then directly issued an order in the name of the supreme commander of the battle—the Fourth Civilization Army 3. The 17th and 18th mechanized infantry regiments immediately landed on the 6th satellite of the planet Tarastra.

Under her command, the Fourth Civilization Fleet bombarded the No. 6 satellite indiscriminately, and the fighter formation also took the initiative to attack, and launched a resolute attack with the Republic fighter group to cover the landing of the 10,000 army soldiers.

Ling Liang finally persuaded Adi Gallia to get out of the way, and when he rushed to the command center, it was already noon the next day.

On April 34, it took two days for the Army of the Fourth Civilization to advance a distance of more than 50 kilometers with difficulty and occupy the energy center of the No. 6 satellite.

But as Ling Liang expected, the Republic directly detonated the energy center!

In the huge explosion, at least one-third of the landing troops died in the sea of ​​flames, and many of the remaining people were directly thrown into outer space in this low-gravity environment, and a considerable part of them were captured by the gravity of the planet Tarastra , being dragged into the gas giant planet.