As Pong Krell was dragged away while clutching that Impeding Assault Tank, the other two Impeding Assault Tanks wreaked devastating destruction within the Clone Army's positions.
These enormous, centipede-shaped tanks seemed built specifically for situations like this. The densely packed blaster cannons all over their bodies fired wildly, leaving virtually no blind spots in their firepower.
The Clone Troopers suffered grievous casualties. Dozens were killed or wounded within mere minutes!
Only then did the Clone Troopers finally find a solution. They used another AT-TE walker as bait. The instant an Impeding Assault Tank raised its body and fired its frontal disintegrator beam at the AT-TE, the Clone Troopers lying in ambush around the walker unleashed a volley of anti-tank rockets!
Dozens of anti-tank rockets directly destroyed the front of that Impeding Assault Tank, where its cockpit was located—and its sole weak point.
After destroying one of them, the Clone Troopers' morale soared. They immediately regrouped and concentrated overwhelming firepower on the last Impeding Assault Tank, finally crippling it and forcing it to burrow back underground to flee.
Just as the Clone Troopers began regrouping and tallying their losses, Pong Krell returned.
"General! Are you all right?" a Clone commander stepped forward and asked.
Pong Krell casually tossed out two spherical objects. They were unmistakably two Umbarians' heads—the drivers of the first Impeding Assault Tank!
Rather than answering the Clone commander directly, he snapped, "Did those three Impeding Assault Tanks attack from the direction of the 212th Attack Battalion? Why did they only send a warning after the attack had begun?!"
"The Umbarians attacked the 212th Attack Battalion's sector with ten times their strength. They were retreating at the time," the Clone commander replied.
"Bastards! Absurd!! Their utterly unwarranted retreat prevented them from detecting the Impeding Assault Tanks in time! This