Boom! Boom! Boom!!! Heavy artillery shells fired from behind the Galactic Republic's lines kept raining down, each barrage inflicting devastating destruction across an area more than a hundred meters wide!
The AT-TE walkers and AV-7 self-propelled artillery fired off virtually their entire stockpile of shells as though ammunition cost nothing.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!! Galactic Republic fighter formations swept low across the skies, launching wave after wave of bombardments against the ground with blaster cannons and aerial bombs!
Those highly conspicuous OG-9 Nest Spider battle mechs and the Semirians' superheavy tanks, more than thirty meters long, received especially focused attention from the air forces.
The ground-based anti-aircraft guns and missiles were also firing frantically, but against a fighter swarm numbering more than 4,000 aircraft, they were nothing more than a drop in the bucket.
Nearly every factory on Semirres Planet was working around the clock to produce all kinds of anti-aircraft guns and missiles. However, transporting them from elsewhere on the planet to the Capital District still took a long time, especially when Republic fighters would bomb them along the way.
Most Republic fighter formations took off from Hunter Class Battlecruisers in space before entering the atmosphere directly for combat. When they needed supplies, they either landed at temporary airfields in the rear or flew first into Acclamator-class assault ships hovering in midair, using them as transit points before returning to space.
Even though General Trench commanded his fleet to launch savage assaults against every Republic warship that came near, he still had his reservations.
After Republic Navy Admiral Davis suffered several losses to Behemoth-class battlecruisers at the beginning of the battle, he began employing an entirely different tactical approach.
He gathered all the medium-sized high-speed warships under his command, including Kallak-class light cruisers and Aquitenes-class light cruisers, and formed a