Boom! Boom!! Violent explosions stretched hundreds of meters down the street! Only after a full minute did the aftershocks finally subside. Huang Yehao shook his head and crawled out of the rubble. Without pausing for anything else, he called over the comms, "Don't stop! Keep attacking!"
Leading two platoons, he weaved through the shattered remains of buildings, still relentlessly pursuing the retreating Republic clone troopers!
Huang Yehao understood very well that whenever the enemy called in airstrikes, that was when they were at their most vulnerable!
And he was equally aware that although the Galactic Republic's air power had held an absolute advantage at the beginning of the campaign, by now it was already running on fumes!
After all, Annaj Planet's ground-based air defenses were no decoration!
The surface-to-air missile positions and anti-aircraft gun emplacements scattered throughout the city and around key firepoints inflicted grievous losses every time a Republic fighter squadron came in to bomb them.
Especially after the fighting had spread into Annaj Planet's capital district, the density of ground-based anti-aircraft fire that Galactic Republic fighters faced during every mission was beyond imagination.
There was also a common misconception that needed correcting: once the enemy began bombing, even an entire city would simply be flattened.
But was that really true? Even without considering advances in building materials, ordinary reinforced-concrete structures would retain at least a skeletal frame even under saturated nuclear bombardment. Fully cast-in-place tubular high-rises could withstand dozens of nuclear bombs head-on and still leave half the structure standing.
Not to mention that within a city, the densely packed buildings would shield one another and weaken the blast waves.
If you used a super nuclear bomb on a single building, there was no question that it could not endure it—it would collapse in one strike. But if