Ten Acclamator-class assault ships and more than a hundred transport ships had long been ready. Escorted by Imperial-class Star Destroyers, they began plunging into Yago-Dul's already thin atmosphere. Hundreds of thousands of Imperial Stormtroopers and Clone Troopers disembarked and charged toward the identified underground entrances.
Almost immediately, dense gunfire erupted through the narrow underground passages!
The Givin had long been waiting in battle formation beneath the planet's surface. Tens of millions of B-1 battle droids stood ready at all times, defending every major underground passage.
In those narrow corridors, armored forces had no room to operate, and heavy firepower was equally useless. Even when the Imperial army attempted to advance with flamethrowers, they ultimately discovered that amid the inferno, high temperatures, and vacuum created by the weapons, the enemy's B-1 battle droids were the ones thriving.
In such confined terrain, rocket launchers became the most effective weapons of mass destruction, and both sides bombarded one another relentlessly with them. Whenever something was spotted ahead, dozens of rockets would be fired first, and only then would the infantry advance slowly.
The efficiency of such combat was easy to imagine.
On the first day after the landing operation began, not a single unit of Imperial Stormtrooper soldiers had even reached the outskirts of any Givin city!
The situation was simply despairing, because the Imperial Army had no choice but to face the most traditional form of frontline warfare: countless soldiers advancing in one continuous line, starting from the border and inching step by step toward the enemy's core.
In truth, after the galaxy entered the interstellar age, this kind of frontline warfare had already been rendered obsolete. As long as orbital control over a planet was secured, ground forces could launch landings directly into the enemy's core and attack their capital or