The Lickers lurking in the darkness became the Republic army's greatest headache. These silent hunters could appear from almost anywhere, then suddenly leap out and attack.
Although the Lickers' claws could not penetrate the Republic clone troopers' combat armor, they could knock soldiers to the ground and then savagely strike at the vulnerable seams in their armor.
And the forces stationed in Fermos City now consisted not only of clone troopers, but also large numbers of local garrison troops from Terminus Planet!
If clone troopers could still form squads and resist on the spot in the face of orbital drops and Lickers in the dark, then these local garrison troops were nothing but a liability.
They panicked in the face of the orbital drops and had no idea what to do. One could often see a unit of over a hundred soldiers scatter like frightened birds after a single assault craft crashed down, fleeing at the first shout without even offering resistance.
And now, less than an hour after the orbital drop operation began, the Fourth Civilization Army had already seized control of more than a third of the city, and the controlled area was still expanding rapidly.
The Republic army could not even find a route to retreat!
That was the power of orbital drops!
If the 6,000 elite soldiers of the Fourth Legion and more than 2,000 Indjori Avenger Type 101s deployed to the battlefield had been placed on the front lines, such progress would have been absolutely impossible.
Because the Clone Army had long established defenses in depth in the western outskirts of Fermos City, along the Fourth Civilization Army's advance route. Aside from using droids to dig trenches, they had also piled up vast quantities of sandbags around buildings, turning them into numerous firepower positions.
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