1045.Second Battle of the Modell Sector (1)
Time: 21BBY, June 27th.
Location: Outer Rim of the galaxy, Western Reaches, Modell Region, Zuma Sector, Kuna Cluster, Kuna's Tooth Planet outer track.
20 Hunter Class Battlecruisers are moving in orbit outside the planet. They perform their respective duties and begin to clean up the Gauss automatic defense platforms set up on the periphery of the planet, and start deploying a blockade defense line using the planet's equator as the baseline.
The main gun group under the Hunter Class bridge continued to fire, and the blue Turbolaser beams continued to shoot out, causing ripples on the Gauss weapon platform shield. Then the shield shattered, and after violent explosions, the weapon platform decomposed into countless fragments.
Galactic Republic Navy officers and soldiers are now very familiar with this widely used Gauss weapon platform Fourth Civilization. This kind of weapon platform is a disgusting thing - it is small and has no maneuverability. It has two 500mm caliber heavy electromagnetic cannons, two 8-link missile launchers, and two close-in defense laser cannons.
The firepower of these weapon platforms is simply insignificant for a large battleship of the Hunter Class Battlecruiser level, but if there are too many, it will be very annoying.
Especially later, Fourth Civilization upgraded the target downlink and networked the fire control systems of Gauss weapon platform around all the planets, which made them a greater threat. Sometimes the combat computers of these weapon platforms would even directly use the two main guns to lock on the fighter jets!
And don't tell me, under the coordinated control of those advanced central control hosts built on the planet, the Galactic Republic fighter pilot will really be hit accidentally. Once these overloaded 1,000-G, 1.8-ton shells are hit, the fighter jet will fall apart and not even a single part can be retrieved.
And this kind of weapon platform is actually very cheap to build. It is mainly made of outdated technology, and all the advanced gadgets are in the ground command center. So now there are basically 3 to 400 Gauss weapon platforms around the planet controlled by Fourth Civilization. Some core planets, such as Hoth Planet, are even densely packed with thousands of them!
The ammunition load of each Gauss Defense Platform is not high, with 20 electromagnetic artillery shells, 48 missiles and two sets of laser batteries. Anyway, if you can throw out all these ammunition during the battle, it will be a victory.
Of course, the naval officers and soldiers of Galactic Republic have also figured out countermeasures. They usually do not take off fighter jets, but directly attack with warships. It may take a little more time, but they can always clean up these weapon platforms with almost no damage.
Now, more than 400 Gauss weapon platforms outside Kuna's Tooth Planet are gradually being cleared, and then after a gap appears in the defense line, Republic fleet launches a landing operation.
Because there is no Acclamator-class assault ship, it is still very troublesome for Republic fleet to land. They must let Hunter Class Battlecruiser enter the atmosphere, and then use a large number of LAAT assault transport to repeatedly transport troops.
Therefore, the first two Hunter Classs to enter the atmosphere carried almost no army. They were loaded with hundreds of LAAT assault transports and an equal number of fighter jets. After entering the atmosphere, they released all fighter jets to seize air superiority, and let all LAATs fly out to bomb ground targets under the cover of fighter jets.
After that, Hunter Class fully loaded with Clone Trooper will continue to enter the atmosphere, and then those LAATs that stayed in the atmosphere first will transport soldiers to the ground to form positions.
Letting the warship land directly on the ground is an option that is simply impossible to consider. Just the consumption of repeatedly entering and exiting the atmosphere is enough to give Republic fleet commander Xiost a burst of physical pain, let alone landing and taking off again, the energy consumed is almost 5 times that of entering and exiting the atmosphere!
On Kuna's Tooth Planet, Fourth Civilization Modell Sector legion's army finally put up a very determined resistance.
A large number of Vulture droid fighter rose into the sky, competing with Republic fleet for air control in the atmosphere. And the anti-aircraft firepower deployed on the planet was also in full force. Countless missiles, lasers and artillery fired continuously into the sky. Countless explosions and flames almost illuminated the entire sky red.
There is only one orbital defense cannon on the planet, and it is constantly firing at Republic fleet outside the atmosphere. This is also the main target of Republic army.
Hunter Class Battlecruiser, which entered the atmosphere, flew directly against the anti-aircraft firepower on the planet's surface, and used the battleship's main gun to continuously bomb the position of the orbital defense cannon, and finally completely destroyed the cannon. The battleship's shields were also severely hit by ground fire, and it had to climb back out of the atmosphere in an emergency.
On Kuna's Tooth Planet, Fourth Civilization Modell Sector legion's resistance is crazy! They knew very well that Republic fleet's ability to project ground power was limited, so they organized a quick reaction force, riding in a transport spacecraft modified from a cargo ship. As soon as they found Republic army landing somewhere, they would immediately rush over and attack Republic clone army with an absolute numerical advantage.
Master Yoda responded immediately. He sent an additional ARC-170 fighter squadron from the warships in outer orbit to enter the atmosphere, and then conducted concentrated bombing on the airport and space port on Kuna's Tooth Planet, aiming to destroy the opponent's global delivery capability. Then he concentrated his forces to establish a stable landing site 300 kilometers away from the planet capital Black Horn City, and concentrated his forces to first gain a foothold.
This strategy achieved very good results. After a quick reaction force of Modell Sector legion exchanged fire with Republic clone army, their transport ship was destroyed by an ARC-170 heavy fighter jet that suddenly fell from the sky. As a result, they themselves became a lone force and were completely defeated by Republic clone army, which continued to receive air support, suffering heavy casualties.
After destroying all the airports and spaceports on at least the surface of Kuna's Tooth Planet, Black Horn City became an isolated city. Although there are still a large number of troops on the planet, they lack transportation power and cannot come for reinforcements in a short time. At this time, the number of the Clone Army who landed has also increased to 20,000, and they began to launch a counterattack against Modell Sector army who came to attack.
The clone troops once again exerted extremely strong combat effectiveness. Even though the number of Modell Sector army who gathered here to try to attack them while they were not stable was close to 50,000, they still held their position firmly and completely defeated the opponent in only 2 hours after launching a counterattack.
Modell Sector's army collapsed, with more than 15,000 casualties and casualties, and the rest basically surrendered.
At this moment, a dazzling white light suddenly flashed from the outside of Kuna's Tooth Planet, and then a fleet jumped out of hyperspace and came here.
The main fleet in the hands of Volgograd-Kanidi finally appeared!