1063. The day of decisive battle (5)
After the first wave of extremely violent bombing by Fourth Civilization fleet, they had no intention of stopping and continued with the second round of bombing.
At this time, the originally panicked local defenders of the planet had recovered, and they immediately began to organize a counterattack.
Several large orbital defense cannons set up on the planet also began to fire back, trying to drive away the Fourth Civilization warships that were constantly bombing.
At the same time, those fighter formations that had already been moved to the underground hangar and were not damaged in the first wave of bombings also took off and flew directly towards the Fourth Civilization fighter. The two sides launched a fierce air battle in the air.
On the ground, countless anti-aircraft firepower was opened. Laser cannons, machine cannons, blaster cannons, and missiles were fired into the sky, almost setting the sky on fire.
Dense anti-air firepower and anti-ground firepower were intertwined, and countless gunshots, gunfire, and explosions were mixed together, becoming a completely indistinguishable and deafening roar!
There were exploding flames and falling aircraft everywhere, and when the large warship entered the atmosphere, the large Firecloud formed due to friction made the Eriadu night sky glow red!
The anti-aircraft firepower in the planet capital Eri-Xiang City is even more amazing!
This city has been completely built into an indestructible fortress by Wilhuff-Tarkin!
Almost every building has been reinforced, almost every high point is equipped with anti-aircraft turrets, and almost every inch of the sky is covered by anti-aircraft fire.
The resistance in this place was so tenacious that even Commander-in-Chief Fourth Civilization fleet, Sefrans-Admiral Tann had to modify their plans to avoid Eri-Xiang City's airspace and land in the surrounding area.
Eriadu landing battle, in the first minute of the battle, both sides directly played all their cards! No room left at all!
And it can be said that Fourth Civilization fleet's behavior at this moment is basically Orbital Bombardment. No matter how they explain that they have reduced the bombardment power and avoided densely populated areas and agricultural areas, they cannot be whitewashed.
Fourth Civilization fleet's current behavior is trampling on the moral bottom line that everyone once subconsciously abided by.
But Sefrans-Tann no longer cares about this. She has only one goal - to capture Eriadu! As for the rest, she didn't want to care!
In fact, including Galactic Republic himself, both sides of the war have already begun to carry out Orbital Bombardment on some battlefields. Both parties are now a little impatient. Apart from taking a little bit of face into account for publicity, they have basically lost all dignity.
As early as half a year ago, Galactic Republic Army had launched Orbital Bombardment on Atraken Planet. However, this planet was relatively remote, and Galactic Republic's information blockade was very good, so it did not cause much public opinion.
And now, in order to capture Eriadu before the hyperspace storm subsides and Galactic Republic's endless reinforcements arrive, Sefrans-Tann are resorting to all possible means!
Following a completely unreasonable bombing, five Corsev Battlecruisers first entered the Eriadu low-Earth orbit. After entering the predetermined position, a large number of raid landing ships were launched from the 10 landing bays on both sides of the Corsev Battlecruiser!
Since the discovery of this function of Corsev Battlecruiser, and the physical strength of Indjori that does not require much equipment to implement Orbital Drop, Orbital Drop has become a great weapon for Fourth Civilization to conquer the planet.
There is no need to build a landing site, no need to suppress fire, and no need to choose an ideal landing site.
Orbital Drop has only one target—throw it wherever it is fatal!
Thousands of triangular-shaped assault landing ships fell from the sky, hitting the ground like cannonballs, smashing every target they hit.
One of the assault landing ships rushed down from high altitude with flames generated by high-speed movement like a meteor, and hit a building hundreds of meters high like a cannonball, directly smashing through the middle of the building!
boom!! With a loud noise, the assault landing ship hit the ground, leaving a large crater more than ten meters in diameter! Immediately after the hatch opened, Indjori warriors, who was completely intact, howled out and rushed out. They didn't have any combat plan or combat goals. They just charged wherever they saw fire!
They activated their Wing-Flapping Backpack one after another, rose into the air, and rushed towards the defenders' strongholds.
Suddenly there were countless gunshots and screams.
8,000 Indjori warriors launched Orbital Drop in 5 places respectively. These 5 areas are all key areas on Eriadu - including industrial areas, barracks areas, areas close to the capital, and communication centers.
These extremely powerful Indjori do not need any combat goals. They only need one purpose - to cause as much killing and chaos as possible, and then the next wave of landing troops will have better conditions for landing.
And at this time, a separate bay of one of the Corsev Battlecruisers also slowly opened, and an orbital landing bay that was significantly larger than other assault landing ships was sent out of the launch track. The fire control and navigation computers completed calculations in an instant and determined the landing point to be Eri-Xiang City, which had the strongest anti-aircraft firepower and the landing fleet had not dared to get too close until now!
As the orbital landing module began to accelerate on the guide rail, this special guide rail actually used electromagnetic acceleration! This is not like launching a landing module at all, it is completely launching an electromagnetic gun!
With a flash of lightning, the landing module rushed into Eriadu's atmosphere just like Blitz. After being captured by the planet's gravity, Gravitational Acceleration continued to rise.
The speed of the landing module quickly reached hypersonic speed, and the anti-aircraft firepower on the ground was launched mindlessly, but the interception efficiency was not high. This landing module occupies a separate bay of Corsev Battlecruiser. It is very heavily armored and is even equipped with Deflector Shield!
Finally, the riddled landing module successfully landed and crashed into several buildings.
Ground defense forces immediately surrounded the landing module, and even two TX-130 Saber hover tanks rushed to the scene immediately.
Suddenly, several connections in the landing module suddenly exploded, an animalistic roar was heard, and a huge black shadow jumped out!
This is a 3-meter-tall humanoid creature with indescribably developed muscles. It also wears ferocious armor made of extremely heavy alloy.
It's the Enlightener! Das-Malthael mixed the teacher Casal Fogg from Kessel with Sith Alchemy and Drayer Virus to create Sith Alchemical Beast!
This taboo, which was sealed in the deepest part of the temple by Jedi Order and was absolutely not allowed to be touched by anyone, was developed by Das-Malthael and was once again thrown into the war with Galactic Republic!
After 4000 years, Sith Alchemical Beast appears again!
If the Enlightener was just trying its best in the Terminus Planet battle last time, then this time, the Enlightener was directly thrown into Eri-Xiang City, the most heavily defended Eriadu, and this was the moment when it went on a killing spree!
"Roar!!!!" The Enlightener let out a terrifying roar, then jumped up high and landed directly on a TX-130 Saber tank, smashing the tank directly from the suspended state to the ground.
Then it raised its hands and hammered hard, boom!!!
With just one punch, this TX-130 Saber tank was flattened! Even if this kind of tank is not known for its armor and protective capabilities, it is completely unimaginable to be destroyed by one punch.
The surrounding Galactic Republic soldiers immediately opened fire, but Blaster rifle's attack was completely ignored by the Enlightener. It was agile, powerful, and invulnerable. It ran rampant in the hail of bullets, and another TX-130 Saber hover tank was also destroyed.
The Enlightener swept across with a punch, and more than a dozen soldiers were immediately knocked away by its punch! Then it howled and broke through the siege, then rushed straight into the depths of the city.
At the same time, with the successful landing of the Orbital Drop force, under the command of the Major General of the Army Ling Liang commanded in low-Earth orbit, the main force of the Fourth Civilization Army finally launched a full-scale landing operation!
The C-9979 transport ship and Diamond-class multi-purpose transport cruiser arrived on the planet accompanied by a burning Firecloud. There were a large number of Vulture droid fighter and Wraith fighter escorts surrounding the battleship. They flew towards the ground before the air force of Eriadu took shape.
Wilhuff-Governor Tarkin's combat strategy is to break up its air force and armor into parts and deploy them in underground bunkers to try to escape the first wave of Fourth Civilization fleet's Orbital Bombardment.
This strategy was successful. He did save many armored units and fighter formations, but the disadvantage was that when Fourth Civilization launched a full-scale attack, it would take some time for these troops to regroup.
In contrast, Fourth Civilization's fleet can directly exert its most powerful power immediately.
First, the fastest APOD-33 transport aircraft landed on the ground under air cover. The hatch was opened, and Fourth Civilization Army soldiers in combat uniforms rushed out quickly. They entered the predetermined position while firing and began to clear the Galactic Republic defenders bit by bit, establishing a relatively safe landing site.
This transport aircraft from "StarCraft" technology is one of the earliest spacecraft models that Fourth Civilization can build, and has been in stable service for more than ten years. Now Fourth Civilization Engineering Department and Tyran Heavy Industries are planning to replace them with follow-up models, medical transport aircraft.
But before that, the APOD-33 transport aircraft still plays an important role in every battle.
The C-9979 transport ship also quickly flew down, the hatch opened, and MTT troop transport loaded with B-1 combat robots drove out, dropping a large number of robot troops to join the battle.
Hardcell-class interstellar transport landed in a relatively safe and rear position, and driving out were Siege Tank, War Wolf Mech, Goliath Mech, and M-650 Mammoth Armored Personnel Carrier Heavy armored units including, as well as a large number of Warthog armored off-road vehicles, M-9 Wolverine half-track air defense Chariot, Vulture Vehicle and other light armored units.
Engineering SCVs also appeared on the landing site, and they immediately began to build bunkers, temporary bunkers, and air defense towers to provide more support for the landing troops.
With a piercing mechanical roar, Siege Tank entered the predetermined position and unfolded its bracket. Two 90mm heavy cannons merged to become a powerful 180mm caliber plasma howitzer. Then with a deafening sound, powerful plasma grenades were fired towards the Galactic Republic position dozens of kilometers away.
The combat plan of the Fourth Civilization Army landing force is unfolding in an orderly manner. They are launching a landing around the administrative center of Eriadu, Eri-Xiang City.
But for a planet the size of Eriadu, directly besieging the capital is actually very radical and risky. After all, the planet's capital must have very strong defenses, guarded by the most elite troops, and once the capital is attacked, reinforcements from other areas will gradually arrive, which will form a counter-siege situation.
However, Fourth Civilization did not have time to slowly attack other areas of the planet. They first let Indjori attack several important locations around Eri-Xiang City through Orbital Drop, and then immediately launched a landing.
The goal is to strive to capture Eri-Xiang City within one month. Once Eri-Xiang City is captured, the resistance in other areas of the planet will weaken a lot, and in the next few months, the entire planet can be further occupied.
This goal seems impossible, but the current situation of Eriadu is no longer a secret. For this planet that has already experienced famine and riots, Ling Liang has also formulated a very careful plan.
The core of it is the very chaotic order on Eriadu.
In order to resist the invasion of Fourth Civilization, Governor Tarkin has basically turned this planet into a military-controlled planet, sacrificing the survival rights of other civilians to ensure the combat effectiveness of its own army during the siege.
There were even rumors that some of his troops were cannibals!
After Fourth Civilization's landing force gained a foothold, they immediately launched a propaganda offensive. It began to airdrop food and weapons in some cities, and broadcast slogans calling on everyone to stand up and resist the rule of Tarkin.
They claimed that there were mountains of food in Republic army's barracks. As long as these barracks were captured, the food inside would belong to everyone!
Civilians cannot defeat the regular army? It doesn't matter, our Fourth Civilization army is here! There is a righteous robot army! As long as you join it, you have the possibility to defeat Galactic Republic!
Tanks and cannons on the ground, fighter jets in the sky, and battleships in low-Earth orbit, these are all manifestations of the power of Fourth Civilization! Defeat Galactic Republic, occupy the city, and grab food!
This kind of propaganda is actually very effective. After Eriadu experienced riots and famine during this period, the civilians' recognition of Galactic Republic and Governor Tarkin has dropped to the lowest level. They want Galactic Republic to die and Tarkin to die!
Riots began to appear again in many cities on the planet, and even some armies formally surrendered! Many of these armies were originally recruiting soldiers, and they joined the army just to have a good meal. Now they have no reason to work hard for Galactic Republic!
Fourth Civilization's power is further enhanced on Eriadu.
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