1395.Dexen Meat Grinder (1)
Hundreds of transport ships dived towards Dexen Satellite and entered the planet's atmosphere. The thick clouds were instantly left behind, and the 500-kilometer radius Steel City on the ground was extremely conspicuous!
And the moment the clouds disappeared, only countless artillery fires were seen wildly fired from the ground! At this moment, the countless firelights made it almost impossible to see anything!
The sky is filled with fragments and barrages like black clouds, blood-red lasers, and missiles with tail flames. The entire sky is almost airtight, and there is no gap left!
In addition to these deadly fire nets, there are countless fighter jets flying around, seizing any opportunity to rush down and bomb the light blue city-level shield.
This steel city is equipped with an extremely expensive one-way shield. Only attacks from the outside in will be intercepted, while attacks from the inside out will not be affected. This is also the reason why General Kalani dares to organize the final resistance here.
The anti-aircraft guns on the ground are completely densely arranged. If a person walks to the street of Steel City at this moment, he can only see towering anti-aircraft guns everywhere!
The hemispherical 30mm caliber six-barreled Electromagnetic Cannon has a 3-meter-high turret. Under the command of Fire Control Radar, the turret rotates rapidly. The rotation angle can exceed 30 degrees per second, and it continuously rotates to attack targets at a speed as fast as wind. The six gun barrels rotated at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye, and the sound of the cannon firing was continuous, shooting wildly at a rate of hundreds of rounds per second!
Hundreds of rounds per second of the 30mm caliber cannon are all based on proximity fuses and delayed explosion fuses. Even if it cannot hit directly, each shell can directly explode when it senses the target within the attack range to produce a fragmentation attack. If it does not hit the target, it will directly explode at a fixed height to form a fragmentation barrage.
There are also quadruple anti-aircraft laser cannons. This turret is 5 meters high, with a rapid-fire laser cannon installed on four mantis-like cantilevers on both sides. Compared with the 30mm six-barreled Electromagnetic Cannon, this anti-aircraft laser cannon emphasizes point-to-point attack. Fire Control Radar After locking the target, the four laser cannons fire in unison, burning the target into a ball of fire within a few seconds!
In addition, a large number of anti-aircraft Missile Turret were also deployed. Although this Missile Turret is technology from "StarCraft", the structure is actually very simple, and all the technical content is in the fire control system and missiles. The Longbow II anti-aircraft missile, which were ignored after being launched and could switch their attack targets midway, were launched densely into the sky, making the already crowded sky even more chaotic.
Not to mention there are a large group of combat robots on the ground, including B-1 combat robots, B-2 super combat robots and Destroyer droid. They also aim their weapons at the sky and fire wildly.
Even under the protection of the shield, none of the firepower and explosions could fall into Steel City, but the flames of countless anti-aircraft firepower also illuminated the entire city in red!
But no matter how those Galactic Republic fighter groups bombarded them, Steel City's city-level shield remained extremely strong. Under the cover of the shield, the crazy anti-aircraft firepower poured out its own firepower unbridled. In the factories in the city, countless automated machines are constantly producing various missiles and energy capacitors. The missiles, which are still warm, are sent to the air defense positions, then ignited and launched, and finally explode on a certain Galactic Republic fighter jet.
Galactic Republic's transport ships have tried their best to penetrate the defense. They really want to land directly inside the city and launch landing operations directly in the center. However, if they want to enter the range of the city shield, they must reduce their own speed to below the shield reaction speed threshold. Otherwise, they will be attacked by the shield's magnetic field as a weapon and be directly blocked from the outside.
Such a result is equivalent to the spacecraft hitting a red-hot iron wall.
However, the speed threshold of this city-level energy shield has been calculated by Republic warship's central computer. Not surprisingly, Separatists directly adjusted the speed threshold of the shield to the lowest gear, making it almost impossible for the aircraft to pass.
Anyway, they no longer have fighter jets, all they have are ground air defense forces. In fact, all the fighter jets have been exhausted in the battles on the outer orbital armed space station and the surface of Onderon in the previous few days of fighting.
Therefore, the only thing Galactic Republic's transport ship can do is fly to the periphery of the city-level shield, put down the landing troops, and advance on the ground.
"Quick! Quick! Get off the ship as soon as possible! Don't stay! Don't stay!!" An officer shouted hysterically to the soldiers in the cabin, and then drove them to swarm off the ship and leave the ship as soon as possible so that the ship could take off as soon as possible.
boom!! There was a violent explosion not far away! I only saw a transport ship being hit by Separatists's long-range firepower, and it was suddenly blown into a burning fireball in the explosion! Countless spaceship fragments fell from the sky, and there were even more broken limbs! All from those Galactic Republic soldiers who didn't have time to get off the ship!
Seeing this terrifying scene, the Galactic Republic soldiers did not dare to stay for a second and hurriedly ran towards the bottom of the spacecraft.
There were more soldiers who had landed before, rushing forward desperately, firing wildly with all the weapons they could use, without taking any aim at all - there was no need to aim anyway. A few kilometers away from them, a light blue light curtain blocked all incoming firepower.
boom! boom!! A large number of powerful artillery shells are constantly falling from the city. This is the Siege Tank heavy-duty multi-function howitzer!
"Quick! Quick! Forward! If you stay here, you will only wait for death!" The officer was still shouting loudly. He pushed the shoulders of every soldier who passed in front of him to ask them to speed up.
The transport ship behind him was preparing to take off, but suddenly, a shell fell from the sky and hit the transport ship directly! There was a loud bang, and the transport ship, which had just risen less than 10 meters, was instantly hit to the ground by the huge impact of the shell, and at the same time, a violent explosion instantly set off!
The soldiers who were slightly closer to the transport ship were immediately blown away by the explosion. The officer was blown more than ten meters away by the explosion, and his body was almost twisted into a twist by the powerful force.
"Come on!!!" This hell-like scene stimulated the Galactic Republic soldiers. They also let out a burst of hysterical and courageous shouts of killing and charged in the direction of Steel City.
The transport planes are still landing, placing armored vehicles on the ground one after another.
Before the AT-TE walker even got off the transport plane, the anti-infantry scattering laser cannon in front was already firing. On the giant cannon behind it, the gunner was already in place, and he fired one shot without any need to aim.
The powerful shells of the heavy howitzer exploded into fireballs tens of meters in diameter on the city shield.
Galaxy Republic army has learned well now. Seeing that Separatist army of Dawn Star Planet is often mixed with live ammunition and Energy Weapons, they also follow suit. Now the heavy howitzers on the AT-TE's back are all equipped with high-explosive live ammunition. This is to cause more kinetic damage to Dawn Star Planet's shield.
Around Steel City, Galactic Republic established more than ten landing sites and launched fierce attacks from different directions.