1397.Dexen Meat Grinder (3)
The firefight on Dexen Satellite can no longer be described as tragic. In this hell on earth, hundreds of people die every minute in this cold Steel City, but every minute thousands more people are thrown into this hell that has swallowed up countless lives.
Galactic Republic, relying on the strength of its numbers, has launched its landing operation in full swing. They released thousands of LAAT assault transports, departed from the fleet, broke into the atmosphere of Dexen Satellites, then landed on the ground, and put a large number of soldiers into this huge meat grinder.
All the more than 200 large and small transport ships are not idle. These spacecrafts constantly shuttle between the logistics base on Onderon and Dexen Satellite, sending huge amounts of logistics materials to several large transit transport ships in space, and then send them to Dexen Satellite.
And on the surface of Dexen Satellite, Republic army has also established a foothold in several locations. Although Separatists used Siege Tank to bombard these landing sites indiscriminately, there are too many Republic army.
As Republic army soldiers continued to attack the shield, the battle began to turn into a more brutal close combat.
Behind the army position established by Galactic Republic, more than a dozen SPHA-T self-propelled Turbolaser guns have been deployed. This is the heavy unit that Republic Air Force used their lives to protect them from landing.
As the SPHA-T-shaped Turbolaser gun completes charging, this 140.2-meter-long super-heavy ground heavy gun lifts the more than 150-meter-long super Turbolaser gun barrel on its back, and then points it in the direction of the city shield and fires directly!
The thick beam of light illuminated the city shield, causing an extremely violent ripple of energy.
That's right, irradiation! SPHA-T's heavy Turbolaser cannon is even better than the XX-9 heavy Turbolaser cannon used on Galactic Republic Star Destroyer in terms of energy efficiency ratio. This Turbolaser cannon can even fire Turbolaser continuously, which is equivalent to continuously pouring ionized explosive gas on the target while continuously irradiating it.
It is equivalent to continuous irradiation plus continuous explosion.
However, this kind of weapon requires the design of a specialized large-scale energy core, and the maximum range is not ideal, so it is not suitable for use on large warships. But when mounted on a super-heavy walker and used as a ground weapon, it can be said to be a super-terrible weapon!
To make an analogy, if SPHA-T were given the legion-level energy shield used by Battle of Naboo and Gungan 12 years ago, it would only take one shot to break that shield. Among Battle of Geonosis, the 1029-meter-diameter spherical core spacecraft of Luukri-Hok-class battleship was unable to withstand the fire of several SPHA-Ts!
The power of this land-based weapon is evident!
Under the continuous bombardment of more than a dozen SPHA-T self-propelled Turbolaser cannons, the city-level shield of Steel City finally began to loosen, and gaps began to appear in some places. Taking advantage of this opportunity, some Republic fighter squadron took the opportunity to fly into the city and carried out suicide bombings on those anti-aircraft firepower points.
Although these fighter jets were all shot down quickly, the Proton Torpedo they had previously launched even exploded when they fell, destroying some anti-aircraft turrets.
This is the first loss of anti-aircraft firepower within Steel City since the war began.
And the attacks on the ground were non-stop. The Galactic Republic Army soldiers almost stepped on the corpses in front of them, layer upon layer, layer upon layer, and finally piled the corpses within the scope of the city-level shield!
In order to clear a path among countless corpses, Republic Army Commander even installed a shovel in front of some AT-TE walkers to shovel the corpses aside to reveal a walkable road.
After Wilhuff-Tarkin issued the order to launch a landing attack, in the following four hours of brutal fighting, the number of casualties among Galactic Republic natural soldiers was - 470,000!
Equivalent to one-twentieth of the total strength of the entire legion!
What limits the further expansion of this number to a terrifying level is actually the lack of Galactic Republic landing capacity.
That's right, under Steel City's crazy defense, even if one million people are thrown down, the result will only be one million corpses!
So much so that after many Galactic Republic troops landed, many of them refused to move forward when they saw the corpses on the ground. However, the Republic's army had already planned for this. All troops who refused to advance would have their commanders shot on the spot, and all soldiers were threatened. If they refused to participate in the war, the Republic could not guarantee the future living conditions of their families.
This is equivalent to a naked threat!
If they still refuse to participate in the war, what awaits them is the crazy firing of the E-WEB heavy blaster machine gun that has been set up!
However, as Steel City's city-level shield begins to be overwhelmed by the continuous attacks, and more and more Galactic Republic troops rush through the shield range and fighter groups enter the shield to bomb, this terrible casualty number will gradually decrease.
But it's still a very scary number!
However, as the war situation has developed to this point, Wilhuff-Tarkin has already given up. He has only one idea now - to completely plow Dexen Satellite to the ground! The sooner the better!
The tide of Galactic Republic soldiers roared and rushed towards Steel City, and then fell in pieces under the endless firepower.
Immediately afterwards, another wave of Galactic Republic soldiers continued to rush over! There is almost no stopping.
At this moment, the capital of Onderon is Izzy City.
All hospitals were filled with hundreds of thousands of wounded people in an instant, and spaceships carrying a large number of wounded people continued to land.
Hospital beds have long been occupied, doctors are overwhelmed, and even many medical robots have malfunctioned and damaged due to continuous operation.
Walking into the hospital, screams and wails could be heard endlessly. Corridors, balconies, and even toilets were filled with wounded people. There are also a large number of nurse robots floating among the wounded. All wounded who are judged by these robots to have a survival probability of less than 30% will be discarded as dead, leaving beds and medical resources to those with a higher chance of survival.
Yes, within these hospitals, there is another hell.
Although Galactic Republic's transport fleet is also arranging spacecraft to send some wounded people to other galaxies for treatment, there are too many people after all. A large number of injured people had no life at all and died in a corner of the hospital when rescue arrived. Here, being able to die on the hospital bed is a luxury.
Onderon has become a meat grinder devouring countless lives!