1400, Dexen Meat Grinder (4)
Hearing Tarkin's words, the adjutant suddenly realized, "So that's it, then So-Gerrera is a scapegoat? And the reason why you rejected So-Gerrera's proposal and kept Royal Guard is so that we can get more support when we kill him as the scapegoat later?"
Wilhuff-Tarkin said with a childish expression, "I'm glad you finally understood my intention, that's good."
"The Governor is still far-sighted." The adjutant quickly flattered him, "When the time comes, as long as we say a word, those Royal Guards will immediately send up So-Gerrera's heads... Hahahaha."
But Tarkin immediately looked solemn and said, "Now that you know it, put away all your illusions! Capture Dexen Satellite as soon as possible! Let this battle come to an end as soon as possible! We need to reorganize our offensive, concentrate our forces where the breakthrough has been achieved, and then form enough depth within the city shield!"
"Yes!"
The battle on Dexen Satellite is still going on. Under the continuous bombing by Republic Fleet and the army, the city-level shield of Steel City has almost reached its limit. The shields in many places have begun to show gaps due to insufficient charging.
With the most extreme and accurate assistance of the navigation robot, the Galactic Republic fighter pilots rushed into the city while the city shield was flashing, and then in the last few seconds before they were shot down, they launched everything that could be launched on their fighter jets!!
Steel City's air defense firepower points began to suffer losses. Once losses occurred, gaps appeared in the dense fire network. Under this situation, Galactic Republic's air power had more room to move.
Of the ten huge orbital defense cannons around the city, two have been captured by the Galactic Republic Army's continuous attacks. Before the battle reached the end, the combat robot also detonated the bomb installed on the huge energy core of the orbital defense cannon, and died together with the Republic Army.
After the Galactic Republic Army experienced an initial comprehensive siege that lasted nearly half a day, it also made adjustments based on the offensive conditions launched at dozens of landing points.
Under the meticulous command of Wilhuff-Tarkin, Republic Army began to abandon those landing points that suffered heavy losses and made poor progress due to heavy artillery attacks by Separatists, and then focused on launching attacks in the remaining nine directions.
These nine directions were also the directions from which Galactic Republic Army was finally able to break into the shield range after suffering a large number of casualties.
However, in order to achieve such a result, more than 700,000 Galactic Republic soldiers have been buried here.
On the Onderon battlefield, countless corpses piled up almost like mountains. As for these corpses, Separatists's side were basically combat robots, so it didn't matter. However, Galactic Republic's side had to use various methods to dispose of these corpses as much as possible.
Since the war began, too many people have died.
Some of the corpses were disposed of on the spot on Dexen Planet, and were thrown into the lava pits and volcanoes previously exploded by Orbital Bombardment like garbage and burned directly. There are also some wounded people who died on the Onderon, usually several cremation pits are established on the outskirts of the city for unified treatment.
After that, Galactic Republic's continuous offensive slowed down a bit, then reorganized his troops, and then launched an overwhelming attack again!
However, this time, the situation suddenly changed!
Separatist army, who had been just passively defensive, suddenly showed his terrifying fangs!
Scorpion tank!!
More than 400 Scorpion tank, under the cover of more than 100 M-9 Wolverine air defense assault vehicles, drove out of the underground garage of Steel City, and then drove directly towards the rear of Republic army!
At this moment, Galactic Republic Army is focusing its offensive in nine directions, but this also means that there are gaps that cannot be controlled between these places.
And Scorpion tank cluster launched a penetration attack from these gaps!
It should be said that the command of Wilhuff-Tarkin is correct. After all, Steel City is a super giant city with a radius of more than 500 kilometers, and it is also a fortress city. Even if Galactic Republic has an army of 7 million, it is impossible to continuously launch an all-out attack on this front with a circumference of one or two thousand kilometers. It is completely correct to concentrate its forces on assaults in certain directions.
However, Governor Tarkin, who wanted to end the battle as soon as possible, was blinded by Separatists's passive attitude. He focused all his attention on how to launch an attack, but he did not expect that General Kalani always held a counterattack force in his hands.
Scorpion tank!
Since the analysis of this tank was completed and it entered the equipment sequence of the Fourth Civilization Army, it quickly became Army General's favorite equipment. Not only because of the excellent performance of Scorpion tank, but also because the production cost is low enough and the production process is not difficult.
This means that even an ordinary industrial planet will have enough capacity to mass-produce Scorpion tank.
Originally, Army General did not need to be concerned about production, but the low cost of Scorpion tank directly resulted in these generals being able to easily obtain a large enough tank cluster.
Who doesn't love such a tank?
The same is true for Dexen Satellite. After receiving the information that Galactic Republic was about to invade, in addition to evacuating the original Behemoth-class battlecruiser production line, another important task was to convert part of the production line to produce Scorpion tank.
In a few months, this factory group that manufactures thousand-meter-class battleships produced hundreds of Scorpion tank.
And now, these tanks hit Wilhuff-Tarkin directly in the face!
More than 400 Scorpion tanks were divided into several directions and resolutely interspersed. In order to complete such a complex tactical maneuver, the crew of these Scorpion tanks were all Fourth Civilization Armys, not just B-1 combat robots!
Scorpion tank cluster directly cut off the supply lines between several Republic Army troops and the rear landing site, forcing these Republic army troops to retreat to defend, or even withdraw from the shield range they had finally penetrated.
After that, these Scorpion tank directly attacked the artillery position set up by Galactic Republic more than ten kilometers away!
After the frustrated Wilhuff-Tarkin concentrated fighter formations bombarded these Scorpion tanks and finally forced Scorpion tank cluster to retreat, the several artillery positions they set up were in a mess.
Five of the precious SPHA-T self-propelled Turbolaser guns were destroyed by this assault!
You must know that the cost of such an expensive weapon is comparable to that of a battleship, and the cost is only double digits in the entire galaxy!