1655. The adventure of Tagge
Republic Expeditionary Force Commander-in-Chief Major General Cassio-Tagge believed that he had found a loophole in the Annaj Planet defenders, because through his observation, he found that the anti-aircraft firepower in some areas of Annaj Planet lacked persistence.
In other words, after a period of sustained fire, the anti-aircraft firepower in those areas will weaken and holes will appear.
Coupled with the several counterattacks launched by the armored cluster composed of Scorpion tank and Siege Tank at the beginning of the landing, Clone Army, who had finally landed on the surface of the planet, almost caught up with the spacecraft again.
So Cassio-Tagge made a profound summary and analysis of the battle situation, and then he came to a conclusion. He believed that the Separatists defenders on Annaj Planet had insufficient troops and insufficient supplies, which caused such a situation.
He made a bold decision and ordered more transport ships to conduct interspersed landings on the surface of Annaj Planet!
In other words, when there is a gap in the Annaj Planet defenders, you can take every opportunity to directly invest your own troops. This is equivalent to forcing the opponent to continuously divide their troops and then open up multiple fronts. In this way, the shortcomings of Annaj Planet's insufficient troops will be fully exposed.
Cassio-Tagge carefully prepared his tactics. He carefully analyzed every possible landing site, and also studied Annaj Planet's defense layout based on the results of global scans. Finally, he confirmed a series of landing strike plans, which can connect his troops as much as possible while continuously interspersing assaults into the depth of Annaj Planet's defense system.
It has to be said that as a top student in the college, Cassio-Tagge does have two skills, and he did his best in combat deployment. He personally formulated landing plans for hundreds of landing sites, and each of these landing combat areas was what he considered the most critical location for the Annaj Planet defenders.
Cassio-Tagge believes that once they successfully land on these landing grounds and connect their fronts in subsequent battles, Annaj Planet's defense will completely collapse!
In response, his adjutant, Laslo-Dorit, a veteran who had participated in many wars in the Galactic Republic period since Stark Hyperspace War, expressed opposition to this plan.
Laslo-Dorit said that this plan is too risky. Because now on the outer space battlefield, Separatist fleet has not suffered a devastating blow. Although the opponent's Agonev-class star base was severely damaged, the opponent's mobile fleet still exists. Not only that, the tens of thousands of Gauss Defense Platform scattered around the planet have not been cleared yet.
At the same time, their warships have experienced hundreds of mine accidents recently, indicating that the air mines deployed by Separatists are still functioning.
As for air mines, if it is a battleship, the battleship's powerful radar system and fire control system can naturally detect the existence of some air mines, and then use close defense weapons to destroy them. But if it is a transport ship, the transport ship's radar system is not strong, and it is difficult to detect air mines that are obviously equipped with a stealth system.
And even if warships are used to escort, if the close-defense weapons on the warships take care of other transport ships, there will definitely be omissions, and the transport ships themselves do not have much firepower to eliminate air mines.
As a result, unless the number of escort warships is increased, the transport ships will suffer heavy losses.
But if we want to increase the escort force, what about the frontal battlefield in space? What about air support and Orbital Bombardment on the ground?
Although Republic Expeditionary Fleet has a huge force, once there are too many tasks to complete, it will definitely be stretched.
It is necessary to suppress Separatist fleet on the space battlefield to prevent the other party from attacking its own transport ships, it is also necessary to clear Gauss Defense Platform and air mines in space, it is also necessary to cover the landing of transport ships, and once the need arises on the ground battlefield, it is also necessary to carry out Orbital Bombardment and air strike support for ground targets.
The last point is actually very tricky, because the main tactic of Spaarti clone troopers now is to rely on air support rather than the advance of ground armor forces.
Laslo-Dorit said, if General Tagge you really plan to land at more than a hundred landing sites, then on average there will be 20 fighter jets per landing site, which is a full two thousand fighter jets!
Not to mention whether 20 fighter jets are enough for ground support, just moving these fighter jets away and losing them at any time will have a great impact on the strength of other battlefields.
Laslo-Dorit finally suggested that under the current situation, we should not be too anxious to expand the landing front, but should proceed steadily. With the help of Orbital Bombardment, we should first establish about 5 large landing sites and then advance step by step.
Even if Separatists uses their Scorpion tank cluster with fast advancement speed and heavy firepower to launch a counterattack, don't worry, just concentrate on the air force and bomb it.
Cassio-Tagge was quite rational at this time, but after careful consideration, he still rejected Laslo-Dorit's suggestion. He told Dorit that this plan did have merit, but it was not in line with the current war situation.
First of all, as an expeditionary force, they need to obtain a stable forward base as soon as possible, which means they must occupy Annaj Planet as soon as possible. Only in this way can Galactic Republic send more reinforcements.
He analyzed the recent reinforcements and said that in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of this army, fewer warships were sent from the rear, and more transport ships were sent. As for the transport ships that came to deliver supplies, there was Hyperspace Stabilizer when they came here. But when they returned, they had to return from Modell Sector, which was once forcibly opened by Master Yoda and was now unstable.
As of today, there are more than 100 transport ships missing or confirmed to have been torn apart by hyperspace. This is a supply line opened with life!
Therefore, Annaj Planet must be occupied. On the one hand, the planet's own production capacity can be used to solve some supply problems. On the other hand, once Separatists loses its planet, they will not be able to fight in this galaxy for a long time. Next, as long as the remaining Separatists power is eliminated, they can start building another Hyperspace Stabilizer here.
Once the two stabilizers establish two-way communication, the current battle situation will be completely revitalized.
Compared to this, the current plan is just to use the lives of Spaarti clone troopers, which are worthless at all, so what else?
For the sake of saying this, Laslo-Dorit won't say any more.
Cassio-Tagge also began to carry out his combat plan, increase the landing force, and launch landings on dozens of battlefields at the same time!