1662. General ground attack
After some tossing, Galactic Republic Expeditionary Force Commander Cassio-Tagge once again assembled an assault fleet of 60 battleships and began to launch a fierce attack on Annaj Planet!
This attack indeed verified what Volgograd-Kanidi said before. Even though Galactic Republic is now distracted by a considerable part of its attention on landing operations, their strength is still incomparable to Duchy of Dawn's defense fleet.
60 capital ships brazenly broke through the Duchy of Dawn's fleet defenses, approached the planet's low-Earth orbit and began to Orbital Bombardment the ground battlefield!
This time Orbital Bombardment did not last long and did not use maximum power, but it still caused a devastating blow to Kati City region. Almost the entire city was engulfed in a sea of fire! In the burning city, Licker running around and covered in fire could be seen everywhere, and then they were blown to pieces by a new round of bombing.
The supply team that passed through Kati City was also completely destroyed during the bombing.
Immediately afterwards, under the cover of a large number of fighter jets, Galactic Republic once again sent a large number of transport ships to land on the surface of the planet.
At the same time, a Acclamator-class assault ship was also moving towards Kati City region in the atmosphere, preparing to hover above that airspace to provide fire support.
CSS-1 Republic-class transport ship landed one after another, opened the hatch, and a large number of Spaarti clone troopers filed out, regrouped to form a formation, and then spread out to expand the control area in the surrounding direction.
In fact, these Spaarti clone troopers, in terms of the number of soldiers who landed and the quality of equipment, are completely unable to compare with the Kaminoan clone troopers in its heyday. Of course, the former is more, and the latter is directly a beggar's version.
Not many of them can take LAAT assault transport for rapid airborne landing, and there are also very few armored troops accompanying the landing. Most of them directly fill the cabin of the CSS-1 transport ship, then land directly, and drive them out of the cabin like ducks.
But it is undeniable that there are enough of them.
Cassio-Tagge made up their minds to reunite the Kati City region front, and directly invested 4 Clone Army and more than 38,000 people in this direction!
Moreover, the combat goal of these troops is not to blockade, but to stabilize their landing site as a strategic rear and immediately prepare to attack in the direction of Annaj Planet's capital.
Everything is just waiting for the order from Major General Cassio-Tagge!
20BBY, July 34, the 8th day after the Annaj Planet ground battle started, Cassio-Tagge issued the general offensive order!
Around Annaj Planet's capital, in addition to the east and southeast battlefields that had been suffering counterattacks and could not successfully close the front, Galactic Republic divided its troops into nine groups and launched a full-scale attack from several other directions!
Total strength, 170,000! It's all Clone Trooper!
There are three Acclamator-class assault ship floating in the sky, providing fixed aerial fire support in three directions.
In the higher outer orbit of the planet, Cassio-Tagge also gathered the power of 80 battleships to launch an assault on the synchronous orbit above the planet's capital!
Once these battleships enter geostationary orbit, they will Orbital Bombardment the capital area!
In addition to the warships in this direction, there are more than 140 warships scattered in several other directions to ensure smooth transportation at the landing site.
And there are a total of 220 battleships, all of which are capital ships!
Duchy of Dawn's resistance is crazy! Under the command of Volgograd-Kanidi, Duchy of Dawn assembled 40 capital ships and 110 small and medium-sized warships to launch a crazy counterattack.
Although the number of Duchy of Dawn fleet is small, the command ability of Volgograd-Kanidi is very outstanding. Under his command, Duchy of Dawn fleet constantly changed targets, or divided into small fleets to continuously harass Galactic Republic's transport fleet, destroying their transport ships carrying supplies, or gathered together to strongly block Republic warship who was trying to break into synchronous orbit to carry out Orbital Bombardment.
In such a melee, Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser shines. This kind of heavily armored battle patrol has almost become a nightmare for Republic warship on the battlefield. They have powerful firepower and thick armor. Whenever a battle starts, they will rush into the Republic fleet formation first, causing a lot of damage.
If the number of Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser was not only 10, Republic fleet would not be able to resist it!
Even if there are 30 Hell Angel-class, the Cassio-Tagge fleet with Hunter Class Battlecruiser as the main force does not even dare to think about planet-synchronous orbit!!
And in fact, the Galactic Republic spaceships that are most afraid of Hell Angel-class are undoubtedly those transport ships. Once the transport fleet is found by Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser, then Hell Angel-class will directly ram it at full speed, and the surrounding Galactic Republic escort warships will not be able to stop it at all!
You must know that in the naval sequence of Duchy of Dawn, the only one who truly plays the role of an assault battleship is Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser! Other warships, including Behemoth-class, actually tend to be fire support, or as all-rounders on the battlefield.
Only Hell Angel-class takes the word "attack" to the extreme!
But even so, the powerful Republic fleet still firmly grasps the advantage on the battlefield. Every battle ended with Duchy of Dawn's fleet temporarily retreating, but Republic fleet was never able to achieve its combat goals.
But if this situation continues, the wear and tear on the Duchy of Dawn warships will become more and more serious. Compared with the Republic fleet, which can be easily rotated, it may not be long before Duchy of Dawn has no warships available.
And Major General Cassio-Tagge knew this exactly, so he gritted his teeth and endured great battle losses, and had to fight Duchy of Dawn's fleet head-on to the end!
The battlefield on the ground is also more brutal!
After Galactic Republic ground troops launched a general attack, Volgograd-Kanidi immediately asked the defenders on Annaj Planet to hold their positions.
He mobilized a total of 2.8 million troops, which was almost 20 times the number of Republic clone troopers!
The defenders on Annaj Planet shared the same hatred and launched wave after wave of counterattacks against the Galactic Republic position!
But no matter how cheap, mass-produced or mentally unstable Spaarti clone troopers is, their combat skills and physical fitness are still far superior to those of ordinary people.
In addition, Galactic Republic had absolute air superiority. After taking control of the air, Galactic Republic's fighter formations bombed the Annaj Planet defenders indiscriminately at almost every moment, causing heavy losses!
They are almost fighting against the steel torrent of Galactic Republic with their flesh and blood!
On the second day after the battle began, the arm of Galactic Republic that advanced the furthest had advanced more than 40 kilometers.
At this time, this army suddenly disconnected all contacts at some point. At the same time, when the Galactic Republic reconnaissance plane was conducting reconnaissance, it only sent back one sentence - 'They are marching towards us! '
After that, the reconnaissance plane also disappeared.
The location of this unit is on the battlefield on the north side of the capital area... and in the eyes of some talented people, in that direction, black mist fills the sky with death! Just by looking at it, it feels like my soul is being torn apart by countless resentful spirits!
The northern side of the capital area has become a world of death in just one hour.