2253.Mandalorian Civil War (seven)
Vizsla government forces was forced to abandon the city and retreat in panic less than three days after capturing Secundus City. As they retreated, they blew up the city's last water supply facility and destroyed the dust shield controller, making rebuilding the city extremely difficult and expensive.
It can be seen that they were very reluctant to retreat. After all, in order to occupy Secundus City, they paid a heavy price of nearly 8,000 deaths and more than 30,000 injuries.
But they had to retreat because the army was completely cut off from supplies.
The Vizsla government forces attacking Secundus City has a total of 7 legions, with a total strength of more than 90,000 people. Such an army consumes extremely huge amounts of materials every day of fighting. Their original plan was to capture the city within three days, but it actually took more than a week, which left the army with no ammunition supplies.
Food was okay and could be supplied directly in the city, but ammunition and water became huge problems.
Mandalore's city is generally short of water, and Secundus City's determined resistance also caused Vizsla government forces to drink up all the water he carried with him very quickly. Moreover, when the residents of the city were evacuating, they would rather dump the water that was inconvenient to take away than leave it to the invaders. This made the water shortage extremely serious among the army.
The city's water supply facilities were severely damaged during the war. Although they finally occupied the city, in order to allow the soldiers to replenish water as quickly as possible, the army had to stay in the city for a long time until all the soldiers were replenished before the next battle plan could be carried out.
When this army stays in the city for a long time, it creates a huge security risk - because they are short of ammunition!
Pre-Vizsla did build a huge army of 2 to 3 million people, but he did not have a military-industrial system that could support such a huge army. After he built this army, he was like a child appreciating his toy, happily looking at this unprecedentedly large army and laughing, but he ignored one of the most critical things -
Supplies!
The supplies consumed by an idle army and an army in combat state are completely different! In normal times, this army would only fire a few shots when training, fire a few shots into the sky when suppressing riots, and if that didn't work, shoot a few chief criminals in the head, and that's it. According to the capacity of the high-pressure gas tank in Blaster rifle, it can generally sustain 400 to 700 rounds of shooting. Such a gas tank can be used for at least several months at a normal pace.
What's more, Mandalore does not produce explosive gas, and almost all weapons and ammunition need to be imported. But Galactic Empire was too lazy to pay attention to him. Although Duchy of Dawn had Bespin, one of the largest producers of explosive gas, it was even more impossible to sell ammunition to him.
Therefore, the army established by Pre-Vizsla relies on purchases from the black market and the accumulation of weak local production capacity. It can still maintain basic training on weekdays and dominate in front of civilians. This is no problem.
But once on the battlefield, a can of explosive gas that usually lasts for several months in a soldier's hand can now be fired out in less than 5 minutes! This is also related to the low morale and training of these soldiers, because once faced with an oncoming hail of bullets on the battlefield, these soldiers' first reaction is to hide behind a bunker and face a burst of fire from the opposite side, and they will not let go of the trigger.
Therefore, even after Pre-Vizsla declared war on all Mandalore people, he did not send out all the troops, only about 800,000, but these 800,000 troops also consumed all the supplies he had accumulated for two or three years in one day!
This is the true face of war!
Pre-Vizsla The original plan was that after he launched an attack and brutally massacred a group of stubborn people, the frightened civilians would immediately kneel down and surrender, and the war would end in a week at most. But he underestimated the people's determination to resist after being forced into a desperate situation!
Almost everywhere, Vizsla government forces encountered the strongest resistance. Even if those resisters are armed with wooden sticks, they will fight to the end against the government troops who are armed with live ammunition!
What's even more terrible is that in order to expand the attack surface and create fear and chaos throughout the planet, Pre-Vizsla divided his army into more than a hundred groups and spread them everywhere.
However, the fruits that bloomed everywhere did not come out, and requests for supplies came to him from all over the place like snowflakes.
Vizsla government forces simply has no ability to supply more than a hundred armies scattered all over the world at the same time! As a result, armies in various places lacked food and water, lacked ammunition, medicine, and even the wounded could not receive treatment, which became a common problem.
Back to Secundus City, more than 90,000 troops here took the risk of fighting a tough battle for more than a week in order to drink water, and staying in an urban environment with complex terrain and dangers without ammunition supplies was a very wrong decision in itself.
As a result, serious consequences finally occurred.
Jango-Fett led his Super Soldier to continuously attack the spaceships and transport convoys transporting supplies to Secundus City, making this army exhausted, and finally reached its peak after the transport fleet was attacked and the supplies were destroyed. The morale of the more than 90,000 troops collapsed completely. Commander could no longer effectively command the troops. The entire army retreated in panic and uncontrollably, leaving the city limits.
And this retreat also brought to naught the results of more than a week before. Men died in vain, money wasted, and ammunition wasted.
The battle of Secundus City also completely exposed the nature of the paper tiger Pre-Vizsla to the eyes of everyone on the entire planet! Those who were originally wavering, on the one hand wanted to overthrow the rule of Pre-Vizsla, but on the other hand were afraid of his powerful army, now immediately raised the flag of rebellion without hesitation!
On the other hand, when Pre-Vizsla realized the huge mistake he had made, he could only make up for it and began to withdraw his troops from various places to the cities that were still loyal to him to recuperate.
But this is easier said than done. It is a huge challenge for the troops scattered on hundreds of battlefields on the planet to retreat, both tactically and strategically, or in terms of the most realistic transportation capabilities.
Rebel Alliance, led by Bo-Katan-Kryze, took advantage of this opportunity to launch a counterattack!
On several local battlefields, Rebel Alliance started a countercharge when Vizsla government forces ran out of ammunition and food. The Brick-A Ror-class airspeed craft that had been reluctant to take it out before was finally put into the battlefield and began to focus on attacking the Vizsla government forces defense line, causing the army to retreat steadily.
Rebel Alliance began to move the front in one direction gradually towards the direction of the capital Sundari City!
At this moment, there are still 5 days left before the coronation ceremony that Pre-Vizsla is clamoring for!