2764. Kingdom of Dawn's counterattack
Caladanian's raid almost immediately paralyzed the entire Khoonda City rear landing base. As the outer defense line was breached, more than 40,000 Caladanian soldiers went directly deep into the base, where they massacred.
Galactic Empire's huge amount of strategic materials were blown up in large quantities, the space port was damaged, and many unmanned war machines that had just been transported were seized by Caladanian, who turned their guns and fired at Imperial army.
Some Caladanians have specially undergone special training. They have specifically learned how to drive the main armored vehicles of the Galactic Empire, including AT-AT walkers, AT-ST walkers, AT-AP walkers, etc. Basically, among the current armored vehicles of the Galactic Empire, except for the 1-H super-heavy suspension tank, they can drive everything else.
Moreover, these Caladanian are equipped with Omni-tool and loaded with decryption modules, ready to be used to crack the system password of the Empire armored units.
But the funny thing is, they didn't use this preparation at all.
The reason is also quite ridiculous - because none of the Galactic Empire vehicles are locked or encrypted! In order to cope with the very tight reinforcement needs on the front line, these armored vehicles can be sent to the front line as soon as possible, so they are not encrypted at all, so you can jump on them and drive them.
So you can see the huge body of the AT-AT walker rampaging through the base, its huge mechanical feet trampling warehouses to the ground, and the powerful Turbolaser cannon firing continuously, turning each barracks into a sea of flames.
You can also see several captured 2-M assault hover tanks gathering together to advance in formation, also wreaking havoc inside the base.
What's even more exciting is that there was actually a HAVw-A6 Turbo Tank that was captured by a team of Caladanian! This tank, which has been used since the Clone Wars period, is huge. The 49.4-meter-long body is like a land battleship. Each of the five pairs of huge wheels is more than four meters high.
This Turbo Tank ran over the base directly without the need to open fire. The terrifying size alone was enough to leave only a ruin after driving crazily.
However, the person who caused the most severe damage to the Galactic Empire's base was not a Caladanian soldier, but a transport ship pilot.
This transport ship pilot drove a YVX-865 Oro-class heavy cargo spacecraft to swoop down directly, and took a whole ship of more than 50 the Empire soldiers and more than 500 tons of supplies directly into a fuel depot!!
The thick armor of the fuel depot was directly penetrated by the equally heavily armored cargo spacecraft. The compressed explosive gas in the cargo caused an explosion, completely igniting the fuel.
The fuel used for the Sublight voyage was originally stored in a solid state, but the fuel depot was penetrated, and the instantaneous loss of pressure caused the solid fuel to melt rapidly and violently volatilize! The volatile fuel ignited when exposed to fire, forming a high-temperature plasma storm that began to spread everywhere!
A corner of the base was immediately engulfed in flames.
In fact, long before Caladanian launched the attack, many local residents who were forcibly requisitioned by the Galactic Empire had already begun to brew resistance. Moreover, the high-pressure policy adopted by the Galactic Empire in Dantooine angered almost all residents, so Kingdom of Dawn's intelligence work here also went very smoothly.
In addition to sending the base's intelligence to the commander-in-chief Caladanian, Slaughterer Ben Tiras-San-Si Carl, those workers have also long established an underground headquarters to coordinate the resistance of workers in various areas within the base.
When Caladanian launched the attack, these workers immediately launched an uprising. They first dropped their work and fled quickly, gathering towards relatively safe places such as basements and canteens to avoid the first wave of Caladanian's attacks.
Because the base was attacked, the behavior of these workers escaping did not attract the attention of Imperial army. They downloaded all their thoughts on how to organize a defense to resist Caladanian's attack. Even the K-X security robots ignored these workers, because in their programs, these workers were just exploited labor.
Then, the relatively strong and agile workers among these workers began to organize and carry out orderly resistance.
They opened the warehouse door for the invading Caladanian warriors, closed the laser fence, cut off the power supply, blew up the communication base station, and occupied several armories, armed themselves, and faced the anxious the Empire The soldier's back directly pulled the trigger! At the same time, the soldiers of Caladanian also took care to avoid those places and did not fire at the places where the workers were hiding. They also tried their best not to accidentally injure the revolting workers during the battle.
In this process, you can say that the Caladanian soldiers are well-trained and accurate with their marksmanship, but what really prevents them from being accidentally injured in battle is the snow-white polymer alloy armor of the the Empire soldiers, and the uniform appearance of Clone Trooper!
That's right, although the Dantooine natives have some genetic changes, they are generally similar to humans. However, the reason why Caladanian warriors can easily distinguish them is precisely the Empire's own reasons.
Under such internal and external coordination, the Galactic Empire base soon fell into collapse.
The Empire soldiers ran around and were killed one after another. For a time, the whole base was littered with corpses, and the corpses of the killed the Empire soldiers were piled on top of each other.
The ignited buildings were like huge torches, with flames soaring into the sky and thick smoke billowing into the sky.
There is no doubt that this base has been completely destroyed.
When the sky gradually lit up, Galactic Empire dispatched a fighter formation to conduct an air strike against the incoming Caladanian, but they hit Kingdom of Dawn's fighter head-on...
Saber-class!
That's right, the 10 Sabre-class fighter deployed at Dantooine did not participate in the battle for the southern highlands of Khoonda City, they were sent in this direction!
Even if the battle in the Southern Highlands achieved results, it would be just the icing on the cake, but here, at the Galactic Empire's landing base, any victory achieved here is a reminder for the Galactic Empire!
The the Empire fighter jets that came for reinforcements were like moths flying into the flames. They were torn into pieces by the precise firepower of Saber-class before they even got close to the battlefield. The Galactic Empire air force wing had to recall fighter jets from other directions and increase the intensity of its air strikes. The air forces of both sides started a fierce battle in this airspace.
However, with the existence of Sabre-class fighter, the battle loss rate of the Galactic Empire's air force was extremely high, so much so that many pilots refused to fight when they heard that the opponent had Sabre-class fighter.
This forced reinforcements from the air to slow down.
Air support was cut off, and the the Empire army headquarters could only urgently request General Maximilian-Vels, who was frantically launching an attack on the front line, to immediately return support.
General Vels, who heard about the fire in his backyard, no longer cared about the abominable Golden Beetle. He immediately transferred his troops and led the remaining troops back to the landing base quickly.
The southern highlands that he finally recovered were vacated again and were retaken by Kingdom of Dawn.
When General Vels saw through the reconnaissance plane that the flying buildings began to fly slowly and steadily towards the southern highlands, his lungs almost exploded!
General Vels spat out all the curse words he knew in his life into the communication channel. He cursed for a full hour. The person he scolded was Commander at the landing base. He believed that it was this guy's incompetence and mediocrity that led to the surprise attack on his base in the rear!
But no matter how fiercely he scolded, it was to no avail, and the massacre in the direction of the base still continued.
This massacre lasted all day, and stopped when Caladanian's troops were exhausted. They began to retreat in an orderly manner, carrying the bodies of their comrades on their backs, and quickly disappeared into the wilderness.
On the way back, General Vels's frontline troops began to encounter the remnants of soldiers who had fled from the landing base. Most of them were not wearing combat armor, and they drove naked and suspended tanks and fled in panic with Speeder.
As for the walker? This relatively slow vehicle won't even glance at them as they escape.
And without exception, these soldiers who escaped suffered extremely severe mental trauma. This unequal massacre directly destroyed their fighting the Will.
After returning to the landing base, General Vels saw only ruins.
Although most of the buildings in this base have been preserved, the facilities inside have been completely destroyed. The inventory in the warehouse has been blown to pieces, and the raging fire in the fuel depot has not been extinguished, scorching the surrounding air extremely hot.
Inside the spaceport, the docked spacecraft was blown up and the maintenance factory collapsed.
The the Empire armored vehicles that were captured, retaliated, and then destroyed and then abandoned were also placed in a haphazard manner, and many even blocked the road.
What's even more shocking is the corpses all over the ground!
The Empire Stormtrooper Corpses were almost everywhere, layer upon layer almost covering the entire base. A considerable number of these killed soldiers were not wearing combat armor, and some even did not have weapons in their hands.
When the attack occurred, there were at least 500,000 soldiers in the base, and less than a quarter of these people were able to escape.
This is because the Caladanian attack did not have the oppressive feeling of gunfire and steel torrent. Therefore, many the Empire soldiers who found themselves under attack often chose to stay and resist first when they heard the sound of only light weapons on the battlefield.
After all, they all believed that the hundreds of thousands of troops in their base had drowned the intruders with their spit, and that the current chaos was only temporary.
It was not until later, when they saw the cold-bloodedness and cruelty of Caladanian, that they understood the horror of the attack, and their morale collapsed and they fled in all directions.
The casualties caused in this day alone exceeded the total casualties of the Galactic Empire in the past few months!
General Vels's army returned to the base and saw workers hiding in basements and some hiding places. He also found that there were very few worker casualties in this attack.
He looked at the coldness and indifference in the eyes of these workers, and felt that something was wrong. But now that the base was destroyed, cleanup and reconstruction work must be started immediately, and these workers must stay and play their role.
Therefore, General Vels just ordered a few of the foremen to be arrested and beaten for any reason, and then let the workers start working immediately. At the same time, he also ordered his soldiers to keep a closer eye on these workers and double their workload.
But what frightened Galactic Empire even more than these was that they had no warning at all about this attack.
The landing site base is located at the back of the Dantooine defense circle, and there are several military bases in front. These frontline bases did not detect any abnormalities when the attack occurred, and the detection system did not capture any traces of the enemy. They were attacked right under their noses.
Although the successful sneak attack was related to their desperate request for support from the front line and their desperate efforts to mobilize rear troops to the front line, the laxity in the rear of the defense line should not end there.
Then we can draw an obvious conclusion - Kingdom of Dawn, here comes an army like Ghost that can launch a surprise attack quietly! And there are quite a few people in this army!
It was such concerns that Galactic Empire immediately canceled Dantooine's recent plan to launch a counterattack, and instead concentrated its efforts on rebuilding the base and consolidating the defense line.
But after all, the attack on the landing site also cast a shadow over Galactic Empire's operation to send additional reinforcements.
Reinforcements from the rear of the Empire are still pouring in, but these transport ships are all staying at the space station on the periphery of the planet, and do not dare to lower the orbit easily, for fear of encountering the same surprise attack as the landing site.
What's even more deadly is that the space station has begun to become more and more crowded, with transport ships waiting to be unloaded almost everywhere.
Moreover, the soldiers in the transport ship also have to deal with the food, drink and diarrhea. They cannot be allowed to live on the ship for a long time. This will further aggravate the chaos here.
Many times, when the spacecraft flies in this area, it will hit large pieces of human excrement - all of which are discharged from those overwhelmed transport ships.
So at this time, disaster struck!
The fighter formation of Kingdom of Dawn suddenly launched a surprise attack on the space station in outer space! And the 10 Sabre-class fighter identical to Reaper were among them!
At this time, the area near the Galactic Empire's space station was extremely crowded and chaotic, and their escort fleet was completely unable to take care of it.
The Kingdom of Dawn fighter formation is also very aware that its numbers are an absolute disadvantage, so it is not reluctant to fight. It just keeps cruising around the space station, looking for every opportunity to attack the transport ships everywhere!
This is a precise and cruel hunting!
The transport ship full of soldiers was destroyed, and countless corpses were thrown out, floating around in space.
Although such an attack could not be said to cause any serious injuries to Imperial army, it completely disrupted their rhythm.
Seizing this opportunity, Kingdom of Dawn transport ships came in an endless stream.
The balance of power between the two sides is changing!