2766. Defeat of Dantooine (mid)
Lieutenant General Zell-Johnson was shocked when he received the news. Now he had no time to feel happy that he had become the top military Commander of Dantooine.
Because there is no doubt that this attack was completely premeditated. It is possible that Kingdom of Dawn had grasped their whereabouts before their meeting, and then launched the attack right in the middle of their meeting.
And while attacking, fighter jets were sent to assassinate General Maximilian-Vels!
At this time, Chief Operations Advisor said with a serious face, "General Johnson, now, it is up to you to decide how to dispatch the supplies and reinforcements in my hands. Make the decision."
Johnson took a deep breath and glanced at the flashing red dots on the holographic star map in the war room. Chief Operations Advisor's words suddenly gave him a feeling of pleasure, as if he had been constipated for two weeks and then suddenly collapsed with a bang.
That's right, in this way, the military command of the entire Dantooine ground theater will instantly become extremely smooth, all obstacles will be removed, and the chain of command will no longer be constrained.
This is what a war should be like!
However, this also means that he will take over the big mess left by General Vels.
It is very troublesome to take over, because he must first take over the command system that was originally under General Vels, and his subordinates and institutions are completely unfamiliar to Johnson.
Not to mention that it has now been detected that Kingdom of Dawn's army is mobilizing on a large scale!
"Vels... you bastard!" Zell-Johnson gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, then turned around and said, "Deploy all reserve teams to Khoonda City! First make sure Ensure the safety of the landing site and restore the operation of the landing site and spaceport as soon as possible! Then mobilize five infantry corps to reinforce Black Mountain Base! The newly formed armored corps will expand to the left wing. Once the frontline defense is stabilized, immediately attack the rear of Separatists!"
There is no other way now. Although he really wants to launch a counterattack immediately and make achievements, he also knows very well that if he does not respond to Kingdom of Dawn's offensive immediately, everything will be in vain!
There should still be time now to deploy reinforcements around Khoonda City as soon as possible, wait until this wave can be overcome, and then reintegrate the forces in the Dantooine theater!
Zell-Johnson continued, "I will return to Mossa War Zone first. My Staff Department and command system are all there. Now I officially appoint you as my Operations Adjutant to coordinate and organize the combat deployment in the Kunda theater for me. After that, I will transfer my command here."
"I understand, General Johnson." Chief Operations Advisor nodded, "According to your arrangement just now, I will immediately deploy reinforcements to consolidate Khoonda City's defense line."
"I will let my troops launch a limited counterattack at Mossa War Zone to threaten the northern mining area of Separatists, hoping to involve some of their forces. In short, this is our most difficult time. Once we can hold on to this attack and wait for more reinforcements to arrive, the initiative will still return to our hands!"
"Okay, General."
General Zell-Johnson walked out of the command center, accompanied by guards and entourage, and went to the direction of the barracks. He took a 1-H super-heavy suspension tank and drove quickly towards his war zone.
Now, he vows that he will never take a shuttle again.
But what Zell-Johnson doesn't know at this moment is that, as Thrawn said before - when the enemy is really ready to attack you, they won't give it to you for an hour.
In modern warfare, with countless detection methods, there are fewer and fewer tactics that can be used, but there is one tactic that will never change.
That's the time difference!
That's right, at the same time that Generals Maximilian-Vels's cars were shot down, General Dai Hongkui's attack had already begun!
The first to launch the attack was not the ground troops, but Orbital Drop!
In the near-Earth synchronous orbit over Black Mountain Base, the frontline troop assembly point in the Galactic Empire Khoonda City theater, 10 Grey Horse-class escort carriers have been deployed.
Generally speaking, whenever Kingdom of Dawn is noticed to be moving in outer space at this time, the Galactic Empire fighter formation in outer space will immediately take off to harass them.
But this time, it was already very difficult for them to protect the large number of overcrowded transport ships around the space station. In addition, the formation led by Kingdom of Dawn and Sabre-class fighter continued to harass them and shot down more than ten transport ships, which made the chaos here even worse.
They had to launch landing operations again, but the landing target was not the severely damaged Khoonda City landing site, but the two landing sites in the capital Garang.
This operation also required fighter escort, so no one paid attention to those Grey Horse-class escort carrier.
And on the abdomen of these modified Escort Carrier, 20 pylons are installed, with metal pods hanging on them--
Orbital Drop cabin!
As the attack time came, 200 Orbital Drop cabins fell from the sky and landed directly towards Black Mountain Base at high speed.
These Orbital Drop cabins are different from those used many times before by Kingdom of Dawn. The main reason is that the control accuracy and power of Reverse Thruster are increased, and a Group One thrust engine is also installed on the top.
The main reason is that the Grey Horse-class escort carrier does not have the complete facilities of the Corsev Battlecruiser that was equipped with the Orbital Drop cabin. These airborne capsules were basically thrown away. In order to ensure the accuracy of the Orbital Drop, a thrust engine was also installed.
When the Orbital Drop capsule is 500 meters close to the ground, the Reverse Thruster starts instantly. The powerful thrust immediately reduces the speed of the airborne capsule to ensure that the airborne capsule will not trigger the reaction of Deflector Shield.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The airborne pods crashed to the ground and disintegrated instantly. Indjori, three meters tall and covered with fine scales, roared out one after another, holding special large shotguns in their hands!
This is the Indjori Vengeance T-104 model!
After multiple generations of updates, the current Indjori Vengeance is the fourth model. This model of Indjori Vengeance is manufactured by combining Veronica Virus, and the body sources of Indjori are all derived from clones. During the growth process of clones, viruses have been added to make the lowest level adjustments to the genes.
The current Indjori Vengeance T-104 type can be said to be as strong as a humanoid tank, and they also have basic intelligence and can even use simple firearms!
This makes them no longer mindless beasts, but real battlefield killers!
However, due to its huge size, this Orbital Drop cabin can only carry three Indjori Vengeance T-104, so this wave of Orbital Drop attack only has 600 units.
In fact, the matching large-scale Orbital Drop cabin has been developed and manufactured, but this thing Grey Horse-class escort carrier is not even expected to be equipped.
600 terrifying killing machines landed, causing great trouble to the Galactic Empire's troops stationed at the Black Mesa base. After the infantry met them and were brutally massacred, they began to bring armored units over to fight against these terrifying biological weapons.
Seizing this opportunity, the troops in front of Kingdom of Dawn began to attack!
Unlike the B-1 combat robots that took the lead before, this time at the forefront of the Kingdom of Dawn attack force were thousands of ferocious mechanical wolves!
A-130, Predator Mechanical Wolf!
This is not a pure machine, but has a built-in biological brain, and its behavior pattern is the same as that of the most ferocious beasts - there is no doubt that this is also the work of Umbrella. It is the product of Gene Engineering Company, one of the companies after Umbrella Pharmaceutical Group was split.
Under the influence of this biological brain, the A-130 Predator Mechanical Wolf is not driven by a program, but acts by the beast instinct input into the brain, so its actions are more flexible and less predictable.
Thousands of predator mechanical wolves pounce on Black Mountain Base with extremely flexible postures and super speed!
A large number of combat robots followed closely behind. At any time, B-1 combat robots and B-2 combat robots are the most reliable cannon fodder in the Kingdom of Dawn army. They are cheap and large in quantity, and after many upgrades, combat AI has also been greatly improved. And no matter how crude they are, the beam emitted by the Blaster rifle in their hands is still deadly. This is enough!
Battle robots and the elusive predator mechanical wolf all over the mountains and plains rushed towards Black Mountain Base like a tide.
Galactic Empire's defenders were busy dealing with Orbital Drop's Indjori Vengeance who came down from inside the base. The long-range artillery fire organized at the first moment was not dense and failed to threaten the predator mechanical wolves. Soon, these mechanical wolves had already crossed the shield range and broke into the defender's position.
A fierce battle immediately broke out inside Black Mountain Base, with 600 Indjori Vengeance and thousands of predator mechanical wolves wreaking havoc everywhere inside the base, causing huge chaos.
Faced with these extremely ferocious weapons, Galactic Empire soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Base Commander could only set up a defense line inside the base to block these terrifying entities running around.
However, the battle robot cluster following the Predator Mechanical Wolf was hit by the Galactic Empire long-range artillery fire and suffered heavy losses.
Compared with Kingdom of Dawn, Galactic Empire, which has a deeper foundation, has a very complete army long-range firepower system, from AV-7 self-propelled artillery, to AV-10 heavy self-propelled artillery, AT-AP artillery walker, AT-UT suspended artillery, SPMA-T self-propelled Turbolaser cannon, SPHA-T heavy self-propelled Turbolaser cannon, etc.
These terrifying war machines range from short-range to medium-range to long-range, and are perfectly matched. As long as they are given room to display, such long-range artillery fire is extremely terrifying.
Under such three-dimensional bombing, the battle robot troops were blown up in pieces. The plain area in front of Black Mountain Base was almost full of destroyed battle robot wreckage.
However, the large-scale losses of these combat robots still played some role. With them to attract firepower, the subsequent Kingdom of Dawn Army was able to launch a decisive offensive.
Deafening artillery sound came from the rear, and the Kingdom of Dawn artillery position also began to fire. Their goal was very clear, which was to carry out counter-bombing against the Galactic Empire artillery position that had just opened fire on the combat robot troops.
Hundreds of Siege Tank were deployed in the southern highlands, building a powerful artillery fire position. Among them, there were 10 15-meter-tall giant mechas--Thor Mech, mass production model!
These Thor Mechs were in a kneeling posture, equipped with four 330mm caliber Punisher Siege Cannons behind them, and were firing continuously.
And most of those Siege Tank are brand new models, their artillery caliber is larger, and they fire with great force.
At this time, in the command center at the rear, a short, stocky engineer with his left arm modified into a mechanical pliers was yelling like crazy, "That's right! That's right! Try my Vortex Shell! the Empire silly dogs! Kinetic energy weapons are the romance of men! When I get back, I will stuff Vortex Shell into your **! Wait for me Zhang Jiarui, hahahahaha!"
This guy is none other than Rory-Swann. Most of the armored units for the reinforcements for Dantooine were produced by Tyran Heavy Industries, and he also rushed to the front line to observe on the spot the effectiveness of his newly developed combat weapons.
The ideological debate between him and Zhang Jiarui between kinetic energy weapons and Energy Weapons has been going on. This time he finally seized the opportunity and naturally brought a large number of his new equipment directly to the front line.
More than 10,000 Kingdom of Dawn soldiers equipped with CMC-300 power armor launched a charge against the sky full of artillery fire and hail of bullets. Subsequently, more army soldiers formed a skirmishing front to form a huge front of 70 kilometers wide, and directly surrounded Black Mountain Base.
The Vulture Company team equipped with Vulture flight mecha passed by at ultra-low altitude. This time they adopted different tactics.
After they broke into the shield range, they maneuvered and circled over a large area in the air like a large group of Vultures. They did not form groups or gather, but all acted independently, flying almost everywhere in the sky over the entire Black Mountain Bases.
They are just a group of Vulture waiting for an opportunity. They are not in a hurry to launch an attack, but keep circling, waiting for an opportunity, and then run away with one strike. They are not greedy for credit, but just keep creating more chaos.
At this moment, those Indjori Vengeance T-104 and A-130 Predator Mechanical Wolves have been almost wiped out. For this reason, Galaxy Imperial army paid extremely heavy losses, and the harassment of the Vulture Company team made their positions continue to be chaotic and difficult to organize.
At the same time that Black Mountain Base's frontal position was under attack, the Galactic Empire armored force, which was deploying toward the flanks and preparing to make a detour, also ran into another torrent of armor at this time!
The Galactic Empire 1-H super-heavy suspension tank formation took the lead and maneuvered quickly towards the flanks. At this moment, a large amount of smoke and dust rose up from the front, followed by a burst of intensive artillery fire.
When the smoke gradually dissipated, only a formation of super-heavy tanks was seen approaching!