534. The result of the battle
Republic fleet finally escaped from Geonosis after General Trench's fleet was exhausted.
Counting from the time when Anakin-Skywalker and Obi-Wan-Kenobi sneaked into the Geonosis underground factory on May 20, the battle has lasted for nine full days and has finally come to an end.
Galactic Republic was able to evacuate only 15 Acclamator-class assault ship, 50 CR-70 frigates, more than 60 Kallak-class light cruiser, and 11 Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser from Geonosis. In the end, not even one of the four largest Invincible-class heavy cruisers could be brought back. Three were seriously damaged and scrapped, and one had no time to evacuate and had to surrender together with more than 7,700 officers and soldiers on the battleship.
Clone Army participated in the war, with more than 47,000 killed and irreversibly seriously injured, more than 91,000 injured, and 5,000 captured; the ordinary army participated in the war with 20,000, with more than 4,000 killed and seriously injured, and 16,000 captured; the navy suffered 103,000 killed, 1,500 injured, and 7,700 captured; more than 30,000 robots of various types were lost.
At the same time, all heavy equipment was lost, including more than 100 SPHA-T self-propelled artillery, more than 2,600 AT-TE walkers, 1,600 LAAT series assault transport aircraft, and more than 600 V-19 Torrent fighter.
As for Jedi Order, Master Windu and Master Yoda led a total of 215 people to participate in the battle, plus the rescued Anakin-Skywalker and Obi-Wan Z-Kenobi, as well as Depa-Barris and Dream Sisters who later supported, a total of 220 people participated in the war, 181 of whom are forever buried in Geonosis.
Whether it was Galactic Republic, Grand Army of the Republic, or Jedi Order who had just established an army, this battle was a heavy loss.
And Confederacy of Independent Systems lost 5 Deceiver-class destroyer, 5 Defiant-class light destroyer, 10 Revenge-class light destroyer and 22 Munificent-class communications frigate, loyal to Count Dooku The mercenaries Saboss Clan were all destroyed. In addition, there were 3 Luukri-Hok-class battleship, 2 Diamond-class transport cruiser, and 2 Hardcell-class interstellar transport; all 5 cruisers of Geonosians were also shot down.
The Army lost more than 2.3 million B-1 combat robots, including B-1 robots that control battleships. It also lost 150,000 B-2 super combat robots, Geonosians army 170,000, N More than 500 R-N99 Negotiator-class tank droid, as well as large combat machines totaling more than 20,000 units such as the Spider, Dwarf spider droid, and Hailfire droid were also destroyed.
The losses of fighter jets were also very heavy. 2,100 Geonosians, Nantex-type, Defense Battle aircraft, more than 7,000 Vulture droid fighter aircraft, and more than 200 other types of fighter jets were all shot down.
The losses on Geonosis were even more severe. Three huge orbital defense cannons were destroyed, and a lot of the underground robot factory was also damaged under the earth-shaking commotion of Jedi Knight.
The most deadly thing was that the wreckage of the large warships that were chased and fell to the planet during the battle caused no less damage than the Orbital Bombardment. In areas at the same latitude as the battlefield, the fall of a large number of warship wreckage caused heavy losses to the factories in these areas, reducing the production capacity of the Geonosis by one-third.
This battle, which can be said to have ignited the fuse of the war, caused immeasurable losses to both parties involved, and also set a bloody tone for this huge war that was about to sweep the entire galaxy.
But in fact, no one knew that the course of the war had actually been greatly modified.
Because of the overt and covert intervention of Fourth Civilization and Tang Xiao, Severance-Admiral Tann suddenly led the fleet into the battlefield, defeated Galactic Republic's fleet deployed in the outer orbit of Geonosis, and then flew away. Although it was just such an incident, it triggered a chain reaction. Galactic Republic's huge army was blocked on the planet, forcing them to send more warships to rescue and continue the battle.
You must know that according to the original battle process, Galactic Republic only paid the price of less than 3,000 Clone Trooper losses and 179 Jedi Knight deaths, and completely destroyed Confederacy of Independent Systems's army. Confederacy of Independent Systems lost 14 Luukri-Hok-class battleship, more than 150 Hardcell-class interstellar transport, 20 Diamond-class transport cruiser and more than 3 million robots transported on them. In addition, the ground forces were completely defeated and lost more than 1.1 million robots. This battle was almost equivalent to breaking one of Confederacy of Independent Systems's legs from the beginning.
The proposal of this strategy made Tang Xiao have to admire Staff Department who made the plan and Severance-Tann who directed the operation. Only the joint efforts of these extremely outstanding people made this battle achieve a result that can be said to be the most beneficial to Fourth Civilization.
On the one hand, Republic army suffered heavy losses. No more than 50,000 of the 200,000 Clone Army can be put into other battlefields immediately, and the rest must go through rest and recuperation. This result is necessary, because in the final analysis, Fourth Civilization's real enemy is still Galactic Republic. The worse Galactic Republic is beaten, the more beneficial it is to them.
On the other hand, Confederacy of Independent Systems retained almost all transport ships, but at the cost of more battleship losses. This is very important, because on the one hand, Confederacy of Independent Systems retains the power to continuously threaten the hinterland of Galactic Republic. On the other hand, Fourth Group and Dawn Star Planet, which have strong shipbuilding industry and technology, are bound to receive more attention.
Only by making the relationship between Confederacy of Independent Systems and Cooperative Alliance secretly established by Tang Xiao become closer can Count Dooku not dare to attack him more.
Cooperative Alliance's goal is to control Confederacy of Independent Systems's industry and economy behind the scenes, and this plan has just begun.
The reason why Tang Xiao wants General Trench to make the battle a lose-lose outcome is also a response to Count Dooku.
When the news that Galactic Republic had assembled a huge force of 60 Hunter Class Battlecruisers to prepare for a counterattack against Bespin Planet was told to him by Count Dooku, Tang Xiao immediately understood that this was a conspiracy between Das-Sidious and Count Dooku.
Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to explain why Galactic Republic did not put this cutting-edge fleet into Geonosis, but sent it to the remote Bespin Planet.
As Das-Malthael slowly reveals some of his power, Dawn Star Planet and Fourth Group are inevitably jealous of Das-Sidious's master and disciple. This is an inevitable result. But what Tang Xiao wants to do is to make Count Dooku dare not attack Dawn Star Planet and Fourth Group. This is not only military, but also involves politics.
Das-Sidious's promise to Count Dooku definitely did not include that Confederacy of Independent Systems would be wiped out quickly after a sudden collapse. Count Dooku was not willing to do this, because Confederacy of Independent Systems can be said to be the most important tool for him to achieve his political ideals.
So now, on the one hand, Das-Sidious controls various forces and sends a huge fleet to attack Bespin. Count Dooku is still unwilling to provide support. Then on the other hand, Tang Xiao must use his own power to bleed Confederacy of Independent Systems!
Count Dooku dare not bet on the political consequences of continuing like this, because on Confederacy Parliament located at Luks Major Planet, Dawn Star Planet's MP Francis-Underwood has already started his own performance to build momentum for Dawn Star Planet.
Once Dawn Star Planet is successfully packaged as Confederacy of Independent Systems's hero, Count Dooku's political reputation will suffer a major blow!