661. Battle of Christophsis (seventeen)
22BBY, Galactic Standard Time August 11th at 6:41 pm.
Christophsis capital, Crystal City.
Explosions, gunshots, and roars were heard here almost constantly. Clones, robots, and Christophsian were mixed together to start this cruel battle.
Especially in the Core Worlds and Commercial Center defense line battles between the two sides, the battle was even more intense. In this once prosperous commercial center, which was almost the size of a city Mid-City, the total number of troops invested by both sides has exceeded 400,000!
"Whirlwind Company! Quickly go to the east side building complex for reinforcements! A large number of living dead have appeared over there!"
"Hall battleship shield has been penetrated, Zi... prepare to retreat!"
"Air support...! Where is the air support? There are Separatists stealth fighters everywhere here!"
"The G-7 Zi... soldier position has fallen... it's the Zi... Black Zi... team!!"
"The residents dispersed quickly! The east side of the isolation zone was infested with gaps! We need to inhabit..."
"Zi..."
"Zi..."
When the battle was at its fiercest, in almost all Republic army's command channels, tactical channels, and team channels, there was nothing left except the almost non-stop sizzling sound.
Rex threw away the communicator and said to Anakin-Skywalker, "No, general, the entire communication is completely paralyzed! Could it be that the communication tower was destroyed?"
"This is impossible! Even if the communication tower is destroyed, our battleship can still function as a communication node!" Anakin looked solemn. "Even if Hall is forced to retreat, there are still two Acclamator-class warship above Crystal City! It is impossible for our communication to be terminated! Unless there is a problem with the communication tower and the battleship at the same time."
"Then... what if there is really a problem with the communication tower and the battleship at the same time?" Ahsoka-Tano said with a frown.
Anakin-Skywalker fell silent. After a while, he said, "Communication must be re-established! Let's go to the communication tower immediately!"
"General, the entire battle situation is now in chaos. The black army has not been resolved yet. Although the living dead have been restricted to the north of the city, there is a possibility of breaking through the blockade at any time. There are also those mutated Indjori... ours Problems appeared one after another, but in the end none of them were solved," Rex said in a deep voice, "I'm worried that this is just part of a series of conspiracy by Separatists Company One..."
"Communication is the foundation of everything. Separatists may be planning to cut off our communication and let us perish in chaos." Anakin said, "Restore communication without delay! I think Obi-Wan is doing the same thing now on the battlefield in outer space."
At the same time, Christophsis's outer space battlefield, relying on Martha-class missile heavy cruiser's terrifying missile sea, Galactic Republic's proud fighter force finally encountered a serious challenge!
Contrary to Javelin-class missile frigate, which mainly targets the opponent's battleships, although Martha-class missile heavy cruiser looks extremely fierce, its main combat targets are fighter jets or small warships.
The missiles that Masha-class is equipped with are 'Firecloud' series missiles, which are available in three specifications: large, medium and small. The main killing method of this missile is to produce a radiation cloud after the explosion. Moreover, in windless space, this radiation cloud can exist for a long time, constantly compressing the activity space of the opponent's fighter jets.
A saturation attack by a Masha-class can cover a range of thousands of kilometers. The fighter jets involved in it will be destroyed by the dense radiation clouds if they are not careful.
And this does not mean that Masha-class poses no threat to capital ships. The radiation cloud of the 'Firecloud' series missiles is actually a high-energy particle with powerful energy. The physical properties of this particle are between energy bodies and entities. Once they act on the shield, about 30% of the high-energy particles will directly damage the battleship armor without triggering the shield reaction. It can be described as extremely vicious.
This is also Fourth Civilization's first shield-piercing weapon. Selurite scientist Arroyo attaches great importance to this weapon, because it is related to the subsequent development of a series of shield-piercing and even armor-piercing weapons.
With the fire cover of Martha-class heavy cruiser, Sefrans-Tann gathered the fleet and launched an attack on Republic fleet in artillery formation. She divided the fleet into two and attacked simultaneously from the north and south poles of Christophsis.
Wullf-Yularen took off a total of 5,000 fighter jets to attack, and they only managed to block Sefrans-Tann's crazy attack at heavy losses.
At this moment, bad news came from the ground battlefield!
The bad news is that there is no news!
"Check the communication immediately! Why can't any ground troops on Christophsis be contacted now!" Obi-Wan-Kenobi said loudly.
"All communication devices are completely normal and have not been damaged. All communication signals sent to the ground have been received, and there are no signs of damage to the ground base station." said the communications soldier.
"In that case, why is the communication interrupted?" Obi-Wan frowned. Suddenly, he felt something. He turned to look at the Communications Department and found that the signaling device over there was constantly sending messages, "What messages are we sending?"
"It's a request for help. The current war situation is not optimistic, and I also think we should ask for help." Wullf-Admiral Yularen said.
"You also think you should ask for help, so this order was not sent by you?" Obi-Wan immediately grasped the key point. He walked over quickly and checked the message, "... our fleet... was attacked by Dawn Star Planet Fleet A, requesting support..."
He was suddenly shocked, "No! We haven't determined the number of the support army Separatists at all. Why does this message accurately indicate that this is Dawn Star Planet Fleet A?!"
Wullf-Yularen also immediately noticed something was wrong, "Quickly stop the signal transmission!!"
"Nothing... cannot be terminated..." After a while of operations, the communications soldier turned his head in astonishment.
"Damn it! Our communication system has been hacked! Check it immediately!" Obi-Wan said loudly.
"I just received the news that our communications have been interfered with. The focus of Separatists's attack has shifted to our communications facilities! A special force is coming. We must stop them!" In the Crystal City central communication tower, Sergeant CI-3331 Slick said to his soldiers.
"I'm a little worried. From now on, it's as if we have been isolated by this war. I don't even know what we are doing? The crowd of living dead that I mentioned before has not come." A Clone Trooper had something wrong with his intuition, but he couldn't tell why.
"Because of this, we cannot make any mistakes! We have lost contact with the space fleet... the communication tower cannot be lost." Slick said seriously.
After a while, Slick suddenly pointed in a direction, "Here it comes! It's over there! Fire!!"
"Fire!!" Clone Trooper, who was hiding behind the bunker, immediately fired at the black shadow approaching in front.
Over there, Rex quickly led the team to cover on the spot, "Asshole! Separatists has indeed occupied the communication tower! Prepare to fight! We must take back this place!"