713.Hunter Squad
The Hunter Class Battlecruiser commanded by Shen Qiaoen opened fire directly on the planet after entering the range.
Orbital Bombardment!
Aereen Planet was not equipped with the expensive Planetary Shield. Hunter Class blasted several powerful Turbolasers in succession. Huge mushroom clouds were set off on the surface of the planet. The terrible explosion power spread everywhere, and several mines and Energy Center were destroyed.
Vulture droid fighter took off like crazy to block the attack, but the V-19 Torrent light fighter here quickly suppressed their counterattack momentum, and hundreds of Vulture fighter were destroyed.
The orbital cannon on the surface of Aereen Planet was finally locked by Hunter Class Battlecruiser after continuous firing. After several accurate bombardments, this cannon was also blown into a pile of ruins.
Then Hunter Class Battlecruiser rushed directly into the planet's atmosphere. Under the cover of fighter jets, LAAT/I assault transport boats took off one after another. After a violent bombardment of ground targets, they began to land fully loaded with Clone Trooper.
After entering the atmosphere, Aereen Planet's ground firepower became more and more crazy. Basically all weapons that could fire were firing in the air. All spaceships and fighter jets that could take off took off and launched a comprehensive attack on the warship.
This made Hunter Class Battlecruiser also feel tremendous pressure. After putting down the 4,000-man Marines, the warship began to increase its altitude and provide fire support at an altitude of 50,000 meters above the ground.
Aereen Planet is a planet that is not suitable for life. Most of the people on it are slaves and robot laborers. In addition, there are about 20,000 B-1 combat robots and 1,500 Fourth Civilization Army soldiers defending it.
Jedi Master Shen-Jon got off the fighter jet and personally led the army to attack the administrative control center of Aereen Planet. Clone Trooper began to advance under the cover of 10 AT-TE walkers. Jon Shen's apprentice, Jedi apprentice Nat Reese, continued to fly a Delta-7 fighter jet to provide cover in the air.
Republic Air Force, which had an absolute advantage, first shot down many Confederacy of Independent Systems fighter jets and spaceships that took off to meet the enemy. After that, the LAAT assault gunship began to use powerful firepower to carry out fierce air attacks on ground targets. Many of the B-1 combat robots that launched a counterattack were destroyed.
After many battles, Clone Trooper acted calmly and efficiently, and the teamwork was perfect. In contrast, even with the cover of the robot army, Fourth Civilization Army continued to lose ground.
Hunter, Crosshair, Clearance King and the technician still formed a combat team of four. They shuttled through the battlefield at high speed. Crosshair's marksmanship was very good. Hunter and Clearance King were responsible for forward assault, while the technician was responsible for rear cover.
Mimban had been surrounded and hunted for more than two months. Compared with the terrifying environment where the mountains and fields were filled with robots and there was almost nowhere to hide, the current battlefield was nothing more than child's play for them.
"M-247! Direction of 11 o'clock! Three!!" Crosshair said loudly. He picked up the Blaster rifle in his hand and fired several shots in that direction. However, Fourth Civilization's soldiers were also well hidden and none of these shots were able to hit.
The battle has been going on for several months, and now the two sides are basically familiar with the common equipment of the other side's frontline troops. Fourth Civilization Army uses mostly Gaussian weapons, so the gunshots are completely different from those of Confederacy of Independent Systems's army, and the gunshots are easy to distinguish.
This is especially true for the M-247 heavy machine gun used in large-scale equipment by the Fourth Civilization Army. This heavy machine gun is more powerful after being modified with electromagnetic excitation, and it also has a very obvious effect on the polymer alloy armor of Clone Trooper.
Clone Trooper's polymer alloy armor can disperse the kinetic energy impact to the whole body to bear it, greatly reducing the impact suffered by a single point. But now Fourth Civilization electromagnetic weapons widely use Hypermatter acceleration. For the 12.7mm caliber M-247 heavy machine gun, 50 micrograms of Hypermatter can support the shooting of about 20,000 rounds of bullets. Although it is indeed more expensive than blasting gas, the penetration power of Clone Trooper combat armor is far greater than that of Blaster rifle.
Therefore, the M-247 heavy machine gun is also notorious among Clone Trooper.
"Is there fire support?" Hunter asked loudly.
"This is Hunter Tactical Squad, coordinates H3-7-3, requesting artillery support!" The technician immediately called through the communicator. Hunter Squad is the name of their new team in Shen Qiaoen's army.
"There is no extra artillery support! Repeat, there is no extra artillery support!" The rear gave a helpless answer.
The technician looked at the battlefield to the side and rear. A few hundred meters away, the AT-TE walker closest to them was firing while advancing. The length of 13 meters and the height of 5 meters made this huge war machine very conspicuous even from a few hundred meters away.
The four scattered blaster cannons equipped directly in front of the AT-TE were firing. The scattered blaster beams, which were cut into dozens of beams, exploded into a large area at the target point, and the B-1 combat robots there were shattered one after another. The heavy artillery behind the walker is also constantly suppressing fire from a distance.
However, they were also taken care of by the defenders. Rockets and anti-tank missiles kept roaring from all directions with long tail flames, exploding on the walking fuselage.
"We can only rely on ourselves!" the technician shouted.
"Clearance King! Grenade!" Hunter shouted immediately.
"Here it comes!!" Clearance King had a clear idea, and immediately picked up a few C-22 fragmentation grenades and threw them out with all his strength. He likes to exercise every day, and his strength is stronger than other Clone Trooper [Note 1]. These grenades were thrown more than a hundred meters by him and exploded at the same time near the hillside!
The C-22 fragmentation grenade is very advanced, with a delayed explosion time of up to two minutes. Clearance King is coarse and fine, and the delayed explosion time of these grenades is adjusted so that they explode at the same time.
With the explosion of the grenade, Hunter doubled up and rushed out like a leopard. At the same time, he kept shaking left and right and changing directions. Several bullets fired at him fell into the air.
There were several Fourth Civilization soldiers wearing Liberator combat suit shooting from behind the bunker. However, Crosshair behind was finally able to show off. Even though he was holding a DC-15S Blaster rifle in his hand, he fired without a high-power scope and accurately killed two enemies.
Rushing to the bottom of the hillside, Hunter directly threw two grenades, and then Blitz rushed to the side of the firepower point. Looking at the frightened eyes of the soldiers, Hunter pulled the trigger and fired a burst of fire!
After removing this firepower point, more Clone Trooper launched attacks one after another. After killing several groups of Fourth Civilization soldiers and robots again, they continued to push the front line forward.
Crosshair came to the hillside, took out his binoculars and looked ahead, and suddenly whispered, "Hunter, I found something strange in front of me. Several Separatists armored vehicles were retreating there after being injured."
"So it's either a maintenance station or a temporary base." The technician said.
"In that case, let's go!" Hunter made a decision immediately.
"Hunter Squad! Your mission is to continue moving forward and capture the position in the direction of H-2-1-9!" A voice came from the rear tactical command center.
Hunter turned off the communicator directly.
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[Note 1: I would like to emphasize that this is still 3 years before the episode "Defective" takes place, so don't compare them 3 years later. A lot of other things happened in between.]