777. The battle situation is stalemate
In the battle of Kilin Wasteland, Fourth Civilization invested 15,000 army soldiers and more than 15,000 combat robots to launch a determined attack on Galactic Republic's defense line.
Republic clone army here is 118th Assault Regiment with a total of 5,000 people, plus some Terminus Planet local Public Security Department teams with about 3,000 people.
Those local Public Security Department teams were naturally on the verge of collapse, but Clone Army's resistance was very tenacious. They arranged their defense lines in an orderly manner and blocked Fourth Civilization Army's advance in most positions.
Republic clone army's fighting qualities are very strong. Even under the indiscriminate bombardment of Siege Tank, he remained calm and counterattacked calmly with the help of pre-set positions.
With the fire support of a large number of AT-TE walkers, AT-XT walkers and AV-7 self-propelled artillery, Galactic Republic's position is almost impenetrable.
Moreover, Galactic Republic continues to have an absolute advantage in the number of fighter jets on the battlefield. Vulture droid fighter can only play a role in harassing Galactic Republic's fighter jets. Only Wraith fighter can still pose a fatal threat to Galactic Republic's fighter jets.
But after all, the number of Wraith fighter is small, and the duration of the stealth device is limited, so there is not much time to take off for combat. Compared to Galactic Republic, they have enough pilots and enough fighters to rotate.
This is also the biggest difficulty faced by the Fourth Civilization Army. They had to start attacking when Wraith fighter took off for combat. When Wraith fighter retreated, they could only stop the attack and organize defense on the spot.
Clone Army seized this opportunity very keenly. As soon as Wraith fighter retreated, he immediately launched a counterattack.
The LAAT/I assault transport boat bombarded the Fourth Civilization Army head indiscriminately, and the V-19 Torrent light fighter plane also continued to swoop down and shoot.
At this time, Fourth Civilization's army could only rely on Goliath Mech and M-9 Wolverine anti-aircraft vehicle to resist. Fortunately, these two units had strong air defense capabilities. Otherwise, those brave warriors would have suffered heavy losses in Galactic Republic's air strikes just like Confederacy of Independent Systems army on other battlefields.
However, Fourth Civilization's new Army Lieutenant General, the legendary General Tank Dai Hongkui from "Command and Conquer: Generals" played a great role.
After taking office, he began to conduct rigorous training in the Fourth Civilization Armored Corps, practicing large-scale mixed-arms armor assault tactics. This armored assault tactic also played a great role. Under the command of the frontline Commander Xiao Guanghua, the Fourth Civilization Armored Corps and Mechanized Infantry Division first conducted a concentrated assault, and then the relatively slow robots and mechas entered the position to expand the results.
This is actually an improvement of the Blitz battle in World War II on a certain Blue Star, and it shines again here because of the emergence of reliable wheeled equipment in the "Halo" world and armored units equipped with suspension engines in the native world.
When the advancement of armored units no longer relies on roads or flat desert or plain terrain, Blitz combat tactics have once again become a powerful tactic.
In contrast, Republic army, which has just lost its fighting tradition in more than a thousand years of distorted peace and is still in the stage of learning while fighting, is very uncomfortable with such large-scale legion-level assault tactics.
You must know that even though Clone Trooper's combat quality is extremely high, their training is still outsourced to those excellent bounty Hunter.
Naturally, Hunter, who is a lone ranger and is good at individual combat, cannot teach them these things.
The battle of Kilin Wasteland became a turning point after Huang Yehao's company occupied Hill 1103 and established a powerful artillery position.
After the Galactic Republic Army found that it was impossible to retake the high ground after several counterattacks, it was discovered that relying on this high ground, Fourth Civilization Army's firepower covered an area of more than 50 kilometers around. In this area, Republic army's actions will be greatly affected. If they cannot close this gap of more than 50 kilometers, their flanks will be greatly threatened, and they may even be in danger of being encircled.
Therefore, Republic army continuously retreated for more than 150 kilometers, deployed defenses again on the outskirts of the Terminus Planet capital Fermos City, and prepared for street fighting.
Fourth Civilization also suffered heavy losses in the battle of Kilin Wasteland, not only in soldiers, but also in combat supplies. They also had to stop and wait for more supplies to arrive.
This is the focus of the battle between the two sides in the outer space of the planet.
In the battle in outer space, the fleets of both sides were evenly matched. Galactic Republic had about 70 battleships, while Fourth Civilization had more than 50 ships. The two sides attacked each other many times, but each time the defending side had the upper hand.
Fourth Civilization was limited by the hyperspace channel, making it difficult to supply, and Galactic Republic could not provide endless reinforcements. The fleets of both sides began to fall into a stalemate.
As for Confederacy of Independent Systems, General Grievous resumed his offensive. He began to organize his army to attack Bosa's home planet Bosavic Planet. In order to keep Bosa, a very useful and highly civilized race, in Galactic Republic, Galactic Republic 13th Army immediately organized almost all fleets to defend it.
But this is only part of the story. Galactic Republic has a civil strife on Outer Rim Territories's largest shipbuilding industry planet Mon Calamari. Quarren, who is secretly allied with Count Dooku, has launched an uprising and wants to challenge Mon Calamari, who is loyal to Galactic Republic, for its dominance on the planet. The two sides have already had several conflicts.
And Sefrans-Tann led Plague Titan warship. After joining the fleet of Trade Federation, Republic 2nd Legion eliminated Kato-Neimoidia was surrounded and Republic's 7th Fleet was completely annihilated, and this huge fleet of 120 warships was approaching 2nd Legion headquarters Nubian Planet.
Under such circumstances, no matter how good the relationship between Governor 18th Army Wilhuff-Tarkin and Speaker Sheev-Palpatine is, Galactic Republic cannot continue to provide such uninterrupted reinforcements.
As a result, the battle at Terminus Planet fell into a stalemate, with both sides constantly dispatching fighter jets and light warships to harass the other side's supply lines.
Fourth Civilization Navy Admiral Matt-Hona also had his own plans. He began to build a large number of Gauss armed platforms and Hangar Platform close to the Manfarr hyperspace channel for defense. Then he occupied one of the Terminus Planet satellites and began to build a huge Mass Driver on the satellite.
Once this Mass Driver is completed, Fourth Civilization will be able to bombard Terminus Planet with metal waste directly from the satellite. This can also be regarded as a kind of Orbital Bombardment that changes direction, but it is not so destructive and will not cause the extinction of planetary species and environmental damage.