781. Matt-Hona's imagination
In just three days, the number of mercenaries hired to come to the Fermos City battlefield in the Terminus Planet capital has exceeded 10,000.
Moreover, most of these people also brought their own spaceships, further enhancing Galactic Republic's air superiority.
Of course, just to hire these people, Galactic Republic paid nearly 50 million credits.
The attack launched by Fourth Civilization's robot army in the western suburbs was ultimately defeated. With the reinforcements of these mercenaries, Galactic Republic Army began to have an advantage even in terms of numbers.
More than 20,000 robots were destroyed on the battlefield in the western suburbs.
After sending away these robot armies, the ground battlefield of Fourth Civilization fell silent, and no further offensive was launched.
In fact, Fourth Civilization's series of Company One attacks made Galactic Republic himself feel very uncomfortable. When fighting Fourth Civilization Army, the battle damage ratio suffered by the Clone Army was incomparable to other battlefields.
Now that the opponent has finally stopped, Galactic Republic is also seizing the time to transport supplies and troops, renovate the spacecraft and equipment, and prepare for the next wave of offensive.
In fact, Fourth Civilization is indeed preparing for the next wave of offensive.
Three days ago, Matt-Hona submitted their next action plan, and asked Research Department to use the prototypes of the two new warships currently being studied, and to make certain modifications.
His application embarrassed Research Department. In the end, he really couldn't make a decision, so he submitted this request to Tang Xiao, because this application may cause the development of new warships to be delayed for at least half a year.
Are you talking nonsense? You have taken away the prototype ship. What should we use for testing?
After Tang Xiao saw Matt-Hona's plan, even Sith Lord couldn't help but cursed, "Madman."
But he still agreed to Matt-Hona's request, because when he saw the plan, he couldn't help but connect the plan with a special force in his mind.
Hmm... the army in "Halo".
Although I don't have the money to buy that thing now, it should be possible to come up with some alternatives.
All he could say about this was that Matt-Hona was really driven into a panic. His imagination was not inferior to Sefrans-Tann, one of the best generals in the galaxy today.
And to put it another way, Fourth Civilization's Research Department has recently conquered three main new types of warships. As long as it does not affect the other two types of warships that Tang Xiao particularly values, Matt-Hona's efforts are still within the acceptable range. And what Matt-Hona is interested in is really the one that Tang Xiao doesn't care about.
Time passes to 22BBY, October 13th.
Matt-Hona finally got the opportunity they had been waiting for for a long time - two new prototype battleships that had been refitted, and news from Hutt Oruba-Goresla.
The flashing white light lit up when the large battleship left the hyperspace channel, and then two flat, ugly battleships flew over.
It is no exaggeration to say that these two battleships are ugly.
This kind of warship is 1,350 meters long and 540 meters wide. The entire warship does not have any protruding superstructure and is completely a flat plate. If I must say it, there are five large modular bays installed on both sides of the battleship.
If no one explained it, then this battleship would probably be thought to be used for coal mining.
Of course, this kind of battleship from the Emergency Traders Alliance in "Sins of a Solar Empire" is indeed modified from a cargo ship. It is precisely because of this that the scientific research team of Fourth Civilization developed this kind of warship. The main reason is that the research and development work is simple, and it can also try to see if it can bring some new tactics to the navy.
At least one that can scare Galactic Republic.
Corsev Battlecruiser (Corsev Battlecruiser) is the name of this kind of battleship.
This is a battlecruiser for battlefield support. This battleship does not use artillery or fighter jets for support, but Marines.
That's right, it's gang-hopping and fighting!
The ten large modular pods on the battleship are actually used to launch attack spacecraft filled with Marines. This kind of assault spacecraft can accelerate to an extremely fast level in a short distance, and is equipped with a high-power laser welding gun in the front of the spacecraft, which can be used to cut the hull armor. It is also equipped with pressure increasing and reducing equipment to stabilize the atmospheric pressure inside and outside.
Corsev Battlecruiser means to wait until the opponent's warship shield is destroyed, then launch a raiding spaceship to allow a large number of Marines to board the enemy ship, and eliminate the enemy ship's resistance from within. If you are lucky, you may be able to capture the opponent's warship.
The reason why the Fourth Civilization research team believes that this tactic is useful is mainly for two reasons - the first is that the Durasteel armor used by Republic warship is really strong. In almost every space battle, many Republic warship are only damaged but not destroyed. If they cannot gain a decisive advantage in the battle, Republic fleet will often retreat with a large number of injured warships.
Then he took it back for overhaul and a month later it was a good man again.
The second problem is that there are currently a huge number of combat robots in the entire Confederacy of Independent Systems, but they lack enough carrying capacity to allow these robots to exert their combat effectiveness. Otherwise, just throw in 100 million combat robots on any planet Confederacy of Independent Systems, and slowly attack your mere hundreds of thousands of Clone Trooper and the laxly armed local defense forces.
What's more, these combat robots have no way to play a role in space battles.
And Corsev Battlecruiser is the battleship that allows these combat robots to play a role in space battles - wouldn't it be great to turn space battles into land battles? This is the same as the battle between Ancient Rome and Carthage. Since the Romans can't defeat Carthage in a sea battle, then use Corvus warship to directly fight the Carthage people in a land battle.
So sometimes history always appears in a unique way.
The scientific research team of Fourth Civilization developed Corsev Battlecruiser to verify the feasibility of this tactic.
But Matt-Hona wanted these two Kessov-class battleships, but that was not their intention.
After everything was in place, Matt-Hona finally issued the order for an all-out attack!
"The whole army attacks! Terminus Planet will be captured after this battle! If you don't succeed, you will be punished! I am the Calamity!!" Matt-Hona stood upright in the bridge and roared with all his strength.
All the warships Fourth Civilization gathered here mobilized and launched another all-out attack on Galactic Republic fleet!