941. Western Reaches Campaign: Battle for Talastra (Part 2)
Fourth Civilization Army Three regiments, more than 11,000 people, suffered heavy losses in this landing operation. Even if the transport ship tried its best to rescue them, less than 3,000 people could return.
Seeing such a miserable situation, Major General of the Army Ling Liang was furious and rushed in front of Sefrans-Tann. The two had a big quarrel again and almost started fighting again.
After that, Ling Liang wrote a detailed report on Fourth Civilization Supreme Military Command, but did not ask for the replacement of Sefrans-Tann. She just hoped that her behavior of blocking herself in the dormitory in violation of regulations and making decisions without authorization would be dealt with, and she reserved the right to appeal to Supreme Military Court after the battle.
Then, Ling Liang returned to his job and continued to work on this battle. But anyone with a discerning eye can see that Commander, Sefrans-Tann and Ling Liang, have completely broken up.
Now Fourth Civilization fleet has destroyed the turret groups set by the Republic 18th Army on four of the satellites of Talastra Planet. Republic fleet found that the battle situation was hopeless, so it retreated from the outer orbit of Talastra Planet.
On April 35, the last satellite equipped with a turret group on the periphery of Talastra Planet was blown up, and the fleet of Fourth Civilization finally won the first stage of victory.
Then, Kohl-class Battlecruiser among Fourth Civilization fleet began to collect local materials, collect the wreckage of battleships and fighter jets that were destroyed in the previous battle, smelt them into balls of metal projectiles, and then use Hypermatter Railgun to launch them in the direction of Eriadu.
The war has temporarily subsided...
After experiencing the offensive and defensive battle of Talastra Planet, both warring parties realized the strength of the other party.
Wilhuff-Tarkin completely gave up the idea of fighting Fourth Civilization fleet without cover. He huddled all his warships between Eriadu and the planet satellite, relying on these two stars, both equipped with Planetary Shield, for defense.
And at this time, on May 2, bad news came again - the actual controller of Salust, Sothropp Corporation's fleet attack Agomar failed again!
Fourth Civilization lost 20 of the past 35 Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser ships. Sothropp Corporation invested more than 2 million B-1 combat robots to land on Agomar, but not even one came back.
At the same time, bad news also came from the direction of Tibrin!
Galactic Republic's Jedi Knight Anakin-Skywalker and Ahsoka-Tano quietly spread a nano-virus on the planet, which directly paralyzed almost all combat robots on the planet. Fourth Civilization Engineering Department experts are working overnight to crack this virus, but there is no result yet.
So now on Tibrin, only Fourth Civilization Army cooperates with the native army of the Ishi-Tibu people to resist the extremely elite clone warriors.
Clone Army turned from defense to offense, and Anakin-Skywalker masters and apprentices took action again, destroying the J-1 heavy proton cannon sent by the Technological Alliance, allowing the only ship Acclamator-class assault ship that could still move to show its power again.
Fortunately, the planet's Acting Governor, Dark Followers Sola-Balk personally took action, defeated Anakin-Skywalker, and saved two of the J-1 proton cannons. But in the end, he still let the slippery Anakin run away.
But in this way, the battle situation for Tibrin has become extremely dangerous, and even the fleets Sefrans-Tann attacking Eriadu system also feel a hint of threat from the flanks.
Sefrans-Tann stood on the bridge of the flagship Luukri-Hok-class battleship with his hands behind his back, looking at the vast universe outside the porthole, silent.
After paying a huge price to barely conquer Eriadu system's outer defense line, the successive bad news also made her understand that with her own strength, it was almost impossible to conquer Eriadu in a frontal battle.
Ling Liang is right, she does feel anxious because she has not yet found a way to chew down this iron bucket array.
As the battle progressed, huge amounts of supplies were consumed every day, but she was unable to resolve the battle quickly.
Ling Liang's accusation is very reasonable, but at the same time it is also unreasonable. Those 10,000 people were used to fight for a chance, which was not a big chance, so in the eyes of Sefrans-Tann, it was normal to fail.
She never cared about the life or death of her subordinates.
But what now? End the war? Impossible... Both she and Tang Xiao knew very well that if they couldn't take advantage of the strong period when they just took over Blade Fleet to capture Eriadu, they would have no chance in the future.
Looking at the other side of the porthole, there were Kohl-class Battlecruiser lined up in a row, constantly firing Hypermatter Railgun towards Eriadu, like setting off fireworks, but more importantly, it was a vent to her helplessness.
Meanwhile, Eriadu, outer space Operations Command Center.
"Enemy kinetic energy weapon fire detected, orbital M-4479, affected by gravity, deflection rate 0.00042%..." A radar soldier turned back and reported to the commander.
"Start the interception procedure." The officer behind him gave the order.
On the military base of Eriadu satellite, three large-scale orbital defense systems began to turn their huge muzzles and began to aim. Then powerful energy began to accumulate, and then suddenly blasted out with a cannon!
The dull sound of artillery spread far, far away...
At the same time, the two CR-70 frigates broke away from the huge fleet array and flew towards the solid metal projectile launched.
Three groups of light lit up in the empty and dark universe. This was the light produced when the heavy-duty Hypermatter High Explosive Shell launched by the orbital defense system exploded near the solid projectile.
The huge kinetic energy generated by the explosion caused the metal projectile to deviate from its trajectory and begin to lose speed.
"Correction of coordinates, pre-aim... launch!" On the CR-70 frigate, the captain calmly gave the order.
The two frigates immediately launched full-power tractor beams at the corrected coordinates. The invisible beam accurately enveloped the metal projectile. The extremely powerful force began to drag the projectile from two directions at the same time, making the projectile's speed lower and lower.
After flying for thousands of kilometers, the metal projectile with a diameter of more than 40 meters finally stopped.
The officer among Galactic Republic Operations Command Center sneered, waved his hand and said, "Ask them to send this shell to the factory to be melted and used as raw material, and then remember to send a public channel message to Separatists to thank them for their contribution to Galactic Republic's metallurgical mining."
He deliberately spoke loudly and glanced at the thin figure who had been standing in front of the porthole, standing motionless with his hands behind his back.
However, there was no response from their governor, Wilhuff-Tarkin.