[Building a country does not rely on dreams, it ultimately relies on iron and blood.
——Excerpted from "The Hundred Years' War - Chronicle of the Wars of the Fourth Reich"]
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The Battle of Terminus ended with a tragic defeat for the Galactic Republic and a tragic victory for the Dawn Planet.
The Galactic Republic fleet had to abandon all ground forces and retreat. They only had about 30 battleships left, and almost every battleship was severely damaged.
Of course, before they retreated, the ground troops on the planet had actually been dispersed long ago, losing all possibility of retreat.
The power of orbital airborne tactics is that the orbital airborne troops can smash the entire front to pieces, and then force the enemy to fight in every area at the same time. The disadvantage, of course, is that almost every airborne trooper will be in an almost desperate situation.
Fight on location.
Such an army also exists in "Halo". They are all ordinary people, but they have a steel-like fighting will and a spirit of fearlessness. No matter when and where a war breaks out, they will always be the first to jump in.
hell.
That's right, after Tang Xiao saw Matt Horner's battle plan, he immediately thought of such an iron army - the Hell Paratroopers ODST!
Such an army is not created, but is formed over a long period of time under the influence of discipline, honor, and faith. And such soldiers do exist in the hands of the Fourth Civilization - the Fourth Legion.
Thus, this orbital airborne force that turned the tide of the war in one fell swoop was established.
They also brought victory to the battle for Terminus!
Tang Xiao believes that given time, the fourth civilization will also have their own hell paratroopers!
The Battle of Terminus finally ended. In this battle, the Galactic Republic invested 92 large battleships and 244 small and medium-sized battleships. Most of them were destroyed, leaving only 11 large battleships and 23 medium-sized battleships.
Small warships were able to return, and the navy lost more than 600,000 officers and soldiers.
There were also 11,000 fighter jets of various types, with more than 9,400 lost and 8,900 pilots killed.
In terms of ground troops, 19,000 clone soldiers were killed and more than 600 were captured. More than 88,000 native garrison troops were killed and 120,000 were captured.
The Fourth Civilization invested 110 large battleships and 80 small and medium-sized battleships. The surviving large battleships and 33 small and medium-sized battleships resulted in the loss of more than 27,000 naval officers and soldiers and the loss of more than 700,000 robot crews, the vast majority of which
They are all B-1 combat robots, but more than 200 expensive T-series tactical robots were also lost.
Moreover, the total investment of the Fourth Civilization was 18,000 Vulture robot fighters, of which only more than 1,000 were saved, while the other 3,000 Phantom fighters were lost over 1,900, and the 400 Viking fighters were lost over 80. After deducting 1,100 of them who participated
In addition to the pilots who were resurrected in new cloned bodies during the Rebirth Project, there were actually 800 fighter pilots killed in action.
On the ground battlefield, the Fourth Civilization Army lost more than 31,000 soldiers and more than 60,000 robots of various types. As for the most elite Fourth Army, more than 4,400 people were killed in the battle, and the actual number of casualties was - 0.
All members of this army that were absolutely loyal to Tang Xiao joined the Rebirth Plan. Almost none of the soldiers of the Fourth Army were married. They had nothing to worry about. The only thing they had to do was to be loyal to Tang Xiao and kill everyone who stood in the way of the Second Army on the battlefield.
Four civilizations, stop Tang Xiao's enemies.
But even so, such a heavy loss is something that the Fourth Civilization cannot bear.
After the battle, the first thing Tang Xiao said at the Federation Council of Independent Systems held on the subplanet of Lasax was, "After this battle, the Dawn Planet has completely lost its strategic offensive capabilities."
What he said was not an exaggeration.
During the Battle of Terminus, the war reserves accumulated by the Fourth Civilization for ten years were exhausted.
Before the war began, the Fourth Civilization had a total of 150 large warships. In the following time, about 50 ships were put into service, and nearly 40 ships were lost in previous battles. This time, more than 80 large warships were directly lost.
Equivalent to half of all battleships.
Therefore, in addition to the C fleet defending the Endor system, the garrison fleet of the Terminus planet, and the main fleet of the Republic's 18th Army on the planet Glensun on the planet Eriadu, the fourth civilization is indeed
There are really no more mobile fleets to take the initiative to launch an attack.
For them, the greatest significance is to occupy the transportation hub Terminus planet, thereby surrounding the 18th Army of the Republic on three sides, which will play a decisive role in the future strategic development.
And in order to prevent the Republic from launching a counterattack on the planet Terminus, the Fourth Civilization also began to make many arrangements.
The secret organization promoted by Tang Xiao, the Freemasonry Alliance, began to take effect. The Semires people immediately accepted many orders, and even shirked the warship manufacturing plan of the Federation of Independent Systems and began to build the Agonev-class star on the planet Semires.
The parts structure of the base.
On the surface, the Jiwen people have not yet separated from the Galactic Republic, and have declared neutrality during the war. They made a fuss in the Galactic Parliament and resolutely prevented the 20th Army of the Republic from going south to reinforce the 18th Army of the Republic. At the same time, they also began to carry out military operations based on the 18th Army of the Republic.
To meet the needs of the four civilizations, build a new type of main battleship.
Although it has not yet expressed its intention to join the Masonic Alliance, the Trade Alliance, which has begun to align with the strategy of the Fourth Civilization, has sent a large number of engineering spacecraft and a large number of B-1 combat robots to the planet Terminus.
The most powerful one is the Interstellar Banking Association. In addition to giving the Fourth Civilization a large number of low-interest war loans, San-Ciel and Tyran Heavy Industries have set up an industrial base on the planet Onderon to continuously produce behemoth-level war weapons.
This fleet of cruisers has secretly headed to the planet Christophsis and begun to open a hyperspace channel to establish contact with the planet Terminus.
At the same time, given that the campaign launched by General Grievous on the planet Bosavi was also coming to an end, General Grievous did not continue the madness of the festival offensive, but was blocked by the Galactic Republic in this battle.
The battle for Planet Bosavi is on the verge of failure.
In order to continue to hold back the Galactic Republic, prevent them from adding more troops to the 18th Army, and buy the defenders of Terminus enough time to build a defense line, Tang Xiao immediately ordered Severance Tann's fleet
Continue to expand the results in the core circle of the Republic and attract the attention of the Republic.
At the same time, another chess piece he had arranged before also started to act more blatantly under his instruction!
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For the Galactic Republic and the 18th Army, losing the Battle of Terminus was both a good thing and a bad thing.
The bad thing is naturally that after losing this transportation artery, it will be difficult to limit the strategic offensive of the fourth civilization... but the good thing is that they have actually limited it.