Hearing Tarkin's words, the adjutant suddenly realized, "So that's it, then Saw Gerrera is a scapegoat? And the reason why you rejected Saw Gerrera's proposal and left the Royal Guard is so that we can kill him as a scapegoat later.
, can we get more support?”
Wilhuff Tarkin looked like a coward and said, "I'm glad you finally understand my intentions, that's good."
"The Governor is still far-sighted." The adjutant quickly flattered him, "When the time comes, as long as we say a word, those royal guards will immediately send So-Gerrera's head... Hahahaha."
But Tarkin immediately looked solemn and said: "Now that you know it, put away all your illusions! Capture the Dexon satellite as soon as possible! Let this battle come to an end as soon as possible! We need to reorganize our offensive and concentrate our forces on
Where a breakthrough has been achieved, sufficient depth will be formed within the city shield!"
"yes!"
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The battle on the Dexon satellite is still going on. Under the continuous bombing by the fleet and army of the Galactic Republic, the city-level shield of the City of Steel has almost reached its limit. The shields in many places have begun to appear due to insufficient charging.
The gap created.
With the most extreme and precise assistance of the navigation robot, the Galactic Republic fighter pilots rushed into the city while the city shield was flashing, and then in the last few seconds before they were shot down, they boarded their fighter jets.
Launch everything that can be launched!
The City of Steel's air defense firepower points began to suffer losses. Once losses occurred, there would be gaps in the dense fire network. Under this situation, the air power of the Galactic Republic would have more room to move.
Two of the ten huge orbital defense cannons around the city have been captured by the continuous attacks of the Galactic Republic Army. Before the battle to the end, the combat robots also detonated the huge energy source installed in the orbital defense cannons.
The bomb on the core was destroyed along with the Republic Army.
After experiencing an initial comprehensive siege that lasted nearly half a day, the Galactic Republic Army also made adjustments based on the offensive situation launched at dozens of landing points.
Under the meticulous command of Wilhuff Tarkin, the Republic Army began to abandon those landing points that had suffered heavy losses and made poor progress due to heavy attacks by the Separatists, and then focused on launching attacks in the remaining nine directions.
These nine directions were also the directions from which the Galactic Republic Army was finally able to break into the shield range after suffering a large number of casualties.
However, in order to achieve such a result, more than 700,000 Republic soldiers have been buried here.
On the battlefield on the planet Onderon, countless corpses piled up almost like mountains. For these corpses, the Separatists were basically combat robots, so naturally it didn't matter, but the Republic had to use various methods to dispose of these as much as possible.
Corpse.
Since the war started, too many people have died.
Some of the corpses were disposed of on the spot on the planet Dirksen, and were thrown into the lava pits and volcanoes caused by previous orbital bombings like garbage and burned directly. There were also some wounded who died on the planet Onderon, generally just
Several corpse-burning pits were established on the outskirts of the city and were disposed of in a unified manner.
After that, the Galactic Republic's continuous offensive slowed down a bit, then reorganized its troops, and then launched an overwhelming attack again!
However, this time, the situation suddenly changed!
The separatist army, which had been passively defensive, suddenly showed its terrifying fangs!
Scorpion tank!
More than 400 Scorpion tanks, under the cover of more than 100 M-9 Wolverine anti-aircraft assault vehicles, drove out of the underground garage of the City of Steel, and then drove directly towards the rear of the Republic army!
At this moment, the Galactic Republic army is focusing its offensive in nine directions, but this also means that there are gaps between these places that cannot be controlled.
The Scorpion tank cluster launched a penetration attack from these gaps!
It should be said that Wilhuff Tarkin's command was correct. After all, the City of Steel has a radius of more than 500 kilometers. It is a super giant city and a fortress city. Even if the Galactic Republic has an army of 7 million, it cannot be sustained.
Launching an all-out attack on this front with a circumference of one to two thousand kilometers and concentrating our forces on assaults in certain directions is a completely correct choice.
However, Governor Tarkin, who wanted to end the battle as soon as possible, was blinded by the passive posture of the separatists. He focused all his attention on how to launch an attack, but he did not expect that General Kalani had been holding the
A counterattack force.
Scorpion tank!
Since the analysis of this tank was completed and it entered the fourth civilization's army equipment sequence, it quickly became the favorite equipment of army generals. Not only because of the excellent performance of the Scorpion tank, but also because the production cost is low enough and the production process is difficult.
Not big either.
This means that even an ordinary industrial planet will have enough capacity to mass-produce Scorpion tanks.
Originally, army generals did not need to care about production, but the low cost of Scorpion tanks directly resulted in these generals being able to easily obtain a large enough tank group.
Who doesn’t love a tank like this?
The same is true for the Dirksen satellite. After receiving information about the Republic's imminent invasion, in addition to evacuating the original Behemoth-class battlecruiser production line, another important task they had was to convert part of the production line to produce Scorpion tanks.
Within a few months, this factory group that manufactures thousand-meter-class battleships produced hundreds of Scorpion tanks.
And now, these tanks hit Wilhuff Tarkin directly in the face!
More than 400 Scorpion tanks were divided into several directions and were resolutely interspersed. In order to complete such complex tactical maneuvers, the crews of these Scorpion tanks were all the Fourth Civilization Army, not just B-1 combat robots!
The Scorpion tank cluster directly cut off the supply lines between several of the Republic Army troops and the rear landing sites, forcing these Republic troops to retreat to defend, or even withdraw from the shield range they had finally penetrated.
After that, these Scorpion tanks directly attacked the artillery positions set up by the Republic more than ten kilometers away!
After the furious Wilhuff-Tarkin concentrated fighter formations bombarded these Scorpion tanks and finally forced the Scorpion tank group to retreat, the several artillery positions they set up were in a mess.
Five of the precious SPHA-T self-propelled turbolaser guns were destroyed by this assault!
You must know that the cost of such an expensive weapon is comparable to that of a battleship, and the cost is only double digits in the entire galaxy!