In just three days, the number of mercenaries hired to come to the battlefield in Fermos, the capital of the planet Terminus, exceeded 10,000.
Moreover, most of these people also brought their own spaceships, further enhancing the Galactic Republic's air superiority.
Of course, just to hire these people, the Galactic Republic paid nearly 50 million credits.
The attack launched by the Fourth Civilization's robot legion in the western suburbs was ultimately defeated. With the reinforcements of these mercenaries, the Galactic Republic's army began to gain 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 the Fourth Civilization fell silent, and no further offensive was launched.
In fact, the Fourth Civilization's series of offensives made the Galactic Republic itself feel very uncomfortable. When fighting the Fourth Civilization's army, the battle damage ratio suffered by the clone army was incomparable to other battlefields.
Now that the opponent has finally stopped, the Republic is also seizing the time to transport supplies and troops, repair spaceships and equipment, and prepare for the next wave of offensive.
In fact, the Fourth Civilization is indeed preparing for the next wave of offensive.
Three days ago, Matt Horner submitted his next action plan and asked the scientific research department to use the prototypes of the two new warships currently being studied, and to make certain modifications.
His application put the scientific research department in a dilemma, and in the end they had no way to make a decision, so they submitted this request to Tang Xiao, because this application might delay the development of new warships 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 Horner's plan, even he, a Sith Lord, couldn't help but cursed, "Madman."
But he still agreed to Matt Horner'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 he really pushed Matt Horner to the edge. His thinking was not inferior to Severance Tann, one of the best players in the galaxy today.
And to put it another way, the scientific research department of the Fourth Civilization has recently been conquering three main new types of warships. As long as it does not affect the other two that Tang Xiao values especially, Matt Horner can still do whatever he wants.
Within the acceptable range. And what Matt Horner is interested in is really the one that Tang Xiao doesn't care about.
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Time passes to 22BBY, October 13th.
Matt Horner finally got the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time - two prototypes of new warships that had been refitted, and news from the Hutt Oruba Gorensla.
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, there are 5 large modules installed on both sides of the warship.
Transform cabin.
If no one explains it, then this battleship will probably be thought to be used for coal mining.
Of course, this kind of warship from the Emergency Traders Alliance in "Original Sins of a Solar Empire" is indeed modified from a cargo ship. It is precisely because of this that the scientific research team of the Fourth Civilization developed this kind of warship, mainly for research and development.
The work is simple, and you can also try to see if it can bring some new tactics to the navy.
At least one that can scare the Republic.
Corsev-class battlecruiser (Corsev Battlecruiser) is the name of this kind of battleship.
This is a battlecruiser used for battlefield support. This battleship does not use artillery or fighter jets for support, but uses marines.
That’s right, it’s gang-hopping and fighting!
The ten large modular pods of the battleship are actually used to launch assault spacecraft filled with Marines. This assault spacecraft can accelerate to extremely fast levels in a short distance, and a high-power device is installed in front of the spacecraft.
The laser welding gun can be used to cut hull armor, and it is also equipped with pressure increasing and reducing equipment to stabilize the atmospheric pressure inside and outside.
The Kesov-class battlecruiser waits until the opponent's battleship shield is destroyed, launches a raiding spaceship to allow a large number of marines to board the enemy ship, and eliminates the enemy ship's resistance from within. If you are lucky, you may be able to capture it.
The opponent's battleship.
The reason why the Fourth Civilization scientific research team believes that this tactic is useful is mainly for two reasons-the first is that the resistant steel armor used by the Galactic Republic warships is really strong. In almost every space battle, many Republic warships are only injured.
Without destroying it, if it cannot achieve a decisive advantage in the battle, the 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 the entire Federation of Independent Systems now has a huge number of combat robots, but it lacks enough carrying capacity to allow these robots to exert their combat effectiveness. Otherwise, the Federation of Independent Systems on any planet can throw them in.
There are billions of battle robots, your mere hundreds of thousands of clone soldiers and the poorly armed local defense forces. Slowly attack them.
What's more, these combat robots have no way to play a role in space battles.
The Kesov-class 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 like the battle between ancient Rome and Carthage
Similarly, since the Romans couldn't defeat Carthage in a naval battle, they could use the Raven battleship to directly engage the Carthaginians in a land battle.
So sometimes history always reappears in a unique way.
The scientific research team of the Fourth Civilization developed the Kesov-class battlecruiser just to verify the feasibility of this tactic.
But Matt Horner wanted these two Kesov-class battleships, but that was not his intention.
After everything was in place, Matt Horner finally issued the order to attack with all his might!
"The whole army attacks! After this battle, the planet Terminus will be captured! If you don't succeed, you will be punished! I will be a natural disaster!!" Matt Horner stood upright in the bridge and roared with all his strength.
All the battleships of the Fourth Civilization gathered here mobilized and launched another all-out attack on the Galactic Republic fleet!