After this period of continuous fighting, continuous reinforcements, and continuous losses, the Fourth Civilization’s fleet on the planet Terminus now has 84 battleships.
Among them, there are 7 Sova-class aircraft carriers, 15 Cole-class battlecruisers, 8 Higra-class battlecruisers, 4 Genergy-class communications frigates, 8 Masha-class heavy cruisers, and 3 Rukrihuk-class battleships.
, a total of 45 large battleships.
In addition, there are 25 Guard-class light anti-aircraft destroyers, 12 Brown Bear-class heavy destroyers, and 2 Xingzi-class maintenance drone carriers.
On the Republic side, there are 110 large and small battleships. Among them, the large battleships include 5 Cheer-class assault landing ships, 3 Invincible-class battlecruisers, 1 Prosecutor-class battlecruiser, and 10 Jaeger-class battleships.
Cruisers, 15 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers, a total of 34 ships.
The others are all small and medium-sized warships such as CR-70 frigates, Corellian DP-20 gunboats, Karak-class light cruisers, and Aquitens-class light cruisers.
In general, the fleets of both sides are close in strength, and neither can do anything to the other.
In fact, the Fourth Civilization's fleet under the command of Matt Horner had already severely damaged the Republic fleet and had the advantage. However, under the command of the 18th Army Governor Wilhuff Tarkin, the Republic relied on its own strength.
The industrial power of the country used refueling tactics to pull back the Republic fleet that was about to collapse.
Then a large number of battleships and officers and soldiers were used to fill it directly, using lives and steel to delay time, giving the Republic fleet the opportunity to gather more battleships.
After suffering greater losses, the Republic fleet was able to gain a foothold in the outer space of the planet Terminus. But in Wilhuff Tarkin's words, he could fully accept the exchange of five Jaeger-class ships for one.
Cole-class battle damage, but the question is, can the Dawn Planet do it?
Not to mention the Dawn Planet, even the Confederacy of Independent Systems cannot afford the final result of this Clone War that will last for three years!
It was under such circumstances that the battle between the two sides became such a meat grinder. Almost everyone was not optimistic that Dawn Planet could win this battle - because they were facing the Galactic Republic.
Now, Matt Horner is about to break this situation.
He wants to win!
As the Cole-class battlecruiser's 40-meter-caliber super-matter electromagnetic gun was fired, the dazzling light like the sun lit up, and the general attack began!
The fleets on both sides kept getting closer and kept firing with their strongest firepower!
Fighters from both sides also took off, flying around the battlefield like locusts, pouring out missiles and proton torpedoes.
As usual, the fleet of the Galactic Republic occupies the low-Earth orbit of the planet Terminus. On the one hand, it blocks possible orbital bombardment by the Fourth Civilization Fleet, and on the other hand, it also uses the firepower of the orbital defense system on the planet.
If it were in the past, the Fourth Civilization Fleet's offensive would have been much more cautious, but now, their offensive is crazy! They don't care about the Republic Fleet's defense methods at all, there is only one word, attack!
While the battle in space was unfolding, in the core area of the ground battlefield, on the western outskirts of Fermos, the capital of the planet Terminus, the Army of the Fourth Civilization finally began its attack!
In the previous battle, they threw away almost two-thirds of the combat robots, just to cooperate with the battle plan. Therefore, now, almost all the army soldiers of the fourth civilization launched the attack.
The clone army of the Galactic Republic immediately went into defense. In the past few days, they increased the number of clone soldiers defending the Fermoth battlefield to 8,000. Almost three-fifths of the clone army on the planet have been deployed here. Again
With the addition of more than 10,000 mercenaries, their strength can now be said to be very sufficient.
Siege tanks' 180mm caliber siege guns roared, cluster rockets fired by Banshee fighter jets rained down, Ghost fighter jets fought in the sky, and Mastodon armored personnel carriers roared into the battlefield loaded with army soldiers.
This is an extremely cruel contest!
But as soon as this battle started, things suddenly changed.
When the Fourth Civilization Army launched its attack, the mercenaries who had been brave and fearless when resisting the robot army's offensive now simply dispersed and ran away!
This run actually doesn't matter to the elite clone soldiers. They have long been accustomed to fighting surrounded by powerful enemies. However, the most deadly thing is that as soon as these mercenaries escape, a large area of the battlefield becomes empty.
Big gap!
Not only are there gaps on the ground, but there are also gaps in the air defense zones manned by mercenary spaceships!
The Army of the Fourth Civilization seemed to have known this result for a long time. Almost all their armored and mechanized forces were now concentrated in the direction of the mercenaries!
These mechanized corps crossed at high speed, passed through the mercenary positions, formed a pincer-shaped offensive, penetrated directly behind the clone army, and headed straight for the city of Fermos!
And the Fourth Civilization Air Force, whose pressure was suddenly relieved, immediately seized the opportunity to launch a fierce air attack on the artillery positions of the Republic Army.
All of this was naturally arranged by the Hutt gang leader, Oruba Gorensla.
With his influence in the underworld, it is definitely impossible to make those mercenaries risk their lives, violate the contract and betray the Republic on the battlefield, but it is absolutely no problem to give them an extra sum of money to let them escape from the battlefield.
Being able to escape on the battlefield, not only will no one be punished, but you can also get another bounty? Where can you find such a good thing! What's more, this is an order from the Hutt gang leader. This is nothing compared to an administrative order or a military order.
Something much more effective.
Those mercenaries may not listen to the Republic or the Confederacy of Independent Systems, but they absolutely cannot not listen to the Hutts.
The clone army realized that the situation was not good, and they immediately began to retreat in an orderly manner, trying to break through the encirclement before the encirclement closed, and returned to Fermos City to start street fighting.
These extremely elite warriors actually did it.
The clone soldiers first gathered their own armored troops and fought hard to block the assault of the mechanized troops of the fourth civilization. With their physical fitness that was almost the limit of human beings and their instinctive fighting consciousness, they withstood the attack of the mechanized troops of the fourth civilization.
It bought valuable time for the following infantry units.
They began to withdraw back to Fermos City one after another. Now most of the civilians in the city have been evacuated, and almost every building has been temporarily reinforced and has become a fortress.
This place, according to the plan, will become another meat grinder, a meat grinder that will drain the blood of the Fourth Civilization Army!
However, the commanders of the Republic did not notice what those mercenaries brought with them when they came, and what they left behind when they fled from the battle...
Even at this time, the Republic commander also failed to notice that the mass launcher that Matt Horner had built on the satellite to launch metal garbage had followed the rotation of the satellite and was now pointing at the strangling target of the warships from both sides.
battlefield.
Yes, the time and place to launch the attack were carefully calculated.
Of course, the Republic commander would not care about this kind of mass launcher that is not very powerful and can only be used to throw some metal garbage at the planet. Because this thing poses no threat to battleships.
But they were wrong again. The mass launcher was not filled with cannonballs.