The war ignited throughout the galaxy is intensifying again...
On March 15, the Interstellar Banking Association and the Fourth Group suddenly launched an attack in the northern part of the galaxy. They assembled a powerful force of 30 Behemoth-class battlecruisers and more than 50 Kanggui-class communications frigates to suddenly launch a surprise attack.
The fleet of the 8th Army of the Galactic Republic surrounding the planet Mequito was almost collapsed in the face of such a powerful force. Jedi Master Sars-Tin personally led a fighter squadron to raid the flagship of the Separatist fleet when the battle situation collapsed.
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The Dark Jedi Knight Uru-Ulix who was in command was almost killed by Sars-Tin. When he fled in panic, the Republic fleet finally seized this only opportunity and took advantage of the chaos of the Separatist fleet to evacuate the battlefield.
Immediately afterwards, Ulu-Ulix, who had regained his composure, led the fleet to march straight in and began to attack the important node in the hyperspace channel leading to the 8th Army headquarters Oud-Mantel planet - the planet Zhanfatar (
Janfathal).
When the planet was surrounded, the long-oppressed workers on the planet launched a strike and refused to produce any products for the planet's government to resist the invasion of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
After analyzing the battle situation, the Supreme Strategic Command of the Galactic Republic concluded that the offensive in the north cannot be ignored, because this is likely to lead to the loss of control of the relatively stable northern territory of the Milky Way again after suffering blows on both the western and southern battlefields.
But now the fleets in all aspects are stretched thin, and the manpower and commanders are also very short. After discussions with the Jedi Order, the Jedi Order stated that now that Master Windu is seriously injured, the Jedi Order cannot provide more manpower to help.
Northern battlefield.
As a result, the Republic's Supreme Strategic Command found a splinter Jedi sect-the Altis Sect.
This sect refused to accept the leadership of the Jedi Order, but continued to serve the Galactic Republic as a semi-independent group, led by a male human Jedi named Dijnn Altis.
Jain Altis readily agreed to the Republic's call. He led a team of Jedi Knights from the Altis sect to the planet Coruscant and participated in discussions about the war situation.
Afterwards, Speaker Sheev Palpatine of the Galactic Republic personally issued an administrative order and dispatched a fleet from the Corellian system to reinforce the planet Zanfatar.
The combined fleets of the Interstellar Banking Association and the Fourth Group deployed half of their forces on the planet Janfatar, and the other fleets went to surrounding systems to expand their results. At this time, the fleet led by Jain Altis launched a surprise attack on them.
Many of the Galactic Republic's fleets are small spacecraft produced by the Corellian Engineering Company, plus some Jaeger-class battlecruisers under Master Sars-Tine. Although they are large in number, the battle situation is still not optimistic.
The Behemoth-class battlecruiser showed great power in this battle. The semi-axis-based shaped plasma cannon-Yamato Cannon equipped on the bow of the ship was extremely powerful, causing great damage to the large battleships headed by the Jaeger-class. And facing it
For those small battleships, the air-to-air scattering laser cannon arrays on both sides of the Behemoth also exerted excellent effects.
The emergence of this kind of battleship forced the Galactic Republic fleet to use a large number of fighter groups to attack the Behemoth-class battlecruiser, and in this way, the suppression of the Kanggui-class communication frigate was relaxed.
Although the Kang Di-class communication frigates are already very backward warships, the twin heavy-duty turbolaser cannons installed at their bows are also extremely powerful. Now that there is no restraint from the Republic fighter group, the Kang Di-class communication frigates
The frigate was able to give full play to its firepower, causing even greater damage than in previous battles.
Seeing another failure, at this time, the flagship of the Republic fleet suddenly received a communication.
This communication came from a Cheer-class assault landing ship called the Leveler. The young captain of this battleship provided some combat suggestions. He carefully analyzed the battlefield situation and suggested that the fleet commander adjust the formation.
Divide the fleet into ten squads to harass and stall for time, and then land the army on the planet Zanfatar as soon as possible.
He told the fleet commander: "The explosive use of energy by a new behemoth-class battlecruiser like the Separatists will definitely require a longer charging cycle. The cooling time of this cycle is the moment when we launch a counterattack. And
, because of the gap in fleet strength, I suggest launching a landing operation as soon as possible to quell the strike action on the planet and regain the support of the planet."
The fleet commander carefully evaluated his suggestion and nodded in agreement, "Your battle plan makes sense and I will adopt it. Since you are the captain of the Cheer-class assault landing ship, you may be more familiar with landing battles, then
The ground battlefield will be left to your command."
"Yes!" The captain gave a military salute.
The fleet commander looked at the young general who seemed to have just turned 30, then looked at his military rank, nodded and asked, "What's your name, Captain?"
"My name is Gilad Pellaeon [Note 1], and it is an honor to serve in your fleet, sir." the captain replied.
The fleet commander waved his hand to shut down the communication, and then he adopted Captain Girard Perrine's suggestion.
I saw that the Republic fleet was immediately divided into ten formations, giving full play to the flexibility of the small Corellia Engineering Company spacecraft to maneuver around in a wide range to avoid a head-on battle with the powerful Separatist fleet.
At the same time, with the Correctional Cheer-class assault landing ship as the core, they sent all landing ships to conduct landing operations on the planet Zanfatar.
The Jedi warriors who participated in the battle were also divided into two groups. In other words, they were originally two waves and could not urinate together from the beginning.
Saas-Tin was more adept at piloting fighter jets for interstellar combat, so he stayed on the space battlefield to continue fighting.
Jein Altis will lead the Jedi Knights of the Altis sect to participate in ground operations. They will reinforce Atal City, the capital of the planet Zanfatar, stabilize the planet's ruling government, quell the workers' strike rebellion, and then as soon as possible
Activate the planet's defense system and take off fighter jets to reinforce the space battlefield.
No matter what happens, it can still provide supplies to their fleet and drag the battle into a protracted war.
As Gilard-Pellaeon expected, once it is dragged into a protracted war, the weaknesses of the Behemoth-class battlecruiser will be revealed.
Two days after the battle, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano led two Jaeger-class battlecruisers to the planet Zanfatar for reinforcements.
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[Note 1: Gilad Pellaeon was born in 51BBY, which is exactly 30 years old this year. The battle on the planet Zanfatar was the first battle of this legendary star. Unfortunately, there are no pictures of him when he was young. 】