Chapter 940: Battle of the West: Attack and Defense of Tarastra (Part 2)
940, Battle of the West: Attack and Defense of Tarastra (Part 2)
Eriadu galaxy, planet Tarastra.
The fleet of the Fourth Civilization has begun to occupy a greater advantage on this battlefield. Wilhuff Tarkin, the governor of the 18th Army of the Republic, has discovered that even if the fleets of both sides are equally powerful, it will be difficult for them to shake Severan.
Si-Tan's formation.
What's more, although the Republic's fleet is large in number, it cannot form a reasonable combination.
Because in comparison, the fleets of the Fourth Civilization were basically built in the same era. At the beginning of the design and construction, the tactical matching between each other was considered, so the effect of 1+1>2 can often be achieved when working together.
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However, many of the Galactic Republic's battleships have designs spanning hundreds of thousands of years. These battleships were built for various purposes. For example, the Invincible-class battlecruiser was used as the main battleship during the Sith Wars.
, the battlefield positioning is the same as that of the Jaeger-class battlecruiser, but due to its slow speed, it is difficult to keep up with the pace of modern battleships.
Another example is the Prosecutor-class battleship, which is basically a battleship built under the restrictions of the treaty after the Rusan Reform. Its main purpose is to use force as a deterrent, or to garrison near some important planets.
Others such as CR-70 frigates used to protect shipping routes, DP-20 gunboats used to exterminate pirates, etc... The various functions can be said to be overlapping with each other. In such a large-scale battle, all they have to do is swarm them all together.
Already.
Not only is there no matching, but the complicated warship models also put great pressure on logistics.
The Supreme Strategic Command of the Republic no longer has enough logistics fleets to meet frontline needs, and has to ask several warship manufacturers to provide support for their own warships.
To put it bluntly, you, Kuat Power Shipyard, are responsible for your own production of Jaeger-class and Aquitens-class battleships, and Corellian Engineering Company is responsible for your own CR series frigates and DP-20 gunboats.
These warships have different parts, specifications, and ages. The result is that the logistics supply is even more chaotic. Almost every day, a large number of dark transport ships arrive at the planet Eriadu.
It can be said that if it were not for the extremely powerful Galactic Republic, other forces would have been completely overwhelmed by such a miscellaneous fleet.
Governor Tarkin also tried his best to command more than 300 battleships to fight around the planet Tarastra, but it was still not the fourth civilization fleet with only one-third of their number, but all of them were kilometer-level battleships.
opponent.
But similarly, Severance Tann did not feel well here. The turret groups installed on five of the satellites around the planet Tarastra were not fun. During the battle, they caused damage to the Fourth Civilization Fleet.
Extremely serious damage.
The battle lasted for about 10 days. As of April 32, the Fourth Civilization had lost 14 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers and 1 Cole-class battlecruiser. Four of the Dreadnought-class ships were destroyed on the spot, and the rest were destroyed.
I dragged it back, but it couldn't be moved again without a year and a half of major repairs.
In addition, more than 20 Dreadnought-class ships have suffered more or less damage and are unable to exert their full combat effectiveness.
At this time, only the last two of the five satellites with turret groups were left, satellites No. 2 and No. 6. Severance Tann proposed a combat plan and wanted to send the army to land and forcibly occupy one of the satellites.
Then build a temporary spaceport on it to take off, land and maintain drones to provide support for the fleet.
But Army Major General and deputy campaign commander Ling Liang firmly opposed this plan. She believed that sending the army to force a landing under such circumstances would be equivalent to letting these armies die! Because these two satellites have no atmosphere and cannot survive at all, and unless
Use special equipment, otherwise it will be difficult to move on it.
Severance Tann had previously changed her attitude towards the diligent Ling Liang, but this objection once again aroused her hostility towards the Army. She scolded Ling Liang at the military meeting, saying that she was uncooperative.
Because of the navy's actions, tens of thousands of navy soldiers have lost their lives so far in this battle.
The purpose of occupying one of the satellites is to reduce the losses of the navy.
In her view, Ling Liang refused this battle on behalf of the army because he wanted to put the conflict between the two armies above the success or failure of the battle.
Ling Liang is not to be outdone. She is also very rich in military knowledge and has a strong appeal. She said that Severance Tann's plan is a blame-shifting behavior, because now we have no control over the internal affairs of the two satellites.
We don’t know the situation at all. Regardless of the harsh environment, the success of the battle is still questionable. And in the worst case scenario, what if the base underground of the Republic’s turret group self-destructs?
Temporarily building a maintenance drone spaceport on such a harsh satellite that can accommodate a large fleet? This requires a huge number of transport fleets and engineering fleets, and it is still under the watchful eye of the Republic's fleet.
impossible things.
She said very pointedly that Severance Tann proposed this plan because she was afraid! Because she was no longer sure of victory in the face of the Republic's iron barrel array, so she was extremely anxious to do something.
Give yourself some psychological comfort.
And for this little bit of psychological comfort, do we have to sacrifice the lives of Army soldiers?
Severance Tann became so angry after hearing these words that she almost wanted to pull out her lightsaber and kill someone. The military meeting turned into a scene of quarrels, and finally broke up unhappily.
The next day, Severance Tann ordered the former Jedi Master Adi Gallia who participated in the battle to block Ling Liang in the dormitory, and then directly issued the order in the name of the supreme commander of the battle - the Fourth Civilization Army.
3. The 17th and 18th Mechanized Infantry Regiments immediately launched a landing on Tarastra Planet 6 satellite.
Under her command, the Fourth Civilization Fleet bombed Satellite 6 indiscriminately, and the fighter formations also took the initiative to launch a resolute attack with the Republic's fighter groups to cover the landing of the 10,000 army soldiers.
When Ling Liang finally persuaded Adi Gallia to get out of the way and rushed to the command center, it was already noon the next day.
On April 34, it took the Fourth Civilization Army two days to advance over a distance of more than 50 kilometers and occupy the energy center of Satellite 6.
But as Ling Liang expected, the Republic directly detonated the energy center!
In the huge explosion, at least one-third of the landing force was killed in a sea of fire, and many others were thrown directly into outer space in this low-gravity environment. A considerable number of them were captured by the gravity of the planet Tarastra.