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On the planet of Geonosis, both the battle on the ground and the battle in space have become more and more tragic.

Trench's fleet has continuously launched assaults, and it has been strangled with the Galactic Republic's fleet, becoming a melee.

The Galactic Republic's fleet originally had an advantage, but at the beginning of the war, in order to respond to the ground troops, they divided more than half of the warships to fight in the atmosphere of the planet Geonosius, and were caught by Trench, who was good at capturing fighter planes. Admiral just caught.

Under the utterly fatal attack of the Confederate fleet of Independence Systems, Admiral Woolf-Uralen could not even delay the time, and had to urgently ask for help on the ground.

He is much more sophisticated than the tactical advisor Mabel Gasson who commanded the fleet before. He naturally understands that once the space battlefield fails, it will be surrounded on the surface of the Geonosian planet like the previous fleet, and this time, they will There will be no more chance to escape.

But the ground battlefield at this time was also very tight. General Grievous was also not the T-series tactical robot that commanded the ground operations before. In order to support General Trench's operations, he pressed all the robot troops. The same Launch a total attack regardless of losses!

In the previous battle, General Grievous had already completed his deployment. He first depleted the clone army's ammunition supply, then deployed the droid army to all sides of the ruins of the main lair when they were running out of ammunition and had to shrink their defenses.

And now the time is right, robots in every direction have launched an assault!

In order to evacuate, Republic commanders had to load their troops on ships and transport them away, but the more troops loaded into ships, the less troops were left to defend their positions, and the greater the pressure.

If it was at the beginning, they could still rely on the air fire support of a large number of Republic warships in the sky, but now the space battlefield is in an emergency, and they have to dispatch warships to space, which further aggravates the pressure on the ground battlefield.

At this moment, Admiral Trench's fleet only has 2 Divinity-class destroyers, 3 Disobedient-class light destroyers, 6 Generosity-class communication frigates, and 4 Vengeance-class light destroyers. But under his command, these battleships, which were already wounded, were still attacking frantically.

Even the Dream Sisters, leading the only remaining fighters, attacked the Confederate fleet with the help of the Mirage and ignored them. Admiral Trench has already understood that instead of getting entangled with these illusions, it is better to focus all the firepower on the opponent's battleship.

Anyway, your illusions can't transform into battleships. Even if you can, these battleships are not as flexible as fighter jets, but they are actually easy to identify. Anyway, you only have more than 100 fighter jets in total. Finally, let's see if your force is durable enough or our metaphysical engine is durable enough!

And the battle situation was indeed as Admiral Trench expected. Luna Meng and Luna Huan could not turn the tide of the battle. Although they led the fighter squadron to severely damage several Confederate battleships, the Republic's fleet still suffered heavy losses.

Admiral Trench had confidence anyway. The fleets that were lost horizontally and vertically belonged to the Confederation of Independent Systems and the Galactic Republic, not Admiral Trench, nor the Fourth Civilization to which he was truly loyal. And on the contrary, because of the heavy losses to the Republic in this battle, Admiral Trench will be rewarded instead.

In the Republic Fleet, all 4 invincible-class heavy cruisers were severely damaged and withdrawn from the battle, and 3 of them could not be evacuated due to damage to the hyperspace engine. Now Admiral Woolf-Uralen is organizing shuttles to take these 3 battleships. The officers and men on board were picked up by other warships.

Not only that, but 10 Karak-class light cruisers, more than 30 CR-70 frigates were destroyed, and 7 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers were severely damaged. If Master Yoda hadn't dispatched battleships to support them in time, and the surviving Jedi Knights had also joined the battle in fighter jets, they might have been wiped out.

In the entire space battlefield area, broken metal fragments and a large number of broken warship wrecks can be seen everywhere. Countless corpses and robots have been thrown out from these wrecks, and some wrecks are even in the vacuum of the universe. Combustion, which is mostly an engine or energy part, or a life support facility that constantly produces oxygen.

But the tragic battle continued, and new warships rushed out of the atmosphere of Geonosian planet to join the battle, and the advantages of the space battlefield gradually tilted towards the direction of the Republic.

However, in contrast, the situation on the ground battlefield gradually collapsed.

There are still 20,000 ordinary soldiers and more than 30,000 clone soldiers standing firm. As more and more spaceships are dispatched to fight in space, they are no longer able to defend the offensive of 600,000 robot troops from all directions. .

"Master Yoda, our ground positions have been losing ground and cannot be defended anymore," said Mabel Gasson, the Republic's tactical advisor, "Now there is only the last Cheer-class assault landing ship left on the ground. All the vacancies of this battleship are full, and it can only accommodate up to 25,000 people. And we dare not let the battleship land any more. The landed battleship will take off again, and all preparations will be delayed for at least half an hour. Not counting the time to load the crew, we can't wait..."

His meaning was obvious, and now part of the ground troops must be abandoned.

The faces of the Jedi Knights present were ugly, and Master Yoda and Master Windu were silent.

War is always cruel, and such a choice will be faced one day, but I didn't expect it to come so early.

"How long can it last, the fleet of outer orbit." Master Yoda asked, closing his eyes.

"It's not a question of how long it can last, it's that we can't keep a fleet of more than 100,000 soldiers fighting in space for a long time... This will turn into a disaster." Mabel-Gasen said with great frustration.

Master Yoda was silent for a long time, then said slowly: "Use your life to help us defend our position... the soldiers who stayed. A painful choice, this is one."

Mabel-Gasen gritted his teeth and said: "I suggest that clone troopers be boarded, their value is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers. Let me give this order! Everything has nothing to do with the Jedi Order! And , I am willing to stay and live and die with these soldiers!"

Because his wrong choice made the war passive, now he decided to take on this responsibility.

Master Yoda closed his eyes.

"Out of consideration for the war, Mabel Garson's choice is correct. Now, as the living, the only thing we can do is to win the war and make the sacrifice of the dead more valuable." Master Windu said.

Master Yoda suddenly opened his eyes and said, "I will give the order to retreat. I will take the responsibility for defeat."

His eyes were extremely firm~www.mtlnovel.com~ At this moment, he made the best decision, sacrificing the 20,000-man army of ordinary people to save the clone soldiers as much as possible.

This order, given by him, will undoubtedly bring shame to the reputation of the Jedi Order again, but Master Yoda understands that he will do nothing if he fails to do so and simply puts all the blame on Mabel Garson. A person who practices the light force and walks in the light...

Jedi Knight.

The final order was given, and Master Yoda personally told the soldiers that they had to stay and hold on, but after the fleet left, they were allowed to surrender. The Galactic Republic government will also do its best to diplomatically urge the Confederation of Independent Systems to at least give these captives normal treatment.

The clone army will also have 5,000 people left, but they don't have many complaints. Most of the wounded volunteered to stay, but for the 20,000 ordinary soldiers, this decision is extremely cruel.

After the order was given, they mutinied almost on the spot, but were forcibly suppressed by 5,000 clone troopers.