The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2253. Mandalorian Civil War (7)

Less than three days after the Vizsla government troops captured Sikebi City, they were forced to abandon the city and retreat in panic. As they retreated, they blew up the city's last water supply facility and destroyed the dust shield controller, making rebuilding the city extremely difficult and expensive.

It can be seen that they were very reluctant to retreat. After all, in order to occupy Sikebi City, they paid a heavy price of nearly 8,000 deaths and more than 30,000 injuries.

But they had to retreat because the army was completely cut off from supplies.

The Vizsla government army attacking Sikebi City has a total of 7 legions, with a total strength of more than 90,000 people. Such an army consumes extremely large amounts of materials every day of fighting. Their original plan was to capture the city within three days, but it actually took more than a week, which left the army with no ammunition supplies.

Food was okay and could be supplied directly in the city, but ammunition and water became huge problems.

Cities on the planet Mandalore are generally short of water, and Sekbi City's determined resistance also caused the Vizsla government troops to quickly drink up all the water they carried. Moreover, when the residents of the city were evacuating, they would rather dump the water that was inconvenient to take away than leave it to the invaders. This made the water shortage extremely serious among the army.

The city's water supply facilities were severely damaged during the war. Although they finally occupied the city, in order to allow the soldiers to replenish water as quickly as possible, the army had to stay in the city for a long time until all the soldiers were replenished before they could proceed to the next step. Battle plan.

When this army stays in the city for a long time, it creates a huge security risk - because they are short of ammunition!

Chaofan Vizsla did build a huge army of 2 to 3 million people, but he did not have a military-industrial system that could support such a huge army. After he built this army, he was like a child appreciating his toy, happily watching this unprecedentedly large army and laughing, but he ignored one of the most critical things -

supply!

The supplies consumed by an idle army and an army in combat state are completely different! In normal times, this army would only fire a few shots when training, fire a few shots into the sky when suppressing riots, and if that didn't work, shoot a few chief criminals in the head, and that's it. According to the capacity of the high-pressure gas tank in the blaster rifle, it can generally sustain anywhere from 400 to 700 rounds of shooting. Such a gas tank can be used for at least several months at a normal pace.

What's more, the planet Mandalore does not produce explosive gas, and almost all weapons and ammunition need to be imported. But the Galactic Empire was too lazy to pay attention to him. Although the Dawn Principality had Bespin, one of the largest sources of explosive gas, it was even less likely to sell ammunition to him.

Therefore, the army established by Chaofan Vizsla relied on purchases from the black market and the accumulation of weak local production capacity. It could still maintain basic training and dominate in front of civilians. This was no problem. .

But once on the battlefield, a tank of explosive gas that usually lasts for several months in a soldier's hand can now be fired out in less than 5 minutes! This is also related to the low morale and training of these soldiers, because once faced with an oncoming hail of bullets on the battlefield, the first reaction of these soldiers is to hide behind the bunker and face a burst of fire from the opposite side. With release.

Therefore, even after Chao Chao Vizsla declared war on the people of the entire Mandalorian planet, he did not send out all the troops, only about 800,000, but these 800,000 troops also accumulated him in one day Two or three years of supplies were used up!

This is the true face of war!

Extraordinary - Vizsla's original plan was that after he launched an attack and brutally massacred a group of stubborn people, the frightened civilians would immediately kneel down and surrender, and the war would end in a week at most. . But he underestimated the people's determination to resist after being forced into a desperate situation!

Almost everywhere, Vizsla's government troops encountered the most stubborn resistance. Even if those resisters are armed with wooden sticks, they will fight to the end against the government troops who are armed with live ammunition!

What's even more terrible is that in order to expand the attack area and create fear and chaos throughout the planet, Chao Chao-Vizla divided his army into more than a hundred groups and spread them all over the place.

However, the fruits that bloomed everywhere did not come out, and requests for supplies came to him from all over the place like snowflakes.

The Vizsla government forces simply do not have the ability to supply more than a hundred troops scattered all over the world at the same time! As a result, armies in various places lacked food and water, lacked ammunition, medicine, and even the wounded could not receive treatment, which became a common problem.

Returning to the city of Sikebi, more than 90,000 troops here took the risk of fighting hard for more than a week in order to drink water, and they stayed in place in an urban environment with complex terrain and dangers despite a lack of ammunition supplies. A very wrong decision.

As a result, serious consequences finally occurred.

Jango Fett led his super soldiers to continuously attack the spaceships and transport convoys transporting supplies to Sakebi City, which exhausted the army, and finally reached its peak after the transport fleet was attacked and the supplies were destroyed. The morale of the more than 90,000 troops collapsed completely, and the commander could no longer effectively command the troops. The entire army retreated in panic and uncontrollably, leaving the city limits.

This retreat also made the results of more than a week of war come to naught. People died in vain, money was wasted, and ammunition was wasted.

The battle in Sekbi City also exposed the nature of Super-Vizla, the paper tiger, to everyone on the planet! Those who were originally wavering, wanting to overthrow Super-Vizla's rule on the one hand, and fearing his powerful army on the other hand, now immediately raised the banner of rebellion without hesitation!

On the other hand, Super-Vizla realized the huge mistake he had made, and he could only make up for it and began to withdraw his troops from all over the place to those cities that were still loyal to him to rest again.

But this is easier said than done. It is a huge challenge for the army scattered in hundreds of battlefields on the planet to retreat, whether in terms of tactics or strategy, or in terms of the most realistic transportation capacity.

The rebels led by Bo-Katan Kryze took this opportunity to launch a counterattack!

In several local battlefields, the rebels began to counterattack when the Vizla government army ran out of ammunition and food. The Brick-Arrol-class airspeeder that had been reluctant to be used before was finally put into the battlefield and began to concentrate on attacking the defense line of the Vizsla government army, causing the army to retreat step by step.

The rebels began to gradually advance the front line in one direction towards the capital city of Sundari!

At this moment, there are only 5 days left before the coronation ceremony that Super-Vizsla clamored for! (End of this chapter)