After escaping near destruction on Atollon, the Rebellion is in dire strait, but hope is not yet lost. Following her promotion to Grand Marshall of the Rebellion, Jaral Bridger is set on beginning a massive guerrilla campaign across the Outer Rim, s...
Iulius didn't need much time to understand what his advantages were: the terrain in front of the castle's access was deprived of trees and any cover that the Yavzakhs could use during the assault.
"We must not allow them to breach the perimeter." he said to Cody. "Have you sealed the main gate?"
"As much as we could. We installed a heavy turret there, should keep them at bay." the clone replied.
"Good. We should have at best ten minutes before they get upon us, send the engineers to mine the passage." the Admiral ordered and Cody didn't waste a second giving the orders.
Three stormtroopers quickly headed out of the barricade with their bags and quickly planted a total of 20 land mines in front of the old gate that the Yavzakhs would need to cross, then reentered inside the walls.
While the Imperials and the Carunoans fighters finished to deploy on the walls, Iulius received a call from the Captain of one of the Gozanti transports.
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"Admiral, this is Transport 71241, we're starting our approach on your position. ETA, 10 minutes."
"Acknowledged, 71241." Iulius replied. He then turned to look into the courtyard and noticed that there were around 200 non-combatants among the Carunoans. He thus concluded that the extraction was going to take around 20 minutes.
Around two minutes later, the growls of the Yavzakhs became louder and louder, until a wave of infantry started to pour our from the woods and into the plain.
"Don't shoot, wait until they're closer." the Admiral ordered. He had already asked Burk to tell his men to wait until the stormtroopers opened fire, so they would hopefully waste less ammo, which was even more important in the case of the Carunoans and their weapons.
The Hybrids and Steel-Heads kept getting closer.
"Focus fire on their group leaders." Iulius instructed his men through the comlink.
From there it didn't take long for the aliens to be in range, as they were the first to shoot toward the walls.
"Fire!" Iulius ordered with a restrained tone.
Red blaster bolts and lead started to rain down on the Yavzakhs. The Steel-heads were targeted first, and since they all received a large amount of bullets in the span of a few seconds, they quickly fell.
This left only the Hybrids standing. They still seemed to use some basic tactics, because half of them returned fire while the other half advanced, alternating the roles as they tried to reach the wall. But the fire of the Humans was way more precise, the blasters pretty much ignored the aliens' light armors and they had high ground and cover. It didn't take long for them to decimate the attackers, who fled back toward the woods.
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