From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars

Chapter 37 Strategic Maneuver Plan
  Although Randall is completely hands-off, which is a good thing for Amber.

But he still hopes to have a tactical staff member who can cooperate with his command.

Unfortunately, Amber looked through the members in the communication channel and couldn't find anyone suitable.

Major Randall stopped talking. This guy simply refused Amber's request to assist in command on the grounds that he didn't understand your army's operations.

Isabel wasn't very good either. She was okay at being a spy and a military doctor, but marching and fighting was really not her strong point.

As for the howling motorized infantry under his command?

Amber admitted that during this period of contact, these soldiers had shortcomings of one kind or another.

But at least he could still obey orders and hit wherever he was told.

It's definitely no problem to fight against the wind.

But you have to pull one person out from among them and ask him how to command a motorized infantry platoon to attack a small town.

This person will only answer loudly with a voice full of energy:
  "Fight from point A to point B, sir!"

Amber helplessly covered her forehead. No, she should have covered her tactical visor.

"God, please give me a tactical advisor!"

Of course, this wish cannot be realized in a short period of time.

So Amber, who recognized the reality, finally accepted her fate.

As the convoy rushed to the last marked waypoint, Amber's mind began to work at full speed.

Although speeding in the wild without paved roads, Amber, who was sitting in the car, felt extremely bumpy.

But this did not affect his thinking.

After combining the news from Major Randall, the current situation map of the enemy and ourselves on the battlefield, and the size of the imperial fleet in memory.

Amber made a bold decision.

Capture the space elevator.

This was a decision that even Amber herself thought was nonsense.

After thinking about it carefully, he felt more and more that it was feasible.

In the memory of the past life, why did the federal troops on Robert 4 fight so badly?

Why did the remaining federal soldiers who survived and turned to guerrilla warfare only last for half a year?

Federal garrison food, this is indeed an important reason.

But it is undeniable that after a tactical nuclear strike by the Imperial Orbital Assault Ship.

The federal army lost almost 80% of its technical weapons and heavy equipment.

The Star Dragon Empire's landing force relies on airdrops, aerospace transport aircraft, and the most important space elevator.

Additional personnel and supplies were continuously obtained.

And it can also deploy armored brigade combat teams (ABCT) in an organic manner.

In such a situation where the combat power between the enemy and ourselves is extremely disparate.

Even if you let Amber, who is 'all-seeing, omniscient and omnipotent', he can't bring a bunch of light infantry to fight the armored troops.

By the way, thanks to its huge territory and industrial manufacturing capabilities.

Both the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire have equipped their most basic conventional infantry units with medium-sized exoskeletons.

Just like the standard rifles of the old days, everyone has one.

Therefore, the infantry units of this era are still called "light infantry".

But actually they are not light at all
  Take the Federation as an example.

A standard mobile infantry should be equipped with a 'Sabertooth Tiger 2' medium-sized exoskeleton powered by a gas turbine and a metal hydrogen battery pack.

On this basis, in addition to the protection provided by the exoskeleton, additional silicon carbide armor plates will be installed on key parts.

In terms of armament, generally speaking, an 8mm Gauss rifle will be mounted on the right arm rail.

The conventional choice for the left arm rail is a 20mm automatic shotgun or a 40mm automatic grenade launcher.

Both weapons can use a variety of ammunition to cope with different tasks.

There are also a small number of soldiers who choose rocket-powered combat spikes.
  While fully armed and loaded with ammunition and supplies.

The movement of these soldiers will not be restricted, and they can even run faster and jump higher with the support of the powerful power of the gas turbine.

But even the infantry are armed to the teeth.

There is still no way to confront real armored forces head-on.     In the face of multi-legged combat vehicles, main battle tanks and HCP, motorized infantry are as vulnerable as children.

Therefore, in Amber's view, the Federation's defeat on Robert IV in the previous life was still 'excusable'.

But back to now, the situation has changed somewhat.

The Federal Army was still the same Federal Army. It suffered heavy losses in the orbital strike. Its main combat force was light infantry.

But the Imperial Army is no longer the Imperial Army in Amber's memory.

Without the important transportation capacity of the space elevator, the empire's landing force will not be able to deploy ABCT as quickly as in previous lives.

At this moment, the main combat force of the Imperial Army on the ground of Robert IV is also the orbital paratroopers, which are mainly light infantry.

Although they were able to obtain support from airdropped light multi-legged combat vehicles and HCP.

But compared to the previous life, the combat effectiveness has been weakened too much.

This level of weakening made Amber feel like she might as well give it a try.

At the same time, there are two reasons for choosing the space elevator as the target.

First, the current remnants of the federal army have no combat goals and are all fighting on their own.

Although everyone knows that they want to break out, they don't know in which direction to break out and by what means.

If the space elevator is targeted, it will at least allow the remaining federal soldiers to gather and move toward the equator.

This prevents them from fighting independently and being divided, surrounded and eliminated by the imperial forces.

Due to this fleet battle in orbit, the federal garrison fleet was completely wiped out.

In addition to some of the debris falling into the atmosphere and burning up, there are tens of millions of tons of debris floating in Robert 4's outer space orbit.

These debris not only damaged a large number of federal army satellites, but also greatly reduced the efficiency of the empire's deployment of tactical reconnaissance satellites.

In the later stage of the ground battle, the few tactical reconnaissance satellites actually did not detect the movements of the remaining federal army soldiers.

Instead, they were discovered first by the ground troops who were constantly pursuing them.

The debris surrounding the orbit not only interferes with satellite reconnaissance and communications, but also affects the attack efficiency of the orbital attack ship.

These orbital attack ships must carefully plan their entry and exit from orbit after receiving a request for fire support from ground forces.
  Second, whether it is the actions of the imperial troops in memory, or a series of actions of the imperial troops in this life.

All prove that the Imperial forces do not want to destroy the space elevator.

They would rather keep the space elevator intact and then control it.

After all, this 'heaven and earth artery' has an astonishing carrying capacity and can play a huge role in the post-war reconstruction process.

And for facilities of this level, although the empire also masters a full set of construction technologies.

However, the construction cycle, which often takes 5 to 10 years, brings high time costs.

This also makes their bottom line: "If you can occupy it, don't destroy it."

So when Federation forces gather near the space elevator, the Empire's orbital attack fleet will take action.

Whether it is the 'Tungus' tactical hydrogen bomb or the 'David' tactical ground-attack missile, it is easy to damage the space elevator.

And this giant 'building' relies on centrifugal force to tighten thousands of carbon nanotubes.

Once damaged, the entire balance of forces is disrupted.

The consequences would be serious.

As more and more details were completed in Amber's mind.

An extremely large-scale strategic maneuver plan was recorded in the command module of the personal terminal by Amber.

After the physical connection between the personal terminal and the vehicle-mounted terminal, Amber can use the computing power of the vehicle-mounted equipment to enhance the functions of the command module.

"I can do this alone"

Amber let out a breath after clicking Save. This round of brainstorming made him feel a little bit mentally exhausted.

"It seems that you have made a huge battle plan?"

While Amber was 'working hard', Major Randall, who had not made any noise to disturb her, came over after seeing Amber finally resting.

Although he couldn't understand the details of the army's operations, he could still see things at the macro level.

"Running all the way to the equator. I have to say this is a really bold idea."

Randall did not make a direct comment, but continued to ask:

(End of this chapter)