From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars

Chapter 87 Lilith, strong! Invincible!

Based on the analysis of early reconnaissance images taken by long-range drones, the combat staff at the brigade headquarters finally determined that there were about two battalions of orbital paratroopers, a light multi-legged tank company, and a company with four units in Blue Bay. 'Zealot' HCP platoon.

In terms of organization, this is a standard Star Dragon Empire orbital paratrooper regiment.

Unlike the large number of brigade-level combat teams under the Star Dragon Empire's Royal Army, the Royal Navy's orbital paratroopers, which are mainly composed of infantry, light armor and a small number of HCP, still retain more traditional regiment-level combat units.

In planetary landing operations, orbital paratroopers are basically launched in regiments.

Judging from the organization of both warring parties, the temporary 83rd Combined Brigade seems to have a greater advantage.

Because under normal circumstances, a federal army standard combined brigade that does not strengthen personnel and equipment should have nine battalion-level combat units under its jurisdiction.

其中包括4个合成营、1个自行火炮、1个防空营、1个侦察营、1个战支援营、1个后勤保障营。

But in fact, after the initial orbital strike and the breakout operations along the way, the combined brigade led by Lieutenant Colonel Dallas was extremely short of personnel.

The shortage of personnel is actually mainly reflected in the four combined battalions that serve as front-line troops.

After a series of battles and the collection of remnant soldiers, the temporary 83rd synthetic brigade has only assembled two synthetic battalions.

It is equivalent to the most important front-line unit, which is directly reduced by 50%.

Although the two combined battalions each still retain the establishment of two multi-legged tank companies, whether it is the 'Tarantula' light multi-legged tank or the 'Mammoth' heavy multi-legged tank, the number is actually There is still something lacking.

This also led to the fact that the Federation and the Empire were actually about the same number of troops who went directly to the city to grind meat.

Therefore, in the initial combat plan, the brigade staff wanted to directly knock out the regiment headquarters of the imperial troops in Blue Bay by taking advantage of the suddenness of the first round of long-range fire strikes.

But they searched for a long time in the photos taken by the drone, but could not find the suspected regimental headquarters.

Although several places where antennas were set up and suspected to be communication nodes were found, no targets with regimental characteristics were found near these nodes.

Finally, the target of long-range fire strikes can only be changed to other key targets including communication nodes and temporary residences.

At the end of the first round of calibration firing, the fire command center at the brigade headquarters evaluated the impact of the strike based on the images returned by the drone, and notified the long-range fire strike unit to adjust the shooting time.

In addition to the two trucks remaining in the outer preparation area, as well as a 'Mongoose 4' and a mobile infantry squad responsible for security, Amber has commanded the rest of the combat forces to enter the city and killed three people through sneak attacks. An imperial team that didn't have time to shrink back.

As for why they could accurately find the locations of these three teams, and even ambush them on their only way.

It mainly depends on Lilith's performance.

Although she was worried that this artificial intelligence would have its tail raised to the sky, Amber still had to admit that Lilith had indeed made great contributions.

As a psychic agent, Amber has direct access to the city management system.

So after entering the city, Amber directly drove the communication relay vehicle, which was used as a temporary command vehicle, to a civilian communication base station and completed the docking.

Immediately afterwards, after Amber used her authority to enter the city management system, Lilith, who used the communication relay vehicle as an auxiliary computing power support, not only quickly completed the modeling of the entire city through a large number of urban planning drawings stored in the Blue Bay Town Management Center .

At the same time, all the cameras in the city, whether official or private, were connected to the Internet. As long as they were connected to the Internet, they could not escape Lilith's 'claws'.

Using the images returned by these cameras, Lilith directly marked the locations of all discovered Imperial squads on the 3D model of the city, and kept them updated in real time. Supported by such almost one-way transparent battlefield information, Amber quickly captured three unlucky Imperial squads.

Three anti-vehicle teams, following Amber's instructions, ambush them in advance and successfully completed the ambush.

At present, according to the information fed back by Lilith, the empire's orbital paratroopers quickly completed the contraction after being hit by the first round of fire, and used the buildings and bridges in the city to hide some of their active forces.

Although immediately afterwards, the self-propelled artillery battalion and two rocket launchers conducted several rounds of long-range fire strikes, successfully destroying several temporary communication nodes of the imperial troops and smashing the troops resting in the temporary garrison.

But Amber conservatively estimated that at least 60% of the troops who had dispersed and hid in the city were still there.

Especially the four fanatics were unscathed.

In Amber's opinion, in an urban combat environment, these four HCPs, which have stronger mobility and firepower than traditional units, will be the biggest obstacle to the offensive forces.

"Lilith, can you confirm the weapon configuration of the four HCPs?"

"No, Master, these cameras are cheap, and you can't see clearly if you go a little further."

"Forget it, I'll check again later when I get a chance. Is the remote connection ready?"

Looking at the main force that had begun to advance on the tactical map, Amber also planned to cooperate with them in launching an attack from the northeast.

"Okay, Master! I have written a temporary operating system that is compatible with the vehicle-mounted terminal of the communication relay vehicle. Now I can maintain surveillance of the battlefield without direct connection, but data refresh may have some impact."

"It doesn't matter. With this information, you are already cheating."

After hearing Lilith's reply, Amber pulled off the cable connected to the vehicle terminal and left the temporary command vehicle.

Several mobile infantrymen immediately moved the transport box of the 'Breaker 2' exoskeleton and assisted him in quickly changing the equipment.

Because of the upcoming battle, Amber would not be able to hide from behind and direct.

After all, there are only a dozen or so remaining soldiers who have survived with him until now. These soldiers who have experienced brutal battles can be regarded as the only "soldiers of hundreds of battles" left in his hands.

In terms of the intensity of the battles they had experienced alone, they had already exceeded the soldiers that the brigade headquarters had added to him - most of these soldiers were remnants collected on the road, and their morale was not high, and their combat effectiveness was not strong.

Amber can understand it. Under the current circumstances, it would be good to add more troops to him.

It is also impossible for the brigade headquarters to break up the complete troops under its command and replenish them for him.

Therefore, in order to ensure the overall combat effectiveness, Amber could only split these original "veterans" who had experience in fighting HCP into several motorized infantry squads as the backbone.

Even so, Amber was actually not too reassured, so he planned to play in person.

"Attention everyone, prepare to fight!"

"Cheer up! It's a street fighting hell ahead of you!"

　Sorry, I forgot to post on time

　　

　

(End of this chapter)