"Helicopters can't reach all places, and many remote villages don't have suitable take-off and landing areas!" In the headquarters of the 6th Army Group, the chief of staff of Bourchos was reporting to the commander-in-chief, Bourchos, on the situation in the disaster area.

This headquarters was set up on the outskirts of the city of Shakben, in a well-preserved castle. The spacious and bright furniture has been rearranged, the windows of the castle have been replaced, and the bright glass windows have isolated the coolness from the outside, and the warm sunlight has made the whole meeting room comfortable.

It's really not extravagant, if even the general headquarters of a large corps with more than 200,000 troops is shabby, it means that the war situation has gone downhill - it is clear that the Irlanhill Empire is still a long, long way from the downhill road......

Army Group 6 is trying to save civilians from its territory, and now they are facing a situation that is even more dire than that of the expeditionary force that is fighting demons in the Demon Realm.

Because of the shortage of troops, the chief of the general staff of the 6th Army Group said worriedly: "The vertical paratroopers transferred to us by the General Headquarters are still too few, and although we have sent two divisions and more than 20,000 army aviation mobile troops, they are still overstretched. ”

Bourgeos was silent, he had not had a good time in the last year or so.

Like Koria, who was also in the South-Eastern Front, he hadn't really fought a single battle in more than a year. As a military commander, this is absolutely ironic.

The Iran Hill Empire is still at war, and the Demon Expeditionary Force is still fighting the demons in full swing, but he is in the south, and he can only do some work every day to help build roads in the local area.

If he had to choose, he would rather take command of an armored corps in place of Heidi XLON than waste his time and life here.

I don't know that Bourgeos is thinking about all the mess here, but his chief of staff is still introducing the rescue work in the disaster area: "There are too many places that need to be saved, and our intelligence in the southern region is relatively backward, which makes the rescue work several times more and disperses our forces." ”

"The map we got was made 10 years ago, and the accuracy of the drawing is as you can imagine. We compared it with the satellite imagery, and the problem is very serious. At the other end of the table, the commander of the 6th Panzer Corps, who was two years younger than Bourjos, complained.

He had never encountered such a humiliating combat mission, and his troops often spent the whole day searching for a non-existent village on the map, wasting countless gasoline and exhausting the soldiers.

From time to time, he could see rotting corpses on the side of the road, demons, humans, and other creatures, and there were towns and villages with no people, which made him very difficult.

I only heard him continue: "We can't count the villages that are too small, and the makeshift satellite maps are not very accurate, and we need to manually correct them, which is a waste of our troops. ”

Rumors circulate that local civilians claim to have seen demon dog eggs in some places, and villagers suspect that they have been eaten by serpents or other monsters that have escaped from the battlefield.

Anyway, there is a mess everywhere, and the troops must always be vigilant in the field, and the vast majority of dangerous reports are actually false.

Reports from locals who claimed to have seen demon dogs were soon confirmed to be just ordinary beasts, and even mutated ones were very dangerous.

After all, the entire southern region has been repeatedly cleared by Ellan Hill's combat forces, and the demons do not have a broad guerrilla base in the human world, so it is unlikely that they will hide and threaten the security of the nearby area for a long time.

"In addition, some villages have long been abandoned due to demonic invasions, and the buildings are empty, and we only found that there is no one there when we arrived." This young army commander is also a veteran of many battles, but this kind of task is not suitable for a commander like him.

When he had finished speaking, he continued: "There are also villages that are dead when we go...... Everyone died, we wasted fuel, we wasted supplies, we wasted soldiers' time, but we didn't save a single person! ”

"There are too few Osprey helicopters, and our UH-1 helicopters have a limited payload. UH-60 helicopters are very good, but unfortunately there are not many of them...... "The army aviation commander who was reinforced looked a lot more mature, even a little bald.

It's just that this commander is only in his forties, because he was an aviation pilot before, and he took in too much pure oxygen, so he looked a little vicissitudes.

The above means...... Let the dragon knights try......" He said about the difficulties of the helicopter troops, and then came up with a solution that sounded a little unbelievable.

"Dragon Knight?" After hearing this, Bourchos was stunned for a moment, he knew that the trust of the magician troops had been greatly reduced recently due to assassinations and other reasons, and it was really a bit meaningful to dispatch the magician troops at this time.

"Well, those who have almost forgotten! The dragon knight army has always been only responsible for regional security, and now in large and prosperous cities, even the mounted police have been eliminated...... So, maybe there is only this kind of time left, and the role of the dragon knight can be reflected! "The commander of the army aviation gave his opinion purely on the basis of reasonableness.

"Shhh...... That's a real way to do it! In retrospect, Bourgeos understood what Chris meant.

After all, he was also a veteran general who followed Chris in his early years, and of course he also knew Chris's temperament: His Majesty the Emperor, sometimes there are not so many twists and turns, and it can be said that he is a model of straightforward character.

It's hard to say, this time the mobilization of the dragon knight troops is really a matter of consideration from the perspective of practicality, and there is no deeper intention of scheming - since the helicopter is not good, the dragon has become a good option, at least this huge reptile, do not have to worry about the risk of crashing and the like.

If you understand the key to this, the rest will be easy to understand. As a courtier, just do what His Majesty the Emperor wants, and you don't have to think about so many twists and turns.

"Dragon knights and magicians can easily descend into the woods or rugged mountains without worrying about accidents." The commander of the Army Aviation continued.

"The only drawback, maybe it's the load problem......" Bourjos nodded, agreeing in principle to the plan.

"That's not a problem, use Ospreys, or UH-60 helicopters, to get the supplies to the selected assembly points, and then these dragon knights will transfer them to the villages...... Bringing less at a time and flying more times won't solve the problem? "The commander of the army aviation has a lot of experience in this area and directly gave a solution.

With the strong sappers of the empire, it is certainly not difficult to build a few front-line airfields, and in the southern region, the field airfields that have been built, as well as the first-class roads that can be temporarily requisitioned, are almost enough.

"Makes sense! It seems that the Imperial Dragon Knight Legion has been transferred to the epidemic area, and it is really not here to join in the fun! At this time, the chief of staff also felt that this method was good, and praised it.

Bourgeos asked, "Where have they been?" ”

"At this time, it should have been over the epidemic area, right?" After calculating the time a little, the commander of the army aviation, not very sure, replied.

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"Whew!" On top of a massive floating transport ship near the clouds, a wurm spread its massive wings. It was like a carrier-based aircraft, leaping up on its own mothership and then swooping into the white clouds beneath its feet.

Then, another wurm spread its wings, stretched out its long neck, raised its head to the sky and let out a long roar, and then kicked its feet and rushed into the clouds.

The dragon knight, who was not wearing armor on his pedals, was dressed in a black shirt and covered with well-fitting leather armor, looking heroic and extraordinary. You must know that after being hit hard by the air force and air defense forces of the Irlanhill Empire, this branch of arms was once unattended.

Only during the celebration of the Irlanhill Empire can you see the formed dragon knight troops. They are generally similar to the float procession, and when they are paraded, they are mostly performative.

It's like a cultural tradition, banning them makes the magicians uncomfortable, and keeping them useless on the battlefield.

Therefore, in addition to the special mounted police in some tourist cities that retain some dragon knights, the entire Irlanhill Empire only retains one dragon knight legion as a reserve, headquartered in the Veronsa district, with a strength of 3,000 people.

If it weren't for this plague, even Chris would have almost forgotten that among his tens of millions of troops, there is such a force whose sense of existence is infinitely close to zero.

Now, this unit has been transferred to the southern region, and it can be regarded as finally finding its place in this plague disaster.

When the first dragon, flapping its huge wings, hovered in the sky, slowly descended in height, then smashed through the low bushes, trampled through a section of low fence, and landed in a village, the locals saw for the first time the magical creatures of the aristocratic wall paintings.

This fire dragon covered in scales only appears in local myths and legends, and if it weren't for the previous demon invasion, the people here would have been directly frightened by the dragon's roar.

Fortunately, the people here were already elites who had escaped from the mouth of the demons, and they were suffering from the plague, so they didn't even have a feeling of surprise, so they just watched dementedly, watching the dragon stop in front of them.

The fangs, which were about as long as a dagger, and the unpleasant smell of the beast's breath, made the locals realize that a creature only a few meters away from them was definitely not a good kind.

"Magician, magician, sir...... We really don't have anything of value here, and if you're here looking for food, we've got some dry bread here......" said an old man who looked like the village chief, trembling and speaking to the knight who had turned over and jumped off the dragon.