Despite Weiss's creative and insightful proposal, as well as feasible and persuasive, Chubby Dior, who was the battalion commander, did not fully adopt it, but instead made a decision that was neither radical nor conservative, neither simple nor complicated: a squad would conduct a fan-shaped reconnaissance in front, two squads and the battalion headquarters would follow behind, and the whole battalion would first go west and then north, advancing deep into the enemy's depths to find and attack easy prey.

Unfamiliar environment, unfamiliar situation, unfamiliar tactics......

Pack your bags and go.

Third-grader Luan Kunison led the 1st team ahead of the whole battalion, and Weiss, because his friend or foe identification system has all-weather special reconnaissance capabilities, took the initiative to ask the battalion commander to follow the 1st team as a battalion liaison.

Dio did not hesitate to approve Weiss's application.

In the middle of the night, the rain did not stop. Carrying heavy bags, the cadets of the Badston Military Academy struggled through the wilderness with no roads and no references. With the guidance of a compass, I walked through one dark forest after another, crossed one babbling stream after another, and took short breaks every two hours, and so on until dawn......

It's getting brighter. At the edge of a wooded area, Kunison motioned for his team to stop and recuperate, then took out their binoculars and took a closer look at the situation outside the woods, trying to guess the exact location against the map.

Weiss unloaded his field backpack and used the Grumman Burning Stick as a walking stick, leaning against a pine tree and squinting into the distance.

There are no dotted frames in sight.

For objects that have no combat effectiveness, such as mountains, rivers, trees, flowers and plants, unless the line of sight is focused, the "friend or foe identification system" will not be displayed. For example, if you squint at a stone on the ground, it is part of the environment and will not passively appear to read, but if you focus your eyes on the stone, you will be able to read its potential combat effectiveness when used as a weapon.

As time went on, Weiss became more and more familiar with this invisible system that relies on brain waves for detection, and he used it more and more smoothly. He believes that "I am born to be useful", and this unique system must make him that unique person!

After looking at it for a long time, Kunison seemed to say to himself: "Judging from the signs on the map, we should be in a large private ranch, but we are not sure where the ranch's house warehouse is. Maybe it's over in the woods, maybe it's a few dozen miles away from us, who knows? With reconnaissance on foot, it is unlikely that valuable intelligence will be obtained in a short time...... If only everyone could go out and find a few horses to come back! ”

The reason why the headquarters set the landing points of each battalion far away from the battle line and the enemy's assembly area was also out of helplessness, and there was no point in dwelling on this matter at this time. Since the battalion headquarters meeting has made it clear that the troops will not be dispersed during the reconnaissance process, there is no need to fight this idea again...... Weiss's reminder annoyed a little, and he frowned and asked, "So what do we do next?" Spend a day in this place and wait until the evening to act? ”

Walk at least ten miles out of this wood, whether west or north, to reach the next wood. Even if the students did not hesitate to move forward at full speed, with the current state of weight, they would have to walk for half an hour. If it is a snowy day, everyone is wearing a white camouflage cloth and walking in a sparsely populated open area, which is not so easy to be spotted, but now it is spring, the snow has melted, the grass is not lush, even if you are wearing yellow and green camouflage uniforms, it is difficult to hide your whereabouts in broad daylight. As long as a flying ship flies nearby, or if there is an enemy guard post within reach of the telescope, their whereabouts may be exposed.

Although this is highly unlikely, if it becomes a reality, it basically means that the operation behind enemy lines of the provisional 3rd Battalion will end in failure - the enemy only needs to use a transport ship to quickly transport hundreds of soldiers over, and the battle loss ratio penalty without supplies gives the fighters who are deep behind enemy lines no chance to confront the enemy head-on.

Weiss leaned down to look at the map that Kunison had laid out on the ground. According to the existing map signs, there are livestock areas within a hundred miles, and ranchers usually let their herds move around the pastures. If you're unlucky, you might not meet ranchers and herds on another day's trip.

So why risk out?

So, Weiss borrowed a sentence from the lecturer in the tactics course to admonish the restless squad leader in front of him: "When the enemy situation is unknown, you can only go further if you can endure your breath." ”

Contrary to his words, Kunison waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, okay, don't tell me these big truths, I have a headache after listening to too much!" Listen, everyone, now take turns to rest, no fire, no sleep, stay vigilant! ”

This kind of reckless and aggressive cadets who have a violent temper when they disagree with each other are not a few in the Barston Military Academy, but they are quick thinking and eloquent like Chubby Dior, and there are calm, sophisticated, and thoughtful people like Lune, who are relatively alternative. Throughout history, those military generals who have achieved fame have never had a fixed mold, and there are "offensive generals" who move forward bravely, "generals who cannot be defeated" who are tenacious and tenacious, and "key generals" who seem to be mediocre but turn the tide at critical moments, and completely different personalities, styles, and ways of thinking, all of which are likely to become victors on the battlefield. For this reason, the Badston Military Academy has always only attached importance to instilling in its cadets the fighting spirit of bravery, loyalty, courage, and perseverance, and has not included character cultivation and way of thinking as the content of education and training.

After lingering for a while at the edge of the woods, Weiss said to Kunison, "You camp here, and I'll go and contact the others in the back." What needs to be reported to the battalion commander? ”

"Hmm...... Ask the fat man Dio for me, does he have the confidence and certainty to be this commander? Kunison said angrily.

Of course, Weiss would not bring this to the chubby Dior who was not decisive enough.

Leaving the rest of his luggage in place, Weiss walked back lightly. The woods are small, and they come to the other side of the hill over a hillside. Outside the woods was a small stream, the bottom of which was soft mud and sand, flanked by grassy muddy soil, and on one side of the stream was a large open field, and then another forest that I had passed before.

If nothing else, the battalion headquarters and two other squads were in the woods.

To catch up with them, you have to walk through the open field in front of you.

Despite the small goal of one man, Weiss did not recklessly walk out of the woods, but crouched at the edge of the woods for a while.

In just a few moments, he made a new discovery in his field of vision.

In the northern sky, a flying battleship appeared.

In this spring exercise, the attacking side advanced from west to east, and the defender resisted from the east.

With the advance route of the main force of the First Army as the central axis of the battlefield, the landing place of the 3rd Battalion of the Provisional Battalion of the Baston Student Regiment was south of the central axis, far away from the area where the attacker's troops were concentrated.

Weiss's gaze locked on the flying battleship, and the virtual frame in front of him jumped into the green color!

That's the defending team's flying battleship?

No, rational logic clearly tells Weiss that unless the defending fleets win a reversal battle, their flying battleships will not penetrate deep into the enemy's hinterland alone in broad daylight, and the reason why the "friend or foe identification system" is green must be because the "enemy" in the exercise is not the real enemy.

As for the combat readings of this flying battleship, it does not look like even half of the "Ranger Del Longe" and "Scout Orlein". That is, it was supposed to be a 2nd class cruiser.

The Ulster Free Federation Army adopts the current international general standard for the delineation of the class type of flying warship, that is: if the empty weight exceeds 15,000T and the caliber of the main gun is greater than or equal to 60 PIR, it is classified as a battleship; Those with an empty weight between 6000T and 15000T and a main gun caliber of 40-60PIR are classified as armored cruisers; Those with an empty weight between 3000T and 6000T and a main gun caliber of 30-40PIR are classified as fast cruisers; If the empty weight is less than 3000T and the caliber of the main gun is less than 30PIR, it is classified as a cruiser, and the cruiser is usually limited to 1000T, which is further subdivided into a first-class cruiser and a second-class cruiser.

Based on the scale effect of the relatively fixed production of "Xingyuan Stone", countries rarely build flying ships with an empty weight of less than 500T. Therefore, the 2nd class cruiser is basically the lowest level of combat units of the aviation forces.

Weiss stood in the shadow of the trees, quietly watching the approaching flying battleship, and after about ten minutes, he suddenly heard a familiar whistle from the woods opposite.

When I turned my head, it was Nikolai. He stood at the edge of the woods, waving at himself from afar.

Weiss hurriedly waved his hands, and then signaled that there was an enemy to the north.

Nikolai replied with a gesture, I know.

Weiss was speechless, knowing that he was still whistling, thinking that the enemy would not be able to hear it from a distance?

Nikolai then gestured to indicate that there was something behind him.

Weiss turned around and took a closer look, and oh, there was a cloud of black smoke rising from the woods!

Didn't you say that you weren't allowed to light a fire? What's going on?

Giving Nikolai a "don't move" gesture, Weiss hurriedly rushed towards the temporary resting place of Team 1.

Less than 500 meters away in the woodland, I mixed garlic under my feet, fell twice, and ended up covered in mud and embarrassed.

When Weiss arrived, Kunison crossed his waist and glared like an angry bull.

All the second-year students stood facing the squad leader, one of whom was Hart Resos, whose clothes and pants were covered in mud, but also his hair and face.

There was no black smoke at the scene, but there was still a smell of burnt rot in the air.

"What's going on?" Weiss stepped forward and asked loudly.

"What's going on?" Kunison glared at him angrily, "It's not you second-year pumpkin eggs, you don't even know the most basic tactical discipline!" Well, we didn't get the hot tea, and we were exposed to the enemy! Let's just sit here and wait to be captured! ”

Weiss looked at Hart Resos, who was standing with his head bowed, he already knew a rough idea of what had just happened. Not to mention that this unlucky guy is a sophomore with him, at this time, it is useless to be held accountable or angry, the important thing is to think about how to deal with it next!

Weiss walked quickly to the edge of the woods, and the flying battleship in his sight turned around and flew straight in this direction.

The entire provisional 3rd Battalion did not carry any anti-aircraft weapons this time.

Even if they were given a few anti-aircraft guns temporarily, it would not be enough to directly confront the enemy's corvettes.

Okay! It's been less than 12 hours since this landing, and all of them are going to be here!

Weiss gritted his teeth and frowned, feeling very unwilling.

The experience of life has created his character of not admitting defeat. He calmed down, shook off his frustration and despair, and quickly examined the current situation: after all, this was an exercise and not a real battle, and it was impossible for enemy cruisers to come up and bomb indiscriminately and eliminate suspicious targets, and they would definitely find a way to find out the situation, which gave him the opportunity to save the situation and even steal a chicken......

Thinking of a way to get his sword off the rails, Weiss turned back to Hart-Ressos, took a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped his face stained with mud, rain and tears, gave him a relieved look, and then turned back to Hannison and said, "I have a way to deal with the enemy, provided that ...... All of you will obey me from now on. ”

Hannison looked at Weiss in surprise, he left the team with Chubby Dior, so he experienced the special drill at the southern foot of Beishan that night, and knew that the sophomore in front of him had made the "four big guys" deflated, and it was not a simple role to have such a ability, not to mention that he had no way to deal with the current predicament, so he pushed the boat down the river and said: "Okay! As long as it can solve the problem, I can give you the position of squad leader, but if you fail, then today's pot is up to you! ”

Weiss looked directly at the other party without timidity: "Okay, a word is a certainty!" ”