"Can't reach ground troops? What does that mean? Hearing the report of the commander of the orbital alert fleet, Lin Hai was quite surprised, if it was only an ordinary force sent to Kahler, he would not have such a reaction, but this time it was the elite of all the clones, and the equipment used was nothing but those new power armors, unless the troops were annihilated within a few hours or completely electronically suppressed by the enemy, how could such a situation occur?

"Observing the situation on the ground." "According to optical and infrared observations, there is a battle going on in the city of Calle, and our troops should be trapped there, but we have not found Liu Yan's location yet, but we have found tactical transport aircraft and escort attack aircraft for the special combat battalion's own use." They are currently hovering over the outskirts of the city of Calle. ”

"Can you reach them?" Lin Hai called up the map of Kahler City on the operating platform at hand.

"The signal is bad, and it is difficult to communicate with the flagship of the alert fleet, which increases the power of the communication system to the maximum."

"That's being interfered with by the Sijing people." As soon as he heard this, Lin Hai, who was already familiar with it and had encountered similar situations several times, clearly faced what was going on, "Since you can't contact Liu Yan and them directly, can other GDI garrisons in the area get in touch?" Check the interference range of the Sijing people, find out the source of interference, and see whether it is destroyed by a direct orbital strike or an orbital assault team is sent to seize the jamming equipment. ”

"It can interfere with the communication of our direct troops, which means that it is Sijing people's own equipment, so it is not so easy to determine the source of interference through the range of interference, we have encountered similar situations before, but we have never succeeded in finding the location of the source of interference."

"If it's really the Sijing people who take action and use their own jamming equipment," Lin Hai flicked the map and looked up at Targate, "Do you think we can get in touch with the transport fleet?" Although the communication signal of the transport fleet is extremely bad, at least it can still be heard, which has never been so good before. ”

"Makes sense." Tagai nodded, "So what are we going to do now?" Is it going to the Middle East, or is it going to continue to country Y? ”

"Leave it to the alert fleet in the Middle East, anyway, whether it is an orbital strike or an orbital airdrop, they can carry it out, and the specific choice is up to the commander of the alert fleet to decide. Let's go directly to country Y here. The sooner you test a new weapon, the sooner you can fix the problem and buy more time. In addition, the garrison stationed near the city of Calle did not send support at the first time when the city of Calle was attacked, and there has been no response until now, so it seems that the garrison's unreliable intelligence can also be determined, and this information is recorded, and then the GDI troops in other parts of the Middle East are notified to enter the country, take over the defense, and all the original troops stationed in the city will be disarmed and investigated, and those who violate the order will be dealt with as mutineers, and will be suppressed by the mobile division directly under the headquarters. ”

"Understood, I'll arrange for the convoy and deliver orders right away." Glancing at the Chuantuo-class frigates on the screen that had replaced the portholes to observe the situation around the battleship, Tagate began to arrange the work after Lin Hai had already made a decision, "These frigates alone can't protect us under the attack of the Sijing fleet. ”

On the ground battlefield in the Middle East, because the rebels have already successfully invaded the city of Kahler and formed a certain encirclement of the strongholds of the government forces defending the city, plus they also have various advantages in terms of strength, so if they only block the vicinity of some of these specific strongholds, there is not much trouble, and the goal is completed extremely quickly in time.

Also in a hurry, Jamangel, one of the rebel leaders in charge of directing the operation, did not wait for the blockade to be finally completed, and ordered the heavy artillery that had been prepared long ago to start shelling.

However, before the rebels' hard-won heavy artillery opened fire to destroy the government stronghold, several GDI Auger attack planes roared from the air, firing a salvo of air-to-ground missiles at the artillery position, lighting those large-caliber howitzers and artillery shells together into fireballs that rose into the air, and then flew back into the air without saying a word. Only the rebels, lacking advanced anti-aircraft weapons, were left to shoot in vain at the sky with various anti-aircraft guns, but nothing was down.

The rebels' action of mobilizing heavy artillery, the transport fleet that has been hiding in the uninhabited area outside the city has actually only noticed a little bit, at this time, the movement of rebel troops and equipment is already very frequent, so the clones of the transport fleet did not pay too much attention to the heavy artillery transport vehicles they saw inadvertently. Being able to send attack planes in such a timely manner to suddenly knock out the rebel artillery was actually the credit of the orbital alert fleet in space that was originally sent to support them.

Because communication with the ground is difficult, but it is not completely impossible, even with various signals intermittently, the vigilant fleet in space orbit has not stopped communicating with the ground forces. After discovering through optical observation equipment that the rebels were gathering heavy artillery somewhere in the city and pointing to the area where their personnel were present, the fleet sent a compressed data packet to the friendly forces on the ground through the unreliable communication signal at this time, containing photos taken in space, as well as the judgment and recommendations of the fleet staff officers.

Because of the support of friendly forces, although the communication was disrupted and the positioning equipment could not be used, the attack aircraft team sent by the transport fleet successfully took advantage of the loophole that the rebels could not detect air targets under the same conditions, and took the opportunity to destroy all the long-range heavy artillery that the rebels had sent to the city of Calle, of course, there were still many more mobile mortars left, but the power of the mortars was not enough to threaten the elite GDI troops wearing heavy armor.

The rebels were not unwary of the transport fleet, and through their own reports, they found out that they had long known that the transport fleet that transported the GDI troops to the city of Kahler also had a convoy of escort fighters, and the firepower was very strong. However, the transport fleet took off early with the escort fleet before the rebels entered the city, and then flew out of the city directly after picking up the returning company communications troops, and waited outside in the endless wilderness area.

In such an environment, the rebels, who seriously lack advanced anti-aircraft weapons, naturally do not dare to take the initiative to attack the fleet, otherwise it will not be called an attack, but a death sentence. The huge ammunition load and terrible mobility of the GDI Auger attack aircraft are not the rebels who can provoke only a small number of individual anti-aircraft missiles and various short-range anti-aircraft guns, nor are there no more advanced vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft missiles, they still captured some good things from the government army, but such good things are usually only left in their important strongholds to strengthen their air defense capabilities, and will not be easily handed over to the front-line troops;

Even if they deploy the anti-aircraft missiles captured from the government army to the front line, not to mention that they have already used jamming equipment, the anti-aircraft missiles are also in the jamming range, and they will not ignore the strong electronic jamming just because they are used by the rebels, not to mention that the electronic jamming technology GDI also exists, and if the missile technology level is not enough, it is impossible to even lock the GDI aircraft;

As for the supporters behind the rebels, although they often provide them with weapons and equipment, but too advanced weapons and equipment will not be provided to the rebels, firstly, such things are expensive, and the supporters will not give such things in vain, and the operators also need higher education and more professional training, of course, the rebels do not have the conditions to obtain such support, for the rebels, instead of spending a few months sending scarce elites to learn and purchase a set of advanced weapons of hundreds of millions of dollars, it is better to use this money. This person was directly sent to the front line to increase the military strength, anyway, the local government army they had to deal with was not a strong army, and the illiterate poor man could fight like a gun, so naturally he didn't need too good guys.

Now, the top of the rebels have some regrets, they have no radar, no more advanced anti-aircraft missiles, only a sufficient number of old anti-aircraft guns of various calibers, which are enough to deal with low-flying helicopters and drones, and to deal with GDI attack aircraft with more advanced equipment, which is definitely not enough.

But at this time, it is useless to regret it, even if the rebel high-level is now willing to spend money to find supporters to purchase more advanced air defense weapons, those weapons will not be able to appear at the forefront immediately, in the city of Kahle, so now the sky is still the territory of GDI attack aircraft, fortunately, after the communication in the entire area was interfered with by the rebels, in order to prevent accidental injury to their own people, those attack aircraft did not dare to attack the ground at will, and could only attack the rebel positions that were completely exposed in the open space.

After all, the main battlefield here is still in the city, and there are not too many targets that can be attacked at will.

The loss of heavy artillery did not dispel the rebels' desire to attack, there was no heavy artillery, but nearly a hundred mortars of various calibers still turned into a sea of fire on the stronghold where the GDI troops were found by them, but the high-standard cast bunkers were not easily destroyed by the rebels' mortars that were not powerful enough, and they did not have advanced anti-fortification shells in their hands, so although the entire stronghold was fired, the defenders in the stronghold did not suffer much damage, Only a handful of government soldiers were affected by the shelling before they had time to dodge, and the worst of the elite GDI soldiers with a powered exoskeleton suit were able to hide in a safer place long before the shells hit the ground.

It's just that people have been shelled from a distance all the time, and it's not a solution. If it was before, before being interfered with, even without the assistance of friendly forces, Liu Yan's dozens of clone soldiers could also calculate the location of the enemy's mortar through the counter-battery radar on the power armor, and then program the missiles carried to counterattack and destroy the artillery, but now, not only the communication equipment cannot be used, but even the operation of electronic equipment such as individual micro-radar on the power armor has been affected, the detection distance is shortened, the accuracy is greatly reduced, and some higher-precision equipment simply strikes directly.

This is also the reason why Liu Yan feels more and more aggrieved when he fights here.

Fortunately, after such a toss, a lot of time was wasted, and the whole area fell into the night, losing enough light, and the accuracy of the rebels' artillery bombardment was greatly reduced, and the defenders were able to survive the first day of fighting.