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"yes, that's not what I'm supposed to care about right now." Liu Yan shook his head vigorously, wanting to get rid of those things that were beyond his common sense, "However, what does Dr. Kane have in mind to give our space fleet the ability to deal with ground-based anti-orbital weapons?" Those turrets are protected by shields, have strong firepower, and have tracking capabilities, is there progress in cracking them? ”

"There's no progress in cracking it, Dr. Kane just has some more practical technical improvements, but he hasn't tested it yet, so don't expect too much, if it's not useful enough, I'm afraid that in the end it will have to be attacked by ground forces."

"Then I don't look forward to it, I'll talk about it in detail when I'm done with the work at hand."

End of communication.

There are many ways to get to a city forty kilometers away from the base, but in order not to fall into more passivity, Liu Yan only used the special combat battalion's own fast tactical transport aircraft, which made it impossible for heavy equipment such as tanks to be deployed to the mission site.

The reason for this is that Liu Yan considers that his troops are vulnerable to attacks by land – if Carlson is really unreliable, then his course of action will naturally be betrayed by him to extremist groups, and those people can set up ambushes on the road and overwhelm the troops with a series of attacks (such as unpreventable roadside bomb attacks) - and if there is only one negligence, unnecessary damage may occur, which Liu Yan does not want to see.

The direct use of tactical transport aircraft with vertical take-off and landing functions, although there is also a risk of being attacked by air defense weapons, but compared with taking a land route with a fixed route, it is more mobile in the air - although there is such a thing as air control, but as the most powerful GDI force on the planet, it is obviously not very good at obeying the command of non-GDI agencies, even if Carlson sells the route of the fleet to others, unless the Brotherhood or the Sijing people directly send fighters to intercept it, it is impossible for anyone to block the fleet- Liu Yan didn't plan to fly completely according to the reported routes, not to mention that these front-line tactical transport planes, which are only available to the troops directly under the General Headquarters, were also equipped with various interception systems, and those short-range air defense missiles in the hands of the extremist armed forces would be intercepted if they could not fly close at all.

It's just that in this way, tactical transport planes with little transport and space cannot carry heavy equipment like tanks, even heavier armored vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles can't be loaded with many, so Liu Yan only brought three command vehicles this time, and the rest of the space on the transport aircraft was used to load hoplites wearing K-type armor.

A front-line tactical transport aircraft, with a capacity of 20 tons, can carry 12 fully armed K-type armor - this is not to say that one armor weighs several tons, but the armor occupies more space than personnel, and there is no space after the transport aircraft is equipped with 12 K-type armor - and Liu Yan used a total of eight front-line tactical transport planes this time, with four Oak vertical take-off and landing attack aircraft to escort and go to Kahler City to carry out the mission.

After all, the order was to assist the local government army in setting up checkpoints at the main entrances and exits of the city, and theoretically only needed to send a small number of personnel to participate in maintaining local order.

However, considering that it has been repeatedly bombed and mortared, a certain amount of heavy equipment is still needed. Although you can't bring a main battle tank with powerful firepower, most of the dozens of K-type individual armor have heavy firepower - anti-tank missiles, cluster rocket nests, recoilless guns, grenade launchers, you name it.

"We've been in contact with the local government forces in Kahle." In a corner of the transport plane, Liu Yan, who spent the whole night learning K-type armor, heard the pilot's report while adjusting the armor, "They want us to go directly to the highway entrance to meet him." ”

"Roger, drop us down at a location five kilometers from the rendezvous point, and then the fleet returns to high altitude and standby, and then lands to unload supplies after we secure a safe landing site." Liu Yan was quite cautious, and did not let the fleet fly directly to the rendezvous point to land, but landed at a position that was not too far away and beyond the range of most short-range air defense weapons, and then walked to the rendezvous point, he did not want the troops to encounter any trouble when landing, even if the transport plane had self-defense capabilities beyond the standard of deserved.

"Understood, the landing will start in a minute."

As the pilot reported, the fleet was already very close to the rendezvous point, and the high-speed tactical transport plane flew to the five-kilometer position where Liu Yan planned to land in a minute, and the three tactical transport planes equipped with K-type individual armor lowered their altitude one step ahead of the augur attack aircraft, and when they were still twenty meters above the ground, they entered a hovering state and opened the belly hatch.

Thirty-six two-and-a-half-meter-tall steel machines activated their rocket backpacks on their backs and leaped from the cabin, controlling their falling speed and landing smoothly. However, the rest of the transport planes did not follow the armored infantry that had established a safe landing site, and the thirty-six armored infantrymen began to run towards the city after checking that they were in good condition, and the three transport planes that had released them also rose back into the fleet, all of which were increasing altitude.

A distance of five kilometers is only a quarter of an hour in front of these machines that can travel at speeds of up to 20 kilometers on the ground. It's just that seeing these steel weapons running all the way on the highway has also brought considerable confusion to the civilians on the road, as well as the government officers and soldiers guarding the entrance and exit of the highway.

Fortunately, the shells of these K-shaped power armor were extremely conspicuous and clearly marked with GDI, otherwise the government soldiers would have been afraid to open fire on the armored infantry at the same time as they saw them.

After seeing that the cans were GDI's troops, the government forces in charge of this entrance and exit breathed a sigh of relief, but they did not completely relax their vigilance, because there have been many incidents of extremist armed forces disguised as convoys of United Nations agencies to carry out attacks on various local facilities, although everyone believes that those militants certainly do not have such high-tech products to camouflage GDI troops, but it is always necessary to be careful.

Fortunately, when these armored infantry approached the level, they also slowed down and radioed the defenders to inform them of their identity, which allowed the defenders to completely let go of their hostility and open the level for them to enter.

After that, 36 armored infantry divided two-thirds of their men to occupy the roof area of civilian buildings around the checkpoint, and after controlling a certain range of safety around the checkpoint, eight tactical transport planes appeared above the heads of everyone again, and under the command of another 12 armored infantrymen, they began to land in an open space divided by local government troops next to the checkpoint.

This time, all the troops brought by Liu Yan personally landed.

After arranging for some armored infantry to assist the light infantry who only used power exoskeletons to carry supplies on the transport plane, and then asked Lieutenant Dominic, who was his deputy on this mission, to arrange for personnel to guard the area, Liu Yan had time to meet with the local government army officer in charge of the security work here.

Colonel Callum is the temporary head of this checkpoint, originally this place was just an ordinary checkpoint, and there were usually more than 30 people in charge of guarding here, and the commander was just an ordinary second lieutenant, which was enough for a checkpoint, but in recent times, there has been a large increase in various armed attacks and suicide attacks against government forces and United Nations agencies, resulting in extremely serious casualties, plus this is a joint inspection, The GDI sent elite troops (this was informed by Major General Carlson to the local government forces to avoid being rude—though Liu Yan didn't care about it.)

Through the conversation with Colonel Callum, Liu Yan also had a better understanding of the situation here, and he also heard from the colonel about some things that Major General Carlson did not mention or concealed, and he was sure that the colonel of the local government army was most likely not Carlson's accomplice, nor did he look like a member of the Brotherhood, which was somewhat comforting.

But it's not reassuring.

When he saw the checkpoint, the government set up four heavy reinforced concrete bunkers on the road, and each of them parked an M1A2 main battle tank in front of the bunker to act as a firing point, but the checkpoint itself was in tatters and devastated appearance, and there were various craters of different shades on the ground around it, Liu Yan knew that the situation here was actually quite bad.

Local government forces are powerless to stop attacks, and it is difficult for them to keep attackers out of checkpoints, which is why GDI forces are often required to assist government forces in dealing with militants who are relatively poorly armed.

"Those soldiers," Lieutenant Dominic, who had arranged the guard, walked up to Liu Yan after observing the checkpoints, and said to Liu Yan in Z Wen that Colonel Callum didn't understand, "Most of them don't have any fighting spirit. When the attack happened, it was good to be able to run away without abandoning the weapon. ”

"The geography here is a bit more complex than where we used to be stationed. Because this is an oil-producing area, and it is an area where local religious activities are relatively more frequent, these places were already chaotic places before the Sijing War, and most of the locals live day by day, loyalty to their country is very low, and even less loyal to religion, so in terms of will to fight, these soldiers are not as good as those fanatics who have been hypnotized by religion, and only a few people can fight back normally if they do not flee when the attack occurs. Liu Yan glanced at Colonel Callum, at this time the other party was giving orders to several subordinates to strengthen the vigilance, and before he had time to pay attention to Liu Yan's conversation with Lieutenant Dominic—of course, it may also be that the other party couldn't understand Wen Z—he took the opportunity to talk to Lieutenant Dominic about his own opinion, "And most of these officers are also wealthy children, who have always been pampered and have no worries about life, and joining the army is just a pastime for them, or for some family honor and other face-saving things, If they want to really work hard, they can't find a few who have the courage to do it. The officers are like this, and those soldiers whose morale is not high naturally have no will to fight to the death. ”

"Speaking of which, it's more like fighting with modern weapons and equipment, but the customs are still backward in ancient thought." Lieutenant Dominic has also been stationed with Liu Yan in other war-torn places in the Middle East, and he still knows a lot about the local situation. ”

"Just like before, if we really fight, we still have to rely on ourselves." Liu Yan spread his hands and said, "Of course, before the battle happens, these people are still somewhat useful, at least it's okay to wave the flag and shout." ”