Chapter XXIV: Hints of the Somme Encounter (I)

The eldest lady was also very angry, and at the same time she was a little aggrieved in her heart.

I promise to help you become a regular student and turn you from a supernumerary auditor to a full-fledged student.

And let you join the Purple Phoenix team. Don't you understand what this means?

Purple Phoenix participates in the elite selection competition as a team, and once it wins, it wins the first place. Even if you don't get the first place, you can always be selected for the elite group, right? So you, as a member of the Purple Phoenix team, will you be thrown out alone?

That's an elite group! If others want to get in and have to compete, they have to drive a big pile of cold iron to fight. If you are not careful, you will inevitably get injured. I'm like this for a girl, but what about you?

Of course, in the next few days, you will have to worry about the warranty and maintenance of the mecha. But it's better than going to war, right? At least it's not dangerous!

In the consciousness of the eldest lady, as long as she enters the selection competition, there is no concept of "losing". As for the individual competition after winning the team battle, the eldest lady didn't think about it at all. Because she has confidence, she has confidence in herself, and she has confidence in the rest of the team. Whether she is crazy or arrogant, the eldest lady is so strong!

Basically, entering the elite group is equivalent to being stereotyped.

By the way, the fat man who has a perverted machine talent and a more perverted super hand speed is also lifted in. Save time and effort.

The fat man is not sensible, so if he doesn't thank her, he dares to ask her for wages.

Do you need money to help with friends? Is there money to be paid for the service of the team?

Why don't you get into the money?

Damn fatty, you're pissed off at me!

He also said that he would not do it and would leave.

Dead fatty, want to go? There are no doors!

The eldest lady clenched her silver teeth and made up her mind not only to hold the dead fat man in the palm of her hand. In the future, we will continue to squeeze value vigorously.

Blow up all the fat on that dead fat man's body. Hum!

"Captain, they're coming up."

"Well, be prepared."

There's no time to think about that dead fat man, the opponent is about to enter the attack range.

……

Sneak attack? Yes and no, at least not absolutely. This is normal warfare, ambush warfare. It's all in textbooks.

Who said that mecha fighting must be a meeting between two people, and as soon as they come up, they will bang and kick you and me?

That kind of fighting method is outdated.

Today's mecha fighting can use all combat methods on the battlefield.

Including ambushes in advance, sneak attacks, and catching opponents off guard. In a favorable situation, it is not impossible to fight in groups. Everything is aimed at finally bringing down the opponent. It's not the process that's important, it's the result.

If you have a advantage, you will take it, and if you don't take it, you will be a fool and a fool.

Of course, the eldest lady of the dignified Zifeng Courtyard family is not stupid. Only those who are very close to her know about some of her small ideas, and none of the team members know about them. She has admired the beautiful female major general of the Tianxiang clan since she was a child. There is also a photo of Major General Suzuka in the private diary.

I want to be like her, one day on the battlefield, charging into battle. Be a respected and even intimidating heroine.

A ninth-level super ace mecha warrior with a hand speed of more than 80 movements per second is her dream, and the goal she strives for.

……

With a distance of less than a kilometer, the immortal birds are equivalent to falling into an ambush circle. The optimal distance for a mech's attack in a round is seventy-five meters, and it takes less than a second when the main power engine is fully activated. It's a blink of an eye. The fastest reaction speed of the human brain is 0.03 seconds, and specially trained people can mention 0.02 or even 0.01. The current reaction speed of the eldest lady is between 0.02 and 0.01. Much stronger than the average person. I believe that Plantagenet Feather is not much different from her.

Miss's current hand speed is 49 movements per second. Six Actions is a combined command, which involves the sensing system, the power system, the drive system, the weapon attack system, and the defense system. In other words, in a second, she can make eight combination command outputs. Causes the mech to act accordingly at the command level.

But this is in general. At the beginning of the battle, it is necessary to determine what kind of combination command to use according to the change in the form of the battlefield, that is. Ordinary combination commands are not suitable. You have to use multiple combination commands that are more difficult and more challenging. Multiple combination commands break the conventional way of combining commands. It is a leapfrog combination.

For example, if a Mecha Warrior who uses a normal combination command is an ordinary soldier, then a Mech Warrior who operates under multiple combination commands is a Special Forces. Combat effectiveness and combat power are incomparable. The two have the same roots, but they are not comparable.

The machine is dead, and its ability to move depends on human operation. Everything has to rely on the operation instructions issued by the keyboard, and the instructions are turned into command signals, so that the mecha can act like a human. The more multiple combination commands output within the limit time, the more flexible the mech's actions will be. Whoever has the faster hand speed will be better for whom. It can further seize the opportunity and occupy a favorable position on the battlefield.

Keep an eye on the signal on the onboard computer screen. The opponent is getting closer and closer, almost five hundred meters.

……

The eldest lady has seen many classic examples of mechas, especially the Somme encounter that took place on the planet Prad in the Fourth Pangalactic War. This skirmish can be said to have affected the course of the entire war, leading to the root cause of the destruction of the 18th and 23rd Legions on the side of the Roland Empire.

At that time, the leader of the mecha battalion of the 102nd Marine Regiment of the 98th Division was the old principal Miles Green. At that time, he was still very young, as if he was not yet twenty-five years old, and it was the time when he was in his prime and sharp. Originally, he was a mechanic of the Marine Corps Mechanic Battalion, but because of his excellent mecha maintenance and operation skills, he was discovered by the regiment commander who came to inspect him, and he was directly promoted to the mecha battalion and was appointed as a major battalion commander according to the special regulations in wartime. The former battalion commander died not long ago. Less than two months later, the famous Somme encounter that shook the entire star field took place.

As for the Somme encounter, all that is documented is the events of this small battle and the enormous aftermath of it. As for the reasons for the initiation, it is not well documented. The specific story was told by the old principal Myers during a speech at an academy conference.

According to the old headmaster's account, the battle was launched very suddenly. Neither of us nor the enemy expected to meet face to face there. And there is no way to avoid it.

Meghhausen was a colonel's staff officer in the staff of the Eighteenth Army of the Reich and the youngest son of Prince Admiral Meg Fred. Because his youngest son graduated from the Imperial Military Academy, he was stuffed into the General Staff. Relatively speaking, the General Staff is only responsible for the deduction of the battle situation and the planning of the campaign, and will not be on the battlefield in person. can win military merits, and the danger is small. So not only Admiral Meg Fred, but also many Imperial nobles have placed their direct children in military units that are as far away from the battlefield as the General Staff.

On the afternoon of May 23, 2579 in the new calendar, Meghhausen was urgently recalled to the staff headquarters in the dark at his mistress's house, and the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Ali, ordered him to lead a group of integrated mechs to secretly go to the planet Prader to pick up a man, this person is called Heil Holmes, who is an expert in mecha design. At that time, he led the team to develop the third generation of mechas. The stage of breaking has passed. As long as the detailed data is available, mass production can be carried out immediately. This will play an inestimable role in the current stalemate.

It's just to lead the team to pick up people, and the Prader planet is in a remote star field, far away from the battlefield where the two sides clash, so there is not much danger. And according to intelligence, the alliance did not find a troop deployment in that star field. Even if they encounter some small groups of troops on the other side, I believe that with the strength of the mecha regiment, it is enough to protect the safety of Meghausen.

As long as you get someone in your hands and get the electronic chip that contains the third-generation mecha data, it is a great achievement. Receiving awards and promotions is not a problem.

If it weren't for Admiral Meg Fred personally greeting him, Lieutenant General Ali would have wanted to give this opportunity to his own nephew.

But Meg Fred was not only the general in charge of the Eighteenth Legion, his immediate boss, but also a prince. Ali did not dare to disobey his orders.

Meghhausen, who lived a luxurious and erosive life and had at least a dozen mistresses, had long since been hollowed out. It is reluctant to use his brain as a staff officer, and going to the battlefield to kill the enemy is tantamount to asking for his life. Of course, he would not refuse such a good thing that could earn military merit without much trouble. immediately said that he would complete the task at all costs, otherwise he would come to see him.

However, he never expected that the credit was not received, but embarked on a road of no return.

The old headmaster still couldn't help laughing when he said this. Very proud. Because of that small battle, he has been in the position of major general since then, and if it weren't for physical reasons, he had to recuperate with peace of mind, so that he retired early and transferred to the "No. 1 in the world" mecha academy as the principal, and then worked in the position of principal for decades.

He still remembers the events of that day vividly.

Because when he first arrived at the mecha battalion, the previous battalion commander had just died not long ago. The grief and indignation of the soldiers in the battalion had not yet changed. So no one obeyed him, the new battalion commander, and even was very hostile and repulsive to him. thinks he is a flattering villain, and he became the battalion commander by hugging Shangguan's thigh. But as a soldier, I had to listen to orders from above.

Miles knows that too. I don't have enough qualifications. Although he was in the mechanic company before, he had also been a soldier for five or six years, and he was considered a veteran. Know how to convince a group of veteran oils. It is not enough to just take the appointment order of the superior and use the power to suppress people, and it is also the most stupid way. Listen to you on the surface, but secretly the veterans are very proficient in this kind of thing, and you can't catch the sore feet.

As a front-line combat battalion, if this problem is not completely solved, once it is on the battlefield, the order will not be effectively implemented. It is a trivial matter to die by himself, and it is estimated that there will be no left of the whole battalion. He is not afraid of death, but it depends on whether it is worth it.

Therefore, Miles decided to take advantage of the opportunity of the whole battalion to recuperate for three months and pull all three companies out. Pull in the field.

The destination of Lalian, after careful investigation, he chose the planet Prader.

It was an abandoned resource star, and the terrain was complex, making it suitable for mech battalion training.

When Miles led the transport ship to land from the northern dock, Meghhausen also led the mech regiment to disembark the transport ship from the southern dock.