Myer confessed that he took the whole battalion to the remote planet Prader for field training, in addition to wanting the veterans in the battalion to see his mecha operation skills. There is a deeper reason, take the opportunity of that field training to hone the cooperation between the mecha and the individual armor.

Because at that time, mecha, as the main weapon of land warfare and the absolute domination of the battlefield, was still a rarity and could not reach full installation. The so-called mecha battalion, in fact, most of them are equipped with tracked individual armor and quadruped individual armor. There were less than eighty mechs in the battalion. 200 tracked individual armor and 300 quadruped individual armor. For the 102nd Marine Regiment, the configuration of this battalion led by Miles is already considered to be fully staffed. And it was also configured with an increase after the battle damage.

In this case, the coordination between the mecha and the individual armor is particularly important.

At that time, as an old-fashioned second-generation mecha, it was also the first time that a humanoid mecha appeared in the Fourth Pangalactic War.

The mecha battalion is equipped with the "Awakening Lion" series. The mecha in this series is pure black throughout, with long forearms and thick hind limbs. At the joints are wheeled links. It looks very similar to a chimpanzee. The thickened heavy superalloy armor, which weighs sixteen tons, is less than ten meters tall, but it is already much taller than the individual armor with four mechanical legs reaching the ground. The original short and stubby "Awakening Lion" squatted there, and from a distance, it was a black steel monster, strong, mighty, and very strong impact.

The firepower is a pulse gun between an energy weapon and an alloy metal bullet, and the secondary weapon is a chain-cutting axe. The handle of the axe, which is nearly three meters long, has a huge blade of chain-like serrations that rotate rapidly. Cutting tearing through the thickened armor of the tank is effortless. is the main weapon in melee combat.

The pulse gun is shaped like a rectangular box with a large emitter hole. Mounted on both shoulders of the mech. Propelling an alloy bullet with the energy of an electromagnetic pulse. Because conventional metal bullets can't break through the mecha's energy shield, it will even be evaporated the moment it touches the energy shield. Pure energy weapons, unless they are ion weapons, can directly break through the energy protection of the mecha, and laser weapons can't be broken for a while.

In large-scale combat, only a semi-energy weapon that pushes an alloy bullet with energy can destroy the enemy's mech head-on in a mech duel.

Of course, if it is covered by a large-scale high-energy fusion projectile, even the mecha with the energy shield turned on will still not be able to carry it. Therefore, in terms of weaponry, the mecha battalions that are not qualified enough and are not equipped with super-standard ion weapons mainly rely on conventional metal ammunition, high-energy fusion shells, high-energy fusion mines, and laser weapons.

The operation of fully mechanized troops such as mecha battalions and armored regiments is different from the conventional army operations using tanks, armored vehicles, and missiles.

They are extremely fast, with fierce firepower and nimble control. A mech can single-handedly take on a tank regiment. A dozen or so individual armorers can basically wipe out a reorganized tank regiment. What high technology brings about is the change on the conventional battlefield. The advent of mechs is the most prominent example of this change.

How to cooperate more tacitly with mecha and individual armor and make it mature is a military topic that Miles, the first battalion commander, has to solve urgently in response to that field training. For today, there are no less than 100 ways to solve this problem, and those that are already mature cannot be more mature. But at that time, there were solutions, but most of them were still in the exploration stage.

The field training was carried out for three days. During those three days, the veterans of the mecha battalion got to see the new battalion commander's true level of mecha operation. It's really high, it's not averagely high. From the initial one-on-one, it became one-on-two, one-on-five, and one-on-eight, and finally beat these veterans to the extreme, and more than a dozen mecha rushed up to abuse Miles.

The veterans in the barracks are all experienced in a hundred battles, and everyone who can survive is not simple, what they admire is the strong. Miles conquered them with practical abilities. Although they have not yet been brought to the battlefield, the veterans believe that this young new battalion commander is definitely not a coward who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

Although the hearts of the entire battalion of soldiers have not been collected for the time being, they have truly achieved the order. At the very least, the combat effectiveness has been integrated. The veterans also practiced more attentively. In the roar of artillery fire, my fingers stiffened, my arms cramped, and my legs trembled. The coordination between mechs and individual armor is also becoming more effective.

On the fourth day, May 27, less than three kilometers from the Somme River, Miles led the team back to the camp after a hard morning, and on the way to the airborne communicator, he was giggling with several company commanders in the on-board communicator, when he suddenly received an early warning signal. On the other side of the Somme, less than four kilometers ahead, a group of enemy mechs was spotted. Looking at the scale, at least it is a reorganized mecha regiment.

At this time, it is too late to avoid or walk around. There is also no suitable pathway.

In front is the Somme River, on the left is a steep rock, on the right is the famous Antillar Rift Valley, more than 10,000 meters long, dark and dark, I don't know how deep, behind is an open land with a radius of nearly ten kilometers. As long as the troops retreat, they will become targets covered by the enemy's artillery fire. Even if you can spread out the troops and fight in the open field, the other side is a whole mecha regiment, and you only have a battalion. More than three times as many as themselves.

The veterans knew that they had encountered the Imperial Mecha Regiment, and their anger suddenly surged. Yelling for revenge for the former battalion commander.

This battle has to be fought, and the key is how to fight it in order to reduce casualties and win.

Miles also fought in the mechanic company, piloting a scrapped quadruped armor to kill a dozen Imperial soldiers.

But he can lead troops to fight, and this is the first time he has come.

I also know that this is an opportunity. If this battle is fought well, it can really establish prestige in the mecha battalion.

After urgent consultations with several company commanders, Myers believed that there was danger, but it was not that there was no chance to kill or even annihilate them.

When we meet on a narrow road, isn't it often said that the brave wins!

Miles did not have a systematic military study, but as a veteran, he still had the most basic military knowledge.

He proposed that several company commanders with rich combat experience supplement. The battle plan developed by the crowd is called "Cutting".

Advance as fast as possible to disrupt the opponent's formation before enemy artillery fire is covered. After the raid enters, one mecha leads five individual armor as a small combat unit, taking advantage of the chaos to catch one and solve it as quickly as possible. In the end, the small encirclement forms a large encirclement, cutting the opponent into pieces. until total annihilation.

After repeated deductions, checking and filling in the gaps, picking up the gaps and filling in the gaps, it is believed that the feasibility is very large. Then notify the whole battalion. Unanimously approved.

The troops were well hidden, and Miles personally led the team to deal with the traces. As a qualified mecha warrior, you must not only know how to fly a mecha, but also be proficient in some special forces' tricks, such as camouflage, infiltration, assassination, elimination of traces, etc.

The Somme River is hundreds of meters wide and does not have to be bridged by sappers. The Empire's "Alpha" mecha, which is more than ten meters high, can easily cross over. The silver-gray body shines in the sun. The eight-legged individual armor resembles a rampant crab. The entire mecha regiment filled the river.

They also caught the warning signal that there was an enemy on the opposite side, but no one took it seriously. It is impossible to appear the army of the alliance here. Too remote, far from the lines of fire between the two sides. Moreover, it is even more unlikely that the alliance will know that there is a mecha design expert of the Kroe clan living in seclusion on this abandoned resource planet. Otherwise, the alliance that would have lagged behind the empire in terms of the overall strength of science and technology would have started a long time ago, where would it be so coincidental to wait until today, and just collide.

Strictly speaking, the Kroe do not belong to the Roland Empire. Nor does it belong to the Galactic League. It's a strange loose tribe with no fixed settlements, and hundreds of thousands of people live in scattered forms in many countries. It is only during the pilgrimage season in March that they gather from far and wide to their ancestral stars. After the pilgrimage season, they are scattered again. Much like migratory birds that migrate to the moon.

It was very accidental that the Imperial Intelligence Service got the news, and it was Hellholmes's nephew who betrayed him for money, just to pay off the loan sharks' debts. When the intelligence department got the news, they immediately asked the Eighteenth Legion, which was closest to the planet Prader, to send someone to pick up Heilholmes and his team. If people can't pick them up, they will all be killed, but the information of the third-generation mecha must be obtained.

Of course, Miles and the others didn't know about these secrets, but they just happened to encounter this mecha group that came with a special mission.

When the Imperial Mechs crossed the Somme, less than fifteen hundred meters from their ambush point. Miles led the mech battalion in a surprise attack.

The earth shook, and the rumbling sound was accompanied by a group of black-pressed monsters rushing straight into the military formation of the Imperial Mecha Regiment. The assault speed is extremely fast. The Imperial Mecha Regiment had just crossed the Somme, and the whole regiment had just received an order to renovate. The Alliance mech battalion sliced into it like a steel knife.

Black smoke billowed and flames soared into the sky.

Rumble...... Rumble......

In the incessant sound of martyrdom, the "Alpha" mechs on the Imperial side were destroyed one after another, and exploded into pieces of iron.

Comparatively speaking, the level of operation of the Imperial Mecha Warrior was higher than that of the Mech Battalion led by Miles, but the surprise attack came too suddenly. And it's faster than they can react. By the time they adapted to the situation and fought back, the entire mech regiment had been cut to pieces by their opponents.

There are not many of them, but small combat units in groups of five or six people are interspersed very quickly, and even if the comrades around them explode, someone will quickly make up for them.

At this time, the response speed is played, a "fast" word.

By the time the Imperial Mechs had organized an effective counterattack, more than half of their forces had been destroyed.

The next step is to hit the nail on the head. The fact that the cutting tactics could achieve this effect was already a big surprise to Miles and several company commanders.

In the end, the mecha battalion had suffered nearly 200 casualties and completely annihilated the Imperial mecha regiment and captured Meghausen, a staff officer of the 18th Army Corps.

This guy is a complete straw bag, and when he was first caught and didn't wait for interrogation, he made all the moves with a handful of snot and tears. Not only did the matter of Haile Holmes be recruited. Incidentally, some of the troop deployments of the 18th Army Corps and the 23rd Army Corps were also shaken out. This also laid the groundwork for the fall of the 18th Army and the 23rd Army in the future. It can be said that Meghhausen, who led to the demise of these two imperial legions, was the most direct culprit.

The rest is simple. Overjoyed, Miles led the remaining mecha battalion with Meghhausen directly to the Hellholmes residence, where he and his team were immediately controlled and reported to the regimental headquarters.

In less than sixty years, the alliance has been able to develop the mecha from the second generation to the current sixth generation, break through the seventh generation, and move towards the eighth generation of mechas. And the biggest credit goes to Haile Holmes. This person is now nearly 90 years old and still serves as the chief expert of the Alliance's scientific research institute.

The eldest lady was not interested in the outcome of the Somme encounter and its aftermath. She was now interested in the "cutting" tactic that the old headmaster had used in the first place.

The same outnumbered. A mech battalion against a mech regiment.

Purple Phoenix is now five mechs against eighteen mechs.

If this effective hint is not borrowed, the eldest lady will not be worthy of the name of wisdom.

At this time, the immortal bird was less than two hundred meters away from the ambush point. It's time to attack.