To the southeast, the Dryad Reconnaissance Company was divided into five squads to conduct leapfrogging reconnaissance in the four areas with the highest probability of discovering the Normans.

Although they carry heavy attack packs, they are still nimble enough to jump from tree to tree, and use the elasticity of the branches to gain more momentum.

The Great Forest is the home of the Dryads, they can use a variety of plants that are deadly to ordinary humans as delicacies, each thick branch will become their comfortable bed, they are sensitive, agile movements, and do not need a campfire when boosting morale, they are the darlings of the forest, and they can be invincible in the forest.

The members of Team C have been tracking the mechanical mantis transport team for three days. In fact, the captain of Team C estimated that it was less than a day's journey from the Norman camp at most, and the reason why it took three days to track it was because of the tactics adopted to track it in stages, so as to avoid being discovered by the Normans before discovering the Norman camp.

On the fourth day, the Norman camp was discovered.

The camp is not big, the size of a football field. There are several basic buildings in the center of the camp, and the huge chimney mouth can see the air shaking due to the high temperature, but there is almost no smoke and dust, indicating that they are also using the energy of the sacred tree.

The walls of the base are not yet fully completed, but the finished sections appear to be sturdy and carry a defensive turret with weapons similar to those of a normal combat robot, but with a larger number of barrels.

Several makeshift hangars have been set up in the open space of the base, filled with combat robots, some of which use the maneuvering system of mechanical feet instead of tracks, unlike the ones that attacked the prison in Fort Town. This may be due to the fact that in dense forests, two legs are more mobile than tracks and wheels.

In addition, Captain C also discovered that two larger combat robots, quadruped and equipped with support artillery, had been sent out in a similar mechanical factory in the middle of the camp. And then there's their old friend, the man-eating bird. Except for a few of these man-eating birds hovering in the air accidentally, most of them either stopped on the fence or on the roof of the camp building, and looked demented because they had not received instructions.

"No wonder ......" Captain C smiled secretly in his heart: "It turns out that you are now producing and using, it seems that your military strength is only like this, and there are not many standing troops." ”

Captain C had the Norman base surveyed and mapped in detail, and called the rest of the Dryad detachment to assemble.

The Dryad Reconnaissance Company was assembled, and the company commander ordered that those who had been given diplomatic status begin to change their clothes and prepare for a mandatory meeting.

The Dryads sprang into action, and the Dryads, who had been given diplomatic status, began to change their clothes and prepare to die generously, while the rest of the Dryads continued to observe and take pictures of the Norman base.

Just as the Dryads were getting ready to go, a man-eating bird that had been hovering over the Norman base suddenly swooped down and swooped down on the Dryads' hidden ground.

Some of the Dryad warriors raised their guns and were ready to shoot, but were stopped by the company commander: No shooting, our diplomatic mission has not yet been completed.

The Dryads no longer decided to fight by force, and someone began to pray.

However, instead of attacking the Dryad, the man-eating bird grabbed a passenger pigeon and flew in the direction of the base.

The passenger pigeon had just flown in from the depths of the forest, and was probably carrying the latest orders from the base camp to the Dryads. The patrolling man-eaters did not actually spot the tree elves, but they did find the passenger pigeons.

But now they were all discovered by the man-eating birds, and the information was quickly transmitted to the base, and a terrible alarm sounded over the base, and the various robots in the camp began to run around.

The company commander immediately asked the shooter to use a variable frequency gun to shoot the man-eating birds, and if the order fell into the hands of the Normans, whatever the content, it would have a great passive effect on the next move, or even worse.

The inverter gun's beam caused the man-eating bird to fall off balance and fall from the air, but its outstretched wings provided some gliding, allowing it to land at the edge of the forest, where it was seen by two combat robots on duty at the camp gate, who called for the mechanical mantis to come to the rescue.

The company commander immediately Lipton ordered the diplomatic mission to set off, and the rest of the detachment took advantage of the cover of the mission to retrieve the passenger pigeon.

The mission immediately set off and walked out of the forest, waving diplomatic flags and shouting: "We have come for peace." ”

Although it is a diplomatic team, it uses a standard skirmish line, so that the enemy's machine gun fire cannot hit two targets at the same time, and the duration of the mission is extended as much as possible.

The Normans, apparently not expecting a mission to suddenly appear, did not shoot immediately, while the rest of the dryads took the opportunity to pick up the passenger pigeon and return to the forest.

The company commander opened the information sent by the brigade pigeon, and sure enough, it was an order from the base camp: stop the meeting immediately and withdraw all the personnel.

The company commander grabbed a telescope and saw through it that the mission was surrounded by Norman fighter mechs. Annoyed, he threw down the binoculars and cursed: Bull shit

The combat robots surrounded the Tree Elves' Legation in the middle, and the members of the Dryad Legation were all warriors, and they were back to back, forming a defensive posture, but none of them carried weapons, and they had no chance of winning with flesh against steel.

The sirens continued, the ceiling of the largest building in the middle of the camp slowly opened, and an airship slowly rose higher and higher, and finally flew in the direction of the Combine base camp.

"They're attacking!" The company commander shouted, "Prepare for battle!" ”

Before the words could be spoken, the battle robot opened fire first, and the members of the Dryad diplomatic mission trapped in the middle were instantly beaten into honeycombs.

The turret machine guns on the walls of the Norman base also began to fire into the forest.

Forests are good for concealment, but they have limited protection against full-powered machine gun bullets that can break a tree. Although the Dryad warriors were quick enough to hide behind the trees, there were still people who were shot and kept falling from the trees.

All the man-eating birds at the Norman base took to the air and hovered over the Dryad troops, guiding the Combat Robots to their targets, allowing the Combat Robots to fire quickly and accurately from their machine guns as they propulsed.

Dryads can only form small teams, covering each other in groups of three or five towards the depths of the forest, in the dense canopy, to avoid the positioning and reconnaissance of man-eating birds.

But the Combat Robot also chased into the jungle, and the Dryad's light weapons could not resist the armor of the Combat Robot, and could only throw their lives to fight with their hands**, magnets**, and their hand-to-hand combat. Dryads are good at climbing and can sometimes sneak up on a condescending approach, which gives them some advantages.

After a bloody battle, the commander of the Treant Reconnaissance Company lost contact and the captain of Team A took over the command, and after assembling the troops, it was found that less than a third of the troops were left, but due to the strong self-sacrifice spirit of the Dryads, most of the intelligence system was saved.

Captain A ordered the last three passenger pigeons to be released, gave a brief report on the mission, and then ordered all the staff to evacuate.

After the Dryad Reconnaissance Company was evacuated, the Norman base sent a team of mechanical mantis to recover the remains of the combat robots in the forest and the corpses of the Dryad warriors - whether it was scrap metal or protein, they were all recyclable resources.

In fact, there was not only one airship flying to the base camp, and the Normans were not the only one in the southeast. All this can be attributed to the lack of manpower in the base camp, which can only do key reconnaissance, who knows that the Normans are actually blooming everywhere.

But the communication station left before the expedition worked. Although the communication station had been destroyed by the Normans, the hidden observation point survived, and they spotted the airship flying towards the base camp.

There are a total of four airships found by the Tree Elf reconnaissance team and observation points, and Ah Jun believes that there are many more, and according to the analysis of the situation of the last attack on Fort Town, one airship can carry twelve combat robots. Four airships are forty-eight, according to the combat effectiveness of each combat robot is worth a tactical detachment, only the carrying capacity of these four airships has the attack power of an infantry battalion, and although the base camp is a brigade-level unit, all the combat detachments are not yet full, maybe for this attack can barely be blocked, but the next is difficult to say.

Not to mention that there may not be so many offensive forces this time.

If only I could intercept some of them in the middle of the way.

Ah Jun consulted with a representative of the Ark Alliance, and the representative of the Ark Alliance said: "The existing drones, whether they are ordinary reconnaissance drones or passenger pigeon drones used for secret communications, do not have the ability to attack large airships. However, six large drones have just arrived, but the pilots have only arrived, and the cockpits are now being assembled as fast as possible. But now the big problem is the absence of effective attack weapons, and the large UAV is of civilian type, with only one cargo compartment and a repair compartment, and no dedicated weapons compartment. ”

Ah Jun said: "Now that the enemy is already in the air, if there is no effective way to quickly modify it, arm the drone?" ”

The representative of the Ark Alliance thought for a moment and said, "That depends on the ability of our inventory and skilled workers. ”

Ah Jun said: "Maybe it's time to organize Mr. Copper's team again, and we may only have two or three hours left or less."

The representative of the Ark Alliance said, "So what are you waiting for? Let's get dry. ”

In addition to convening mechanics, electronic technicians and other professional and technical personnel to hold a meeting on standby, the inventory inventory is also in full swing, and it turned out that an unexpected surprise was found, the metropolis had donated a 107 mm chassis to the base camp.

According to the military standards of the city-state alliance, the base camp, as a brigade-level tactical unit, can only directly subordinate to the volunteer fire system of 100 mm mortars, and the 107 mm rocket artillery is the reinforced firepower of the brigade group, which is two levels higher than the configuration of the base camp. But for a period of time, the personnel and materials in the base camp were very scarce, and the diplomatic mediators sent had reached the realm of shamelessness, as long as it was military equipment, you would like it for me. So the metropolis gave the base camp the *** Shunshui favors captured during the war with the agriculture, forestry and city-states 40 years ago.

Although the shells have long expired and there is no launcher, this batch of ammunition still solves the urgent needs of the base camp, and it can even be said that it saves the base camp.