Chapter 24: The First Battle
A month ago, most of the people here were new recruits. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info had just graduated from the recruit training base, and after spending a month and a half in the supply pod of the "canned", he arrived in this galaxy far, far away from home. A failed airborne landing was carried out from outside the atmosphere. Just a month later, they are already veterans and have the qualifications to laugh at the recruits.
Veterans, always qualified to laugh at recruits.
Haili touched her chin, remembering the punch in the jaw that the veteran had punched when she first joined the Federation, and it seemed to hurt faintly until now. It seems that it is because he did not give a place to the veteran in the cafeteria?
"Sir, you ...... Laughed. ”
Wu Lian felt that the current situation was very strange. The artillery fire of the Angge continued, the legendary friendly troops behaved inferiorly, and what was even more terrifying was that the legendary lieutenant, who only laughed when he killed, was actually smiling.
"Can't I laugh?" Haili suddenly made a sinister expression, stuffed the coffee cup into her backpack, and after putting on her helmet, grabbed her assault rifle and opened the safe, and walked out of the command post first.
"God, return our three-nil commander." Wu Lian wailed helplessly, and after also opening the rifle safe, he quickly followed Hai Li.
This is how the Marine Corps fights, there is no difference between officers and soldiers, they must fight at the forefront. The Marines do not have real logisticians, even cooks, who must know how to fight. Shooting, or hand-to-hand combat, is something that Marines must learn.
"Assault, assault. Today's goal is twenty kilometers. Haili, who jumped into the chariot, patted the roof of the car and motioned for the driver to start the multi-purpose chariot.
I have to say that the Federal Army has a very good set of training soldiers, and the chaotic team just now has all completed the re-outfitting and assembling after five minutes.
"Check the equipment, check the equipment." The gruff voices of the non-commissioned officers spread throughout the makeshift camp. These non-commissioned officers from the Marine Corps pushed each recruit to check if they had lazily removed the composite ballistic plates. Sometimes the position of their equipment will be adjusted.
The recruits didn't know that in a few minutes, the people who were here now would be gone. And this leveled vacant land may become a logistics supply transit point, or it may never be used again.
"Wait, Lieutenant Haili." Major Li Duoan's voice reached Haili's ears through the helmet's built-in headset. Although his voice was still full of arrogance, Haili heard a little embarrassment to some extent.
"Major, my troops are about to attack, and the fire cover before the attack will be handed over to you, no problem." Hai Li did not politely put herself directly in the position of commander at all.
Rank is far less important in the extremely pragmatic Union Navy than combat qualifications. At least on the battlefield, there have been instances of Marine non-commissioned officers directly taking away the Admiral.
The army major kicked the car door with some dissatisfaction, but too many of the rules of the navy have been extended to the army, so he can only show obedience.
"Okay, lieutenant, I'll obey the command."
Haili, who hung up the communication, shrugged indifferently in the chariot. Anyway, all she needs is this sentence. As for the major's personal revenge afterwards, she said there was no pressure. If someone is delirious and proposes a duel to her, it will be simple. However, the combat reports that may be submitted to the High Command are a bit troublesome.
These little troubles just passed through Haili's mind, and at the moment her attention was all focused on the battle. Now, she holds in her hands the lives of more than 500 subordinates. What she wants to do is to save their lives and get more honors at the same time.
"Oh, Lieutenant, do you see the Army gear?" Wu Lian looked at the assembled army armored vehicles, and his eyes turned a little green.
"No. 61, guide friendly forces to clear the forward route." After Haili gave the order, she said to herself, the new herald. "See, so what?"
The main armored vehicle used by the army is a combat vehicle suspended in mid-air by anti-gravity. It could carry twelve men, a small railgun, and twenty-four short-range missiles, and the armor was thick enough to protect against the small shoulder-fired rocket launchers of the natives.
Both firepower and protection are much better than individual equipment, and what makes the soldiers of the Marine Corps even more green is that the protection ability of this armored vehicle is better than that of landing craft.
"Why don't we have that ......" Wu Lian sighed, with envy in his tone.
"Do you want to sit on that? Then write an application to go to the Army. Hai Li, who looked at the battle map, said absent-mindedly.
Legend has it that the army is well paid, and legend has it that people in the Marine Corps can be promoted to officers when they pass, and moreover, officers in the army can not go to the front line. This kind of good thing has never happened to the Marines. In the Marine Corps, even a colonel with three roses on his arm has to take a knife and cut people when he goes into battle.
"Forget it. I like the brothers in the team. Wu Lian turned his head and drove his chariot intently. And the battle seems to have started from that moment as well.
The armed men of Angge attacked the convoy with small artillery, and the shells fell in the middle of the convoy, constantly emitting flashes and kicking up dust. And, of course, the loud explosions, and the screams of frightened army recruits.
"Attention, attention, into the engagement distance. All vehicles accelerated to eighty. Haili turned on the full-frequency communication and shouted loudly. However, their own artillery fire never rang out. Haili couldn't help but wonder.
"Where is our artillery support?"
"Well, lieutenant, you said that the fire support was handed over to the army, and they ...... Uh, not quite adapted to combat yet? Wu Lian shrugged.
"Reverse ballistics, cover the blow." Li Duoan was very unhappy with the tasks assigned by his troops, and he was indeed a little passive and slacking off. When he heard Hai Li's question, he immediately gave the order to fight back. But this slow half-beat still caused Haili's dissatisfaction.
"Major, don't you know how to act without an order?" Haili was angry. If this kind of person is in the Marine Corps, I am afraid that many of his comrades will be killed. "What I want is artillery support, and what I want is just the right artillery support at the right time, in the right place."
"We're fighting well, but why do we need an army." Of course, Wu Lian knew why Hai Li was angry. If it was their own troops, they would have begun to counterattack as early as the moment they were attacked. In this way, the attacking militants will not be able to get far. By the time the army counterattacked, the militants who had fled with just one shot had long since disappeared.
"We don't need to know that." Haili just said indifferently. Speaking of which, her family used to be a traditional family in the Army, but that was three hundred years ago. Haili has a good impression of the army's down-to-earth, face-to-face service.
In the Yellow Heights Command, Colonel McDon was holding his hands on his hips, his eyes nervously staring at the instant images displayed on the big screen, obviously worried about the first battle of his subordinates.
"They're all good guys, and now it's just a lack of fighting." Mu Zhendong handed the colonel a cup of coffee. "You know, it's useless to worry about it now."
"You're right. But Lieutenant Colonel, aren't you really worried? Mai Dongan took the coffee and did not forget to continue to listen to the constant sound on the radio. If I could, I would love to be with them. It was cruel torture for us to be in such a safe place and listen to their voices when they were risking their lives. ”
"It's good to get used to it." After Mu Zhendong took a sip of coffee, he said indifferently. "Here, you'll get used to it quickly. We are fighting every day, either the enemy attacks or we attack. ”
What Mu Zhendong didn't say was that in addition to fighting every day here, he was also losing his subordinates every day. What he remembered, what he didn't. Some have seen it, and some have died in battle before they have seen it.
"Damn, who's in command, why didn't you go out to investigate." McDonnell suddenly asked. "They were clearly caught in an ambush."
"Lieutenant Hailey is the best officer I have under me. That's a guy whose instincts are more precise than the beast. Mu Zhendong rolled his eyes, in addition to the fact that "hamster" likes to hide food, her personality is also very easily frightened. Any movement can trigger her all-out counterattack.
The worst thing for the enemy is that the force held by this "hamster" called Haili is very rare and powerful.
"Fire suppression."
"What about the fire suppression I want? Well, the army pays attention, in the direction of three o'clock in batches of raids, to hit the barrage effect. Hai Li's voice was hurried, and it was obvious that the battle situation was a little tense.
"All attention, the Marines will launch a strong attack in thirty seconds."
"Army, the point of artillery fire extends forward."
There was only Hai Li's voice on the radio, mixed with the complaints of the Marines, the curses of the other officers of the army, the trembling of the recruits, but there was no voice of Major Li Duoan.
……
"Colonel, it looks like your first battalion commander was missing during the battle." Mu Zhendong sighed helplessly. "Which military school is he from Cream Cake?"
"It's just that the Army isn't familiar with the Marine Corps' operational passwords." Mai Dongan's face was not very good, and after finding a reason casually, he couldn't wait to slap himself directly.
"Ah, am I mistaken? Isn't the Army's training manual an alpha version? There was clear mockery in Mu Zhendong's tone.
"Lieutenant Colonel, now that you and my subordinates are fighting, isn't it time for us to cooperate sincerely?" Mai Dongan's tone was even worse, even with a sense of helplessness. "Major Li is a graduate of the Huaxia Military Academy, the kind of promising young officer. Lieutenant Colonel, you know, your eight years of seniority are only lieutenant colonel, but he is a major as soon as he graduates. (To be continued.) )