Of course, Li Yi's abnormal behavior did not hide from Abel, in fact, at this time, both the north and the south were closely watching his every move, which can be said to affect the whole body.

As soon as Li Yi walked out of the No. 8 stronghold, Abel on the South Wharton side knew about it, and knowing it meant that there must be a response.

If a large number of mechs are sent to encircle and suppress it, needless to say, the anti-mecha position on the side of the No. 9 stronghold is definitely not vegetarian, and once the mechs gather together, it is estimated that they will have to encounter another round of money-throwing and fire-gathering before they can rush to the target.

If only a small number of mechas are sent and they do not pose a threat to them, it is like cutting vegetables for 24 mechas, and going to a few mechas to intercept them is no different from sending them to death.

If the North Wharton side plays an anti-mecha concentrated fire strike, it is simply impossible, because even if you don't care about the cost loss, in order to achieve that effect, you must arrange positions within 1 kilometer of the distance.

If the distance is too far, the mecha has enough time to take off before the rocket flies, and the effective automatic locking distance of the cheap rocket is only 1000 meters, if it is too far, the cruise lock system will be subject to great electromagnetic interference, and it can only be used as a general rocket, and the hit rate will drop significantly.

What's more, once the armored artillery unit fires, the armored artillery position on the North Wharton side can lock on to its artillery position within a minute, and then carry out a counter-artillery strike, and then if it is not good, not only will it not be able to defeat the mecha, but it will lose at least one armored artillery regiment.

In fact, the loss of an artillery regiment is nothing, Abel doesn't care about the losses of other troops at all, but he cares a lot about the face problem, just like he is unwilling to carry out an artillery covering attack on the No. 9 stronghold, to deal with mechas, you should use mecha to solve it, if you use artillery to fight mecha in such a simple and crude way, then what is the meaning of mecha soldiers?

Abel still has a bit of chivalry or arrogance in this regard, which is the belief and principle that a mecha soldier, a count and nobleman who loves mecha and intends to develop in this direction for the rest of his life!

So Able's final response was to have the three mechs with the best shooting skills in the entire mecha division form a combat team, each of them was issued a mecha-specific magnetic rail sniper rifle, and then mixed in the 1st regiment skirmish line that was heading to stronghold 9 to deal with the target!

Of course, Abel doesn't expect this sniper team to be able to snipe a master mecha, but at least he can effectively hinder his movement with a railgun, once he has the opportunity to hit the opponent and can't move, it doesn't matter if the No. 9 stronghold can be beaten or not, all the mechs of the 1st regiment can organize a fire on the spot and directly explode the opponent!

In addition, Abel also ordered the 3rd Regiment and 2nd Battalion squatting in the No. 7 stronghold, as well as the remaining infantry and armored troops, to rush to the No. 8 stronghold, using the tactics of the enemy retreating and advancing, if the No. 8 stronghold can be taken directly, then the target mecha sandwiched between the No. 8-9 stronghold will still be surrounded!

It has to be said that Abel was very shrewd in his response strategy, and the North Wharton side only asked Li Yi about his purpose and intentions, but did not make any tactical adjustments, and still let the two mecha regiments continue to carry out the combat mission of occupying the 26th and 27th strongholds.

This is a conspiracy, because the No. 8 and No. 9 strongholds south of these two strongholds have been defeated by Li Yi, so even if the South Wharton side knows the purpose of the North Wharton, it will have to take a long detour if it wants to reinforce.

In the case of relatively low reinforcement efficiency, not to mention the No. 26 stronghold, it will definitely be taken by the North Wharton, and the South Wharton side is difficult to stop, but the No. 27 stronghold is not necessarily.

Because there is a mecha battalion in South Wharton that departs in advance and will arrive at stronghold 27 in advance, relying on its energy shield barrier may not be able to block the attack of a mecha regiment, and Abel will then send an additional mecha regiment up, where there will be a tough battle between the mecha regiment and the mecha regiment!

Don't mention the battles in other strongholds, let's just talk about Li Yi's side, not long after walking out of the No. 8 stronghold, more than 160 mechs of the 1st Regiment of South Wharton have just left the forward base.

Of course, this time they learned to be obedient, not only stretched the front line in the combat group, but also left the front base in several batches, and when the forward troops walked out of 1 kilometer, the mechs in the back had just set off.

Such a straggler front is not easy to be set on fire, at least there will not be much loss when it is set on fire, and the commander of the 1st regiment, Jeff, obviously learned the lesson of Adrian, and before leaving the forward base, let everyone replace the rockets on their bodies with smoke bombs, and when they were advancing, they fired smoke bombs in batches from time to time, taking the initiative to separate the sight of the two sides.

This stumped the Northern Wharton soldiers stationed in Stronghold 9, and they could only shoot aimlessly into the smoke.

Of course, Gehry's individual firepower position can't do anything with this tactic, but it doesn't matter, Lord Earl said, just throw money at the opposite side, and if you have enough ammunition, you will be reimbursed for everything!

Therefore, Gehry adopted the most expensive and stupid way, dividing a hundred mortars into two groups, one group aimed at the 800-1200 meters south of the base to cover the salvo with uninterrupted firepower, and the other group of fire preparation, ready to deal with emergencies at any time, in short, if the mecha on the opposite side wants to cross the center line, it must first go through an electric field baptism.

In the southeast, the two infantry regiments of the Eighth Division and the other participating units in the stronghold were responsible for defense and monitoring, and this large group of people may have been inspired and inspired by Gehry's individual artillery position, and everyone took out the limited free military merit quota and specially prepared an anti-mecha rocket company.

Of course, they don't have that much money to go into the smoke to smash, but as long as the mecha appears, I believe that a large number of rockets and thousands of people's energy rays will definitely be able to resist desperately for a while.

As for the southwest, Gary was not worried, because Li Yi had already told him that he was coming from the No. 8 base, and it should not be him who should be worried at that time.

The South Wharton Mecha 1st Regiment's operation is a double-selection mission, and if you have the opportunity, you will cooperate with the sniper team to kill the target mecha, and if you don't have a chance, you will take the No. 9 stronghold first, but the two tasks are relatively speaking, and the task of directly killing the target is the priority, so when the stragglers disperse, the front line is obviously westward, so that the pressure on the defensive position of the No. 9 stronghold to defend the southeast is not great.

Li Yi, who was moving towards Stronghold 9, was not moving fast, and the direction was not due east, but diagonally to the southeast, the area between Stronghold 9 and the South Wharton Advance Base.

This area cannot be attacked directly in the South Wharton Forward Base, because although the Forward Base replaces the graben function of the Equatorial Canyon, it is still built on top of the cliff, but this cliff is relatively not high, only more than 200 meters.

There are some terrace-like gentle slope gaps that have become roads to the canyon, but due to the angle problem, the forward base that is still a few hundred meters away from the edge of the cliff cannot see the situation below the cliff, if it weren't for this, Li Yi would have been set on fire by a large number of defensive weapons in the advance base, and it is impossible to single-handedly kill these forward strongholds closest to the advance base.

Of course, it is precisely because of this topography that the battle for the stronghold has formed a situation of checks and balances, in the earliest Civil War, the strongholds of both sides were built on the edge of the cliff, and the line of sight was good, but it was also completely exposed to the enemy's sight, and as a result, the casualties and consumption of both sides on the forward base alone were astronomical, until both sides could not be consumed, so they each took a step back, and had to move the forward base back a few hundred meters, which formed today's situation.

Therefore, Li Yi, who walked between the forward base and the No. 9 stronghold, only needed to face the attacks of those mechs that came down from the gap in the cliff.

What's interesting is that at this moment, Li Yi's thoughts and practices are surprisingly consistent with those mechas on the opposite side - he is also throwing smoke bombs along the road!

But the smoke grenade he threw was not the kind of rocket-type smoke grenade on his shoulder, but a mecha-specific grenade gun filled with smoke grenades, although the smoke grenade fired by this grenade gun was not large, but the smoke occurred for an extremely long time, which was not comparable to the cheap goods of the rocket smoke bomb, and the range was enough to block himself, and it could shoot thirty rounds with full ammunition.

On the way, Li Yi first shot a dozen smoke shots at a distance of a few hundred meters, and then quickly rushed forward, and then shot a few more shots every time he rushed out of a certain distance, because South Walton's skirmish mecha was also throwing smoke bombs while charging, as a result, in an instant, an area in front of him fell into thick smoke.

This scene made the South Wharton side collectively dumbfounded!

How can the sniper tactics that are said to be carried out?

People can't see it, how can they snipe!

The armor on the mecha is coated with a special material, which can detect infrared heat, which is why infantry cannot observe the situation in the smoke with tactical helmets, and there are only two ways to detect targets in this environment.

Either turn on the active detection radar on the mecha and obtain the specific location of the target through electromagnetic reflection, but once the active radar is turned on, it is equivalent to exposing the direction of oneself, and at the same time becoming a live target for others!

What's even more unsolvable is that the active detection radar can only show the location of the detected target, but cannot distinguish between friend and foe, because the positioning and identification system fails in the thick smoke and cannot accurately locate the coordinates of your own personnel!

Another way is to turn on the magnetic field sensor, but the range of this function is proportional to the amount of metal objects, if it is a base made of a large amount of metal like a base, it can be sensed from hundreds of kilometers away, but if it is only a 12-meter-tall mecha, it can only be captured in an approximate direction within 100 meters.

In order to accurately sense its specific position, it must be close to a range of 50 meters, and if you want to image on the sensor, you have to get closer to a distance of 30 meters, and it is also impossible to distinguish between friend and foe!

Therefore, for the mechs of South Walton, there is only one enemy among the more than 160 mechas, and the others are all friendly troops, even if they can estimate the general location of the target and exclude some friendly troops, it is still difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, and if they don't do it, they will accidentally injure their own people!

And Li Yi is alone, except for himself, everyone else is an enemy, and there is no need to identify friend or foe at all!

Obviously, Li Yi had already calculated before he set off, and the purpose of replacing the energy gun with the city smoke grenade gun was to fish in troubled waters, but he didn't expect the enemy to cooperate so much, and he actually "helped" him to release smoke bombs!

"This is your ...... of yourselves"

While Li Yi sneered, the mecha he piloted began to wander around in the thick smoke, looking for his prey......