Chapter 40: The Soul of the Republic (II)

At the same time, the main control room of the army base in Sarma.

Because Robin's attack on the army base was so sudden, the army base was in chaos at the moment, and the base's communications were filled with noisy noises and all kinds of chaotic shouting and questioning voices, while several middle-level officers were arguing loudly in the main control room, arguing about the contingency plan for the surprise attack.

At this critical moment when the enemy has invaded the interior of the army base, the officers of the federal army are still arguing, and they have not been able to come up with a definite response plan. The quarrels and confusion among the officers directly caused panic among the soldiers under their command, which further worsened the situation.

In fact, this chaos at the army base in Sarma was entirely caused by Robin. The lie that he was a survivor of Supply Point 7 was reported to the army base under the guise that he had deceived the lieutenant officer guarding the checkpoint. Therefore, after they entered the army base, the few federal officers who were accompanied by the lieutenant of the checkpoint who walked towards them actually included the base commander of the army base in Sarma. In addition, due to the handover, the detention of prisoners of war, etc., the vast majority of the senior commanders of the federal army were actually present when the fighting broke out. As a result, Robin's surprise attack amounted to a successful decapitation operation, directly ending the high command of the Sarma Army Base. The death of all the senior officers has caused a serious disagreement in the leadership of the army base, and now the most quarrelsome officer in the main control room, the highest-ranking one, is only a major at the rank of deputy battalion, and not yet a major in the combat department.

The lack of clarity in leadership has made it impossible for the main control room, which is the center of the entire army base, to issue clear combat orders. As for what kind of contingency plan should be implemented, the few remaining mid-level officers also have serious differences of opinion.

For example, the highest-ranking major officer, who is engaged in staff copywriting, believes that the first thing to deal with the current situation is to close all the defense gates in the army base, limit the intruders in the parking lot on the first floor, and fully open the automatic fire defense inside the base, first fully ensure the security of the main control room, and then request reinforcements from the other two army bases.

On paper, the major's proposal seemed quite sound, but in reality he was scolded by a captain in a combat unit. The captain of the combat unit believed that the current situation was not serious enough to hold the main control room, and in his opinion, this group of prisoners of war who lacked weapons were simply a rabble, and as long as he sent a part of his troops to defend the weapons depot, open the defense gates, and set up an ambush on the way to the weapons depot, he thought that he could solve the problem with his own troops, and there was no need to risk demotion to use the forces of other army bases to quell the attack.

On the question of whether to take the initiative or to stubbornly call for help, the officers on the side of the combat unit quarreled with the officers on the side who were engaged in staff copywriting.

In the end, the two sides broke up, and several officers of the combat unit and most of their troops were given control of the defense of a part of the army base, and opened the defensive gates of several passages, and closed some of the automatic batteries erected throughout the passages, intending to take the initiative to eliminate the Republic prisoners of war who remained in the parking lot.

Some of the officers engaged in staff work adhered to the strategy of calling for help, and after assigning a small number of soldiers from the combat department, they planned to stick to the main control room and ask for help from the other two army bases.

As a result, due to serious differences of opinion, the defenders of the base, which had already suffered heavy losses, were once again weakened. The troops were divided into two routes, and different combat strategies were carried out to fight their own battles.

While the defenders of the army base in Salma began to move separately, Robin's squad and Claude's 11th Army Division prisoners of war, who were quickly armed in the parking lot, also began to march towards the base's main control room and weapons depot in two ways at the same time.

Due to the possession of the core information of the Sarma Army Base, Robin and Claude's offensive route is extremely clear, coupled with the indiscriminate command of the Federation defenders in the base, the Federation Army officers who remained in the main control room did not notice the extremely crucial information that Robin was able to open the defense gate on his own. And the officers of the combat units of the Federation Army, who gave up the automatic defensive firepower in the base and prepared to take the initiative, also did not realize that in terms of numbers, the troops under his command did not actually occupy an absolute advantage.

Now that the counteroffensive plan for Area 94 has been launched, part of the Rapid Reaction Force originally stationed at the Army Base in Sarma has been redeployed to the forward line the day before Robin's attack. Therefore, the actual number of defenders stationed in the army base in Sarma at the moment is not even the strength of a regiment. In Robin's previous raid, nearly a battalion of more than 200 soldiers were killed, which is almost one-third of the combat strength in the base. Although the current army base in Sarma still has a nominal scale of nearly 4,000 people, except for the more than 3,000 logistics personnel who have almost no combat effectiveness, only less than two battalions of nearly 500 soldiers can really participate in the operation.

With more than 500 demoralized soldiers, go against more than 600 brave soldiers who look at death as if they were at home. The results are already self-evident.

Five minutes later. In the K-7 passage leading to the weapons depot, Claude's forces engaged in a head-to-head exchange with the Union defenders who had set up an ambush there.

At the same time, Robin led his squad and one hundred and fifty heavily armed soldiers to open the many defensive gates of the Q3 passage as quickly as possible, and directly attacked the main control room of the army base, which was guarded by only a few soldiers.

At first, the Federation forces who stayed in the main control room did not notice that the force led by Robin was concentrating on asking for help from various army bases and checkpoints, and did not realize that Robin would pounce here so accurately. Moreover, due to the requirement of the officers of the combat units to take the initiative, the vast majority of the automatic defensive weapons in the passage were turned off in order to avoid accidental injury. This allowed Robin to reach the core area of the army base almost unimpeded, until the emergency alarm of the invasion sounded in the main control room, and the Federation troops staying in the main control room noticed the murderous force led by Robin.

The number of guards arranged on the periphery of the main control room is too small to rely on the thin fortifications to hold the passage, and with the cooperation of Robin and Zhuo Luo, the two strong combat forces, the Federation Army hoplites as the core of the defense are completely vulnerable, even if they have a numerical advantage, but under the accurate firepower of one hundred and fifty Republic prisoners of war, the weak armor defense of the Patriot 2 heavy infantry armor they are equipped with makes them lack a sufficient sense of security, Caught in the thick of firepower, they were unable to use their numerical superiority to encircle Robin and Drow. Relying on two-on-one instant kills, Robin and Zolo killed the Federation Army heavyloaders one by one in a short period of time, and broke through the perimeter defense of the base's main control room in one fell swoop.

Watching the surveillance footage of a large number of heavily armed POWs of the Republic rushing out of the passageway, the officers and technicians stationed in the main control room immediately panicked. Lacking actual combat experience, they had never experienced this kind of real knife and gun fighting, and the intense fear made them panic and turn on the automatic fire inside the base again, and prayed that the automatic fire erected throughout the passage would protect their safety.

The automatic defense weapon that spewed out a fierce tongue of fire did stop Robin's attack, but in the panic, the officers and technicians stationed in the main control room subconsciously pressed the emergency internal defense and activated the automatic defense weapons in all the passages. This allows programmed auto-defense weapons to freely fire any object with living characteristics in the tunnel.

The K-7 passage, which was in the midst of a fierce firefight, was suddenly implicated, and the well-equipped base defenders, who had ten heavy loaders, had completely suppressed this part of the Republic prisoners of war led by Claude. Outnumbered, Claude was even on the verge of defeat at one point, but at this critical moment, the automatic defense weapons that opened fire indiscriminately in the passage dealt a fatal blow to the Federation defenders.

Due to the ongoing charge, most of the Union soldiers were exposed to the open area in the passage. The prisoners of war of the Republic led by Claude retreated to narrow areas such as corners because they were suppressed. Therefore, when the automatic defense weapons began to shoot indiscriminately, the Federation defenders with obvious targets became the preferred targets for automatic weapons, but Claude's troops took advantage of the terrain to avoid the automatic fire and did not suffer too many casualties.

"Sniper! ~Knock out those automatic turrets! ”

A scarred Claude braced up his massive folding shield, gritted his teeth, and relied on the heavy infantry armor's own defensive armor to withstand the scattered energy projectiles.

Seeing the Union soldiers falling in pieces in the passage, Claude did not wait for the Federation troops to be killed, so he took the opportunity of the automatic weapons in the passage to disperse the fire of the Union soldiers, and ordered the snipers in the team to quickly explode the automatic weapons erected in various parts of the passage, and began to advance steadily and gradually.