Chapter 34: The Assault (I)
An hour later, a huge fleet of more than 200 multi-purpose fighters from two groups took off from the air force airfield in Stancheng.
This time, Colonel Achill made a rare move with all his forces, preparing to use two regiments of nearly 2,000 men to carry out a massive assault to support Robin's seemingly hopeless infiltration sabotage.
After several hours of stealthy flights, the two flying groups successfully evaded the radar detection of the Federal Army, and gathered densely over Area 94 like a swarm of bats flying in the dark.
"The first echelon is ready for airborne!"
With the airborne order issued, the group of fighters belonging to the assault platoon of the Sharp Knife Battalion of the Airborne Forces began to slowly reduce its altitude.
'Click'
In the cabin of a warplane, a 'knight' equipped with the heavy infantry armor of the Defender of the Republic 2 lowered his head and forcefully inserted a full energy clip into the bomb bay. And the moment he looked up, a sharp gaze like a knife swept through the cabin, which immediately made every soldier in the cabin nervously hold their breath and straighten their waists to accept the commander's review.
Time seems to freeze. Finally, amid the muffled countdown, the Knight put away a tiger head coin that he had been clutching tightly in his hand and put on the black helmet of the Defender 2 heavy infantry armor.
Seeing his action, the soldiers in the cabin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, although their commander never said a word, but they could all feel the awakened beast in his heart, and now, no one could stop him.
As the countdown ended, the airborne troops in the cabin were ejected one after another, and they were as silent as ghosts flying in the night sky. They landed skillfully and immediately laid out a defensive formation to cover the large force that was about to land.
Soon, the dense paratroopers landed from the air like dandelions flying in all directions. The assault platoon, which had completed the covering mission, quickly approached the direction where the Union post was located, led by the lieutenant 'Knight'.
"Tut-tut...... Sure enough, it's an elite, and compared to them, our landing is simply earth-shattering. ”
In a karst cave hundreds of meters away from the paratrooper landing site, Robin and the others who were hiding here were watching this spectacular scene in front of them in amazement.
They have experienced it very well, but compared to the terrifying noise of smashing pots and pots when they landed, the landing of as many as 2,000 people in front of them was silent without a sound, especially the assault platoon that landed in the first batch, and the skillful landing action like a cloud made Robin who was watching in the dark envious.
"Let's go, let's go up and have a look."
After seeing that the assault platoon that landed first had gone away, Robin hurriedly lifted the machine gun he had at hand, and before Lee and the others could agree to his proposal, he crawled out of the cave.
Originally, Robin did not need to contact the paratroopers in their plan, after all, what they were going to carry out was an infiltration mission, and it was the best choice to quietly cross the federal defense line while the two sides were fighting hotly than to rush to the front line of the battlefield stupidly.
But for some reason, Robin changed the original plan without authorization, and even ignored the risk of exposure, and quickly chased in the direction of the paratrooper assault platoon.
"Hey! Robin, damn it...... What do you want? ”
Lee quickly caught up with Robin running at a speed with a sniper rifle on his back, and he didn't understand why Robin suddenly changed his original plan, which caught him off guard.
"I think it's more stealthy to sneak into the paratrooper attack queue, and when they start fighting, we'll sneak away." Robin replied casually as he leaped between the rocks.
"Damn, that's what you think?" Li heard the perfunctory tone in Robin's tone, and immediately yelled angrily.
"Alright, stop talking nonsense. Let Colin send friendly communications to the paratroopers, I don't want to be killed by my own people. With that, Robin ignored Lee, put on his camouflage cloth, and leaped forward, disappearing into the craggy rocks in an instant.
Actually, the reason why Robin changed the battle plan was not as he claimed. The real reason for him to change his mind was actually just the back that made him vaguely feel a little familiar.
This back had appeared in front of him countless times in the training camp, although the other party was now equipped with heavy infantry armor, but just looking at the crisp and neat running movements, Robin had already recognized him, and this was the real reason why he did not hesitate to catch up.
"Sir."
Among the paratroopers that had all landed and begun to assemble, a liaison officer in charge of communications panicked to find the lieutenant colonel of the paratrooper unit who was arranging combat missions.
"What's the matter? Damn, don't you see I'm busy? The interrupted lieutenant colonel opened his mouth and scolded him.
"I'm sorry sir, but I just received a friendly communication from a special force that claims to be a special unit on a mission here." The liaison officer secretly glanced at Lieutenant Colonel Tie Qing's face, and asked with some hesitation: "I'm here to ask if to mark them as friendly signals." ”
"Einsatzgruppen ......"
The lieutenant colonel in charge of the entire battle plan did hear Colonel Achill mention the Einsatzgruppen before he set off, but Colonel Achill did not say a word about the tasks that the Einsatzgruppen was going to perform, only that he would let the Einsatzgruppen move freely and not interfere with any of their actions. Now, after hearing the friendly message from this mysterious Einsatzgruppen, the lieutenant colonel immediately realized that this sudden attack mission was likely to have other operational purposes, and this mysterious Einsatzgruppen must have been given some special mission.
"Apply through their friendly forces, and contact the ministries to tell them to fight as originally planned, and ignore this Einsatzgruppen."
"Yes!"
After receiving the exact instructions, the liaison immediately changed the information on the tactical radar, and a four-person team without a number quietly joined the huge attack sequence, following the pace of the attack of the large army, and rapidly advancing towards the direction where the federal army post was located.
From the beginning of the airborne landing to the assembly of troops to start the offensive sequence, this 2,000-strong paratrooper unit showed amazing operational efficiency. While the large forces were pouring into the various outposts entrenched in Area 94, the assault platoon, as the vanguard, had dispersed into three squads, and successfully pulled out the Federation sentries around the main attack point and various surveillance devices hidden in the rocks.
And Robin, who followed closely behind the assault platoon, hid all the way and followed the assault team that rushed to the front, and quietly touched the fire range of the defense line of the federal outpost.
In the complex terrain of Area 94, the Federation Army has set up more than 50 posts here. Compared to the rudimentary B-57 posts that Robin had served on Charon, these posts in Area 94 were steel fortresses. Taking advantage of the difficult terrain of Area 94, these fifty or so outposts occupy all the commanding heights in the area and are connected to each other to form an impregnable steel barrier.
However, due to the defeat of the 11th Army Division of the Republic, a large number of garrisons in the defense area were transferred to the front line to carry out encirclement and suppression tasks, and only a small number of reconnaissance troops were stationed due to the unexpected appearance of Robin's small detachment. As a rule, these reconnaissance units should be dispatched every few hours to conduct carpet reconnaissance of the defense area, but because Robin's four-man special team has successively killed several reconnaissance teams in the past three days, the reconnaissance units stationed at the outpost have thrown their weapons into the trap, and they have begun to disobey the reconnaissance orders issued by the Federal Army Staff Headquarters.
Now, after the paratrooper assault platoon has successfully landed and continuously shielded all the field surveillance devices in the outpost area, those Federation troops stationed at the outpost have become completely blind, but they obviously do not know that they are in a huge crisis, and their confidence in the defense force of the outpost makes them blindly believe that as long as they stay in the outpost, they are absolutely safe. So, even if they were sitting in front of the surveillance screen, they didn't pay much attention to the same dark night outside the outpost, which was obviously more beautiful than staring at the stones that would never move, drinking hot coffee, and talking about the beautiful and moving female soldiers inside the outpost.
At that moment, a Federation soldier who was talking about a fluttering brow suddenly noticed that the surveillance screen flickered. Soon, however, the screen returned to normal, and he thought he was dazzled, so he withdrew his gaze and continued to discuss the topic he had just discussed. He didn't realize that what he was missing was the only chance he had to save himself, the entire outpost.