Chapter 12: Commanding and Being Commanded

The troops finally came out of the eastern hills of Vanchy. Entered the relatively gentle southern impact plains. This southern plain was divided by the Great River, and to the south of the Great River, where the army of Miyana now sits, was the Dilsi, as the Vanhi called the storehouse, which was rich in grain, minerals, and nine neutral city-states. There are resources to be had, and there is a population to have a population. But here there is no coming out of the hegemon. This situation is characteristic of the western continent where the entire Vanchy is located.

The city-states that emerged from the hegemony were all in the ravines, and it was precisely because the ground forces could not deploy in the ravines that they could not invade head-on. For example, in the terrain of Pyrata, a large force can be transported by air, but the outside troops do not understand the ground, and if there are occasionally a few turrets hidden in the ravine to ambush, the loss will be large. The governor blitzed Palata and captured the islands with only infantry and cavalry. As for the existence of heavy weapons and the like, it is too heavy to carry things, and when it is blitzkrieg, it is not transported at all for fear of ground ambushes. When it was time to transport heavy weapons, Pyrata resolutely brought in Miana's troops.

This is true of Perata, as is Miana in the eastern mountains of Vanchy, and the first strategic goal of the protagonist's current strategic goal, Silari's entrenched Frigero, is also built on a cliff. With the help of airships, the forces of this terrain can easily be beaten out, and others can't get in. So the achievement of hegemony. As for the poor mountains and bad waters, that's the common sense of the earth. In this world, hundreds of tons and thousands of tons of deadweight airships fly in the sky, so there is a problem of inconvenient transportation in the mountains.

As for the plains of this world, it has become a small suffering, and now the legions of Miana are rampaging through this great plain, and the local city-states have been transformed into factories by the people of Miana, and a large number of natives have been trained into armies, just as the British Empire on Earth has trained Indian troops.

Standing high and looking far away, Ren Di was now three meters above the ground looking at the forty artillery pieces under his command, as well as ten steel robots three meters high. A team of fire# gunners in the game is nine people. In this traversal environment, a team of soldiers is ninety people, and an artillery mechanical unit is one combat unit in the game, but in this scene experienced by Ren Di now, it is a squad as a unit, and the artillery of a squad is ten steam cannons. A small squad of mechanics is fully formed in groups of ten. In this way, the robot with a blue electric long knife flashing on its arm entered the fire# spearman array, and was able to quickly cut down the troops of ninety people.

As for why Ren Di is now three meters above the ground, it is because Ren Di enjoys the perspective with the protagonist Giacomo. Certainly not as comfortable as the protagonist. Standing high and looking far, the artillery needs a good observation point. In order to be able to see the vast battlefield, of course, the best way is to sit on an airship and command the artillery. But sitting on an airship and seeing others at the same time being seen by others, artillery strikes are usually preemptive. The approximate location of the artillery group was known by others before a single shot was fired, which was the next policy.

So, this team of robots is welded on the back of a steel back compartment that only allows one person to stand, Ren Di walks with the robot with his head exposed, Ren Di can command the robot to move around, and obtain a higher observation position at any time. It is equivalent to an artillery observatory that moves at any time. The cost is not high, it is equivalent to putting a human-mounted backpack on the back of a huge robot. Not even all steel, most of it is solid wood (wood is cheaper than iron in this world).

Ren Di made this request, Inoue Ohno completed it, and then Ren Di applied to the commander. So Ren Di has such a team of mechanical soldiers in his hands. And Ren Di was standing at the same height as Giacomo who was piloting a battle mech. However, the battle mecha that Giacomo designed for himself is worth every penny after all, and the platform above the mecha is vast, compared to the vast observation platform on the protagonist's mecha, the back basket where Ren Di is located is like a shaking coffin.

The slender steel thighs of the mechanical soldier are less than forty centimeters thick, and he does not take care of Ren Di's feelings when he walks, of course, the combat mechanical soldiers were not originally designed to carry people, and the manned mecha piloted by Ren Di in the commander Giacomo has eighty centimeters thick on the thinnest parts of its two steel thighs. The soles of his wide feet were firmly planted on the ground, and Giacomo could stand on the platform with his arms crossed and observe the battlefield steadily.

As for Ren Di, on the observation basket transformed by the robot, his face turned pale after forty minutes of installation, and then he vomited. Ren Di, who was standing on a high place and walking as a combat robot, felt like he was being waved as a flag by others, and his whole body was floating.

After the steel robot squatted down, Ren Di opened the door of the back basket and rolled down. Lying on the seat of the gun carriage like a corpse. Good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. A few minutes of clattering horses' hooves came into Ren Di's ears, Ren Di looked back and saw the bald general, Kanery riding over, with a meaningful smile on his face.

Ren Di quickly sorted out his appearance. "Second Lieutenant, I've heard that something is wrong with the artillery observatory you proposed." General Kalini said as he looked at Ren Di's pale face. Ren Di had a bitter gourd smile on his face. The pit that he dug himself, with tears in his eyes, will fill him up.

Ren Di saluted and said: "Report to the general, a little difficulty, but the advantages of observing the back basket still outweigh the disadvantages." We can overcome it. General Kaniri shook his horsewhip and said, "Since you say so, I am relieved." Hopefully, your next battle will play as well as you should. ”

An army of 20,000 to 30,000 Miyana and opponents of the same weight fought around city-states and resource points across the vast plains. This level of the campaign is no longer comparable to the thousands of troops at the beginning. The Supreme Commander no longer has access to the details of the battles of all his own armies across the plain. Battles in such a large battlefield. The top commanders on both sides of the battle began to delegate power.

Three hours later, Ren Di saw Andrew disappear from view with three fire # gun squads, a mecha platoon, and a mechanical spider with a rocket launch system. Andrew's operational information can only be known from the Spark telegraph. There is more than one squad like Andrew. There are about a dozen of them. A total of about two thousand troops were scattered in such a ranger manner.

They intercept enemy scouts in the field, giving them a cold sip when they are ready to attack a neutral city-state or other facility. Or loot the enemy's commercial airship. Create fighters for the main forces. It is because of such tactics that the entire Great Plains has become a battlefield.

Ren Di found that almost all the surviving traversers were sent to such harassment troops, and it seemed that the general assessment of each traverser had come. Each traverser belongs to a different unit of this kind, and of course the better the marking, the greater the power in such an expatriate army. Andrew, for example, leads an army on his own, and he has a lot of autonomy. Leading an army alone was Inoue, who led a very good army of ten Viceroy mechs with stout mechanical legs that wanted to walk like a cabinet, and two teams of steam spiders that could shoot rockets. This force is simply an armored battalion.

Although the military sent abroad to harass the task has a certain degree of operational autonomy, it must also obey the primary tasks assigned by the supreme commander. The first task is to become so that once the army has completed it ahead of schedule, and there is no new order from above, the expatriate army can complete the tasks that it deems valuable. Until the above telegraph you are given a new task. You will be the commander of this small army.

The combat mission of each expatriate army is different, for example, Inoue, the army he commands is of high value, strong protection, and the highest security in carrying out the mission, in several orders, Giacomo gave Inoue quite enough discretion for himself, after all, the Supreme Commander does not want to lose expensive heavy mecha armament.

Andrew's army is a little more dangerous, as dead colonial troops can be recruited again. It's not the elites of Miana who are dying anyway. Although Ren Di heard the main players in this world repeatedly emphasize the justice of the conquest of Venucci, as long as he looked deeply, the bloodshed of the war could not be concealed.

As for the other traversers, they can't lead the army alone to complete the mission like Andrew and Inoue, and their ranks in their respective teams are not higher than the natives of this world, so they can only have a small influence on their own army to ensure the completion of the mission. Of course, if you don't accept the chaos and clash with the commander of the expatriate army where you are located, then eight times out of ten #nine will split the combat effectiveness of your own army, resulting in your own annihilation on the battlefield.

The second mass death since the crossing began.

"You, get up for me. Block" a bearded lieutenant shouted at the soldiers of his squad with a fierce look on his face, and the rows of soldiers formed a line to shoot at the cavalry charging at him, even though the cuirassiers on the opposite side had not yet reached the effective kill range of fifty meters. A colonial army is a colonial army after all.

Three brigades, a total of hundreds of heavy cavalry, charged with long knives with cold light, which was extremely deterrent. In the process of charging, even the mechanical soldiers could not block this impact, and the vibration got closer and closer as the heavy cavalry solemnly stampeded on it. The reflection of the metal plate armor and the sharp long knives raised high made it difficult for these soldiers who had just become full-time farmers to have the will to resist, and less than ten cavalrymen were shot and dismounted during the shooting. Then they were approached by these soldiers.

A black traverser happened to be in this group, and when the tall knight Tarzan pressed over, the last scene he saw was a dazzling sword flash towards his neck.

In such a chaotic situation, only by relying on the army can we survive, and if we cannot command the army in time, we must influence the direction of the army as much as possible. The world's travelers began to attrite again, one black, one white, and the Japanese girl.

In this chaotic scene, as the bad news of the removal of the traversers one by one came, Ren Di forced himself to be vigilant about the surrounding situation on the back basket of the robot. The artillery carriage under his command drove around Giacomomo's mech. Seven thousand fire# spearmen, a huge army of six hundred robots slowly moved across the land.

Ren Di did not send out to contain the army, and the forty steam cannons under Ren Di's command were in the rear of the right flank of this main force. When Ren Di showed his ability to command artillery, Ren Di was selected to follow the main force.