Chapter 25: The Great Sweep (I)

"What, there are so many creatures in the underground base?" Chen Peilin, who received the news, was very surprised. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"I don't believe it either, but it's a fact, just look at the battle footage sent back by the advance team" After speaking, Zhuge Wushuang clicked on his personal terminal, and then the battle picture of the lot appeared. In the picture, countless Martian scorpions are fearless to launch a decisive charge to the advance team, going to follow one after another, as if endless, the corpses of Martian scorpions around the battlefield have occupied the surrounding space, and some places are piled up like a hill.

"It's incredible, how do these Martian scorpions survive? The Martians are all dead, there is no water and air in the base, how the hell did they survive? Chen Peilin sighed incredulously.

"Now is not the time to lament, the plan is very different from what we expected, and it's time for us to remake the plan. I thought that there were not enough Martian creatures in the base, so I just sent a large landing force, but now that there are so many creatures, my force is too bad. We need to commit more troops. Zhuge Wushuang said with a frown.

"Hmm...... Reasonable. Chen Peilin touched his nose and said. But not now, let Li Feng send someone to send a few corpses of scorpions over, preferably intact, I think we should study our enemy first, we are too light on the enemy, we dare to send troops to fight without knowing anything about the enemy, fortunately there is no loss this time, otherwise it will not be good. ”

"Yes! The lion fights the rabbit, and also uses all his strength. We were too confident in the technology we had. You must know that in many cases, technology does not determine everything, and the weapons brought by our Li Feng's team are not advanced enough, and the most powerful is the individual energy cannon. This is not an advantage at all for the Martians, who have already developed energy weapons. Who knows if those Martian creatures underground have evolved energy resistance. Another point, the news sent by the advance team predicted that the creatures they were encountering now were likely to be only the creatures with the worst combat effectiveness, and even so, it would be very difficult to deal with electromagnetic weapons when encountering a more powerful one, so they thought that the follow-up army should be equipped with more powerful energy weapons," Zhuge Wushuang said.

"What do you think?" Chen Peilin asked. It's not that he doesn't want to equip the team with energy weapons, although these energy weapons are more technically complex, but for the Salvation Organization, they are just ordinary equipment, and they don't consume many rare resources at all, so to speak, they can be produced as much as they want. But the point is that the army is being reorganized, and many soldiers have never been exposed to energy weapons, and it will be a joke if they don't know how to use them when the time comes.

"I think they have a point," Zhuge Wushuang said. "I don't know what the situation is like for Martian creatures, but the basic food chain should be there. You see those scorpions are so big and so small, and they're obviously at the bottom of the food chain. It's these low-end creatures that our electromagnetic weapons are hard to deal with, not to mention the creatures at the top of the food chain that we encounter later. ”

"It's not a problem for us two laymen to blindly command here, I think it's better to call General Carter and General Zhou over and ask their opinions. After all, these professional soldiers are professional enough. Chen Peilin thought for a while and said.

"Hey! I didn't expect that, really, we're just a waste of time here," Zhuge Wushuang said symbolically slapping himself.

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Before General Carter and General Zhou Weiguo joined the fleet, they were the outstanding army generals of the United States and the Huaxia Kingdom respectively, and during this time they were busy sorting out the information of the Galactic Alliance on land warfare and providing theoretical support for the space landing war that mankind may face in the future. Therefore, after the integration of the fleet, all the military experts and generals of the original countries were organized and summoned to concentrate on studying the theory of space warfare and preparing for the future of the fleet.

After receiving the order, General Carter and General Zhou quickly arrived at the command center. After reading the information given by Chen Peilin, Carter pondered for a moment and said: "The lethality of individual weapons is too small, and the efficiency is too low. Fortunately, this army is lucky, otherwise, even if the number of monsters increases by another twenty percent, once it breaks through their defenses, this team is probably in danger of being wiped out."

"And what does General Carter think?" Chen Peilin asked. If you don't know, you don't know, Chen Peilin will definitely not pretend to understand, otherwise as the person in charge of the fleet, the damage to the fleet will definitely be huge.

"Increasing heavy fire units, preferably heavy artillery and other weapons that kill people in groups, and increasing troops, which is obviously not enough. At least a tenfold increase in troops, and adequate armaments, supplies and back-ups. And the team's mobility is so poor that they have to improve their mobility. General Carter added.

"Heavy firepower units are easy to handle, there is still no shortage in this fleet, before it was just because the task of this team was only to explore the underground base and restore the lighting of the underground base, not a large-scale landing combat mission, so we did not issue them with powerful heavy weapons, just equipped with electromagnetic machine guns and individual energy cannons. And we underestimated the danger of the underground base, thinking that there would not be a large number of dangerous creatures, which was a mistake on our part, and we apologize to the Exploration Team. Chen Peilin said solemnly.

"Is there anything else General Zhou would like to add?" Zhuge Wushuang looked at General Zhou Weiguo, who was standing aside, and asked.

"Aside from General Carter's proposal, I think the fighters' protective gear is too weak." Zhou Weiguo said. "I saw that the combat suits worn by the soldiers were just ordinary spacesuits, although they were strong and flexible enough, but I thought they were still too weak, and the soldiers should be equipped with armor protection. Judging from the image, these scorpions have no long-range attack means, and they should mainly fight hand-to-hand combat at close distances, while the spacesuit is soft, so that once the fighters are close to these scorpions, even if they can't break the spacesuit, just the bite force of the claws can clip people to death. ”

"Shhh ......" Chen Peilin gasped, thinking about the possible scenes, he couldn't help but feel creepy, and at the same time deeply blamed himself, a general is incompetent and tired to death, and professional things have to be handed over to professional people.

"Makes sense, blame us for not thinking it through. But will the soldiers be able to adapt to the armor? We are worried that the soldiers will be burdensome if they don't use good words, and bye bye sacrifices the advantage of the soldiers' flexibility. Zhuge Wushuang said worriedly.

"There is no need for such worries, the First Army has long been trained in armored equipment, and there is no problem in coping with such low-intensity battles. Commanders could draw troops from the First Army. General Zhou replied.

"Is there anything else General Zhou needs to add?" Chen Peilin asked.

"Another point," Zhou Weiguo said, "I found that the Martian creatures are very large, let's just say the Martians, those corpses are more than nine meters tall and close to ten meters, I think the size of other Martian creatures should not be small." We humans are much smaller in comparison. Many times, being tall also has a great advantage. ”

"Does General Zhou think we should equip our soldiers with large mechs? Here are several individual mechs and heavy mechs produced by the current fleet, which are controlled through brainwave connections, and the entire fleet has only produced 120,000 units, and I don't know if they can be equipped. Chen Peilin said, and then called up the information of several mecha in his brain to General Zhou.

Carter and Zhou Weiguo's eyes lit up, mecha! It's a war machine that only appears in science fiction movies, but I didn't expect the fleet to be equipped. This was unimaginable before. The previous American Raytheon company has also been conducting research on military exoskeleton armors, which are just exoskeleton armors, and they haven't even touched the edges of the mechas, and even this success is far away. The main thing is that the energy and engine aspects are not good at all. The traditional internal combustion engine simply can't provide that much power, and the miniaturization of aero engines is a problem, so Raytheon's exoskeleton can only be charged with wires while plugged into the power supply of the car, and at the same time it can be controlled to carry bombs, which is simply useless.

Now that they finally see a mecha that can be used in actual combat, how can this not excite them. You must know that mechs have considerable advantages over tanks. Tucker's requirements for road conditions are too high, swamps, mountains, jungles and other places are impossible to fight, otherwise they can only be the target of the enemy, and they are not mobile enough, which is inconvenient. Mecha doesn't have this problem, it can be said that most of the regions are applicable.

"A large amount of equipment is not appropriate at the moment," after thinking about it, Zhou Weiguo still rejected this idea with difficulty. Although the mecha has a great advantage, the key problem is that the soldiers lack the training to use this equipment proficiently. You must know that this is a technical service, you don't see ordinary infantry, recruit companies can go to the battlefield after three months of training, but armored troops need more than two years, and aviation troops can take even longer. Without excellent operation technology, equipping mechs will reduce the combat effectiveness of the army. "However, it is still possible to equip a small amount of heavy mechs as a fixed fire support battery. At that time, the infantry and heavy mechs will work together, and the heavy mechs will be used as fixed batteries and bunkers on the perimeter of the defensive line, and the pressure will be much less to deal with these Martian scorpions. General Zhou said. ”

"Here is a list of the infantry conventional weapons of our fleet, the two generals refer to it and see what weapons the next batch of troops should be equipped with." Chen Peilin turned on the projection, and only said to Carter and Zhou Weiguo from the list of weapons on it.

General Zhou Weiguo and General Carter looked at each other carefully and discussed fiercely with each other for several minutes, and finally Carter said: "Commander-in-chief, according to the problems encountered by the advance brigade and the actual situation of our troops, we believe that these weapons are the most suitable. After speaking, he pushed the sorted list to Chen Peilin.

"I understand the electromagnetic rifle, electromagnetic machine gun, electromagnetic cannon and energy rifle energy cannon, and we have also discussed the heavy mecha, but what is this hovercar used for? Also, there is a list of rocket artillery, rocket artillery is a gunpowder weapon, the underground base is hypoxic, and gunpowder weapons cannot be used. Chen Peilin wondered.

"That's right, hovering vehicles are mainly used to improve the mobility of fighters. Since we are not familiar with the road conditions in the base, we can only use hovering vehicles, which has the least dependence on road conditions. Originally, there was the best hovering armored car, but we didn't see the hovering armored car in the weapon list, so we had to use the hovercar instead. The underground space is limited, so it should be safe as long as the hovering car flies a little higher. As for rocket artillery, it is more troublesome, and we hope that the fleet can be reformed as soon as possible, and this is the most effective to deal with cluster attacks. As long as the oxygen in the upper part of the propulsion part is sealed, it is fine. The amount doesn't need to be too much, a brigade can be equipped with a few units. And rocket artillery has one of the greatest effects, interfering with the enemy's line of sight. Judging from the results from the biological laboratory, these Martian creatures have low vision, mainly relying on the fluff on their feet to feel the vibration of the ground to determine the location of the enemy. When a rocket launcher explodes, it will produce a shock wave, and although the Martian atmosphere is thin, it is still possible to make the ground shake. This has a great cover for the wrong actions. As for more advanced weapons, we feel that the current troops are simply not able to use them, and that they will have to undergo targeted training in the future. General Carter said.

"Okay, we will prepare these things, thank you two for your suggestions", Zhuge Wushuang said to the two generals with thanks.

"It's really troublesome, now the fleet has not even organized the army, and the command system is also very chaotic, if you wait for a month, and wait for the military system to be formulated, everything will be much smoother." Chen Peilin said with a sigh.

"Don't complain, it's been notified, and it's expected that the follow-up troops will leave in an hour, so hurry up and deal with the matter at hand." Zhuge Wushuang shook his head and said.