Chapter 6 Killing the enemy and fighting for merit
It is no wonder that they are so excited, in these years and months, it is impossible for the Supreme Commander to personally direct the battle, let alone be at the front line.
An officer belonging to the staff officer hurriedly proposed to Liu Sihao: "Sir, informing the whole army of this news will greatly boost our morale!" β
Liu Sihao muttered: "Sure enough." Then he nodded and agreed to his subordinate's suggestion.
Liu Sihao didn't feel strange about Tang Long's visit to the front line, according to Tang Long's habits in Datang, Tang Long was very accustomed to charging into battle, if he didn't come to the front line this time, Liu Sihao would feel strange.
The mecha troops led by Tang Long had not yet arrived at the front line, and the federal soldiers on the position had already known the news that Tang Long was coming.
The presence of the Supreme Commander on the front line really boosted the morale of the soldiers, and the officers also tried their best to command and plan, and they all wanted to show their best side to the marshal.
So in an instant, the Federation Army, which was still in a defensive position, suddenly pounced on the enemy like a tiger out of the gate, and the battle became more fierce for a while.
In the sky above the battlefield here, there are two black dots that are too small to be seen by the naked eye.
The vigilant troops on the ground, using electronic telescopes, set their eyes on space, and the troops in space were either busy cleaning up the battlefield or setting their sights on the ground battlefield, so no one noticed the two black spots in the sky at all.
These two black dots were the two giant robots controlled by No. 1 and No. 2, and they didn't pay attention to the battle situation below at all, let alone notice, as long as they gave an order to those machine troops to concentrate a little assault, the encirclement of the federal army would collapse immediately.
Maybe they don't care about the gains and losses on the battlefield below, maybe they don't know military affairs at all, anyway, the two of them just let their subordinates fight separately, while they are suspended in the air to talk.
"Second brother, what should we do now? Just stay here and watch the excitement? Why don't you look for those two intelligences? Two asked.
"Don't worry, now those two intelligences are hiding, and we can't find them at all. We'll wait for these two robots to go down and make a move, and we'll take the opportunity to settle down on this planet. I believe that those two intelligences will not be silent for long, and as soon as they appear, we will immediately find out where they are.
"As long as you find them, it's not their turn to hide again." Number One said.
"Second brother, why bother so much, just destroy this planet directly, I don't believe that this planet is destroyed, and those two intelligences can still hide." Regarding No. 1's plan, No. 2 said disapprovingly.
Number One sneered, "Destroy this planet? You can say it, not to mention whether we can do it now, even if we can do it, those two intelligences are not stupid, can they still run out when they encounter such a dangerous thing?
"These two intelligences are no better than those that have just evolved, and if we are not careful, we will let them escape, so wouldn't it be in vain? So we have to be patient with them so that we can have a chance! β
After thinking about it for a while, No. 2 felt that he had no clue now, and it seemed that he had to follow the second brother's method, so he nodded and said, "Okay, just do as you say." β
Number One smiled: "Well, we order the troops below to start guerrilla warfare, lest they only break through to the death, I don't want them to be wiped out so early, and I still need them to attract everyone's attention." β
Hearing this, Number Two nodded indifferently.
The troops defending behind the Federal Army suddenly noticed a large group of dense red wave figures rushing towards their side.
Thinking of the order sent by the military headquarters, he immediately realized that this was the mecha unit under the direct command of the marshal, and he couldn't help but hurriedly stand on both sides and salute these red mecha soldiers.
The soldiers who had built the defensive positions, led by the somewhat panicked officers, began to dismantle the defenses in order to sort out a channel for the mechfighters to pass through.
"No need to demolish!"
A majestic voice came from the front group of red mecha warriors, and before these officers and soldiers who had dismantled the defense facilities woke up, the red mecha warriors jumped over this piece of defense facilities very easily.
When the red wave poured over the defenses, the same majestic voice said, "Strengthen the defenses immediately, the enemy mechfighters have the ability to jump just like us." β
The officer in charge of this area hurriedly saluted the departing red wave, and then ordered his subordinates to start strengthening the defenses.
Although he didn't know who was talking just now, this group of red mecha warriors was directly commanded by the marshal, and it can be said that these red mecha warriors were all protΓ©gΓ©s of the Son of Heaven, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with following orders.
Liu Sihao put on a protective mecha, took out his weapon, and ordered his subordinates who were stunned and looked at him: "You stay at the headquarters, and I will lead the clearing troops to the encirclement." With that, he took a vote of soldiers who were also heavily armed and armed, and rushed to the front line in a chariot.
Some officers who are not flexible enough to look at Liu Sihao's back and feel very strange, what is this officer doing on the front line? I don't usually see that he is so hot-blooded.
Some of the clever officers began to get busy, even if they really had nothing to do, they gathered in front of the three-dimensional map to point and discuss the changes in the battle situation with the people around them.
It wasn't until they saw the performance of these clever people that those officers who were one step slower remembered that the marshal was about to go to the front in person, and he had to show himself.
As a result, the headquarters of the various armies were extremely busy, and some officers even quarreled over an impossible operational plan.
Liu Sihao, who was sitting in the bulletproof chariot, cursed Tang Long while praying that the enemy would not take a fancy to him: "Damn Tang Long, you will go to the front line when you go to the front, why do you want to pass through my position?"
"Damn, and you, why did you order every unit to send a clearance force into the encirclement? Isn't it good to send a large force directly to clear the enemy? It's really damn that Lao Tzu is now going into battle in person to show you Lao Tzu's bravery! β
Liu Sihao said so, but when he received the order to form a clearing force, he had already decided to go into battle in person. Because after his observation for so long, he found that Tang Long didn't miss any old feelings at all, and if he wanted to climb up, he must establish enough meritorious deeds.
Since the last battleship fight, because he, the commander of the fighting regiment, only earned a little credit because he did not contribute, and his merit was the lowest in the entire regiment, Liu Sihao began to pay attention.
To be honest, Liu Sihao cares very much about his military position in Datang, and anyone who has been in Datang can see the strength of Datang. Now that Tang Long has put his hand into the Wanluo Federation, Liu Sihao absolutely believes that it won't be long before the entire Wanluo Federation will be surnamed Tang.
For the sake of your own ambition, you must climb up!
What Liu Sihao is most afraid of is that his subordinates who have military positions in the Tang Dynasty will become higher than himself because of their military achievements. It doesn't matter if your military rank is higher than theirs now, and when their military rank is higher than your own, you will definitely not be able to control them, let alone let them continue to be loyal to you.
And Datang's promotion system is very strict, if you want to maintain your advantage, then you can only fight to make meritorious achievements. Although it is now in the Wanluo Federation, who knows if Datang's military merit evaluation system has followed?
In this regard, Liu Sihao is very sure that Tang Long must have a way to calculate the merits of officers and soldiers from the Tang Dynasty after this battle.
"Sir, we're already in position, be careful!" A soldier reported to Liu Sihao.
Liu Sihao nodded: "Move closer to the nearest clearance force and pay attention to the surroundings!" β
According to the military intelligence report, Liu Sihao knew that now the enemy had begun to change his style, and he was no longer desperate to break out, but to launch guerrilla warfare.
Now I'm in the encirclement, and in it, I'm going to be attacked by those elusive enemies at any time, so I'm not careful.
Liu Sihao made a cautious decision from the beginning to carry out this purge war, after all, if he accidentally died, any ambition would be in vain, so he was ready to contact other troops in order to enhance his strength and increase the safety factor.
Now the armored troops on the front line, there is no enemy to attack them, except for the large forces outside continue to surround the entire battlefield, not letting the enemy leave, all the troops follow Tang Long's orders, form elite troops into the encirclement, to destroy these enemies scurrying around.
As for those armored units, they also cooperated with these elite troops and began to slowly shrink the encirclement.
At first, the Federation army found that the enemy was no longer storming the encirclement, and they were happy for a while, thinking that the enemy was demoralized. But when these enemies broke into small groups and moved around the encirclement, the Federation Army began to have a headache.
Because the area of this encirclement is very large, although there are millions of enemies who are surrounded, their space for movement is still very large.
When the troops began to shrink the encirclement, there were many places where the ruins of buildings blocked the way, or where the troops began to weaken due to movement, they were immediately hit hard by the enemy who came out of nowhere.
The federal forces had no choice but to propose to Tang Long that while sending troops to clear out these enemies that were divided into groups, they slowly and cautiously shrink their troops.
However, for those enemies that cannot be detected by radar and can only be searched by the naked eye, the clearance troops are very sad. Because these enemies will come out without warning, storm for a while, and if they win, they will fight to the death, and if they can't win, they will flee immediately.
And when chasing these enemies, as long as you let them out of sight, you can't find their traces at all.
In order to destroy a small group of enemies, the clearing troops had to find them several times in a small area.
At this moment, the heavy artillery units were completely useless, because the radar could not show the enemy, and even if the clearing troops found the enemy and called the heavy artillery units to attack, it would be mostly useless, because the enemy ran away before the shells fell.
And the fighters could not continue to bomb, because after the enemy was dispersed, it was impossible to find the enemy with the naked eye in high-speed movement, and if the speed was slowed down, the enemy would be attacked again.
I don't understand how the enemy suddenly became smarter, actually learned to attack fighters, and not long ago allowed himself to bomb.
However, these planetary air forces are not useless, they can transport casualties to the rear, and at the same time, they can also send supplies to the clearance force.
However, due to the extremely difficult progress of the clean-up and the heavy casualties, the several units that were originally responsible for the clean-up task quit, and they thought that they had suffered heavy losses, while others watched from the sidelines. Of course, this could not be said about the above, so they proposed to Tang Long that they should take this opportunity to let all the troops exercise ground warfare.
Tang Long, who agreed with this very much, immediately issued an order that all troops had to send out troops to suppress them.
Liu Sihao poked his head out of the chariot and looked around, all he saw was a piece of ruins, but judging from the layout of these ruins, this should have been a bustling street.
Now looking at the potholes and piles of ruins, I can't help but feel that it is really easy to destroy a city.
Just as Liu Sihao sighed with emotion, a red ball of light suddenly shot out from a pile of ruins, and very accurately, hit one of the chariots in Liu Sihao's team.
The chariot that was bombed into the sky was also a signal for the enemy to attack when he told Liu Sihao that they were under enemy attack.
As soon as the explosion sounded, hundreds of enemy mecha warriors wearing mecha suddenly appeared in the surrounding ruins, and as soon as these mecha warriors appeared, they rained bullets on Liu Sihao's troops.
And in the ruins of the red ball of light, a metal spider crawled out, firing a ball of light every few seconds, moving quickly towards this force.
Liu Sihao, who hid in the chariot when he saw the first glowing ball appear, found the number of enemies through the monitor in the chariot, and the originally panicked mood immediately calmed down, he hurriedly opened the troop communication and shouted: "Don't panic, the enemy only has about a hundred people, we can definitely destroy them!" β
Because they had never experienced a ground war, the federal soldiers who were frightened by the enemy's sneak attack and either hid next to the chariot, ran around, or shot around without any purpose, heard Liu Sihao's words in the earphones, and then looked at the enemies around them, and found that the commander did not deceive himself, and couldn't help but be emboldened, and they scolded and attacked these enemies one after another.
After Liu Sihao issued the order to counterattack, he suddenly remembered that the target of the chariot he was staying in was too big, if he was favored by the metal spider, wouldn't he not even have the idea of escaping, and would be burned to charcoal? Thinking of this, Liu Sihao immediately left the chariot.
Of course, he found a very beautiful excuse, that is, to go down and personally lead the soldiers in battle, and left the chariot.
Liu Sihao's move of leaving the protection of the chariot and directly exposing himself to the enemy's guns naturally won the respect of the soldiers and boosted the morale of the soldiers to attack the enemy.
After Liu Sihao fired a few shots at a mecha warrior, he found that the laser beams were all bounced off by the mecha, and immediately shouted: "Use grenades and laser cannons!" With that, he pulled out a grenade and threw it at one of the mechfighters.
With a bang, the mechwarrior was blown up, and very cleverly fell headfirst to the ground, and then from the gap in its mech, a puff of black smoke came out, and then it was motionless.
Seeing that their commander had taken out a very difficult enemy so easily, the soldiers threw grenades in the same way, and those soldiers armed with hand-held laser cannons were called around as support firepower.
Of course, the chariot also desperately poured artillery fire on the metal spider, among so many enemies, only this metal spider is harmful to itself, and it must be solved as soon as possible.
The others didn't pay attention, but Liu Sihao noticed the black smoke coming out of the body of the enemy he had killed. Looking around, he realized that he was safe, and he couldn't help but trot over to the mecha to take a look.
This look made Liu Sihao stunned, he didn't expect this enemy to be a robot.
After he looked at the other mecha warriors who had been killed, he couldn't help but spat and whispered to himself, "Damn, they're all robots!" It's no wonder that these guys dared to parachute after the battleship was destroyed, and they only acted according to the program.
"Tang Long, where did he provoke such a force equipped with so many robots? Isn't this force afraid of a robot rebellion? β
Although Liu Sihao only sensed that this small group of enemies were robots, but from a small age, he was sure that the enemies of the entire battlefield were robots.
Soon, when the balance of victory tilted to Liu Sihao's side, Liu Sihao found that the enemy had retreated, and couldn't help shouting: "Don't let them run, surround me and fight!" Liu Sihao, who knew that these enemies couldn't be defeated and ran, didn't want to work hard to find them in this area.
Under the superior forces, the battle ended quickly, looking at the robots emitting black smoke and his own casualties, Liu Sihao suddenly felt that this war was very unfair.
Because what the other party consumes is just piles of steel, and what is consumed on his own side is precious life.
"Damn, this force is really shrewd enough, as long as you have enough equipment and materials, you can make a steady stream of robots, even if 100 million soldiers are destroyed, you don't have to feel distressed, just make another 100 million robots.
"And if their enemies are killed by 100 million soldiers, they will definitely be greatly damaged, and if the war continues, you can know with your toes that it is definitely the forces that use robots to win!
"Damn, no wonder Tang Long wants to get so many robots in, it turns out that robots are so easy to use! But it's strange, why does that guy give the treatment of a normal robot soldier? Robots are meant to be consumed, so why let them get the same treatment as humans? I don't understand! Well, since robots are so useful, if my troops are also heavily equipped with robots......"
Thinking of this, Liu Sihao hurriedly shook his head and threw this idea away, now he is still sending people under the fence, and he has no private army at all, so it is better not to think about these distant things.
Liu Sihao knows very well that thinking about these things now will make him unrealistic, which is very detrimental to his ambitions.
Seeing that the summoned transport plane was transporting the casualties away, and at the same time the personnel brought in also replenished the troops, Liu Sihao boarded a chariot and ordered the troops: "Keep moving!" β
With the order, the troops, which had hundreds of combat vehicles, immediately began to advance slowly.
"Damn, how many enemy forces are there? How to get stronger and stronger? Could it be that these enemy forces roaming around are connected? β
Liu Sihao looked at the hole beside him that was shot out by the beam, and then looked at the fierce battle in front of him, and couldn't help spitting and scolding.
Soon after Liu Sihao's troops advanced, they were attacked by another group of enemies. However, with the experienced troops, they quickly wiped out most of the enemy forces like the enemy just now, and the casualties were not as many as last time.
The soldiers who had confidence made suggestions to Liu Sihao one after another, demanding that the enemy in this area be eliminated.
Liu Sihao knew from the military intelligence report that the enemy was moving around in units of a metal spider and a hundred mecha soldiers, and his two encounters with the enemy proved the correct surname of this report.
Thinking that every enemy eliminated was a credit, and seeing that his troops could kill the enemy so easily, Liu Sihao agreed to his subordinates' proposal, and instead of getting closer to the nearby clearing troops, he began to look for enemies in this area.
However, Liu Sihao soon found that he could not find the enemy's traces at all, and he could only passively wander around to attract the enemy to attack him.
However, even in this kind of battle, which can only be attacked by the enemy first, can it be found that the enemy is traced and counterattacked, Liu Sihao's troops still easily eliminated the five groups of enemies.
Looking at the fruitful results, Liu Sihao and his subordinates were triumphant.
Some soldiers who were slightly wounded were not willing to take the transport plane to the rear at all, and Liu Sihao's countless soldiers in the rear asked to come to the war.
Even those officers who stayed at the headquarters also asked Liu Sihao to follow the transport plane to the front-line troops to participate in the war.
After discovering that this was the case with other troops, and even some of the clearing troops caused a competition for merit because they discovered the enemy's traces at the same time, Liu Sihao suddenly discovered that this battlefield had changed from destroying the enemy to a playground for troops to obtain meritorious service.
Thinking of this, he immediately adjusted the members of this purge force and transferred some of the subordinates he had co-opted and bought. Now is a good opportunity to get meritorious service, if you don't vigorously support your subordinates, wouldn't it seem that you are too stupid?
As for those cronies, Liu Sihao was afraid that their Datang military rank was only one or two levels lower than himself, in order to prevent them from having the same rank as him or even higher than him after their meritorious service, Liu Sihao did not transfer a cronie.
Of course, Liu Sihao also sent them a communication, saying something to personally command the troops, and make greater meritorious deeds.
As for whether these cronies believe it or not, whether they have complaints in their hearts, it is not something that Liu Sihao can know.
After easily eliminating a few more groups of enemies, Liu Sihao's troops began to slacken, and the soldiers below began to compete for merit, and when they saw the enemy appear, they swarmed up, and what command, what tactics, and what defense were thrown aside.
Although Liu Sihao noticed this, he thought that every time the enemy appeared, there was no danger to his troops at all, so he didn't control it.
He was now focused on destroying the Metal Spiders, because he knew that the credit for destroying the Metal Spiders was higher than that of the MechWarriors.
However, Liu Sihao's troops, who were wandering around hoping to be discovered by the enemy and attacked him, were soon hit.
After encountering an enemy and destroying a metal spider, they became accustomed to the slackness of their surname, and then they were caught off guard by another metal spider that suddenly appeared.
Although the battle also ended with the victory of the Federation army, the casualties this time were even greater than when they first encountered the enemy.
However, the soldiers and officers who had been fascinated by the battle record, including Liu Sihao, did not realize that something was wrong, and they all thought that the two groups of enemies happened to appear together.
So, having transported the casualties and replenished the personnel, the troops again began to wander around, attracting the enemy to attack them.
Soon, they were attacked by two more groups of enemies, and having learned a lesson, they destroyed the enemy again after expending a little effort.
It's a pity that after this rest, before they had time to attract the enemy, some enemies ran up to attack them, and it was not a group of two, but five or six groups of enemies suddenly surrounded them, and they actually did not flee after the defeat in the battle.
In this battle, Liu Sihao's troops won the victory at a heavy cost of casualties, three-fifths of the chariots were destroyed, seven-tenths of the soldiers were hung up, and two-thirds of the officers were hung up.
Liu Sihao didn't care much about the casualties of the troops, because if he called, the transport plane would immediately fill up the personnel and materials, anyway, he had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, enough to replenish countless times.
What makes Liu Sihao feel distressed is that those officers who have hung up two-thirds of the officers, and the officers who have been bribed by themselves and can be judged to be promoted, are not more than half like this, which is really heartbroken.
At this time, Liu Sihao was glad that he didn't transfer those cronies, if those cronies were here, I am afraid that there would be only a few cronies left now.
(To be continued)