Chapter 399: Reinforcements, Reinforcements!
"This is the No. 3 machine of the Duke of Snowy Night's commando, the 209 transit base, why did you order to stop the pursuit? We've missed a great opportunity to wreak havoc on the Imperial Mech's forces. Joe asked aggrievedly as he connected to the night's communication, and even his words became raw.
The corners of Ye's mouth hooked slightly, but he had already experienced Joe's straightforwardness, so he didn't care about Joe's tone, and explained: "Joe, if you three rangers catch up at this time, there is a high chance that you will be besieged by the opponent's seven mechas, which you can't handle." The pilots of the wolf cavalry delayed part of the time to disconnect our troops, and obviously they succeeded, and we couldn't risk pursuing. ”
"Sorry, sir." Joe knew that the night was for their safety, so he apologized for his recklessness in front of him, but this guy was still unwilling to say: "It's really unpleasant to let them run away like this." ”
"So do we. Since you're not happy, you have to teach some Imperial Boys a hard lesson next time. Richard pulled out Racho's mech, and then led the way to the brightly lit 209 Transit Base.
"Hmm, I hope the empire won't come again, it's trapped me." On the night of the retreat of the Imperial troops, he yawned in the command room, and then got up to return to his dormitory to continue sleeping, but the communication in the command room suddenly rang.
"This is the Scorpion Commando, I heard that you have been attacked by the Imperial forces, so we have come to support." A commando fighter flew into the eastern sky.
"This is the 209 transit base, you're late, Scorpio. The Imperial forces have retreated. Ye sat back down at the command table with a little anger and said, "I'm interested in why the Imperial troops are so close to our base, and we haven't received an early warning from the fighters. ”
"Hello. Special-grade major. We did not find any traces of the Imperial Mecha Unit in the previous three hours of reconnaissance, and as for the traces of soldiers, you should know that our night vision reconnaissance system is not as powerful as it is written in the manual. The major who led the team explained the reason to Night.
"Isn't it once an hour? Why did it drag on for three hours? Night asked with a frown. You must know that it only takes more than an hour for the bear to run here from the nearest imperial base, and the original reconnaissance once an hour makes the interval between the three reconnaissances only half an hour, and there is plenty of time to find the bear type attacking from the imperial base. But once this time interval is dragged to three hours. Even if the fighter plane's air cruise time was doubled, reaching an hour of air patrol time, the time interval between the three reconnaissance still reached an hour, and there was plenty of time for the bear to run to the 209 transit base.
"Well, sir, I don't know. You can ask Tris Air Force Base, they are solely responsible for air support for this line of attack. The major said with some embarrassment, this time the 209 transit base was attacked by the imperial forces at night, which can be said to be completely a problem of the air force.
"Okay. I see, Major, thank you for your cooperation, you can go back. As for the question of the reconnaissance gap, I will personally ask it to Tris Air Force Base. Night nodded at the pilot, signaling that they could go back.
"Well, sir, don't we need to go ahead and reconnoiter the situation at the Imperial base? Maybe they're preparing for their next attack. "The Major clearly wanted to do something for the night. to make up for the mistakes of their peers.
"All right, Major. I think I do need an update on the Empire. Night felt that the major had a point. On their own offensive line. All garrisons are three times larger than the average Imperial line. Facing the Imperial defense base with three squadrons, Night is confident that without knowing the actions of the Imperial troops, he can rely on fifteen mechs and twelve mammoths to hold off the attack of the Imperial troops, but this is bound to pay a huge price. This kind of price is something that Night does not want to see, so Night still wants to know the movements of the Imperial forces, after all, the casualties of ambush are compared to those of stubborn defense. It's too much to reduce.
Thirty fighters in the black sky dragged out the blue tail flame and flew into the distance, their actions greatly enhanced the reconnaissance force of the Federation in this area, and the area originally responsible for a squadron was handed over to a commando team for reconnaissance, which was too easy.
Easier than fighter troops. The night was bitter in the command room, and after these fighters set off for reconnaissance, it meant that they didn't have to sleep tonight. This woke me up in the middle of the night, and the night, which was already sleepy, was depressed.
"Sir." After handing over the mech to the maintenance staff, the three Richards also came to the base command room, and they needed to give a briefing about the battle they had just done, which was the routine of all pilots after completing the battle.
"It's great that you're here. Richard, tonight's defense is up to you. Seeing the three people coming in, Ye immediately stood up happily as if he had found a life-saving straw, "At this time, the Scorpion Commando has begun a reconnaissance mission, if they find traces of the Imperial troops, you can organize our people to ambush them according to the number of Imperial troops, if not, you can disband and rest." As for the briefing on the battle just now, you will put it together with the general briefing of this operation, and hand it over to Lieutenant General Guderian when the time comes. Well, I'm sleepy. ”
After Yaya quickly explained what had happened, he yawned and left the command room, leaving behind three aces who still understood the meaning of Ye's words and a captain who was snickering on the side.
"We've got the defense of the base in your hands?" Joe asked Smith beside him.
Smith nodded and shook his head.
"Really, isn't it?" Joe was even more confused by Smith's movements.
Smith sighed and said, "But yes or no. If some fighters in the interior find traces of enemy troops, it will be us to take over the defense of the base and carry out active defense based on ambush warfare. If they do not detect enemy troops, then the defense of the base is the responsibility of this captain, conducting the so-called passive defense. ”
"But I'm sleepy." Joe said with a bitter face, after the passion of the battle, this guy also felt a wave of sleepiness hit him.
"There's no way, the chief has spoken, we should obey. At this point, we can only hope that some of the pilots will bring us some good news. Richard shrugged.
"Those Empire guys should be sleepy too, pray they don't attack again." Joe folded his hands together and prayed sincerely.
Smith slapped Qiao's hands together with disdain, and asked Qiao with a smile, "When did you believe in God?" How I don't know. ”
Joe put his hands together again. said: "For the sake of my great cause of sleeping, it doesn't matter if I believe in a god temporarily." God, Our Lady, Buddha, Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, please let some of the Imperial Boys stop tonight. Bless me for not having to be disturbed by their sleep tonight. ”
"How can you pray to so many gods like this, and you guy actually missed the great god Odin. God, Your Majesty Almighty Odin, please forgive the ignorance before me. Dare to be honest Richard believed in Odin, the Norse god of war, and when he heard that Joe's prayer did not contain his most admired god, the Germanic could not help but blame Joe and confess to Odin.
"Please, it's not for God to decide whether the Imperial forces attack again. Aren't the commanders of the empire all gods? How can we fight our battle in that case? Smith watched as his three teammates put on a look of god. I couldn't help but hit them.
Hearing Smith's words, Joe immediately put down his folded hands, and the piety on his face suddenly disappeared without a trace, and said with a smile: "Smith, then can I go to sleep first, and you can call me if there is a situation." ”
"Not bad, not bad. I think the chances of the Empire attacking again are very small, and there is no need for the three of them to wait for the reconnaissance report of some fighters together. So Smith, you seem to be in the best spirits, so please keep vigil. If there was an incident, I was able to contact me by radio. Richard, who was on the side, also helped, casually shoved Smith with a wireless communicator, and ran out of the command room with Joe.
"Holy, three guys with no righteousness. Captain, if there is a situation, we should contact us by radio, and if it is okay, it is better. Smith shoved the communicator Richard had given him to the captain on the side, and then ran out of the command room. I'm still shouting and waiting for me as I run.
The captain in the command room looked at the communicator in his hand dumbfounded, sighed helplessly, and said, "How can I have such a commander, depressed." ”
I don't know if it was Joe's prayer that worked or if Richard's Odin appeared to the gods, the returning Scorpion troops brought the Imperial base with no signs of dispatch. Throwing a large number of infrared flares to aid their night vision device reconnaissance, they only found news of the retreating troops of the Empire in the desert. This relieved the captain who replaced the irresponsible commander and the major's communication, and now there was no need to bother.
Early in the morning of the third day, he came to the workshop for the maintenance of his land king early in the night to see the maintenance of his chariot. To his satisfaction, the King of the Land had been completely repaired, as good as the maintenance crew had promised the previous night.
"It's amazing." Ye called happily, beckoning all the maintenance personnel with dark circles under their eyes, and began to unplug all kinds of cables plugged into the fuselage for the king of the land.
"Sir, it's early. Are you going to leave so early? The chief of the preparation rubbed his eyes and asked with some pain, it is very uncomfortable for anyone to be woken up while they are asleep.
"No, I just want to get my tank back sooner and try the performance of my left arm." Night looked at the left robotic arm that had been reinstalled with new parts and smiled, but he didn't know that his words almost made the maintenance chief next to him pick up the giant wrench on the side and smash it at him.
"Understood, sir. We'll get you up right away. The maintenance chief suppressed the impulse in his heart and beckoned his subordinates to open the door of the workshop. Suddenly, the bright sun shone into the workshop, making people feel like they couldn't open their eyes.
After seeing the night climb into the chariot, the maintenance chief grabbed the communicator beside him and yawned and said: "Sir, I wish you a happy test flight, let's take our leave first, whew, sleepy." ”
"Okay, thank you." Hearing the long yawn, Ye realized that some of the maintenance personnel inside were busy working late before going to sleep, so he hurriedly thanked him.
"That's what we're supposed to do, sir. It's just that if you have a problem with your vehicle, please find the guy on the other side to fine-tune it, we really need to sleep for a while. "The maintenance staff were busy working until dawn at the latest, and after only half an hour of sleep, they were dragged up by the night, and they were all yawning all day long.
"Go to sleep." Night laughed.
"Yes, sir." When the rectifiers heard the words of the night, they didn't even bother to salute, so they turned around and walked to the registrar's dormitory behind the workshop, where there was what they needed, a comfortable bed.
Night turned on the power of the Land King, the engine hummed, and the Land King slowly drove out of the workshop door. The silver chariot glittered in the morning light, and the new sleek armor reflected the morning light, illuminating the buildings next to the chariot. Such a beautiful chariot as a work of art, but the night said a disappointing sentence, "Damn, some of the reconditioners forgot to matte my armor." ”
After testing the performance of his left arm, Night, who was quite satisfied with the agility of his arm, drove the chariot into another maintenance workshop, where three rangers of Duke Snowy Night's commando were parked. Joe, who was inspecting the mecha, couldn't help but cover his eyes and said, "Sir, why are you turning on a light bulb and coming in?" ”
"I'm here to do a matte finish, and I don't want to turn on something so bright, it's just a target." Night jumped out of the mecha and motioned to the surrounding maintenance personnel to deal with their vehicles.
When fully equipped, matting a vehicle's armor is too easy for the Federation's registrars. In less than an hour, the armor paint of the King of the Land was covered with a layer of matte paint, and the whole vehicle looked completely devoid of the original glare, and the silver fireproof paint looked much more subtle, which was exactly what Night wanted.
After making sure that the King of the Land fully met his requirements, Night beckoned Richard, who had already completed the mecha check, to go to the command room with him. Last night it was reported that a squadron of mechs would depart from Tris this morning to support the 209 Attack Force 177 stationed at Transit Base 177, so that the night could better organize the attack on the Empire's 67 defense base. If he succeeded, Lieutenant General Guderian's mission, which was originally scheduled for a week, could be completed in three days, and things seemed to be going too well.
In fact, the attack of the Federation Army was overwhelming at the beginning, and it was completely caused by the negligence of the Imperial commander. The porous cordons of the Imperial front, combined with the outpost's indifference to the disappearance of the patrol force, all contributed to the fall of the Empire's first outpost. Subsequently, because these outposts did not play a good role in their early warning and delaying the enemy's attack, the Imperial base of the third line of defense did not have time to mobilize sufficient garrison forces from their rear, and most of the commanders could only choose to abandon the base and preserve their strength, and surrendered most of the bases to the Federation Army. These negligences were due to the fact that the Imperial Commander was too confident and underestimated the Federation Army. In the previous battles in the Red Cloud Desert area, the actions of the Imperial forces were too smooth. Relying on the powerful performance of the mecha, the Imperial Army has almost always pressed the Federation Army in the Red Cloud area, although the occasional counterattack of the Federation will cause the Imperial Forces to suffer a little loss, but overall, the Imperial Forces occupy the initiative in the desert battlefield. (To be continued......)