The reason why Shen Chao deployed the 102 squad to follow the Noble squad composed of this team of Spartan warriors is a safe measure, in the plot of the Halo series, the Noble team was in distress many times in the subsequent missions on the Zhiyuan Star, and under the intentional and unintentional intervention of the expedition team, many situations in the original plot may change, and the Noble team may encounter greater difficulties and pressure than in the original plot, and may not be able to complete the tasks in their own plot.

However, the expedition still needs them to complete their own mission, especially the last one, because they will take over and escort the shipborne AI that will be delivered to the Athenium of Autumn Wind in the plot, and one of the soul characters of the Halo series: Cortana!

Cortana as an AI has had a great influence on the plot of the entire Halo series, especially in the recent ones. If the Atsumi of the Autumn Wind hadn't carried her, there was a good chance that she would have been killed in the upcoming fleet battle.

And if this happens, Shen Chao and the others will not be able to follow them to find the No. 04 ring belt, let alone the master officer. It was precisely because of this consideration that he sent Team 102 to serve as an "invisible nanny" for the Spartan team throughout the whole process.

This is a relatively dangerous mission, because at this time, the surface of Zhiyuan Star is still under the control of the UNSC family, and the UNSC has amassed nearly 300 million soldiers in this military base camp! It can be said that the brain is dead to a certain level.

After all, the space war between UNSC and the Star Alliance has long been fought in the Bojiang Star Zone, and Zhiyuan, as a military fortress, may be attacked at any time. As a military base in the nature of the last line of defense, Zhiyuan Star is indeed of great significance.

But the UNSC should know that it is impossible for them to hold the planet with a large number of infantry. No matter how many ground forces they have hoarded here, as long as the space war is lost, the ground forces will be a target for the enemy fleet.

"They're leaving the base, just like in the CG......" The observer reminded their captain, Lu Feng. It's only been 1 hour since they've been here. Originally, they didn't expect to find Noble's team here so smoothly.

According to Lu Feng and most of the team members, they would probably find the traces of the Noble team halfway through the plot of Zhiyuanxing, but the UNSC's communication network led them to their goal.

Probably due to the pressure on the front line, there were many irregularities in the technical operation of the UNSC's communication and command system on Zhiyuan, and the expedition team did not use much effort to successfully intercept the communication information it needed.

"Everyone, get on board." We're going to keep up with these guys! Lu Feng beckoned his team members to board his two shuttles after seeing the Spartan team in the distance take off. They arrived on two specially modified shuttles.

said that it was a special modification, but in fact, it was already a magic modification that could not see the original form. This improved infiltration shuttle was based on the skeleton of the Starlink Arcadia shuttle, the earliest equipment of the expedition.

After many magic changes, this kind of shuttle has changed greatly both inside and out. Its shape has long been detached from the earliest angular and tough shape, and has become a mouse-like sleek shape, and the original two defensive cannons on the front end have also been dismantled for stealth performance.

And that's just the change in appearance, and the inside of the shuttle is also equipped with a lot of equipment that was not available before, and it is these devices that make the effective range and concealment ability of this new shuttle greatly improved. The Elemental Zero core on board was retained as the primary means of rapid direct navigation within the system and Proxima Centauri.

But its means of long-distance travel have become dependent on the BSG jump engine, and in this way. This small shuttle has the ability to maneuver across the galaxy. Of course, both of these means of travel are geared towards long-distance journeys, and both release large amounts of detectable energy in a light manner.

To this end, the new shuttle is also equipped with an all-angle gravitational propulsion engine collected from the Forsaken Battlefield. In the low-speed hidden state, they all use this engine to propel the shuttle at low speed, which can completely avoid the drawbacks of the plasma thruster that is bound to emit a large number of heat signatures.

At this time, the 102 squad that boarded the new shuttle used such a pattern. As soon as they boarded their two shuttles and closed the hatches, their ones immediately turned on the surface optical camouflage and slowly took off to keep up with the Spartan squad in the distance.

Due to its sleek shape, it does not reflect any of the detection waves that can be detected by any UNSC detection equipment. It does not emit any heat signal itself, and it is visually covered by optical camouflage. Therefore, theoretically, neither UNSC nor the Covenant can detect them.

While the shuttle in this stealth mode couldn't be too fast, the Noble squad they were tracking was even slower, and it took them almost half an hour to reach the opponent's first mission point.

As in the plot, it was attacked by a small team of Star Alliances, which made the Noble team, who were preparing to suppress the rebels, a little unable to deal with it. However, due to the fact that only a small number of Covenant infiltrators were encountered. Therefore, after observing the battle situation, Lu Feng decided to let his 102 squad continue to watch the battle from afar.

If the Spartan warriors below can't even deal with this little Covenant infantry, then there is no need for them to continue to be their nannies, because in the next few days, the Covenant will have a full-scale invasion of this planet, and at that time, the flames of war will burn all the inhabited corners of the entire planet.

The 102 squad of the expedition could easily watch the fire from the other side. But at this time, the Spartan team on the ground against the Covenant was under pressure. The weapons they carry are all used against the rebels, and it is difficult to cause effective damage when dealing with the Covenant ground forces, and the enemies they are facing now are almost all elites, both in terms of shield strength and weapon lethality, which are stronger than the average Covenant troops.

"George, you go to the left to suppress, Kate, you go to the heights and beat their leader, number six, you follow me, we go outflank their right flank......" Carter, the captain of Noble's squad, commanded as soon as he entered the bunker.

A long time of confrontation with the Star Covenant has honed his keen reflexes and tactical planning skills. As early as when they reached the target, he had already engraved the actual terrain nearby in his mind.

After encountering the Covenant, he was surprised, but as quickly as the rest of his teammates, he found cover and prepared to fight back. Before all his teammates entered cover, he observed the enemy situation and thought of this strategy. And he was quite sure that such a strategy would succeed.

Despite its advanced technology and powerful weapons, the Covenant has always lagged behind humans in terms of the tactical level of ground warfare, and the UNSC's army has always been able to find a way to restrain and defeat them in ground warfare.

This is largely due to the hierarchical and extremely fanatical social structure of the Star Alliance. The warrior class and race of the Covenant are all about face-to-face combat, which is why the main elite of them will carry a plasma light knife that symbolizes status in the battles of the interstellar war.

Sure enough, the battle turned out as Carter had expected, and they quickly broke the line of fire of the Covenant forces and quickly divided them after they split into three parts. When the enemies were split into 3 parts by them, they eliminated nearby enemies in a relatively easy squad.

The whole battle took about 10 minutes. During this period, although many of the team members were hit by enemy fire, their newly issued armor had individual shields from the Covenant, so there were no injuries or armor damage that were common before.

Carter remembered that just a year ago, most Spartan III warriors did not have shields on their armor, and their lives were in danger if they were hit by the Covenant's plasma weapons during battle, and their frontal breastplates could only help them block a single attack of the plasma weapons, which would melt most of them.

Although the soft rubber layer on the inner layer of the armor is excellent in terms of resistance to live ammunition and better resistance to heavy hits, it has almost no protection against the Covenant's plasma weapons. Kate's robotic arm is proof of this.

"How did the Covenant end up here?" After eliminating the Covenant forces near their landing site, one of the team members asked. But no one in the entire Noble team could answer his doubts.

Eventually, they decided to follow the trail of the other Covenants and investigate what was going on here, in consultation with the rear command. Of course, before they left, everyone didn't forget to replace their weapons with the Covenant individual weapons they had just captured.

Although every Spartan warrior has been trained to use Covenant weapons, those who have survived to this day are very familiar with the use and maintenance of Covenant weapons. However, due to the UNSC's delay in imitating the Covenant's individual weapons, every weapon they captured must be handed over to the fleet headquarters after the battle is over.

Theoretically, these captured weapons would be sent to the rear for scientists to continue their research on, so that one day they could crack all their operating principles and make their own imitations. But this is only a theoretical thing.

The fact is that after 20 years of research, the UNSC still has not copied the weapons of the Star Alliance, so the soldiers on the front line, whether they are Marine cannon fodder, ODST, or their theoretical land ace Spartans, are still using backward weapons to fight with the Star Alliance troops.

Fortunately, it was the time of the fighting, and no gendarmes or anyone else would ask them to hand in the weapons they had just worked so hard to capture. Squad Noble blatantly completed the outfit change and began the pursuit.

At the next plot point they tracked, a team from another expedition had already arrived and begun the battle with the Covenant forces. Although this is the work of the Noble team originally scheduled in the plot, the expedition team is suspected of taking rats when they go to disrupt the situation.

But considering that this Covenant elite infiltration team might be carrying information that would be useful to them, and maybe some cutting-edge individual weapons, Shen Chao sent another team over half an hour ago to meddle in their affairs. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you to the two book friends who rewarded "hill2 and valky" after the update of the previous chapter, as well as other book friends who enthusiastically supported yesterday, I will continue to work hard to code words after dinner, and strive to code another chapter to make up for last night.