Half an hour later, their shuttle, along with dozens of other new shuttles loaded with expedition members, entered the atmosphere of Zhiyuanxing and quickly separated to reconnoitre. A large group of expedition members will not do much to change the battle situation of Zhiyuanxing in the next few days, let alone they will be distributed all over Zhiyuanxing.

However, such a large-scale reconnaissance can help them collect the battle situation in various places after the outbreak of the Zhiyuan Star Ground Battle, and its effect is the same as when they installed a large number of cameras and sensors in various corners of the Divine Citadel during the Battle of the Divine Fortress.

Only after collecting more comprehensive combat information on the ground can they determine where the limits of the respective endurance of the Alliance and UNSC are. And this will be an important reference for them when they come into contact with these two forces in the future.

They didn't have to wait long, but a day later, the battle on Zhiyuan Star became lively. At this time, a small part of the UNSC fleet had already rushed over, and the Covenant also had a small fleet arrived and placed many Covenant marines on the surface.

The two sides have fiercely fought over some ancient ruins and strategic points on the ground, and although the UNSC has an absolute numerical advantage on the surface of Zhiyuan, they are inferior in weapons and the lines of communication are not smooth.

Although there are as many as 300 million soldiers on the surface, due to the lack of sufficient air carriers, it has not been able to immediately form a numerical advantage to suppress the Star Alliance in many places. In a few remote places, the Covenant has even set up outposts, apparently preparing for the subsequent landing of large forces.

The Noble team was no longer the focus of the expedition's observation at this time, because in several other battlefields, several teams of Spartan II warriors appeared on the battlefield. Their cousins were eye-catching, playing a key role in several local battlefields, helping other friendly units destroy several Covenant strongholds.

However, such actions are not without cost. The Covenant's firepower is still too strong compared to the ordinary forces of the UNSC. In the battle against the Covenant's above-ground strongholds, it takes an average of 5 or even 10 times as many marines to conquer it.

Even with light armor on board, UNSC's ground forces were unable to capture the Covenant's makeshift base in a one-to-one situation. This circumstance attracted the attention of the expedition. They hadn't expected the battle to turn out like this.

In Shen Chao's initial prediction, he thought that the ground troops projected by the Star Alliance in the early stage would harass the UNSC's ground forces by guò guò guerrilla attacks and infiltrating cities. Because no matter how you look at it, the UNSC has a huge strategic advantage on the ground, and the airborne troops of the Star Alliance are basically waiting for death to stick to the same place.

There weren't many problems with his final conclusion. Most of the Covenant forces that held on to their positions did not last long before they were besieged and killed by the superior forces of the UNSC. But his earlier guess about the Covenant's will to fight was wrong.

The Covenant forces that held on to their place and were eventually wiped out apparently knew they were on a suicide mission, and that their purpose in holding on was simply to attract the attention of the UNSC ground forces so that their friendly units could be sent on other, more important missions to explore the ruins.

However, the cannon fodder did not seem to complain about their mission, and in the few battles they watched, they did not find any desertion or surrender under pressure from the besieged Covenant stronghold. This made Shen Chao feel quite speechless.

He wasn't sure if the Covenant infantry who had generously died had a small brain or were really brave, but in either case, the Covenant's ground forces showed quite strong positional warfare capabilities, which of course compared to the UNSC's poor performance.

Even in the case of active offensive and firepower superiority, the UNSC suffered huge casualties in ground warfare. For every Covenant infantry they killed, they would suffer two casualties. This is still a state in which the initiative to attack can control the initiative in the battle.

In the battle where the Covenant ground forces stormed some of the small bases of the UNSC, the battle loss ratio between the two sides was even more terrifying, and it could reach 1:5! When he first saw these numbers, Shen Chao couldn't believe his eyes.

Because in the previous day, the members of the First Brigade, including himself, had already used the sporadic Star Alliance troops to test their combat effectiveness. The weapons of this multi-racial alliance army are good, barely a generation compared to the individual weapons that the expedition is now equipped with.

However, tactically speaking, the tactical level of these Covenant troops is really watery. Although there is also basic firepower coordination and the elite look fierce pig tactics, but in general. It should still be the tactical water of the Japanese army during World War II on earth.

If the UNSC ground forces' technology tree is a little more normal, and it is easy to engage in some ground heavy armored units or simply develop some artillery units with rapid deployment capabilities.

But perhaps centuries of peace had dampened UNSC's aggressiveness, or perhaps for some other reason, the UNSC did not use many heavy weapons in the battles observed by these expeditions.

When the ground forces attack. It mainly relies on light combat vehicles on the ground and the Pelican transport ship in the air as a fire platform to support the infantry attack. This kind of fire support is not enough to suppress the fire network formed by the plasma weapons of the Star Alliance infantry, so the battle loss ratio of the UNSC ground forces is naturally very impressive.

"When we get back, don't forget to remind me to check the list of foreign trade export weapons, we should really export some heavy weapons to these guys......" Custer said casually as he watched the live video of the battle transmitted by another expedition member on the shuttle screen.

In fact, long after they took the first plane. They started the business of reselling dimensional arms. And has already made good gains in multiple planes. In some low-tech planes, they also took advantage of the situation to set up affiliated arms groups.

However, for a long time before, this kind of income was not the mainstream income of the expedition, and it was also resold by various "broken copper and iron" that the expedition team itself could not look down on, such as low-tech armored vehicles and tanks that were abandoned by refitting and abandoning......

As a result, this kind of operational activity has been neglected for a long time. Recently, however, as their activities in several high-tech planes have become more frequent, this kind of income has begun to become worthwhile, and before they arrived, they considered developing into an arms supplier to the UNSC in exchange for talent and other resources.

However, he had apparently forgotten that although they had maintained material procurement lines in several technological planes, they had even set up several trading companies in those planes as cover. But at this stage, they still buy more things and sell less.

"Okay, even if we sell them some high-tech heavy equipment, they still won't be able to deliver this equipment to the battlefield where it's needed most...... Shen Chao was pessimistic about Custer's suggestion.

In his opinion, although there are many slots in the configuration of the weapons and equipment of the current UNSC, it is not unreasonable. The UNSC's fleet is too small for its military system, its ability to carry people and cargo is even lower, and the development of lighter air and land vehicles may be compelled to do so.

But even so, the UNSC's battle table still disappointed him a little, because it was clear that the UNSC, which had been fighting the enemy for 20 years, had not been able to adapt to the rhythm of their enemy's battle, which showed that there must be some structural problems in their command system or scientific research system.

Just when the two of them were discussing how to extract value from UNSC in the future, the tide of battle in another corner of Zhiyuan Star took a huge turn. During the mission, Noble's team encountered the new supercarrier of the Covenant, and watched as a friendly warship was shot down, and the supercarrier began to send a large number of Covenant infantry forces to the ground. After escaping and hiding, Noble's team hid in a nearby cave to study their next steps.

The military AI responsible for contacting and navigating them told them that the UNSC's support fleet was on its way back, but it would take at least 48 hours for the first battle group to get back. It can also be seen from here that the transition technology of the Halo Plane is not the same thing as the instantaneous effect in the BSG series.

Although it seems to be a jump technology, the jump technology of the Halo Plane is more like the kind of jump in the Star Wars series, just a faster-than-light travel technology that does not require the zero element, and it is not an instantaneous effect like forcibly folding the space-time structure of the starting point and the end point together.

Back in the Noble team's perspective, after hearing that it would take two days for their fleet to rush back to support, the whole team was in a very awkward situation. Although they were all Spartan warriors, that didn't mean they were supermen.

They were all familiar with the Covenant's combat mode, and the supercarrier was now in the blind spot of the planetary defense cannon, which meant that they were unlikely to take out the carrier until their own fleet rushed back. And as long as this aircraft carrier condescendingly observes and blocks the area of engagement, no matter how hard the ground forces try, it is impossible to win the next battle with the Star Alliance.

Kate, the technical officer in their squad, tries to convince their captain to embark on a dangerous tactical gamble to try to get close and destroy the carrier that stands in their way without nuclear weapons on hand.

While they were discussing their way out, the members of Team 102 quietly leaned in and left them some "gifts" where Noble had hidden their vehicles. The discussion in the cave continues, but the fate of Noble's team has been quietly changed by the expedition. (To be continued......)

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