If Fred's camouflage can achieve the effect he says, then he will be able to forge a new batch of priority strike coordinates and send them back to the fleet, and ask for information about the location and actions of the other Covenant Scouts on the surface.

Optimistically, this will not only channel the Covenant's artillery fire to the no-man's land on the planet for a few hours, but also provide them with an opportunity to wipe out all the Covenant reconnaissance forces on the ground in one fell swoop.

And if they can fool the reconnaissance teams of the other Star Alliances, they can even hope to gain half a day to a day to continue the rescue operation without significant interference from the Star Alliance. That's why they're here.

Through Guò's tracking of the Covenant's communication signals, they tracked down one of the most frequently communicated Star Covenant reconnaissance teams on the surface to the outside world, and if they were lucky enough, they would quickly find a command center in the city and take the enemy by surprise.

Fred and the scouts of Team 102 walked at the front of the group to carefully explore the way, while the rest of Team 102 split into two groups and searched nearby towns from different directions.

This area was once a thriving area on the planet, and the overall size of the city was roughly the size of the main plane's magic capital, and they were able to find the approximate location of the enemy through intermittent communication tracking signals.

However, due to the complex terrain of the city, the final precise location still needs to be found by them through on-the-spot reconnaissance. Soon, they had a harvest at an intersection where Fred spotted 2 high-level elites with stealth devices patrolling in front of a building where needless to say, the Covenant ground reconnaissance unit they were tracking was in.

The buildings in the neighborhood appear to be in good condition, without the large craters and collapsed buildings on the streets of some other cities. This shows that this area was not affected during the previous battle for the city. However, if you look closely, you can still see the traces of war around you, such as a burning fire at the intersection not far away.

The limbs and clothing at the edge of the fire indicate that it was a fire made up of human corpses. And it looks very new. Apparently, the Covenant's scouting team killed all the human civilians hiding in the nearby area before they could move in.

Seeing this scene, the people of Team 102 didn't say anything, after all, most of them had seen a much more brutal scene than this. Their guide, Fred, felt a wave of anger rise in his chest, but to be honest, he wasn't too affected, after all, he had seen too many similar scenes of human slaughter.

After confirming the approximate location of their target. They used a small reconnaissance drone to check it, and sure enough, a large number of heat sources were found on the top roof of this building and the floors below, and it was initially confirmed that there were more than 20 elites here, as well as many soldiers of other races, all of whom were highly mobile troops.

After learning the number and location of the enemy, a group of people quickly discussed the strategy through the guò communication module. Most of Team 102 was sent by their captain to other nearby structures to provide fire support and outside observation.

Lu Feng himself chose to break through the ground with Fred, and then slowly searched the entire building. Aim to besiege the Covenant Scouts with as little movement as possible. To make sure nothing went wrong, they also called the shuttle back to the surface, and unloaded and expanded one of its open space-time door stabilizers two blocks away.

This space-time door is directly connected to Space Station Zero. They called in a small group of reinforcements to make sure that no enemy would be spared. They called in a team of mechs and several manned spherical drones.

In previous battles, the expedition team had confirmed that these two types of equipment were the best weapons against the Covenant's combatants, and that they could effectively restrain the Covenant's ground forces, both at close and distance, and in difficult terrain conditions.

Moreover, according to their previous battle table with the Covenant, the expedition's engineering team also modified these humanoid mechs and spherical drones on a large scale, so that their weapons can more effectively break through the Covenant's defensive equipment, and their armor can more effectively resist the Covenant's weapon strikes.

The various squads that have fought against the Covenant have also summed up the best tactics against the Covenant. It was also sent to every member of the expedition who participated in the operation through the guò internal communication network. Now, all the expedition members involved in the operation have a systematic understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the Covenant forces.

Although they did not have the same experience of fighting the Covenant as the Spartan warriors. The lingua franca of the Covenant will not be used. However, they have more advanced weapons and logistical support, and have more tactical options at their disposal than ONI intelligence, which is largely dependent on captured Spartan warriors.

Team 102, a team that was active on the surface of Zhiyuan Star in the first stage, naturally knew how to deal with the Star Alliance. Based on the successful experience they had summed up before, Lu Feng did not ask for the support of the brigade in the rear, let alone call in heavy weapons such as hammerhead chariots.

The hammerhead tank, although the firepower and protection are good. Very useful when attacking in the field. However, because the vehicle is too noisy and not very flexible when it is running, it is easy to alarm the Covenant ground forces that have not yet discovered them, so it is not very suitable for urban warfare.

Their goal in this battle is to silently cut down the command structure of the Covenant's reconnaissance team on the surface of the Reach Star as much as possible, during this decapitation operation. Attributes like fast and quiet are far more important than powerful firepower and heavy protection.

Transferring a few hammerhead chariots or requesting a large group of drones to come over can defeat the enemy in an instant without any suspense, but when chasing down the remnants of the enemy, these chariots will not be able to catch up with the Covenant's flying infantry in the criss-crossing urban transportation network, and the unmanned drone swarms are destined to use their dense firepower to smash all the equipment they need to capture, along with which Covenant troops they have.

The Atlas mecha does not have this problem, although it is inferior to the hammerhead chariot in terms of firepower and protection, but with a small number of remote-controlled spherical drones, their combat effectiveness in the face of the Star Alliance troops far exceeds that of the hammerhead chariot.

With drone suppression on top and Atlas mecha's cannon fire network and high-speed charge, this kind of cooperation can always quickly tear apart the defense line of the Star Alliance troops and achieve the expected results. Of course, this is when someone is doing it.

If it is an unmanned auto-follow mode, the combat efficiency of these big guys is also quite low, and may even be lower than that of the vehicle. The reason why the expedition team preferred to use the Atlas mechs in automatic mode in the previous operations against the Covenant was not because of its good combat effectiveness, but because it was basically a ship-grabbing battle at that time.

There was not enough space on the Covenant's ships to provide emergency ejection escape opportunities for mech pilots, so in order to avoid casualties, they used the inefficient automatic mode at that time.

There is no such problem in the city right now, so the reinforcements called by Team 102 are made up of a team of manned Atlas mechs and a squadron of manned remote-controlled spherical drones.

When reinforcements arrived, they quickly deployed spherical drones and mechs to ensure that they could effectively surround the enemy and that the big guys could remain hidden until the battle began. Once the battle begins, it is also necessary to be able to reach the front line in a short time.

While they were nervously deliberating and setting up the siege network, on the rooftop of the building occupied by the Covenant reconnaissance force two blocks away, the elite commander of the team was also discussing the latest battle situation with his men.

The sky was gray nearby, and the sun was about to set, which was supposed to be a good thing for a reconnaissance force like them, but the elite senior commander who was standing on the rooftop and looking down on the city felt an abnormal palpitation, as if there was some danger that could not be seen.

There is no doubt that the Star Alliance won a complete victory in the Battle of Zhiyuan. Humanity was beaten by them and was powerless, and once it was in the hands of the Supreme Council, the pilgrimage was about to begin...... These are the arguments of the Covenant's propaganda department.

However, as the commander of the reconnaissance unit that has been fighting against humans on the front line all the year round, the first to enter the ground battlefield, the last to withdraw, and the commander who is particularly well-informed, this high-level elite in front of him is very puzzled by the recent arrival of the battle situation.

Since the outbreak of the Battle of Zhiyuan, they have received a lot of strange battle reports, and in the early stage of the battle, there was a whole team of elite Star Alliance reconnaissance troops disappeared silently, which can be explained by the overwhelming numerical superiority of the ground forces of the UNSC, but he who is experienced in fighting with humans does not think so.

Although it is impossible for the reconnaissance force sent by the Star Alliance to face the human army on the ground, it will not be silent, and half of the signal for help will be wiped out in batches. Unless the ground is full of elite human troops like Spartan warriors.

But as in previous battles, the percentage of Spartan warriors they could see on the battlefield was very, very small. If humans have the ability to mass-produce Spartan warriors, then in the battle for this habitable planet, which is also very rich by the standards of the Star Alliance, they should go all out to attack the main landing force of the Star Alliance, instead of concentrating on the less threatening reconnaissance forces.

Later, after the battle officially began, the visions became more and more numerous, not only many highly combat-effective Star Covenant troops mysteriously disappeared on the surface, but also the human war refugees and disabled UNSC troops who should have appeared in large numbers also disappeared one by one.

Especially almost a week ago, the vision reached its peak. The Covenant's left-behind fleet was actually driven out of this planetary system by humans, and when they came back, there were almost no living people on the surface! (To be continued......)

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The next chapter is expected to be completed around the early hours of the morning