Fifty hours after landing, all the survivors of the 17th Separate Company at Kekha Point began to clear up the traces and set off as an army.

Platoon B, which incorporated the remnants of Platoon C and a machine-gun squad of the Fireplatoon, took the lead, with Platoon A in charge of the rear of the hall and the company headquarters in the center, advancing to the base of the Mobius Expedition marked on the tactical map by covering the leap forward.

They don't expect it to be too peaceful. Most of Schill's area is wilderness and the Gobi Desert, making it difficult to make effective covert marches, and the probability of Tadarin spotting them is extremely high. Maybe he didn't take two steps and was directly countered by Tadarin, and then it will be up to him to see who runs faster.

The battle did come as expected, but instead of the quick-reflex force they had expected with the Immortals and Archons, it was still a small group of Zealots and Stalkers who had attacked them before. Their individual combat effectiveness is indeed good, but it is still a little unsightly to face a formed company. Several attacks were quickly repulsed by alert units.

Douglas believed that this was the calm before the storm, and that they should have been sent out to keep in constant contact with the company to make sure they wouldn't lose their scout units. Lal had some other speculations, thinking that perhaps it was because the other landing areas had successfully obtained a second batch of reinforcements and began to advance towards the base, attracting the main force of Tadarin, so in order to prevent their company from exploiting the loopholes during this period, they sent a raiding team to delay time.

Regardless, these squads are still a nuisance that needs to be addressed. Although the Reaper unit is highly mobile, after all, its main weapon is two Gauss pistols and D8 bombs mainly used against buildings, which is okay against fanatics, but not enough to deal with Stalkers. Neither the normal Rifleman nor the Marauder Grenadier have the same mobility to intercept the Stalker and the Zealot that can escape with a flash.

Platoon A tried to use ambush tactics against these squads during this time, and was successful, defeating three Tadarin squads who were lured to the door, defeating 6 Zealots and killing 1 of them - in general, in a fight with the Spirit, the defeat and the kill are counted separately, the defeat means that they successfully triggered the emergency teleportation device of the Spirit's unit, and the kill means that the Spirit's failure to teleport back and the death of the Spirit's death on the battlefield - all three Pursuers were blown to pieces by the Raiders.

It is said that a certain Class 76 medic who did not want to be named went to Platoon A to get a body part of the Astral Zealot after learning the news.

However, this tactic obviously could not be effective many times, and after that, those Tadarin squads became more and more cautious, and many ambushes failed to have too good effect. And they gradually realized that in addition to constantly testing their strength, this group of Tadarin was also depleting their supplies and morale. And what they need to gamble on now is whether they will run out of their last bullet before they reach the Mobus Expedition base.

This strengthened Ral's belief that the Tadarin had done so precisely because their main forces had been relocated elsewhere, and their own units were not enough to fight a battle that annihilated the entire company, so they had to choose this strategy.

But it's not a way to go on like this, Tadarin's tactics are indeed effective, they have a little less supplies on hand, and if they continue to consume like this, when they get to the base in Morbius, I'm afraid they won't even be able to get the materials for the siege.

It was not clear what the company thought of Ral, for him, he could only ask his men to save as much ammunition as possible, and to keep the enemy closer before fighting, after all, the fanatic's weapons could not shoot at them at long range. As for the stalkers...... They can only allow this rather annoying harassing unit to be attacked for the time being, and they can only attack from a distance anyway, and they dare not close the distance between each other under the threat of raiders.

Seventy hours after landing, the 17th Independent Company completed the day's scheduled distance and began to camp and rest. With all the wilderness as far as their eyes could see, they had nothing to pick and choose from, so they found a fairly flat and open place and began to build a camp.

The technical sergeant was still trying to find a way to get in touch with his superiors, but he was still busy. And now the Independence Company has a problem - they can't eat.

Sill's harsh natural environment and atmospheric conditions make it necessary for them to stay in power armor or other artificial environments at all times, otherwise it is difficult for them to survive in this environment with a purely human body. Because of this, they couldn't open their masks, otherwise the artificial environment inside the power armor would be destroyed by air pressure in an instant.

The original plan was for the next batch of reinforcements to arrive within 24 hours of landing, and to set up a forward base in a maximum of 48 hours. Generally speaking, the self-circulation system built into the power armor is enough for them to last until that time. But at the moment they don't have the next batch of reinforcements at all, not only do they have no SCVs, but they also don't have any resources to use to build supply stations, let alone find a place to sit down and enjoy a "delicious" synthetic food meal.

Now everyone is almost at the limit. Some people bring some snacks in their storage boxes, but they don't dare to lift their masks and stuff them into their mouths. 、

Ral, who found this problem, didn't have a good solution, so he could only run to the company headquarters to ask. But there was nothing too good for the company, so they could only tell them to endure a little longer, at least until they arrived at the Mobius base.

Lal said that they would not last long, they would have to maintain a high level of vigilance in the war zone, and at the same time they had to concentrate on dealing with Tadarin's attack, and the energy that the self-circulation system could provide would not increase but decrease, and his men would only get weaker and weaker, and in the end they might be so weak that they couldn't even turn on the power armor.

Douglas asked him to hold out as long as he could, and it was better to fall in front of the Mobius base than to fall halfway.

It was obvious that there was no way for the company, and Lal could only go back and inform his three squad leaders, asking them to hold out as long as possible, at least until they arrived at the Mobius base.

But disaster did not come their way, and they were attacked by Tadarin during the night. Platoon B's machine-gun squad was rushed up by a group of fanatics braving a hail of bullets, and Platoon A seemed to have damaged some of its men. In the absence of supplies, the independent company could only begin to disassemble the power armor of the dead and seriously wounded, using these parts to repair the power armor of others. This had a serious impact on the morale of the Independence Company.

It would have been fine if there were just a few scattered power armor in the position, but if it was replaced by a pile of dumped human corpses, some of which had been cut off, and some of which were quickly eroded and weathered by Schill's wind and sand. The company had to ask them to dig a pit and throw the corpses in, but the effects of those corpses continued to affect some of them until the end of the war......

(Brother, I was going to refute you, but I searched for a long time, and it was indeed not power armor, I was stupid...... Ahem, if there is a mistake, I will correct it, I have already fixed the previous power armor there, thank you for pointing out the mistake, and sorry for misleading other readers. Any questions about the setting are welcome to be pointed out in the future. ）