Eighty-three hours after landing, as the weakened 17th Independent Company approached the Mobius Expeditionary Base, they finally encountered the first friendly forces except their troops.

The 14th squad under the B platoon that opened the road ahead was responsible for setting up a sentry guard in front of the main force and searching for approaching enemy units. Approaching the expedition base, they were confronted by an unidentified human force. It's unclear who it is, but the humans on this planet are either the A1 Marines, the Black Rose's Pirate Regiment, or Renault's Rangers, or the Morbius Expedition, all of which are allies.

Squad 14 sent two marines with relatively good physical strength to make contact, and the others were ready to respond behind them as a vigilance group. However, shortly after the two sides made contact, the excited voices of two Marines were heard on the radio - they were confronted by Renault's Marines.

This news was quickly reported to the main forces of the 17th Separate Company in the rear, and everyone was shocked by the news.

The reconnaissance team of the Renault landing force was quickly picked up by the 14th squad and returned to the main force of the 17th Independent Company, and after a series of inquiries, it was confirmed that it was indeed the landing force of Renault's Rangers, and then Douglas expressed his desire to be able to join their troops, and then indicated the current predicament of the independent company.

The reconnaissance team said they had to return to their camp's radio range before reporting up. Douglas agreed, offering to come with them to their radio range and wait for a reply from their superiors.

Soon, the 17th Independent Company quickly set out in formation, and under the guidance of this reconnaissance team, began to approach the camp of Renault's rangers.

On the way, they learned from the scout team that the Rangers' landing force was in the same predicament. However, unlike the independent company, they successfully completed their set mission objectives, but 27 hours after landing, they were attacked by the main force of the Tadarin fast reaction force, and in the absence of heavy equipment, they barely repelled the first wave of the offensive with a loss of more than 40% of their personnel, and then according to the plan's requirements for each unit to survive if it encounters the main force of the Tadarin fast reaction force, they were unable to get in touch with their superiors. Send the Reaper to contact the defense forces to assemble and set out for the Morbius base, where it is only possible to rendezvous with friendly forces.

They were also harassed by Tadarin Fanatics and Stalkers along the way, but their forces still had several Vulture Chariots and Fire Chariots as fast mobile forces that could effectively deal with the harassment of the lightly armed squads, so the impact was not particularly severe.

After learning the news, Lal was a little confused: "What level of establishment does your vehicle unit belong to?" ”

"Generally speaking, it is a company-level establishment, and we have a lightly armored platoon, 2 APCs, 2 Vicious Fire and 2 Vultures, and some companies have 4 Vicious Fire or 4 Vultures."

After detailed questioning, Lal learned the exact strength of the Renault Marine Corps. A landing is also a conventional reinforcement company. But strengthening the company formation was very different from the empire. A reinforced company of Reynolds' Ranger generally consisted of 5 platoons, 3 infantry platoons, a vehicle platoon and a fire platoon.

The infantry platoon consists of two infantry detachments, one of which is 12-15 people, including riflemen, grenadiers, medics and scouts. According to the Ranger Combat Manual RF2504-9, issued by Huberian last year, these infantry detachments are required to ensure that they have sufficient capacity to take on independent combat missions. After landing, they can quickly assemble and have sufficient self-protection ability in the face of possible threats.

The vehicle platoon is equipped with different vehicles according to the actual mission, and when heavy firepower is required and the combat environment allows for heavy units, it will have 1 siege tank and 2 APCs, and under normal circumstances, it will be 2 APCs and 4 light vehicles such as Vicious Fire and Vultures, and it may also be replaced by a mecha platoon with 4 Goliath armed robots.

The fire platoon also needs to be configured according to the actual mission needs, generally like the 17th independent company, equipped with 2 machine gun squads and 2 mortar squads, and sometimes the machine gun squad may be replaced by an anti-tank platoon equipped with anti-tank missiles or an anti-aircraft platoon equipped with anti-aircraft missiles.

The company itself has an engineering detachment under its command and 8 SCVs responsible for field engineering and field maintenance, which can be regarded as solving their urgent needs, and also gives Lal a new understanding of Renault's Marine Corps.

“…… How well prepared are you? Wouldn't that be too many? ”

"Well, almost. It may be a little larger than the size of the Imperial Army you're using, but it's not much worse overall. The captain of the patrol team thought for a moment and replied, "The more troublesome thing is that the vehicle platoon, which is often destroyed by the opposite orbital defense facilities because of its large size before landing. This time I was lucky, and I managed to leave a few Vicious Fire and Vultures behind, but the APC was knocked out......"

This actually has something to do with the condition of the rangers themselves. Since Renault was never able to expand his fleet, he had to wander around with only one ship anyway. And no matter how much a combat cruiser is manned, the volume of the battle cruiser is there, and he can no longer stuff a brigade and a half of troops into this ship. You'd have to let the Marines sleep in the aisles.

In desperation, Renault and Matt could only be forced to delegate combat missions that originally belonged to the platoon level or even the company level, let the grassroots infantry squad undertake these tasks, and then decentralize the battalion level to the company and platoon level, and so on. But taking on these tasks requires the ability to do so, and they have to stuff more units into the grassroots units, so that the Rangers, although they only have the strength of a brigade, are actually almost equal to the strength of a light division of the Empire.

The advantage of this is that although Renault only dropped a reinforced company like A1 and Black Rose at one time, the combat effectiveness of such a reinforced company is theoretically comparable to that of a marine battalion of A1. Of course, this is only theoretical, and in practice it is not only the establishment that affects the combat effectiveness of the two sides, but also the quality of the troops, combat experience, equipment level, command ability, and so on of both sides will play a very important role. But at least for now, Reynolds' Ranger reform of the Marines has succeeded in rescuing the Marines trapped in the Hill Wilderness.