A roar that the human ear cannot capture.

The Legion, which was carrying a 90-meter-long orbit, activated the electromagnetic catapult at the same time.

The accelerated reciprocator propelled the drop capsule loaded with a reconnaissance type of more than 10 tons and a full squad of support support "legions", crossed a distance of 90 meters in the blink of an eye, reached the other end of the track, and reached the maximum speed while discharging the locking device. The drop pod, which was accelerated to 100 meters per second, ignited an external bundle booster rocket as it rose into the air, and the streamlined container dragged the flames to the top of the air, propelled by four rockets. A few minutes later, the drop pod climbed to the set height, the burned booster rocket detached from the shell, and the four red light tail flames that gradually moved away from the dark red pulled out a perfect cross-shaped light in the night sky. Leaving the beautiful Korolev crossover behind, the drop pod split in the air. The scattered "legions" in the air did not wait for the planet's gravity to capture them again, and they spread their disposable gliders and glided through the air in the bone-chilling wind.

Sliding from the biting cold wind to the snowy ground, the "legions" did not hesitate to pounce on targets that were ignorant of the approaching crisis.

On the question of whether or not to use the "corps" as the core combat force of the "vaulting horse" operation, the General Staff Headquarters is actually quite entangled.

After all, they are professional officers, and no matter how war-mad they are, they are still very resistant to handing over the stage for their talents to a group of iron lumps. Not to mention the scavenging behavior of the "Legion" chasing corpses, opening skulls, and scanning brain tissue on the battlefield like scavengers, regardless of position or ethnic origin, intelligent beings of sound minds cannot help but resent that behavior, and the elves are no different.

But—

Putting a promising technical means is not used, and it is not in line with the efficiency principle that the elves admire.

Since this is the case, it is better to simply conduct a real combat test, not only to encircle, suppress and suppress operations, but also to test the various methods of using the "legion." Regardless of the final result, at least you can harvest a lot of actual combat data that is usually difficult to obtain, find various potential problems, and start to improve and solve them as soon as possible.

Finally, the key factor that prompted the General Staff to agree to the 500th Special Technical Battalion to be put into actual combat is the biggest advantage of unmanned combat aircraft - no need to care about casualties.

Not only is the machine itself not afraid of death, the army does not need to bear the losses and public opinion pressure caused by the death of soldiers, and the unmanned combat machine is not flesh and blood, as long as a few parts are modified, it can quickly adapt to various battlefields, which is impossible for living life to do.

Let's say, endure an extremely brutal initial acceleration into the sky, and then the air is thin, Glide through the night sky with extremely low temperatures, fly through the howling wind and snow and the stretches of cliffs and mountains, advance dozens of kilometers in the turbulence without moonlight and stars to refer to, and even the left and right up and down can not be distinguished, search for hidden good targets in the vast snowfield, quickly land on knee-deep snow and launch an attack at the first time, and finally can be quickly deployed without the help of traditional air transportation, and quickly strike at various emergencies and flexible enemy forces.

Even a battle-hardened elite of special warfare can hardly do any of the above, let alone connect everything together and complete it all at once.

These are "impossible tasks" for flesh and blood, but the "Legion" can be faithfully carried out to the letter, and they are completed with high quality.

They are true killing machines, born for the purpose of killing and destroying, and exist only to carry out that purpose.

Guided by radar signals from afloat observation vessels, it took only 15 minutes for the first "legions" to fly 90 kilometers from their forward base in Aix-les-Bains to the central target area, Bonnevaux.

Originally a small town in the eastern Alps, the town grew to the size of a small mountain town with a population of more than 3,000 at its peak, thanks to the rise of the local logging industry. But with the outbreak of war, there was a massive exodus of young people, and after Charlemagne's demise, only about 200 residents remained in the town, as many of the residents moved out.

The core figure of the "Freikorps", codenamed "The Man in the High Castle", chose this place because of its unique geographical advantages. From the air, it is easy to see that the town is a lowland surrounded by mountains, surrounded by steep mountains and a river on the north side, and there are only three paths leading from the city to the outside world, all of which zigzag through mountain passes that can easily be blocked. It is precisely because of this easy to defend and difficult to attack geography that the town is a natural fortress that is difficult to conquer without the support of heavy weapons. Even if the heavy weapons are managed to be brought up, the other side can rely on the terrain to buy time for the important people to evacuate. In addition, the special geographical environment not only makes it difficult to attract attention, but also makes it easy for outsiders to be exposed, and it is difficult for spies of the defense army or other guerrilla forces to infiltrate. There is no better place to be a place to be the command structure of the guerrillas. It was not until a month before the official launch of Operation "Vaulting" that the radio reconnaissance battalion of the Brandenburg forces intercepted the telegrams from the same place from several directions, and by reversing the coordinates of several possible receiving stations, it was finally confirmed that all of them were sent from the town of Bonavo. At that time, when the Wehrmacht's operation to disrupt the guerrilla forces to store winter supplies was in full swing, the place where such intensive telecommunications operations were carried out was probably the headquarters of the "Freikorps". You must know that among the guerrillas in this area, they are the only ones who have radio equipment and operators.

Coincidentally, just as the radio reconnaissance battalion had made some gains, the "Prince Eugen" brigade captured several partisans belonging to the "Freedom Corps" in a battle, and this group of tough guys mixed with a soft-willed man who was not strong enough to defect, with the "help" of the nine-tailed cat, electric chairs, waterboarding beds, and various temptations, this person defected. Although the information was passed on to the detachments by an indefinite number of traffic officers, judging from the date on which the information was written and arrived, as well as the distance and direction of the traffic officers, it is highly likely that the high guerrilla command was in the vicinity of Bonavo. In addition, an intelligence piece was accidentally intercepted from an inside line planted in Serres, and on the basis of the parties involved and the content of the meeting, analysts from the Directorate of Military Intelligence confirmed that the command or senior leadership of the Freikorps was indeed in Bonavo.

For a while, all the clues pointed to the town of Bonavo, and the core leadership of the "Free Legion" seemed to have become a turtle in an urn, just waiting for the sharp-eared trappers to come to collect the net. However, while the command organization of the "vaulting horse" operation campaign was greatly encouraged, a very real problem was also put on the table: according to the forecast of the meteorological department, the cold air mass is moving southward and will soon enter the snowfall period. The ground forces have already replaced their motor vehicles with snow equipment, and the mountain infantry has also prepared equipment for winter mountain activities such as sleds, ski goggles, and winter clothing. In the event of a snowstorm or snow, it is very problematic for the transport planes to take off and land, and there is no difference between paratroopers parachuting in such bad weather and committing suicide, not to mention that in order to achieve suddenness, in addition to the paratroopers' airborne landing, in order to prevent the roar of the engines from prematurely exposing the operational targets, gliders are also used to carry personnel and equipment for the plane's landing. However, the air currents in the mountains are relatively complicated, and even if you use a glider on a snowy night, you have to face the risk of a sudden stall crash at any time (in the pre-war rehearsal, there was a glider carrying a lieutenant and 9 paratroopers that suddenly stalled and fell without warning, and the crew did not survive, and there was also a nose that flipped when landing, and most of the crew members were seriously injured), and the glider was used to land in the rain of bullets on the night of the wind and snow...... This is a hundred postures for the guerrillas to fall to death and a hundred ways to give away heads, and the infantry will cross the mountains and mountains while the rebels are out of breath with laughter, and they will end up in it?

It was precisely because of the difficulties faced by the airborne operations that the above had the intention of conducting an actual combat test of the "corps" and simply let the "corps" fire the first shot of the campaign.

The General Staff of the Defense Forces has once again brought into full play its rigorous paranoia, and they have carefully scrutinized and rehearsed every link of the "vaulting" operation, envisioned every contingency situation, and worked out countermeasures for this purpose. But even so, when the battle really started, there were still two unexpected unexpected situations.

First, the performance of the "Legion" was greatly beyond their expectations, and the most optimistic predictions did not expect this group of iron lumps to perform so well.

The second is that the target was indeed in the town of Bonavo, but it happened to be hiding in a place unknown to the Defence Forces.

These two completely unexpected elements will greatly affect the outcome of the battle in the following battles.