23. People who are contrary to the times (9)

Just as dogs and wolves share the same ancestry, so too do the human-wolf forces and the Church's Cleanser troops, as well as similarities in style and tactics that are hard to ignore.

The Wolf Force was formed as a response to the constant flow of resistance, boycotts, and terror in the early stages of Jarforheim's inception. The reason for the establishment of the Purifiers was to suppress all kinds of heresy with backgrounds—such as progressive aristocrats, scholars with court status, and so on. These people are either difficult to reach by conventional means, or they require a lot of time to negotiate and compromise, during which time knowledge that should not be present is likely to have spread. In order to circumvent unnecessary procedures, avoid wasting time, and more importantly, to deter the public, forces such as the Purge came into being. Just like the ruthless and cruel style of the human wolf troops, the rumors that there is no grass everywhere the purgeers go also have the effect of stopping children from crying at night.

What happens when two armies, also known for their brutality, collide? Many people will be curious about it, attracted by this dragon fight, and even bet on it.

Who is better than a lion or a tiger?

Which is more fierce Tyrannosaurus rex or Tyrannosaurus rex?

Dog and wolf fight, who will win?

There are often this kind of Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong-style questions, specific to wolves and dogs, but there is no suspense.

Wolves are much stronger than dogs.

Physique, physical strength, bite force - wolves are stronger than dogs, according to relevant records, wolves will attack and kill even dogs much larger than themselves, and a single wolf dares to provoke the dogs, and ignore the dogs surrounding them, dragging the killed dogs away. Basically, there is no possibility for dogs to defeat wild wolves, and wolves know this, so they will provoke the dogs as if nothing happened.

Dogs can't beat wolves.

It will not be easy for the Purges to overwhelm the man-wolf forces.

There are three reasons for this.

First, targeted training.

Although the Wolf Force and the Purgeers are highly similar in their purpose, they were originally both troops that ravaged the weak and spread fear. However, in practice, the latter two have evolved quite differently. Similar to "bravely challenge an enemy who is strong in numbers and armed" - this kind of seemingly noble task and training will not appear on the side of the Purge, after all, if that kind of opponent appears, the Church will directly mobilize the national force to encircle and suppress it, and will not let the Purgeer take over.

The Man-Wolf Force is different, and as Yalforheim's overseas interests expand, conflicts outside the country's borders will also require a few smaller elite units to deal with. As a result, the man-wolf unit also added an additional item to its business, "purging overseas enemies", from the bandits in the deep mountains and old forests, the natives in the dense forests and swamps, the rioting laborers in the Katyn Forest labor camp, and the scheming foreign counterparts - after experiencing the experience of various opponents and environments, the man-wolf troops sorted out and summarized all kinds of successful and failed experiences into their own training and actual combat application.

On the one hand, we are standing still, and on the other hand, we are constantly improving, and of course the gap will widen up in terms of combat effectiveness, experience, and tactical application. Not to mention that before this battle, the man-wolf unit had been repeatedly rehearsed in the exercise ground in Brandenburg, which completely simulated the Lüders sewers, and even conducted actual combat exercises no less than ten times. The degree of adaptation to the environment and the level of combat effectiveness of the two sides are not at all the same level;

Second, intelligence support.

The Lüdes sewers could have been considered the home of Jarforheim, and they knew the location of every stone here, and as long as they were equipped with surveillance and communication equipment, they could grasp the battlefield information in real time. Even though the adversary uses various techniques and means to monitor the sewers and direct the movement of troops. But it is doubtful how effective these means can be in the face of interference particles and chaotic war conditions, and even if they can barely sustain it, the speed of information transmission lags far behind that of the adversary. The message that was so hard to get to the front is outdated, and this kind of thing is a serious blow to morale in itself.

Third, equipment.

In the special terrain of sewers, both warring sides use a mix of rapid-fire firearms and close-quarters equipment. In this underground labyrinthine environment, skirmishes and ambushes are the most common modes of engagement. Two teams of men and horses face each other across a corner or passage, and the two groups collide at the turn of the road - this is endless. At this time, who reacts faster and strikes first, and who can spill more bullets in a short period of time, is directly related to life and death.

In terms of automatic weapons, the defense forces have an overwhelming advantage, teaching those trial submachine guns to pull the bolt to return the dud bullet when firing three or five shots, so as to obtain a cooldown time to prevent the chamber from exploding. The human wolf unit is a general-purpose machine robbery and assault rifle, which can steadily crush the cleaners in terms of rate of fire and power. As long as the two sides encounter, the first reaction must be to pull the trigger to the end and not let go, in the face of the tearing machine's rate of fire of 1,000 rounds per minute, the cleaners have almost no chance.

One of the conditions for the selection of the Purges is a strong physique, which is further strengthened in the training process, and finally in the process of transformation, the Church greatly strengthens the physical fitness of the Purges through reinforcement techniques and medicines. In addition, the Church also used the control system to control the consciousness of the Purges, so that these strong warriors were not afraid of death, and at the same time, they were given a high degree of synergy, and the plural consciousness shared in small groups made the Purges more synergistic than the veterans of many battles.

In terms of hand-to-hand combat alone, the Cleansers may be more powerful than the physically-enhanced Chimera, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the church's version of an organism weapon. Under normal circumstances, it is necessary to maintain the combat distance and suppress it with dense barrage as much as possible, but if it is an open field, the special environment of the sewer makes it difficult to implement the long-range suppression tactics thoroughly. What's worse is that in addition to the regular equipment, the church also distributes a large number of explosive packs that can be worn on the body of the purges. Each explosives bag was stuffed with 5 kilograms of nitrocellulose, and various metal fragments were also included in the middle, such as screws, nuts, gears, clockwork, and hands removed from steel ball bearings, iron nails, broken steel bars, and scrapped clocks...... Anyway, there are all kinds of hardware, and some explosives bags are even stuffed with spoons, forks, and faucets!

This explosive package uses the same pull fuse as the wooden handle grenade, as long as the pull ring is pulled, the friction plate will ignite and ignite the fuse, and it will explode after 3~5 seconds, and all kinds of metal shotguns will break everything within the killing range into a sieve. In practice, in the face of the barrage cast by the man-wolf troops, the Cleaner will often pull down the fuse and jump out, using the flash and storm generated by the explosion to obstruct the opponent's vision and win the opportunity for his companions to advance. Sometimes, the Cleaners would even set off in small groups, detonating one detonator after another to close the distance between them and the enemy formation, and eventually managed to rush into the enemy array and die with the enemy.

If it were a regular army, it would be difficult to encounter such a crazy opponent, facing a madman who did not care about the death of his comrades or himself, and threw himself to death like a flying insect in flames. Even veterans who have been honed into killing machines by the brutality of war can have great psychological shock and stress, and it is not surprising that the weak-willed or inexperienced recruits will collapse on the spot, and even if they succeed in surviving, it is doubtful that these soldiers will be able to return to the battlefield. Therefore, if a rabid dog like the Cleaners is encountered, the commanders of the regular army will never send troops to the sewers, preferring to blast the entire sewers or seal all the entrances and exits with cement.

However, the Cleaners are confronted by a force of man-wolves, just as wolves are aware of the weakness of dogs, and will bite the back of the dog's neck or throat every time they lower their mouths. Biting off the throat and spine, no matter how ferocious the rabid dog is, it is just a wolf's mouth food (judging from some foreign video materials about wolves and dogs, even large dogs rarely beat wolves, and when encountering large wolves such as North American gray wolves, there is no chance of winning.) Some wolves are so strong that they can hold the Pitbull in their mouths and break the chain that ties the dog.)

The physical fitness of a single soldier in the human wolf army may not be comparable to that of a biological weapon like the Purge, but this is not a competition, who stipulates that it must be a fair competition? Who stipulates that MDS cannot be used?

In addition to those models installed in regular troops, there is also an MDS for assault and suppression that is specially customized for human wolf troops. Unlike the MDS, which is used by the regular army as an auxiliary and mobile vitality platform for armored forces, this type of MDS is closer to the original prototype of the MDS, the power exoskeleton. Its appearance has been simplified to the extreme, and from a distance it looks almost like a knight wearing plate armor. As an MDS for suppressive warfare, it does not require mobility and versatility, but only provides protection and additional power for soldiers to support operations. You must know infrared night vision devices, radio communication devices, weapons and ammunition - this outfit weighs 3 or 40 kilograms at least, and if you wear additional body armor or even explosion-proof clothing, you don't have to count on combat at all, and you can exhaust a soldier to half death just by running a kilometer. But with the suppressive MDS, the man-wolf unit can carry a variety of equipment and equipment to encircle and intercept the target, and it is also fully protected, as long as it is not a suicide attack at zero distance, they will not suffer any damage.

With these three reasons, the Purges would not have been able to win at all, or even have a chance to retreat. It is their only fate to become the mouth of a hungry wolf, and to rot a little bit in the dark sewers.

That being said.

The purpose of the Cleaners was not to defeat the Cleaners in the first place, and the real mission of the Witches was not to eliminate the Cleaners.

They are all coming for someone, no matter how many casualties there are, no matter how many results there are, as long as that person is not secured in the end, all losses and gains are meaningless.

The one who ensures the trump card is the winner -

"Those pious bastards, despicable and shameless cowards, how dare you play such tricks with me! I must find them, I will solve it with my own hands!"

Standing beside the piles of corpses of the Cleaners, Caspar roared loudly.