Chapter 859: Rookies peck each other
The two interstellar civilizations that are fighting this time are two civilizations that are not very different in strength, and although there are some differences in the number of faster-than-light ships that the two civilizations have, there is no essential difference.
Therefore, the combat units sent by the two civilizations experienced roughly the same encounter at the beginning of the official battle.
The number of ships in these two civilizations is insufficient, and the spaceship capacity is relatively small, and in the first mission, both civilizations can only transport combat personnel as much as possible, and there can be said to be nothing else that can be done.
Therefore, these fighters who were sent to the combat planet did not even have materials to set up tents, except for carrying some of the simplest combat weapons and a little bit of portable combat dry food.
And for these fighters, they want to wait until the next time the spacecraft delivers all the supplies they need for the operation, it will have to wait until three days later.
During these three days, what they needed to consider most was not the operational issue, but the livelihood of their entire combat unit and tens of thousands of people.
Because considering that the new rules of war have just been implemented, all civilizations have no relevant experience, and the scope of an entire combat planet is too extensive, even if the forces invested by both sides have a population of 100 million, all combat units are formed and sent separately, if these troops are dispersed too much, the time of this war will last too long, so in this war, the delivery locations of the troops on both sides are extremely regular.
The forces of the two warring sides were dispersed along the demarcation line between the two sides, and all the troops were deployed in an area of about 100 kilometers on either side of the demarcation line.
As a result, the forces of both sides are scattered along the demarcation line in the shape of a long snake, and the deployment of troops is from the North Pole to the South Pole, with the equator in between.
All the combat forces of the two warring forces will meet each other and fight each other along both ends of this dividing line, so that the war can be started and ended as soon as possible, so that it will not be delayed for too long, so as to affect the interest of all the civilizations watching the battle, including the members of the alliance.
However, although the troops of the warring sides were deliberately placed on both sides of a battle line, it was still quite a distant thing for those fighters who had just descended on this strange world to really enter the state of war.
After all, although the distance between the troops of the two sides can be said to be close at hand in a sense, in fact, most of the troops on the two sides are separated by a distance of several tens of kilometers to two hundred kilometers.
Although this distance is not a distance at all in the era of interstellar civilization, it is too far for the two warring personnel who have to rely on their legs to measure the earth for the first time, so far that even if both sides can't wait to fight, they can't find the existence of enemy troops at all.
Only a very small number of troops on both sides were so close together that they could see each other when they were first dropped.
These belligerents, who are not lucky or unlucky, will move closer to the other side at the first time and try to kill the opposing fighters at the first time.
However, although these fighters have high morale and a super strong desire to go into battle to kill the enemy, after all, the vast majority of these so-called fighters are actually not soldiers in the true sense of the word, and most of them were just ordinary people a few months ago.
It was only after the new rules of war within the alliance were introduced that these people, supported by various reasons, chose to participate in this unique war as combatants, and they were in fact merely militias that had only been trained for a very short time.
Although among the hundreds of millions of combat personnel of the two civilizations, there is a certain proportion of real professional soldiers participating in various combat groups, but to be honest, these professional soldiers are not much better than ordinary people.
They are all soldiers in the era of interstellar civilization, and many of the various training methods and training methods that they are accustomed to in the era of interstellar civilization have long been completely eliminated.
The soldiers in the era of interstellar civilization are all high-tech soldiers in the true sense, and the business skills they need most are not the ability to fight shirtless, physical strength and the like, but the ability to manipulate machines and the use of advanced weapons.
Although these soldiers also need some physical training and discipline training, this is undoubtedly far inferior to the soldiers in the era of cold weapons and hot weapons.
Therefore, even if a very small number of troops on both sides meet the enemy on the opposite side at the first time and see the existence of the other side, very few of them can be put into a combat state at the first time and fight to the death with the opposing troops.
These troops are often separated from each other by a hill or a small forest or something.
These obstacles may seem like nothing, but the problem is that the personnel on both sides of the war are wearing armor! Almost all the combatants wear a set of protective weapons such as chain mail and plate armor, plus the heavy steel weapons in their hands and the heavy combat boots with thin steel plates under their feet, and the weight of each one is about several dozen catties.
Soldier equipment like this, of course, is a very unrealistic thing in the era of real cold weapons.
In fact, not to mention ordinary soldiers, in the era of real cold weapons, a considerable number of generals in the army could not afford to wear similar luxury equipment, as for ordinary soldiers, they can dress warmly, and those who do not wear tattered and uniform clothes are already quite elite troops.
However, the personnel on both sides who are now fighting on this planet are not real fighters in the era of cold weapons after all.
Even if it is a weak and poor interstellar civilization, equipping every soldier with a full set of cold weapons combat armor and the like, this is a trivial matter that is not worth mentioning at all.
If it weren't for the stricter requirements of the rules of war, then I'm afraid that any particle gun, Gauss rifle, laser cannon and other weapons can be equipped with one for everyone, which is obviously not a matter for interstellar civilizations at all.
Therefore, the two warring civilizations with deep pockets are naturally equipped with weapons for their own soldiers according to the upper limit of the rules of war.
Not to mention a set of combat armor for each person, even in combat weapons, the soldiers are all well-equipped, each with a small steel crossbow, the range is full of 50 meters, this power is not less than a pistol, just within the range allowed by the rules of combat.
The melee weapons are also steel swords, alloy swords, and chrome spearheads, and the soldiers are equipped with them when necessary.
If it weren't for the limited space of the spaceship, and the soldiers didn't have much space to transport during the delivery process, the equipment of these soldiers would have to be several times better to be considered normal.
It's just that while these soldiers are well-equipped, the weight of dozens of catties is also sturdy, and under such a heavy burden, it is also on the battlefield where emotions are excited, nervous, excited, and extremely physically exertional, which has too great an impact on the soldiers on both sides of the war.
Carrying dozens of pounds of weight between mountains, hills, woodlands, and rivers where there are no roads at all, and walking even a few miles is undoubtedly a great challenge for the soldiers on both sides.
At first, the soldiers on both sides were able to maintain a formation that was not much different from each other under the maintenance of barely trained discipline, but as the soldiers of the two warring sides got closer and closer, and after walking for a few miles, the soldiers on both sides were completely herding sheep, one by one, scattered, and could not maintain a general formation at all.
Even in the process of approaching each other, because of the continuous increase in consumption, the physical strength became more and more exhausted, and the consumption became more and more large, and they gradually felt that the weight on their bodies was like pressing a mountain, so that they could not even straighten their waists.
In order to lose a little weight on themselves, these soldiers have thrown away all kinds of supplies.
If you have extra weapons, you should quickly throw away a spare weapon, throw away your helmet, throw it directly to the ground when you finish drinking the water in the kettle, throw the military dry food you carry with you on the ground, and remove some parts that don't matter if the armor is too heavy...... When these soldiers from both camps really came together and entered the distance of engagement, how could they still have the majesty of being fully armed before?
At this time, the soldiers who can do it in front of the enemy formation are already quite good soldiers, and some soldiers with poor physique, even if they barely keep up with the formation, will not be able to hold on at all.
At a distance of several miles, there are even a lot of soldiers who are directly tired and paralyzed to the ground, and they don't know that the weapons in their hands are empty, and some soldiers are directly tired and vomit on the halfway, all kinds of unbearable performances make those viewers who watched the live broadcast complain, thinking that these soldiers who participated in the war are too unprofessional to be unprofessional, and they are simply funny on the battlefield!
However, although the first batch of combatants who came into contact with enemy soldiers generally performed poorly, the ratings of the various civilizations that watched the live broadcast were quite not low, and the viewers who were willing to watch the live broadcast grabbed a lot of them, and there were signs of crazy rise in ratings.
This is mostly because the audience of these civilizations has felt an unprecedented "sense of reality" and a huge "sense of involvement" in these combatants.
The various war scenes that I have watched in the past are either the commonplace and tedious battleship bombardment, or the asymmetric warfare in which interstellar weapons ravage the planetary civilization.
This new mode of war displayed by the Meteorite Star Sea Alliance to the outside world this time has made all the interstellar civilization viewers feel very new.
Among the many interstellar civilizations, it is not that there are no cold weapon wars between planetary civilizations that are recorded and broadcast, but those professional cold weapon wars are not very popular.
Because cold weapon warfare in the real sense is generally extremely limited in scale, the time is too long, it is not good-looking, and it is not popular, and the difference between the stages of civilization is too great, so the audience is not interested in watching it.
On the contrary, this new mode of warfare is quite novel for those spectators who are watching the war.
The soldiers in the battle, though generally not very good, made them feel very relatable!
They are all citizens of interstellar civilizations, and they are all industrious guys, these combatants are too similar to the audience, so that the audience is full of substitution, and they feel that if they go to such a battlefield, I am afraid that most of the performance will only be like this, which makes them can't help but want to continue watching.
The soldiers on the battlefield did not know what the viewers were thinking, and after being so embarrassed that they engaged with the enemy soldiers, these soldiers suddenly began a battle with a limited level, but the intensity of the battle was quite high.
Although the citizens of the interstellar civilization who participated in the battle with these resources had never really killed people on the battlefield before, they had seen a lot of similar scenes.
In interstellar civilizations, all kinds of virtual games are extremely common, and all kinds of cruel and bloody scenes are commonplace, and soldiers who volunteer to participate in war are naturally mentally prepared for murderous and bloody things.
The interstellar civilizations that are willing to take huge risks to participate in the war are all volunteers who have their own needs, either for the pursuit of economic interests or for the pursuit of an exciting life, they are all people who put life and death out of the way, and they do not cherish their own lives, and they will naturally not be soft on the enemy.
Therefore, after entering the combat distance, the personnel on both sides of the battle did not have any soft attitude, and in the sound of shouting and killing, the two torrents collided together.
In the distance, there were men on both sides who held bows and crossbows to shoot at each other, and because of the lack of training, many of the crossbow arrows were directly shot empty, but there were still a considerable number of combatants who were directly killed by a single arrow, and the battlefield was immediately stained with blood, and many were killed and wounded.
In such a cold-weapon battlefield, although both regiments have a perfect command system for officers and soldiers, no one can take care of these at this moment, after all, the training time is too short, the soldiers do not recognize the generals, and the generals do not command the troops, and everyone has to fight together.
Some combatants found suitable cover, hid directly to the side, and constantly fired crossbow arrows at the enemy. Some personnel slashed together with the opponent's personnel with long swords, and the entire battlefield was chaotic, and there were scenes of fighting each other everywhere.
However, killing people is also a strength job, cold weapon combat is particularly huge for the consumption of physical strength, many participants even if they are bloody and killing, they can't kill a few people at all, the sword is not chopped blunt, just chop cramps, and some soldiers are so tired that they can't move, and they open their mouths to pant wildly.
The entire battlefield is full of scenes of rookies pecking at each other.