Chapter 87 Lilith, strong! Invincible!
Based on the analysis of early reconnaissance images taken by long-range drones, the combat staff at the brigade headquarters finally determined that there were about two battalions of orbital paratroopers, a light multi-legged tank company, and There is also an HCP platoon with 4 'Zealots'.
From a organizational point of view, this is a standard Star Dragon Empire orbital paratrooper regiment.
Different from the large number of brigade-level combat teams under the Royal Army of the Star Dragon Empire, the Royal Navy Orbital Paratroopers, which are mainly composed of infantry, light armor and a small amount of HCP, still retain more traditional regiment-level combat units.
In planetary landing operations, orbital paratroopers are basically launched in regiments.
Judging from the organization of both warring parties, the temporary 83rd Combined Brigade seems to have a greater advantage.
Because under normal circumstances, a federal army standard combined brigade that does not strengthen personnel and equipment should have 9 battalion-level combat units under its jurisdiction.
This includes 4 combined battalions, 1 self-propelled artillery, 1 air defense battalion, 1 reconnaissance battalion, 1 combat support battalion, and 1 logistics support battalion.
But in fact, after the initial orbital strike and the breakout operations along the way, the combined brigade led by Lieutenant Colonel Dallas was extremely short of personnel.
The shortage of personnel is actually mainly reflected in the four combined battalions serving as front-line troops.
After a series of battles and the collection of remnant soldiers, the temporary 83rd synthetic brigade has only assembled two synthetic battalions.
It is equivalent to the most important front-line unit, directly reduced by 50%.
Although these two combined battalions each still retain the establishment of two multi-legged combat vehicle companies, whether it is the 'Lantara modified' light multi-legged combat vehicle or the 'Mammoth' heavy multi-legged combat vehicle Cars are actually lacking in quantity.
This also leads to the fact that the number of troops that go directly into the city to grind meat is actually similar between the Federation and the Empire.
So in the initial combat plan, the brigade staff wanted to take advantage of the suddenness of the first round of long-range fire strikes to directly knock out the regiment headquarters of the imperial troops in Blue Bay.
But they searched for a long time in the photos taken by the drone, but could not find the suspected regimental headquarters.
Although several places where antennas were set up and suspected to be communication nodes were found, no targets with regimental characteristics were found near these nodes.
Finally, the targets of long-range fire strikes can only be changed to other key targets including communication nodes and temporary residences.
At the end of the first round of calibration firing, the fire command center at the brigade headquarters evaluated the impact of the strike based on the footage returned by the drone, and notified the long-range fire strike unit to adjust the shooting at Zhu Yuan.
In addition to the two trucks remaining in the outer preparation area, as well as a 'Mongoose 4' and a motorized infantry squad responsible for security, Amber has already commanded the rest of the combat forces to enter the city. And through a sneak attack, they killed three imperial squads that didn't have time to shrink back.
As for why they could accurately find the locations of these three teams, and even ambush them on their only way.
It mainly relies on Lilith’s performance.
Although she was worried that this artificial intelligence would raise its tail to the sky, Amber still had to admit that Lilith had indeed made great contributions.
As a psychic agent, Amber has direct access to the city management system.
So after entering the city, Amber directly drove the communication relay vehicle, which was used as a temporary command vehicle, to a civilian communication base station and completed the docking.
Immediately afterwards, after Amber used her authority to enter the city management system, Lilith, who used the communication relay vehicle as an auxiliary computing power support, not only quickly completed the modeling of the entire city through a large number of urban planning drawings stored in the Blue Bay Town Management Center .
At the same time, it has also connected to all the cameras in the city, whether official or private, as long as they are connected to the Internet, they cannot escape Lilith's 'claws'.
Using the images returned by these cameras, Lilith directly marked the locations of all discovered Imperial squads on the 3D model of the city, and kept them updated in real time. With the support of such almost one-way transparent battlefield information, Amber quickly caught three unlucky Imperial squads.
Three anti-vehicle teams, following Amber's instructions, ambush them in advance on their only path and successfully completed the ambush.
At present, according to the information fed back by Lilith, the empire's orbital paratroopers quickly completed the contraction after being hit by the first round of fire, and used the buildings and bridges in the city to hide some of their active forces.
Although immediately afterwards, the self-propelled artillery battalion and two rocket launchers carried out several rounds of long-range fire strikes, successfully destroying several temporary communication nodes of the imperial troops and smashing the rest in the temporary base. of troops.
But Amber conservatively estimated that at least 60% of the troops who had dispersed and hid in the city were still there.
Especially the four fanatics were unscathed.
In Amber's view, in an urban combat environment, these four HCPs, which have stronger mobility and firepower than traditional units, will be the biggest obstacle to the offensive forces.
"Lilith, can you confirm the weapon configuration of the four HCPs?"
"No, Master's cameras are cheap, and they can't be seen clearly at a slight distance."
" Forget it, I will check again later when I have an opportunity. Is the remote connection ready?"
Looking at the main force that has begun to advance on the tactical map, Amber also plans to cooperate with them in launching an attack from the northeast.
“That’s it, Master! I have written a temporary operating system that is compatible with the vehicle-mounted terminal of the communication relay vehicle. Now I can maintain monitoring of the battlefield without direct connection, but the data refresh may be It has a certain impact.”
"It doesn't matter. With this information, you are already cheating."
Hearing Lilith's reply, Amber pulled off the cable connected to the car terminal and left the temporary command station. car.
Several mobile infantrymen immediately brought the transport box of the 'Breaker 2' exoskeleton and assisted him in quickly changing.
Because of the upcoming battle, Amber will not be able to hide from behind and command.
After all, there are only a dozen or so remnant soldiers who have survived with him until now. These soldiers who have experienced brutal battles can be regarded as the only 'soldiers from hundreds of battles' left in his hands.
In terms of the intensity of the battles they had experienced alone, they had already exceeded the soldiers that the brigade headquarters had added to him - most of these soldiers were remnants collected on the road, and their morale was not high, and their combat effectiveness was not strong.
Amber can understand it. Under the current circumstances, it would be good to add more troops to him.
It is impossible for the brigade headquarters to dismantle its complete troops to replenish them for him.
So in order to ensure the overall combat effectiveness, Amber could only split these original "veterans" who had experience in fighting HCP into several mobile infantry squads as the backbone.
Even so, Amber is actually not too reassured, so he plans to play in person.
"Attention everyone, prepare to fight!"
"Cheer up! It's a street fighting hell ahead of you!"
Sorry, I forgot to post on time
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(End of this chapter)