Chapter 258 The Mission of the Special Operations Group
At 2 o'clock in the morning, Ptolemaic City was much quieter than before.
There are no citizens on the street who usually enjoy the ‘night life’, and every household has closed its doors and windows and drawn its curtains.
Only vehicles carrying heavily armed patrol soldiers passing by on the streets from time to time prove that there are still human activities in this city.
After the imperial remnants retreated to the city, in addition to using a large number of ground early warning terminals and HCP's front control capabilities to closely defend the city's periphery to prevent the coalition forces from infiltrating, the main temporary camp actually only occupied a small area. Some areas.
But even so, the citizens in the city are still in danger.
Guns are banned in the Lubion Galaxy, which leaves the people in the city with no weapons to resist.
In other words, they are accustomed to living in peaceful times, and they simply cannot muster the courage to fight against the imperial troops.
In addition, the remnants of the empire 'collected' a large number of civilian vehicles to patrol the city, and took control of the municipal center to gain surveillance authority throughout the city, so the 'resistance' of a small number of brave citizens also quickly was bloody suppressed.
Although these imperial soldiers would be on good terms with the citizens under normal circumstances, as soon as they discovered activities that might threaten them, they would not hold back at all in suppressing them.
In this case, a spontaneous curfew occurred across the city.
So Atlas’ special operations team, after controlling Franklin and others in the alley for a while, found no one else passing by.
Taking advantage of this period of time, the six young men who were controlled have completed their individual interrogations one by one.
And Baninger and the others quickly figured out the identities of these young people - they were the 'aspiring young people' who were least afraid of death in the city.
Young people are full of energy.
When facing the invasion of an enemy country, these young people often make some aggressive, radical, dangerous but brave actions.
Especially Franklin Abraham, the leader of this group of young people.
Two generations of this young man, who has been in the military for two generations and is very thoughtful and capable, came to work as an intern in the Senate of the Autonomous Government of the Lubion System before he officially graduated.
Now, the ‘Federal Republican Party’, which has become one of the two major parties in the federation, has become an ‘associate member’.
Only after he graduates and enters the Senate, he will officially become a federal Republican.
This status also makes him a kind of 'youth leader' in his circle of friends.
As early as when the Imperial Army first occupied Ptolemaic City, Franklin mobilized many young people of his own age to harass the Imperial Army's temporary camps like urban guerrillas.
If you don’t have weapons, just use the most traditional Molotov cocktails and homemade smoke bombs.
This simple and unpretentious fighting style did create a lot of trouble for the imperial occupying forces.
After the remnants of the empire retreated to Ptolemaic City again, Franklin and the others became bolder now that they knew that the federal troops were coming back, and even planned to attack the patrols and seize weapons. .
But no matter what, the overall combat effectiveness of the imperial soldiers on the opposite side is not comparable to that of civilians.
That’s why Franklin and the others were chased away like mice after being discovered today.
"Are you a special operations team?! Infiltrated into the city for reconnaissance? So are the garrison going to attack soon?"
After a period of observation, Franklin It was also confirmed that these heavily armed unknown persons were not members of the imperial forces.
Having a Sheniu personality, he immediately began to get close to everyone in the teaching team.
"Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask, and don't pry around."
The vanguard responded coldly, and the young man squatted down by the wall again obediently.
The people in the special operations team naturally didn't bother to talk to him, because they were still worried about how to deal with these young people.
Obviously these people are citizens of the city. In other words, these taxpayers can also be regarded as Atlas's employers, so they certainly cannot be killed directly as enemies.
But Baninger and the others did not dare to let them go. Who knows if any of these young people are mentally ill. If their whereabouts were exposed, it would be over.
It is not unheard of in history that an entire team was destroyed due to a moment of weakness.
"If you ask me, find a place to lock them up temporarily and throw some food and water, and then let them out after the large army enters the city."
"They need to eat. If they drink water and go to the toilet, can't they tie their hands and feet? There is still a risk."
"Leave two people to guard it?"
"Say no, originally. There are not enough manpower, so two more guards are assigned, which will be uncomfortable in case of another emergency.”
The members of the special operations team were exchanging words with each other in the communication channel.
Although there was an emergency plan, they really didn't expect to be so unlucky that they encountered it just after leaving the sewer.
“Forget it, let’s handle it according to the emergency plan. These people cannot be released before the operation is over. Let’s find a safe spot first, temporarily detain them, and then continue the mission. Anyway, the coalition forces will be there in two days. We are about to launch an attack.”
Baninger ended the discussion and decided to lead the team to carry out the mission as originally planned.
Then, he thought of something, walked up to Franklin and squatted down.
"You said you have been harassing the imperial troops during this time?" "Yes, sir."
"This is a very dangerous thing. Aren't you afraid of death? "
"My father was an officer in the garrison. He was killed on the first day of the Imperial Army's attack."
Banninger was stunned for a moment. He really didn't expect to get it. One such answer.
He sighed inconspicuously and continued to ask:
"Then you have dealt with the imperial troops in the city. Have you noticed the ones with antenna array masts these days? Facility? "
"Sir, you should be referring to the communication node, right? My father taught me this before."
Franklin's reaction was quick and he immediately understood what Baninger meant. .
“Yes, it is a communication node. It can be a temporary node or a communication relay vehicle.”
"Of course I've seen it, I can even point it out on the map for you."
The young man subconsciously moved his hands, and then realized that he was still tied up with a restraint belt.
“You see, there is nothing I can do to point it out to you like this.”
Baninger stared at the young man’s eyes for a moment, and then looked towards Another player behind Franklin and tilted his head.
The latter immediately stepped forward, took out a dagger and loosened Franklin's bonds.
"Be honest and don't think about making small moves."
"Don't worry~"
Franklin moved his arms that were tied a little stiffly, and then skillfully checked by the members of the special operations team. He took out a personal terminal and a paper map from the shoulder bag he passed.
Soon, he began to mark the city map based on the records on his personal terminal.
“The communication relay vehicles of the imperial troops are basically concentrated near their temporary camps. Inside the city, they all use temporarily built communication relay nodes. These nodes are basically distributed in mid-rise buildings. ”
As Franklin spoke, he drew a five-pointed star on the map.
“This is our current location, a little more than a kilometer away from here. There is a seven-story building at the street entrance, and there is a communication node on the roof. I saw the building when we passed by before. The antenna exposed on the top.
And this may also be a rest stop for the patrol. It is often seen that the patrolling Imperial soldiers will go in to rest for a while after arriving here.
There will be more. It's here."
Although Franklin is not a professional, and the areas they have 'explored' these days are not many, they still marked six locations on the map that may be communication nodes.
This is enough for Baninger and the others.
The task of the special operations team this time, in addition to infiltrating Ptolemaic City and detecting the movements of the imperial troops, also has another equally important task.
That is to find a brigade-level communication node and transmit a clone of Lilith into it.
Of course, they only knew that the data disk they carried contained some kind of electronic warfare virus, but they did not know that it actually contained Lilith's clone.
Due to the remnants of the imperial troops retreating to Ptolemaic City, strict communication encryption and control were adopted, especially on the front line, where radio discipline and confidentiality regulations were strictly enforced, like a monolith.
Although Lilith's electronic warfare virus attack ability is very strong, the premise is that the opponent has a place where you can attack.
But the problem now is that the imperial army on the opposite side would rather 'cut off an arm' to reduce its communication efficiency than give you a chance to penetrate
So the only way is to use physics The method of access is to send Lilith into their intranet.
When members of the special operations team released several sparrow-sized flapping-wing bionic reconnaissance drones, they confirmed that the surrounding environment was normal.
The whole group was divided into two, and one group escorted Franklin and the others to the safe house - a long-closed facade of their home in the city provided by a garrison officer.
The other group went to the nearest Imperial Army communication node marked by Franklin to carry out Lilith's 'implantation' work.
Soon, this group of people found the seven-story building that Franklin was talking about and saw a mast antenna exposed on the top of the building.
After analyzing its characteristics through the exoskeleton's built-in database, it was determined that this was indeed a field communication node - but the remnants of the empire placed it on the roof of the building.
Due to the complex environment in the city and the presence of a large number of civilians, if the coalition forces want to attack such key targets, they must conduct reconnaissance to determine their precise coordinates.
But the problem is that after conventional high-altitude drones enter the air defense circle of the remaining imperial soldiers, they will be hit by high-energy lasers within a short time.
Among the two RQ220s on Atlas's side, another one suffered a mechanical failure due to previous violent use.
This resulted in the huge coalition front line having to rely on the only remaining RQ220 for battlefield surveillance to prevent the imperial army from launching a large-scale counterattack like last time.
And the interference against the synthetic aperture radar of reconnaissance satellites still exists, so the entire coalition force was unable to conduct effective reconnaissance of the Ptolemaic city for a while.
"Let's try this communication node first, York, fly the drone up to see the situation!"
"Roger, Lieutenant."
(End of this chapter)