Chapter 387: Go and invite Ellenita!
"Will, how is the situation?"
"I don't know, the sergeant major and the others are negotiating in front."
Huddled behind a multi-legged tank. Will quickly answered his companion's questions, and then continued to stick out half of his head to look at the situation in front of him.
Right now, the sergeant major of his platoon is negotiating with several armed personnel wearing white combat exoskeletons in front.
After these days of exposure, Will already knows that these guys painted in white are the armed forces of the Atlas Group.
At this moment, the reason why Will appears here with the troops is also very simple. They are here to carry out "armed begging".
The heavy-duty synthetic battalion where Will is located is one of the few battalion-level units with a relatively complete structure on the planet Pyla IV. In addition, many remaining imperial soldiers were gathered during the battle. , this will be close to three battalions in terms of troop strength.
But the problem is that most of the remaining soldiers gathered are combat troops, so this puts the original combat support company of this battalion under full pressure.
Whether it is food, drinking water, medicine, ammunition and other supplies, they are almost exhausted.
After a long period of fierce fighting with the federal army, almost all the materials in the war zone where the combined battalion is located have been plundered.
Seeing that if things continued like this, the troops would not only run out of ammunition and vehicles, but also be unable to provide basic living supplies, the military director of this battalion set his sights on Art, who was extremely discerning on the battlefield. Ras refugee camp.
These days, he has witnessed with his own eyes that airdrop boxes are constantly falling from the sky, and the empire's troops and refugees are constantly 'defecting' there, and the size of the camp is getting bigger and bigger.
Under such circumstances, the entire camp has remained in an orderly state, and there has been no humanitarian crisis, which is enough to show that this company called Atlas is indeed good at providing material support. There is something unique about it.
"Will, you said Sergeant Major and the others can get food. I mean can they borrow supplies?"
"How do I know this?" Will shook his head, and after a moment he said as if he had thought of something:
"But I heard from others that the battalion commander and the others had the idea of 'courtesy first, then attack'. If negotiations If it fails, we may consider using force to rob it. After all, we have close to three battalions of troops, and after these days of observation, the Atlas camp only has one combined battalion of guards.”
Power. Before I finished speaking, I saw the sergeant major who was negotiating in front hurried to the back, pulled the communications soldier aside and said something.
Soon, the sound of heavy vehicles came from behind. Will looked back and saw a 'Revenant' main battle tank driving up.
Immediately afterwards, a figure jumped out of the tank and walked towards the negotiation location.
And Will also recognized this very familiar figure from behind. This was their battalion commander.
"Even the battalion commander is here, we have a good show to watch."
"I don't care if it is a good show or not, just let me have a good meal quickly."< br>
Will's comrade shook his neck lazily, although this action was not so easy to do when wearing a combat exoskeleton and installing a neck brace.
“This battle is getting weirder and weirder. I originally thought that they would die here if they were abandoned by the navy. I thought about recruiting a few more federal guys to back them up before they died. But who would have thought that they would be raped by a private family? The company collapsed, and I heard that even the fleet in orbit was crippled.”
Will's comrades were still chattering about the news they had learned in the past two days, and Will's mind began to think about what happened during this time.
After the conflict broke out between Atlas and the Federation, they, the remnants of the empire, came to watch the fight between tigers and tigers from afar.
Although the main area where the fighting took place was not the Atlas refugee camp on their side, the Atlas troops here also had small-scale conflicts with the federal troops.
Then one day, the federal troops became confused as if they suddenly lost their backbone, and quickly retreated to nowhere.
Under this situation, Atlas’ camp began a large-scale ‘infrastructure’ project.
A large number of 'spider-type' robots came from unknown sources, causing the camp area to expand day by day at a speed visible to the naked eye, and at the same time, the scale and level were also increasing.
From the initial outpost + board room model, it has become the current large camp with composite armored walls and protective weapons on the outside. Judging from the takeoffs and landings of aerospace transport planes, 80% of the camp has also built a high-standard field airport.
While Will was thinking about this information in his mind, he was also thinking about where he would end up in the future. At the end of the day, the location of the negotiation suddenly changed.
Eight white-painted HCPs suddenly came to the negotiation area. From the red crosses and LOGOs on their shoulder armors, it was easy to tell that they were aircraft of the Atlas Armed Forces.
Will and his battalion commander kept looking up to the sky, as if something would fall from the clouds.
Immediately afterwards, the highest level full-frequency broadcast suddenly came from the communication channel.
After the initial silence, the voice of the commander of the Empire's heavy synthetic battalion suddenly sounded:
"Attention to all personnel of the 177th Mixed Synthetic Battalion, considering the current supply situation of the troops , in order to avoid more unnecessary sacrifices and non-combat attrition, I decided to lead my troops to surrender to the Atlas Combat Force."
Everyone, including Will, was shocked. Several people around Will A comrade-in-arms even exclaimed, no one could have imagined that things would turn out like this.
And the imperial battalion commander's words were not over yet.
“Please rest assured that this is my decision alone. All future problems will be borne by me alone. If you don’t believe it, you can record this paragraph and keep it as evidence.”
Will was dumbfounded. He had thought of many situations, and he had also thought about fighting with Atlas's combat troops. He even thought that they would be blown up by Atlas's combat troops like the federal army.
But he never expected that the military chiefs would surrender directly after a few negotiations.
"John. I don't know what your current situation is like. Anyway, it seems that I have no hope of getting a military medal."
Will said to himself in a daze. This young man from the countryside who once promised to carry back a sack of military medals when gathering at the military station seemed to be getting further and further away from his goal.
However, from a certain perspective, maybe this is a good thing? ——
“Because the number of refugees and imperial troops has increased recently, the scale of our ten refugee camps on Para IV has been expanding rapidly, and the daily consumption of supplies has also increased exponentially. Ascending.
Although the Endless has established a 'sky-to-earth round-trip passage' near Camp 5, which has solved the problem of material transportation in this largest camp and freed up our transportation capacity to support other camps, the most important thing now is The problem is that we may be carrying a little less supplies.
Judging from the current consumption situation, the fleet can only carry enough supplies for another 40 days.”
In the main conference room of the Infinity, the decision-makers including Amber, Isabel, and Cliffs were all gathered here, and Randall, who was temporarily responsible for the fleet's logistics coordination, was reporting on the recent situation.
“The Federation has temporarily stopped the transportation of materials to this planet. This has resulted in only our own transport fleet still operating. Even if the transport fleet is spinning continuously, we can only barely maintain troops and camps. Operation."
Everyone in the conference room fell into silence. Obviously, no one expected that after gaining an advantage in the conflict with the Federation, logistics would become a problem that is currently difficult to solve.
And Amber also spoke at this time and added:
"It is not actually a question of whether there is enough money now. Judging from the current income of the group, even if we include our The material consumption and personnel maintenance costs of Para Galaxy, the group is still in a profitable state. Don't be surprised, this is true, our company is actually quite profitable"
Amber pressed her hands to silence everyone's voices, and continued:
"What we are currently facing is purely a transportation capacity problem, and this is just the beginning. As the consumption of materials on this planet exceeds production, +Transportation speed, this pressure will only increase."
"Why do I feel that the Federation is deliberately waiting for us to be embarrassed?"
Cliffs said suddenly.
"You are right, the Federation is waiting for us to make a fool of ourselves." Amber snapped her fingers and expressed approval of Cleeves' question.
"Don't forget, we are here to carry out humanitarian assistance tasks. If we can't even guarantee the supply of materials, how can we talk about 'humanitarian assistance'?"
"The Federation can really do it. The two The lieutenant general has always been in our hands, and now he does such a thing. This will make us more uncomfortable than directly conflicting with us."
Isabel also shook her head. She said, her words also revealed a hint of anxiety, but she quickly thought of something, and then looked up at Amber.
"How about we ask Ellenita for help?"
(End of this chapter)