One Thousand One Hundred and Eighty-One First Line of Defense

After a few seconds, the beam dissipated, and Ye Han couldn't help but exhale a breath of foul air. Just as he was about to speak, the beam fell from the sky again and landed in the southern part of New Guinea.

Wherever the laser covered, it turned into a purgatory of fire. The remaining insects hid in the sturdy buildings and survived. As long as they did not leave the buildings and were not directly exposed to the laser, they would not be in danger of life.

Even if their minds were controlled by aliens, seeking benefits and avoiding harm was still rooted in the instincts of all insects, driving them to hide honestly.

The military certainly would not ignore this. At the same time as the laser fell, the cannons of the Southeast Fleet also roared loudly, and the shells flew straight to the buildings on the island, destroying the hiding places of the insects one by one.

Some insects were in a hurry and escaped from the buildings where they were hiding, and tragically became barbecued meat. The remaining insects were hesitating when the fatal shells hit the buildings.

Although the caliber of the naval guns is not large, one or two shots cannot bring down modern reinforced concrete buildings, but the fleet has plenty of shells, it is nothing more than a few more shots.

If it really doesn't work, there is also a Lishan in the sky, which can throw anything down, and even the underground bunkers can't withstand it.

After repeating this several times, the entire southern New Guinea has almost returned to the primitive wilderness. Even if the insect people are lucky enough to escape the scorching of the laser, they will be buried by the collapsed buildings. No matter how they hide, they will die.

A few minutes later, the super cannon ended the air strike, and then the shelling of the Southeast Fleet also stopped.

From the super cannon firing to the cessation of the shelling, it took only five minutes, but this period of time was a nightmare for southern New Guinea, known as the Black Five Minutes.

This is not an exaggeration. Within five minutes, one-fifth of the area of ​​New Guinea Island was covered by lasers, large areas of jungles were carbonized and burned, all the creatures on the ground died, and the forest fire caused by the laser was burning fiercely, and black smoke went straight to the sky.

From the satellite, we can see that the forest fire is spreading outside the airstrike zone. If the fire is not controlled, it will soon develop into an ecological disaster that affects the entire island.

Beidu immediately instructed the Southeast Fleet to land in New Guinea, but the landing force’s mission was not to fight, but to open up a fire isolation zone on the island to prevent the fire from spreading to other directions of New Guinea Island... Forest fires can be divided into three types: surface fires, crown fires, and underground fires. The fires left by the attack belong to crown fires, which are very difficult to extinguish. The best way is to open up isolation zones based on favorable terrain such as roads and rivers.

The first ground attack of the super cannon was very successful. The New Guinea Campaign was definitely a hearty victory. Many people never even thought that the super cannon could be used in this way, let alone that the island attack could be fought in this way.

But no one expected that

the super cannon left such a big sequelae.

In order to put out the forest fire as quickly as possible, the landing troops adopted the tactics of landing at multiple points and advancing in parallel, and entered New Guinea from several directions at the same time, and engaged in firefighting operations at the fastest speed. The landing troops were all professional combat troops, and firefighting was not professional. Fortunately, opening up isolation belts was not a technical job. In just half a day, the landing troops opened up isolation belts of hundreds of kilometers.

In addition, the landing troops also took advantage of the favorable terrain of mountains and rivers to put out hundreds of kilometers of fire lines.

Afterwards, the landing troops found hundreds of charred insect corpses in the burned jungle. According to the military's speculation, most of the insects died under the joint stranglehold of super cannons and fleets. Only a small number of insects escaped into the primitive jungle, with a number of about a few hundred, and no more than a thousand at most.

These insects must be hidden dangers, but they are too few in number and have no organization, and they pose no threat to the subsequent landing operations.

If they hide honestly, then it will be good for everyone, and the military will not have time to take care of them for a while. If they are not law-abiding and dare to jump out to make trouble, both the Southeast Fleet and the Lishan will be able to give a devastating blow at the first time.

On the afternoon of January 2, 231, the sky over New Guinea was covered with dark clouds, and a heavy rain came as expected, completely extinguishing the spreading fire line. The landing troops were finally freed and began to clear out the remaining insects and occupy important nodes on the island.

At this point, New Guinea has been controlled by the military, and it is only a matter of time before it is completely naturalized.

The actions in the direction of Kalidan and the Philippines have also made decisive progress, but Beidu has no plans to immigrate to these islands for the time being, and all islands are under military control.

According to the plan, the engineering troops will build a number of military fortresses at key locations on each island to resist the invasion of aliens.

After everything was settled, Ye Han unexpectedly discovered that the military map had changed Kalidan to the ancient name of Porozhou, the Philippine Islands to Luzon, and New Guinea to "Beiyang Island".

Beiyang Island is located in the north of Oceania, and this name is quite appropriate.

According to Beidu's plan, Porozhou, Luzon, Beiyang Island and nearby islands will become Beidu's first line of defense against aliens. The military also plans to drag the aliens on these islands and not give them the opportunity to approach the mainland.

For this reason, in addition to the first and second landing troops, the country has carried out another round of pre-war mobilization, and millions of officers and soldiers have been drawn south in batches. While completely controlling the three islands, the island-based troops are also required to settle and cultivate on the spot and be self-sufficient.

Beidu also plans to recruit 800,000 to 1 million new soldiers in batches to fill the vacancies left by the drawn personnel and avoid domestic strength.

By then, the total strength of the military will exceed 6 million!

Moreover, it is not only the largest army, but also the quality of soldiers, fighting will, fighting equipment, training level and actual combat effectiveness are all first-class. It is no exaggeration to say that this army will become the mainstay of the fight against aliens.

This is only the active troops. If all the reserve troops are mobilized, tens of millions of them will not be able to stop them.

But there is no point in doing so, because the country does not have the strength to arm so many troops!

It is not that the country has a weak foundation, nor that the North has no determination, but that the present is different from the past. In the past, mobilizing troops meant a uniform and a rifle, plus the necessary supplies, and the cost of raising a soldier was very low.

For example, in the 1970s, the total size of the People's Liberation Army once reached a record 670,000. When the insect plague was the most serious, the total number of troops mobilized nationwide was no less than 10 million.

But what about now? The entire army is equipped with more than 100,000 sets of power armor. Without a set of power armor, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness is, it is embarrassed to call itself a first-line force. The equipment level of the second-line troops is far better than the elite troops before the disaster. Even the least welcome bottom-tier troops must at least be equipped with enough large-caliber rifles.

This level of equipment is unprecedented, and the combat effectiveness of the troops is far beyond the past, so simply expanding the number is meaningless.

Moreover, infantry is nothing, the real expensive troops are the space fleet. The cost of building a space battleship is not a problem to arm a few infantry divisions.