One Thousand Four Hundred and Seventy-Nine Xidan Port

The storm that lasted for several days finally stopped. After waiting for a sunny day, He Xiangdong stretched his almost moldy body and slowly walked out of the dormitory. The scorching sun shone on his dark face, making him instinctively turn his head to avoid it.

This place is located in the tropics. Although the sun has not risen for a long time, it is very strong.

When his eyes adapted to the strong light outside, he looked into the distance and a modern port came into his sight.

This is the new base of the Buha Island garrison, located in Xidan Port on the west coast of Kalidan, one of the most important strategic nodes in Beidu.

Xidan Port was originally just a simple fishing port. Except for the hydrological conditions, it was almost useless. The reason why it has developed to this point today is that Beidu has placed the orbital elevator here.

From then on, Xidan Port was out of control. Whether it was supplies sent from the mainland or goods transported from space, they had to be transferred through Xidan Port. The small fishing port became the largest port in Kalidan and also the most important port in strategic location, without a doubt!

Since Kalidan is located in the tropics and is the front line against aliens, the military has stationed two brigades here to ensure the safety of the orbital elevator!

These two brigades are not second-line troops newly established after the outbreak of the war, but real front-line combat troops. There are hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles alone, and there are all kinds of aircraft, missiles, and cannons. Even a batch of power armor is equipped.

But it is only a batch.

In the past few years, there have indeed been calls to expand the power armor force, and even equip the entire army with power armor.

But the military soon realized that although power armor is good, it is not a panacea, and it is not realistic to fully equip power armor.

First of all, there is the cost issue. Even in the wartime system today, the cost of power armor is still high, and this alone limits the scale of power armor equipment.

Secondly, power armor is just a light weapon platform. To put it bluntly, this thing is just an enhanced version of infantry. Although it is mobile and flexible, it is still a huge gap compared with traditional land combat units and cannot replace tanks and armored vehicles.

Secondly, Beidu's army is the largest in the world. Equipping each soldier with a rifle alone costs an astronomical amount of money, not to mention equipping the entire army. Even if only one percent of the troops are equipped, it will cost millions.

Let alone Beidu alone, even if all the countries in the world unite, it will take more than ten or twenty years to produce so many power armors.

Taking all factors into consideration,

there are very few pure power armored troops in the combat sequence of various countries. Only the orbital airborne troops of the space force, the airborne troops of the air force and some elite troops of the army have this treatment. Other troops can be equipped with a small amount of power armor and can be called elite divisions.

In contrast, power exoskeletons are both economical and affordable, and are equipped on a large scale by combat troops of various countries, including the defenders of Xidan Port.

In He Xiangdong's sight, there is a group of engineers wearing power exoskeletons. They lift heavy boxes like strongmen and throw them away without much effort.

Such scenes are too common in Xidan Port. Others are used to it and no one pays attention to these human-shaped cranes.

He Xiangdong turned his eyes to the east. Under the dazzling sunlight, the rail elevator went straight to the sky. Just then, a space train entered the station. A ray of sunlight was reflected by the car body, leaving a faint spot in He Xiangdong's eyes.

He instinctively squinted his eyes, and his eyes on the cable kept extending upward, but he could not see the end of the cable... Except for the gifted perverts, no one can see the low-orbit dock outside the atmosphere with the naked eye, unless the sunlight happens to shine at the right angle!

A distant whistle suddenly came from the direction of the dock. He Xiangdong turned around immediately, and his eyes froze immediately-outside the port, a scarred giant ship was slowly approaching the port under the drive of a tugboat.

In the port, countless people and vehicles rushed to the dock, and there were more than a dozen ambulances with flashing alarm lights.

He Xiangdong's good mood disappeared, and he looked at the dock with a solemn expression.

He wanted to go over and take a look, but the task assigned to him by his superiors was to guard the port. His duty was to prevent the swarm of insects from attacking, not to rescue the ships at the port.

There are many professionals at the dock. No matter what problems occur with the ships docked at the port, there are special people responsible. If he, a half-baked person, goes there, he might be a hindrance.

The giant ship finally docked at the dock, and the side slowly opened, and soon it was placed on the dock, becoming a bridge in and out of the cabin.

The staff who rushed to the dock immediately rushed into the cabin, and the ambulance drove directly in. It was only a dozen or twenty seconds, and the first ambulance drove out of the roll-on/roll-off wheel, speeding all the way with a shrill alarm, and drove straight out of the port.

The camp of the port defense force is on the side of the port exit, guarding the main road into the port. The ambulance that left drove by not far away. He Xiangdong silently looked at the ambulance in the distance, stunned.

"Captain, what's wrong?" Deputy Captain Zhao Guoyu asked curiously.

He Xiangdong sighed: "This is the seventeenth ship. The aliens have been too rampant recently, right? Where are our warships?"

Several large ships dock at Xidan Port every day. Although there are naval escorts, since He Xiangdong arrived here, none of the large ships docked at the port are intact.

According to the base command, these ships were attacked by aliens at sea.

He Xiangdong knew that the aliens had been restless recently, but he had never heard of aliens attacking passing ships at sea, and he couldn't figure out how the aliens attacked.

Until he got the detailed information of the attack, he knew that the main force of the attack was the flying servants.

They usually hide near the route, and quietly follow the passing ships after discovering them. After gathering enough servants, some of them attack the escorting warships to attract firepower, and the other part takes the opportunity to attack the ro-ro ships.

The aliens' tactics are quite appropriate, but it's a pity that the power of the silk light is a bit low. It's not so easy to hit a 10,000-ton giant ship, and there are self-defense weapons on the ro-ro ships. So far, only one giant ship has been sunk by aliens.

That was the first giant ship attacked by aliens. In addition to supplies, there were more than a thousand military dependents, hundreds of technicians and their families on the giant ship, which was a heavy loss.

Since then, the military has learned from the pain and greatly strengthened the escort force. At the same time, it has also made necessary modifications to the giant ships. Since then, no giant ship has been sunk by aliens.

However, the alien attacks have never stopped, and they have become more and more severe. The giant ships docked at the port are more serious than one another. If this continues, it won't be long before the second giant ship will sink.

What are the warships doing?