Chapter 399: Van Vleet Is Shocked

Using a large number of technical weapons to fight is indeed a waste of money.

But compared to the high pensions of the Atlas Private Military Company, this amount of money is nothing.

In the previous conflict with the federal army, the Atlas ground forces still suffered certain losses, which were even greater than the previous battle losses on Rubion V.

Not only was the elite teaching team "annihilated", causing Amber to almost run away on the battlefield, but the 5th Medium Composite Battalion, which was coordinating the decapitation, also suffered a lot of personnel and vehicle losses.

Even several outposts engaged in defensive battles suffered casualties under the attack of the federal army.

These casualties are certainly related to the objective factor of "the enemy is more and we are less", but according to post-war statistics, more of it is because the Roma soldiers are reluctant to use technical weapons.

Even Lilith, who is always monitoring everything, doesn't know when the Roma group in Atlas began to have a kind of "the company is my home, and making money and development depends on everyone" idea.

Most of these Roma from the Thousand Star Empire believe that with extremely high salaries and benefits, the company's profitability may be average, and now they are doing "charity activities" such as humanitarian aid, which seem to have little profit, and the income may be even lower.

So in order to reduce the company's "economic pressure" and reduce the consumption of technical weapons, these Roma will not use suicide swarms, smart mines, cruise missiles, etc. unless it is absolutely necessary.

Even Roma like Mondon and Terrak, who have fought from beginning to end and are now considered "veterans", will try to be as frugal as possible in the use of technical weapons and consumables, and even be a little stingy.

After knowing this situation, Amber can be said to be angry and moved.

Then he immediately held an "ideological education meeting" with military chiefs at all levels, and after the meeting, he asked these military chiefs to convey the idea of ​​"don't be afraid of equipment loss, use it freely" layer by layer.

In Amber's opinion, this is a very simple math problem, because the disability pension for Atlas soldiers who are seriously injured or killed is several levels higher than that of other private military companies or even the regular armies of the Federation and the Empire.

So compared with these pensions, the drones and intelligent units consumed by soldiers in battle are nothing at all.

Rather than losing soldiers, paying pensions, and consuming a lot of technical weapons, it is better to protect every soldier and reduce casualties as much as possible, and on this basis, consume those things that are originally "consumables" at will.

This is also why the heavy troops did not pursue the victory after taking the first line of defense, but let the suicide swarm and cruise missiles go to "clean up the ground" first.

The suicide swarm was developed based on the Imperial swarm that Amber seized in the Blue Harbor of Robert IV and later used in the battle of the orbital elevator base area.

In essence, it is a small drone equipped with high-performance military explosives. Its maneuverability is similar to FPV, but it is much stronger in terms of material, endurance, and signal transmission, and it also has military-grade anti-interference means.

The one who controlled these suicide bee swarms was none other than Lilith, who had been "busy" recently. This was her last time to control these suicide bee swarms.

In the future, the suicide bee swarms will also be controlled by the "hive core" after the software upgrade, and become a part of the hive system.

Under her control, these suicide bee swarms seemed to come alive, with an outrageous degree of flexibility and integrity, while constantly rushing towards the second position of the imperial defenders and the deeper reserve position.

The task of these suicide bee swarms is also very simple, that is, to attract the end anti-aircraft firepower to fire as much as possible, and then hit it head-on. It would be even better if they could find high-value targets such as anti-aircraft command vehicles or field radars and jammers.

Even if they did not cause much damage in the end, they could also allow the attacking forces to roughly understand the enemy's deployment in depth.

More importantly, after the suicide bee swarms attracted a large amount of anti-aircraft firepower, they created an extremely good breakthrough condition for the subsequent cruise missiles.

If they encounter a target that has not been destroyed by the swarm, these cruise missiles will directly rush up to "finish the job", and the remaining cruise missiles that have successfully penetrated will fly towards the depths of Garibal.

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"The overall situation has been decided. The imperial defenders here basically cannot turn the tables. They have no ability to retake the lost positions."

In a cabin somewhere in the Infinity, Van Fleet, who was under house arrest, looked at the battlefield live broadcast on the virtual screen and spoke with some fear in his tone.

"How can the overall situation be decided? Isn't it just torn open?" Guterres, who was sitting in another chair next to him, frowned, and then looked down at the information given to them by the Atlas soldiers who were responsible for their house arrest.

"Look, Atlas is only two brigades of offensive forces, and the number of imperial defenders in Garibal is close to five brigades, and it is still this extremely complex and dangerous street fighting."

"You are a navy, you know shit about land warfare!" Van Fleet raised his eyes, and his words were full of disdain for the vice admiral next to him.

He has always believed that the final outcome of the battle on the Pella IV was due to the defeat of the naval fleet led by Guterres, which was 90% responsible.

"Oh, you are the only one who knows land warfare? You know land warfare and you are locked up with me now?" After hearing Van Fleet's words, Guterres immediately replied, not to be outdone.

In his opinion, it was precisely because Van Fleet was 'beheaded' by Amber at the critical stage of the battle that the situation on Para IV collapsed. Otherwise, it would have been entirely possible for the federal support fleet to arrive—— If the Federation arranges a support fleet.

"You" Van Fleet was choked and speechless. He stared at Guterres for a long time before calming down the urge to punch him.

"What, you're not convinced?" Guterres is indeed a federal naval officer like Randall, and he is extremely talented in choking.

"You idiot, haven't you noticed that the combat methods of Atlas's ground forces are quite different from those of the Federation and even the Star Dragon Empire?"

Van Fleet suddenly said loudly, and his momentum immediately calmed the Vice Admiral next to him,

"Ultra-long-distance heavy artillery bombardment, new armored units with excellent terrain traversability, and those densely packed unmanned units, not to mention that their ordinary soldiers completely crush ordinary human soldiers in terms of physical fitness. These things are federal The ground forces don’t have it yet.”

"It's true what you said. This company does have some weird new things."

Van Fleet's words couldn't help but bring back some bad memories of Guterres, whether it was being stabbed in the fleet's "eyes" by massive stealth plasma torpedoes, or being strafed by the six-kilometer-long giant ship. The memory is destined to leave an indelible impression on Guterres’ mind.

"If we don't talk about anything else, let's just talk about those long-range heavy artillery. The design and combat concept are completely different from the current federal army. Why don't I have such a good thing as the 180-kilometer range self-propelled electromagnetic gun TNND?

This is just the firepower of a battalion. If this guy named Amber is so cruel as to use it as the main equipment of the artillery composite brigade of the group army, I dare not think about its support and strike capabilities."

Van Fleet paused, then continued:

"As long as Atlas' troops advance steadily and slowly as they do now, and continue to use this unmanned swarm to clear the way, the personnel status, equipment and morale of the imperial defenders will only be eroded bit by bit."

"Can't we find opportunities to launch a few counterattacks or pick a place to ambush?" Guterres asked with some confusion. In his opinion, the imperial defenders have a 'good location' anyway, and they have more available troops. .

"Don't you believe it? Let's wait and see."