Chapter 487 Disappointing Attack Preparation

If we look at the battle situation map of Rubion V, the 16 cities controlled by the ‘Renaissance Alliance’ led by Franklin from north to south, after connecting their actual control areas, are actually a long strip of extremely large area.

This is also the basic route of the ‘Renaissance Alliance’, that is, to control large cities to obtain more resources and population, and the defensive resilience of large cities is much stronger than that of general targets. To some extent, it can be regarded as picking a ‘position’ with advantages for possible defensive operations.

Since the armed forces of ‘General Lampard’ set their sights on the Renaissance Alliance, they have controlled the industrial areas and satellite cities around these cities. Although they cannot control all industrial areas due to the problem of manpower, they still control most of the valuable areas.

As for those areas that cannot be completely controlled due to the problem of manpower, this ‘General Lampard’ also ordered the destruction that cannot be repaired in a short time without hesitation, regardless of the fact that there are also a large number of residents near these areas.

As a result, these residents who lost their food supply were forced to flee to the cities controlled by the Renaissance Alliance, which further increased the difficulty of management and the tension of material supply for Franklin and others.

Although General Lampard's forces could not completely surround the Renaissance Alliance, they still limited their external expansion.

There was basically no gain from occupying those destroyed industrial areas or satellite cities. On the contrary, the further expansion of the defense area led to an increasing shortage of troops, which was obviously more disadvantageous than beneficial. Therefore, Franklin and his team gave up this plan after obtaining the field survey information sent back by the reconnaissance team.

So the only areas that can be expanded are those areas actually controlled by General Lampard, but this exposed another problem.

They can't beat the defenders in these areas.

At the same time, the middle position of this "long strip" control area of ​​the Renaissance Alliance is also a key point. If it is attacked and broken through, the entire control area will be divided into two. Therefore, Franklin, at the suggestion of the staff, also deployed heavy troops for defense here.

This led to a further reduction in the number of troops that can participate in combat offensive missions.

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33 kilometers west of the edge of Mitala City, the second attack cluster of the Renaissance Alliance, the advance team assembly area.

Captain Jenny, the commander of Company A of Battalion B, the second attack group's combat reserve, frowned as he retreated into the armored command vehicle as he watched the team disperse and hide after completing the assembly behind the woods.

He patted his deputy, Lieutenant Kent, the executive officer of Company A, on the shoulder, and then asked:

"Didn't you say at the battle mobilization meeting last night that we would be reinforced with an anti-armor platoon? Why is there no sign of it until now?"

The anti-armor platoon Captain Jenny mentioned refers to a platoon-level unit composed of four "Iron Cavalry" medium-sized multi-legged tanks. The configuration of two 130mm straight/curved dual-purpose electrothermal chemical guns + two plasma guns is the standard basic anti-armor configuration of the ground forces of the Renaissance Alliance.

At the battle mobilization meeting the night before, when the command gave Company A the task of serving as the "advance team", it also promised to reinforce them with an anti-armor platoon to enhance their firepower.

By the way, although the current ground forces of the Renaissance Alliance are a large number of mixed military and police forces, the organization, command system and habits are still the galaxy garrison forces, or the "old tradition" of the Federal Army.

Before the battle begins, the forward command post assigns the battalion-level forces that serve as the combat reserve to send a company as the "advance team".

Unlike the "pioneers" that most people are more familiar with, the "pioneers" are small forces sent by the front-line attack battalion after the battle begins, and they are deployed in the front, left and right directions of the attack arrow.

The "advance team" is to enter the dynamic environment away from the firepower and support nodes of the main force before the battle starts to fight with the enemy, to perform the task of driving away and alerting the enemy, and to create conditions for the subsequent main force to launch an attack.

In general, a mechanized infantry company is sent to perform this task, so the task of this "advance team" naturally falls on Captain Jenny's company.

As a former garrison officer, Captain Jenny has no objection to such an arrangement.

But he was very dissatisfied with the fact that the anti-armor platoon that was supposed to be reinforced had not yet arrived.

After hearing his complaints, Lieutenant Kent, the executive officer who was busy on the command terminal, opened a new window and said unhappily:

"It can't come. The message just sent is that this anti-armor platoon was "intercepted" and reinforced to the forward attack battalion."

"I'm really CTM! Why did these bastards from the forward attack battalion intercept again?!"

Captain Jenny was furious: "It was the same last time. As a result, we ran into the mixed team of the opponent's "Iron Cavalry" and "Wolf Spider", and almost couldn't withdraw!"

Seeing that Jenny was already angry, he grabbed the communicator and was ready to call the front command to complain, but Lieutenant Kent stopped him immediately with his quick eyes and hands.

"Will it be useful if you go and complain? Don't you think about who the commander of the forward attack battalion is a close confidant of? Do you think you can win the lawsuit against him?

Besides, there are only 10 minutes left before the scheduled departure time. If we delay time because of this, we will be blamed by the front command."

Lieutenant Kent's words made Captain Jenny calm down quickly.

He thought of the battalion commander of the forward attack battalion. He was a direct descendant of a certain officer in the basic command post, a direct descendant of a brigade-level unit commander. It was really thankless to file a complaint in his own capacity.

"Hey, you said Mr. Franklin is such a good person, why did he summon such a bunch of morons to the team?" Captain Jenny said with some frustration, his expression also looked a little lonely.

Looking at his appearance, Lieutenant Kent felt bad, but he still fulfilled the duties of a combat adjutant and remained calm at this time, and said at the same time:

"Don't think too much. Brother, these things are not something we can consider. What you have to do now is to calm down and take command, lead everyone to complete the mission and then withdraw."

"Well, you're right, I shouldn't be disturbed by these nonsense at this time."

Captain Jenny nodded, calmed down and sat in the main command seat of the armored command vehicle, then opened the combat map.

"Let's be careful this time. The front finger picker Soso only sent one company to carry out the annihilation alert, and it was our mechanized infantry company.

I really don’t know what to think. We are still looking into the grass with our faces. Is it possible that our infantry is more durable than HCP or main battle tanks?

Taking a step back, if you get some mixed units of medium-sized multi-legged and light multi-legged units, the combat effectiveness will be much higher than ours."

The outspoken company commander couldn't stop complaining, and Lieutenant Kent next to him could only respond in bitterness:

"The Army's combat doctrine requires that the mechanized infantry company be used as the 'advance team.' People say that they are just acting in accordance with the doctrine. Why are you so angry?"

"Then isn't this typical dogmatism? Considering that it has been so long since the war between the Federation and the Empire, it's time for combat experience to be updated with the times, right? It's obvious that heavy armored units will serve as the 'advance team'. The advantages brought by this are far greater than the advantages brought by the mobility of the mechanized infantry company!”

During the exchange between Captain Jeni and Lieutenant Kent, Company A also began to take action under the command of the former. Nearly 20 wheeled armored vehicles drove out of the assembly area in a marching formation and headed towards the target enemy-controlled area. .

But soon, they were intercepted by the first warning position.