While the first regiment went home to replenish its personnel and rest and change gear, both the second and third regiments were under greater pressure.
The Second Regiment is at full strength, with five battalions, and a total strength of more than 3,500 including the regiment headquarters.
Although there are many people, the defensive surface of the second regiment is too large.
Jinhong and Bei Pass occupy two permanent battalions, and their regimental headquarters is also at Bei Pass. The other three battalions shared the other two main roads and several forks in the north of the volcanic mountain range. Among them, the sixth battalion and one company were converted into a reconnaissance company with enhanced attributes. Many places were stationed in company units.
When the group returned to their headquarters, they probably only eliminated 20% of the demons that overflowed the volcanic mountains at that time, maybe even less. Some of the remaining demons would gather in their own places, and some would continue to move.
Although the organization level is almost non-existent, compared with the previous companies, there are still battles almost every day.
As a regiment positioned for positional warfare, the Second Regiment cannot move at will. In order to fight well in positional warfare, the Second Regiment has over-staffed equipment. In addition to the large number of machine guns, individual weapons are also over-staffed.
For example, a certain company was stationed at a crossroads fortification on a diagonal line about 120 kilometers away from the North Pass. There was an additional company of individual firearms and three times the amount of magic module charging equipment for the firearms.
If this kind of company is to be withdrawn, before the light armored vehicles are fully deployed, at least the entire battalion must be lightly equipped with wooden carts and the like to retrieve all the equipment.
Several companies of the 9th and 10th Battalions fought frequently. Fortunately, after the 6th Battalion had a reconnaissance company, it also turned to a mobile combat mode. There were also three regiments to help, and there were no major losses.
The three regiments used for troop reserve and gender adjustment are now three battalions, a male battalion, a female battalion and a mixed battalion.
The 13th Battalion stayed at the Legion headquarters to do some maintenance work, while the 12th Battalion was mainly responsible for the logistics of the Blade Legion, so they were the ones who delivered the first batch of ammunition to the 1st Regiment last time.
The only all-male 11th Battalion in the Third Regiment is still a combat unit. This battalion was established to fill vacancies in the First and Second Regiments.
The Second Regiment has permanent fortifications at its garrison. When the demons are not organized, one or two hundred approaching troops will not pose any threat. They can fight during the day and at night, sometimes for several days in a row, until the soldiers suffer. No.
The 11th Battalion and the 6th Battalion divided their troops to do battle rotation for them, and the situation was much better.
By the way, after actually "discussing" with the demons for a long time, I realized that there is another advantage to fighting the demons - the risk of plague outbreak is extremely low.
The northern area is generally relatively humid, and corpses will decay quickly here. If left untreated for just two or three days, they may become a source of disease.
"This star really wants to retire"
But the demons eat the corpses of their companions faster. As long as the soldiers throw the corpses that are too close to each other more than a hundred meters away after a battle, the demons will naturally eat all the corpses before the next fight. It's very clean, with no bones left.
Of course, there are many demons with low intelligence who don't know what is good or bad. After eating, they will come together and turn themselves into corpses, making it more difficult to throw them away. But on the whole, this method saves the soldiers from the process of handling corpses. Otherwise, you may not be able to withstand it for two months.
The first regiment redeployed this time and divided into two teams starting from Jinhong and Bei Pass respectively and sweeping all the way across.
The Army Aviation Company of the 11th Regiment, which was still under construction, sent several pilots to help keep track.
The mass-produced Tornado has changed its Onion Knight-like appearance, taking into account combat needs and a certain degree of beauty, making it more like a power armor.
Although the humanoid armor has many shortcomings and is not very useful, it still has air units.
The maximum flight altitude of the Gust Type 1 is two thousand meters, which is already out of the threat zone of the little demons. However, due to the visibility, in order to accurately distinguish the small demon tribe in the forest, the altitude still needs to be lowered to around 800 meters.
With flying units indicating targets, the cleaning efficiency of a group is much higher.
The first regiment leader also wanted this, but unfortunately, there was no humanoid aircraft that matched the sharp blade shape, and the Guangfeng Type 1 was about to be replaced.
In total, less than ten units of this thing have been installed and they need to be replaced because the military assessment found a major flaw - a problem with the intelligence collection capabilities.
The Gale Type 1 uses hands and feet to control the direction of the displacement to achieve the purpose of controlling flight. This causes the pilot to always pay attention to the direction of his hand guidance, and cannot remain still even in a hovering state. If you just simply fly, there is no problem, but aerial reconnaissance is a highly mentally demanding activity, which conflicts with flight control.
Looking at the ground from the air is no more complex than looking at the sky from the ground, and the environment is more complex from a bird's-eye view.
For the northern forestland, the colors that can be seen in the air include green (trees, grass leaves), brown (dry, dead wood), yellow (dead leaves), brown (rotten leaves), black (shadow), gray (stone) ), these basic colors do not include water reflections, flowers, etc.
The color of light is complex, but the problem is that when looking at the ground from the air, it is more difficult to distinguish shapes. Looking at a demon from the ground can separate it from the background at a glance, but in the air, it is viewed from the top of the head. Even if there is a slight difference in perspective, the intuition Judgment of altitude is also unclear, so pilots are required to actively use their brainpower to distinguish shapes.
Therefore, the existing flying soldiers can only be used to find groups of monsters. For small groups, especially those in the forest, you need to try your luck.
The problem is serious. The demons in front of us are not disguised on a large scale.
Strategically despised and tactically valued, no matter how much one looks down on the demons' cannon-fodder-like attack methods, one has to guard against the possibility of their targeted camouflage.
If aerial reconnaissance misses the main elite, the consequences will be very serious.
Therefore, the 11th Regiment only received ten units, and the headquarters stopped production and required modifications to solve the problem.
When the matter reached the research institute, the mechanical team that had been ruthlessly eliminated gained the upper hand again.
Although the power armor form may protect people better, even if it is hovering, it requires people to constantly make small adjustments in the direction according to the wind state. Even if two people are in a group, the 1+1 effect cannot be achieved.
There is no need to consider the humanoid mechanical flying equipment. Two people can be easily crammed into it. One can pilot and the other observes, or the two can cooperate, which will undoubtedly lead to better visual reconnaissance effects.
In addition, the mechanical team did not give up during this period. News from the military was sent to the institute for the first meeting, and they came up with a new aircraft plan.
The new plan completely abandoned the mechanical power source and used magical power instead.
The impact of magic on airflow has not been resolved, but these guys came up with a weird trick, which is to completely close the magic circuit most of the time!
Yes, the new plan is a glider.
A glider can maintain its flying speed by losing altitude, or it can lose altitude faster and increase its speed. In turn, it can gain altitude by losing speed until the kinetic energy is lost to the critical point of stall.
Through the wing design, the glider can control the stall speed to less than 50 kilometers per hour. This is why satellites that track moving objects through redshift can easily identify the glider as a car.
Still taking the two-thousand-meter ceiling as an example, a low-speed glider can fly stably for at least ten minutes before reducing its altitude from two thousand meters to five hundred meters and decelerating to stall speed.
Wait until stall is approaching, then activate the magic circuit, put aside any aerodynamics and other things, and increase the altitude and speed of the aircraft as soon as possible, then the aircraft can fly for more than ten minutes.
Even if you encounter a situation that requires fighting, it is nothing more than using a higher initial height to obtain a faster average speed.
This plan was approved as soon as it came out, because structurally speaking, it is easier to produce than the power armor of the Tornado I, and by taking advantage of the unpowered flight characteristics of gliders, the same magic power can send heavier objects into the sky. If the overall magic power loss remains unchanged, the flight time will be increased several times, and the advantages are too numerous to count.
If I have to mention a shortcoming, it is that it is not flexible enough, and it cannot hover without making a magic circle with special functions.
But it’s not a big problem. The speed of a glider can exceed 200 kilometers per hour. If you really can’t get rid of it, you can let the soldiers take out their guns and shoot them.
