In the next few days, with various information and decision-making data from all aspects, the integrated predictions of the staff department gave the war command a sufficient basis for judgment.
Based on this information, General Yang continued Yaxi County's previous handling method and launched round after round of long-range strikes against the strongholds on the front line of the Xixuan Federation, especially the small strongholds.
Such a strategy made the Xixuan coalition very passive.
Welling, who was sitting in the staff department, besides processing data on the rear situation such as recent personnel movement information in Iasi County, had enough time to take a look at the holographic battlefield system in front of him.
He seems to be able to divide the brain's computing power into different parts, just like the multitasking and multithreading of a supercomputing system, to complete different tasks at the same time.
In Welling's opinion, this is just a distribution of attention.
Although the empire's satellite chain is far less numerous than before the Great Annihilation, and the detection content is astonishingly detailed, the effect it exerts after all its resources are directed to local battlefields is still shocking.
Welling can even grasp the launcher, status, ballistic data, flight status, predetermined target location, hit status, etc. of each short-range missile from those data streams. The entire battlefield situation is of great importance to the staff and command headquarters. That is to say, it is transparent.
The so-called battlefield fog does not exist in this case.
With such a crushing information advantage, the Xixuan Allied Forces were unable to organize a decent counterattack.
The empire's strategy is both a conspiracy and a conspiracy.
Since you, the Xixuan Federation, want to provoke a war, then I will give you a war.
But the rhythm of the war must be controlled by the empire.
The Xixuan Federation has no military communication advantage and can only be secretive. Once the matter is exposed, it will inevitably face such an embarrassing situation. This may be what the other party expected.
Since it is a game, there will naturally be a winner and a loser.
At present, the Yaxi command headquarters is consciously selecting small strongholds to attack. The purpose is actually to allow the Xixuan Federation to gather the power of the large strongholds as quickly as possible to compete with Yaxi.
This is a conspiracy, and the Xixuan Allied Forces have to do this.
As time goes on, after the empire has conquered the small strongholds, will it attack the medium-sized ones?
Is Xixuan being passively targeted like this?
For a qualified commander, the opponent has only two choices.
The first is to withdraw the troops quickly. Since the target intention has been exposed and the empire is prepared, it is better to withdraw its troops immediately to reduce losses.
Another option is to immediately mobilize the army, cross the four mountain ranges and three rivers that are like natural chasms, and use a military force that is relatively equal to that of the empire to make a big gamble and strive to deal a major blow to the empire.
Obviously, the commander of the Xixuan Federation chose the latter.
After just a few days of long-range strikes, Yaxi stopped attacking because the frontline of the Xixuan Federation had fully moved forward.
The stronghold locations and corresponding data detected in the early stage are out of date, and new data are constantly being refreshed with detection.
The Xixuan Federation Army used almost all vehicles as mobile tools for the army.
They crossed the Gaolibosu Mountains and the wide Mengshui River without even stopping briefly. They crossed the Shenwu Mountains covered with rugged rocks and reached the Kuanglan River.
After a day's rest, we flew over the Mangyun Mountains, which are covered with clouds and fog all year round, and arrived at the west bank of the Tongtian River.
At present, the only things that separate the Empire's Yasi County are the Tongtian River and the Qubi Aru Mountains, which are less than 200 kilometers away.
The enemy's choice is just as the Iasi Empire wishes.
By forcing the enemy to close range, the Imperial Legion can use the support of the barrier system or even rely on the fortified city to better annihilate the enemy's effective strength.
According to the refresh rate of the holographic system data, it can be judged that the empire's air and space reconnaissance system is greatly restricted among the three mountain ranges that run through the north and south of the Gaolibosu Mountains, the Shenwu Mountains, and the Mangyun Mountains.
Dense clouds, a relative drop of several kilometers, chaotic geomagnetic field, and ionization disorder cause large lags and unreliability in detection data.
In this case, Welling had some concerns about the Empire's detection efficiency.
At this time when the Xixuan Federation was using all its transportation capabilities to divert the advancing army, although the Yaxi command headquarters was unable to launch a precise attack, it did not mean that it would just wait.
The headquarters also increased its detection efforts. The best soldiers of the Western Wasteland Army formed a dense scout team to continuously conduct detection.
"It's really no retreat, it's so crazy!"
Regarding the enemy's choice and its reckless movement speed, Master Xiao Jingmo even sent a public message to the members of the staff to express his feelings.
Welling understood the reason for his emotion.
In this way, the enemy has come to a point where it is equivalent to a close encounter with the empire. Once defeated and losing their flying vehicles, they will not even have the chance to withdraw their troops.
Even if no vehicles are lost, can the accessories, ammunition, and energy supplies keep up?
From this point of view, if the opponent's commander is not stupid, he is full of malice to bury the Xixuan Alliance Army.
Although the overall strategic situation can be so optimistic, the current satellite system of the empire can only roughly grasp that the enemy is already on the west bank of the Tongtian River, and make final preparations for the attack during the assembly.
For more enemy details, the air and space detection system is powerless.
The empire's reconnaissance aircraft may have just flown over the Qubi Aru Mountains, before it reached the Tongtian River, and before it could pass through the dense clouds and send the detected images back to the barrier system, it was blocked by Xixuan's various anti-aircraft firepower. Explode.
General Yang at the headquarters seemed to have made up his mind that as long as the Xixuan army did not cross the Qubi Aru Mountains, they would not send out any troops.
His decision to fight back was to send out "Blue Bird"-class flying vehicles and drop teams of hundreds of scouts.
The scout team was sent to the Qubi Aru Mountains to detect the Xi Xuan Allied Forces across the Tongtian River.
Once you discover a gathering point of enemy forces or a gathering of vehicles, call for a long-range strike immediately.
Under this response strategy, the Xixuan Allied Forces suffered several losses.
Immediately, the federal army summed up its experience and lessons, and also deployed mobile roving troops to the west of the Qubi Aru Mountains to deal with the reconnaissance of the imperial scouts.
As a result, in the Qubi Aru Mountains less than 200 kilometers west of Yasi County, and in the valley area that runs for dozens of kilometers from north to south, small groups of troops from both sides began a ten-day scouting battle.
During this process, very tragic encounters occurred at multiple points.
After successfully eliminating nearly 10 Xi Xuancheng's blocking troops and destroying a temporary material stronghold, the empire's scout troops also suffered hundreds of casualties.
Especially during the Battle of Coldwater Peak, the empire's 200-man scout force was completely wiped out, with no one returning.
At that time, several "Blue Bird" vehicles of the empire had just delivered the scout unit to the target area, Cold Water Peak. Before they had time to return, they discovered that a major change had occurred at the predetermined location.
This was not a trap caused by information leakage, but an encounter with unequal power between the two sides caused by pure bad luck.
The overwhelming mechanical locusts emerged from the vast fog. Each time they jumped, they were a few dozen meters away, and they instantly overwhelmed the empire's scout army.
Fortunately, the imperial sergeants had already put on the "Warrior" armed exoskeleton in the aircraft. Facing the dense swarm of mechanical locusts, the commander made a satisfactory tactical command without any errors.
First, the moment the force commander discovered the mechanical locusts, he ordered all magnetic storm bombs to be thrown.
Within the coverage range, the magnetic storm bomb will destroy the core electronic components of the enemy's mechanical equipment due to its specific frequency, delivering a devastating blow to the mechanical locusts.
In fact, this choice was correct and timely. Countless mechanical locusts fell from the sky the moment they jumped up.
However, even if these mechanical locusts fell, they still squatted and half-reclined after landing, using optical auxiliary resolution capabilities to lock onto their opponents and spit out dense tongues of fire from their mouthparts.
The dense barrage directly suppressed the activities of the "brave warriors".
Although the empire's "valiant" armed forces are not afraid of such ordinary bullet attacks, it does not necessarily mean they can withstand them.
If there is an ultra-high rate of fire and the attack point is at the same location, the exoskeleton weapon can still be blown up, lose protection, or even lose power, turning the sergeant driving the weapon into a lamb to be slaughtered!
This was the situation these scout troops faced at that time.
What makes the situation even more critical is that a small number of the bullets fired by the mechanical locusts are anti-equipment armor-piercing bullets. Their rate of fire is not fast, but almost every shot will cause irreparable damage to the "brave warriors"!
This encounter occurred when the system's boundary information was not interfered with, completely covering the area and receiving feedback support.
Therefore, the commanders of the headquarters almost witnessed this one-sided killing based on the imaging equipment carried by the sergeants, and the victim turned out to be an imperial sergeant!
Those who started the killing turned out to be those very low-level and cheap mechanical locusts!
Countless "retreat" orders were issued, and the "Blue Bird" that was stuck in the air immediately returned, trying to descend, transport the remaining sergeants, and then launch a long-range saturation strike at this point.
However, the enemy appeared immediately, causing the officials at the headquarters to fall into despair.
In the rising and falling clouds and mist of the mountains, behind the dense mechanical locusts, several super weapons more than ten meters high emerged.
The Empire calls this type of armed armor an armed exoskeleton, and the Xixuan Federation is accustomed to calling it mecha.
But the few mechas that suddenly appeared were too big.
These mechas, which have never appeared in the imperial intelligence system, have agility that is completely out of proportion to their tall bodies.
Dozens of rays of light flashed by, and these extremely fierce giant mechas with mountain camouflage colors had already shot down the "Blue Bird" vehicles that had not yet been deployed in mid-air.
These lights are the firelight caused by the large-caliber armor-piercing projectiles configured on the giant mecha. The power of its close-range attack is simply not something that the armor of the Empire's "Blue Bird" vehicle can compete with.
Therefore, none of the vehicles escaped.
Later, in the final picture transmitted back to the barrier system from the standard imaging device of the Empire's "Warriors", everyone in the command headquarters saw that those giant armors were almost killing the Empire's "Warriors".
The firearms and energy weapons of the "Valiant Warrior" are ineffective against the enemy's super armor protection capabilities. With the opponent's size and speed, even without weapons, just using fists, they can smash the empire's less than three-meter exoskeleton into pieces. .
In fact, that's what those giant mechas did. Taking advantage of the mechanical locusts' firepower to suppress and despite the ineffective counterattack of the imperial armed forces, they used their huge steel fists to smash the remaining "brave warriors" one by one. Crush.
Every smashed exoskeleton will be stained with blood on the ground.
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Not to mention how the command headquarters was gnashing its teeth in anger and its eyes were splitting. It would then carry out saturated long-range strikes and retaliation in that area. The command headquarters also shared all the real-time images with the staff department.
This is not to say that General Yang, on behalf of the headquarters, is blaming the staff for errors in intelligence and decision-making reference. This is simply because the detection results and dispatch results of each team must be mastered by the staff.
Looking at the tragic battle, Wei Ling's eyes were red and his fists were clenched tightly.
Almost everyone in the staff looked at Mr. Xiao Jingmo with solemn expressions.
Xiao Jingmo looked calm and glanced at everyone:
“A moment of silence… That’s what war is like… Neither the staff nor the command are at fault!
We don't have any information about the enemy situation in this area. This team went to this point to find out the enemy situation in this area!
No one could have predicted such a sacrifice! "
Everyone lowered their gazes silently, calmed down, and continued to focus on the information processing they were assigned.
Qinghui looked at Wei Ling beside him with concern, worried that he would not be able to accept such a partial defeat:
"Unfortunately, if there is a mid-level Golden Spirit Warlock who delays the landing, he can use techniques such as group rust to the maximum extent to suppress those mechanical locusts..."
Qinghui’s message sounded in Wei Ling’s sea of consciousness:
"If there are mid-level water spirit warlocks in the rear area on the ground, using mud magic to slow down the giant mecha, and wood spirit warlocks using life-seizing techniques, at least half of the sergeants can be saved..."
Then, he saw Wei Ling nodding, with tears in his eyes.
