As Mr. Blue Eyes left, Yang Tianyi looked at the other person's shrinking back with a complex expression, and for a moment he didn't know whether his negotiation with Otto was a success or a failure.
Looking at the results of the negotiations, Ott Cunningham, who learned that the two came from a parallel universe, not only quickly accepted the existence of the Star Group, but also made it clear that she did not want to be an enemy of the group.
Even in order to show his sincerity, Ultra helped Mann and others erase all the traces they left on the network level, so that military technology could not produce substantive evidence to prove the whereabouts of the original species. And if Yang Tianyi thinks about it, as a super artificial intelligence, she has 10,000 ways to completely destroy any person or group that tries to be detrimental to the protagonist group.
After all, judging from their strength on paper, the many wandering AIs represented by Ultra seem to be the same chess players on both sides of the chessboard as the Star Group, but in fact the group has the ability to overturn the chessboard at any time.
Therefore, Otto had to try his best to prevent the relationship between the two parties from falling to a freezing point, otherwise the group could completely send out a million troops to wipe out all the resistance forces in the cyberpunk world, then re-establish a new order and create a new world that would not give artificial intelligence a place to stand.
What makes Yang Tianyi dissatisfied is that although Ultra is willing to sign a non-aggression treaty with the group and restrain his malicious artificial intelligence from interfering with the group's actions, the relationship between the two parties is limited to this.
As for the content in the agreement regarding the group finding a new world for Ultra and other wandering AIs to settle down in, the other party just brushed it off with a vague attitude, obviously unwilling to give up the cyberspace that it had worked hard to manage for decades for a blank check.
To be honest, even as the party with the initiative in the negotiations, Yang Tianyi did not want to make the rogue AI that has been deeply entrenched in the cyberpunk world obediently submit to it through an agreement.
His purpose in initiating this negotiation was not so much to force a surrender, but actually more like a slap on the wrist. As long as the other party understands that the group has the ability to change the outcome at any time, the malicious AI hiding in the dark will never dare to attack the humans in the open.
After discussions with Harland, Yang Tianyi believed that the negotiation process was undoubtedly a failure, because Ott rejected most of the group's demands and only reached agreement with him on a few insignificant points.
But the final result was acceptable, because the relationship between the two parties was skillfully maintained at a good level, and the placement problem of the protagonist group that had been bothering the quasi-branch leader Tano Sorrento was also solved.
According to the group's next plan, the power of the Arasaka Company must be ruthlessly suppressed, otherwise Saburo Arasaka and Mikoshi, who dream of an empire, will cause great trouble for the Star Hub's operations in cyberspace.
In order to plunge Arasaka into chaos and division as much as possible without having time to take into account the safety of the gods, Yang Tianyi ordered the army of the Hughes Empire in the Mad Max world to immediately launch a full-line attack, striving to cause the most considerable damage to their enemies in the shortest time.
However, considering that the grand art auction on the Crystal Palace space station was about to open, he himself would not go to the front lines to watch the heroic soldiers of the empire fighting the enemy bravely.
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In the world of Mad Max, what stands in front of the imperial army is a solid defense line composed of 40,000 Arasaka cybernetic soldiers, more than 100,000 combat robots, thousands of armored vehicles and hundreds of thousands of indigenous human slaves.
Due to the extremely harsh natural environment of this world, both sides rely almost entirely on local supplies for supplies, even the most basic drinking water and food. If it had not been for the foresight of Emperor Edward I to hoard sufficient war supplies, the army might have already fallen into the same embarrassing situation as the enemy, lacking food and ammunition.
In order to have enough troops for the frontline commanders to use when launching an attack, Edward, who is also the Imperial Field Marshal, went against all objections and sent an additional ten armored grenadiers to Max World two weeks ago on the original basis. division and two armored divisions.
This huge reinforcement brought the total number of the Hughes Empire's troops fighting on the front line at this time to an astonishing forty-five divisions and more than 700,000 people, including fifteen infantry divisions, three special forces divisions, and twenty armored grenade launchers. grenade division and seven armored divisions.
Thanks to the assistance and guidance of the Star Group, the increasingly vigorous productivity of the Royal Arsenal ensures that every division-level combat unit can receive sufficient equipment supply.
And under the unified coordination of Xingshu, tens of thousands of tons of ammunition and supplies often just come off the assembly line and are transported to the hands of soldiers in frontline positions together with mail packages filled with hometown delicacies.
During the dozens of days and nights of hard fighting in another world, precisely because of the continuous supplies from the mainland and the letters full of family expectations, the overall morale of the imperial army has always been very strong, and there has not been a single deserter so far.
So much so that after personally visiting several military bases located in firefighting zones, Army Lieutenant General Ramsay, who came specially from Elysium World to observe, was extremely satisfied with the spirit of the imperial army and praised it as a model soldier.
But after understanding the composition of the imperial army in detail, the lieutenant general said that when the time comes, the Hughes Empire should form a pure robot force on a large scale like the group. In this way, it can not only greatly reduce the casualties of human soldiers, but also improve a lot of combat effectiveness.
After learning what the lieutenant general meant, the imperial general responsible for receiving the military observation group regretfully stated that it was not that the imperial military did not want to use robots, but that at present, the vast majority of imperial troops did not have the ability to use robots due to overall cultural level and equipment running-in problems. The ability to equip robots in large quantities.
Moreover, this time their enemy is a troublesome network expert like Arasaka Company. As long as the group will not personally intervene in the battle, the higher and more advanced the imperial army's equipment is networked, the easier it will be for their enemies.
In comparison, it seems that the Empire's old armies are more practical than the mechanical legions, and frontline commanders tend to use primitive artillery bombardments and armored charges to annihilate their enemies.
However, this does not mean that the generals of the empire are old stubborns who are unwilling to accept change. On the contrary, during the days of fighting Arasaka, they were very sensitive to the enemy's combat prosthetics, intelligent tracking weapons and armored aerial vehicles. The scientific and technological equipment were highly praised, and they were successively requested to copy a large number of copies from the rear to equip the army.
Picking up the tablet on the table that recorded the detailed organization of the Imperial Legion's 1st Panzergrenadier Division, Ramsay read it carefully.
Excluding the average combat effectiveness, ordinary infantry divisions that are usually responsible for maintaining security in the occupied areas and special forces divisions that perform special tasks, the special forces of the Hughes Empire, the Panzergrenadier Division, are actually quite luxurious, fully reflecting that the Hughes Empire was born out of modern times. The military's combat system is very mature.
First of all, among the more than 17,000 combat personnel of the 1st Panzergrenadier Division, there are more than 1,200 junior officers below the warrant officer level, and there are more than 300 mid-level and senior officers at the warrant officer level and above.
From the perspective of a battle-hardened veteran like Ramsay, when a battle reaches a bloody enough level, if the equipment level and morale gap between the two sides is not large, the side with a higher proportion of officers will gain a huge advantage.
This advantage that is not prominent in peacetime will be transformed into strong subjective initiative at the grassroots level in wartime, helping lower-level officers and soldiers to complete the orders issued by superior officers with higher efficiency, greatly improving the smoothness of the execution of combat tasks. .
Secondly, since the name contains the word "armor", the establishment of the 1st Panzergrenadier Division naturally has a considerable number of armored vehicles.
Although the imperial army did not purchase heavily armored units such as saber-toothed tiger variants, red laser tanks, and manta ray quadruped robots produced by the group due to cost constraints, the cheap modern weapons provided by the group can also be used.
Three hundred tanks, 400 infantry fighting vehicles, 300 armored transport vehicles, 80 tracked recovery vehicles, 80 ammunition transport vehicles and eight engineering special vehicles make up the armored force of the 1st Panzer Grenadier Division . In the rear, more than two hundred artillery pieces of different calibers will immediately destroy solid targets blocking the advancement of frontline troops, such as permanent fortifications and cement bunkers.
In the air, thirty-six light attack destroyers and eight heavy attack destroyers will become a nightmare for all enemy armored units. More than thirty transport destroyers are responsible for the task of transporting ammunition and wounded in emergencies.
In the higher skies, more than forty reconnaissance destroyers and three electronic countermeasures destroyers together form the eyes and nose of ground and air forces, helping the imperial army realize the war creed of "discover and destroy" they have always implemented.
During the months-long war, the 1st Panzergrenadier Division won unanimous praise from the entire army for its extremely heroic combat style, and was awarded the honorary title of "Emperor's Silver Sword" by the general headquarters. Finally, all the officers and soldiers of the division wore armbands embroidered with silver double swords and the double swords emblem on armored vehicles all demonstrated the arrogance of this ace unit.
On the battlefield at this time, there were a total of nineteen powerful troops with the same organization as the division and high morale, as well as five pure armored divisions with higher levels of armor and stronger combat power.
In the words of Lieutenant General Ramsey, "If I were a frontline commander, I wouldn't know how to lose this battle, because losing is harder than winning."
Therefore, in the early morning of the day after receiving Yang Tianyi's order, the entire 700,000-strong imperial army launched a final attack on the remaining forces of the Arasaka Company and the indigenous forces across four continents.
In this large-scale battle code-named "Apocalypse", the Imperial artillery, which had been gearing up for a long time, fired hundreds of thousands of shells in the first six hours of the battle, turning everything they could see and everything they had not seen into Jifen vented his anger with a storm of firepower, declaring the end of the enemy.
Among the young officers of the Imperial Legion, artillery captain Joachim Grantz's performance was particularly eye-catching. Just because the three 600mm-caliber super-heavy mortars under his command successfully destroyed more than ten Arasaka fortifications on the ground and underground, saving his troops a lot of time that should have been spent clearing out the remaining enemies.
In the sky, a fleet of thousands of destroyers, under the cover of air superiority fighters, completely wiped out the remaining forces of the Arasaka Company. Guided bombs scattered the Arasaka troops who tried to regroup after the retreat again and again, and then handed them over to such as The wolf-like ground troops carried out encirclement and harvesting.
After the three-day Apocalypse Battle ended, the empire's military leaders were surprised to find that in the past, the army that could only barely fight Arasaka two-for-one or even three-for-one had a battle loss ratio of one for two this time. It was so gratifying. His achievements immediately attracted the attention of Emperor Edward I.
While vigorously rewarding the army and promoting outstanding officers, the proud Edward did not forget to send a battle report to the group headquarters, requesting the group to increase economic and military assistance to the Hughes Empire.
But what the young emperor didn't expect was that this army that he was so proud of might not be able to rest for the time being.
Because in another world, there is an unprecedented tough battle waiting for them to fight.
