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Chapter 1296: Fighting on the battlefield to retake the center (3)

On Earth, no matter how powerful the navy and air force are, the army is the cornerstone of the cornerstone.

Despite the jokes about the Navy getting new ships, the Air Force getting new planes, and the Army getting new rubber shoes, no one would underestimate the importance of the Army, it’s just that the emphasis has changed.

But on Alyssa's side, the army has hardly developed. They have never thought about things like military camouflage, carrying equipment, tactical vests and other army-related items.

After all, wars are mostly fought with warships. It is not to say that there are no army landing operations, but the proportion is very low.

After all, it's because people don't take it seriously, so it seems so flawed.

Then, Li Chengxi saw a group of black cloak monsters crawling on the ground like cockroaches, fighting against a group of fat white bugs...

This picture is really hard to comment on.

The Swan maintained its fire support while slowly moving forward. Due to its tilted posture, its altitude would inevitably decrease as the distance increased.

After all, the Swan is not a professional assault landing ship. If it wants to use artillery to support the lower part, it really has to sail at an angle.

With the fire support of the Swan and the assault landing ship, the heavy equipment finally landed.

A large number of things that looked like tanks and infantry fighting vehicles drove out from the rear hatch of the landing assault ship, and four-legged walking turrets followed suit.

Almost half an hour after the front-line position was established, the Xuanshui Federation successfully erected its own artillery position.

The artillery group composed of 120mm caliber howitzers loaded, aimed and fired in unison based on the position and distance information provided by the assault landing ship in the sky.

The shells drew an arc, trailing white smoke, bypassing the hills in front and hitting the enemy in the rear.

Moreover, the scale of artillery preparations became larger and more fierce.

The Red Maple Republic Army tried to retake the position but was badly beaten.

Of course, they would also fight back, and the artillery positions on the back of the hill would also open fire. The two sides would fight each other with artillery, and the battle would be very lively.

A temporary front-line base was built, and at this time some of the soldiers of the Xuanshui Federation, armed with weapons such as shotguns, rocket launchers and even flamethrowers, began to seize the enemy's trenches under the cover of firepower.

As mentioned before, this is the outermost position of the Red Maple Republic Army, and it has just been suppressed by the firepower of the Swan and the assault landing ship.

The remaining enemy soldiers were quickly swept out of the trenches, and some tried to raise their hands in surrender, but the Spinning Water Federation would not accept prisoners at this time.

After all, we are fighting a decisive battle here, so who has time to care about prisoners?
If you look up at the sky at this time, you will see another large group of things like shooting stars falling from the sky, but they are too small and do not look like assault landing ships.

That is the orbital airdrop capsule, also known as orbital skydiving.

Compared with humans, the size of the assault landing ship is indeed not small, but the number of soldiers and heavy weapons it can accommodate is still very limited.

No matter how cheap the cost of an assault landing ship is, it will still be unaffordable once the number increases. What's more, the dock that builds assault landing ships has to build real warships, and there is not much production capacity allocated to them.

Therefore, something like a cheap, large-capacity and simple-structured orbital airdrop pod came into being.

Alyssa's war has been criticized before. They use interstellar technology but World War I tactics and World War II strategies. So compared to the current emphasis on high-tech information warfare on Earth, Alyssa still adheres to the concept of large-scale fleet warfare.

After all, the technology trees are different, so it is really impossible to generalize.

The orbital airdrop chamber is used to transport the main force of the army.

These orbital airdrop pods are shaped like diamond-shaped flower buds. When they break through the thermal barrier of the atmosphere and descend to a suitable altitude, the armor plates will open and fold backwards into the shape of a cannonball and point downward.

The soldiers in the airdrop pod will be thrown into the air at this stage and their parachutes will open one by one. The airdrop pod itself can be used as a kinetic shell to smash into the enemy below, literally smashing them in the face.

For a moment, the sky was full of white parachutes, like a large number of dandelions flying in the sky, which was extremely spectacular.

This airdrop method will send a large number of infantry to the battlefield, and they are the main force for advancing into the trenches.

Of course, the Red Maple Republic Army would not just stand there and watch. They aimed all kinds of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns upwards and fired at them.

The casualties during the landing process were also very serious, no less than those caused by rushing down headfirst on an assault landing ship. However, due to the suppression of the huge base number, the number of casualties did not reach the level that would affect the combat.

After all, human life is the least valuable in war, especially in interstellar war.

On Earth, a battle in which tens of thousands of people died is definitely an extremely tragic battle, but in an interstellar war, the death of tens of thousands of people can only be considered a small-scale conflict.

This is mainly because of its large size.

The Xuanshui Federation has more than a dozen habitable star systems and a total population of tens of billions. With such a huge population base, the number of soldiers that can be mobilized once is a terrifying number.

And think about it, the smallest warship like the Swan has a full crew of four or five hundred people, and a warship like a starship has a team of more than ten thousand people to maintain and guarantee it.

Casualties of tens of thousands were incurred, but only caused by a dozen ships.

Not to mention anything else, Li Chengxi alone has killed more than a dozen warships. If converted into human lives, it's not just that his hands are stained with blood, he is basically taking a bath in blood and free swimming at the same time.

The location of the Swan was just one of the six attack points for launching landing operations, so even if the paratroopers fell like raindrops, this level of casualties would only be minor injuries.

Anything will happen no matter how small the probability is as long as the base number increases. What's more, the air defense on the battlefield now mainly relies on machine spirits and hand-operated anti-aircraft guns. In addition, the Swan is also providing fire coverage. More and more paratroopers have landed successfully, dropped their parachute ropes, gathered nearby with their weapons, and launched an attack on the Red Maple Republic's line.

From the Swan's perspective, the soldiers' charge was like ants, quickly rushing into the Red Maple Republic's position covered by fire, clearing out the enemy, and occupying the position for themselves.

The two sides fought for trenches one by one. Sometimes, when they suddenly encountered the enemy around the corner, they had no time to shoot, so they just smashed with the butt of the gun, using firearms as cold weapons, and sometimes they would just strangle the opponent's neck, using all the means they could to kill the enemy.

As friendly forces had gradually rushed into the position, the Swan and the assault landing ship slowly reduced the frequency of their fire support. After all, it would be too painful to hit friendly forces hard.

For the position on this side of the hill, the Swan and the assault landing ship that had completed the landing mission needed to fly to the other side of the hill to continue providing fire coverage.

At this moment, the porthole of the Swan suddenly reflected an orange flash of explosion, and a friendly assault landing ship on the left side of the Swan suddenly exploded...

(End of this chapter)