Girls und War

The Fenghuo team each has eight members, plus the captain, a total of nine people.

The Thunder team had three medical personnel, one assigned to each team. This brought the Wind and Fire teams up to ten, leaving the Thunder team with only six.

This six-person team took the recruits to explore the safest area.

Led by Hong, a group of eleven people went to the area at the foot of the mountain through the path in front of the camp.

The mineral vein point at the end of this mountain range in Hua District is jointly defended by two fully-staffed infantry companies and four mechanized armored companies (unmanned).

Contrary to what people usually think about the value of battlefield troops, on the imaginary battlefield, human life is much more valuable than weapons and equipment.

Mechanized forces for the navy, army, and air force are produced in arsenals. They only consume resources and do not require human control.

The infantry company composed of girls is a real living force, and one less girl's death is one less girl.

Therefore, on large-scale frontal battlefields, infantry group charges rarely occur.

In most cases, the infantry companies composed of girls would not show up at all, and the two sides would just lower their flags and control the unmanned troops to charge in a war of attrition.

It's possible that on a plain, tanks and artillery groups on both sides exchanged bombardments, causing the earth to shatter. Bombers flew everywhere, missiles rained down, and the ground was littered with scrap metal.

In the end, no one died.

And where the girl infantry is used——

There are only dangerous areas that conventional mechanized troops cannot reach.

For example, mountains, jungles, and inside cities.

In the imaginary battlefield, air strike power was greatly weakened.

Because airdrops are expensive and require a lot of strategic resources.

It may take the logistics department a long time to accumulate the resources needed for a carpet bombing.

Therefore, girls cannot, like in real modern warfare, use the air force to cover up when in doubt.

They could only use tanks and cannons to slowly advance the front line on the ground, and then use the clever girl infantry to clean up the rear battlefield, or enter the dangerous terrain to fight each other.

Let infantry fight infantry, and armored units fight armored units. This is the form of war that should take place on the imaginary battlefield.

This is a very interesting situation—

On the battlefield of the post-industrial era, very valuable technical arms have no value at all in this place.

It takes several years or even more than ten years to train an excellent technical soldier who can skillfully operate tanks, submarines, fighter jets, or aircraft carriers and dominate the battlefield.

What’s the point?

Are these arms needed in the real world?

A subspace shock star destroyer cannon can destroy a star with one shot.

Do you need these arms?

What they need are military officers!

We need talented generals who can decide the planet’s grand strategy from a human perspective!

This imaginary battlefield is a claw machine for selecting talents, and it does not require technical soldiers and officers who take a lot of time to train.

The only use of the battlefield is to cultivate the soldiers' military will and to enable officers to view the battlefield from a strategic perspective.

So naturally, the imaginary battlefield does not require technical troops.

The field infantry, who can be trained in just two or three months, are the most valuable fresh force resource in their eyes.

At the same time, all actions of various war zones on the battlefield were carried out with the utmost restraint.

They would never use tank troops to deal with infantry, and rarely bomb high-risk and complex areas.

If they encounter surrendering enemy personnel, they will never shoot them.

Kill as few people as possible.

After all, territory can be occupied again, resources can be snatched again, but the life of a girl soldier is only once.

Oh no, twice.

Therefore, the enemies these girls encountered in the mountains were most likely only the enemy's front-line combat troops.

And those mechanized armored troops stationed on the mines will definitely not go out.

Those tanks and missile vehicles could only squat in their own pits and passively defend against the enemy's attacks.

Until they receive the next attack order.

After Xia Shu and the other five recruits followed Team Lei's team members down the mountain, Hong assigned a corporal to lead them.

The corporal is called Xiaoqi, and he is a member of the Lei team's assault team.

She usually serves as an assaulter in the team and uses a 9MM submachine gun.

However, the mountainous terrain here is too spacious and not suitable for submachine guns, so several assaulters replaced their guns with automatic rifles.

She followed the front team from a distance with five new recruits, and kept chattering about the combat missions she had experienced in the past.

It was like a street fight in the city, with thrilling grenades thrown at each other amidst a hail of bullets. Often, the comrades next to you would fall down while fighting.

There was also fighting in the rainforest, where it was very troublesome to cut vines while marching, and from time to time one would encounter poisonous snakes or wild beasts, and non-combat injuries were also common.

She kept talking and the girls listened with great interest.

As they walked, they would stop and observe from time to time.

The members of the mine team in front searched very carefully, and every time they passed a hillside, they would carefully observe to confirm whether there were any enemies.

Then he gestured to the new recruits, signaling them to follow him.

Xia Shu was observing the surrounding environment as he walked.

The mountains here are very desolate, with little vegetation. Basically, you can see each other on the hillsides within a few kilometers.

Xia Shu saw the members of the other two teams across several gaps in the valley.

They kept walking on the higher parts of the hillside, and most of the places they checked were inside the gaps in the valley to prevent the enemy from hiding there.

From a topographical perspective, this mountain range is an advantageous support point for the troops in the Hua District's mining area.

Unless the enemy troops in the Sakura District have a mental disorder, they will not choose to appear on the wide hillside.

Be careful of enemies lurking in the shadows.

The recruits lined up and followed Xiaoqi.

Juncao followed Xia Shu closely all the time. Every time they went up or down a slope, he would grab the corner of Xia Shu's clothes with his hands, for fear that he would fall.

At this time, Xia Shu would reach out to help her.

Then Rush would stare at Natsuki's face with a silly smile.

Up to now, she only recognized Xia Shu's face.

She didn't recognize the other people's faces.

Everyone is wearing the same clothes now, and the most she can do is distinguish each person by their height.

If the other person doesn't speak, she won't be able to recognize who he is.

If you think about it, it's pretty cute.

Then, in this desolate mountain range, they completed the morning's cleaning work.

178. What to do about meals

The members of Team Lei, along with the squad of new recruits following behind, stopped in the shadow of a valley and began to rest.

The lunch was very shabby.

Each person gets a few compressed biscuits, a serving of self-heating beef noodles, and an apple.

The beef noodles were terrible, tasted dry and like the sauce of hot dry noodles that was not mixed well.

The compressed biscuits were ok, with a nutty taste.

But it's very hard.

Xia Shu took several sips of water before he could swallow it.

I don’t know if it’s because the food outside is too good, but the food on the imaginary battlefield makes Xia Shu feel that it is not food for human beings at all.

At first she thought it was her own illusion, but when she looked at the expressions of others, they all looked disgusted.

Hong munched on an apple and suddenly said, "The captain will definitely curse again by now."

Everyone laughed.

After lunch, they all put the garbage into their backpacks and waited to be disposed of together after returning to the camp.

Hong reported her current itinerary to the headquarters, took a short rest, and then continued her afternoon cleaning patrol.

The afternoon patrol was as monotonous and uneventful as the morning.

Xiao Qi was still talking about random things, and Xia Shu saw this and asked her about the composition of the front-line combat team.

The ratio of combat teams in each type of troops must be very different.

Even different combat areas use different personnel configurations.

For example, urban warfare requires a large number of assaulters, while in open mountainous areas, the more snipers the better.

After Xiao Qi explained briefly, Xia Shu figured out the current combat personnel configuration of the Red Dragon Squadron.

All combat teams of the Red Dragon Squadron are currently in a state of being understaffed.

For example, an assault team should have four members.

An assaulter equipped with a submachine gun, a grenadier equipped with a grenade launcher, a rifleman equipped with an assault rifle, and a team leader equipped with an assault rifle.

A fire team also has four members.

There were two machine gunners equipped with light machine guns, a defender equipped with a submachine gun, and a team leader equipped with an assault rifle. One of the machine gunners could be swapped with the assault team's rifleman at any time, forming a crossfire suppression system between the two teams.

The remaining group is the three-person follow-up group.

Depending on the mission requirements, the team members may be a combination of demolition corps and medics, or they may be a sniper team or a communications team.

Usually the commander follows the last group, so that the team forms a reinforced squad with a full strength of twelve people.

But the current Red Dragon Squadron is clearly not fully staffed.

Basically every team is short of one or two people.

Xia Shu estimated that the training of these new recruits was almost complete, and Dragon was about to put them into various groups.

As for what position she would be assigned, Xia Shu didn't care much.

Sniper is naturally the best, but other positions are no problem either.

After all, she is very familiar with every position and can carry any position in a battlefield of this intensity.

But after thinking about it, sniper is still the most suitable position for her.

Because Doragon's squadron really needs a sniper team.

A two-person reconnaissance team simply cannot establish dominance in such a vast mountainous terrain.

Unless they can now call for air support with impunity.

But this is obviously impossible.

As Xiaoqi chattered on and on, the day's cleaning was finally completed.

During today's cleanup, none of the three teams found any trace of the enemy.

Maybe I should clean a different area tomorrow.

At about five or six o'clock, all members of the Red Dragon Squadron returned to the camp.

After a day of light marching, everyone was a little tired. Fortunately, today's dinner was not combat rations.

The logistics team built a smokeless bonfire in the camp and cooked a meal with fresh ingredients.

A big pot of stew with fresh vegetables and meat, and the staple food is fragrant white rice.