Chapter 1296: Fighting on the battlefield and taking back the center (3)

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

Although there are jokes about the navy getting new ships, the air force getting new planes, and the army getting new rubber shoes, no one will underestimate the importance of the army, it's just that the emphasis is different.

But on Alyssa's side, the army has almost no development. They have never thought about things like military camouflage, carrying equipment, tactical vests and other army-related things.

After all, most of the wars are fought with warships. It cannot be said that there are no army landing operations, but the proportion is very low.

In the final analysis, it is still not taken seriously, so it looks very slotted.

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

This picture is really hard to comment on.

The Swan maintained fire support while slowly moving forward. Because its posture was tilted, the height would inevitably decrease as the distance lengthened.

After all, the Swan is not a professional assault landing ship. If you want to use artillery to support the bottom, you really have to tilt your posture.

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

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

After almost half an hour from the establishment of the front-line position, the Swirlwater 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 with white tail smoke, bypassed the hills in front, and hit the enemy in the rear.

And the scale of artillery preparations became larger and more fierce.

The Red Maple Republic Army tried to recapture the position, but was blown up.

Of course, they would also fight back, and the artillery positions on the back of the hills also opened fire. The two sides met friends with artillery, and the fight was very lively.

The front-line base was temporarily built, and at this time, some soldiers of the Rotating Water Federation began to seize the enemy trenches under the cover of firepower, holding weapons such as shotguns, rocket launchers and even flamethrowers.

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

The remaining enemy soldiers were quickly swept out of the trenches. Some people tried to raise their hands to surrender, but the Rotating Water Federation did not accept prisoners now.

After all, they were fighting a tough battle here, so how could they care about prisoners?

At this time, looking up at the sky, you can see another large group of things like flying fire meteors falling from the sky, but they are too small and do not look like assault landing ships.

That is an orbital airdrop pod, which is the so-called orbital parachute.

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

No matter how cheap the cost of assault landing ships is, once the number increases, it will still be too expensive to bear. Moreover, the docks for building assault landing ships have to build real warships, and there is not much production capacity allocated to them.

So cheap, large-capacity and simple-structured orbital airdrop pods came into being.

I have complained about the war on Alyssa's side before. They used the technology of the interstellar era, but played the tactics of the First World War and the strategy of the Second World War.

So compared with the current style of emphasizing high-tech information warfare on Earth, Alyssa's side still adheres to the concept of large-scale combat with large fleets.

After all, the technology tree is different, and it is really impossible to generalize.

Orbital airdrop pods are 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 atmospheric thermal barrier and descend to a suitable height, the armor plates will open and fold in the opposite direction into the shape of a cannonball downward.

The soldiers in the airdrop chamber will be thrown into the air at this stage, and the parachutes will be opened one by one. The airdrop chamber itself can be used as a kinetic artillery shell to hit the enemy below, literally hitting the face with an airdrop.

For a while, 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 to advance into the trenches.

Of course, the Red Maple Republic Army will not watch stupidly, and various anti-aircraft guns or anti-aircraft machine guns will aim at the top and shoot.

The casualties during the landing process are also very serious, no less than those who rush down headfirst in an assault landing ship, but under the suppression of a huge base, the number of casualties is not to the extent that it will affect the combat.

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

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

This is mainly because the size is too large.

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

And think about it, the smallest warship, the Swan, has four or five hundred crew members at full strength, and warships like starships have a team of more than ten thousand people to maintain and guarantee them.

Tens of thousands of casualties are just a dozen ships.

Not to mention anything else, Li Chengxi alone has killed more than a dozen warships. If converted into human lives, it is not just his hands covered with blood, it is basically bathing in blood and free swimming.

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

Anything will happen as long as the base number increases, no matter how small the probability is. Moreover, the air defense of the battlefield now mainly relies on machine souls and hand-operated anti-aircraft guns. In addition, the Swan is also covering firepower. More and more paratroopers have successfully landed, directly dropped the parachute ropes, gathered nearby with weapons and attacked the Red Maple Republic's front.

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

The two sides fought for trenches one by one. Sometimes they suddenly encountered enemies at a corner and had no time to shoot. They directly smashed with the butt of the gun, used firearms as cold weapons, and sometimes even directly grabbed the opponent's neck and killed the enemy with all the methods they could.

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

On this side of the hill, the Swan and the assault landing ship that completed the landing mission needed to fly to the other side of the hill to continue fire coverage.

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