Macho Wars

Therefore, in the past several landing operations conducted by the Imperial Army, the navy was responsible for personnel transportation and fire support, while the army was responsible for carrying out raids on the beach.

Due to relatively elementary tactics and lack of experience, landing forces often have to suffer huge losses.Especially when facing beachheads with a complete coastal defense system, there will even be the first batch of complete annihilation.

Therefore, in the impression of many army officers and soldiers, landing operations are basically no different from sending them to death.

Fortunately, the middle and lower-level officers and more than half of the soldiers in the First Armored Battalion were veterans who had seen the battle. Although everyone was resisting, they were far from mutiny.

In addition, Dragoon came forward to explain in time that the formal landing operation would have to wait a few months, and they were only taking a ship to occupy an unsuspecting islands as a transit point for the fleet, and everyone's emotions calmed down.

But Dragon also knew that everyone's panic was not without reason.The most dangerous aspect of amphibious warfare is the beachhead. The defender generally sets up one or more artillery positions in the inland beyond the range of the fleet to cover the beachhead with firepower. Landing troops can only charge against the shells.

High-level military commanders naturally did not want to deploy a strike brigade composed of elite soldiers and soldiers, and at the beginning of the landing, they were maimed by the enemy with artillery on the beach.For this reason, the Military Intelligence Department sent a large number of spies to the colony of Wirante to conduct field surveys of its coastal areas and find suitable landing points.

And Dragon can't help but sigh secretly in his heart, if the world's science and technology tree can point out the aircraft carrier and aircraft earlier, it would be great!

Chapter 127

When Dragoon passed through, he was wondering why the world could build cars, ships, and airships, but never made airplanes.

It wasn't until he finally had the opportunity to see the real thing of the guidance engine that he finally understood where the problem was.

The so-called guiding force engine, its overall structure and working principle are similar to the electric motor on the other side of the earth.From the inside to the outside, it can be divided into three parts: the core part with runes in seal, the running cabin made of lead, and the outermost steel sleeve for reinforcement.

The magic metal used to make the core components has a density equivalent to seven times that of lead.

After the engine is put into the magic spar, the inner magic circle will automatically convert it into magic elements, and then pressurize it into the running cabin to create a "high magic environment" that makes the shaft rotate at a high speed to generate driving force.

There is only one way to increase the horsepower of the engine, and that is to increase the concentration of magic power in the cabin.This leads to the stronger the engine's horsepower, the larger the volume, and the doubled weight.

Take the guiding engine used by the Tusk tank as an example. Its standard output horsepower is 320 horses, but the engine weight is as high as 850 kilograms.

In contrast, although the rotating cylinder engine used by the World War I aircraft on the other side of the earth has only one or two hundred horsepower, its own weight does not exceed two hundred, and the thrust-to-weight ratio is higher than the thrust engine.

Therefore, in the foreseeable future, the sky of this world will continue to be dominated by airships for a long time until a breakthrough in related material technology is achieved.

The twelve Griffin-class transport ships headed all the way north, from their starting point to the unnamed islands. The military planned a route of about 7,000 kilometers. With an economic speed of 11 knots in the Griffin class, they would still It takes at least two weeks at sea to reach the destination.

On this road, the eight Hurricane Eagles aboard Expedition One gave full play to their talents and provided a strong guarantee for the secret sailing of the fleet.

These giant eagles with excellent vision can spot targets dozens of kilometers away at an altitude of two kilometers, and then use tweets to remind the fleet to avoid them.Even Colonel Anakin, who was not optimistic about these big birds at first, changed his original attitude and praised them as excellent aerial scouts.

After three days of sailing, the transportation fleet smoothly moved away from the busy main route and entered the waters of the Northern Ocean.After the initial commotion, the officers and soldiers began to adapt to the leisurely but very boring sea life.

Except for physical training twice a day to prevent a decline in physical fitness, everyone else is basically in a state of boring idleness.

Most of the grassroots officers and soldiers spend these time playing cards and basking in the sun, and some people get fishing tackle from the crew to fish for the giant eagles.

Whenever a group of big soldiers saw Fu Mi, who was responsible for taming the giant eagle, they would cast envy, jealousy and hatred at Dragon.In the minds of these soldiers, the battalion commander who was on the expedition with his wife was like a honeymoon.

Dragon naturally knew what dirty thoughts were in the skulls of these soldiers, so in order to maintain his prestige in front of his subordinates, he offered to let Fu Mi live with Tafi, and was taken away by others. Kaishuan.

Before leaving, Dragon had visited the bookstore in Port Pandora and collected several expedition books on the human geography of the Northern Ocean, and successfully found some information related to the unnamed islands.

Different from the information provided by the military, although there are many exaggerated misinformation and folklore in the works written by these folk explorers, through analysis, Dragon still found some useful information from it.

In particular, one of the weird legends about the "Flying Eagle of the Wind God" particularly aroused the interest of Dragon.

According to legend, the Unnamed Archipelago consists of eight islands, large and small. One of them is called "Fengshen Island" by the local indigenous people. It is inhabited by an ancient monster, which is suspected to be a species left over from the era of high magic hundreds of years ago.

This kind of monster giant eagle has the habit of living in groups and has a strong sense of territory. They regard the entire unknown islands and the surrounding vast sea as their own territory and attack any intruder who dares to step into it.The local indigenous people regard these monsters as their guardian deities and sacrifice a batch of newborn girls as tributes every three years.

However, this weird legend has not been taken seriously by the military, because the unknown islands are located far away from the world’s major commercial routes, and even those smuggling ships that specialize in remote waters rarely pass through the vicinity. Most of these sensational legends From the mouth of some drunken old seamen, the credibility is not high.The military couldn't find a "monster attack" that could be confirmed, so naturally they didn't believe in the existence of a flying eagle.

Even if there are, the Griffin-class transport ships with a full load and displacement of less than 10,000 tons will not bother them at all.

Before departure, each of these transport ships was equipped with four dual-mounted 37mm anti-aircraft artillery and two single-mounted 57mm high-level dual-purpose ammunition guns. Even if they encounter heavy airships, they can be beaten in minutes. sieve.

Such ample firepower made the military confident, but Dragon always had an ominous premonition.

Soon another week passed, and two-thirds of the voyage had passed theoretically.The captain of Expedition 1 was surprised to find that thanks to the monsoon and ocean currents, they were much faster than originally planned. It is estimated that they will arrive at their destination within one to two days.

For many officers and soldiers who have long been tired of boring life at sea, this is the best news they have heard these days.

At this time, Colonel Anakin made a request that when they can see the islands tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the 1473 ships of the expedition should leave the team temporarily and make a round trip around the islands so that his team can survey and map them.

Dragoon objected to this, and should send the ship’s materials and soldiers ashore before going around the island.It is a pity that the irritable Colonel Anakin couldn't listen at all and insisted on doing what he said.

Dragon didn't know until later that Colonel Anakin was also an adventure lover.According to the current internationally recognized rules, whoever can complete the surveying and mapping of unknown areas can obtain the right to name.

At present, the vast majority of explorers are busy staking their country in the New World. Therefore, the unnamed islands in the remote waters of the Northern Ocean have made Colonel Anakin a big bargain. Second chance, leave your name on the world map.

So two days later, the fleet arrived in the target sea area, and the giant eagle scouts hovering in the air quickly confirmed the accurate position of the island and led the fleet to approach the largest island among them.

The three transport ships named by Colonel Anakin left the brigade and started circling the island westward.

The colonel commanded his team to set up a whole row of various telescopes and instruments on the side of the ship to carry out related surveying and mapping of the island.

The surveying and mapping work went smoothly at the beginning, and the three transport ships marked the exact locations of the three islands on the nautical charts on the first day.And when they detoured to the north side of the archipelago the next day, some scattered thatched huts began to appear in the field of vision, and it was clear that the island was inhabited.

For this reason, Colonel Anakin sent people ashore in a small boat, hoping to catch a few local indigenous people for questioning.

It is a pity that the locals fled to the inland as early as when the transport ship first appeared.

But Dragon found something interesting in this pile of garbage.

"Huh? Isn't this chopsticks?"

Picking up two small wooden sticks that had been obviously cut, Dragon made two gestures between his fingertips, quite sure that this was a pair of chopsticks.

This kind of tableware is only used by the East Qin people on a large scale in the Shenci Continent, and it is mostly used in other countries.

Colonel Anakin also clearly recognized this thing, his brows suddenly frowned, and he asked whether this archipelago had already been preempted by the mysterious eastern country?

"Major, what do you think?"

"I don't think it should be Dong Qin's official family. You see these things are so shabby, maybe they are just some refugees who ran out of Dong Qin."

"But it is thousands of kilometers from the mainland of Eastern Qin to here, and it also spans two-thirds of the ocean. Can some refugees have this ability?"

"Then I don't know, after all, I am not one of those refugees either."

Dragon shrugged at Anakin. At this time, the communications officer rushed in and reported to Anakin that the troops that had landed earlier had been besieged by a large group of indigenous troops about ten minutes ago.

The enemy has thousands of people, most of whom are equipped with cold weapons such as swords and guns, and a few flintlocks.

Fortunately, the sentry found out in time, the troops rushed to the enemy to approach, set up two crossed heavy machine gun positions, and dispatched several tanks.

Facing the imperial army's overwhelming firepower advantage, the invading enemy was almost wiped out, leaving behind a crushing corpse in front of the heavy machine gun position.