Macho Wars

"Please speak, Mr. Colonel."

"Isn't the enemy's coastal defense unit equipped with heavy firepower? If it is my defense, I will deploy as many artillery as possible behind the coast, determine the firing points in advance, and focus on this section of the beach. Our main naval ship They are all big ships, and they can’t get too close to the shore, and they may not be able to reach these artillery positions.

The question of Dragon caused a discussion among some officers present.Some people think this is not a big problem. The beach is only tens of meters wide. A fully armed soldier is fully capable of running over in 15 seconds.

In such a short time, the cannonball broke through the big sky and went out for the first round of pre-loading.If you rush up and get involved with the enemy, you don't have to be afraid of shelling.

But those with actual combat experience don’t think so. Those who have experienced large-scale trench warfare know that sometimes the enemy’s front may be only 30 to 40 meters apart, but there are batches of soldiers who are not afraid of death. However, they were unable to break through the enemy’s defense

A few tens of meters does not seem to be long, but it is already the distance that can determine the life and death of many soldiers.

Although the armament level of the Sapphire Principality is not high, at any rate, there is the support of the Creek Federation behind them. They must have some big guys like heavy artillery.

In order for the landing troops to succeed, they must find a way to solve these things before the attack begins.

So Dragon got up and marked a point on the battle map, about five kilometers south of the landing site, but the staff officer frowned when he saw it, because the place was a cliff with a vertical height of more than ten meters.

"Leader Li, you don't want to change the landing field here, do you? Although there are no enemy bunkers there, it is a cliff!"

"No, I don't mean to change the landing field, but before the landing operation begins, a small group of elites will be dispatched from this place unconsciously ashore and touched inland. In order to figure out the position of the enemy's artillery position We also need the cooperation of the local resistance organizations, so that they can send people to touch them in advance so that our talents can start."

"Infiltration surprise?"

"exactly."

Chapter 263

Regarding the task of infiltrating behind enemy lines, Dragon asked Henry, the commander of the Expeditionary Force, to take the initiative, hoping to hand it over to his subordinates.

The investigation company of the independent regiment directly under the regiment is a trump card in Dragon's hand.The company commander is Captain Roebuck, who has been following Dragoon to the North during the invasion of Wieland, and is one of his most powerful subordinates.

The company has two hundred people, and the members are either experienced veterans or outstanding recruits in recruit training.They have strengthened many professional skills on the basis of the original training subjects.Such as disguised penetration, sabotage and beheading, these are their strengths.

In order to distinguish this special force from the general scouts, Dragon also gave them a special code-a powerful reconnaissance company.

Henry knew that Dragon had such an elite group of elites, and after thinking about it, he agreed.

Dragon suggested that his strong detective company act 24 hours in advance.You can ask the colony's seal team to borrow some of their semi-submersible boats and take this very concealed transport vehicle to dock on the coastal cliff.

The Strong Detection Company has conducted special training for rock climbing, and the mere cliffs over a dozen meters high can't stand them up.

Thanks to the fact that the Principality Army did not build fortifications on this side, and only deployed a small number of patrols, the strong reconnaissance company could easily avoid these small groups of enemy forces.

After the meeting, Henry asked Dragon to stay alone, and there were some things that needed to be discussed with him alone.

The two came to the office upstairs. As soon as Dragon entered the room, he found that there were two big men in the office.

One is General Owen Flagg, commander in chief of the Colonial Military District, and General Howard Barano, commander in chief of the Northwest Military District in the Empire.Because Dragon didn't know Howard had come to the colony beforehand, he was somewhat surprised when he saw him.

"Lee, you came just right, we just talked about you, General Howard is very interested in your troops."

Because of the confrontation exercises, the Marine Corps trained by Dragon has become famous in the military.Howard had a rare visit to a colony, and Owen naturally had to make a push in front of the old elders to show off.

Howard didn't pay much attention at first, thinking it was just an ordinary exercise.

Similar situations are not unheard of in local military exercises. Basically, the trump card of the military region has played against the third-line local garrison. There is a huge gap in the quality of personnel and weaponry between the two sides.

However, Owen quickly explained that in this confrontation exercise, at least on the paper data, there was no obvious gap between the two sides, and even the defeated side still had this considerable military advantage.

The equipment of the two parties participating in the exercise is of the same level. The recruits are recruited from the same batch and have the same training time. The difference lies in the training methods.

Howard was aroused some interest.

And Owen took the initiative to introduce this to him, not just to show it off.

As early as the end of the confrontation exercise, Owen had already planned to promote Dragoon's training methods to the entire colony to enhance the overall combat effectiveness.

However, in many cases, military reforms cannot be easily promoted by simply relying on a good idea.

In view of the fact that the central government of the empire has always been taboo against the arbitrariness of the local military districts, even if Owen is the commander of the military districts, he dare not make drastic reforms of the existing military system. .

It happened that Howard came to the New World for the expedition to the colonial military area, and he himself can be said to be the leader of the reformists of the Imperial Army.

Over the past ten years, Howard has been committed to military reforms because he discovered that although technological advances have made weapons and equipment more advanced and more powerful, the combat effectiveness of the troops has not been born with soul bones.

This makes Howard believe that the empire's army is in urgent need of a top-down, thorough and complete revolution!

However, most of the high-level leaders in the military and political circles of the empire are conservative diehards. These old guys have the right to speak and almost instinctively reject any form of change.It is not so much that they are holding on to the deficiencies, but it is better to say that they are afraid that the reform will change the existing distribution of rights and thus lose part of their own interests.

Although Howard is said to have a high position and is highly regarded by His Majesty the Emperor, the group of forces that have no choice but to oppose him is too large.These guys are really anxious, they can do everything.

They even dared to play the black hand against the college graduates of the year, so howard is still missing him?

Therefore, Howard, who knows he can't beat him, can only take the second place and find a way to "curve the country".

He figured out a way to send two old friends, Irving Flagg and Henry Martini, who belonged to the reformists, to the colonial military area and let them conduct small-scale experiments here.

of course!The situation was not ideal at the beginning.Although the colony is far from the center and has the least resistance, this ghost place is also the poorest.Owen and Henry wanted to carry out reforms, but they could only sacrifice the interests of some people and pool the funds that were originally insufficient.

This is why the 90th Division he was in was so poor when Dragoon first came to the colony.

Fortunately, the two veteran generals never gave up, and Dragon's standout allowed them to finally find the reform talents they hoped for.

According to Owen and Henry's ideas, they will then introduce a new training model to the newly formed colonial forces.As the founder, Dragon must have a deeper understanding of this new model than the old man they used directly.

Only then did Dragon understand that Henry specifically asked himself to come over, dare to ask him for help!

At the same time, in the Far East of the Old World, the Sapphire Principality had just learned of many trends in the empire through "special channels."

For the imperial army's "retaliation", they had already prepared both actions and psychologically.

The Sapphire King even specially encouraged his courtiers and generals to think better.Although the overall strength of the empire is far stronger than them, after all, it is impossible to concentrate all military forces to attack the Principality of Sapphire.

As a defender, they are located in the remote Far East. As long as they do their best, they may not be able to severely inflict these invading enemies on their own territory.

Once they defeated the imperial army that came from the labor force expedition, or even wiped them out, the international reputation of the new sapphire kingdom will surely increase with it, and it is not impossible for them to be promoted to a first-class country.

With such a dream in mind, the Sapphire King immediately began a nationwide mobilization, massively expanded his army, and prepared to have a good two moves with the Imperial Army in the Far East!

Chapter 264

Time is always fleeting without knowing it. The New World colonies located in the temperate and subtropical regions finally ushered in a scorching summer in July.Forced by the heat and scorching heat, people put on thin and cool summer clothes one after another, letting themselves wear as little as possible.

However, the army chose to "maverick" at this time, and ordered hundreds of thousands of thick winter clothes from major bedding factories in the colony.

The military did not deliberately conceal operations. A large number of personnel and heavy equipment were transferred to the Zhibo Dan Islands far in the Northern Ocean, where they were assembled on standby.

At the beginning of March, Dragon's independent regiment was first transferred to the 11th area, followed by the other two regiments of the Marine Brigade.In order to catch up with this expedition, the two regiments have reduced the original 36-week training period to 28 weeks.