Mecha and Knife

When Tu Yuan, who had been unable to contact Ji Rong Xinyue, couldn't help but contact Ji Xinghe, he finally heard Ji Rong Xinyue's voice.

But not to him, but to the Independent Corps.

"There are all of them, immediately enter the No. 3 jump base."

When this order was issued, the Independence Regiment still had more than 200 Zanshanjia outside the base, chasing and killing those imperial mechas that had no time to retreat to the interior of No. 3 base.

At this time, the three independent regiments on the battlefield of the Gods Mountain had already begun to retreat under the order of Ji Xinghe. The remaining Guards Battalion Duke A had a chance to stand out from the encirclement, but was chased and killed by the Xinghe team led by Ji Xinghe. It was a foregone conclusion, but Aida Kang still did not appear, nor did he use nuclear weapons.

Tu Yuan understood the meaning of Ji Rong Xinyue's order in an instant. In short, it was a combat goal - to defend the Empire's No. 3 transition base.

Although Tu Yuan couldn't hear the conversation between Jirong Xinyue and Xingyue, the contents were all within his scope of thinking. He can naturally think about the problems that Xingyue is worried about, and he can think about them more comprehensively.

But he did not change Ji Rong Xinyue's order as the supreme commander of the second war zone.

On the one hand, it is because Ji Rong Xinyue himself has this authority. In Ji Xinghe, he took all the captains of the independent regiment to support the Shenshan theater, and Chen Xun, the chief of staff, had already participated in the war, and Liu Mian, the deputy chief of staff, was transferred to the second place. In the case of the temporary commander of the theater, no matter in terms of military rank, level of mech warrior, or identity, Ji Rong Xinyue, an eleven-year-old child, has sufficient authority to command Operations of the Independent Regiment on the frontline battlefield.

On the other hand, because the communication status was intact at this time, Ji Xinghe who was fighting could clearly understand Ji Rong Xinyue's order, including Ji Rong Xinyue's thoughts and reasons for not telling Tu Yuan.

With the strategic thinking ability that Ji Xinghe has clearly demonstrated, how could he fail to see where the biggest risk lies in the combat goal of "defending the Empire's No. 3 transition base"?

Ji Xinghe didn't even stop him, so why did he, Tu Yuan, stop him.

When Tu Yuan, Ji Xinghe, and Liu Mian did not change Ji Rong Xinyue's order, the independent regiment immediately gave up the battle to wipe out the Imperial mechs and other arms on the surface, and divided into two teams to enter the No. 3 transition base. entrance and exit.

The entrance and exit that did not choose to attack was the one that Wu Chen tried to break open before. After being temporarily sealed by the empire, it was then blocked by the second theater. There is no possibility of it being reopened in a short time.

The battle to capture the Empire's No. 3 jump base did not change as quickly as the entire army of the independent regiment rushed into the base, because the base was not suitable for mecha combat. But the Second War Zone doesn't really only have the Independence Regiment, and the Independence Regiment is not just mecha fighters now.

Ji Rong Xinyue's order was perfected by the headquarters, and the non-mecha combat units that had already attacked also started fighting regardless of casualties, striving to capture the Empire's No. 3 transition base as soon as possible.

These arrangements and changes were very fast, and even the Xinghe team led by Ji Xinghe failed to annihilate the remnant Duke A of the Guards Battalion who fled at full speed.

"Report, an imperial mecha was found in the second canyon, the coordinates are..."

When he heard the report, Tu Yuan knew that Aida Kang was here, maybe it wasn't Ada Kang himself, but there was not much difference.

It is already equivalent to the second war zone occupying the entire second canyon, and the enemy's situation was quickly confirmed.

"Thirty-six Prince A planes are heading towards the Empire No. 3 jump base, and we cannot intercept them."

Tu Yuan frowned.

It wasn't because they couldn't be intercepted, it was inevitable from the very beginning, not to mention the thirty-six Princes, even the thirty-six Dukes, the Second War Zone couldn't intercept them at this time.

Only mechas can deal with mechas. This sentence may not be true, but it is not bad. Now that the independent regiment has entered the Empire No. 3 transition base, there are not many formation-level mechs in the second theater. What can be used to block them?

Nuclear weapons may not be able to completely annihilate them. Needless to say, conventional firepower weapons, it is very difficult to lock them.

And if the Independent Regiment does not enter the No. 3 jump base, the Imperial Prince A squad, which is not very afraid of nuclear weapons, will inevitably choose to use nuclear weapons to wipe out the vital forces of the Second Theater as soon as possible. At that time, it will not only be the Independent Regiment that will be lost, but also the first team. Other units on the front line in WW2 zone.

The anti-nuclear attack option of the independent regiment is actually the best anti-nuclear attack method for other units in the second theater who cannot enter the Empire No. 3 jump base and cannot complete the evacuation in a short time.

The empire had to consider the federation's counterattack, and naturally it would not easily use nuclear weapons against a non-mech force with less than 30,000 people.

There were two reasons why Tu Yuan frowned: there were only thirty-six Prince Armors, but there were thirty-six Prince Armors.

The former is because the reconnaissance units and combat units in the second theater only saw thirty-six Prince A running at full speed, but did not see nuclear weapons and launch devices, nor did they see the miniaturized leap gate device.

In the case that the empire had used the transition mechs before, it is indeed possible that nuclear weapons or miniaturized transition gate devices are hidden inside the thirty-six prince armors.

However, if the power of nuclear weapons is to be released to the maximum extent, they must be launched. Considering the terrain, the lethality of directly exploding on the ground is relatively limited. The earth is always the best barrier against nuclear strikes.

In terms of Prince A's size, it is possible to hide nuclear weapons, but it is unlikely that it can hide launchers.

Although the miniaturized jump gate device does not require a launch device, the process of starting it can be interfered with, and the Federation already has experience in this regard.

So in theory, the Federation has a great chance to block the thirty-six or thirty-four Prince A.

No matter how capable they are, when they are in the federal occupation zone and there is no jump gate to allow them to retreat quickly, being defeated will be a foregone conclusion.

This is one of the reasons why Tu Yuan frowned. When did the empire become so rich?

The Royal Guard Mecha Battalion composed of three hundred Duke Armors was already doomed to be wiped out. Under such circumstances, the Empire sent another thirty-six Prince Armors. Are you really not worried about being annihilated by the Federation?

Tu Yuan didn't believe that the dukes of the empire walked all over the place, and the princes had as many armors as dogs, even though the empire had tungsten steel alloy and tungsten steel gold formulas.

This is not a question of whether it can be created, but a question of the rational use of resources.

If the ten tons of tungsten steel gold that the Federation captured with Ji Xinghe before was used in exchange for ten tons of tungsten steel from the empire, if it is used to build a national soldier-level mecha (Prince Armor), it can only build three at most, but if it is used to make nuclear weapons The key components of fusion reactors, propulsion engines, energy main guns and other devices, no matter how they are used, have greater strategic significance than the three princes.

The role of mechs is mostly at the tactical level, unless it is a specific situation, a specific mecha, or a specific mecha warrior if you want to reach the strategic level.

For example, in large-scale battles, the top-level mechs will carry out the battle to break through the formation, destroying the enemy's anti-missile positions, artillery positions, front-line command posts, important equipment and storage related to communication and logistics, and bring relative advantages to one's own side.

Or in a team battle of mecha forces, break up and kill through the formation of the enemy's mechas, destroy the enemy's top mechas, and give the mecha fighters of their own side a chance of victory.

In the current war between the Federation and the Empire in alien planets, the Empire has lost its advantage in ground combat. The main reason for this is not Ji Xinghe and his independent regiment, but the Federation's increasingly powerful air supremacy and the replacement Later battleship main weapons.

Therefore, in the eyes of people like Tu Yuan, if the empire wants to reverse the situation, it can only create a large number of main-class space battleships to form a space fleet that can forcibly break through the siege of the sky under the blockade of the federal space fleet.

If Tu Yuan was Emperor Wudi III, he would definitely give up manufacturing a large number of mechas and weapons used by other ground combat units, and use tungsten steel alloy to build an indestructible space battleship, or even a space battleship made of tungsten steel alloy. After breaking through the federation's air blockade on alien stars, the flames of war will be covered to Azure Star.

Judging from the fact that the number of high-level mechs that the empire participated in was not as expected by Tu Yuan and others, and that the investment was increased due to the independent regiment, it can also be inferred that Emperor Wudi III is likely to be implementing such a strategic idea.

But this does not mean that the top-level mechs are useless. It is impossible to stop the ground war on the alien planet. Even if the space battleship of the empire really goes to the blue star, the empire's jump base on the alien star is also very important to the empire. . The federation's offensive will be more ferocious than before, even like it was more than 20 years ago, with the ambition of death but not life, unplug the empire's leap base at all costs.

Therefore, Tu Yuan felt that Aida Kang's action was abnormal and must be fraudulent.

"Immediately send reconnaissance units and combat units to where they came from, no matter what they bring, destroy it for me."

"yes."

A staff officer asked: "Their target is obviously the Independence Regiment and Colonel Ji Rong Xinyue. Should Colonel Ji Rong Xinyue be allowed to retreat first?"

Compared with the independent regiment, Ji Rong Xinyue's tactical value is much lower, but because of Ji Xinghe, Ji Rong Xinyue actually has strategic value.

Even if Jiao Gongye, the commander of the Guards Battalion who was already dying, hadn't mentioned this before, the staff could still tell.

Tu Yuan shook his head.

"Ji Rong Xinyue has her own judgment."

Eleven-year-old children, their own judgment?

Although Ji Rong Xinyue has proved her combat effectiveness as a mecha fighter, she has become the youngest mecha fighter in the federation, and also the youngest mech fighter in the federation for the second, first, special, ace, and sub-galaxy ranks. , and the top-level tactical thinking ability demonstrated when implementing the non-standard tactics of the Independent Regiment No. 1.

But when it comes to the strategic level, it is difficult for adults to have enough trust in Ji Rong Xinyue.

A staff officer reminded: "Commander, Colonel Ji Rong Xinyue is only eleven years old."

Tu Yuan frowned again, he really didn't want to explain the reasoning: for example, Ji Rong Xinyue could not obey his orders, for example, Xingyue could change armor with Ji Rong Xinyue, for example, Ji Xinghe hadn't expressed his opinion until now...

But the staff's worries were also very reasonable, so he still explained.

"Today is New Year's Day in 2094 in the federal calendar, so Ji Rong Xinyue is twelve years old."

"???"

Is there a difference between eleven and twelve years old?

When people were surprised and stunned by Tu Yuan's words, another change occurred in the frontline battlefield of the second theater. When the thirty-six Imperial Prince Armors were about to reach the entrance and exit of the No. 3 jump base with an unstoppable posture, a federal mech rushed out from inside.

Champion Hou?

Champion Hou!

Everyone was shocked, and no one expected that Ji Rong Xinyue, who ordered all the independent regiments to enter the interior of the jump base, would run out in a mecha by herself.

Could it be...

No one would think that Ji Rong Xinyue was looking for death, even though he was about to face the champion of thirty-six princes alone, it seemed that there was no possibility of surviving.

But she is Ji Rong Xinyue.

Whether she is only eleven or twelve years old, she has already proved her talent and strength far beyond ordinary people. Even if it is because of age, lack of sufficient strategic thinking, it is not possible to make a completely unreasonable "court death" behavior.

While people panicked, they all had some kind of expectation, although the hope was very slim.

But she is Ji Xinghe's granddaughter.

It was too late to issue any orders, and they all knew that it was useless to issue any orders at this time. Thirty-six Imperial Prince A and the Federation's Champion were already within the visual distance of each other.

A miracle is about to happen?

When this idea came into being, the glaring light had already exploded from the position where Champion Hou was, and at a speed that people had no time to think about, it covered all sight lines that could observe the frontline battlefield.

Communication was interrupted.

The technical soldiers in the command center of the second theater completed the operation with trembling bodies, and the last scene on the frontline battlefield that could be observed before the light covered everything appeared on the big screen.

An Imperial Prince A launched a missile at Champion Hou.

The appearance looks ordinary, but when it hits and explodes, it produces a sun-like light and an electromagnetic pulse that can interfere with most communication devices.

Everyone's breathing stopped.

Nukes!

The empire used nuclear weapons on Jirong Xinyue, just like it did to Ji Xinghe.

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ps: yesterday.