booktalesy Chapter 93 Complete Loss
Chapter 93 Complete Loss
Chapter 93 Complete Loss
"Reporting, sir, Line 6 has fallen! All soldiers have been killed in action!"
"Report—The right flank forward defense line has been breached! The sky is full of drones; the breach can't be closed!"
"Line 5 is requesting backup. They're about to collapse. They say it's all drones, no humans! They can't see a single person!"
"Report—Artillery Battalion 1 and Artillery Battalion have lost contact. Frontline observers report that a swarm of combat drones has just flown toward the positions of these two artillery battalions—"
A forested area south of the exercise area.
The atmosphere in the Blue Team's command center was incredibly tense. The operators' voices grew increasingly urgent as they continuously received intelligence from the front lines.
On the huge screen in the middle, dynamic graphics of the entire defensive line and positions are displayed, along with real-time video recordings of some key positions.
They had spent over ten hours building what was once a green defensive line and position, but now it was being rapidly lost as if hit by a tsunami.
Following this trend
Before dawn, the Red team's offensive will reach the Blue team's command post and sweep away their entire territory.
"Commander, we can't hold on much longer!"
The chief of staff, sweating profusely, ran to Xu Zelin's side with an analysis report in hand. His voice was strained as he said, "In less than ten minutes, not counting the artillery battalion, more than 1300 soldiers have been killed on the front lines. Our defenses and positions simply cannot withstand the onslaught of these drones."
Artillery fire!
Immediately order the 3rd and 4th Artillery Battalions to launch mobile artillery fire!
We must now relieve the pressure on the enemy's forces by attacking their weaker side, slowing down the Red Army's drone offensive and giving the soldiers on the front lines a chance to regroup!
"Mobile artillery fire now means certain death!"
"Land wheels can't outrun propellers in the sky. Once the two artillery battalions are exposed by shelling, they won't survive more than twenty minutes!"
Xu Zelin shook his head and said, "The First and Second Artillery Battalions have already been killed in action. The remaining Third and Fourth Artillery Battalions cannot be sent away so easily."
"Didn't headquarters give us 20 fighter jets during the exercise? We were to load them with missiles and bombard the Red Team's rear positions."
"Sir, this is a fighter jet. Once it carries ground-attack bombs, its flexibility and combat effectiveness will drop sharply."
The chief of staff said with a wry smile, "The Red Army also has fighter jets. If our fighter jets dare to go into battle armed like that, they'll be sitting ducks."
"All their methods have been completely exposed!"
Xu Zelin took a deep breath and clenched his right fist: "Our cable net interception, trenches, shotguns, and target practice—have none of these worked?"
"no."
The chief of staff's face darkened further when he mentioned this: "This drone is too fast and too agile; the flying target shooting method is like buying a lottery ticket."
As for the shotgun, the drone's bombs were designed by someone who was extremely malicious, using a power-off trigger design. As long as the power is cut off, it will explode immediately.
This shotgun can't hit targets at long range, and it deliberately detonates the bomb when close.
In the end, only the combination of cable nets and trenches provided a decent defensive effect—but our deployment was insufficient, and the entire defensive line collapsed!
Speaking of which...
The chief of staff paused for a moment, his expression silent, and said, "The exercise video released by headquarters showed that the drone only had a speed of 80 kilometers per hour. We took precautions and conducted training and deployments at a speed of 150 kilometers per hour."
But the drones participating in the exercise here—
It's not very clear in the dark, but you can be sure there are two possibilities.
One type is an infrared-recognized drone with a speed of 180 kilometers per hour, which can instantly reach 250 kilometers per hour when diving.
Another method was to destroy the FPV drones of the artillery battalion. At the time, we had an observer who measured the speed of the drones during the attack, which was 260 to 280 kilometers per hour.
It is estimated that the speed during the dive attack could reach 350 kilometers per hour, which is equivalent to a high-speed train rushing towards your face.
"280 kilometers of rushing to the event, 350 kilometers of sprinting downhill —"
Upon hearing this, Xu Zelin loosened his fist and rubbed his throbbing temples: "I was wondering why headquarters was suddenly so kind as to give us an extra 5 hours to set up the position."
It seems they saw our released video of the exercise and our arduous, targeted training, and realized we'd made a mistake. They're giving us more time to make the exercise more balanced.
Who would have thought that the drone video released by headquarters for the exercise was just a casually taken shot and did not represent the actual combat parameters of the drones?
Of course, even if one knows.
He had no choice but to accept it.
After all, according to the rules of the exercise, they are not allowed to gather any intelligence about the Red Team.
The drone videos released by headquarters are their only way to understand the Red Team's new equipment. Even if the training is ultimately misaligned, it's still better than not training at all.
"Using drones loaded with bombs and employing a piece-trading tactic, the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) on the red side has really taught us a lesson —"
Xu Zelin looked at the retreating Blue Army formation, then at the drone swarm captured by the low-light camera, took a deep breath, and his eyes suddenly became resolute: "Send the order! Use the defenses that haven't been breached on a large scale as the front line, and have them keep a close watch on them. Don't let a single drone cross the line."
"The troops in the middle and rear lines behind the front lines should abandon all support for the front-line positions, concentrate their efforts on expanding the scope of the cable nets, and prepare infrared smoke grenades as well."
"As long as it's dawn! Drag it out until dawn!"
"Once it gets light and the sun rises, the drone's infrared recognition will weaken by more than 90%. At that point, we can jam the signal and cut off communication, and the advantage will be back in our favor!"
Although it can now interfere with signals and cut off communications, this is a tactic that applies equally to all people with equal technological capabilities.
Because if you use interference, the other party will also use interference.
This means that if the Red Team's drone's wireless communication is cut off, its own wireless communication will also be cut off.
In such a dark and chaotic environment, without wireless communication, relying solely on the fixed telephone at the base, their entire command would be 90% blind.
If the Red Team comes up with new tactics, their command post might be destroyed without them even knowing how it was destroyed.
Xu Zelin didn't believe that the Red Team could use remote-controlled drones on such a large scale without any preventative measures against signal interference.
The best time is still to wait until dawn.
At that time, neither side will have wireless communication, and the daytime environment will be used to suppress the infrared recognition of the red team's drone, while the other side will gain good daytime visibility.
With one side gaining and the other losing, the tide of war might just turn.
"Tank battalion! How's the tank battalion at the front?"
"Gone! All gone! Hundreds of drones came crashing down at once, and they were all wiped out after only two shots."
"How's the infiltration battalion and the infiltration teams doing?"
"Out of contact! The entire squad is out of contact! These things have infrared recognition, and in the dark it's like they've got a map cheat code; there's no way we can get past them. We didn't even see a single red team member before the drones killed us!"
"Hold the line! Defend the line! Reinforcements are on their way!"
"Everyone spread out 30 meters before firing. Listen carefully to the sound. If the sound suddenly becomes sharp, it means a drone is diving. Immediately take cover and shoot them with your shotguns."
"This drone will explode if you hit it. When shooting at it with a shotgun, you must quickly drop to the ground, otherwise the system will judge that you did not take tactical cover and will be killed by the explosion."
Buzz—
At the front lines, drones swooped down one after another, and the sounds of gunfire and artillery rang out continuously.
The soldiers on the Blue Force's position, relying on the trenches, used machine guns, rifles, and shotguns equipped with blank rounds for the exercise to fire wildly at the drones in the sky.
However, such firing was no match for the continuous drone attacks from the Red Team.
Almost every second, drones would land on the position, followed by the deaths of five or six, or even more than a dozen, soldiers.
Ring ring—
At that moment, the landline phone, which was being used to transfer orders from the command center to the front lines, rang.
The communications officer standing nearby immediately answered the phone, said a few words, and then notified the front-line commander to come over.
"Command center, this is the front line!"
Covered in grass and mud, and reeking of gunpowder, frontline commander Chen Gang rushed over and picked up the phone.
"Is reinforcements arriving? We only have less than 800 men left, and we're about to collapse!"
"Frontline! Without support, you are the last line of defense on the front lines—"
The command headquarters has issued a secret order: For the next five minutes, you must hold the line at all costs. Do not allow a single drone to cross the line. Buy time for the rear to establish positions! Repeat! For the next five minutes, do not allow a single drone to cross the line —”
No support?
We must hold out for another five minutes and not allow a single drone to cross the line.
Upon hearing this order, Chen Gang's expression changed drastically, and he instinctively looked at the swarm of drones in the sky.
Why can't they let one of these land-based soldiers pass by when they're trying to stop a bunch of flying things?
Why don't we turn them into superheroes, charge over to the other side, beat up the Red Team commander, and give him a big promotion?