From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 487: Disappointing Attack Preparation

If we look at the battle situation map of Rubion V, the 16 cities controlled from north to south by the "Renaissance Alliance" led by Franklin actually form a very large long strip of area after connecting their actual controlled areas.

This is also the basic route of the "Revival Alliance", which is to control large cities to obtain more resources and population. Moreover, the defensive resilience of large cities is much stronger than that of general targets. To some extent, it can be regarded as choosing an advantageous "position" for possible defensive operations.

Since General Lampard's armed forces set their sights on the Renaissance Alliance, they have taken control of the industrial areas and satellite cities around these cities. Although they cannot control all the industrial areas due to lack of manpower, they still control most of the valuable areas.

As for those areas that could not be completely controlled due to lack of manpower, "General Lampard" did not hesitate to order damage that could not be repaired in a short period of time, regardless of the fact that there were also a large number of residents near these areas.

As a result, the residents who lost their food supply were forced to flee to cities controlled by the Restoration League, which further increased the difficulty of management and the tension of material supply for Franklin and his team.

Although General Lampard's forces could not completely encircle the Renaissance Alliance, they still actually restricted their external expansion.

There was basically no gain from occupying those destroyed industrial areas or satellite cities. On the contrary, the further expansion of the defense area led to an increasing shortage of troops, which was obviously more disadvantageous than advantageous. Therefore, Franklin and his team gave up this plan after obtaining the field survey information sent back by the reconnaissance team.

Therefore, the only areas that can be expanded are those actually controlled by General Lampard, but this reveals another problem.

They can't defeat the defenders in these areas.
At the same time, the middle position of this "long strip" control area of ​​the Renaissance Alliance is also a strategic point. If it is attacked and broken through, the entire control area will be divided into two. Therefore, Franklin, based on the advice of his staff, also deployed heavy troops for defense here.

This resulted in a further reduction in the number of troops available to participate in combat offensive missions.
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33 kilometers west of the edge of Mitala city, the advance team assembly area of ​​the Second Attack Group of the Renaissance Alliance.

Captain Jenny, the commander of Company A of Battalion B, the combat reserve of the Second Attack Group, looked at the team that had assembled and then dispersed and hidden behind the woods, frowned, and shrank back into the armored command vehicle.

He patted his deputy, Lieutenant Kent, the executive officer of Company A, on the shoulder and asked:
"Didn't they say at the battle mobilization meeting last night that they would reinforce us with an anti-armor platoon? Why is there no sign of it until now?"

The anti-armor platoon mentioned by Captain Jenny refers to a platoon-level unit composed of four "Iron Cavalry" medium-sized multi-legged tanks. The configuration of two 4 straight/curved dual-purpose electrothermal chemical guns + two plasma guns is the standard basic anti-armor configuration of the Renaissance Alliance's ground forces.

At the battle mobilization meeting the night before, the command, while assigning the task of serving as the 'advance team' to Company A, also promised to add an anti-armor platoon to increase their firepower.

By the way, although the current ground forces of the Renaissance Alliance are a large number of mixed military and police forces, their organization, command system, and habits are still based on the galaxy garrison forces, or the "old traditions" of the Federal Army.

Before the battle started, the forward command post assigned a battalion-level force, which was to serve as the combat reserve, to send out a company as an 'advance team'.

Different from the 'vanguard' that most people are more familiar with, the 'vanguard' is a small force sent out by the forward attack battalion after the battle begins, deployed in the front, left and right directions of the attack arrow.

The "advance team" is to enter the dynamic environment far away from the main force's firepower and support nodes to fight the enemy before the battle begins, to carry out the task of expelling and alerting the enemy, and to create conditions for the subsequent main force to launch an attack.
Normally, a mechanized infantry company would be dispatched to carry out this mission, so the task of this "advance team" naturally fell on Captain Jenny's company.

As a former garrison officer, Captain Jenny had no objection to this arrangement.

But he was very dissatisfied with the fact that the anti-armor platoon that was supposed to be reinforced had not yet arrived.

Lieutenant Kent, the executive officer who was busy at the command terminal, opened a new window after hearing his complaint and said unhappily:
"Can't come. Just received a message, this anti-armor platoon was 'intercepted' and reinforced to the forward attack battalion." "I'm so mad! Why are these bastards from the forward attack battalion trying to intercept us again?!"

Captain Jenny got angry all of a sudden: "It was the same thing last time. We ended up running into a mixed group of the enemy's 'Iron Cavalry' and 'Wolf Spiders', and we almost couldn't get out!"

Seeing that Jenny was getting too angry, he grabbed the communicator and was ready to call the front command to complain, but Lieutenant Kent quickly stopped him.

"Will it be useful if you file a complaint? Don't you think about who the commander of the forward attack battalion is a close confidant of? Do you think you can win the lawsuit against him?

Besides, there are only 10 minutes left before the scheduled departure time. If I delay because of this, I will be blamed by the front command."

Lieutenant Kent's words quickly calmed Captain Jenny down.

He thought of the battalion commander of the forward attack battalion. He was a direct descendant of a certain officer in the basic command post, a direct descendant of the commander of a brigade-level unit. It would be a thankless task for him to file a complaint with his status.

"Well, Mr. Franklin is such a good man, why did he recruit such a bunch of parasites into the team?" Captain Jenny said a little frustrated, looking a little lonely.

Seeing his appearance, Lieutenant Kent felt unhappy, but he still fulfilled his duties as a combat adjutant. He remained calm at this time and said:
"Don't think too much, brother. These things are not something we two can consider. What you need to do now is to calm down and command, complete the mission with everyone, and then withdraw."

"Well, you're right. I shouldn't be disturbed by these things at this time."

Captain Jenny nodded, calmed himself down, sat in the main command seat of the armored command vehicle, and opened the combat map.

"Let's be careful this time. The front command was so stingy that it only sent one company to carry out the drive-out and annihilation alert, and it was our mechanized infantry company.
I really don't know what they were thinking. They were all just poking their heads into the bushes, but could it be that our infantry were more durable than HCPs or main battle tanks?

Even if we take a step back, if you have some mixed units of medium-sized multi-legged and light-sized multi-legged weapons, their combat effectiveness will be much higher than ours."

The outspoken captain could not stop complaining, and Lieutenant Kent beside him could only respond with a smile:

"The Army's combat regulations require the use of a mechanized infantry company as the 'advance team'. The frontline commander is just following the regulations. Why are you so angry?"

"Isn't this typical dogmatism? Considering that so much time has passed since the war between the Federation and the Empire, it's time to update the combat experience to keep up with the times, right? Obviously, the advantage brought by heavy armored units as 'advances' is far greater than the advantage brought by the mobility of the mechanized infantry company!"

During the communication between Captain Jenny and Lieutenant Kent, Company A also began to move under the command of the former. Nearly 20 wheeled armored vehicles drove out of the assembly area in a marching formation and headed towards the enemy-controlled area as the target.

But soon they were intercepted by the first line of defense.

(End of this chapter)