The storm that lasted for several days finally stopped, and finally a sunny day came. He Xiangdong stretched his almost moldy body and slowly walked out of the dormitory. The harsh sunlight shone on his dark face, making him instinctively turn his head to avoid it.
open.
This place is located in the tropics. Although the sun has not risen for long, it is very hot.
After his eyes adjusted to the strong light outside, he raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and a modern port came into his sight.
This is the new base of the Buha Island garrison, located at Sidan Port on the west coast of Kalidan, one of the most important strategic nodes in the northern capital.
Xidan Port was originally just a simple fishing port. Except for the hydrological conditions, it was almost useless. The reason why it has developed to this stage is because Beidou placed the orbital elevator here.
From then on, Sidan Port was out of control. Whether it was materials sent from the mainland or goods transported from space, they had to be transferred through Sidan Port. The small fishing port became the largest in Calitan and also a strategic location.
The most important port, bar none!
Since Calidan is located in the tropics, it is the frontline against aliens. To ensure the safety of the orbital elevator, the military has stationed two entire brigades here!
These two brigades are not second-line troops newly built after the outbreak of the war, but actual first-line combat troops. There are hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles alone, aircraft, missiles and artillery, and even a batch of powered armor.
But it's just a batch.
In the past few years, there have indeed been calls to expand the power armor force, or even equip the entire army with power armor.
But the military soon realized that although power armor is good, it is not a panacea, and it is simply unrealistic to fully equip them with power armor.
The first is the cost issue. Even in today's wartime system, the cost of power armor remains high. This alone limits the scale of power armor equipment.
Secondly, powered armor is just a light weapons platform. To put it bluntly, this thing is just an enhanced version of infantry. Although it is mobile and flexible, it still has a huge gap compared with traditional land combat units and cannot replace tanks and armored vehicles.
Thirdly, Beidu's current army is the largest in the world. Just equipping each soldier with a rifle is an astronomical unit of expenditure. Not to mention equipping the entire army, even if it only equips one percent of the troops, it is still measured in millions.
Not to mention Beidu alone, even if all the countries in the world united, they would not be able to build so many powered armors within ten or twenty years.
Various factors combined, there are very few purely powered armor units in the combat order of various countries. Only the orbital airborne troops of the Space Force, the airborne troops of the Air Force and some elite troops of the Army have this treatment. Other troops can be equipped with a small amount of power armor.
It can be called an elite teacher.
In contrast, powered exoskeletons are both economical and affordable, and have been equipped on a large scale by combat troops in various countries, including the Sidan Port defenders.
Within He Xiangdong's line of sight, there was a group of engineers wearing powered exoskeletons. They lifted the heavy box like strong men, flicked it casually, and threw the box far away without any effort.
This kind of sight is so common in the Port of Sidan that other people are used to seeing it, and no one pays attention to these humanoid cranes at all.
He Xiangdong's eyes turned to the east. Under the dazzling sunshine, the orbital elevator went straight to the sky. Just as a sky train entered the station, a ray of sunlight was reflected by the car, leaving a faint stain in He Xiangdong's eyes.
He instinctively squinted his eyes, and his gaze on the cable stretched upward, but he could not see the end of the cable... Except for the extremely gifted pervert, no one could see the low-orbit dock outside the atmosphere with the naked eye, unless
The sun shines at just the right angle!
Suddenly a distant whistle sounded from the direction of the dock. He Xiangdong turned around immediately, and his eyes immediately froze - outside the port, a scarred giant ship was slowly docking under the guidance of a tugboat.
In the port, countless people and vehicles rushed towards the pier, including more than a dozen ambulances with warning lights flashing.
He Xiangdong's good mood disappeared and he looked at the dock solemnly.
He wanted to go there and have a look, but the task assigned to him by his superiors was to guard the port. His duty was to guard against sneak attacks by the insect swarms, not to rescue ships docking at the port.
There are many professionals at the dock. No matter what problems arise with the ships docking at the port, there will be dedicated people to take care of it. If he joins in half-heartedly, he might be doing a disservice.
The giant ship finally docked at the pier, its sides slowly opened, and soon it was set up on the pier, turning into a bridge for entering and exiting the cabin.
The staff who rushed to the dock immediately rushed into the cabin, and the ambulance drove directly in. Within ten or twenty seconds, the first ambulance drove out of the ro-roll wheel and drove straight ahead amid the piercing sirens.
Sail out of the port.
The camp of the port defenders was on the side of the port exit, guarding the main entrance to the port. The departing ambulance passed by not far away. He Xiangdong silently looked at the ambulance leaving in the distance, in a daze.
He Xiangdong sighed: "This is the seventeenth ship. The aliens have been too rampant recently, right? Where are our warships?"
Several giant ships dock at Xidan Port every day. Although there is a naval escort, from He Xiangdong to here, not a single giant ship docking at the port is intact.
According to the base command, these ships were attacked by aliens at sea.
He Xiangdong knew that aliens were not living well recently, but he had never heard of aliens attacking passing ships at sea, and he was confused as to how the aliens attacked.
It wasn't until he got detailed information about the attack that he learned that the main force of the attack was flying servants.
They usually hide near the shipping routes and quietly follow passing ships after spotting them. After focusing on enough servants, some of the servants attack the escorting warships to attract firepower, while others take the opportunity to attack the ro-roll wheels.
The tactics of the aliens are quite good, but unfortunately the power of the mercerized light is a bit low. It is not that easy to high-five a giant ship of 10,000 tons, and there are also self-defense weapons on the roll-off wheels. So far, only one giant ship has been sunk by aliens.
It was the first giant ship to be attacked by aliens. In addition to supplies, there were more than a thousand military dependents, hundreds of technical personnel and their families on board the giant ship. It can be said that the losses were heavy.
After that, the military learned from the experience and greatly strengthened its escort force. At the same time, it also made necessary modifications to the giant ship. Since then, no giant ship has ever been sunk by aliens.
However, the alien attacks have not stopped, and have become more and more serious. Each giant ship docking at the port is more serious than the last. If this continues, it will not take long for the second giant ship to sink.
