It's not just taking up arms and going to the front line to participate in a war. The more modern the war, the more countless people are serving the war in the rear, far away from the war.
The war machine of the Elanshir Empire includes the intelligence department, the analysis department, and of course the technical department, production department, etc.
Even the obstetrics and gynecology department in the hospital is serving the entire war. Their daily job is to increase the population of the Airanhill Empire so that the empire can still maintain population growth despite the war, and even achieve rapid population growth.
In the busy analysis department, the staff are busy in front of their computers. Compared with the dark basement headquarters, this place is like a paradise. However, for the people who work here, this is also a battlefield and an important place.
battlefield.
"The use of puppet combat robot troops on the front line should be reduced as much as possible. They are not very flexible and the losses are too great." An analyst pointed to the number of losses just calculated on the computer screen and said to his colleagues around him.
The analyst sitting next to him touched his chin with his hand, stared at the numbers above for a while, and nodded in agreement: "This loss is indeed greater than previously estimated. We should be more cautious when using puppets on the front line.
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Previously, the top military officials of the Airanhill Empire believed that the use of puppet robots could effectively reduce the casualties of frontline soldiers.
The staff believes that under effective fire suppression, the disadvantages of the slightly bulkier puppet robots will not be highlighted, because in the previous wars carried out by the Airanhill Empire, the tasks performed by the light infantry were often basically not related to cleaning the battlefield.
What's the difference.
Under the combined fire suppression of missiles, artillery and bombers, the enemy basically did not have the courage to resist, and surrender became the only option.
In the face of these surrendered enemies, using puppet robot soldiers to clear and custody them is actually completely sufficient, and there is no need to use precious personnel to perform similar tasks.
But now it seems that the war with the Watchers is obviously much more cruel. The previous combat experience of the Airanhill Empire is completely insufficient, so the losses of the puppet troops have greatly exceeded expectations.
The enemy's firepower is also very fierce, and it can suppress the long-range support firepower of the Elanshir Empire to a certain extent. This means that the combat puppet robots have to be forced to face the sweepers alone. It is not surprising that they are at an overall disadvantage.
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Another analysis room held some information and put it on the large desk, and participated in the discussion: "In comparison, the clone troops are obviously more cost-effective. Although they are more expensive to produce, they also have ethical risks, but
Obviously the combat effectiveness is stronger."
Their job is to talk to each other, deduce the conclusions closest to the facts, and then submit them to the Imperial Staff.
As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles. The meaning of their existence is to try their best to help the top military officials of the Elanthir Empire to become familiar with the enemy as much as possible and formulate a more reasonable battle plan.
"That's right, if we continue to use bulky puppet robot infantry on the front line, they will become food for the Watcher troops." The analyst who initiated this topic found a chart from the table and clicked on a few people.
on the table in the middle.
Above that is a statistical icon of the density of one's own firepower and the loss of one's own personnel. The two lines intersect eye-catchingly, representing the big data analysis that the smaller the density of supporting firepower, the greater the loss of one's own personnel.
At this time, the section chief who had been listening to their discussion asked: "There is intelligence that shows that after swallowing artificial objects, will these guardians accelerate their reproduction?"
After hearing this question, everyone shook their heads. Because they could not prove the connection at all, and even if there was, many people were unwilling to admit it.
Eating the opponent's corpse and then using it as energy to create another sweeper sounds like a frighteningly cruel statement.
"There is currently no definite information linking the two, but we are conducting experiments in this area." One of the researchers shook his head and explained to his superior.
Another staff member hurriedly found a few copies from a pile of documents and placed them in front of the section chief: "Higgs 5 provided experimental data in this area. They captured some sweeper soldiers.
However, their experiments were very crude and the data obtained were very one-sided.”
As he spoke, he also retrieved relevant information from the computer, including video data from previous interrogations of injured sweeper soldiers.
It can be seen that the background of the video is still very rough. It should be a temporarily found room, not a professional interrogation room.
In fact, there is indeed no such research and interrogation hardware prepared on Higgs 5, because before the Airanshir Empire is sure that its enemy is the Watcher, it is not even sure whether the enemy will come back.
However, this problem of being unable to systematically study one's opponents gradually became more and more concerning as the war with the Watchers broke out.
You can't always not understand your opponent, right? You can't use the blood of countless soldiers to forcefully replace an enemy's weaknesses, right?
The problem is that it can definitely be replaced, but if the empire falls into a passive position at the end of the battle and the enemy's weakness is not found, wouldn't it be embarrassing?
After briefly introducing the data, he continued: "General Andre and others have no way to conduct prisoner experiments systematically, and the other party does not cooperate. In addition to introducing their own troops, there is no progress in interrogating the other party.
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After finishing speaking, he added unwillingly: "The other party is not afraid of death at all, nor is it afraid of pain... Because they are surrounded, they cannot send the prisoners out and hand them over to us."
Seeing that the section chief in charge of them frowned slightly, the leader of the team sitting next to him immediately explained: "We are improving the situation, and we are seizing the time to transport the equipment to Higgs 3.
A brand new interrogation room and laboratory will be built there..."
"The Intelligence Bureau is also investing, hoping to establish a more comprehensive intelligence collection center on the front line." He said while adding his own opinion: "My idea is: if the conditions worsen, capture the prisoners as much as possible
Send it to the rear for systematic research."
The section chief shook his head and rejected this opinion: "The intelligence department is afraid of exposing the rear combat readiness and leaking the star map coordinates, so they are not willing to let us transport prisoners to other regions."
The team leader was stunned for a moment, but then he felt relieved and nodded in agreement with the section chief: "Putting the safety of the empire first... It is indeed right to be cautious. It seems that I was careless."
The section chief continued: "So, based on the existing intelligence... we submitted a report to the staff department, and most of the conclusions in this report were based on reasoning."
This is also an important reason why the leaders of the analysis department are very dissatisfied with their work: the battle has been going on for more than a month, and they are still relying on sporadic enemy intelligence to make assumptions, and the conclusions they draw are only of reference value.
It has absolutely no importance in influencing the outcome of the battle.
Ever since the founding of the Elanshir Empire, they, who are part of the General Staff Department, and the intelligence department, which is a parallel unit, have never looked so incompetent.
Even when facing the demons back then, or facing the Magic Empire earlier, the intelligence work of the Elanthir Empire has never been as embarrassing as it is today.
"We recommend minimizing the use of wrapping paper, bullet casings and other military materials that are easy to leave as artifacts on the front line as much as possible." A team member expressed his opinion: "General Luo Kai attaches great importance to this."
Indeed, this opinion has been submitted to the military headquarters before, and has also attracted the attention of the military's top brass. The Imperial Ministry of Airansil is also making a series of arrangements and adjusting some details.
"The military is also urgently arranging procurement in this area. According to changes in battlefield conditions, the staff department is looking for ways to transfer puppet troops equipped with electromagnetic rifles to the front line to reduce the use of puppet robots using traditional assault rifles on the front line," he said.
, while citing several examples: "In addition, digestible materials will also be used for frontline material food packaging as soon as possible. Although it will affect the integrity of the packaging and may also affect the taste of the food, this new material can minimize the risk of caretakers.
Possibility of devouring.”
Speaking of this, there are actually a lot of complaints. Because digestible packaging is more expensive, and the strength of the packaging bags is not as good as plastic.
This resulted in many military supplies being damaged during transportation, and some food packaging was damaged and then distributed to frontline combat troops. Soldiers who received these poorly packaged food supplies were called "fragile goods."
Some transport soldiers graffitied words such as "handle with care" on the containers of such transport goods, and even some senior military officials criticized this.
But this is war. As long as it can weaken the enemy, it is worth trying. Such packaging is easy to handle. It dissolves when it comes into contact with water. When it rains, nothing will be left.
"There is too little genetic sequence analysis data for the Watchers, and Higgs 5 does not have complete equipment." The team member responsible for genetic investigation and analysis complained in a low voice.
After complaining, he also realized that his requirements for Higgs 5, which was still surrounded and in a difficult situation, were a bit too harsh, so he immediately changed his words to praise: "But they still provided some preliminary data. The other party is a magical creation.
There is no genetic sequence, so the possibility of developing genetic weapons against the Watchers is very low."
"The poisons we tried on the remnants did not get any feedback on their effects. We have no way to observe whether the Watcher troops will be poisoned." Then he added some attempts at active poisoning.
Before the arrival of the watchers, the Elanshir Empire had painted poison on the building materials of the defense line, and even deliberately mixed potassium cyanide and other highly toxic substances into the food left behind.
The result was very frustrating, because the poisoning and death of the enemy could not be investigated at all, so the poisoning plan came to an abrupt end, and even the subsequent development of genetic weapons was affected.
"Increasing energy weapons and electromagnetic weapons on the front line is a positive way to deal with the enemy's devouring." The section chief nodded and said in agreement.
Indeed, electromagnetic weapons and energy weapons can greatly reduce the use of bullet casings. While saving materials, they can also reduce the possibility of enemies swallowing bullet casings to strengthen themselves.
Although the speculation that the energy after devouring it will be converted into the descendants of the Watcher troops and continue to be added to the combat troops has never been confirmed, this speculation is now becoming more and more mainstream and has been accepted by many high-level officials.
"Another plan is to ensure that our troops are engaged in offensive operations on the battlefield as much as possible." At this time, the team leader said again.
He looked at his section chief and solemnly emphasized: "Let the opponent have no chance to clean up the battlefield and let the opponent have no chance to come into contact with the artificial objects. This can greatly reduce the total amount of items the opponent swallows."
"When it comes to offensive operations, we have to mention the issue of our air supremacy! The empire has never lost battlefield air supremacy in the atmosphere before, but now the enemy's air force seems to be stronger." The section chief exhaled helplessly and mentioned
solved the issue of air supremacy.
His question was very pointed, and many people's faces suddenly showed embarrassment. No one had thought before that the first person to have problems was the air force that the Airanhill Empire relied on the most.
"The Prowler fighter jets suppress our J-30 fighter jets in terms of numbers, but the F-16 and F-15 fighter jets we have accumulated over the years are no match for these Prowler fighter jets," a team member explained.
He paused and then said: "What's even more fatal is that even if we activate a large number of J-30 fighter jets, we cannot guarantee victory on the battlefield."
"Because the empire has never lost battlefield air supremacy, many of our data need to be recalculated." The team member responsible for data compilation and calculation scratched his hair dejectedly, as if he wanted to tear them all off: "The old calculation model cannot
After using it, it will take a long, long time to reset the parameters and design one!"
"There's no way...the model has been broken! The system no longer exists, which is a headache." Another analyst rubbed the bridge of his nose and complained depressedly: "I reset the calculation
The model can only be used with difficulty..."
"Although there is no data to support it, the number of anti-aircraft missile reserves must be increased, at least to two to three times the original level!" The team leader said again: "In other words, it is recommended that every infantry regiment has
It is necessary to equip self-propelled anti-aircraft guns to ensure the safety of ground operations. It is also necessary to equip some more anti-aircraft missiles..."
"Have you recorded the contents of this discussion? Sort it out and send it to the Military Department, the General Staff Department, and the Intelligence Department..." The section chief glanced at the secretary who had been taking notes and gave instructions.
"Yes!" the secretary agreed without raising her head.