"I hope there will be some veterans!"
"If there are some new recruits here, it will be the end of us."
Ke Qian sighed.
"I think it's unlikely. How could the group's veterans be used in such a place?"
"The battle here has turned into a mess. The elite veteran group won't be willing to leave them here!" Jiang Lou sighed.
"The main reason is that Dagger Servants are not suited to fighting underground. The environment down there is not suitable for them to perform well."
"I drove my mecha down here for a stroll a few days ago. This place is perfect for a knight's squire to perform."
"If they were all veterans, we could achieve a good exchange ratio, but if they were all new recruits, it would be hard to say." Ke Qian said, shaking his head.
"If the veterans don't come, you can just transfer us away!"
Li Xin, who had been listening for a while, had a question in his mind: "Since it's so difficult to fight underground, why not just blow up here?"
"This steel mill has been destroyed. It's probably no longer of any use."
"The enemies are all underground. If we just blow this place up, won't they all be buried underground?"
Jiang Lou shook his head and said, "This is not something we can decide."
"This is decided by the people above."
"You think we want the ruins of the Behemoth Steel Works. But what we actually want is something only they know."
Ke Qian also nodded repeatedly.
Ke Qian also added: "Besides, this steel plant is not so easy to blow up. The structure underneath is quite complex and has a very high safety level."
"Even if we use a high-yield nuclear bomb, it's hard to say whether this place can be destroyed. If we use other methods, it will be even more difficult."
"Unless we use ship-borne weapons, but due to the electromagnetic environment and subspace storms outside the planet, no ship dares to go up there."
"Alas, this kind of place can only be filled with life."
"How many people died here before?" Li Xin asked anxiously.
Ke Qian patted Li Xin on the shoulder and asked, "Do you know how many mecha support teams there were at Base No. 3?"
"Wasn't there nine before?"
Li Xin thought of what Lu Quan introduced when he came here.
"Of course not. Director Lu is an M3-level defense director. How could he only be in charge of nine mecha support teams?"
Ke Qian, who was standing opposite Li Xin, explained, "You haven't been here long, so it's normal that you don't understand. I guess Lao Jiang hasn't told you about this either."
"Lu Tou is the defense director of M3, and Jiang Xin and I are both M1-level team leaders. Don't you notice anything wrong?"
After Ke Qian said this, Li Xin finally reacted.
"Why is there one level missing?"
"Yes, there is one level missing, and there is an M2 in the middle."
"In Base 03, besides our mecha unit, there is also the armored unit of the expeditionary force."
"These armored mixed forces are lucky. Most battles are handled by Heng'an Defense. The difficult ones are the ones that end up with our mecha forces, so they have a lot of free time."
"That's a bit off topic. Previously, there were two mecha squadrons within Base 03. The commanders of these two mecha squadrons were both M2-level, and each squadron also had 10 mecha support teams under its command."
"In other words, our original dispatch force, at full strength, should have consisted of two mecha support squadrons, totaling eighty mechas."
"Why is there so little now?" Li Xin asked in surprise.
"It's because of this place..." Ke Qian sighed and looked at the projection of the Behemoth Steel Plant map in front of him.
"Are all the others killed in the battle? There are eighty mechas, and you can't be the only ones left, right?" After hearing what Ke Qian said, Li Xin suddenly felt that the Behemoth Steel Plant was too dangerous.
This casualty rate is too high!
"How is that possible? What are you thinking?" Jiang Lou interrupted Li Xin's guess.
He said, "The last time we took over the Behemoth Steel Works, the casualties were indeed high, but not as exaggerated as you might think."
"Of course, the losses were not small. We lost more than 20 mechas, leaving both squadrons incomplete."
"So, when there was no fighting some time ago, the incomplete teams were transferred back to replenish the troops."
"Our squadron hasn't been very lucky either. After another squadron was transferred away, the squadron leader was killed in a battle a while ago, along with his direct combat team. That's why we only have so few people left in our squadron."
After Jiang Lou finished explaining, Li Xin had a better understanding of the current situation.
But the fear in their hearts has not diminished at all. The casualty rate is too scary, and this is a mecha unit.
Taking over the Behemoth Steel Works resulted in a direct loss of a quarter of its production.
The squadron that Li Xin is in now is not lucky either. They did not retreat to replenish troops, and the commander was killed in battle.
"No wonder he's an M3-level supervisor, directly commanding the mecha troop. I thought the mecha troop had higher command authority."
"In this way, replenishing the troops is no longer a matter of speculation, but a certainty."
"I just don't know what level of troops are coming to support us."
"This is really a headache."
Li Xin was thinking about it, but his thoughts were all random for a moment.
His rank is really too low. He is still at the bottom of the food chain of this mecha unit. As an intern who has just been converted to a regular employee, he has no rights.
Although Li Xin had achieved victory in the previous two battles, he could even hang two silver medals of bravery and swords on his chest.
But that doesn't prevent him from having no say in this army for the time being.
Jiang Lou sighed and said, "The battle at the Behemoth Steel Plant has already turned into a mess. I don't think any elite veterans will be sent here."
Li Xin asked in confusion, "Shouldn't experienced veterans be used in this kind of battle to reduce casualties?"
"If all of them were new recruits like me, the casualty rate would be high, and the value of the mecha would be high!"
Jiang Lou shook his head and said, "Because it's a bad battle, the probability of elite troops being deployed is low. Once in the underground, the survival rate of veterans is not much higher than that of new recruits."
"There must be passages left by Milda on the outskirts that can support the enemy forces underground."
"An elite veteran pilot is worth more than a mecha. If he dies here, what will happen to the rest of the battles?"
"On the contrary, here, mecha pilot recruits who survive a few battles become veterans. You can even trade them for veteran knight squires. It's a great deal."
Li Xin's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "Mecha pilots are worth more than mechas themselves, so why are our salaries so low?!"
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