Chapter 460 The First Support Army
Zeus thought about it and it did make sense. Given the current situation where the resistance was in imminent danger, it was good enough for them to be able to hold on in the forest. It was completely unnecessary to worry that they would leave and not be able to find anyone.
Xius' eyes were determined. Time was running out, so he decided to try this plan first.
"Ash, how many of the Banshees are available to fight now?"
"Twenty regiments will do."
"War Corps?" Xius was stunned. Seeing Nini eager to try, he remembered, "War Correspondent Corps, how is your selection going?"
Nini hurriedly said: "Everything has been selected, but the organization of the regiment consists of a banshee and many cathars. Now the cathars definitely can't go to sea."
"So twenty Banshees?"
"That's not counting the medical team. All together, there are probably more than eighty of them." Nini pondered for a moment, and then communicated frantically with Ash in the mind link for a long time before replying.
"This number of people are willing to go to the battlefield - in fact, everyone wants to go out and have fun, but some people have to stay in the Banshee duty room, and people have to stay at Castel's shipyard. Tata really needs us to provide first-hand information on the sinking of the ship. People have to stay at Richard's shooting range as well."
Zeus nodded. "Eighty people are more than enough. Let's divide them into groups and take turns. The number of Winter Wolves is only a few hundred. I think a group of twenty Banshees can easily defeat them."
"No need!" Nini raised her head proudly and put her hands on her waist. "Each of us can be counted as six human hands. Twenty banshees have a total of 120 hands. One banshee can defeat ten!"
Xius was stunned, almost frightened by her math skills: "But a person also has two hands, you doubled the calculation."
"I can change magazines with one hand, but Winter Wolf can't!"
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Zeus finally decided to let the banshees swim along the coast to the north.
The reason why extraordinary people cannot go to the battlefield is that they cannot compete with the army, but if there are enough extraordinary people to form an army, then the situation will naturally be different.
"You should bring more ammunition and supplies. There is no need to rush for weapons. Weapons do not require such high-intensity firepower output to deal with pistol cavalry. Instead, firepower sustainability is more important."
Xius thought about it carefully, and added: "You should try to contact the resistance as much as possible, and send important intelligence back in time. We are in great need of battlefield intelligence now."
"About intelligence." Nini frowned. There was no problem in asking her to fight or provide support, but gathering intelligence was not what the banshee was good at.
Banshees can indeed communicate with each other using symbiotic contracts, but their size and the fact that they are an alien race means that they can never carry out infiltration missions.
"I'll try my best to contact the Ash Alliance or the Resistance. It won't be a problem to send the intelligence back in time. Going to the town to get information? Spare me." Nini wagged her tail in annoyance, and suddenly remembered something:
"If we join the battle like this, will it attract the Candlelight Society?"
"Let them come." Hughes sneered, "Remember to tell them where Castel is, so they don't get lost."
The memory of being killed on the spot by the candlelight is still vivid in his mind. Zeus's favorability towards this Vatican is basically negative.
But after thinking about it, Hughes looked at Richard and asked, "How many extraordinary people will the Candlelight Society send? Are they a big threat to the Banshee?"
The Fire-Chasing Moth is an old rival of the Candlelight Society. Richard answered without hesitation: "The Candlelight Society usually sends an investigator to deal with anomalies. It's good enough for them to have one or two extraordinary people in a parish. In the disaster more than ten years ago, all the investigators who could go were urgently mobilized. There were only a few dozen people in total, right? And most of them died there, and it may not be possible to replenish them now."
Xius was a little surprised. "You mean there are only a few dozen extraordinary people in the Holy See?"
"More than that, there must be hundreds of them - these are the extraordinary people in plain sight."
Zeus nodded. It seemed that the Banshee was indeed a very powerful supernatural force.
"And the Banshee has a great advantage in fighting against the Investigator."
"When the Banshee and the investigators fight head-on, they basically crush each other in every aspect, except that they don't have any means of tracking. I estimate that it will take two to three investigators to fight one Banshee."
Richard pushed his monocle and said, "Also, Banshees have a characteristic. As the number of people increases, their combat effectiveness will increase rapidly. Mind link and shared life may seem like auxiliary abilities, but they will be of great help in actual combat."
Zeus knew this, as he had already studied the advantages of the Banshee in combat.
"So, my 100 banshees are almost equal to the entire Candlelight Society?"
Richard didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "That's not the case. It's actually very rare for extraordinary people to fight head-on. You rarely send extraordinary people to fight head-on on the battlefield, right?"
Indeed, Zeus had long felt that the Banshee's mind connection and the Nymph's self-binding were far more useful than their own combat power.
"That is, for Nymphs like us who are difficult to track, the Candlelight Society will send investigators to contain us. If they encounter cultists like Mira, the church will actually use mortal armies to deal with them."
"The extraordinary are never the protagonists on the battlefield."
Hughes nodded.
"So the infiltration of the Candlelight Society can only stop lone extraordinary people. There is no good way to deal with the organized Banshees. I am relieved. Ash, you can organize a Banshee team to support the North."
"Okay," Ash nodded simply.
"This is basically the content of this meeting. The expeditionary force will also make corresponding adjustments. I will notify the relevant persons in charge one by one later. Let's adjourn the meeting first."
After everyone left, Xiusi rubbed his brows. To be honest, the situation in the north was somewhat beyond his expectations.
In fact, the main problem is intelligence.
Castel's intelligence lag is really a big problem.
Castel had no foundation in the outside world, and most of the information about the expedition to the North was provided by the prince.
Although the prince supported Castel unreservedly in terms of intelligence, the limitations of this era itself were too great.
The prince has a mature intelligence system, and relevant intelligence is sent regularly from the North, but the information received is always seriously delayed.
For example, the news about the resistance army was delivered directly from the North by Isaac's men at full speed. They were extremely lucky along the way and had almost no obstructions, avoiding all troubles.
But even so, the lag time of this information is almost fifteen days.
The prince usually receives relevant intelligence about a month later, and this is when his intelligence system is reliable and everything goes well, which is actually quite good in this era.
There is no way around it. The distance is far and the information can only be transmitted by human flesh and blood. It would be a miracle if it could be transmitted quickly.
This one-month-delayed intelligence can be used to revise the expeditionary force's advance plan, but if you need emergency assistance like you do now, go ahead. The reinforcements will arrive in a month and a half.
This restriction was too great. For a Blue Planet that had long been accustomed to transmitting information via the Internet and radio waves, where a plane might fall today and videos might be flying all over the sky tomorrow, Hughes naturally found this medieval speed of information transmission unbearable.
Moreover, always relying on the prince to provide information actually has some hidden dangers.
No, we have to build the radio station as soon as possible.
A month's journey may seem far, but for a shortwave radio station it is just a matter of a few reflections in the atmosphere. In this era there is no radio interference, so the radio effect is estimated to be surprisingly good.
Radio stations are not considered high-tech, but with Castells' current level of industrialization, it has basically reached the threshold and can give it a try.
Xius plans to draw a schematic diagram now and ask a researcher to help him solve the problem.
However, Xiusi's heart suddenly moved and the pen in his hand stopped again.
“Is this radio safe?”
"There is the body of the sea god in the sea, so there must be something in the atmosphere as well, right?"
"What if my radio station picks up some bullshit?"
(End of this chapter)
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