Chapter 306, Check the Situation
Ruggie Likoshi was one of the few people whose rank did not decrease in the process of transferring from the Alliance Army to the Astra Militarum Legion and becoming a member of the Angry Bear Legion.
For example, Yan Fangxu was supposed to be the head of the corps, at least a brigadier general, but in the end, Gallardo made him the second in command, with only the rank of colonel. Compared with his official rank of major general under the alliance system, he dropped two levels.
Li Kexi was much better. He was originally a colonel in the Alliance. When he was transferred to the Star Army, he should have been demoted to a lieutenant colonel like other divisional and brigade commanders. However, soon Gu Hang, as the corps commander, under his authority, pulled him back to the rank of colonel - as a corps commander and brigadier general, he had the power to do so.
It's nothing more than nomination, reporting, and waiting for approval.
Gu Hangren was on Koroja 3, and each investigation team also had representatives from the Star Army and the Military Affairs Department, so the process went pretty quickly.
The reason why Li Kexi's military rank was raised one level was to allow him to legitimately take command of the half of the Angry Bear Legion that came to Koroga 3.
According to Gallardo's request, the Military Affairs Department issued a transfer order for the Angry Bear Legion to come to Koroga 3 to participate in the war.
77,000 Angry Bear warriors have been away from home for half a year, fighting in this foreign land.
The seven brigade-level units were all commanded by Colonel Li Kexi, and their numbers were equivalent to two large divisions of the Astra Militarum.
At first, Lieutenant General Jaden Hansen, the commander-in-chief of the Koroja theater, did not take them seriously.
Just over 70,000 people, nothing compared to the tens of millions of troops that participated in the battle in the occupied hive city of Fino. This matter was totally unnecessary, and he just thought it was a trick by the war apostle Gallardo.
Of course, he was not familiar with Gallardo and had no conflicts of interest with him, not to mention that the war apostle's life or death was unknown. He had no need to please a dead man and should just do his job impartially.
The Angry Bear Legion is not his direct force, so he will not give it any special treatment; Gu Hang is the commander of this legion, and he has just demonstrated the strength of an A-level psychic, and is very popular under the current special situation of Koroga No. 3. He will not deliberately use the Angry Bear Legion as cannon fodder.
The 77,000 men of the Angry Bear Legion received normal treatment as members of the Star Army and undertook some normal military tasks.
However, Lieutenant General Hansen soon realized that something was wrong.
This Angry Bear Legion... wasn't it agreed that it was still a planetary defense force half a year ago? It was just transformed into the Star Army.
But why is it so fierce?
He assigned them tasks according to the normal work of two large divisions. But this group of people were able to complete their work easily every time, and even under the command of Colonel Li Kexi, they were always able to provide some extra help to the friendly forces nearby.
Two months ago, during a large-scale plague demon riot, a defense force consisting of tens of thousands of local soldiers was defeated at an exit of the lower zone. Tens of thousands of plague zombies, mixed with a large number of medium and high-level plague demons, rushed into the quarantine zone.
There are at least 300,000 uninfected people in this quarantine area who are being identified and isolated.
Lieutenant General Hansen did not want to give up easily, so he mobilized two large divisions and launched another battle to fight for the area.
However, the number of enemies was beyond expectations, and they emerged in an almost endless stream.
His troops soon fell into a bitter battle, and the tens of thousands of local troops that came to support them were like water poured into the desert, they had no effect and quickly evaporated.
In the space of a week, the area was turned into a quagmire and a meat grinder. Four hundred thousand human troops were trapped in it, which was more than the number of people waiting for rescue in the area.
Moreover, when Lieutenant General Hansen began to consider abandoning the area, withdrawing troops, blowing up the entrances and exits, and preventing further losses, he painfully discovered that it would be very difficult to retreat.
A large number of troops were engaged in a fierce battle with the plague demons in an entire complex building complex. How could they withdraw just like that?
If things go wrong, the retreat will turn into a rout, and the safety of 400,000 troops, including two divisions of the Astra Militarum, is no small number. Even in the worst case, the demons may take advantage of the chaos to attack the next block, thus forming a chain reaction of domino collapse on the entire blockade of Fino City.
This was not an idle thought. Right now, a large division of the Dragon Eagle Legion was in trouble.
And at this moment, a surprise force suddenly appeared from the sky.
It was a combined battalion of the 35th Brigade of the Angry Bear Corps.
The combined assault of tanks and armored vehicles was extremely resolute, and the timing and direction chosen were quite tricky. It was the critical moment when the enemy was about to encircle the more than 30,000 Dragon Eagle Legion soldiers and block the evacuation route.
As for tanks and armored vehicles, the Dragon Eagle Legion has them. They all use Lions and Walkers, and none of them is better than the other.
But the difference lies in the fact that their combined battalion has a much closer infantry-tank coordination capability than the Dragon Eagle Legion. The infantry squads dropped by the armored vehicles of the mechanized infantry company and the squads of the motorized infantry company can quickly keep up with the advance of the armored forces and firmly hold the gaps torn by the armored forces. On the one hand, it prevents the "wounds" on the enemy's formation from healing, and on the other hand, it also prevents the armored forces from being surrounded by a large number of enemy troops when they charge.
Then, the artillery support company will follow up immediately.
In a hive environment, the power of artillery is greatly weakened.
The entire hive city is more like a giant structure than a huge building complex. Although it is quite open in some places, in general, the existence of various obstacles makes it basically impossible for artillery to accurately support artillery fire to where it is needed at a distance of 20 kilometers.
However, this does not mean that artillery is useless.
It’s hard to hit from a distance, but is it not possible to hit from close?
Facing the enemy's threat, with the help of their armored and infantry brothers in front, they were able to forcibly build firepower points and fire in a nearly direct manner to wherever they could reach. Their firepower coverage area changed from 20 kilometers in a normal field environment to only 2 kilometers, and it was often easy for their firing range to be blocked.
But heavy artillery is heavy artillery, and they can still destroy the targets they hit!
The combined forces battalion, which coordinated multiple arms extremely skillfully and smoothly, stunned many Astra Militarum officers who witnessed the scene.
The smooth offensive, like mercury flowing on the ground, not only refreshed the cognition of many of them, but also effectively saved the lifeline of this division.
They did not let the brothers of the Angry Bear Legion fight alone. Soon, multiple companies came to support and assist the soldiers of the Angry Bear Legion to hold this retreat route, and then the entire division began to retreat step by step according to the order, leaving this hopeless neighborhood.
In this battle, there is no doubt that this combined battalion of the Angry Bear Legion made great contributions.
Their presence not only saved an entire division, but also prevented the area from being completely destroyed.
Although it did not completely reverse the situation and turn defeat into victory, it can be regarded as saving the country from collapse.
The key point is that this is just a battalion-level battle group of less than a thousand people.
This incident alarmed Lieutenant General Hansen.
On the one hand, it resolved a major crisis, allowing him to finally get a good night's sleep.
On the other hand, they were surprised that the people from the Angry Bear Legion suddenly appeared there and had such strong combat power.
He didn't need to find the answer himself.
The many staff officers under his command gave him the answer.
The large staff team quickly delivered the report to the lieutenant general's desk.
There is nothing special about the reason why a unit of the Angry Bear Legion will appear on the battlefield.
They had been sent to a nearby area to carry out a routine clearing mission, and they successfully completed their mission several days ahead of schedule.
While the troops were stationed there, waiting for the local defense forces to take over, they noticed that the situation nearby had changed, so Colonel Li Koshi sent a battalion over to "take a look at the situation."
This one look solved the 'situation'.
Another matter is worthy of Lieutenant General Hansen's careful study.
Why is the Angry Bear Legion so powerful when they have the same equipment and a small number of people?
According to the staff officers' reports, first of all, in terms of individual quality, every soldier of the Angry Bear Legion has met the standard requirements of the Star Army.
It's interesting to say, but among the more than 20 million soldiers of the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion, there are certainly many who have reached this level, but in terms of the overall proportion, it is only about half; and among this half, another half have been trained to this level after coming to the Star Army.
This shouldn't actually happen, but it is a helpless move given the reality.
The Astra Militarum's manpower mainly comes from the soldiers that the various planets submit when they pay taxes to the Empire, and the Astra Militarum may also directly transfer planetary defense forces to the Astra Militarum.
However, the standard level of the Star Army requires soldiers to receive at least five years of military training under the guidance of experienced instructors before they can generally be achieved. On many planets, the total service time of conscripts and volunteers is not that long.
Of course, this is not a problem of the Astra Militarum. The Military Affairs Department and the Astra Militarum Command should not be involved in this according to regulations. If they fail to provide qualified soldiers, they will not be counted as taxes. But there are also some political and economic factors involved, plus some corruption factors...
There's nothing I can do.
Hansen was just a lieutenant general, he couldn't change these things. All he could do was to train the soldiers into qualified fighters after they came to his unit.
But even so it's difficult.
When there is no war, the budget of the Astra Militarum is not enough, so how can there be an opportunity for soldiers to practice military skills? Without bullets, there will be no sharpshooters.
The same goes for artillery, tank troops, and the like.
But if it was just a difference in the quality of the soldiers, it would not have such a big impact. To put it bluntly, the Dragon Eagle soldiers are not weak.
Here comes the third factor mentioned by the staff: tactical concept.
The synthetic force plan adopted by the Angry Bear Legion is actually not particularly new. The Star Army has many talented people, so didn’t they think of that?
Does not exist.
To put it bluntly, the advantages of combined forces lie in their modular and flexible small organization, more officers with the same strength, intensive technical equipment, and coordinated operations of multiple arms under one command system.
It all sounds good, but each of these advantages comes at the cost of money.
If you want to have a small organization and flat command, you need more officers, which costs money. Whether it is training officers or giving them higher salaries after training, it is not a small amount.
Technology and equipment are intensive and it costs money directly.
The coordination of multiple arms requires a lot of training, which also costs money.
The Munitions Department and the Astra Militarum are certainly rich, but they have even more places to spend money.
All these advantages are not as good as the current large-scale division system, which saves money and supports more soldiers. Moreover, in the face of a decisive battle, a large army has its own advantages.
In the entire system of the Astra Militarum, synthetic forces can only be a way to build small-scale elite forces.
To be honest, Lieutenant General Hansen totally didn't understand why Governor Gu Hang was willing to use such an army to pay imperial taxes.
It's too uneconomical and too honest... Shouldn't the routine operation be to simply recruit tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of soldiers who have been trained for one or two years, equip them with suitable light equipment, and then work hard to build good relationships, and be done with it?
In that case, after paying one million tax coins, the actual cost would only be seven hundred thousand.
If you do it this way now, the cost is equivalent to 1.3 million, which can offset the tax of 1 million.
What a loss.
But regardless, it's good for Hansen.
He suddenly discovered that he had an additional 70,000 elite troops at his disposal.
Although there was only one real armored combined division, the several infantry divisions of the Angry Bear were all motorized, and the heavy bolters were equipped to the company, and the firepower of various squad weapons was more powerful than that of the Star Army with the same number of people.
Anyway, they are stronger than our own troops.
With mixed feelings, he did not hesitate and began to frequently assign this army from the Angry Owl Star to take on more important tasks.
That's different from being cannon fodder.
Supply and logistics were all top priorities; even as a spearhead, one had to be equipped with a handle, and the number of supporting and coordinating troops behind was also quite large. He was even generous enough to hand over the command to Colonel Li Kexi, rather than the senior officers of the Dragon Eagle Legion, during a joint attack.
In addition, even when he won a battle, he was generous with his rewards, from combat allowances for soldiers and officers to the entire unit reporting its achievements to the Military Affairs Department.
When Gu Hang came to Fino City this time and met Li Kexi, Lieutenant General Hansen, who heard the news, also rushed over and met him.
While sincerely thanking Gu Hang, he also expressed some apologies.
After all, no matter how well the logistics are guaranteed or how much achievements are reported, more casualties are inevitable when undertaking more important military tasks.
Gu Hang also expressed his understanding of this.
Although he was also heartbroken by the casualties of his own soldiers, the fighting of the Angry Bear warriors here also brought many benefits and advantages.
When the Astra Militarum fights, it does not fight in vain.
Otherwise, he would not have instructed Li Kexi to perform normally in the battle. Otherwise, even if he was slacking off, the Dragon Eagle Corps' command would not have discovered it.
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