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"What kind of regular army is a force that can't fight tough battles?" Patriot's view was similar to the doctor's. If they only dare to attack when accompanied by air raids, artillery, and armored vehicles, like on a picnic, then they might as well be disbanded and go back to farming.

While it's true that you should hold back your strength when you fight, it doesn't mean you should just let yourself be beaten without making any effort.

For example, while Theresis was reorganizing the defeated troops, the Doctor was consolidating the first line of defense he had captured and assisting the Second Division in wiping out the remaining forces in the Rabbit Valley area.

The area was full of mine shafts, and the mine owners and local bullies mostly had their own private armies and large quantities of explosives for mining. Compared to the First Division, which was swept away with the help of air raids, the Second Division was truly struggling.

If it didn't have a good local following, it would be good enough if it didn't turn into a situation like the US military in Afghanistan.

However, this also meant that the pace of the clearing and breakthrough was greatly slowed down. Moreover, a somewhat comical thing happened on the eastern battlefield: the fighting spirit and combat power of the large mine owners and slave owners were better than the conscripted troops that the Regent had sent there.

It took only half a month to drive out the elite cavalry regiments and large numbers of infantry that had occupied major cities and railway lines, while the problem of dealing with the mine owners had been unresolved for almost a month.

"I'm fucking fed up with this whack-a-mole game! Where the hell did these people come from? How many tunnels and supplies have they hidden?!"

The casualty count is rising day by day, and the exchange ratio is close to 1:2. This is only with the help of new equipment; otherwise, it would be even worse.

The other side's fighting spirit is understandable, because which of these big mine owners doesn't have a lot of blood on their hands, including their private armies?

In other words, given the situation in New Kazdel, once caught, they would all be hanged; if one or two were pardoned, their local popular support would be destroyed.

If they're going to die anyway, these guys are willing to risk everything and fight you to the death. But in order to suppress the miners, these guys have guns, men, a lot of secret camps and supply depots, as well as mining materials. They're familiar with the terrain. If a real fight breaks out, it'll be no different from playing whack-a-mole.

Unless the doctor is willing to declare these people surrender and spare their lives or give them an acceptable ending, but the problem is that if that happens, the morale and loyalty of the Second Division, an army composed of miners from the Rabbit Valley region, will collapse drastically.

They had all gone through events like grievance meetings, and harbored deep-seated hatred for these monopolistic mine owners and bloodthirsty slave owners and landlords. To forgive these people, it would be necessary to explain things clearly to the thousands of men of the Second Division—obviously, that was impossible.

When an army, from its rank-and-file infantry to its junior officers, is willing to die alongside the enemy to drag them out and hang them one by one, then it's no longer a matter of simply saying "don't fight."

The solution was to swap them. The Second Division had finished its work in the mining area, and the next step was to transfer those who had fought hard battles to the front lines, while letting those who had spent a month on the front lines experience the real battlefield.

In addition to combat, it is also necessary to control, repair and appease the occupied villages, towns and transportation routes. The Theresis people did not take much with them when they left, but the devastating damage caused by the air raids still needs to be repaired.

The biggest difference between civil war and foreign war is that these are your future people and land, and you have to put some effort into governing them.

Unless they learn from the armies of the old era and plunder back and forth, this undoubtedly greatly slows down the doctor's offensive speed and also fits his intention to train troops.

Meanwhile, Theresis diverted as many troops as possible to fill the gaps on the northern front, where it seemed they could advance into the heart of the Doctor's controlled territory. In reality, however, the battle raged near the dividing line.

While the newcomers of New Kazdel have no advantage in fleet battles, being inferior in size, tonnage, and experience.

But in reality, with the support of heavy artillery on the ground, there was no possibility of it falling; on the contrary, it continued to learn from experience and become more mature.

On the second line of defense, Theresis mobilized a large workforce to build anti-aircraft towers and also diverted synthetic ketones and synthetic alcohols, which were originally used as industrial raw materials and ammunition resources, to burn smoke. This is why the Doctor had the Hummingbird team go up to patrol from time to time but not launch an attack.

The enemy is using a strategy of attrition warfare, burning through real resources, which are actually of little use. For the doctor's small reconnaissance drones, smoke can effectively stop the attack, but for the hummingbirds... smoke is of very limited use.

Once the troops have been trained sufficiently and the second line of defense has been breached, and a third division has been recruited, the Hummingbirds can easily destroy the anti-aircraft towers that the enemy has built with a lot of resources.

However, these considerations were unknown to those at the rear. Master Nian was the one who truly believed that the front lines lacked effective air power and were limited by the remote control range of Rhodes Island as an aircraft carrier, thus rendering them unable to continue the offensive.

"Should we give them to them?" Nian frowned. Terra wasn't without an air force and real aircraft technology; it was just that the technical data and related manufacturing techniques were all in her matrix.

However, Nian didn't know whether he should give them to them. Long, long ago, during the Great Yan Dynasty, Nian and his companions had also helped the king of Great Yan in this way, believing that he would establish a new civilization and allow Terra to rise again.

The king of the Great Yan Dynasty used this reason to gain the help of these treacherous "gods," then forcibly drove the other gods out of the Great Yan Dynasty and obtained a portion of the resources and power they controlled.

Then, within two generations, the nobles and kings of the Great Yan Dynasty used this power to consolidate their rule and the throne. Now, they have no desire to expand and have become complacent. This makes Master Nian unsure whether he should try again when faced with a second similar situation.

"Let's give it a try. If it's just... there shouldn't be any problems." Nian sighed, activated the matrix, and started Originium Arts. The metal in the workshop melted rapidly under the high temperature, and was held in mid-air like a liquid by the force field, undergoing further processing and shaping.

"A part, a part, you must pay attention to this, it can only be a part."

The profile was extended and shaped, and soon a metal frame appeared, followed by the Originium reaction chamber and the synthetic jade circuit.

It took Master Nian almost two months to complete these tasks. Just as she finished the flight avionics system, Theresis' second line of defense was completely torn apart.

"Damn it..." Master Nian slammed her fist on the table, feeling that her feelings had been greatly deceived. She really thought that they couldn't win and needed air force support, which is why she spent so much time and effort working overtime to make this thing.

With the avionics system powered by Originium and the circuitry of Synthetic Orb, along with its matching engine and Originium-sensing radar, there are three things; the rest is up to the locals.

These are the three things they lack: the avionics system can use synthetic jade circuitry, which can be operated with only a slight Originium Arts skill, and the sensor radar can identify any device with an Originium field.

The version that Master Nian brought out was the simplest one, not the best advanced fire control/navigation radar group that could switch between three different identification modes: biological, terrain, and device. It could only identify large Originium devices and was used to enhance air superiority and counter ground-based air defense weapons.

As for the engine, it solves the power problem of the aircraft. The energy absorption effect of Originium is really unpleasant. The thermal energy will decrease exponentially with the fuel density. Old Xia's arc jet engine is completely incompatible with Terra technology, which means that unless he can develop the Covenant's avionics system, Master Nian's system is unusable.

Besides, Lao Xia doesn't have that many or that high-power nuclear batteries. He can't possibly carry a twenty-ton Originium power plant onto a plane, can he? That would be too outrageous.

As a result, Master Nian was still worried about whether he would make it in time, or whether he would make the same decision as before, leading to the emergence of a new feudal empire on Terra, and then...

The frontline staff said, "I don't need it anymore. Before, it was all about letting the Regent burn money."

But then a new problem arises: what to do with all this stuff?

"Forget it, let's just destroy it. Apart from this engine..." Master Nian sighed, and could only turn the radar and avionics systems back into a pile of junk.

In reality, what she didn't know was that even if these aircraft were restored, given the average level of education among these people, it would take at least two years to train pilots for their use on the battlefield, and they would also have to be prepared to learn lessons by risking human lives.

"Buzzing!" Hearing the sound from the sky, even those protected by the large modules of the mobile city couldn't help but lower their heads and try to stay as still as possible in the shadows.

Previously, they had placed high hopes on the air-raid shelter and the black smoke that blocked out the sky, but it turned out that it was just a weakness disguised by the enemy.

Once the doctor felt he had practiced enough, he launched an attack on the second line of defense. The black smoke stopped the small drones.

But those terrifying behemoths still hover endlessly in the sky like the artillery harbingers, and they've become even more cunning.

The attack will only be carried out after the ground infantry sends a signal indicating that the air defenses have cleared the area. Moreover, guided by some mysterious signal on the ground, the bombs will be launched even through smoke.

The dense array of anti-aircraft weapons only managed to shoot down one aircraft and damage another; the downed aircraft were still the result of the city's defensive light cannons.

However, the cost was that more than 40 city defense cannons that could have blocked the enemy's ground armor breakthrough were destroyed.

This loss only kept the enemy quiet for a week. Then, all six Hummingbirds, not one missing, continued to circle and bomb, creating a truly desperate situation.

As a result, the morale of the defenders on the second layer completely collapsed, and it seemed that the even stronger third layer of defense was also doomed.

Once the third layer is destroyed, the Doctor can occupy the city or completely occupy the central province, thus achieving the objective of this battle.

He will not attack again. Given the size of Kazdel's territory, two infantry divisions can only control the area of ​​one province.

The next step was to expand the army using the veterans trained by the two divisions as the backbone, and then repeat this process, bringing in new recruits and a small number of veterans to train with the help of local equipment advantages. Once they were trained, the veterans would be brought in again to crush them with an absolute technological advantage. This was called "rotation warfare".

Chapter 52 The Doctor is Here

Chapter 52

At the Rabbit Valley front, since the 1st Guards Division on the front lines were gradually replaced, the 2nd Division's men were finally freed from their endless search for mole burrows.

Rabbit Valley and the entire Narrow Flat Mountains are full of caves and mines, with the two types of caves even intertwined. Even local miners would get lost if they entered an unfamiliar area.

This means that releasing poison gas (Terra has poison gas weapons) or releasing dogs is basically useless. You have no idea if there are people in the cave or how many exits there are. Plus, with the power of the mine ventilation fans, it's hard to say whether your poison gas release speed is faster than their exhaust speed.

Water storage and flood control are also not feasible, because there is almost no surface runoff here. Locals mainly rely on seasonal snowmelt pools and groundwater for water supply, and even these two are somewhat scarce.

On the other hand, if a mining area has abundant water resources, then mining becomes a hellish ordeal—water seepage underground—anyone with even a little knowledge of mining technology would go bald from the stress.

Then they began a life of fighting the Theresis's mobile artillery battles day and night, relying on permanent fortifications on one side and mobile positions composed of large mobile artillery and railway guns on the other.

The doctor did not launch a ground offensive. On the one hand, troops were deployed to the controlled areas to control the villages and various central cities, cooperate with the Reunion Movement's agents to clear and manage assets, inspect supplies, organize reconstruction and defense construction, and also provide disaster relief and suppress bandits.

The food strategy turned many people into rebels and tax-resistant thugs. However, once the doctor and his team took control of the area, these bandits, rebels, and self-defending forces would need to be eliminated one by one.

Some were to be hanged along with the nobles and landowners, some were to be reformed, and others were to be incorporated into the army and retrained.

A PhD would never make the elementary mistake of eating too fast and stuffing himself to death.

Incidentally, this artillery battle also serves to deplete Therese's counterattack capabilities and resources. After all, the shells here are cheap while the enemy's etching shells are expensive, so these novice artillerymen are not allowed to use Dragonfire shells anymore; they've all been replaced with sturdy and reliable steel shells.

When the shells hit the fortified mobile city's fortress, even a 203mm cannon would barely make a sound. However, the Doctor wasn't actually trying to destroy the enemy's defenses; he was training these noobs.

Artillery is a technical job. Being able to quickly calculate firing data using simple tools in school doesn't mean you can do it on the battlefield. They don't have fire control radar and fire control computers to help them. The calculation speed and experience that are sufficient for fighting Theresis are completely insufficient for those guys in the sassins.

Just look at the firing accuracy of Ursus' mortar squads and artillery vanguards, and you'll know the firing accuracy and professionalism of Ursus' artillery units. Maybe we should find a suitable opponent to practice against.

If you encounter a situation where Ursus, Great Yan, Letatania, and Rembiton launch a "four-nation intervention, dividing the country into separate domains" but you don't have a powerful army to fight back, then you're in for a lot of trouble.

As for the First Division, after escaping the tedious and boring artillery duels, it quickly began a life of daily patrols and whack-a-mole, with extremely high frequency of engagements and extremely narrow engagement areas. It could almost be said that there was a battle every day, and the combined forces deployed by both sides were no more than a platoon.

In this complex terrain and close combat, the casualties of the 1st Division immediately increased. They instantly realized that their previous behavior of mocking the 2nd Guards Division for not being brave enough was a stupid mistake. Officers and cadres from top to bottom were all making self-criticisms and summaries.

Fortunately, compared to when the Second Guard Division arrived, they had already controlled most of the towns and villages around Rabbit Valley, so the construction of the aviation mage corps' airport and base was put on the agenda. It must be said that those hummingbird drones really helped everyone a lot.

Infantry have a hard time scouting those ground squirrels, but hummingbirds are a different story; a single combat patrol team can monitor a circular area with a radius of sixty kilometers.

Any gopher that dared to show its face was immediately blasted away by a barrage of high-explosive grenades. Before the Terrans invented man-portable city defense guns or anti-aircraft missiles, these gunboats were exceptionally effective at controlling gophers.

Especially when the other side does not have the advantage of a large number of people, these hummingbird drones are revered by the locals and mine owners as "the Grim Reaper in the Sky".

Because when you hear the buzzing sound of the Doppler effect, it means that if you can't find the nearest hole to crawl into within 3 seconds, you're doomed.

Even with familiarity with the terrain, the rugged mountain roads were not conducive to maneuverability, at least not as fast as those flying things in the sky. After the Hummingbird Group moved into the airport, the casualty rate dropped at an astonishing rate, and every now and then, private soldiers and mine owners who could no longer endure in the caves would come out to seek a head-on battle.

Between being shot and being trapped and starved to death, some people will always try to end it all quickly. However, most of these people are blown to pieces on the way, washing away the infamous reputation of "witches who refuse to help those in need" that the aviation sorcerers had earned on the front lines.

This is because ammunition is limited and can only be used for important targets, and cannot provide unlimited fire support. This is why it has earned such a bad reputation among the infantrymen who have been battered and bruised by the permanent fortifications.

After all, the infantry on the ground would not understand their predicament. Those who were carrying out assaults with thermobaric cannons were, after all, infantry. Facing the enemy's firepower head-on, they couldn't lift their heads, and it was impossible for them not to feel resentful about the delayed air raids.

Despite their infamy, the officers of each unit would never call them that to their faces. Compared to the witch who was known for "refusing to help those in distress" but actually helped a lot on the battlefield, their own artillery units were the ones who deserved to be humiliated.

In the previous battles to capture the outer strongholds, a total of 34 people were killed, 11 of whom died from friendly fire. This was due to a combination of factors, including the fact that the new recruits on the front lines were too eager to loot the spoils or achieve results and did not withdraw in time, as well as the fact that the artillery units had poor literacy levels, which resulted in even worse accuracy in their artillery fire.

The new recruits quickly realized that on the battlefield, their own Dragonfire cannons had a higher priority than bullets, and that they should never hesitate for a second when given the order to withdraw from their positions, otherwise it wouldn't just be the enemy who would be burned to death.

At Rabbit Valley Military Airport, a drone bearing the Rhine Life Mark slowly landed on the tarmac. Ground crew quickly boarded the drone to check the condition of its various components, especially the drone pod it was carrying.

"Dr. Hammer, I'd like to know when this device can be put to use?"

"At least a month. Your warlock training is quite good. I originally thought it would take at least half a year..." The girl with braided pigtails pushed up her glasses. The Terrans didn't seem to look very old.

"What I'm curious about is, where did you find so many... girls who can operate drones?"

The officer who said there was no secret to the "mandatory selection" was that if the salary was high enough, people would naturally send their daughters who were "just eating" at home to him, and then stuff them into a special school for a few years of cramming education.

Their grassroots cadres in the integration movement haven't been idle for the past five or six years. At the very least, they've done a decent job in terms of personnel supply, especially for the aviation sorcerer corps, which doesn't require a large number of people.

"Small, accompanying drones are already in mass production and use. But do you have enough doctors?"

"No..." This is also a big problem. There are plenty of barefoot doctors, but probably very few professional doctors. Most of the medical personnel trained by Rhodes Island have been assigned to the military and front-line production.

"Even if we had enough doctors, we wouldn't cooperate with Rhine Life."

"Hmm, that makes sense." Hermer didn't dwell on the issue, nor did she care about such things. She was more concerned about when her medical drone could be mass-produced.

This drone has the functions of atomization, injection, automatic drug delivery, and simulated medical staff surgery. It is an extension of the doctor's capabilities, allowing doctors to treat multiple patients at the same time, and sorcerers without medical skills can also use the prepared medicine for emergency treatment. It is suitable for use in slums and urban areas.