Doctor, I'm really strong!

After the order to massacre the city was issued, all the Ursus soldiers were invigorated, their eyes gleaming with a bloodthirsty red light.

A common tactic used by feudal armies to maintain morale.

Vasily turned back. The follow-up work would be handled by professionals. Besides, the loss of just one land-based ship was nothing to the Fourth Army.

Soon, the land-based naval formation continued to advance, and then they saw new signage.

"I told you there was a minefield and you still went in? Are you out of your minds?"

Ridicule, blatant sarcasm, doesn't cause much harm, but it's extremely insulting.

The Ursus soldier who found the sign drew his sword and smashed it to pieces, then spat out a mouthful of phlegm.

They only engage in these shady dealings. The empire's war machine rolls forward, and you scoundrels are courting death.

An hour later, they saw another sign that read, "No landmines ahead, please proceed with confidence."

Please, the area just got bombed, and now you're saying there aren't any landmines here? Would you believe that if you were in that situation?

This is definitely a psychological warfare tactic by the enemy. There are landmines here, so we must proceed with caution.

The Fourth Army's land-based naval fleet immediately dispersed, and various detectors began scanning the area below. After cautiously advancing for an hour, they saw a new sign. "We already said there are no landmines, are you guys crazy?"

Upon seeing the sign in front of him, the Ursus scout had a meltdown. He smashed the sign and stomped on it.

The land-based naval formation continued its advance. An hour later, a loud explosion occurred, and one of the two land-based naval vessels was severely damaged and the other was destroyed.

Then the soldiers of the Fourth Legion went crazy and began searching every corner around them. Casters used their Originium Arts for reconnaissance without restraint, and finally they found a sign.

"Under normal circumstances, why would you lay landmines and then tell the enemy? Are you out of your minds?"

Excellent, very powerful, the technique of manipulating people's mentality is top-notch.

After that, the Fourth Army Corps no longer dared to advance recklessly, but instead searched the surrounding area very cautiously. The guerrillas no longer had any opportunity to attack, at least not the land-based ships. So they began to target the reconnaissance units.

The massive land-based ships required reconnaissance to provide visibility, so the Fourth Army Corps dispatched numerous reconnaissance teams during the operation. These teams typically consisted of three or five men, and some were reconnaissance platoons with a certain level of combat capability. Their main role was to understand the surrounding situation and prevent the main force from being ambushed.

These eyes are obviously not as strong as land-based ships in terms of defense and attack, but their range of activity is generally within the range of the land-based ships' firepower, ensuring that even if someone attacks them, the scouts can request artillery support immediately.

For each unit, reconnaissance soldiers are far more valuable than artillery shells; they are all veterans and elites, and support must keep up.

But what if the scouts are all wiped out before they can spot the enemy?

With snowmobiles, motorized sleds, powered skis, and digital camouflage for snow, along with various stealth-related Originium Arts, Liu Jiuli used the resources at his disposal to create a formidable snow sniper force.

As Ursus scouts trudged through the snow, unaware that the surrounding snow was beginning to speak.

Section 77: We need something really waaaagh.

If the snow around you starts talking, then a horror story is about to unfold.

A typical snow sniper squad consists of three people: a sniper, an assault soldier, and a spotter.

The sniper is equipped with two types of sniper rifles, one 7.62mm and the other 20mm; the former is used against personnel, and the latter against equipment.

The 20mm version can be used on adults when necessary, but the only problem is that it can easily turn people into easy targets. Unless the enemy is heavily armored, there's absolutely no need to waste this level of firepower.

Both of these sniper rifles are semi-automatic precision-machined models, and Liu Jiuli has found the correct way to use the all-purpose factory.

First, several meticulously crafted samples were manually produced. Then, the all-powerful factory obtained the templates and began mass production. The weapons produced were all of this absolute precision level, with incredibly low costs. After all, how much does it cost to dig sand, recycle garbage, and pump wastewater? The all-powerful factory's microscopic particle disassembly and reconstruction function is truly cutting-edge technology.

When cost and production volume are no longer issues, what follows will be terrifying, at least in the realm of individual soldiers.

The weapons manufacturing process that Liu Jiuli has now established is to first have outstanding engineers and technicians such as Kroos create several samples, and after they pass the tests, they will be handed over to the Universal Factory for mass production. What can be made in the laboratory can be immediately popularized among the general public, which greatly reduces the difficulty of technological development and allows the Red Guards to be armed quickly in a short period of time.

The weapons everyone carries are identical, all top-quality, with only slight differences in ammunition. Snipers are also specially issued subsonic bullets and silencers, ensuring that the enemy will never know what happened until they die.

In previous weapons tests, researchers discovered that fusing Originium Arts with firearms provided by Liu Jiuli could produce excellent new products, such as modern firearms with energy circuits engraved and Originium Arts applied, which are more accurate, have less recoil, and are more powerful.

At present, the small nation of Originium Arts can reduce the recoil of a 20mm caliber sniper rifle to the same level as the Lolock pistol. With the stabilizing effect of the stock, given the physical strength of the Terrans, this is equivalent to having no recoil at all.

It's time to bring out the 20mm bomb gun (loyalty!).

Ahem, just kidding, but only at this stage. It's actually possible to build one in the future, although weight and magazine capacity are issues. But developing an Astartes in the future isn't an unacceptable thing.

With such outrageous equipment and highly trained snipers, many of whom were originally hunters, they can now lie prone in the snow and easily blow someone's head off from a kilometer away. After a few shots, the other side will be completely silent.

For the Terrans, their combat distance is generally within one or two hundred meters. An attack beyond five hundred meters is considered a dimensional reduction attack, falling within the range of large weapons, which is beyond the comprehension of individual soldiers. The direct result is that these soldiers quickly collapse after failing to spot the enemy, and are then picked off one by one.

They lacked the tenacity and resilience of Soviet soldiers. Moreover, even Soviet soldiers felt despair when faced with the gaze of a sniper, so some did rush in to their deaths. However, while the Soviets charged forward, these Ursus soldiers ran backward.

As the casualties among the scouts grew, the Fourth Army realized the seriousness of the problem.

If this continues, their eyes will be scouted out. Without wards in the jungle and bushes, there's no way to win this battle.

It was definitely not acceptable to let the fog of war linger. So, after gaining some experience from the deaths, the officers of the Fourth Army Corps discovered that the enemy was basically hiding in the shadows and never showed themselves. Apart from the landmines they had previously used, they had not attacked the Fourth Army Corps. In other words, they had not targeted the scouts, which meant that they lacked heavy weapons to attack land-based ships and were only conducting harassment operations with small squads.

The method is much simpler: compress the activity range of our own scouts. Previously, they would advance more than 10 kilometers, but now they are controlled within 5 kilometers. All scouts carry individual communication equipment (the Ursus army cannot equip every soldier with individual communication equipment; the communication system is based on the company level, with a few delegated to the platoon level). Once attacked, they search for the enemy's approximate direction and then call in land-based naval artillery fire.

This was essentially trading enhanced visibility for safety, but against the Red Guards who lacked the ability to launch direct assaults, this tactic was indeed effective, and the casualties among the reconnaissance soldiers plummeted. However, the Ukrainian army still failed to capture a single enemy, not even making a single discovery.

This situation arose thanks to Hrag's help. He knew exactly how the Bird Army would react to the Red Guards' advanced weaponry, and with a contingency plan in place, all that was needed was to proceed according to it.

The contingency plan included a tactic for the Bird Army to shrink its reconnaissance range, and the enemy was preparing to use the artillery fire of the land-based ships to deal with the snipers.

There is currently no solution to this tactic. The Red Guards' countermeasure is to avoid ambushing reconnaissance soldiers within the firing range of enemy land-based ships, while increasing the number of snipers in each squad. Once the enemy is spotted, each sniper locks onto a target and then fires simultaneously, instantly wiping out everyone and leaving them no chance to even cry for help.

Or, after spotting certain enemies wandering into your firing range, they can snipe them from a distance, taking you out of your artillery's range.

However, there was one thing that frustrated the elite Red Guards: once they entered the ambush site and discovered the enemy, they had to make a choice: either kill them all or let them pass. They had to wait until night to move out and try to hide themselves during the day.

However, they did slow down the enemy's advance, especially the previous three explosions, which made the Fourth Legion no longer dare to charge at full speed towards Chernobog. Instead, they placed the old-model landships at the front to clear the way, while the casters continuously released perception and detection Originium Arts to ensure that there were no dangerous items buried underground.

The Red Guards did not disappoint the enemy's persistence, leaving behind many gifts.

For example, it might be covered with a layer of sheet metal on the outside, but underneath are huge pits full of excrement, with soup and water inside. It would either kill you or disgust you to death.

In this situation, it was basically difficult to make any breakthroughs. Just when Patriot and Hrag felt they could reduce the harassment and began to formulate a plan for the decisive battle of Chernobog, the rank-and-file soldiers achieved unexpected results.

The incident stemmed from a drone.

Those quadcopter drones, the small ones, are usually operated by mages and their main function is reconnaissance. Larger drones carry bombs, but they are disposable. The Ursus Empire has a reconnaissance drone model that guides artillery, but note that it is for reconnaissance purposes and it will not fire on its own.

The drones used by sorcerers were clearly insufficient, so Liu Jiuli decisively took out DJI drones. Based on the size of one cubic meter and five kilograms, he modified these DJI drones. With Kroos personally in charge, he finally produced a brand-new product that perfectly met the production specifications of the universal factory, with a payload of more than five kilograms, a maximum flight speed of two hundred kilometers per hour, and a cruising time of more than twenty hours.

This data is amazing! What power source do you use?

Originium, and pure Originium at that, isn't that amazing? This is the fighting power of a whale (a person who spends a lot of money on in-game purchases).

Most importantly, these drones can be perfectly operated by anyone who can learn, and can be used even without a professional operator, greatly increasing their applicability. As frontline soldiers began using these drones for reconnaissance, they also learned to DIY them, enabling them to drop grenades or cluster grenades.

Thus, the war mode between the two sides changed from two-dimensional to three-dimensional. The feedback from the front line was that the drone was very useful, and they could even throw grenades onto land-based ships.

In terms of destructive power, these grenades are at most capable of killing personnel and harassing land-based ships; they have no chance of sinking these massive vessels. However, Liu Jiuli saw a new opportunity in this. The enemy's air defense capabilities are very poor, lacking dedicated anti-aircraft firepower. Just as no one believed that airplanes could challenge battleships when they were first invented, these drones also make it seem impossible for them to challenge the dominance of land-based ships.

What if it's something bigger, stronger, and even more amazing?

Don't forget, it was these winged little guys who buried the battleship era.

Section 78: We must bring smiles to the enemy.

(Good evening, comrades! (～￣▽￣)～)

Although Liu Jiuli really wanted to build the B-52 or the White Swan directly and bring smiles to the Ukrainian army with the Tsar Bomba, the Red Guards did not have such nuclear strike capability except for himself. They did not even have a standard biplane from World War I. It was not that they could not build them, but that they would be useless if they could not keep up with the quantity and quality.

The Red Guards' production capacity is currently extremely reliant on the Universal Factory. While this product is good, it has too many limitations, especially the one-piece molding limitation. Fortunately, Yueying says that as Liu Jiuli's influence on this world continues to grow, many randomly assigned tasks from the system are being completed with ease. She is growing rapidly, and it is expected that the Universal Factory will undergo an upgrade after this war ends.

Great news, fantastic news! It would be even better if we could build tanks all at once, even if it's just parts. At worst, each of our multi-purpose factories could open a dedicated parts supplier, and then connect it to an assembly plant. Our production capacity would still completely outclass everyone else's.

"So why doesn't Master do these tasks? There are so many already piled up."

Yueying unfolded a task list in front of Liu Jiuli. The tasks on it were randomly generated and could be done by Liu Jiuli whenever he wanted. The difficulty was negligible for Liu Jiuli, so Yueying couldn't understand why Liu Jiuli didn't do them. Didn't he want the free points?

"Can't this system just randomly generate some decent tasks? Look at all this garbage!"

It would have been better if Yueying hadn't mentioned it, because once she did, Liu Jiuli was immediately filled with anger.

Mission: Confess your love to Talulah. Success will earn you 10,000 points, while failure will earn you 1,000 points.

Mission: Sleep with Kal'tsit. Success will earn you 100,000 points, failure will earn you 1,000 points.

Task: Make Ling your girlfriend. Success earns you one million points, failure earns you one hundred thousand points.

There are many similar tasks, including but not limited to minors. Well, Amiya is a minor, and so is Rosemary.

To be honest, even though the points were plentiful, Liu Jiuli seriously suspected that the system was a lewd person possessed by Slaanesh. The randomly generated tasks were all a mess, and there was even a task about Wei Yanwu. This system must have come from a gay video website on Jinjiang Literature City.

Moonshadow said with a sigh, "There's nothing we can do. The tasks are all generated randomly now. This module is the only one that's outside our control, so it's designed to have a huge impact in the short term."

Liu Jiuli →_→: "Your biggest impact, doesn't it also include social death?"

Moonshadow stated matter-of-factly, "Negative impact is still impact."

"Get lost! I refuse!"

This is a serious issue of moral character. As a post-90s generation who has received a complete compulsory education, attended high school, graduated from university, and grown up under the red flag and standing in the spring breeze, Liu Jiuli can commit suicide a hundred times without blinking an eye, becoming a model of a hardcore and ruthless person. But don't even think about being a bulldozer.

What kind of harem are you talking about? Don't you know that harems are made of blood? A real harem won't be the beautiful world of anime; it will only turn into the horror of School Days. The system is trying to get him to be a playboy? No way!

"Oh dear, even with such high moral standards, Master can't outdo the capitalists."

Liu Jiuli rolled his eyes: "Capitalists even run Lolita Island. Should I learn from them? If I learn to be good, I'll live a good life; if I learn to be bad, I'll be good in no time. If I do go astray, is there anyone in this world who can stop me?"

To be honest, Liu Jiuli now admires his own self-discipline. He hasn't become arrogant and lost his bearings just because he has power, thus avoiding becoming the kind of person he used to hate the most. This can be considered as not forgetting his original intention.

These random tasks were still firmly locked in Liu Jiuli's task list. At most, he would complete some normal tasks. People can be silly and playful, but they can't be without limits, especially when you can do that. Once you lose control, you become a slave to your desires, and there's no use struggling.

As a former online political advocate, Liu Jiuli certainly doesn't want to end up looking like a monster one day.

Besides, don't I already have enough? What else could I be dissatisfied with?

At that moment, Frostnova walked in with a document: "Leader, this is the battle report from the front."

"Let me see."

Liu Jiuli took the document, which detailed the achievements of the guerrillas led by Patriot. Through their piecemeal attacks, the Fourth Army Corps had lost more than a thousand men. Considering the size of the Fourth Army Corps of 20,000 men, this was a reduction of one-twentieth of its strength.

This only accounts for the enemy's casualties, not the wounded. Given the weapons the guerrillas were equipped with, the likely outcome of being wounded would be missing some spare parts. They also captured over a hundred prisoners.

The drone harassment tactics, in particular, fully demonstrate that the Ukrainian army's air defense capabilities are practically nonexistent. Of course, there are some snipers and mages with decent accuracy, but that's about it. They are exhausted in the face of a large number of remotely controlled drones. If it were fighter jets, not necessarily advanced ones, like the Stuka from World War II, these land-based ships would basically be doomed.

However, some problems were also discovered during use. First, the payload of the drone is relatively small. Second, a signal tower needs to be set up for remote control. In terms of flexibility, it is not as free as a caster. This involves a signal interference problem. Originium can interfere with radio signals, but Originium itself can also be used as an information transmission carrier and can ignore interference without transmission delay. This involves more advanced research. In any case, Originium has an inherent advantage in the field of communication.

At present, the only solution to the problem of remote control is to use mobile signal vehicles or build temporary signal towers. Alternatively, other drones can be used as aerial information chain platforms, which are equivalent to early warning aircraft.