Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 505 - 498: Three-dimensional Mobility Combat

Chapter 505: Chapter 498: Three-dimensional Mobility Combat

The reason why Li Si chose this place as the launch site for attack planning was because they could use the high mobility of the transport plane to quickly deploy combat personnel within the Ancient States, and then launch a surprise raid on the Ancient States’ base for the Creating God Project.

For the Otherworlders, especially the High-peak people, this was still a new subject. But for humans from Earth, it was already a mature, even an overused tactic.

Relying on traditional ground mobility, they could only get as close as possible to the target location and then transport and deploy their troops via manpower or animal power, which was both time-consuming and laborious, and the mobility was poor. With the help of the transport plane, they could directly break through the enemy’s ground blockade, adopt leapfrog tactics deep into enemy lines, enabling them to launch attacks on the enemies’ weak defense points with ease, and the mobility is also high.

After all, as humans from Earth see it, troops incapable of three-dimensional mobility could hardly be considered special forces.

The initial plan from headquarters was actually a bit more aggressive. According to that plan, in addition to carrying the transport plane, the airboat would also have carried two high-speed reconnaissance aircraft from Ronisca to provide reconnaissance and fire support for the ground forces. In other words, the advanced team could have received air support when carrying out their mission in the Ancient States.

However, considering that the relationship between Ronisca and the Ancient States had to be considered, headquarters abandoned that plan and chose a relatively conservative one. While presently Ronisca was indeed a staunch ally of headquarters, it wouldn’t go so far as to offend the Ancient States for the sake of headquarters. More importantly, headquarters had no intention of making an enemy of the Ancient States.

Therefore, although this operation was led by headquarters and the Judgement Legion was under Li Si’s command, it was still launched under the name of the Church Court. Both the mercenaries sent by them and the transport plane of the High-peak people should try to hide their identities as much as possible to avoid being implicated.

After a brief greeting, the group began to hold a military meeting to formulate an action plan. Because the airboat’s office was occupied by the Nightingale, Li Si and the others could only hold the meeting in the tents on shore.

Since Tangmo and Baiyue needed to be involved in the deciphering and analysis of the runes, the advance team directly lost three members. Even though Luoya and Shangguan Jiu could be added, Li Si clearly did not intend to use them as combat troops.

Of course, Luo’er needn’t worry, because even though the advance team had lost two members, he could command the mercenary squad brought by Li Si. These mercenaries were trained by headquarters using Earth’s training procedures, and their combat power was quite astonishing. More importantly, this mercenary squad was fifty strong, and commanding them was undeniably thrilling.

The mercenaries were divided into teams of ten, a total of five teams. Excluding the two teams needed as reserve forces, Luo’er could command three teams at a time.

The mercenaries were generally equipped with excellent single soldier weapons, and some even had bunker-busting weapons like rocket launchers.

Although these people were nominally mercenaries, their organization was basically modeled after Earth’s armies. Each team was divided into two groups of five, with one group setting up a machine gunner and the other a sniper. This meant each team was able to ensure firepower while also covering long-range attacks.

There was also one team specifically for storming, with each of their groups having one person equipped with a rocket launcher and a bombardment weapon, along with an assistant.

The main weapons of these mercenaries were basically the FAL automatic rifles produced by FN company, along with some M60 machine guns and precision rifles modified from M14. The good thing was that the ammunition for all these weapons was basically interchangeable. Although these people were trained by headquarters, when it came to weapon selection, headquarters always followed the principle of promoting the capable without avoiding suspicion.

Asking what weapon was most popular on Otherworld, it was undoubtedly the FAL automatic rifle from FN Company. This rifle had two models, one was the metric version, mainly equipped in NATO countries other than Britain, and the other was the British version, mainly equipped in Commonwealth countries.

The current AFL rifles held by the mercenaries are primarily weapons that were reproduced after the inter-world war, so they are all metric versions. The main difference between the metric version and the imperial version is that the metric version can fire automatically.

Represented by the AK rifle, the automatic rifles using the intermediate power bullet display ample firepower yet slightly lack in precision. The bolt-action rifles using the full powered bullets are precise, but their firepower is resoundingly weak. In pursuit of both firepower and accuracy, choosing the FAL is undoubtedly the optimal choice.

On Earth, this type of rifle is called the Mercenary Rifle. In Otherworld, it is also the prime choice for excellent mercenaries.

Of course, not all FAL rifles are metric versions; there are also Imperial versions. After determining the principle of weapon export, some arms profiteers on Earth started to refurbish and sell old-fashioned rifles that had turned into firewood sticks to Otherworld. Upon hearing that the FAL rifles were in demand in Otherworld, they procured a considerable number of Imperial FAL rifles from the Commonwealth countries and sold them in Otherworld after refurbishing them.

These Imperial rifles are manufactured using imperial measurement units, so there are discrepancies with the metric version, and parts are not interchangeable between the two. However, people in Otherworld often mix them up. So, cases of weapons exploding often happen. Thankfully, the FN Company conscientiously dispatched servicemen to Yazhi City to provide post-sale repair services for them. Otherwise, the reputation of this type of rifle would be completely ruined by these profiteers.

Despite the advanced weapons, the majority of these mercenaries still use ordinary rifle bullets. They are not like the Advance Team, which is equipped with a large number of special head bullets. It is, of course, understandable, after all, the Advance Team is the direct force of the headquarters, and these people, no matter how close they are with the headquarters, are merely mercenaries. There is no need to distribute these bullets to them. After all, if the news leaks, the loss will be immense.

Before using these bullets, Luo’er always doubted their effectiveness; it turned out that the shield-breaking bullets are not very powerful. They could only frighten mages, making them stop guiding magic and produce the effect of breaking the shield. Therefore, Hu Daoke uses a combination of shield-breaking bullets and magic-breaking bullets. This way, both shields and defenses can be broken.

However, during actual combat, Luo’er discovered that although the shield-breaking bullet’s effectiveness is not satisfactory, it surprisingly displays high power when hitting an unprotected soft target.

The principle of the shield-breaking bullet lies in carving out passive glyphs for damage on the inside of the hollow bullets with a laser knife and using magic crystals for energy supply. When the bullet hits the Mage’s physical defense shield, the bullet head will change shape due to the pressure, activating the internal passive glyph, and generates magic damage to penetrate the physical defense shield, killing the mage behind the shield.

Embarrassingly, due to the bullet size, the magic crystal providing energy inside cannot generate enough magic power to hurt the mage, so the magic does not affect them much—it just gives them a scare.

However, during actual combat, Luo’er discovered that when this kind of bullet hits soft targets like the human body, the bullet head would perform the same procedure and produce magic. The bullet has entered the target’s body, so the magic is released directly inside the target.

Human bodies are highly delicate; although the magic generated from the shield-breaking bullet isn’t powerful enough to kill, it is unbearable to get hit by it on the inside. It is like a firecracker exploding under the foot— especially harmless, but it would cause severe injuries if it exploded in the stomach.

Therefore, during combat, once this bullet hits the human body, it acts like a small missile and makes the target explode, causing immense injury and bloodshed.

Of course, this bullet can only cope with unprotected soft targets. For protective armors like rune armor, magic-breaking bullets are the key for dealing with them.

However, considering that Theron’s primary weapon is the bolt-action rifle and semi-automatic weapon, the equipment level is equivalent to that of the guerilla team on Earth, and the popularity of the rune armor is not high. Therefore, during combat with them, the magic-breaking bullet is not as effective as the shield-breaking bullet.

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