Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 663 - 656: Sudden Realization

Chapter 663: Chapter 656: Sudden Realization

"Understood!" Hu Daoke nodded, picking up the machine gun and starting to patrol for potential threats.

Seeing two dwarf pilots sitting back to back, Tangmo couldn’t help but point to them and say, "Luoer, aren’t there two backup troops here?"

"Forget it, they’re technical troops. Don’t make it hard for them," Luoer paused, shaking his head gently, "Besides, making them work gives off the feel of child labor impropriety."

The Advance Team was quite far away from the air defense position, and there was no need to worry that the aircraft would be shot down. However, these High-peak dwarves were so stubborn. They were adamant not to deploy any aircraft until the air defense position was entirely eliminated, even though there were two pilots on the ground.

According to Luoer, if the air fleet was so worried about being shot down by ground-based air defense fire, they could just bomb under the cover of nightfall. The positions of the ground air defense installations would be exposed due to the firelight, and there was no need for the Advance Team to provide guidance. They could attack directly as long as they saw the firelight on the ground.

Luoer also found high-altitude bombing quite mysterious. The clouds in the sky remained thick and who knew when they would disperse. When conducting high-altitude bombing, it would be a matter of whether they could see the guide marks on the ground.

In the next half-day, Luoer and Cheng Ziang came up with several plans, but they were all eventually vetoed. Even Luoer’s plan for night bombing was questioned by Cheng Ziang.

Since the air defense position was designed to counter airborne objects, it should have the basic lighting control. Otherwise, with lights all around the ground, it would be visible from far in the airplane and there would be no ambush.

If they let the air fleet bomb at low altitude in the dark as Luoer suggested, what would they do if they couldn’t see anything on the ground?

Cheng Ziang’s questioning made Luoer rethink his plan. In the end, the Advance Team had to take the initiative and use signal flares for bombing guidance. If the Advance Team could perfectly drop the signal flares into the enemy’s air defense position, it would be considered a significant success.

In this regard, Baiyue’s map drawing location became particularly important. During the night, even Fulajie’er couldn’t conduct reconnaissance, and she could only assist the Advance Team in communication. After all, she was a spirit, not a night vision device.

Furthermore, Luoer also had to consider an important issue, which was their mission to find the wreckage of the reconnaissance aircraft and retrieve the virus.

Carefully calculated, it had been about two days since the reconnaissance aircraft crashed. Although these people might not have as conveniently airborne transportation as them, the virus could be transported elsewhere in two days, making it much harder to locate later.

Now, in addition to arranging for the Ronisca air fleet to assist the Advance Team, the Headquarters also ordered the mercenaries to set up checkpoints around Yazhi City, trying to stop them before the virus entered the Otherworld Gate.

After some consideration, Luoer decided that if the clouds didn’t disperse by afternoon, they would launch an attack at dusk, marking the air defense position for the air fleet to bomb. If they waited till night, the visibility would worsen due to cloud cover, almost like groping in the dark.

Although they had the help of the air fleet, Luoer wasn’t very happy because the commander’s caution of the air fleet was quite annoying. He couldn’t believe that the Ronisca Air Force, after thirty years of development, would still fear the shooting of merely 88 millimeters anti-aircraft gun, not to mention it’s still an open question if the enemy does have anti-aircraft guns.

Furthermore, considering the firing range of the 88 mm anti-aircraft gun, the altitude at which the air fleet was currently hovering might not be safe either. The only reason they were not shot down was the cloud cover, otherwise, they could still be taken out by the anti-aircraft gun unless they ascended to the stratosphere.

If Luoer was the one commanding the air fleet, after receiving the coordinates of the air defense positions, he would disperse the airships to raid and land around the bombing orbit, subsequently leveling the air defense positions. This would conclude the combat within minutes instead of allowing the advance team on the ground to risk their lives running back and forth to provide various data and direct fire.

Moreover, upon reflection, until today, almost no one from the headquarters has been injured in this accident. On the other hand, Ronisca has lost two aircraft and a machine gunner has died, and two reconnaissance pilots were missing in action.

Strictly speaking, it was unnecessary for the advance team to eliminate these few active air defense points. If they managed to capture a few informants to reveal the location of the virus sample, it would be enough. The ones who really needed to take revenge should be Ronisca’s air force, not the headquarters.

But now, the situation has completely reversed, the advance team has to risk their lives to direct the bombing for Ronisca’s air forces’ revenge operation.

Luoer, who realized this, was incensed and sent an assertive message to the front-line headquarters, asking Li Si to forward it to Wang Xu. It stated that the advance team did not need to put effort into eliminating air defenses, they only needed to find the location of the virus.

These air defense positions are stationary, hardly capable of mobility, thus the headquarters could just change the route to continue transporting the virus samples, eliminating the local air defenses was needless.

If the high-peak people want revenge, then they should put in the effort to deal with it themselves. The advance team could provide necessary assistance, but they should not risk their lives as their pawns.

Although Luoer knew Wang Xu would be uneasy upon receiving the letter, he was not concerned about it. As the captain of the advance team, his primary duty was to complete the mission assigned by the headquarters and ensure the safety of each team member.

As far as Luoer is concerned, he doesn’t care about the relationship between the headquarters and Ronisca. After all, he is only the captain of the advance team, not a senior official at the headquarters. He only considers the safety of the advance team. As for how the headquarters should communicate with Ronisca, that’s their business.

Now, once they have removed the air defenses, they would inevitably face the third day of the virus disappearance. In three days, if they transported it down the river, the virus sample would have been delivered to Yazhi City.

So either, the air fleet lands directly on the bombing orbit, cooperates with the advance team on a joint operation to eliminate the air defenses, or the advance team could capture a few informants, find out the location of the virus sample, and ignore the air defenses.

It’s not that Luoer is heartless, after all, the prudence of the air fleet commander vexed him. What does it mean to not send support until the ground air defenses are eradicated? Then what about the two injured dwarf pilots? If they don’t want them, Luoer could just abandon them, he doesn’t need to look after them for their survival. Does the air fleet consider their crew human but not the advance team?

After sending the letter, Luoer stopped planning and started waiting for the reply. Baiyue’s reconnaissance would undoubtedly continue; even without eliminating the air defenses, the advance team could capture a few prisoners using the information supplied by Baiyue and find the virus sample directly.

A few hours after sending the letter, Luoer received a forwarded message from Wang Xu. Wang Xu told him that after communication, Ronisca’s air fleet agreed to descend to the bombing orbit for air support and arranged a transport plane to supply the advance team as necessary, but they would have to wait for a signal from the advance team.

God knows how Wang Xu communicated with the Ronisca air fleet, but such news lightened Luoer’s mood slightly. Since Ronisca was willing to cooperate, the problem was much easier.

Now they just need to wait for Baiyue and others to return, ask Fulajie’er to ascend and request a transport plane to move these two unlucky dwarf pilots, then wait for the advance team’s signal. After all, these two pilots were not combat-effective and were injured. They were a burden, Luoer wanted to get them onto the airboat early on.

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