Chapter 27: Run Away

"Since there is no one to take over the command of your unit for the time being"

"According to the provisions of Federal Field Ordinance DT5237, I will temporarily take over the command of your unit until we meet up with other troops."

"Any questions?"

"No, sir!"

After nodding with satisfaction, Amber quickly operated on the personal terminal and obtained the command authority of this mobile infantry platoon.

The personal terminal on the wrist and the right side of the visor HUD also added information of the command module.

It shows the current position and status of the soldiers and armored vehicles belonging to the D platoon.

After doing all this, Amber looked at the slope where she and Isabel had ambushed before, and waved.

"Watch out for friendly forces, don't open fire."

A moment later, the mobile infantry saw a 'backpacker' running down the slope.

"This is Captain Margaret, who broke out of the Yasin base with me. She will act with us."

Amber patted the backpack on Isabel.

"Help this lady carry her bag."

The nearest mobile infantrymen heard this and immediately stepped forward to take over the backpack mounted on Isabel's exoskeleton.

For a troop that has just been through a battle, a military doctor is undoubtedly a timely rain.

Although Isabel no longer wants to maintain her "mask" and pretend to communicate with these federal soldiers in a familiar way.

But when she looked at these ordinary soldiers, they greeted her enthusiastically and helped her reduce the weight.

After taking off the helmet, many soldiers had obviously childish faces and blood flowing continuously.

Isabel finally sighed and took off the medical backpack behind her.

"The wounded come to this car. How many medicines do you have left? Count and tell me!"

Looking at the unexpected behavior of this female spy, Amber smiled and said nothing.

Then he turned his head and looked at the other mobile infantrymen who were not injured.

"Those who don't need treatment, send four people to the high ground to guard!"

After the four guard soldiers left, Amber marked another location on the map of the command module.

"You two, go to this location and carry back the 120 mortar and ammunition!"

"Others, clean up the battlefield, reload the guns, and collect usable weapons and ammunition!"

"Everyone, get moving!"

"Yes! Sir!"

Amber did not leave the team too much time to rest, and even the wounded were only treated urgently by Isabel.

The bodies of the fallen soldiers could not be carried, so they could only be buried in a pit on the spot.

Time was passing by, and he had to move the team as soon as possible and continue to move towards the junction of the Imperial Army's encirclement.

It has only been a few hours since the Empire carried out a large-scale orbital airdrop.

Not many troops actually landed, and they were basically orbital paratroopers, and not many HCPs landed.

In addition, the surviving air defense forces were still desperately intercepting, so the Empire did not currently have air supremacy in the atmosphere of Robert IV.

So now is actually the golden period for rapid maneuvers and escaping from the encirclement of the Imperial Army.

As the air defense forces are gradually lost, the Empire will soon gain air superiority.

By that time, the air transport plane will land with heavy equipment and various mobile vehicles.

The Empire's surveillance drones will also appear in the sky.

Amber and his men must start hiding during the day and moving at night, carefully avoiding various reconnaissance units.

At present, there are still 5 wheeled armored vehicles left in D Platoon.

One of them was repaired by the surviving mechanics in the team with great effort.

However, many soldiers in D Platoon were killed in the ambush just now, and the remaining five armored vehicles are enough to transport the remaining people.

In the previous battle, Amber had not paid attention to these vehicles.

Now he finally has time to check their configuration.

These mobile infantry are equipped with Mongoose 4 8-wheel armored vehicles.

This is the largest type of wheeled armored vehicle currently equipped by the Federal Army.

The modular design allows this wheeled armored vehicle to change different functions after replacing key equipment.

The two that were shot down before were a command type that was covered with antennas and looked like a hedgehog, and a standard personnel transport type.

Among the remaining five, in addition to the three standard personnel transport types.

There is also a communication relay type with several "pot lids" on top.

And an ultra-short wave reconnaissance interference type that can raise a mast-type antenna, which is commonly known as an electronic warfare type.

Amber took advantage of the time when the personnel boarded the vehicle to walk around the five wheeled armored vehicles.

From the perspective of firepower configuration, the remaining five vehicles are not strong.

The communication relay type and the electronic warfare type are not equipped with turrets in order to carry special equipment.

And the unmanned turret of the standard personnel transport type only has a 40mm chain gun and a 12mm coaxial machine gun.

It can be said that except for the individual anti-vehicle missiles carried by the mobile infantry themselves.

This team basically has no means to fight against heavy armored units.

But Amber's current need is not to fight the Imperial Army.

Instead, they circumvented the Imperial Army's encirclement and ran away as quickly as possible.

Under this demand, the communication relay type and the electronic warfare type can play a greater role than other types.

As the last mobile infantryman boarded the vehicle, Amber raised her hand above her head and shook it several times to signal "departure", and then boarded the communication relay vehicle swiftly.

In the previous battle, only one person survived in this communication squad composed of all new recruits.

And among the remaining soldiers, no one could operate these electronic equipment.

So Amber and Isabel had to rush to the top first.

At this time, Isabel, sitting in the position of a communications soldier, was curiously debugging the dazzling screen and buttons.

Amber sat down next to the only surviving communications soldier, and the armored vehicle under her started after a slight vibration.

"So what's the situation now? Can we contact other troops?"

Amber took off the tactical visor and put on the work helmet and headphones in the car.

Although there are universal interfaces available on the visor, it is still a bit inconvenient after all.

"Report to the commander, the communication is not smooth now."

"The Imperial Army's previous orbital strike destroyed many of our signal relay base stations, so now each unit can only rely on its own equipment to communicate."

The young communications soldier scratched his head and called up a set of data on the screen.

"But for some reason, the radio interference is very serious now, and the communication is sometimes intermittent."

Hearing the words of the communications soldier, Amber tilted her head and thought about it, and soon found the possible reasons in her mind.

"It should be because the Empire dropped a lot of tactical hydrogen bombs before, but the duration should not be too long, after all, it is not directly detonated in the atmosphere."

"That should be the case. If it detonates in the atmosphere, let alone radio, it is estimated that satellite relay will also be affected."

Just when Amber was about to ask the communications soldier to check whether the battalion-level edge network or the brigade-level backbone network could be connected.

A cry of surprise came from the communication channel.

"Oh my God, look at the sky!"