When all communication with the 3rd Battalion was completely cut off and the sound of thunderous cannon fire ca from the west of Puluo Town, Kodell already had an ominous premonition—given Assault Group One's equipnt and the situation on this planet, communication breakdown on such a large scale should be impossible.
With only a distance of over twenty kiloters and hundreds of chas in the area where the 3rd Battalion was located, not one could be contacted. Apart from electronic interference, Kodell couldn't think of another reason. This judgnt imdiately made him tense.
To reach the 3rd Battalion, Kodell ordered the Second Battalion to move towards the 3rd Battalion's position while rapidly dispatching three armored reconnaissance teams. Out of the twelve chas from the three teams, only two returned. The news they brought back left him both shocked and regretful!
The 3rd Battalion was essentially decimated. This standard battalion of 360 "Fire Elent" Single Soldier chas and 10 dium-range support "Terrain Dragon" chas was now reduced to rely sixty or seventy chas scattered across more than a dozen blocks. Most were already segnted and surrounded by the enemy, badly damaged, and on the brink of annihilation.
What caused all this was not the attacked Comrce Alliance, but the so-called Sect Mutual Aid Alliance, which had always maintained a stance of retreat. They had ruthlessly struck!
Kodell knew this was his first mistake!
When he first arrived in Puluo Town, those Black chas had already abandoned the Greenland Avenue line, conceding nearly forty blocks to the east of Puluo Town. Their determinedly defensive posture made him overlook these re dozens of chas from the start.
The second mistake was even more fatal: he never imagined that the enemy had electronic suppression capabilities!
In the Free World, even if you managed to procure old-fashioned warships and a few military weapons through various ans, high-tech military electronic interference equipnt and technology were strictly prohibited from being exported to the Free World by human society.
Let's not even talk about exporting to the Free World—within each country, anything related to the SkyNet System, radar system, anti-reconnaissance system, information interference system, and deception system was considered top secret. The control over equipnt and personnel was exceedingly strict. After all, in modern warfare, if communication, command, and battlefield coordination are suppressed by the enemy due to technological leaks, it ans you've already lost the war.
Thus, even though the Free World gathered many scientists, chanics, and experts in various fields, very few electronic warfare experts managed to escape to the Free World alive. Among those who survived the assassinations by national agents, those who had the funds and equipnt to conduct research were even rarer!
Without talent, the Free World's electronic technology could only depend on civilian purchases and self-trained scientists for research.
While Free World scientists had distinct achievents in many subfields of electronic technology, their research primarily focused on radar, communication, and anti-natural interference used by adventurers' ships exploring the universe. These were all civilian passive devices.
When it ca to proactive electronic warfare weapons for military operations, such as jamming and shielding, the Free World was utterly lacking.
Everyone wanted these technologies, but without powerful research capabilities and funding, without years of military application technology accumulation, and without a chance to evade the Human Supre Council's oversight and strikes, it was wishful thinking for any organization to develop military electronic technology strong enough to rival sovereign nations.
In this regard, the Northern Comrce Alliance was the most advanced organization within the Free World. President Selwal had long realized that electronic warfare weapons provided an overwhelming advantage against the various sects of the Free World. However, with Philip's support, he could only secretly obtain so obsolete equipnt and technology from Gazalin.
Though unable to produce dedicated electronic chas, leveraging these equipnt and technologies, the "Fire Elent" was already considered outstanding among Free World's ard chas in terms of anti-interference capabilities.
Who could have known that over three hundred "Fire Elent" chas would get sliced through like butter! Not only did they fail to resist interference, but from long-range firepower to close combat, they were completely suppressed. Even the rigorously trained on-the-spot blockades and formation dispersals for chaotic situations were utterly ineffective!
Although Northern Alliance's chanical Warriors were not Sect chas and most were only at a general level of cha control, Kodell had always prided himself on training the First Armored Assault Group, considering them truly professional soldiers for war in the Free World. He couldn't accept such an outco.
However, as a veteran of Binart's elite Armored Division, he quickly cald down.
Years of military training in Binart Army had taught Kodell that a Commander unable to rapidly accept defeat and formulate new strategies was unqualified. At this mont, the most important thing was to face the enemy head-on and quickly devise counterasures.
Though the 3rd Battalion's fiasco cost him nearly a tenth of his forces, Assault Group One undoubtedly still held a manpower advantage compared to the enemy. Moreover, this defeat provided him with a direct assessnt of the enemy's combat strength and equipnt level. Knowing the enemy's electronic suppression capabilities, he would never make the sa mistake again.
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