Volume 2 Ghost Army Chapter 337: Turning Defense into Offense
As far as Li Jiu knew, the alliance's major legions had basically been in a defensive posture on the front battlefield.
The main mission of the various legion bases outside the alliance is not to compete with the defenders for territory outside the alliance.
After all, outside the alliance, there is no defense provided by the Xingtian system. Even if some areas are occupied, it is easy for the defenders to gather a large army and retake them.
The main tasks of each legion are to protect the alliance's engineering personnel and collect minerals within a certain area.
Of course, in today's world, the resources on the earth's surface, and even the shallow resources beneath the surface, have basically been exploited by both sides of the war.
Today, the resources that the two sides are fighting for are mainly various mineral deposits deep underground.
In the past, the major legions of the Alliance built legion bases in places where mineral deposits were concentrated to prevent the Defender Empire from coming to destroy them and to buy some time for subsequent engineers to mine.
Once a certain amount of minerals have been mined, the legion base will immediately evacuate the area and move to the next mining area.
As for the Defender Empire, it is attacking the mining area temporarily occupied by the Alliance with all its might.
However, recently, for some unknown reason, the Alliance has gone against its usual behavior and is no longer focusing on seizing mineral resources. Instead, it has begun to desperately attack the mining areas occupied by the Defenders around !
On the surface, it seems that the alliance has now accumulated enough strength to start turning from defense to offense, which sounds like good news.
However, the result of doing so was that not only were the major legions of the alliance no longer able to protect the engineers in mining, but they also did not achieve any significant results in the attacks in various places!
Even after the shift from defense to offense began, the casualties of the major legions immediately increased several times!
As for the defenders, there were almost no losses...
Changes in the situation on the front battlefield constantly affect the movements of various mercenary groups in the alliance.
After the shift from defense to offense began, the number of missions in each mercenary group quickly skyrocketed.
However, just like the defeat of the major legions on the front battlefield, almost all the mercenary groups in the alliance also suffered heavy casualties...
In recent times, the number of mercenary teams killed tragically outside the alliance territory is simply countless, and there are even many cases where entire teams were wiped out at once.
Among them, Li Jiu and his team’s last mission in Africa can be regarded as a tragedy under this major war situation.
The Seventh Squad was nearly wiped out, and the Fifth Squad also lost three members, which can definitely be said to be a heavy loss.
But they were still good that time...
Anyway, in the end they at least completed the mission successfully, and nearly half of the team members returned alive.
But other combat teams were not so lucky.
According to incomplete statistics, in the past month or so, among the ten mercenary teams sent out on missions in the alliance, almost five were directly wiped out on the battlefield!
The remaining five teams also suffered heavy casualties, and only less than two teams returned after completing their missions...
It can be said that over the past month, the mission completion rate of almost all mercenary groups has shown a sharp decline.
After seeing this situation, the leaders of various mercenary groups had to be cautious when choosing missions in order to protect their own assets.
Almost all group leaders want to select tasks with lower difficulty levels for the combat teams of their respective mercenary groups, so that their subordinates can successfully complete the tasks and come back alive.
After all, the mission completion rate directly affects the future development of the mercenary group.
Moreover, every mercenary in the mercenary group was carefully trained by the group leaders, who also expect them to make money for themselves and absolutely do not want to see them die in large numbers.
Especially in the veterans, the mercenary group has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in their training. Every time one of them dies, it is like cutting off a piece of his own flesh for the leader of the mercenary group...
However, as part of the alliance army , every mercenary group must unconditionally obey the orders of the alliance government!
Although, in most cases, they choose the missions they accept, and sometimes even find ways to apply for them actively, but in some special cases, the Alliance will assign some mandatory tasks to the mercenary group that must be completed!
In the past month or so, the missions that many mercenary groups received were not actually selected by their leaders... but were forced to be assigned by the Alliance Government!
Especially those missions with high difficulty and high mortality rate...
Although the various mercenary groups were very reluctant to accept those high-risk missions, they had no choice but to go ahead under the orders of the Alliance Government...
After learning about these situations, Li Jiu had a vague sense of foreboding in his heart...
However, he is not afraid of taking on high- risk tasks.
Although, the higher the risk of the mission, the greater the chance of team members being killed.
But you have to know that every team member is ready to sacrifice at any time from the moment he becomes a mercenary.
Each of them knows that mercenary is a dangerous profession, and everyone has their own purpose in participating in the battle. Since they have made the choice, they must have the corresponding awareness.
All Li Jiu could do was to try his best to protect them.
Especially Kaqi... Li Jiu would protect her at all costs, even if he died on the battlefield, he would keep her alive!
Because this is the responsibility a man should have. From the moment Kaqi agreed to be his girlfriend, protecting her became his unshirkable responsibility.
But then again, Li Jiu asked himself, with his current abilities, as long as the mission was not too difficult, protecting Kaqi's safety should not be a problem...
Of course, Li Jiu also knew that the battlefield situation was changing rapidly, and it was very likely that he would encounter things beyond his control during the battle, just like the time he encountered the enemy's elite warriors...
If it really doesn't work and encounters that kind of situation, even Li Jiu wouldn't dare to make any promises.
He could only say that he would definitely provide everyone with the greatest protection within the scope of his ability.
As for the final result, we can only accept our fate...
What Li Jiu was worried about was that, judging from the current war situation, this comfortable life in the alliance might not last much longer.
Perhaps, the world will become more turbulent in the future ...
Thinking of this, Li Jiu became more eager to build his own power.
After all, no matter what time it is, only when you are strong enough can you feel truly at ease.
