The drills of the land troops were not spontaneously initiated by Qinshan either.
The reason why we bring the Marine Corps here this time is precisely this. As we are showing off our muscles, it's not enough to just do it on the sea.
It's no longer necessary to show off in the air, as our Swords Twenty of the Camels have already demonstrated our strength in air power to the world.
Even the Swords Twenty can dominate the raptors of the Black and White Eagle Village, let alone the Sword Twenty-One equipped by Long Village itself, not to mention the modified Sword Ten, the Eight Elder, and various other black-tech fighter jets.
The deterrent effect of these aircraft itself doesn't need to be emphasized too much. Even if it were to be mentioned again, others would only think "it should have been like this all along."
In contrast, ground forces are different. Although Long Village has been very dominant over the past few years, in terms of ground power, it hasn't been as outstanding.
If we have to point to something, it would only be the previous rescue operation involving the Camel hostage crisis that garnered some attention.
But that was a covert operation, and it would be impossible to advertise it openly.
Therefore, this time, it is the best opportunity for Long Village to display its ground power!
These 300 marines are all elite from the naval side, though not members of the Jiaolong team, they are also among the top picks in a hundred!
More importantly, each of these people is equipped with a complete set of power armor!
This time, Long Village will publicly display the true strength of power armor to the whole world!
Let the whole world know the terror of power armor!
Similarly, it also prepares for the upcoming "big clean-up".
Regarding the potential casualties among the marines?
Qinshan hasn't even considered this. It's not that he is overly conceited, but rather that Long Village has already conducted internal drills more than a year ago.
And not just once!
The results of fifteen simulations showed that as long as we do not use weapons of the same level, or accurately determine the specific location of these elite marines in power armor in advance, and then directly deploy heavy firepower for coverage strikes, we can achieve our objectives effectively.
Then, the probability of these elite forces suffering casualties is less than one in a thousand!
During Long Village's internal drills, the largest-scale counterattack exercise was held at the Yuedu training ground.
The objective of the exercise was a power armor regiment and the Blue Army!
Yes, a regiment versus the entire Blue Army. That's the Blue Army that has only ever failed once since its establishment, and has always been called an alien army!
Moreover, despite the power armor regiment being officially a regiment, it actually only consists of thirty-six people.
The organization of the camp is similar to the one used by the blade platoon before. However, due to the powerful combat capability of this elite power armor unit, it couldn't be used as a platoon, so it was promoted to a battalion level directly.
In terms of military ranks, the lowest rank for these elite is one point one, and the lowest rank for the commander is two point three!
And these power armor camps only answer to the highest directive from a central command. Any subordinate department wishing to mobilize these power armor camps must report to the central command, and only after obtaining permission can they have the authority to mobilize these elite forces!
In that confrontation exercise, the ratio of forces between the power armor camp and the Blue Army was 36 to 8,000!
The 8,000 people besides logistics included a fully-equipped 120-vehicle 9A-style main battle tank battalion, an unmanned aerial vehicle battalion, a missile battalion, an anti-aircraft battalion, a artillery battalion, four mechanized infantry battalions, and a strategic support camp unique to the Blue Army—or in other words, the "mushroom" camp!
The final outcome was that both the power armor camp and the Blue Army were annihilated!
Why did both sides end up annihilating each other?
Because the Blue Army directly targeted their own command center with a "mushroom strike"!
However, in reality, the Blue Army was the one that lost. This is because before the Blue Army issued the command for a "mushroom strike," a small group from the power armor camp had already stormed the Blue Army command center and executed their commanding officer with a "decapitation" attack!
Yes, not a sneak attack, but a "forcible breakthrough"!!
In an extremely violent and devastating manner, they stormed the Blue Army command center like a force of nature!
Not only the Blue Army command center, but the remaining Blue Army forces were also easily destroyed by other small groups of the power armor camp.
Those parameter-XN armored units were as fragile in the face of the electromagnetic weapons of the power armor as paper.
Then, no one in Long Village ever doubted the strength of these power armor elites.
And now, the Marine Corps that Long Village has brought out is exactly three hundred people!
What is the concept of a combat force of thirty-six people facing off against the Blue Army, and what does a force of three hundred power armor marines, plus ten Jingzhe attack helicopters, represent?
If they can still be defeated by the Camels, then Long Village doesn't need to talk about reaching the pinnacle. They should just go home and take care of their children earlier.
As for the prisoners just mentioned by Modarhar?
Qinshan hadn't even thought about this question. If the Camels had such capabilities, it wouldn't matter if he gave them the 111th warship or even packed up the Longyuan-class technology and sent it to them; Qinshan wouldn't hesitate for a moment!
Just imagine, if an entire battalion can't even beat camels, can they be considered an elite force?
What's the use of such a force?
Not to mention the assistance of such science fiction equipment as power armor, even with just rice guns, Qinshan doesn't think that Long Village's elite forces could be captured en masse by the Camels, or even by any other village on Blue Star!
The only reason these people could be captured en masse is that they all "betrayed"!
But it's obvious that this is impossible!
......
Qinshan's news was soon spread by Modarhar.
Soon, not only the villages that participated in the exercise, but also every faction and power in the world that had been paying attention to this exercise, almost all knew about the news released by Long Village.
For a time, the entire world went wild.
The villages that originally had not been invited or had declined the invitation to the exercise were now in a state of regret.
Many villages directly applied to participate in the exercise by sending applications to the Sand Camel, actively applying to participate in this joint exercise!
It's not that they are making a big show, but the "bonus" reward that Long Village has brought out this time is simply too generous!
These things, what one isn't worth billions? Even hundreds of billions, and some are even worthless!
Which village can resist such temptation?
However, these applications were all categorically rejected by Modarhar, although he had asked Qinshan, and Qinshan had also indicated that he didn't care whether these villages joined or not.
But Qinshan doesn't care what Modarhar cares about.
Especially the ground-based confrontation exercise, Long Village's Marine Corps had a total of three hundred people and ten Jingzhe.
It's like there are too many cooks and not enough meat. If too many people join in, then if the credit gets taken by someone else, wouldn't the Sand Camel be crying their eyes out?
For a time, the villages that were rejected by Modarhar were all ruing their decision...
This, once again pushed the exercise to its peak.
......
About two weeks later, it was still the port of the once-crab village——
"Prince, the statistics have been compiled. This time, in addition to us and Long Village, there are two cruisers, eighteen destroyers, fifty-one frigates, and thirty-two various types of black fish!"
"Besides that, the Polar Bear village has also brought out their only aircraft carrier..."
A camel's commander, while saying this, handed the document to Modarhar in his temporary office.
"Carrier?" hearing the sound from his subordinate, Modarhar was somewhat surprised, "Their carrier can still move?"
It's not a secret that Polar Bear has an aircraft carrier, but just like the Iron Tower village and Niuniu village, their aircraft carrier is basically a decoration.
Aircraft carriers from Polar Bear village have basically been parked for 365 out of 365 days in a year!
It might take several years just to have one outing!
He had even heard that the aircraft carrier from Polar Bear village had some issues with its boiler and has been under repair.
He didn't expect Polar Bear to actually bring out their aircraft carrier now.
"According to the fleet status submitted by Polar Bear, it is said that their aircraft carrier is now at sea, only one hundred nautical miles away from the port. We have confirmed this through verification half an hour ago..."
Facing Modarhar's doubts, the commander of the Sand Camel responded promptly.
Upon hearing this, Modarhar's eyes flickered slightly.
The fact that Polar Bear had brought their aircraft carrier was indeed unexpected to him.
It also brought him a considerable threat.
Although he was well aware that Polar Bear's aircraft carrier was not coming for them, the Sand Camel.
But now, Polar Bear and them were real competitors!
According to the report in front of him, there were thirty-three vessels from Polar Bear in the total of one hundred and fourteen ships participating in the exercise!
This includes one aircraft carrier, two cruisers, and six destroyers!
It can be said that to obtain Long Village's technology, Polar Bear has really emptied their coffers this time, except for not bringing the strategic black fish.
If Polar Bear is able to 'damage' or 'destroy' Long Village's ships during the exercise with them, then the things from their own camp could befall Polar Bear.
At the thought of this, a sense of urgency emerged in Modarhar's heart.
But after a moment of reflection, Modarhar realized that while the paper strength of Polar Bear looked decent, those ships were mostly old and outdated.
Even their aircraft carrier, while seemingly threatening, was nothing more than an old relic that had been out of commission for years. It might explode at any moment due to some issue with its boiler.
Such a fleet actually posed little threat to them.
On the other hand, those dozens of escort ships and black fish are actually not bad. Although they are all second-rate or even third-rate ships, if they all gather together, they might be able to overwhelm Long Village with their numbers!
Long Village's ships were undoubtedly advanced, but this time they had only brought three ships and had separated their own forces. They had also conducted an engagement exercise!
In other words, Long Village not only had to defend against them but also against their own ships!
In this case, these villages really have a chance to gain an advantage against Long Village!
......
After a long time, Modarhar forcibly shook off the thoughts in his head and then said:
"What about the ground force situation?"
Upon hearing this, the commander of the Sand Camel in front of Modarhar immediately said:
"In terms of ground forces, besides us and Long Village, there are a total of eight regiments and 43,000 men..."
"？？？?" Modarhar froze: "43,000 people??"
He then immediately realized and his mouth began to twitch uncontrollably.
Eight regiments, 43,000 men!
It's obvious what happened. Just use your toes to think about it!
Normally, a typical regiment has between one thousand and three thousand people!
And most are around a thousand, with regiments of three thousand being considered reinforced in the world.
If all of them are assumed to be three thousand people each, the eight regiments would only have a maximum of 24,000 people.
Now, this number has reached 43,000!
It's overstaffed by a full nine thousand people!
On average, each village is overstaffed by over two thousand people. In other words, the villages are sending out "strengthened" teams of more than five thousand people!
Modarhar carefully picked up the report and looked at it. His mouth twitched even more violently.
Upon closer inspection, it was as he had just calculated: each village was presenting a "reinforced" detachment of nearly five thousand people!
Of course, if it's just about the number, it's still okay. But the key is that the firepower of these "strengthened" detachments is one after another, absurd!
For instance, Polar Bear village, a single regiment directly arranged one hundred and sixteen T90 main battle tanks!
To equip a regiment with so many of the most advanced main battle tanks, are you serious?
Even a blind person can see that your "regiment" is very irregular, okay?
In addition to the main battle tanks, this regiment from Polar Bear village also includes a rocket artillery "battalion" equipped with twenty-four Hail Mary rocket launchers!
These Hail Mary rocket launchers may be old-timers from half a century ago, but no one dares to say they have no deterrent power. After all, they are 40-barreled 120mm+ rockets!
Is this definitely the equipment of an "infantry battalion"?
Besides these, this "infantry regiment" from Polar Bear village also includes a "surface-to-air missile battalion" equipped with four sets of SA10 surface-to-air missiles, an "artillery battalion" equipped with eighteen 152mm heavy howitzers, and a "rapid support battalion" equipped with twenty-four armed helicopters!
This level of fully-armed force, Polar Bear actually dares to say it's a "regiment" formation?
Just by looking at the number, not the quality, this "regiment" level is not much less than a mechanized brigade that they built with Long Village's help!
This is truly crossing the line!
When you look at the number of this armed force, it's the Polar Bear Guard Unit!
Modarhar hadn't seen this regiment himself, but he had heard of it. It's the Polar Bear village's elite armed force responsible for guarding the Snow Palace. The regiment itself is indeed a solid unit!
In addition to Polar Bear, the other villages were also similar, with Iron Tower village pulling out its most elite forces as well.
Although the scale is not as large as Polar Bear's, it's still pretty close. Things like Caesar have been arranged as well.
It can be said that for the things Long Village has, all the villages participating in this exercise have pretty much pulled out all their stops.
Even their dignity has been thrown to the wind!
Long Village said they could send a battalion, and they did indeed send a battalion. But Long Village didn't specify how many people or equipment were in that battalion.
Take the most shameless White Elephant village for example, they also sent a regiment, but it had over eight thousand people in total!
They were equipped with the same weapons that the Black and White Eagle village provided to them for dealing with the Little Bazi village.
Even including a few Pa Chi armed helicopters that White Elephant village currently has.
If Long Village hadn't said before that fighters could participate, White Elephant village probably would have included their own fighter jets in the "infantry regiment" as well!
After a long time, Modarhar finished reading the report in his hand, hesitated for a moment, then took the report and walked out of his office, heading towards the Long Village camp where Qin Shan was located...
