Sergeant Major Wang Dong adjusted his battle armor's helmet to ensure it was in its most comfortable state. He looked at the digital camouflage on his battle armor and felt somewhat uneasy.
Although he was still wearing his Tiberius Heavy Armor, in order to participate in this mission, all the squad leaders of Iridium Star Orbital Paratroopers had painted their black Individual Armor in the same camouflage pattern as the C Army.
He turned his head to look at the tense expressions of the soldiers in the cabin, his eyebrows raised slightly in dissatisfaction, but he didn't voice it. He had become an instructor for the C country's amphibious assault troops a few months ago and began training C country's new special forces, the amphibious assault troops.
In actuality, they could be considered the C country version of the Orbital Paratroopers, integrating special forces units from the Army, the Marine Corps, and the Airborne Forces of the Air Force.
The reason for this was that in the future, C Army's regular soldiers were expected to be able to undertake the combat missions originally assigned to special forces, possessing a strong combat capability. More difficult and strategic tactical actions, however, were left to the current amphibious assault troops.
At this moment, the amphibious assault troopers were sitting in the cargo hold of a Transport-22-type vertical takeoff transport aircraft. This was also the first time the amphibious assault troops were carrying out a real combat mission, and this mission was of great importance.
As an instructor, the Sergeant Major's personal combat system was automatically granted the authority to use the cargo hold's loudspeaker. He said loudly, "I don't want to mock you, the mission is not very difficult, I believe you know that it won't be harder than the drills we did before, but this is real combat. I welcome your seriousness, but I don't want to see too much nervousness and fear.
When we step onto the battlefield, we must be fearless."
All the amphibious assault troopers shouted, "Yes!"
The Sergeant Major continued, "In a moment when we jump out from here, each squad should act according to the mission prompts you hear in your ears, feel free to use any weapon, but I recommend the Shockwave Gun. It's not because I'm soft-hearted, but because dealing with corpses afterwards is tedious."
The Shockwave Gun was a mode of the current standard rifle used by the amphibious assault troopers, designed specifically for close combat and particularly suitable for confined spaces. Upon hitting the enemy, the enemy would immediately be rendered rigid or fall into shock. In fact, the Shockwave Gun was more oriented towards riot control weapons.
The amphibious assault troops were not provided with a supporting Bionic Human unit, which meant that no matter how many people they killed, cleaning up the battlefield afterwards would be their own responsibility.
Clearly, it would be more convenient to disarm the enemies and let them queue up with their hands on their heads to board the prisoner transport ship than to have a field littered with corpses and blood.
At this time, atop the John C. Stennis aircraft carrier, Major General Majinto was starting to feel despondent.
"Commander, all of our electronic systems suddenly shut down just now, we don't know why, and we are urgently investigating," the officer reported.
Majinto felt a chill in his heart. He guessed that the military technology of the Star Alliance was simply beyond what the Lighthouse Country could now compare with. Suppressing all the flight electronics in the fleet of the Stennis was not a difficult task. Now Majinto was blind and deaf, completely unaware of where the enemy might launch an attack from.
"Can't even contact the C country folks?" Majinto asked, somewhat cowered.
His officer replied, "No, our radio communication is completely disrupted, and no one can hear our calls on the open channel."
Majinto became anxious. In previous encounters with other countries' armed forces, the US military also liked to play this game, using electronic warfare to knock out the opponents' eyes and ears, then leverage their advantage in firepower for precision strikes, completely destroying the opponent.
Now, the roles had been reversed, and it was the US military whose eyes and ears had been made blind and deaf.
Majinto felt somewhat at a loss, not knowing immediately how to make the C-country people stop this military operation to avoid the completely vulnerable U.S. forces from continuing to suffer significant losses.
At this moment, the colorful life vest-clad sailors on the deck of the Stennis suddenly saw ripples in the sky, like waves of water, as vertically launching transport aircraft with wide bodies but not long wings came into view.
"Damn it, enemy attack!"
The soldiers and officers of Eagle Sauce had no idea when the enemy had gotten so close because their electronic systems were useless, which meant missiles were ineffective. Even naval guns, which were highly digitized these days, could not operate fully.
As everyone watched in astonishment, the cargo doors at the rear of several Yun-22 aircraft opened, and amphibious assault troopers clad in camouflaged Powered Individual Armor jumped out one by one. Their glider wing packs deployed, turning them into free falcons in the sky, ready to pounce and devour their prey at any moment.
The Sergeant Major's Tiberius Armor came with its own flight system, but for the sake of uniformity in the mission, he had also fitted his armor with the glider wing pack.
"If anyone fails to land on the ship and ends up in the sea, you might as well roll up your bedroll and retire," the Sergeant Major couldn't help but add.
The tall figure of the Sergeant Major took a few extra turns in the air with his glider wings while squad after squad of assault troopers were already leaping from the sky, boarding the Navy ships of the Eagle Sauce Family.
The crowded flight deck of the aircraft carrier was unprepared at this time, and these sailors had never anticipated having to fight the enemy on deck. They were responsible for various aviation maintenance tasks, not for engaging the enemy with weapons like the M4.
They were not accustomed to this, but the amphibious assault troopers were well-versed in it.
Unlike the Tiberius and Army-Breaker armors, which could be optically invisible, the Saber-toothed Tiger armor of the C Army could not be stealthy, so several soldiers dropped a good number of smoke grenades on the deck as directed by the AI-assisted system, making it impossible for the people on the ship to accurately locate the troopers.
The sound of universal rifles firing erupted, and Sergeant Major Wang Dong continually shot bursts of shockwaves, knocking down anyone trying to stop him or get in his way.
"First team, the target is the island superstructure; the Captain of this ship and the Fleet Commander are both there—don't let anyone go, capture them all for me."
Several assault troopers responded loudly, shot down the U.S. soldiers guarding the entrance to the island superstructure, and charged inside. And the other warships were not spared either, even the attack nuclear submarine lurking in the water couldn't escape its fate; it was dragged out of the water by underwater drones, which also conveniently damaged its propeller transmission system.
The resistance from the U.S. forces on the ship was not intense, especially after seeing soldiers clad in shiny metallic Armor, they wisely chose not to fight with the terrifying things they couldn't understand.