The winter nights in Alaska are hard to endure, because if you're trapped in a small house for a long time, the night really feels too long.

Mountain Eagle doesn't have this worry, because he has many tasks that can't be handled by others, so he wants to install defensive measures in the area most core to him, requiring him to do many things personally.

Leaving the launch boxes for the Spring Knife and Spearhead Missile in the Huai'en Tribe is simple, but climbing to the mountaintop on the Valley Ranch side to set up small power plants, place batteries, mount small radars, then deploy the Spring Knife and Spearhead Missile, plus a set of four Stinger Missiles, took him most of the night.

Sled and Chakdi are two people without curiosity; when Mountain Eagle asks them to help carry things up the mountain, they carry them, and if asked to do some masonry work, they use the strong glue brought by the boss to fill the gaps in stones and secure things like fuel tanks, radars, and launch boxes.

Chakdi has always been engaged in high-intensity labor, but this whole day was still a huge challenge for him.

If it weren't for the flexible exoskeleton specifically made by Mountain Eagle for him, Chakdi couldn't imagine how he could persist.

Riding a motorcycle for nearly 50 kilometers, then heavily burdened climbing, and working intensely on a mountaintop in temperatures below minus twenty degrees for nearly four hours.

When Chakdi had his first bite of noodles, there were only three hours left until daylight.

After eating, he crawled into the tent, embraced a not-so-submissive Magengxi Wolf, and fell asleep within ten seconds...

The warmth inside the cave and the body heat from the Magengxi Wolf made Chakdi feel very comfortable, even dreaming of praising the boss's wisdom in bringing these Magengxi Wolves along.

Cuddled with four fur-fluffy Magengxi Wolves, even if shelters couldn't be built in time at night, these creatures large as Black Back could serve as a windproof wall with self-supplied heat.

Compared to others who went to sleep instantly, Mountain Eagle was much more energetic...

He finished a not-so-luxurious supper, then sat by the fire, using the tactical computer to start testing the devices installed today.

With a Crow as a signal relay, positioned between the Huai'en Tribe and the mountaintop, the active equipment quickly integrated into the tactical system, and the radar started functioning normally.

The mountain peak above the valley has an altitude of just a few hundred meters but is already the highest point nearby...

As soon as the radar started working, a section of airspace with an 80-kilometer radius and some unobstructed ground were included in the detection range.

Being a phased-array radar, the theoretical detection distance could reach 200-300 kilometers, but due to limitations in radar size, power, and terrain, 80 kilometers is the limit.

Within this distance, most small stealth equipment, like the multifunctional Spring Knife 300 drone, certainly can't evade radar detection.

If the power is reduced even further, this Sergeant System manufactured automatic radar could perfectly serve as a tool for managing the ranch economically.

Using phased-array radar for cattle feeding may sound exaggerated, but the reality is it effectively tracks the ranch's cattle, saving the Cowboy a lot of effort.

Mountain Eagle needs to debug devices because the animals around the valley are too numerous. He needs to carefully compare through the Crow and let the radar record those animals' signal features; otherwise, with high sensitivity, listening to alerts alone can lead to nervous breakdowns.

Luckily, the smart tactical computer from Sergeant System is very powerful, not only assisting Mountain Eagle in completing such trivial tasks but able to infer and quickly organize characteristics of the animals' bodies and movements, even categorizing them on the radar screen and marking them with numbers.

There are 8 moose, 546 reindeer, 47 musk ox, 5 North American bison, 12 North American gray wolves, 3 foxes in the valley, and the smaller ones were ignored...

In the broader region outside the valley, more animals are hidden, but most are small creatures like snow hare, grouse, and rats...

After ignoring these small guys and excluding the large recorded mammals, what remains are those people...

Mountain Eagle located the opposing team through the radar, then switched to the perspective of the tracking Peregrine Falcon for comparison, confirming it was them, then Mountain Eagle was surprised to find...

This group advanced nearly 15 kilometers all day without mechanical aid in the subzero temperature environment.

The winter daylight in Alaska lasts only 8-9 hours; with so much baggage, their marching speed in the snow can reach two kilometers, which is truly remarkable.

The current direct distance between both parties is nearly 18 kilometers; if their goal is harassment, they'll bring Valley Ranch into their Spring Knife 300 attack range by tomorrow afternoon.

While Mountain Eagle planned tomorrow's offensive, the radar suddenly issued an alert...

That Cessna transport plane that had appeared that day broke into the radar's monitoring range, and simultaneously, in the Peregrine Falcon's perspective, those shrunk in snow burrows suddenly awoke, one person took out a satellite phone, exited the snow burrow, glanced at the dark sky, then planted some burning sticks on the ground.

This sudden situation stirred Mountain Eagle into action; he deployed the Peregrine Falcon resting on branches to ascend and hover...

A few minutes later, several chute blossoms opened near the burning stick-lit area, and the Peregrine Falcon effortlessly captured those parachutes and the people and gear on them...

Twelve fully armed soldiers and two combination parachutes carrying several large boxes.

Jumping blindfold into the snow domain filled with trees and shrubs in such cold weather is a massive challenge for anyone...

Since they are using military parachutes, which are different from civilian paragliders, the paratroopers' time in the air is very short...

This is also for the safety of the paratroopers!

Because soldiers are unprotected in mid-air, quickly reaching the ground is the correct choice.

However, this means that if a paratrooper makes a mistake or lands in the wrong place, they might lose their life.

The wind in the Alaskan wilderness taught these guys a profound lesson...

While they were still in the air, a gust of cold wind scattered them, leaving only six people landing near the first group of soldiers to arrive, while the others and two parachutes with equipment were blown into a sparse pine forest.

Such reckless actions don't make sense; Mountain Eagle didn't know why these people were doing this.

But soon, Peregrine Falcon detected radio signals...

All the resting soldiers crawled out from their snow caves, then lifted the long-held radio silence to contact the newcomers...

"This is Codfish Team, I'm Captain Codfish One..."

"Codfish One, I'm Cohen from Chimera Squad One, help me out, my people and equipment have been blown into the forest, I need to retrieve them as soon as possible...

God forbid any unexpected casualties occur, or our mission progress will be delayed..."

Codfish One: "Cohen? Your destination should be further south, why did you come here?

We'll enter the strike zone tomorrow, and once the orders from the rear arrive, we can bomb the Indian village and their ranch, mobilizing the Brown Bear Camp people.

Your presence here doesn't hold much significance..."

Cohen paused for a few seconds and said, "We got intelligence that the Fairbanks base will be investigated by the police at dawn.

Colonel Chuck had to let us take off urgently to deal with the police."

Sensing Codfish One's uncertainty, Cohen coughed and said, "Commander Chuck received intelligence that another group will attack Brown Bear Camp from the south via downstream waterways.

They will reach the Indian village closest to Brown Bear Camp in two days for rest.

They are expected to arrive opposite Brown Bear Camp in four days, when our fleet will coordinate from upstream for the attack.

Commander Chuck ordered us to support you and accelerate our deployment between Brown Bear Camp and the Indian village, to use an encirclement tactic to deplete some of their forces, then employ Spring Knife to bomb Brown Bear Camp, preventing them from breaking northward.

God bless my people, and bless those Spring Knives don't crash...

Fuck, I hate this environment, it was never this cold during training in Norway!"

.........

Mountain Eagle intercepted the radio communication, quickly opened the map, and zoomed in on the southern wetland terrain and village distribution map...

The nearest Indian village south of the camp is located on the left bank of the Kascoquim River, a river nearly parallel to the Yukon River, but its flow is not on par with the Yukon, with its estuary in the southwestern part of Alaska, near an Arctic Fox training base in Beisai.

The fact that the opponent made it their destination indicates not everyone landed at the western Yukon River estuary Azcanak; they've split their forces...

During this time, the Kascoquim River is frozen, so with snowmobiles and sleds, they can follow the river northward, directly reaching the native village 40 kilometers across the wetland plain from the Brown Bear Camp.

In fact, Mountain Eagle didn't guess right, General Sid arranged three groups of troops...

Their main force landed at Azcanak in the west, taking boats to Saint Mary's upstream, where they acquired equipment prepared by Vincent, then split into two groups, one heading upstream by water, while another rode snowmobiles into the wetlands, preparing to head straight to the opposite side of Brown Bear Camp.

Heading upstream from the southwest estuary of the Kascoquim River is an elite squad, their objective aligns with the Demon Group, which is to attempt an attack on the natives, drawing attention to Brown Bear Camp while using the native village as a base for a northward attack on the Russian Mission Town in the northeast direction of Brown Bear Camp.

That area is a vast wetland tundra, without complex terrain to obstruct; with snowmobiles, they can reach the opposite side of Russian Mission Town in about three hours, waiting to launch an attack under cover of night.

Mountain Eagle didn't know the opponent's deployments, but he was very clear about his own position and task...

Eliminate the most immediate threat in front of him, then ask questions to learn more information!