556: Chapter 200 Long Live the Six Dragons Sect, part2 556: Chapter 200 Long Live the Six Dragons Sect, part2 In modern warfare, the ratio of bullets consumed to enemies killed is extremely exaggerated.

It is not uncommon to use tens of thousands of bullets to kill a single enemy.

Even if some guerrilla teams boast that they “eliminate one enemy with each bullet,” in practice, it often takes an average of dozens of rounds to kill one enemy.

However, “how many bullets it takes on average to kill an enemy” is not directly related to “the combat effectiveness of an army.” Some armies that overpower their contemporaries around the world can afford to expend tens or even hundreds of thousands of bullets to kill a single enemy.

In fact, in modern wars, many shots are not aimed at “eliminating the enemy” but at “preventing the enemy from having the opportunity to shoot at oneself.”

In such situations, firing doesn’t even need much aiming.

If there’s a suspicion that an area might host an enemy, just spraying a bunch of bullets over there will do.

After all, compared to “the life of a soldier,” “tens of thousands of bullets” are relatively cheap.

If bullets can scout ahead, it means that soldiers are in a safer environment, which also means more conservation of resources.

“Fire suppression” is also an important component of the Firearms Path.

Many masters of the Firearms Path may use hundreds, even thousands of rounds to kill a single enemy.

But Solo Kill King found that the current situation was not simply a matter of “both sides shooting at each other.”

Those acting as the “attackers” had occupied a resource supply station and were “stubbornly resisting.” The supply station, converted into a bunker, seemed to be completely suppressed, with only sporadic gunfire.

Logically, by this point, the Protectors as the “counter-attackers” should have gained an absolute advantage and should directly eliminate these destroyers.

But they weren’t.

These Protectors only used firearms with relatively smaller calibers, no anti-material weapons, no heavy firepower.

Many modern firearms can simply shred and flatten rocks as if they were foam.

Many structures with insufficient strength cannot serve as shelters.

Yet, the Protectors were still only conducting “fire suppression.”

There were no hand-to-hand combat experts taking advantage of the suppression by their comrades to sneak up and end the fight in a stroke.

Even, Solo Kill King saw a few people shouting “Long live the Six Dragons Sect” while braving the fire suppression and charging into the fortress from the outside.

This was a piss-poor encirclement.

Except for a few unlucky ones who were hit by ricochets in the weaker parts of their armor, most of the Six Dragons Sect members passed through unharmed.

Their counterattacks rarely landed in the midst of the Protectors’ positions.

The casualty rates on both sides were infuriatingly low.

“It’s unusual, really unusual,” Solo Kill King murmured.

“How can there be such a friendly match atmosphere?”

Solo Kill King observed for a while longer, then left a set of timed signal flares on site.

This set of signal flares was to inform Cain that he had other actions in mind and would not be returning for the time being.

The countdown timer for these signal flares was ten minutes.

Then, Hero stealthily crept toward the Protectors’ position.

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“Long live the Six Dragons Sect…” A Sect Defender chuckled weakly, calling out to the Deputy Banner Master.

“Stop fooling around,” the Deputy Banner Master snapped, waving his hand irritably and catching a ricochet headed toward his head.

Although the Protector’s army had been using smaller caliber firepower throughout, the resource supply station itself was not on the outer perimeter of Secluded Crane City.

When it was involved, it hadn’t been considered as a “temporary defense line,” so maintaining its integrity until now was already quite an achievement.

Now in this building, ricochets sounded like pearls big and small falling onto a jade plate.

The members of the Six Dragons Sect even had to adopt positions of lying down, sprawling, or crawling.

“Frustrating, isn’t it, Deputy Banner Master?” muttered one of the Sect’s Defenders, “The imperial hounds are having a great time shooting… Why the hell are we stuck here?”

Placed within the Protector Army system, many of the Six Dragons Sect’s Defenders were of mid-level officer caliber, only lacking a “flawless” identity.

Many of them had dabbled in Inner Strength in their “youthful ignorance” and couldn’t pass the basic screening of the Protector system.

As for the rank-and-file soldiers who had sold themselves, they naturally looked down on them.

“Hold it in.” the Deputy Banner Master grumbled, “I know you accidentally shattered a high-performance Prosthetic Eye and you are upset, but now we have to hold back and follow procedures.”

“Procedure class F2… Damn it.” the guy with the shattered Prosthetic Eye cursed under his breath.

The Deputy Banner Master was also helpless.

At this time, the soldiers outside would receive a command stating, “To only perform fire suppression, not to conduct fatal attacks.” They would explain that this procedure was called “Encirclement and Suppression.”

This kind of tactics existed even during the era of Natural Persons.

Whether at the level of army forces or personal tactics, it was the same.

The focus of this tactic was to restrict the movement of an enemy force or group of forces, and then continuously defeat the enemy forces coming to their aid.

What the Protectors were doing to the Six Dragons Sect at the moment wasn’t really “Encirclement and Suppression”; the Protectors weren’t seriously “encircling”, let alone “suppressing” any reinforcements.

Of course, the one issuing such commands was a member of the Six Dragons Sect.

In the midst of this, the Six Dragons Sect’s Defenders would begin to converge here.

Once the number met the standard, they would initiate the next step.

In this step, another officer controlled by the Six Dragons Sect would declare the officer who had made the wrong decision as a “sympathizer of Hero” [in this context, it would probably be changed to “a spy of the Six Dragons Sect”], then twist off the former officer’s head, claiming that he would be “taken away for trial.” He would then command the Protector Army to surge forward.

Under such a crude tactic, the Six Dragons Sect could then begin “maneuver warfare.” Since the Six Dragons Sect’s individual combat strength was far greater than that of the Protectors, they could take the initiative in this mobile warfare.

And even if satellites caught this scene, at most they would judge it as an “error in command by the Protector officers” and wouldn’t just smash down the Space-based Weapons.

The Six Dragons Sect could also cover the real targets during the maneuver warfare to reach their destinations.

As for the commander issuing the wrong orders, he would “disappear” during the phase of “Guerrilla Warfare.”

Of course, that meant he would kill his own guards and then leave the Protector system to enter the Six Dragons Sect’s underground facilities.

This contingency plan had been used only once or twice since its conception.

The Sect Member with the shattered eye was furious.

That Prosthetic Eye was the most expensive part of his entire Prosthetic Body.

A third of his strength lay in this pair of Moves.

Repairing it would also cost a not-insignificant amount of resources.

There were subsidies within the Sect, but it was still a loss for him.

With a sinister tone, he said, “Imagine if one of the newcomers doesn’t know the ins and outs of the F2 contingency plan…”

Just at that moment, an explosion came from outside.

A voice called out passionately, “Long live the Six Dragons Sect!”