]A lot of things could not be hidden during a war, especially something like Maliro's situation.
With warlords everywhere, not everyone was of one mind. For example, someone secretly informed the Federation that the Maliro warlords had set up a field artillery position outside the battlefield.
They had placed thirty or forty field guns of various models there, preparing to ambush the Federation forces once they entered the city's central district.
The news quickly reached the Department of Defense, which then passed it down to the front lines.
Afterward, a unit left the camp and began circling toward the rear of the city from the flank. Their job was to find the enemy's field guns and, while they were at it, try to locate the anti-aircraft guns.
The airport authorities said they could bomb the target area again the day after tomorrow, but the commanders were still somewhat worried.
If more aircraft were shot down, the blow to morale would be unimaginable.
A considerable part of the Federation soldiers' morale was currently built on the gap between their equipment and the enemy's. If that gap continued to be closed by certain circumstances, their steadily declining morale would be unavoidable.
The command's decision was perfectly understandable.
If they could destroy those anti-aircraft weapons, the threat to the aircraft would disappear, and the Federation's military equipment could regain the upper hand.
There might not be any good news in the short term, but the armored vehicles' outstanding performance in urban warfare had drawn the interest of the Department of Defense and military observers from several countries.
It was not as though similar armored vehicles had never existed before, but earlier vehicles lacked artillery capabilities. Most of them were standard armored cars.
They had thick bulletproof steel plates, along with a few observation