"Are you scared? Afraid of what? The ground where we fight is different from the Buos rookies, we are fighting in towns. In the past, your elders, some of the brave Resistance Army soldiers, did not repel the attacks of the Empire again and again without the help of mechs. With their help, are you still afraid? "The Resistance's greatest pride is their infantry, and the Resistance soldiers with a fearless spirit have been honed in actual combat, and have a fighting power that is not weaker than the regular forces of the Empire and the Federation, and in some cases, they are even comparable to the elite troops.

The words of the night lit up the eyes of the pilots below, indeed, in previous battles, the infantry of the Resistance had used their flesh and blood to resist the Empire's steel offensive after steel. These formidable infantry are even able to raid Imperial mech-guarded bases to grab vital mechs, ammo, and parts for their pilots.

"They're our pride, instructor, and we're not going to disgrace the Resistance." Wang Hui's face was a little hideous, and he clearly remembered that Jonny was lying on a stretcher covered in blood and was sent back to the Gobi, caressing the top of his head with his rough but warm big hands, recounting his combat experience, and how he snatched some of the 60-ton steel giants from the heavily defended imperial base and transported them to the Gobi of the Resistance.

"What a small ambition, isn't it okay not to be ashamed?"

"Report to the instructor, we will definitely be able to be the pride of the Resistance Army too." The pilots shouted loudly.

Night's encouragement boosted the morale of Hades' Cross to the maximum, but in the face of the overwhelming Imperial Army, Night himself knew that Pompey would not be able to hold it. For this reason, Mrs. Aemia specially sent her guard unit to contact the night as a pilot who had not been killed in the battle. A route to the federal district was prepared, and the latest Warthog jeeps, arranged by some loyal warriors in the dunes near Pompeii.

As if the Empire wanted to show the bravery of their army with a perfect victory, they spent a whole week preparing their army and replenishing their supplies. It's worth spending that time. This will allow their troops to have a more sustained combat effectiveness, and their front-line commander, Kai. Lieutenant General Bai Nilus is ready to hit the old nest of the resistance army, the Gobi.

The reorganization of the Imperial Army also gave the Resistance more time to perfect their defenses, a dense ground and night belt was laid in front of Pompeii, and the third artillery battalion of the three artillery battalions of the Resistance was also added to the sequence of defensive troops, greatly increasing the heavy firepower of the town. And Zakhaev, the new leader of the resistance, also sent the third battalion of his own elite guard regiment. Coming to the front to encourage morale, this unit will represent him, fighting on the front lines of the Resistance and the Empire.

The desert night in spring was still as cold as winter, but Betsy and Mars were very hot, and the roar of guns and cannons echoed over the town, and the occasional fireballs reflected the dark night over the town as if it were day.

Although the empire strengthened martial law in the city. Still, a large number of Resistance soldiers infiltrated these two important towns and began to carry out the tasks assigned to them by their leaders. Destroy Imperial supplies and loot Imperial Mechs.

The Resistance's pre-emptive sneak attack yielded good results in the early stages, and the Imperial Curfew Patrol was almost wiped out by them. The ranks of the Resistance Army, from more than 100 Resistance guerrilla soldiers at the beginning, have become an armed contingent of nearly 1,000 townspeople. Unarmed townspeople, led by Resistance soldiers, enter the Resistance weapons hideout. Weapons were taken, and the men followed the large force to the heavily guarded Imperial military base.

The Resistance guerrillas were not as impulsive as the townspeople, and they hid in the assault ranks with anti-tank rockets. Eagle-like gaze on the street. And some team members walked on both sides of the team, with a large amount of explosives placed in the bulging backpacks on their backs.

The Imperial troops planted several barbed wire fences at the gates of the base in an attempt to stop the mobs, but some of the mobs were not unarmed, but armed militiamen armed with a large number of small arms.

Kai's staff officer was already familiar with the riot, he didn't wake Kai, but directly ordered the mecha troops to be dispatched, in the past, basically as long as the mecha troops were dispatched, the mob would collapse at the touch of a button.

The appearance of the Imperial Mechs was immediately greeted with enthusiasm, and dozens of rockets swarmed in, enveloping the Mechs in flames, but the recently equipped shields in front of the Imperial Mechs wiped out the Resistance's offensive. The bear-like one-eyed man who moved his shield away from the crowd emitted a hideous red.

When the large number of townsfolk attracted the attention of the Imperial forces, members of the Resistance demolition team sneaked up on the tall reinforced concrete walls of the Imperial base under the cover of the buildings on the street. The wall breaker was glued tightly to the weak point of the wall by these trained men, and with a roar, the imperial wall was opened with a large hole for two people to pass through.

The demolition team of more than 20 people rushed in, and they had to hurry up to find the Empire's ammunition warehouse or mecha hangar, because their time was all in front of the Imperial barracks, and some townspeople in it exchanged their lives for themselves. Commandos in groups of three dispersed from the entrance and charged towards some of the largest buildings in the Imperial barracks. The Resistance at the gate began to attack the Imperial base with small mortars, mixed with smoke grenades and tear gas, all in order to cause chaos among the Imperial army, and only in the chaos could their demolition teams blow up more valuable targets.

Bang, the gunfire of a sniper rifle is so distinctive that the noisy gunfire at the door simply can't cover it up. A member of the Resistance demolition team was knocked into the air, and the penetrating and destructive large-caliber sniper projectile churned the entrails into a mass of minced flesh the moment it entered the body.

Obviously, there was more than one sniper in place in the Empire, and after two rounds of shooting, ninety percent of the members of the Resistance demolition team were turned into corpses lying on the ground, and no one could escape for their lives when they were attacked by snipers, not to mention that the venue was still familiar to snipers. The Resistance's demolition team was heavily defeated by the Imperial forces on guard almost instantly. The rest of the personnel have been suppressed by the snipers, and what awaits them will be the removal of the Imperial infantry, and their hiding places may be thrown into a few hands of the night. Or directly burned to charcoal by the Empire's Pyro. The Demomen knew their fate, so they all took off their backpacks and set out some powerful explosives.

The townsfolk in front of the base were also devastated, and unlike previous Imperial troops, this time the Imperial Army had no scruples about spreading death, not minding the collapse of the buildings around the barracks. In the face of such a devastating blow. The human flesh is so fragile. Against the backdrop of several fireballs rising from the Imperial base, and in the blood of human bodies in the streets, the Resistance wisely chose to retreat.

"It seems that we are still too merciful to the untouchables." Kai, who was woken up by the sound of gunfire, smiled at the slaughter in front of the base and said to his adjutant.

"After all, the people are the foundation of the empire, and when these untouchables really join the empire, they can become the power of the empire, so the above does not allow us to kill these untouchables at will."

"What a nuisance." Kai frowned and ordered, "Let the 74th Desert Infantry Division finish the battle." A regiment was dispatched to concentrate the townspeople in the eastern part of the city to take care of them. At a time when the Empire is about to have a big operation, I don't want tonight's to happen again. ”

"Understood, sir."

The failure of the Resistance to sneak up on the troops did not affect the morale of the infantrymen, on the contrary, there was a hint of excitement on the faces of these stout tall men, and the happy expression of meeting a good opponent made the uninformed think that the Resistance had won a great victory in last night's operation. At least when I asked a second lieutenant company commander about their army's harvest at night, I was embarrassed by the other party's answer.

"You Resistance infantry are freaks." Wang Hui, who was depressed to the side, complained to Wang Hui, who was snickering on the side.

"Uncle, they're our pride. In normal times, some imperial soldiers were beaten to the ground, and my uncle often complained. The Imperial soldiers were not beaten, and they relied on mecha to bully people. Last night, the resistance army inside the Imperial Clearance Base did not use mechas, which shows that the infantry quality of the Imperial army is good. ”

Wang Hui's explanation made the night listen to the black lines all over his head, although the resistance infantry was strong. It's not going to be the realm of being alone and seeking defeat.

The Resistance were not discouraged by the defeat, on the contrary, they still organized a sneak attack at night, but due to the tactics of Kaigubi Kiyono, they were unable to attack the Imperial base without the cover of the townspeople. Rather, it was a part of the soldiers who attacked the supply convoy. Successfully captured an Imperial ammunition supply convoy with only a small number of infantry escorts, but because the Imperial soldiers destroyed all the tires before retreating, these soldiers had no choice but to burn more than a dozen carts of ammunition.

The Imperial side will not let the Resistance harass, and the Imperial mecha units have also begun to frequent the frontline near Pompeii. For the next few days, the wolf cavalry fired rockets and missiles at Pompeii every day, and although most of the missiles and rockets were intercepted, some civilian casualties inevitably followed.

This situation of mutual harassment continued for a whole week, and the Empire finally decided to start attacking Pompeii. A huge mecha force was dispatched, and the sand and dust kicked up obscured the sky. After leaving a squadron of mechs in each of the two towns as a garrison, Major General Kai set off with the mechs unit.

"Ninety-six?" The information of the Resistance Army was handed over to the night as soon as possible, and the number of mechs in the first line of information made the night scream. Although Ye already knew that the empire had an integrated mecha wing to be involved in the clean-up operation, he did not expect that the commander of the empire would dare to put this force into the operation of attacking Pompeii at one time. In Ye's opinion, it is most appropriate to arrange one to one and a half commando mechs as an attack force, and a squadron mecha as a reserve.

"Yes, sir," Jonny confirmed, "with him the 29th Imperial Hussar Regiment and most of the 74th Desert Infantry Division. Among them, the 29th Hussar Regiment is a mechanized regiment dominated by armored vehicles and motorized infantry, and the 74th Infantry Division is also an elite division specializing in field operations in desert areas. ”

"It seems that the empire is really moving, and it uses almost an entire elite division to fight a small town." Ye said with emotion, when the Federation attacked Emma, it only used two divisions of troops, and Emma didn't know how much bigger than Pompeii.

"Our strength is not much worse than that of the empire, and the light cavalry regiment has only more than 700 personnel, more than 50 armored vehicles, plus infantry divisions, and the number of troops they have invested is less than 9,000 people, which is not a lot, sir."

"Yes, I know. Our infantry is indeed no less than the Empire, and the Third Division of the Resistance Army here is also a battle-hardened elite unit. But the opponent has mechanized troops, and the opponent's mecha advantage is too obvious. You must know that if a commando mecha is in the urban terrain and does not care about the battle to protect the building, its power is almost a regiment and more than a thousand people, of course, this is when the opponent does not have a large number of anti-armor weapons. Night said cautiously. A regiment with a specialized anti-armor company, but these anti-armor weapons do not pose much of a threat to a commando mech, either in terms of damage or quantity. And now the situation of the Resistance is even worse than this, their brigade-level units, or even division-level units, may not be able to get an integrated anti-armor company.

"Sir, I know, so each of us brought anti-armor ammunition, and our soldiers are the best anti-mecha weapons." Jonny patted his chest, he understood what he meant, it was a human bomb, a squad of soldiers carrying anti-mecha Diye was enough to paralyze a mech.

Ye looked helplessly at Johnny, who exuded a resolute gaze, and suddenly remembered the words of the instructor in the training camp before, it is not the weapon that determines the victory on the battlefield, but the person.

As the sun sets, the black canopy envelops the desert, and Pompeii tomorrow is destined to be unpeaceful.

Pompeii's men were ready, a large number of civilians were moved to underground bunkers, and soldiers were stationed in the building, waiting for the Imperial forces to enter the town.

The prelude to the Empire's attack began at midnight, and nearly one hundred and fifty guns from three artillery regiments began to carry out air blasts on the ground and night belt in front of Pompeii. Dense air-burst grenades exploded in the desert, and two hours later, the Imperial artillery destroyed the ground and night belts that the Resistance had worked so hard to erect for two nights. (To be continued......)