"Boom ——!"

Early in the morning.

Shells fell one after another, and billowing dust fell from the central to southern part of Songlinyu.

Looking at the high ground with thick smoke two kilometers away, Bear Tooth, who was holding the telescope in his hand, sneered and waved his big hand forward.

Seeing this, the centurion, who was eager to wait for the side, immediately loaded the rifle in his hand and beckoned the brothers behind him to move forward.

"Brothers, follow me!"

A group of marauders raised their rifles and howled excitedly.

"Cut off their heads!"

"Whoa!"

Although the voice was the loudest, the centurion did not rush to the front, but cleverly let a few of his ten-captains lead people to go up first.

The team of about 120 people was divided into three echelons of left, middle and right, each echelon of four tens, and advanced rapidly under the cover of the pine forest.

According to previous information, a Deathclaw lurks in the pine forest, and its roar has been heard by the brethren stationed at the northern outpost.

All of them opened their eyes wide, and even though their artillery had already blown up the enemy's positions into the sky, they did not dare to relax their vigilance in the slightest.

At the same time, on the position that had just been ploughed by artillery fire, two young players slowly poked their heads out of the trench.

"it...... Lao Tzu's ears were about to be deafened. The little finger drilled into his ear, and the silver sword cursed and snorted with dirt.

The silver father, who was crouching next to him, stretched his neck to look outside, and kept asking with his mouth in his mouth.

"How many were you hit? Have you counted? ”

Silver Sword thought for a moment.

"I don't know...... Twenty rounds or so? ”

Daddy Silver pouted.

"Tsk, poor ghost!"

There was a ceasefire after only 20 rounds.

Have the ability to smash 200 shots!

Ducks!

The previous round of shelling, though menacing, did not have much impact on players on the ground.

Thanks to Elder Brother Fang's knowledge of things, he already had a premonition that the Ya Clan would shell their positions without martial virtues, so everyone dug anti-artillery holes in the trenches in advance.

As soon as the first shell landed in the forest in front of the position, the players crouching in the trenches immediately took refuge in their holes.

By the time the marauders corrected the shells to their positions, there was no one left in the trenches.

The anti-artillery holes in the trenches were five or six meters deep, and the walls and tops were reinforced with thigh-thick pine wood, and although the sound of the cannon outside was earth-shattering, it did not cause any substantial damage to the players in the holes.

In the end, the power of a 100mm gun is still too small.

Doubling the caliber and charge may be able to start working.

At the same time, the players of the Burning Corps, who were sitting in the anti-artillery holes to rest, opened their eyes one by one and woke up from their sleep one after another.

Startled by the sudden opening of the eyes, the silver hand squatting at the entrance of the anti-artillery hole was surprised.

"Holy, you're online so soon? I'm going to get someone to go down and call you. ”

Fang Chang shook his groggy head, looked at the dust that fell on his legs, immediately understood what was happening, and said calmly.

"What's going on out there now?"

The Silver Hand hastened to answer.

"The other side poured dozens of shells on us, and about seven or eight of them landed on our positions, but we dodged in time and there were no casualties!"

"If it can accurately bomb our position, there should be a marauder's observer nearby......" quickly made a judgment, Lao Bai immediately looked at Ye Shi on the side, "Night Ten, you go to the side of the mountain to look for it, by the way, see if there is anyone from the high ground to the north of us."

Night Ten, who had turned off his helmet and mask, had already consciously grabbed the sniper rifle and backpack on the ground.

"Roger! Gales, let's go. ”

"Hmm."

Tempest nodded as usual, picked up the rifle and drone backpack resting beside him, and stooped down to the hole.

The two left the anti-artillery hole.

Fang Chang moved to the side of the observation hole and glanced outside.

“…… The shelling stopped, and the other side was about to rush. ”

The pine forest below the slope was silent, the morning glimmer passed through the cracks in the trees, and if it weren't for the steaming craters, there would have been few people who would have associated this place with the battlefield.

However, through the observation hole that was almost covered in dirt, even if Fang Chang was not a perception player, he could smell the murderous intent hidden under the silence.

Without hesitation, Lao Bai stretched out his index finger and quickly clicked twice on the VM, switched the communication channel to the captain's voice, and shouted loudly.

"Everyone, go to the combat position immediately!"

"Prepare to take the enemy!"

Players who have just logged into the game immediately emerge from the anti-artillery holes, rush into the trenches, and load their rifles and light machine guns.

At the same time, the Marauder Hundred, who had crossed through the forest, had finally touched the edge of the pine forest!

The two sides looked at each other.

The centurion at the foot of the hill didn't have time to think about why his artillery had washed several rounds of high-explosive grenades on the high ground, and there were still so many people standing in the trench in front of him.

Now there is only one thing he can do -

"Fire! All fire! ”

With a loud roar, the centurion decisively lay down behind the thigh-thick pine tree, and while shooting at the high ground with the rifle in his hand, he urged the centurion beside him to lead the team to press up.

Of course, the players stationed on the high ground would not let them succeed, and Lao Bai took the lead in pulling the trigger and fired the first shot in the defense of Songlinyu.

"Free fire! Repeat, fire freely! ”

"Attention all the team members, give me a hard beating!"

The battle is on the verge of breaking out!

No sooner had the marauders rushed down the slope than they were suppressed by the fire that had slanted down from the high ground.

Seeing the ferocity of the fire on the high ground, the raiders were forced to stop their charge, and they all fell into the craters left by the previous shelling, using the pine trees and rocks that had fallen on the ground as cover, and engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the players on the high ground.

For a while, there was a lot of gunfire up and down the slope.

The battle is extremely scorching!

Seeing that the high ground in front of him could not be attacked for a long time, Xiongya, who was standing on the north slope two kilometers away, looked anxious and couldn't help but curse.

"Didn't these idiots eat!"

Standing beside Bear Tooth, Tumen, who served as a staff officer, held a telescope in his hand and observed the position in the distance, frowning.

The firepower is too intensive!

There were more than a hundred people squatting in the trenches, and the people under the slope pressed by a dozen light machine guns could not raise their heads at all, and the position did not look like it had been washed by shells at all.

“…… Eighty percent of those men had dug anti-artillery holes in the trenches. ”

Tumen couldn't figure it out.

No matter what he did, there were only 18 hours to build fortifications on the other side.

Even if you keep digging all the time, it is not easy to dig out the trenches in such a short time. However, they not only dug trenches, but even dug holes to defend themselves against shelling.

Even for real gophers, this speed is a bit exaggerated.

Putting down the binoculars, Tumen looked at the commander standing aside, and said with a solemn expression.

"The other party has rich experience in field combat, and I'm afraid this battle will not be easy to fight!"

Hearing the staff officer's evaluation, a trace of irritation flashed in Xiongya's eyes.

Especially thinking of the mocking eyes of the apostle of the Torch Church made him even more angry.

Not easy to play?

He doesn't believe it yet!

Looking at the mortar that had just been erected not far behind him, Xiong Ya opened his voice and ordered.

"The mortar team obeys the order!"

"The high ground in front of the target, smash it for Lao Tzu!"

With a few banging shells, more than a dozen mortar shells rose into the sky one after another, and landed heavily on the southern slope of Songlinyu.

Explosions sounded one after another, and dust splashed on the high ground on the south side of Songlinyu for a while.

I didn't expect these marauders to be so doggy, and they didn't care about those teammates who were still charging, and even their own people blew up together.

The players crouching in the trenches were caught off guard and lay behind cover to avoid the raging shrapnel.

Feeling the shrapnel flying overhead, Fang Chang looked at Lao Bai and shouted.

"There are too many people in the trenches, it's enough to keep three teams of ten! The others went first to hide in the artillery hole, and the people outside fell, and the people behind came up again! ”

"Good!"

Lao Bai obviously realized the problem, and immediately issued orders to each squad through the command channel.

Twenty light machine guns remained in the position, and two people stood next to each machine gun, one of whom fired, one who was responsible for delivering ammunition, and the rest of the men crouched at the entrance of the gun hole as substitutes, ready to go up and take the place of their teammates.

With the adjustment of deployment, although the firepower on the position has weakened slightly, the efficiency has increased a lot.

And the marauders below the hillside were much more miserable.

The mortar shells that came from behind them were not accurate at all, and less than half of them landed on the high ground.

As for the remaining half......

Either it was smashed too far, or it landed in your own face.

There were machine guns on the hillside in front of them, and mortars from teammates were bombarding them in the back.

In less than ten minutes, half of the entire team of 100 was defeated!

“MMP！ You can fry it...... right."

The mosquitoes lying in the trenches cursed, their index fingers fiddling on the VM screen, and set the shelling coordinates on the hillside north of Songlinyu.

Songlinyu is about ten kilometers away from Qingshi County, which is close to the maximum range of his 130mm rocket.

It's not a big problem, though!

The rocket artillery of the Goblin Corps was mounted on electric mule trucks, and after the capture of Qingshi County, it was stationed in the camp near the department store center.

At the beginning of the battle, he had already ordered the artillery team to drive the truck with the launch tube to the open field in the northern suburbs of Qingshi County for deployment.

At this moment, his artillerymen have arrived at their positions and are ready to launch counter-artillery strikes at enemy mortar positions at any time!

"Attention the artillery group of the Goblin Regiment! The coordinates of the shelling have been updated, a rocket salvo - "

"Fry it for Lao Tzu!"

After several minutes of waiting, there was soon a whistling sound over everyone's heads, like a pipe organ.

With the screech of the buzzer, thick tail flames tore through the silent morning and dusk, raining down on the northern part of Songlinyu.

Fifty rockets rained down!

These rockets were inaccurate, but their numbers made up for it.

The deafening roar caused the mortar positions to the north to immediately shut up, and smoke billowed as far as the eye could see on the high ground to the north.

In less than half a minute, dozens of people were killed and nearly 100 were injured by the indiscriminate bombardment of rockets.

The smoke was thick and the ground was filled with wolves and howls, and countless marauders had their arms and legs blown off, and the scene was like hell.

Struggling to get up from a muddy field, Beartooth ignored the mud on his face, his face full of horror.

", what was that?!"

He had never seen such a terrifying weapon.

Countless missiles almost covered the sky, and one of them landed less than twenty meters away from him, and the shock wave of the explosion directly knocked him to the ground.

He had never been so close to death.

For a moment, he even felt like he was out of breath.

Perhaps, I shouldn't have talked too much......

"Rockets...... Grass, they've got this thing out! ”

Tumen, who was not far from Bear Tooth, was also embarrassed, but in the end, he was a person who had seen the world, and his reaction was quite calm.

Glancing at the messy position behind him, Tumen's mood sank to the bottom.

The lack of fortifications and bunkers, this sudden round of saturated firepower, at least cost them the combat effectiveness of a hundred-man team.

Thanks to his spare hand, he didn't let all the troops behind follow up, otherwise the losses would have been even heavier......

"I'm afraid the other side's support firepower is above ours, and we need the support of vehicles...... Otherwise, if we continue to fight like this, even a thousand more people will not be enough. ”

"Let your people pull back!"

Although I don't want to admit it, the facts are in front of me.

"Damn gophers...... Have the ability to come down from the high ground and fight with Lao Tzu like a gentleman! ”

Bear Tooth cursed with a shudder, pulled a flare gun from his waist, stuffed a green flare, and fired a shot into the sky.

As the green light rose into the sky, the centurion, who was directing the battle on the front line, saw the signal light in the sky, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and shouted for the surrounding marauders to retreat.

"Lao Bai, they retreated! How to say, chase? ”

Seeing that the marauders below began to retreat, Qu Smoking, who was holding the machine gun, immediately shouted excitedly and looked at the old Bai on the side.

Lao Bai, who stared at the slope, frowned tightly and shook his head.

"Hold your ground!"

Compared to the 500 people they blocked yesterday, these people were obviously much more difficult to deal with. At least they know to look for cover and spread out instead of swarming into their guns.

It seems that the difficulty of the levels is also gradually increasing......

However, at this moment, Lao Bai suddenly noticed the garbage gentleman who was squatting at the door of the anti-artillery cave, and his heart moved, and then he added a sentence after the previous order.

"Except for the garbage guys."

As soon as he heard this, he couldn't hold back the garbage level 99 and immediately drilled out of the anti-artillery hole.

"Hahaha! It's finally Lao Tzu's turn! Brothers, cover me! ”

With that, the heavily armored lizard threw its head up and snorted excitedly, and without a second a moment, jumped out of the trench and ran towards the pine forest below the hillside.

Seeing the big lizard that jumped out of the trench, the commander and the staff officer holding the binoculars on the opposite position were dumbfounded.

“…… What was that? Bear Tooth swallowed and said.

Staring at Tumen at the edge of the pine forest, he spoke with difficulty.

"It's kind of like the Claws of Death...... But it looks a little smaller. ”

If you let this monster rush behind and send out the hundred-man team to seize the high ground, I'm afraid that none of them will be able to come back.

Xiong Ya didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly pushed the centurion standing next to him, urging him to order.

"Quick! Take your people up! ”

"The man covering us has returned!"

Armed with an iron-fisted bazooka and a heavy rifle to hunt large xenomorphs, a team of 100 headed head-on down the hillside.

However, they were still a step behind in the end.

The garbage king rushing into the crowd was like a rampaging tank, and each swing of the steel claw took several lives.

When the reinforcements who ran down the mountain finally chased down the fleeing friendly army, the hundred-man team sent to seize the high ground had only a dozen people left.

Bumped into the reinforcements of the marauders, the garbage king did not fall in love, and immediately gave up the pursuit, turned around and fled into the pine forest behind him.

This is how the first round of confrontation between the Bearfang Tribe and the Burning Legion came to an end.

The 100-man squad of Marauders, who took the lead in the attack, threw down more than 100 corpses, leaving only a dozen people to flee back to their positions on the north side.

The previous round of rockets not only caused more than 100 casualties, but also completely deterred the Xiongya tribe who were arrogantly clamoring to contribute to Qingshi County within ten days.

Don't say it's Qingshi County.

Just a high ground on the north side of Qingshi County cost them nearly 20% of the casualties......

After weighing the pros and cons, Xiongya listened to the advice of his staff officers, abandoned the position on the north side of Songlinyu, and retreated five kilometers in the direction of Xizhou City, leaving only two hundred-man teams to build trenches and explosion-proof bunkers on the original positions.

As for the player's side, there were also 17 casualties, half of which were carried away by the mortars on the opposite side.

Finding that the marauders on the northern position had withdrawn, there was no time to cheer for victory, and the players in the trenches, led by the corps commander, immediately strengthened the positions under their feet.

The other party is obviously not going to give up.

No one knows when the next round of shelling will come.

At the same time, Lao Bai, who was digging trenches with his comrades, soon received a new task through VM - to hold the high ground on the south side of Songlinyu for at least 48 hours.

Supplies arrive within 2 hours, including 10 10mm heavy machine guns and a mortar squad of twenty NPCs.

After 48 hours, they will be replaced by the Death Corps.

……

Qingshi County.

Temporary Command.

Looking at the battle reports sent by the front line and the logistics department at the same time, Chu Guang felt mixed feelings in his heart.

Only 24 hours after the start of the war, his young players had already knocked out 150 130mm rocket launchers, 400 100mm howitzers, and dozens of 100-kilogram aerial bombs and bomb-dropping planes for him.

In addition, there are nearly 31 tons of basic ammunition - including 670,000 rounds of 7mm full-power rifle ammunition and several machine gun rounds.

As for the quest rewards given to players?

That's all trivial.

Even if the battle reward is 1,000 silver coins per capita, the money sent out is only a little more than 1 million silver coins. With the "secondary market" of the silver coin consignment platform as a reservoir, some players will exchange silver coins for real currency to improve their lives, and the large base of pre-order players will digest this part of the inflation for him.

However, there is nowhere to take credit for the bullets that are fired.

Perhaps the biggest difference between the virtual economy and the real economy is here.

Although he had made sufficient preparations before the war, when he really fought, Chu Guang still deeply realized how much money was burned in the war.

Of course, with the advantage of firepower, the results achieved are also quite amazing.

In less than half a day, the 1,000-strong corps wiped out the entire 1,000-man squad of the Ya clan, and the Burning Corps stationed at Songlinyu relied on the strength of a company to defeat a regiment that came to seize the high ground.

In addition, the equipment seized from the lion's tooth and the copper mine that is resuming production have also given him some blood.

While Chu Guang was silently calculating the expenses in his heart, the officers in the command headquarters were discussing the next battle plan.

It is the wrench that is speaking at the moment.

After several battles, although his front-line combat experience is still lacking, his strategic vision has greatly improved compared to when he was in the Guards.

Originally, it was Vanus who was usually speaking at such times, but now he can also put forward his own opinions based on the information fed back by the front-line troops.

“…… Songlinyu is the only way from Qingshi County to Xizhou City, as long as the commander of the Ya clan is not a straw bag, he will definitely take this strategic place at all costs. ”

"At present, the Thousand Men of the Tooth Clan have been repelled by our corps, but I believe that it will not be long before a more fierce second round of offensive will come!"

"I think so too."

Vanus, who was standing on the sidelines, stared at the map and nodded slowly.

“…… If the Ya clan were allowed to occupy the high ground on the south side of Songlinyu, their 100mm artillery would be able to hit the county seat of Qingshi County. ”

"Since there are conditions to hold it, my suggestion is to send more men and do everything possible to control this position!"

Although until this morning, Vanus had thought that the strategy of "advancing the front ten kilometers further north" was too aggressive, after seeing the battle report from the Burning Corps from the front line, all his worries were gone.

The strength of this elite corps is far stronger than he imagined!

If each of these people has the ability to do everything in one place, they can really create miracles and turn the impossible into reality.

Having been listening to the discussion of the officers, Chu Guang, who was sitting at the command table, suddenly spoke.

"How many people do you think you'll need?"

Vanus thought for a moment and said.

"The terrain of Songlinyu can deploy a maximum of three thousand troops, if you want to block the attack of three thousand people...... Conservative words need at least a thousand. ”

Chu Guang asked.

"A little more radical?"

Vanus was silent for a moment.

"Five hundred."

At this time, Bernie, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke.

"I'm afraid five hundred people is not enough, I know your infantry is strong, but the Ya clan has tanks. They have already suffered a loss at your hands once, and they will not make the same mistake next time. ”

Everyone looked at him in unison.

This person was the commander of the 210,000th Brigade of the former Legion Expeditionary Force, and after following his superiors to join the Chewing Bone Tribe, he joined the Lion's Tooth Account as a staff officer.

Having surrendered to the new alliance under the persuasion of Vanus, he is currently serving as a prisoner of war as a prisoner of war as a temporary "advisor to military operations against the Chewy Bone Tribe".

Although Bernie's identity was a little sensitive, Chu Guang did not ignore the information he provided, but looked at him and asked.

"How many tanks do they have."

Bernie shook his head: "I don't know the specifics...... If you only take over the equipment from us, there are about a dozen, but if you count the equipment they bought from other places, it's hard to say. ”

"Buy?" Chu Guang frowned slightly, "Someone else sells tanks to them?" ”

Bernie smiled wryly.

"It's not just tanks, it's replacement parts, repair kits, fuel and shells...... You don't think those barbarians can be self-sufficient? ”

Chu Guang: "Go on." ”

Bernie paused for a moment and continued.

“…… As far as I know, there is a place called 'Bugra' in the north-central part of the province of the Valley, which calls itself the Free State of Bougla, and its inhabitants are mostly bounty hunters, mercenaries or thieves...... and the merchants who sell the stolen goods on their behalf and the factory owners who pay for the stolen goods. These people are never picky about buyers and sellers, and naturally they also buy and sell as marauders, and due to their proximity to the Great Rift, they can even get their hands on many goodies that are rare in the wasteland. ”

Chu Guang was slightly surprised.

"I thought the Chewy Bone Tribe would steal everything they encountered."

Bernie made a helpless look.

"They are doing just that, and they even want to establish a kingdom of marauders in the province of the River Valley. However, there are no absolutes in everything, and the treasures they loot always have to be traded by someone, so they don't rob everyone. For example, Honghe Town used to be their second largest sales area, but the garbage mountain there was too hot for the eyes, and it just stood in the way of the Snake Clan's eastward advance...... Therefore, the honeymoon period of both parties comes and goes quickly. ”

"As for the Bougla Free State...... It was too close to the Great Rift Valley, and the Chewing Bone Tribe did not dare to provoke those ruthless people, and kept heading south. ”

No wonder.

Chu Guang nodded thoughtfully.

He had been wondering how the marauders had driven the tanks here from the north. Even if there is fuel, what parts break down on the road must be repaired, right?

Equipment that is not logistically supported is a non-renewable resource.

And this is one of the reasons why Boulder would rather spend money to hire a large group of cannon fodder to deal with the wave than send power armor up.

For this trading partner of the Chewing Bone Tribe, Chu Guangzhi was not very worried. Those people are in business, not charity.

The Tooth Clan's southward march has stopped, there is not enough loot, there is no income-making industry, and even if there are trade routes, it is a decoration.

As for those tanks?

Chu Guang was even less worried.

Are you afraid of a 100-kilogram bomb?

No matter how hard the coffin board left by the legion for them, the people inside were always made of meat. A 100-kilogram bomb was thrown down, and even the slime mold was blown into slag, not to mention a few rookie tankers.

Chu Guang hoped that they would drive the tank out earlier, this thing would be the same as the power armor of Boulder City, and one less would be broken.

“…… The longer this battle stalemates, the better it will be for us, although the Ya Clan has the advantage in numbers, the logistical situation is not on the same level as ours! ”

"As long as we do our best to pin them down on our positions, and consume their vital forces and supplies through a solid battle line and artillery fire, the final victory will definitely be ours!"

Liu Ding, who had been staring at the map, suddenly sighed.

"If only we could send a force to infiltrate their rear...... Even if you don't go head-to-head with them, you might as well unite with the local resistance groups to cause them some trouble. ”

Of course, he will also talk about it.

Infiltrating the rear of enemy forces is a matter of one sentence, but it is not ordinarily difficult to implement.

Because it is equivalent to requiring a group of soldiers to continue to fight without supplies and under siege.

Without achieving enough advantage, such a risky plan is tantamount to sending people to their deaths.

However, after Chu Guang heard this, his eyes lit up.

"That's a good idea!"

Bernie shook his head with a frown.

"It's hard...... According to my understanding of the topography of this area, Songlinyu is the only road from Qingshi County to Xizhou City. Unless we go around from Tianshui, but that is the territory of the Snake Clan. ”

Vanus also cast a puzzled look at Chu Guang.

"How are you going to get the troops over?"

Chu Guang got up and looked at the map and smiled slightly.

"Fly over, of course!"