At this moment, the Forerunner called the "Beastmaster" did not know that his opponent was indeed carefully considering how to play the next card.

It's just that the cards played are a little different from what he imagined......

The entrance to the tavern.

Looking at the smoky miasma in the tavern, and the red-faced and thick-necked card guys who played cards one by one, the spring water commander who had just arrived at the front line was directly dumbfounded.

It took him a long time to come back to his senses and said in a daze.

"Good Fellow......"

The reason for the company's combat effectiveness has finally been found.

Dare to love that these hangers are all playing cards in the rear?!

Kakarot craned his neck to look around the crowd for a while, and soon saw the familiar culprit with a look on his face.

"Whew, I guess it's the mosquito dude."

I'm the blackest: "Tzeentch!! It's a fine work sent by Tzeentch! ”

Ten Punch Man: "Call the tin cans of the Burning Corps!" ”

Hunting ghosts on the grave: "Drag this corrupt thing out of military discipline and be loyal." ”

Just when everyone was chattering at the door, the mosquitoes that had just finished bringing the goods slipped out of the center of the crowd, and they saw the group of guys standing at the door at a glance.

"Spring?!"

His eyes lit up suddenly, and the mosquito came up with a smile on his face and patted him on the arm.

"Why are you here? Didn't you say that you are still waiting in the rear for deployment? ”

These are his big customers.

In contrast, the cards he sells are just pocket money.

"Yes, it's waiting for the dispatch, but isn't the order for this dispatch coming," the Commander of the Springs smiled, and then continued, "The administrator is going to come to the front, so he transferred us over." ”

"What's that? The manager is coming? ”

Mosquito was shocked when he heard this, and immediately threw the sack with a few card packs left in his hand to the NPC on the side.

Apparently this guy also realized that he hadn't done anything good, and the speed of light had nothing to do with the deal.

The young man next to him was also sensible, and he grabbed the sack and pretended not to know him.

The guy didn't look like a river valley man, with slightly curly hair, a little short, and dark eyes that twinkled like a rat from Borneo.

"Don't look at it yet."

He made a helpless expression when he looked at the mosquito spring looking out of the door, and then glanced at the black smoke miasma in the tavern, and couldn't help but tease.

"Now everyone is saying that you have lost the combat effectiveness of our friendly army, how are you going to explain it when the manager comes?"

Unexpectedly, the big hat was buttoned on his head, and the mosquito suddenly screamed.

"Damn, what's the matter with me? It's not me who hurt them, and they can't beat it. ”

Speak with a good conscience.

This was the same with the gang before he came!

However, the dogs didn't listen to him, and only yelled and barked.

Kakarot: "It's not you!" Do you look at these guys like people who can fight? ”

My blackest: "That's it!" It's too weak! ”

Broken leg Kevin also shook his head and said.

"According to your style of play, I'm afraid you won't be able to climb this mountain until next year!"

"What does this have to do with me," said the mosquito with a laugh and a cry, "you are! ”

"Coincidentally, we're planning to do just that."

Looking at the mosquito, the spring commander smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

"Wait and see, when the manager comes tomorrow, buddy will show you a hand and let you see how the battle is fought."

……

In fact, if you feel your conscience, it's not that the company is rotten.

The average altitude of the Ten Peaks Mountain is more than one kilometer, especially those dangerous mountains are two or three thousand meters at every turn.

The danger of its terrain is far from being comparable to the kind of small mountain pack of two or three hundred meters, which can be compared to the Hengduan Mountains in reality.

And in a place like Broken Blade Mountain, the tactical width is so much in total, and two or three hundred people can be on it at a time, and the people behind have to step on the corpses of the people in front of them.

In addition, a large number of fortifications were built on the opposite side, and the entire hill was built like a fortress.

Even if there were 100,000 troops standing on the sidelines, it would not be of much use.

In just two days and one night, the company tried to launch three rounds of offensives, and in the last round of the offensive even used two ground-penetrating missiles with 500 kilograms of warheads that had just been dragged out of the laboratory, but still failed to plant the flag on the top of the mountain.

The total number of casualties of mercenaries has reached more than 300, which has exceeded the non-clone casualties paid by the Legion on Black Cloud Mountain.

Considering that the mercenaries would be needed for the next battle, the commander of the 100th Mechanized Mountain Division could only set his sights on their allies who could fight well, the Alliance.

When he was still in Dawning City, Commander Quanshui took the initiative to take over this task on behalf of the Storm Corps.

However, neither the spring water nor the commander of the enterprise expected that just as they were planning the next offensive, the Willant people stationed on the Black Cloud Mountain couldn't wait any longer and couldn't wait to stretch out their hands......

On the night of the third day.

Black Cloud Mountain.

Glancing at General Modlin, who was looking at the position in the distance with his night vision goggles, the adjutant standing on the side couldn't help but ask.

"Wouldn't that be too hasty?"

Although the performance of the enterprise on the front line was disappointing, he did not recommend that the task of attacking the hill be snatched away from the enterprise.

Not only because it would drain the power in their hands, but also because it could have been a great opportunity to test the strength of the Ideal City.

The mercenaries attacked the hill three times without any effective results, and he felt that if he pressed again, perhaps the company would be willing to send a regular army to fight.

When the time comes, they can also observe how effective the troops are, which are armed to the teeth by machinery.

At the end of the day, it's the companies that are the heirs of the old that are their real competitors.

As for the Torch Church, it is just the one that can jump among the many eye-catching grasshoppers.

However, General Modlin, who was standing next to him, had a different opinion and said succinctly.

“…… Didn't you notice that the positions on the first few hills are relatively easy to take, and the later positions are more difficult than the other. ”

Adjutant: "So? ”

General Modlin narrowed his eyes and continued: "So the sooner the mission is completed, the better it will be for us. According to the agreement before the war, we need to undertake the attack of at least two mountains, and counting the Black Cloud Mountain that has already been captured, as long as we complete one more, we can sit in the spectator seat and watch the play. ”

Then they can give all the hard bones to the rest of the coalition to gnaw.

And if others want to ask them to intervene, they will have to come up with other terms at the negotiating table of the cohesive community in exchange.

Completing the combat mission ahead of schedule is in itself a sufficient bargaining chip.

I believe that Lord Leum thinks so, so he has given the order to conduct tonight's military operation.

At this point, he looked at the adjutant to the side and continued as usual.

"Inform General Mekar that our men have arrived at the battle position, so that his Honorable Army can move forward."

Before sending the Willantes, he needed the clone cannon fodder to go up and consume a wave of the mutants' stamina and ammo.

The adjutant instantly understood, and then his expression was solemn and he gave a military salute.

"Yes!"

……

At twelve o'clock that night, the Loyalty airship fired a full ten 400mm rifled rockets towards Broken Blade Mountain without warning.

The boiling flames were like a cloud of fire falling from the sky, engulfing the entire mountain, and the vegetation on the mountain was instantly reduced to ashes, and even the stones on the ground were burned hot.

At the same time, the 1,000-strong Glorious Army waiting at the foot of the mountain had already hung their bayonets on the chambers.

A centurion with a tall nose stood in front of the formation, drew his rifle and fired a shot into the hill, shouting loudly.

"For the marshal!"

"For loyalty!"

"Charge ——!"

A pair of eyes filled with fanaticism, and the clones let out a deafening roar, grabbed their rifles and rushed up the hill.

"Hooray!"

"Kill!!"

Those two short sentences are the few people who clones can say.

Developing at eight times the rate, they do not possess a full human mind at all, and their brains can process only one-eighth of the information of ordinary people.

However, these two short sentences are enough to sum up their lives.

From the moment they were born, they have been preparing for today's burn.

"Roar!!"

The green-skinned guy hiding in the tunnel let out a roar and rounded the empty shotgun into a mallet, smashing the skull of a clone.

However, before he could taste the snow-white brain, a bayonet flashed like a white ray, piercing his jaw from the bottom up!

Hot blood spurted into the clone soldier's fanatically distorted face, who continued to charge with a constant roar.

They are like drugged mad dogs, crawling forward with their hands when their legs are cut off, and biting with their teeth if their arms are broken, even crazier than the big green-skinned guys who howl and obscenate!

In addition to those who are numb to death, there are also some mentally broken clones curled up in their plasma and wailing.

Yet even so, no one retreated.

Under the command of the Willant Ten, they gnawed forward like wild beasts, and then died quickly in madness.

Seeing such a ruthless "ration" for the first time, the mutants of the Rock Axe Clan were also a little confused for a while.

Although the combat effectiveness of these madmen was obviously not as good as the exoskeleton-wearing humans they had encountered before, the lethal fighting style of these people really brought them a lot of mental pressure.

At the same time, on the other side, the operational command of the enterprise was in a panic and commotion.

The Loyalty airship suddenly opened fire, followed by the sudden dispatch of clone troops, and this series of unplanned actions surprised everyone.

Lin Shangwen, who rushed to the scene, stared at the picture on the holographic screen without saying a word.

The adjutant standing next to him cursed and couldn't help but roar.

"What the hell are those big noses trying to do?! Did they take the wrong medicine? ”

Even if it's to show off, you won't even say hello, right?

When he fought Heiyun Mountain before, he wanted to complain about these guys who had no one in their eyes.

It's just that the commander of the Xilan Empire is more tolerant, and he doesn't take those compatriots who were bombed by mistake seriously, and he can't say anything as an outsider, so he doesn't make a fuss about this matter.

Chief of Staff Yun Song also stared at the holographic screen silently, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the movement of another group of people at the bottom of the mountain, and his heart suddenly became clear, and he said in a deep voice.

"Eighty percent of them want to pick peaches."

The adjutant was stunned when he heard this, and then he came back to his senses and scolded in a low voice.

"These shameless bandits!"

They have already sacrificed more than 300 mercenaries on the mountain peak, rained down hundreds of rockets and more than 1,000 heavy grenades!

There must be three thousand, if not two thousand!

Seeing that the defense line on the opposite side had loosened a little, these guys actually jumped out to grab the credit!

Lin Shangwen still didn't speak, just stared at the screen silently, not knowing what he was thinking in his heart.

Just as he was about to call Lium to ask what the guy meant, he saw that the other party had called first.

I saw an ugly nose appear in the center of the screen, followed by a smiling and annoying face.

The guy still had a stick in his mouth on the big night, and it looked like it was growing on his face.

"I see that you are fighting too hard, and I will fight this battle for you."

Listening to the shameless rhetoric, Lin Shangwen sneered, and raised his chin slightly to look at the face on the screen.

"Do I have to thank you?"

"Haha! You're welcome," Lium smiled, leaned back in his chair, and said in a rather yin and yang tone, "I'm just sorry that the young masters of Ideal City haven't seen blood, and I'm afraid that they will be scared to pee their pants when they go to the battlefield...... It's better to let them stay behind and play cards. ”

Play cards?

Lin Shangwen frowned, and several officers behind him also exchanged confused glances, not knowing what this guy was talking about.

Leum didn't explain, just looked at the weak friendly officers, and the old god continued on the ground.

"Look, I'll only demonstrate once."

With that, he closed the video window, leaving the angry officers in the command room to disappear......

……

I have to say that the legion's abacus was so loud that even the spring commander who had just arrived at the front could hear it.

Gunfire rang out from Broken Blade Mountain, cannon roared, and flickering fires lit up the place into daylight.

The suffocating intensity of the war could be faintly smelled even if you stood on the Fushan Mountain across the mountain.

"Good fellow...... Now the brothers of the company are going to be slapped in the face. Holding the telescope in his hand, he grinned as he paddled the water and looked in the direction of the south.

Limited by his vision, he could only see a corner of the battlefield from his position.

But even so, the fight was tragic enough.

The old man from the spring standing next to him smiled, but he didn't think so.

"I don't see it."

Putting down the binoculars in his hand, he paddled at him and asked curiously.

"What do you mean?"

The spring commander said slowly.

"Those mutants are really so easy to deal with, and they won't be able to hold the company for three days. To be honest, in the face of the kind of guy who won't die if he gets a headshot and other black technology that he has never seen before, it will be just as difficult to fight any unit you change to. Especially with such a thick rock mass, we don't even know how many people are hidden inside. ”

The strongman tried to sneak in and get some information, but the fat rat was a little too fat.

The greenskins didn't notice him, but the goblins were using him for rations.

After three dead times and not getting into the cave, the guy stopped wasting his efforts in vain, and instead thought of other options.

It's not just them who have tried, but people in the company are also making various attempts, such as sending android special forces equipped with optical camouflage inserts to infiltrate and find out what is going on in the cave.

However, no one expected that the android team would be cared for by the EMP weapon, and after a brief pause, they would be beaten to pieces.

Including the rice-grain-sized "Beetle" drone they used later, all of them ended in failure.

This information is not publicly available within the Coalition Forces, but is shared between the Alliance's and the Corporation's military systems.

In short, the company has used all the methods it can think of, but the other side seems to have been prepared, and all of them have been resolved one by one.

Seeing that it is useless to take tricks, the enterprise can only use the old method of artillery to bombard the infantry and storm it.

However, even though they used all the support weapons they could and washed the entire mountain an unknown number of times, they still didn't snatch the mountain from the greenskins.

The spring water estimates that eighty percent of the people of Willant are the same, and they must have to suffer some hardships tonight.

Those guys do have two mistakes, but they always make the same mistake, that is, they look down on others and think too highly of themselves.

“…… The reason why the company didn't stop them is that I guess they also want to use the Willant people to consume a wave of living forces on the mountain. I don't know how many mutants there are, but they can't be infinite. ”

"Isn't that a coincidence," Edge Paddle grinned, his fist slamming into the breastplate, "we're infinite, let's get on it." ”

The Commander of the Springs glanced at him.

"You'd better save it, it's time to replace us this time."

Edge paddling: "! Didn't you stop here when you first came here? ”

The spring commander said with a smile.

"We've been resting since we came down from Geumha, and we've had enough rest."

At this moment when the two were chatting, the battle situation on the front line changed in a new way.

Just as General Modlin had predicted, a whole team of 1,000 cannon fodder was quickly gone.

The corpses strewn across the mountains, both mutants and clones, flesh and blood mixed together, and the entire rugged mountain landscape seemed to be rolled by the blades of a meat grinder.

Without any hesitation, the Loyalty airship fired eight more 400mm heavy grenades, as planned, and with the 200mm guns of the Bison, launched a second round of fire coverage on the mutants on the hill tonight.

This round of firepower coverage was even more ferocious than the previous one, and not only the Willantes on the front line were fascinated by it, but even the friendly troops in the rear widened their eyes.

Standing at the door of the barracks, General Babita stared at the "Bison" walker standing in the wasteland with a salivating face, his eyes full of longing.

If only the Legion would sell this thing to them.

If General Alayan had this thing, they wouldn't have lost the port of Kingalen.

The mosquitoes who had just returned from Kunzhen were the same, looking at the spitting firepower, they couldn't close their mouths in surprise, and chattered about it.

"Good fellow...... What kind of material is the barrel made of, and is it so durable? ”

If only I could figure out the material for this thing.

Compared to the 60-gauge electromagnetic cannon that is not used in reality for the time being, and cannot be understood at all, the actual value of this thing is much higher!

Once tasted the sweetness of that bottle of aviation kerosene, his eyes became more and more eager, and he couldn't help but have crooked thoughts.

Maybe......

Gotta find a way to make those big noses "lose" one.

At the same time as the wastelanders looked up at the boiling artillery, the battlefield in the distance was as tragic as hell.

Some of the green-skinned guys who didn't have time to retreat to the caves, tunnels, and bunkers were killed on the spot, and the goblins who tried to carry the wounded back to the tunnels were also killed and wounded, and many of the crippled guys could only lie on their stomachs behind the rocks and scream and wail.

General Modlin, who was armed with night vision devices, looked at the battlefield and, seeing that the time was ripe, immediately gave the order to attack.

"The 2,000-man team under the 310,000-person team advances!"

"Yes!"

The adjutant gave a military salute and immediately passed the order to the side of the thousand-man team.

The 2,000-man team, which had already been eager to try, began to attack the mountain.

Twenty or so heavy infantrymen dressed like iron floats, armed with revoltainer machine guns, took the lead under the cover of a team of 100 men and attacked a long-lost hole in the middle of the mountainside.

The silence of the night was broken for the second time, and the battle was heating up once again.

The well-trained Willant soldiers burst out with combat power far beyond those clone soldiers, defeating the mutants on the mountain for a while, and even the spring that was not optimistic that they could take the mountain could not help but show a surprised expression.

"Looks like you're going to miscalculate."

Edge paddling glanced at him with a smile and dropped the telescope into his hand.

"In an hour, the Willantes had taken six cave entrances, and the battle outside the cave was almost over."

He had seen with his own eyes a heavy infantryman with a flamethrower on his back stepping into the cave, which must have been filled with the smell of barbecue at the moment.

Compared with the bells and whistles equipment taken out by the company, it is really this kind of simple and rough guy.

At least to his appetite.

Quan Shui took the binoculars and looked at it twice, seeing that the battle situation was indeed as the fringe brother said, but he still beeped twice.

"They've just gotten into the dog hole, and the real meat grind has just begun...... How long it can last in it is a matter of two words. ”

"That's just as well." The edge paddled in agreement.

For the opponents he has fought against, his evaluation is still quite high.

The reason why their military operation in Luoxia Province was able to achieve a clean victory was actually due to strategic factors accounting for a large part of the reason.

The combat qualities of these guys are not bad, and it is not easy to win against them on a frontal battlefield when logistics, support, air superiority, and terrain factors are equal.

If it were him, if he wanted to completely exterminate those green-skinned bigwigs who couldn't defend it, I am afraid he would have to pay a lot of price.

At the same time, hundreds of kilometers away in the airspace, a towering steel airship was slowly advancing towards the front line.

Not only were the players staring at the battle situation on the front line, Chu Guang's eyes had never been taken away from the front line.

As early as the same time as the corps attacked, Lin Shangwen, the commander of the 100th Mechanized Mountain Division, telegraphed him on the matter and asked for their opinion.

At the same time, he contacted the strongman through the mission system, entrusted the latter to act as a war correspondent, and went to the front line with a camera to peep at the screen.

To be honest, the Willant people pretend to be generous but play this kind of cautious thinking, which is indeed a bit unkind.

If they really let them take down that mountain, the people who died and the money that the company had lost during this time were wasted, but it became the result of the legion.

However, compared to the loss of his old friend, Chu Guang was more curious about the strength of the regular army of the legion.

So he and Lin Shangwen reached some quid pro quo, convincing the guy to give in, and instead of pressuring General Lium on the matter, he let those Willantes rush forward to consume a wave of mutants' living forces.

In the event that Broken Blade Mountain is taken by the Legion, he can gnaw another position for the enterprise as "compensation".

Anyway, his players can't wait for more opportunities to play, and he is happy to give players some win-win benefits.

Of course, as part of the quid pro quo, the ammunition, equipment, and "pensions" consumed in the assault on the position had to be borne by the enterprise.

Lin Shangwen naturally would not refuse this kind of good thing, and almost agreed without hesitation.

The council didn't care how much money was spent, nor did it care what the people outside the ideal city thought, and only asked him to exchange the smallest battle damage for the biggest result.

As a result, Chu Guang, who was part-time marshal of the coalition forces, quickly reached an agreement with his "generals" and gave up tonight's stage to General Lium.

Aren't they in a hurry to behave?

Then let them go.

Looking at the vast sea of clouds outside the floor-to-ceiling window of the bridge, Chu Guang said with a faint smile.

"Vanus, do you think the 310,000th team can plant the flag on the top of Broken Blade Mountain tonight?"

Although he rarely personally intervened in the command of the front, with his strategic vision, he was not very optimistic that the Willant would be able to win this local battle with insufficient preparation.

Staring at the picture in the holographic window, Vanus, who was standing on the side, thought for a moment, but suddenly spoke.

"I think General Leum might contact you."

"Oh?"

Chu Guang looked at him with interest, wondering why he had made such a judgment.

Vanus froze, pondering, and continued.

"With my knowledge of the formation of the Eastern Legion...... They probably put more than a thousand men into this battle. And from what I know about General Lium, this man is a gambler, although he has good talents. ”

Hearing this, Chu Guang, who originally had a hint of a smile on his face, couldn't help but change his face slightly.

"What do you mean...... He transferred the defense troops on the Black Cloud Mountain? ”

Vanus nodded, the expression on his face no longer just solemn, but gradually floating a palpable concern.

"There is no reason for him to plan a third offensive for the opponent he despises, in other words, it is likely that there are only two troops deployed on Black Cloud Mountain tonight, a garrison force and an offensive force. The mutants did not put them in the cave not necessarily out of weakness, but most likely judged that we had invested 'unexpected' forces in this battle, so they deliberately showed weakness in local battles, increasing the sunk cost of our side to abandon tonight's offensive. ”

"And if you had to choose between the two options of 'push harder' and 'bow to friendly forces', General Elium's character would most likely choose to take a gamble for the dignity of the people of Wilante and press the defense troops on the front line......"

After a pause, he continued.

"Those greenskinned ......"

"I'm afraid it's going to be counterattacked."

(End of chapter)