Chapter 313 Of course fly over!

   "Boom!"

   Early morning hours.

  The shells fell one after another, and the middle to the south of Songlin Valley was splashed with billowing dust.

   Looking at the smoke billowing high ground two kilometers away, Bear Tooth holding the binoculars in his hand sneered and waved his big hand forward.

   eagerly waited for the centurion to see this, immediately loaded the rifle in his hand, and greeted the brothers behind him to move forward.

   "Brothers, follow me!"

   A group of looters raised their rifles and howled with excitement.

   "Cut off their heads!"

   "Ouch!"

   Although his voice was the loudest, the centurion did not rush to the front, but wisely let a few ten centurions under him lead him to the top.

The    team of about 120 people was divided into three echelons on the left, center and right, with four teams of ten in each echelon, advancing rapidly under the cover of the pine forest.

  According to previous information, there was a death claw lurking in this pine forest, and the brothers stationed at the northern outpost heard its roar.

   Everyone's eyes widened, and even though their artillery had blasted the enemy's position into the sky, they didn't dare to relax their vigilance.

   At the same time, two small players slowly stuck their heads out of the trench on the position that had just been cultivated by artillery fire.

   "Fuck... Lao Tzu's ears are about to be deafened." With his little finger stuck in his ear, the Silver Sword snorted with spit in his mouth.

   Father Shirogane, who was squatting beside him, kept asking questions while stretching his neck to look outside.

   "How many did you hit just now? Did you count?"

  Silver Sword thought for a while.

   "I don't know... about twenty rounds?"

  Father of Silver pouted.

   "Tsk, poor ghost!"

   Only 20 rounds before the ceasefire.

   If you have the ability, you can drop two hundred and send it down!

  Chong!

   Although the previous round of shelling was aggressive, it did not cause much impact on the players on duty on the ground.

  Thanks to Elder Fang’s predictability, he already had a hunch that the Ya clan would bombard their positions without saying anything about martial arts, so everyone dug holes in the trenches in advance.

   When the first shell just fell into the forest in front of the position, the players squatting in the trenches immediately hid in the hole.

   By the time the marauders fixed the cannonballs into their positions, there was no one in the trenches.

The artillery-proof holes built in the trenches are five or six meters deep, and the walls and tops are reinforced with thigh-thick pine wood. Although the sound of the guns outside is earth-shattering, it did not respond to the players in the holes. cause any substantial damage.

   In the final analysis, the power of 100mm artillery is still too small.

   Doubling the caliber and the charge might work.

   At the same time, the players of the Burning Corps, who were resting in the anti-gun hole, opened their eyes one by one and woke up one after another from their sleep.

   was taken aback by the pair of eyes that suddenly opened, and the Silver Hand, who was crouching at the entrance of the anti-gun hole, said in surprise.

   "Damn it, you guys are online so soon? I'm going to find someone to go down and call you."

   Fang Chang shook his dazed head, looked at the dust falling on his legs, immediately understood what happened, and said calmly.

   "What's the situation outside now?"

  Silver Hand answered quickly.

   "We poured dozens of artillery shells in the opposite direction, and about seven or eight of them landed on our position, but we hid in time and there were no casualties!"

"It can accurately bomb our position, there should be a predator's observer nearby..." Quickly made a judgment, Lao Bai immediately looked at Ye Shi, "Ye Shi, go to the mountain next to you and look for it. , by the way, let's see if there is someone coming from the highlands to the north of us."

  Ye Ten, who turned off the helmet and mask, consciously grabbed the sniper rifle and backpack on the ground.

   "Received! Gale, let's go."

"Um."

  The gust of wind was as small as ever, he nodded, picked up the rifle and drone backpack that were lying next to him, and squatted down and drilled into the hole.

   The two left the anti-gun hole.

   Fang Chang moved to the observation hole and glanced outside.

   "...The artillery bombardment has stopped, and the opponent is 80% planning to charge."

  The pine forest under the **** was silent, and the early morning light passed through the cracks of the trees. If it weren't for the cannonball crater exuding the slightest heat, almost no one would associate this place with the battlefield.

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

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

   "Everyone, go to the battle position immediately!"

   "Prepare to meet the enemy!"

  The players who just logged into the game immediately drilled out of the anti-gun hole, rushed into the trenches and took their places, and loaded their rifles and light machine guns.

   At the same time, the Centurion of Marauders who passed through the forest finally reached the edge of the pine forest!

   The two sides met face to face.

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

   Now there is only one thing he can do—

   "Fire! Fire everyone!"

   shouted loudly, the centurion resolutely lay down behind the thigh-thick pine tree, and while shooting at the high ground with the rifle in his hand, urged the ten commanders beside him to lead the team to press up.

  The players stationed on the high ground certainly wouldn't let them succeed. Lao Bai pulled the trigger first and fired the first shot of the Songlin Valley defense battle.

   "Free to fire! Repeat, free to fire!"

   "Attention all team members, hit me hard!"

  The battle is about to start!

   As soon as the looters rushed to the bottom of the slope, they were suppressed by the firepower sloping down from the high ground.

Seeing the fierce fire on the high ground, the looters were forced to stop their charge, and they all slumped into the craters left by the previous shelling, using the pine trees and stones on the ground as bunkers, and launched a fierce exchange of fire with the players on the high ground. .

   For a while, gunshots were heard uphill and downhill.

  The battle situation is extremely anxious!

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

   "Are these idiots not eating!"

  Standing beside Xiongya, Tumen, who served as a staff officer, held a telescope in his hand, and frowned as he observed the distant position.

  The firepower is too dense!

   There are probably hundreds of people squatting in the trenches, and the people down the **** under the pressure of a dozen light machine guns can't lift their heads at all. This position doesn't seem to be washed by artillery shells at all.

   "...80% of those people dug gun holes in the trenches."

   Tumen couldn’t understand.

   No matter what he did, the opposite side only had 18 hours to build fortifications.

   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 withstand the shelling.

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

   put down the telescope, Tumen looked at the centurion standing aside, and said solemnly.

   "The opponent has a wealth of experience in field operations, I'm afraid this battle is not easy to fight!"

   Hearing the staff officer's evaluation, a trace of irritability flashed in Xiong Ya's eyes.

   Especially when he thought of the mocking eyes of the Torch Church apostle, it made him even more furious.

   is not easy to fight?

   He still doesn't believe it!

   Looking at the mortar that had just been set up not far behind, Xiong Tooth raised his voice and ordered.

   "The Mortar Team listens!"

   "The high ground in front of the target, hit me!"

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

  The sound of explosions sounded one after another, and the high ground on the south side of Songlinyu splattered for a while.

   I didn't expect these predators to be so stupid, and regardless of the teammates who were still charging, even their own people were bombed.

   The players who were squatting in the trenches were caught off guard, lying behind the cover to avoid the raging shrapnel.

   Feeling the shrapnel flying above his head, Fang Chang looked at Lao Bai and shouted.

   "There are too many people in the trenches, it's enough to leave three ten-man teams! The others advanced in the anti-artillery hole to hide, the people outside fell down, and the people behind came up!"

"it is good!"

  Old Bai also clearly realized the problem, and immediately issued orders to each team through the command channel.

   Twenty light machine guns remained on the position, two people stood beside each machine gun, one fired, the other was responsible for delivering ammunition, and the rest squatted at the entrance of the gunhole as substitutes, ready to go up to take over the position of teammates at any time.

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

   And the looters below the hillside are much worse.

  The mortar shells smashed from behind them were completely inaccurate, and less than half of them landed on the high ground.

   As for the remaining half…

   either hit too far, or landed on his own face.

  The machine guns were mounted on the hillside in front, and the mortars of the teammates were firing behind them. They were caught in the middle and were in a dilemma.

   In less than ten minutes, the entire centenary team was beaten in half!

   "MMP! How dare you fry..."

  The mosquito lying in the trench scolded and fiddled with the forefinger on the VM screen, setting the coordinates of the shelling 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.

   But no problem!

The rocket launchers of the    Goblin Corps were all mounted on electric mule trucks. After Qingshi County was captured, they were stationed in the camp near the department store.

   At the beginning of the battle, he had already ordered that the artillery team drive the trucks with the launch tubes to the open space in the northern suburbs of Qingshi County for deployment.

   At this moment, his artillery has arrived at the position, ready to launch countermeasures to the enemy mortar positions at any time!

   "Attention to the artillery crew of the Goblin Corps! The coordinates of the artillery fire have been updated, a rocket salvo—"

   "Fry for Lao Tzu!"

   After waiting for a few minutes, a whistling whistling came from the heads of everyone, like a pipe organ being played.

   Accompanied by the screeching of the buzzer, thick and long tail flames ripped apart the silent morning and evening, and fell like raindrops in the north of Songlinyu.

   Fifty rockets suddenly poured out!

   Although these rockets are not very accurate, the number makes up for this deficiency.

   The deafening roar made the mortar positions in the north immediately shut their mouths, and a thick smoke billowed from the high ground in the north.

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

   There were wolves crying and howling on the scorching hot position, and there were countless looters whose arms and legs were blown off. The scene was like hell.

   struggled to get up from a muddy ground, Xiongya couldn't care about the mud on his face, and his face was full of shock.

   "Damn, what was that just now?!"

   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 knocked him to the ground.

   He had never been so close to death.

   For a moment, he even felt like he was losing his breath.

  Perhaps, I shouldn't talk too much...

   "Rocket...Crap, they got all this stuff out!"

   Tumen, who was not far from Xiongya, also looked embarrassed, but he was someone who had seen the world, so his reaction was calm.

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

   Lack of fortifications and bunkers, this round of sudden saturated firepower has cost them at least one centenary.

  Thanks to him keeping a hand and not letting all the troops behind him follow, otherwise the losses will be even more severe...

   "The other party's support firepower is probably higher than ours. 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 withdraw!"

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

   "Damn gopher...have the ability to come down from the high ground and fight with Laozi like a man!"

  Xiong Fang trembled and cursed, pulled out the 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 commanding the battle on the front line saw the signal lights in the sky, and finally heaved a sigh of relief, and shouted for the surrounding looters to retreat.

   "Old Bai, they retreated! How to say, chase?"

  Watching the predators below start to retreat, Quit smoking, who was holding the machine gun, immediately shouted excitedly, and looked at the old white beside him.

   Staring at the old man down the slope, his brows furrowed and he shook his head.

   "Hold your position!"

   Compared to the five hundred people they blocked yesterday, these people are obviously much harder to deal with. At least they know to look for cover and push forward, rather than swarming their guns.

   It seems that the difficulty of the level is gradually increasing...

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

   "Except for the trash brother."

   As soon as I heard this sentence, I couldn't help picking up the 99-level garbage, and immediately got out of the anti-gun hole.

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

   After saying that, the heavily armored lizard raised its head and snorted excitedly, jumped out of the trench without delay, and ran towards the pine forest under the hillside.

   Seeing the big lizard jumping out of the trench, the commander and staff officers on the opposite side holding binoculars were dumbfounded.

   "...What was that thing just now." Xiong Ya swallowed and said.

   stared at the figure door at the edge of the pine forest, and said with difficulty.

   "A bit like death claw...but it looks smaller."

   If you let this monster rush behind you, the centurion that you sent out to seize the highlands, I am afraid that none of them will come back.

  Xiongya didn't dare to hesitate, he hurriedly pushed the centurion who was standing beside him, and urged the order.

   "Quick! Bring your people up!"

   "The people who cover us come back!"

   Armed with an iron fist bazooka and a heavy rifle for hunting large alien species, a centurion set off on the hillside.

   However, they were still a step behind.

   The trashman who rushed into the crowd was like a rampaging tank, and every swing of the steel claw would take several lives.

   When the reinforcements that ran down the mountain finally caught up with the fleeing friendly army, there were only a dozen or so people left in the centenary team sent to **** the highlands.

When    ran into the reinforcements of the looters, Jun Jun was not interested in fighting, and immediately gave up the pursuit, turned and fled into the pine forest behind him.

  The first round of confrontation between the Beartooth clan and the Burning Corps came to an end.

   The 100-strong team of predators who took the lead in launching the attack dropped over a hundred corpses, and only a dozen or so people fled back to the northern position.

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

   Not to mention Qingshi County.

   It was just a highland on the north side of Qingshi County, which made them pay nearly 20% of the casualties...

After weighing the pros and cons, Xiong Ya obeyed the advice of his staff, gave up the position on the north side of Songlinyu, and retreated five kilometers in the direction of Xizhou City, leaving only two centenarians to build trenches on the original position. and blast shelters.

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

   It was found that the looters on the northern position had withdrawn, and there was no time to cheer for the victory. The players in the trenches, led by the corps commander, immediately reinforced the positions under their feet.

   The other party obviously won't let it go.

   Nobody knows when the next round of shelling will come.

   At the same time, Lao Bai, who was digging trenches with his comrades in arms, quickly received a new task through VM - to stand on the high ground on the south side of Songlin Valley for at least 48 hours.

  Supplies will arrive within 2 hours, including 10 10mm heavy machine guns, and a mortar squad consisting of 20 NPCs.

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

  …

   Qingshi County.

   Temporary headquarters.

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

   Only 24 hours after the war started, his little players had already destroyed 150 130mm rockets, 400 100mm howitzers, and dozens of 100kg bombs and bomb-dropping planes for him.

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

   As for the quest rewards issued to players?

   That is just trivial.

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

   However, there is no credit for the bullets fired.

  The biggest difference between the virtual economy and the real economy is probably here.

  Although he had made sufficient preparations before the battle, when the battle really started, Chu Guang still deeply realized how much money it cost to fight.

   Of course, under the advantage of firepower, the results obtained are quite amazing.

In less than half a day, the   thousand-strong corps completely wiped out the entire 1,000-strong corps of the Ya clan. The Burning Corps stationed in Songlin Valley even relied on the strength of one company to drive away a regiment that had come to seize the highlands.

   In addition, the equipment seized from Lion Fang and the copper mine that is recovering production also gave him some blood.

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

   It is the wrench who is speaking at the moment.

   After several battles, his front-line combat experience is still lacking, but his strategic vision has improved a lot compared to when he was in the Guard.

   It turned out that at times like this, Vanus was usually speaking, but now he can also put forward his own opinions based on the information fed back by the frontline troops.

   "...Songlinyu is the only way from Qingshi County to Xizhou City. As long as the commander of the Ya clan is not a scumbag, he will definitely win this strategic location at all costs."

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

"I also believe so."

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

   "...If the Ya clan is allowed to occupy the high ground on the south side of Songlinyu, their 100mm artillery can hit the county seat of Qingshi County."

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

  Although until this morning, Vanus still thought that the strategy of "advancing the front line ten kilometers further north" was too radical, but after seeing the battle report from the Burning Corps from the front line, all his concerns were dissipated.

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

  If each of these people has the ability to compete with ten, maybe they can really create miracles and turn the impossible into reality.

   Listening to the discussions of the officers, Chu Guang, who was sitting at the command table, suddenly said.

   "How many people do you think you need?"

  Vanus thought for a while and said.

   "The terrain of Songlin Valley can deploy up to three thousand troops. If you want to stop the attack of three thousand ... if you are conservative, you need at least one thousand."

  Chu Guang asked.

   "How about a little more radical?"

  Vanus was silent for a while.

   "Five hundred people."

   At this time, Bernie, who had been silent for a while, suddenly spoke up.

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

   Everyone looked at him in unison.

   This person was the commander of the 210,000th corps of the former Legion Expeditionary Force. After following his superiors to join the Bone-biting tribe, he joined the Lion's Teeth as a staff officer.

  Because he has surrendered to the new alliance under the persuasion of Vanus, he is currently convicted as a prisoner of war, and temporarily serves as the "advisor for military operations against the Bone-biting tribe".

  Although Bernie's identity is somewhat 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 it's just the equipment taken over from us, there are about a dozen or so, but it's hard to say if you count what they bought from other places."

   "Buy?" Chu Guang frowned slightly, "Anyone else sell tanks to them?"

   Bernie gave a wry smile.

   "Not just tanks, but replacement parts, repair tools, fuel, and shells... You wouldn't think the barbarians would 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 region of the River Valley. They call themselves the Free State of Bugra. Most of the residents there are bounty hunters, mercenaries or thieves... They are the merchants who sell stolen goods and the factory owners who pay for the stolen goods. These people are never picky about buyers and sellers, and naturally they also do business with predators. Because of their proximity to the Great Rift Valley, they can even get a lot of good things that are rare in the wasteland. thing."

  Chu Guang was slightly surprised.

   "I thought the Bonechew tribe would take everything they encountered."

   Bernie made a helpless expression.

"They are indeed doing this, and they even want to establish a kingdom of plunderers in the River Valley Province. However, there is no absolute in everything. The treasures they rob must always be traded with, so it is not everyone who robs everyone. For example, Honghe Town, It used to be their second-largest land for sale, but the garbage mountain there is so eye-catching, and it just blocks the snake clan's eastward advance... So the honeymoon period for both parties comes and goes quickly."

   "As for the Bugra Free State... it's too close to the Great Rift Valley, and the Bone-chewing Tribe dare not provoke those ruthless people, and has been heading south."

   No wonder.

  Chu Guang nodded thoughtfully.

   He was wondering how the looters got the tanks here from the north. Even if there is fuel, any parts that are broken on the road have to be repaired, right?

   Equipment that is out of logistical support is a non-renewable resource.

   And this is one of the reasons why Boulder City would rather pay to hire a large group of cannon fodder to deal with the tide than to send power armor.

   Chu Guang was not very worried about this trading partner of the Bone-chewing tribe. Those people are in business, not charity.

The   fang clan's southward footsteps have stopped, there is not enough loot, there is no income-generating industry, even if there is a trade route, it is a decoration.

   As for those tanks?

  Chu Guang was even less worried.

  Are you afraid of a 100kg bomb?

   No matter how hard the coffins the Legion left them, the people inside are still made of meat. Throwing down a 100kg bomb, even the slime mold will be smashed into slag, not to mention a few rookie tankers.

  Chu Guang hoped that they would get the tanks out sooner. This thing has the same nature as the power armor of Boulder City.

   "...The longer this stalemate lasts, the better it will be for us. Although the Ya clan has an advantage in numbers, its logistical situation is not on the same level as us!"

   "We only need to do our best to contain them in our positions, and consume their living strength and supplies through solid fronts and artillery fire, and the final victory must belong to us!"

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

   "It would be nice if we could send a unit to infiltrate their rear... Even if we don't fight them head-on, it would be nice to join up with the local resistance groups to cause them some trouble."

   Of course, he also said that.

   Infiltrating the enemy's rear is a simple matter of saying, but it is not generally difficult to implement.

   Because it's the equivalent of asking a group of soldiers to keep fighting while they're out of supplies and under siege.

  In the absence of sufficient advantages, this risky plan is equivalent to sending people to death.

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

   "That's a good idea!"

   Bernie frowned and shook his head.

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

  Vanus also cast a suspicious look at Chu Guang.

   "How are you going to send the troops there?"

  Chu Guang got up and looked at the map, smiling slightly.

   "Of course fly over!"

   (end of this chapter)