Chapter 330: Enemy at the Gate
Chapter 330: The Enemy at the Gates
Hearing Chu Guang’s words, Bagero was stunned for two seconds and said hesitantly.
”Agreed means…”
Chu Guang continued to ask.
”Most of the prisoners of war we captured from the Legion are from the 210,000th Expeditionary Force, that is, the subordinates of the ten thousand-man commander named Dillon. They claim to have followed their superiors to join the Bone Chewing Tribe… So you are also a subordinate of Dillon?”
Bagero shook his head and said.
”I used to belong to the 140,000th Team…”
”I know,” Chu Guang looked into his eyes and went straight to the point. “What makes me curious is how you became the tank commander of the Ya Clan.” He
seemed to be lost in memory.
Bagero paused for a moment and spoke.
”About the year before last, the 140,000th Team I was in suffered heavy losses in the battle with the Great Rift Valley. I almost thought I was dead, but I was lucky to survive…”
”You are indeed very lucky, just get to the point.” Chu Guang glanced at the bandages on his body and continued.
”…I didn’t go back to join the expeditionary force, and I couldn’t go back at all, so I went to the Bugera Free State south of the Great Rift Valley, and found a job as a mechanic there, barely able to support myself. But one day I went to the tavern to drink, and happened to run into my former boss, who said he wanted to introduce me to a new job.”
”Driving a tank for the Predators?”
Bagro was silent for a while, but finally chose to confess.
”He told me that a friend of his got a batch of tanks, but couldn’t find professional drivers. If I was interested in returning to my old job and training a group of professional drivers for them, they were willing to pay me a lump sum of 50,000 dinars. If there was an attendance mission, there would be extra rewards, and maybe a chance to go home.”
Chu Guang raised his eyebrows slightly.
”Then you went to Jin Ya?”
Bagro shook his head and said helplessly.
”That was later… At first he introduced me to a famous local arms dealer named ‘Firestone’. I thought I would get a job as a training instructor and bodyguard, but they sold me and the tank together to the Bone Chewing Tribe.”
Chu Guang joked.
”So you are still a victim?”
”I have no intention of defending myself. Reasons are not important at all, right?” Bagro said calmly, “If I lose, I lose. I lost to you and to my own arrogance… Now I am your captive, that’s all.” This guy has a strong personality
.
Chu Guang did not completely believe what this guy said, and he did not really care whether he became a predator voluntarily or forced.
However, from his words, Chu Guang caught two pieces of information that concerned him.
[The relationship between the arms dealers of the Bugera Free State and the Bone Chewing Tribe may not be as simple as business dealings. The latter is suspected to be supported by the former. ]
And –
[The Legion is very likely involved! 】
Although Chu Guang had heard about the Bugera Free State a long time ago, saying that there was a group of merchants who handled the loot for the plunderers and sold them some good things in a survivor settlement near the Great Rift Valley in the north.
However, Chu Guang did not take it seriously at the time. After all, Red River Town had done business with the Bone Chewing Tribe before, and this kind of thing was too common in the wasteland.
Now it seems that this matter may not be as “simple” as he imagined.
Chu Guang casually wrote down this clue and continued to ask while looking at Bagro.
”The last question, what is the name of your superior? What is his rank?”
Although these were two questions, Bagro still answered truthfully.
”Kondra, the captain of the 140,000th expeditionary team… probably at the same level as Dillon.”
Is it Kondra?
Chu Guang said thoughtfully.
”I know.”
Bagro looked at the recording device next to him, then looked at Chu Guang and asked hesitantly.
”Can I… start?”
Chu Guang nodded after turning off the screen projected on the inside of the helmet’s eyepiece.
”Let’s get started.”
…
The next day.
After being tortured by the New Alliance’s bombardment for a whole night, Jin Ya finally waited for the sunrise of the next day in agony.
The heavy rain stopped for a while, and the sky cleared up.
Jin Ya had people pile up roadblocks on the streets of the southern city to prevent vehicles from moving forward, and deployed the thousand-man team in the semi-collapsed ruins and alleys, ready to fight to the death with the New Alliance soldiers who were marching towards the city.
However,
the decisive battle that Jin Ya and his subordinates imagined did not come.
After the New Alliance’s troops pushed the front line to the southern suburbs of Xizhou City, they stayed where they were, and even dug trenches right under their noses.
Jin Ya certainly couldn’t stand the construction of fortifications at his doorstep, so he immediately dispatched a reserve team of a thousand people and ordered them to stop it and explore the New Alliance’s strength.
However,
something that made him despair soon happened.
The thousand-man team was almost just out of the city, and before they even touched the New Alliance’s position, they were hit by fierce firepower.
Two quadruple anti-aircraft trucks were hidden on both sides of the ruins of the elevated road bridge in the south of the city late last night. The front of the trucks was covered with camouflage cloth, and the muzzles were pointed at the city in the north.
When the group of people appeared in the field of vision, Brother Mole did not immediately order to open fire, but let them go forward for a while.
It was not until they were about 400 meters away that the group finally discovered the abnormality in front. Brother Mole put down the telescope and excitedly ordered loudly.
”Hit hard for me!”
The two quadruple anti-aircraft guns fired at the same time, releasing a fierce rain of bullets.
The series of “bang bang bang–” gunshots were like a curse that urged death. The accumulated 20mm high-explosive bombs opened a rain of fire in the air.
Under the coverage of the crossfire, the thousand-man team that went out of the city to fight suffered heavy casualties in an instant and was pressed behind the bunker and could not move.
”
Ah
…
He shouted in panic behind him.
”Boss! Their firepower is too strong!”
”Without the protection of the tanks… we can’t get through at all!”
The implication is –
retreat.
However, their centurion obviously did not intend to retreat, and the order of Lord Jin Ya also left him with no way to retreat…
”Everyone spread out and crawl forward! They have limited shells. If we rush to a distance of 200 meters, victory will be ours!” The plunderer centurion who was commanding at the front line roared wildly, “Their mortars have already targeted us. If you don’t want to die, move!”
”Who dares to retreat–”
”I’ll kill him now!”
Hearing this, despair appeared in the eyes of almost all the plunderers.
In front of them was the muzzle of the New Alliance’s gun, and behind them was the muzzle of their own people’s guns. They were caught in the middle, and there was no way forward or backward.
Under the constant urging and intimidation of the centurion, the plunderers lying on the ground began to move forward in despair.
Looking at the front position, the Elf King Fugui, who was standing behind the half-bridge pier, looked at the mole brother who was directing the shooting and shouted.
”They are only 250 meters away from us.”
Irena, who was standing under the bridge pier, was surprised.
”Good guy, they climbed quite fast.”
The maximum range of the Iron Fist rocket launcher is about this distance. If they climb another fifty or sixty meters, the predators will be able to fight back.
Bullets are already whizzing towards this side, hitting the welded steel plates of the trucks and making a clanging sound.
The canyon is running away. The mole put down the telescope in his hand and waved his right hand back.
”Retreat!”
The two anti-aircraft trucks began to retreat.
The two trucks deployed in the rear slowly raised the muzzles of the guns on their backs, aimed at the advancing predators, and bang bang, two 88mm grenades smashed over.
The shock wave of the explosion and the rolling dust raised replaced the firepower of the anti-aircraft guns and temporarily suppressed the advancing predators.
At this time, 150 strong men from the Jungle Corps rushed into the battlefield.
Seeing the anti-aircraft guns finally leaving, the marauders had no time to get excited. The machine gun fire that came in pressed them to the ground again when they were about to stand up and charge.
A series of KV-1 exoskeletons welded with steel plates were in front, and each person had an LD-47j light machine gun. The firepower increased instead of decreasing!
Looking at the battle situation in front, the centurion who was personally commanding the front line finally had a trace of despair on his face.
These people…
are completely devils!
Perhaps seeing the tragic situation on the front line, a signal flare was raised in the back. Looking at the two green lights rising into the sky, the centurion finally breathed a sigh of relief and shouted to the brothers on the front line.
”Retreat!!”
The marauders who were almost crawling under the muzzles of the guns wanted to curse when they heard this, but it was always a good thing to be able to retreat.
The marauders at the back fired forward to cover the brothers in front to withdraw.
However, at this moment, a silver cross flew silently over their heads and suddenly began to pour out fierce artillery fire.
Facing the rain of fire from the sky, not only the thousand-man team that went out of the city to fight was stunned, but also the defenders squatting in the city.
What the hell is this? !
Previously, although the planes of the New Alliance had shit on their heads, they could at least use their rifles to shoot at the wooden gliders, especially when they were diving, they even shot them down once or twice. However, the planes that came
this time were different from the previous ones. Not only did they have no intention of coming down, they even fired directly outside their range of fire.
What the hell is this!
The thousand-man team that went out of the city to fight was dizzy from the artillery fire from all directions. They could no longer maintain their morale and fled backwards in a disorganized manner.
When they left the city, they were still a team of 1,121 people. When they came back, they couldn’t even make up two teams of 100 people, and there was not a single person alive who was not injured.
Looking at the defeated soldiers who were beaten to a pulp, the looters squatting in the bunkers and behind the windows swallowed their saliva involuntarily, and felt a sense of panic in their hearts.
Facing such a terrible opponent…
do they really have a chance of winning?
At this moment, a transport plane flew over the heads of the crowd, and the looters squatting on the street fled to the alleys, and the looters standing by the windows also hurriedly hid.
The sound of the propellers of the New Alliance has become a fear engraved in their DNA.
But soon they unexpectedly discovered that what was dropped this time was not a bomb, but leaflets falling like snowflakes…
”…What is this?” Carefully picking up a piece of paper from the ground, Greyhound unfolded it and took a look.
The workmanship of these papers was very rough, with a line of words on the front and a picture on the back.
He couldn’t read, so he couldn’t understand what the words meant, but he could see the pictures at the back clearly. One picture showed a corpse lying here and there, and the number next to it was probably the number of people killed. As for the background, it should be Songlinyu.
Another picture showed groups of captives, holding bowls in their hands and receiving food in front of a big pot.
In addition, there were several black and white photos printed below.
He recognized Dillon among them. There was a cross on the portrait, and there were Lion Fang and Bear Fang next to it… The other few were probably centurions, but he didn’t recognize them.
These should be captives…
Greyhound’s eyes showed a hint of realization, and also a bit of complexity.
At this time, a whisper came from the side.
”Becoming a prisoner of the Alliance can save your life… If you surrender with this leaflet, you can be promoted to an overseer of the prisoner-of-war camp.”
Greyhound looked to the side and saw a short man holding a leaflet in his hand and whispering.
Noticing Greyhound’s gaze, the man was obviously panicked and quickly hid the flyer.
However, Greyhound did not say anything, but just walked over as if nothing had happened and hooked his shoulder with his hand.
”What’s written on this paper?”
The man answered tremblingly.
”No, nothing… Just about persuading surrender.”
Greyhound asked subconsciously, “Doesn’t it say how to surrender? Just walk over with the flyer? What if you get killed?”
The man looked at Greyhound in surprise, and then quickly glanced left and right. Seeing that no one noticed this, he immediately spoke in a low voice at a rapid speed.
”Just hold up the leaflets… Don’t carry any weapons. The soldiers of the New Alliance and the guerrillas won’t shoot, and you don’t want to fight? We can fight together–”
”Okay, don’t say anything,” Greyhound quickly stopped him and stared at him threateningly, “Just pretend that what happened today never happened. You didn’t say anything, and I didn’t ask anything. Remember?”
The man nodded nervously.
Greyhound patted him on the shoulder and turned back to his seat. As for the leaflet, he hid it in his pocket without making a sound.
He didn’t know why he asked these questions.
He obviously didn’t think about surrendering.
However, when he saw the miserable conditions of the friendly troops who went out of the city to fight, he finally didn’t muster up the courage to throw away the leaflets…
Just think of it as leaving a way out.
Greyhound comforted himself in his heart and put the matter aside for the time being.
However, at this moment, a broadcast suddenly sounded in the city.
”… Plunderers of Xizhou City, the army of the New Alliance is already at the gates of the city. The sound of the artillery last night is the final ultimatum!”
The loud voice echoed in the sky above the city.
Listening to the deafening broadcast, the plunderers looked at each other, and everyone saw confusion in each other’s eyes.
Especially when they heard that the invincible Dillon had died in battle, and the tanks they were proud of had all been destroyed…
This was far more desperate than the bombardment that lasted all night yesterday.
…
”These shameless cowards! Bugs! Cockroaches! Cowardly guys!”
The people of the New Alliance did not enter the city, but airdropped leaflets to persuade them to surrender. This was something that Jin Ya had never expected. What
he didn’t expect was that they actually set up a broadcast under his nose to persuade those weak-willed soft eggs to surrender.
Surrender?
There is no such word in the Bone Chewing Tribe!
”These dirty moles actually… used such despicable means!” After
tearing the flyer in his hand into pieces and venting his anger, Jin Ya looked at the subordinates who dared not say a word in the room.
”After you go down, check them one by one!”
”If there is any coward who dares to hide flyers or talk about the things on the radio, I will peel off his skin and hang it on the window!”
”Also – keep an eye on your respective defense areas. If they set up the radio again, go up and tear it down immediately!”
Everyone lowered their heads in fear, not daring to say a word, and could only nod and accept the order.
”Yes…”
After coming out of the room, everyone’s faces were gloomy, and they did not dare to stay here for long, and they hurriedly walked out of the artillery tower.
”The leader has gone crazy…”
Yan Ya glanced at the door behind him, swallowed his saliva and muttered softly.
Yun Ya, who was standing next to him, heard this and was so scared that he quickly made a gesture of silence with his index finger, and then glanced left and right.
”Shh… stop talking nonsense, do you want to die?!”
Yanya shrank his neck and immediately shut his mouth.
Although their leader was also cruel before, he was nothing compared to the current one. Last night, a man was hacked to death on his bed because he mentioned retreat. His body was hung on the lamp stand, and a sign with the word “coward” was hung around his neck.
Now the entire tribe, whether it is the direct line, the collateral line, or the outside line, whether it is the minions below or the leaders above, are all shrouded in a terrifying atmosphere, and everyone is in danger…
When Dillon was still there, he could still persuade him, but now, this guy won’t listen to anyone’s opinions.
The idea of escaping suddenly appeared in Yanya’s mind, and even he was shocked by this idea.
He has fought all the way from the northern part of the Valley Province to here, and he is also a man who has experienced many battles, but it is the first time that he has such a cowardly idea…
…
”Wasteland OL” official website.
As the war drew to a close, more and more battle videos and screenshots were released, and the forum became increasingly popular.
Each regiment took turns showing off their own battle records, which not only made the players feel excited, but also the cloud players who had not yet obtained the closed beta qualification were also very satisfied.
”Awesome! They’ve even made the Stuka!”
”Damn Stuka, it’s just a dive-diving human bomb, okay?”
”Gunboat! Aerial gunboat!”
”It looks like a C-47, and a bit like a TB-3… but it’s actually electric. What kind of battery can match the energy density of fuel?! And the aluminum alloy material is amazing. The recoil of the 37mm gun is not small, and it’s continuous fire.”
”Haha, I heard that it’s set to be solid hydrogen.”
”Use fuel cells to make propeller planes?! Awesome!”
”Why not just use a hair dryer since it’s solid hydrogen? (Funny)”
”I guess it’s to save costs. I saw that in yesterday’s battle, it seemed that only one round of rockets was fired, and the rest was basically bombarded with heavy artillery.”
”I think instead of developing aircraft, we have to get the tanks out first. How about an electric T-72?”
”Solid hydrogen lighter? Otherwise, let’s just use fuel. That’s safer. (Funny)”
Most of the focus of cloud players is on unscientific equipment and fictional technologies that are almost impossible to achieve in reality.
As for the players…
their focus is mostly on the gameplay and strategy of the game.
For example, Canyon Escaping Mole, he specially opened a post to show off that the leaflets dropped by the New Alliance planes to persuade the surrender were drawn by him!
But people obviously don’t care about his painting skills, especially when he draws things other than notebooks.
The post quickly went off topic.
Qiangrensuan: “Speaking of leaflets, I found an easter egg.”
Canyon Escaping Mole: “What easter egg?” Qiangrensuan
: “Hehe, I saw that some leaflets fell in places where no one was, which was a pity. I was afraid that the looters would not find them, so I secretly picked up some and stuffed them into the room where they slept. As a result, in the afternoon, I wanted to go back and take a look to see how the persuasion to surrender was working, but I didn’t see anyone surrendering, and all five people in the room were hanging outside the window.” Fang
Chang: “What the hell!?”
Ye Shi: “6666!”
Ya Ya: “Wait, why are they hanging outside the window? Σ(дlll)”
Makabazi: “Do I even need to ask this? You are their leader. Seeing your subordinates actually thinking about escaping, you have to do something?”
Yaya: “How miserable…”
Stop bullshitting: “What’s the big deal? It would be even more miserable if you were caught by them.”
Irena: “Not necessarily. Yaya, maybe it’s not miserable at all. Rounding it off is almost equal to not miserable at all. (Funny)”
Yaya: “Get lost! (#｀д′)╰ひ╯”
Canyon Fleeing Mole: “Hey, the rat brothers are still vicious.”
Elf King Fugui: “Queshi, this is too vicious. (Funny)”
Forced: “??? What do you mean by vicious! I’m obviously kind! Are you polite?”
Edge paddling: “Hey, a gentleman can be killed but not humiliated. You’ve already touched their house, so let’s give them a quick death.”
Forced: “I want to, too, but the problem is that I can’t beat them! TT”
Trash Picker Level 99: “Hahahaha!”
”…”
At night.
Chu Guang, who was resting in the tent, was browsing the forum through VM.
When he saw his little players describing the tricks in vivid detail, he couldn’t help but sigh in his heart.
”…This is too cruel!”
Putting flyers under other people’s pillows and in their pockets was not the worst. There were
also people who waited for their prey next to the building with the radio installed, and even installed tripwire grenades in the corridor…
In order to stabilize the shaky morale, the predators had to endure casualties while venturing deep into the weakly controlled urban areas to dismantle the loudspeakers tied to the walls, hidden in the wreckage of abandoned buses, and installed on the roofs.
But they soon found that this was simply futile.
The local guerrillas were far more familiar with the terrain outside the four new districts than they were. Often, they dismantled the loudspeakers in the north and installed the loudspeakers in the south.
It was like a gourd that was pressed down and the gourd was lifted up. They could only take care of one end and not the other.
The Burning Corps and the local guerrillas roaming in the city only needed a loudspeaker to keep a whole team of 100 people busy for half a day.
Throughout the day, the looters in the city were busy…
in the communication channel.
Ma Ban, who was stationed in Hope Town, reported to Chu Guang on the progress of his work as usual, and also reported on the situation of persuading them to surrender.
”… So far, we have received more than 100 prisoners. I was worried that there were spies from the looters among them, so I didn’t take them to Hope Town, but placed them in an abandoned subway station in the eastern part of the city. Currently, the guerrillas are watching them.”
After a pause, Ma Ban continued to ask.
”Do you want to keep these people?”
Chu Guang smiled faintly and said, “Keep them. We said we would not kill the prisoners, and we can’t go back on our word. Besides, there is still some use for them. Those prisoners of war have to be taken care of by someone.” When
a person dies, he will be a handful of soil. When he is alive, he can be used as a dry battery. With the minimum living standard ration, not much food is needed.
There are still many resources that can be developed around Xizhou City. Someone has to do the work that ordinary people are unwilling to do.
When this war is over, the number of prisoners of war will probably be greater than the population of the New Alliance. It is not realistic to rely on the few people in the NPC Corps to manage tens of thousands of people.
Those who surrender first will be supervisors, and those who surrender later will be coolies. At that time, he only needs to select a few guards to manage those supervisors.
Those prisoners who surrendered first and those captured on the battlefield are naturally on the opposite side. In order to prove their loyalty and “uniqueness”, they will work harder to show themselves and take the initiative to draw a clear line with other prisoners of war.
Probably guessing the intention of the manager, Ma Ban smiled knowingly and said.
”I understand what you mean!”
Chu Guang nodded.
”I understand, is there anything else?”
”There is one last thing,” Ma Ban paused and continued, “Among the prisoners who surrendered today… someone brought a message.”
Letter?
Sitting up straight in his chair, Chu Guang said with interest.
”Whose message?”
”A captain named Yan Ya,” Ma Ban said cautiously, “The messenger claimed to be Yan Ya’s confidant, and they are responsible for the defense line on the west side of the Four New Districts.”
Chu Guang glanced at the map.
The west side of the Four New Districts is connected to Xizhou Lake, which is a flooded shallow beach and swamp. The environment and terrain are dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is precisely because of this that the Ya clan will probably not deploy too many people there.
But they will definitely arrange their confidants there.
Chu Guang’s heart moved slightly.
”What else did he say?”
Ma Ban continued.
”The messenger said that their captain is willing to surrender to us and wants to ask if we can show him a way out…”
–
(Don’t dare to talk nonsense, just laugh… The next chapter “Northern Expedition Expansion Pack” ends, followed by the chapters of the Great Rift Valley, Enterprises, and Legions.)
(End of this chapter)
