Imperial Capital, inside the Royal Palace.
"Did Guru Tribe and NAC fight?"
"Your Majesty, the scouts at the frontline reported that the two sides have exchanged fire."
"Excellent." The Emperor nodded as a satisfied smile appeared on his sculpted face.
Under the previous Emperor's conciliatory policy, Guru Tribe's power grew. The force originally used to deter Federation now became a tumor parasitic on Empire's back.
There weren't many mutated humans before, so giving them some privileges was "harmless". But if this trend continued, the pure humans would become the majority. If this continued, Empire would no longer be Empire.
Excluding the mutated humans, the total population of Empire was only one hundred and fifty thousand. But the number of mutated humans grew to eighty thousand. Could they still be considered a "weak race"? Obviously, he couldn't just let it go.
Including the Senate's recent discussion to accept the cannibals into Empire and preserve their traditions, it was all to balance the mutated humans.
But now, just the checks and balances seemed to be useless.
NAC's airship arrived at Hucheng and wiped out the raiders occupying the water treatment plant with lightning speed. It demonstrated their strength and toughness to the local forces in Hucheng.
In the beginning, the Emperor was cautious of this foreign force since the land near the water treatment plant was part of Empire's territory. But he changed his perspective. The appearance of AS Order wasn't a bad thing for Empire, but it solved Empire's most pressing problem!
Empire didn't have a strong control over the eastern suburbs of Hucheng. If they gave this piece of useless territory to the mutated humans, it would not only satisfy their growing appetite, but it would also cause both sides to suffer losses.
Since Hucheng was a few hundred kilometers away from Wanghai, unless NAC was determined to incorporate this area into their territory, the casualties caused by Guru Tribe should be enough to force them to retreat.
…
Different from the mobs at the water treatment plant, although the mutated humans were a bit dumb, their combat ability was not weak at all.
Or rather, the FEV virus had already engraved the word "combat" into the genes of these beasts. Just by relying on instinct, they could explode with combat power no weaker than trained soldiers.
However, this combat power was not very useful under the suppression of aerial firepower.
A few shoulder-launched rockets flew into the air from the mutated humans' formation, but they quickly exploded under the laser anti-missile system's focus. As for the anti-air machine guns, they couldn't even leave a mark on the C-type steel armor.
The mutated humans were suffocated by the machine gun hanging above their heads as they began to retreat.
But Jiang Chen wouldn't let them have their way.
Are you kidding me? Do you think you can run away after provoking me? Leave your life here!
The Python drones that had moved to the flank immediately stopped hiding and unleashed their ferocious firepower at the fleeing mutated humans. At the same time, the NAC infantry began to coordinate with the armored vehicles to pursue the mutated humans.
"Damn it, these ugly humans have such fierce firepower!" With dirty blood dripping from his forehead, Ruhr leaned against the back of a half-collapsed apartment building. He roughly stuffed the magazine into the machine gun, then poked the barrel out of the bunker and shouted, "Gru's glory!"
Tatatat ~!
The bullets bounced between bunkers, and he clearly saw a NAC soldier fall under his gun. But unfortunately, before he could see clearly whether the fallen person was lying down or was shot dead, his skull was blown open by the flying bullet.
Li Wang crawled behind the half-destroyed concrete block, took a deep breath, and stood up with the Reaper rifle in his hand.
He was shot twice in the chest.
Fortunately, the K2 kinetic skeleton's superior defense saved him. Although the pain in his chest made him clench his teeth, there was no problem in continuing to fight.
Two Pythons whizzed past him. Li Wang pulled the trigger and continued to run to the mutated humans' formation. The machine gunner that fired at him already died under someone else's gun. When he stepped over the headless body, he glanced at the red and white blood on the ground and was shocked.
Based on the head that exploded, this unlucky guy probably died under a sniper rifle, and the frontline troops wouldn't be equipped with a sniper rifle. But if the bullet came from the outpost, then the sniper was too scary.
From here to the outpost, it was more than one thousand meters away!
Sun Xiaorou stood on the watchtower of the outpost as she put down the sniper rifle in her hand and leaned it against the wall.
The mutated humans already fled far away, and she couldn't see them from her position.
She elegantly took off her tactical gloves, turned around, and jumped down from the eight-meter watchtower.
"What you did … was too reckless. Although you're well-equipped, the mutated humans have taken over the fertile land west of Panyang Lake with a population of at least eighty thousand. "Ji Yucheng said with a troubled smile.
The eighty thousand mutated humans were all soldiers, and that didn't include the human slaves kept in captivity by the mutated humans. Although the mutated humans were poorly equipped, it didn't mean they didn't have any heavy firepower weapons.
And NAC's military outpost only had a thousand people at most. Even with the support of the steel airship, it was not an easy task to face eighty times the force.
"You might not know. In Jia City, the number of mutated humans killed by my First Division is at least eighty thousand, if not one hundred thousand. " Jiang Chen issued a combat order through the EP as he said nonchalantly to Ji Yucheng.
"Perhaps you're strong, but this is Hucheng. They're fighting at their doorstep, and your supply line is six hundred kilometers long, "Ji Yucheng reminded.
He still hoped that Jiang Chen could help him become the president, and he didn't want to see NAC fight head-on against the mutated humans. The only person who would be happy about this situation was the president of Federation.
"How many 100kg bombs did you transport?" Jiang Chen looked at Wang Zhaowu.
"A total of two hundred," Wang Zhaowu responded.
"Not bad, what about Fireball-1?"
"Two thousand rounds have been delivered."
"Very good, it's enough for a war. Go and contact Wang Qing and ask the logistics department to transfer another two thousand people over. Remember, two thousand each of high explosive bombs and incendiary bombs. "
"Yes!" Wang Zhaowu saluted and immediately headed to the command room.
After Jiang Chen told Wang Zhaowu the necessary things, he then looked at Ji Yucheng.
"Let's talk somewhere else."
Then, Jiang Chen didn't wait for him to respond as he walked deeper into the camp.
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