70 kilometers north of Mt. Dashi was a vast plain and forest. The Pyro Company's main forces had gathered here and planned to set up a 31-kilometer-long defensive line horizontally. As of now, only seven kilometers of the defensive line had been completed.
A large number of refugees and stronghold residents had been conscripted to the front lines. Not only were there engineers and maintenance personnel, but all the strong adult males were conscripted as well.
After these refugees and stronghold residents arrived here, the only thing they had to do was race against time to build the defensive line as soon as possible.
Behind the defensive line, hundreds of brick kilns were firing bricks day and night. Due to the need to make bricks, the silt in the nearby rivers was dug up, and the river quickly widened by more than ten times.
It had to be said that this scene was very shocking. If one were to look down from the sky, the horizontal defensive line was "growing" to both sides at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The Hope Media reported that when foreign enemies attacked, a new Great Wall had been erected in human history.
The plains north of the new Great Wall originally did not have a name, but it was now named the Dingyuan Plains. Because the Pyro Company already knew the barbarians were part of an expeditionary army, they planned to stop the barbarians on the Dingyuan Plains. When the time was right, they would send the barbarians back to where they came from.
No, the main purpose of this war was to effectively kill and injure the barbarians as much as possible.
If they only defeated the barbarians but did not kill enough of them, the barbarians would probably make a comeback in a few years.
The terrain of the Dingyuan Plains was simple, so it could maximize the power of firearms and explosives when facing the barbarians.
Originally, the Pyro Company's troops were the ones who liked fighting in complex terrain the most because their overall physical fitness was relatively high. Once a battle broke out in the mountains, be it the Kong Clan or the Wang Clan, they could only run away with their tails between their legs.
Even if the Kong Clan had more troops than the Pyro Company, they would still be slowly worn down by the Pyro Company. This was the huge advantage of the Pyro Company's high physical fitness.
But it was different now. Although the barbarians did not have firearms and explosives, their physical fitness was even better than the Pyro Company's.
Compared to the Pyro Company's own strength, the Pyro Company's average strength was only between a T1 and a T2 combatant. Meanwhile, almost all of the barbarians could reach a T3 combatant.
Moreover, after the battle at Mt. Dashi, P5092 submitted a very detailed battle report. There was one very important point: There were also stronger individuals among the barbarians.
The barbarians had already clashed with the Pyro Company's main forces many times in the Dingyuan Plains and the New Great Wall. However, they were still just probing each other out.
At this moment, the Pyro Company's 3rd Division led by P5092 had arrived at the front lines and set up camp at their strategic locations.
However, the first thing P5092 did was not reorganize the military affairs and the defensive line. Instead, he hung the corpses of the barbarians he had killed at Mt. Dashi in the most conspicuous place outside the defensive line.
As a result, several hundred wooden stakes suddenly appeared outside the New Great Wall where P5092 was located. The barbarian corpses hanging from them were swaying in the wind like rags.
It had to be said that the massacre of Stronghold 176 had infuriated all the Central Plains people, including the Pyro Company.
And what P5092 wanted to do was to provoke the barbarians.
For the sake of this matter, he even ordered the main forces that had entered Mt. Dashi not to let any of the barbarians escape. Then he loaded all the corpses into trucks and transported them to the front lines.
Crows were circling in the sky as though they could not wait to devour the barbarian corpses. However, the Pyro Company soldiers did not care and allowed the crows to feast on them.
P5092 knew the barbarians' outposts must be secretly watching this place. That was enough for him.
His deputy commander whispered, "Sir, I'm afraid the barbarians will be very angry if you do this. When that happens, don't focus all the pressure on us at the entire defensive line."
P5092 stood on the New Great Wall that was built during the wastelands era and looked at the Great Wall stretching out from under his feet. He could not see the end of it.
He said coldly, "Let them come then. That's exactly what I wanted."
At 11 PM that same night, dozens of flares were suddenly fired into the sky from the New Great Wall and released a huge amount of heat and light.
When the flares reached their zenith, they started falling slowly. Then the Pyro Company soldiers on the New Great Wall could see clearly with the help of the pink light. There were actually thousands of barbarians running on the ground to the north.
P5092 watched this scene calmly. "Have they really been provoked? The vanguard has moved out in full force. Pass down the order to open fire as soon as they get within firing range. There's no need to hold back. "
His deputy commander said, "What if they run away?"
If the barbarians opened fire as soon as they got within firing range, it would mean they would be able to escape the range of the barbarians' firepower by retreating a little. At that time, it would be very difficult to kill more barbarians.
It was impossible for P5092 not to know this. The high-ranking Pyro Company officer took off his black goatskin gloves and said, "It's fine. Just follow my plan."
New flares were continuously fired into the sky by the Pyro Company soldiers. Someone looked at the barbarians from afar and muttered, "These barbarians run really fast. They look like brown bears. If they get close to them, I'm afraid the defensive line will be torn apart in an instant. Wait, look, the barbarians at the front seem to be dragging something. "
A moment later, someone suddenly ordered, "Open fire!"
The heavy machine gun bullets at night were a visible orange-red color to the naked eye. When a string of bullets flew into the distance, the machine gun bullets that drifted in the air and connected into a line were like a long whip, lashing straight at the barbarians' vanguard!
The garrison troops in the other areas of the Great Wall were alarmed by the battle here. They took out their binoculars and started watching. Someone spoke to P5092 and asked if they needed any reinforcements. However, P5092's answer was no.
At this moment, everyone saw through their binoculars that the most muscular barbarians, who were running at the front, suddenly raised the huge shields in their hands in front of them. The shields were more than two meters tall!
Five barbarians were holding up shields made of multiple layers of special leather at the same time and were still advancing at a fast pace. The shields were thick and solid.
These shields were extremely heavy. Even with the barbarians' special physiques, they still had to work together to lift them.
When the machine gun bullets finally arrived, the sound of a storm hitting the ground rang out when the bullets collided with the shields. The leather on the front of the shields was riddled with cracks from the bullets. But to everyone's surprise, the heavy machine guns did not manage to completely destroy the shields!
The deputy commander was surprised. He did not know what the shields were made of either. If the barbarians were allowed to get within range before firing, the barbarians would probably be able to reach the defensive line with just the shields alone. After that, they could easily scale the Great Wall with their strong physiques and tear through the defensive line.
The deputy commander glanced at P5092. "Sir, did you already expect them to have such a trick up their sleeves?"
"No, it's just better to be safe. We can't be too greedy on the battlefield." P5092 shook his head. "At the very least, we mustn't think about how to take them out in one fell swoop before we figure out their strength. Get ready to fire the mortars. Be careful. The battle tonight has only just begun. "
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