The reason why the supply line was called a lifeline was because if this line was cut, the more than 100,000 soldiers at the front lines would have no food to eat.
No matter how brave a soldier was, or how resourceful a general was, once they ran out of food, it would be a terrible thing. It would definitely lead to their defeat in the war.
When P5092 first came to Zuoyun Mount, he did not actually have any intentions of taking over the supply line. After all, the barbarians would definitely protect this place. In fact, that was also the case. In order to protect the supply line, the expeditionary army had mobilized 70,000 troops to surround Zuoyun Mount.
Therefore, P5092 was only forcing the expeditionary army to exchange their lives for theirs. He did not think he could pose any threat to the barbarians' supplies.
But neither P5092 nor the expeditionary army could have expected that Ren Xiaosu would actually "casually" complete this impossible mission.
Right now, the expeditionary army was about to run out of food. It was not that they wanted to launch an all-out attack at this time, but that the situation forced them to do so.
Just as P5092 had said, the expeditionary army was actually launching a desperate counterattack.
Wang Yun was stunned for a moment. But when he saw P5092's frown, he suddenly asked, "Since we have the upper hand now, why are you still frowning?"
"Because from this moment on, the true cruelty of war will be fully manifested." P5092 said, "War is not a battle of chess pieces on a chessboard. Instead, it's a journey to a tragic victory at the cost of one life after another."
The tent was lit up with an orange-yellow light, while it was pitch-black outside. Several flares rose into the sky from the defensive positions and released a blazing red light as they slowly descended.
In the air, the magnesium powder in the flares burned brilliantly under the effect of the oxidizer barium nitrate.
But under this beautiful light, the ugly expeditionary army raised their ugly leather shields and kept charging. This time, the expeditionary army's attack was several times faster than before. Just as P5092 had guessed, the barbarians could no longer tolerate the 6th Combat Brigade on Zuoyun Mount. They had to end the battle here as quickly as possible.
In the defensive position, the bullets of the heavy machine guns looked like orange-red eggs in the night. When the 12.7mm bullets left the barrel at a speed of 800 meters per second, the bullets seemed to burn in the night.
The moment the bullet passed through the spiral rifling of the gun, it began to spin. The force of the spin helped it tear apart all the elements that interfered with it.
Under this kind of power, the barbarian's leather shield cracked inch by inch, like ugly flowers blooming in the mud.
But today, the barbarians no longer hesitated to move forward. They raised their rapidly deteriorating shields and kept charging forward, just so that they could reach the defensive position before their shields were completely destroyed.
This was a method of fighting without any regard for their lives. The barbarian warriors who had been sent forward were like cannon fodder to pave the way for the follow-up troops. They were using their lives to shorten the distance between the expeditionary army and the defensive position.
When P5092 saw this from the defensive position, he called Zhang Xiaoman over and instructed, "It looks like the barbarians are trying to break through the defensive position tonight and catch us off guard. They probably don't know we've already been waiting for them, so they're using their fiercest offensive right off the bat. Go tell the 2nd Regiment that we'll have to use the things they've prepared immediately!"
After the expeditionary army approached at all costs, the soldiers at the defensive position finally pierced through the enemy's thick and heavy shields when they were about 400 meters away from them.
But in the next moment, dozens of Heavy Armor Warriors rushed out from behind the shields. They raised shields made of steel plates and charged forward bravely, unafraid of death.
The barbarians who died earlier were just cannon fodder. It wasn't until they were 400 meters away that their true intentions were revealed.
As it turned out, the cannon fodder's mission was just to hide these heavy-armored warriors behind their leather shields and escort them here!
These heavy-armored warriors were wearing their own armor, and the steel shields in their hands were the armor they had dismantled from the Pyro Company's defeated armored brigade.
The heavy machine gun fire quickly concentrated on the vicinity of these dozens of people. But even if they delayed their movements slightly, they were still unable to cause any effective damage to the heavy-armored warriors.
P5092 said to a combat staff officer, "Inform the 2nd Regiment to intercept them now."
At the Northwest Road at Position 1, 20 soldiers behind cover suddenly raised their bazooker-like weapons. Under the cover of their comrades' fire, they started taking aim at the heavy-armored warriors.
The 2nd Regiment Commander estimated the distance of the barbarians and shouted, "Wait for my order! Once the heavy-armored barbarians get within 310 meters of us, fire immediately! If anyone misses, don't fucking eat tomorrow morning! "
These people were not carrying RPG launchers on their shoulders but individual fuel-air explosives! It was the most terrifying destructive weapon among individual incendiary bombs!
At first, napalm was used in the wars of the Barrier Alliance. But later on, everyone gradually abandoned it.
Some people said it was because napalm was too cruel. But in reality, if there was really something that could make an army voluntarily abandon a weapon, it would definitely be because there was a more advanced weapon that could replace it.
This time, the 6th Combat Brigade had brought 32 disposable fuel-air explosives with them to the Central Plains. Right now, they were all concentrated in the hands of the 2nd Regiment.
"Open fire!" the 2nd Regiment Commander roared.
As soon as he finished speaking, 20 individual fuel-air explosives started covering the battlefield.
The fuel-air explosives landed near their targets at a speed invisible to the naked eye. In an instant, the first miniature explosion of the fuel-air explosives started. The fuel-air explosives carried by the projectiles quickly spread through the air.
The fuel-air explosives were not explosives but high-energy fuels like ethylene oxide.
At the moment of the second explosion, the fuel-air explosives would ignite. With the high temperature and pressure at the center, the temperature would instantly reach 2,500 degrees Celsius and form a high-pressure impact.
As the fuel-air explosives were not equipped with an oxidizer, they would suck away all the oxygen in the vicinity at the moment of explosion, creating an oxygen-starved area.
When the Heavy Armor Warriors charged forward bravely, the fuel-air explosives would explode around them or in front of them. It was like a fierce clash between modern civilization and barbaric civilization.
No matter how thick the barbarians' heavy armor was or how sturdy the armor they were holding was, the high temperature and pressure would end all lives.
Then, the massive lack of oxygen caused the barbarians who charged forward to quickly suffocate.
But at this moment, P5092 suddenly frowned. "Wang Yun, is there any difference between this batch of Heavy Armor Warriors and the ones who charged forward the first time?"
Wang Yun quickly compared the differences between the two. It only took him a second to say, "Something's not right. The Heavy Armor Warriors this time are far slower than the ones who appeared last time!"
P5092 sighed. "As expected, get the 2nd Regiment to stop firing the fuel-air explosives and wait for my orders."
P509 was glad he had made preparations in advance and did not get the 2nd Regiment to fire all the fuel-air explosives at once. He still had 12 of them left.
That was because the Heavy Armor Warriors who came this time were probably just high-level cannon fodder the expeditionary army was using to deplete their weapons and equipment. The real experts were still hiding in the shadows!
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