Chapter 1238, Victory over Qing

Large-scale wars were a time to test every good commander.

During a long war, all commanders needed to constantly face mistakes, mistakes made by themselves, mistakes made by their subordinates, countless mistakes coming together.

That’s why the army was extraordinarily focused on execution.

But even if it was as elite as the Qing, it still had to face the same problems.

But the AI seemed like it wouldn’t make mistakes, and during the long first night, the AI-manipulated army didn’t make any adventurous moves, and the precise command and individual execution were played to the extreme.

This kind of war was something Qing Yi had never encountered before.

He couldn’t plant spies to know the other side’s intelligence, but the other side possessed strong air control capabilities, and originally Qing’s Mountain Tilting Metal Storm had a matching active defense system, but now the defense system was also useless.

He couldn’t look for the other side’s mistakes, because AIs rarely made mistakes. After this night’s battle, Qing Yi even had a feeling that if he found that his opponent was making a mistake, then he should never try to catch that mistake and fight, because that was what the AI expected him to do.

If he couldn’t find a way to take advantage of both, then all Qing Yi could do was fight a real war of attrition.

However, every mortar on the other side was at extreme range, and even the soldiers’ ranges were swimming in extreme range.

Qing did have large caliber artillery, 152mm caliber with a range of 30km, which was enough to cover the range of the opposing mortars.

There was a saying that truth was everywhere within the range of cannons.

However, the AI-controlled troops were hiding in the dark, and it was difficult to lock on to the other side with the 152mm howitzers.

In desperation, Qing Yi’s side could only order a full range coverage with artillery, a round of firepower destruction within 5 to 7 kilometers at any cost.

Although the cost is huge, but this is no way things, the other side of the mortar and even outside the range of their heavy machine guns, always let the other side hit, they can not return the hand can not.

But the artillery plowing is only theoretical, it refers to the matrix fire coverage, which will inevitably exist in the artillery can not cover the gap.

On the other hand, Zero’s side, just by observing this side in the air and adjusting the range, he had already calculated a precise ballistic trajectory.

In just a few tens of seconds, the AI soldiers within a range of 5 to 7 kilometers had all ducked into those “gaps” that could not be covered.

Each piece of artillery landed more than ten meters away from these AI soldiers, and from time to time, there were flying shrapnel that knocked the soldiers down, and the soil on the ground was lifted up, and each of these soldiers turned into a dusty appearance.

However, when the artillery coverage ended, only 20% of the soldiers controlled by the AI had died, and although there were other soldiers who were injured, they could still fight.

Moreover, when there was a vacancy in the establishment of this troop, someone from the rear would immediately fill in, and without the need for a handover or bonding, this soldier would immediately become the most qualified screw in this war machine.

After the fire coverage, Qing’s 152mm howitzer position has been exposed in the air under the field of vision, good thing Qing’s troops are not stupid, the artillery are in the rear of the defense line layers of protection, even if the other side of the mortar no matter how accurate, it is not possible to reach these artillery.

Artillery with a longer range, the AI can’t transport in either.

The southwestern forest, as a natural barrier, actually limited Zero’s play, but it also nullified Qing’s military system, and both sides fought as if they were fighting with one arm tied up compared to their respective peak combat power.

As the war continued, Qing Yi sent someone to submit the battle report from the frontline to Qing Zhen.

At this moment, Luo Lan was flipping through the documents that had just been sent to him, he sat next to Qing Zhen and said in confusion, ”It’s strange, it clearly has the strength to push the Three Mountain Defense Line flat, why is it fighting like this? Normally, it would have to be an extremely people-loving commander to choose this type of combat, right? How does it look like it doesn’t fit this type of character?”

Qing Zhen said, “My guess is that it has a high degree of dependence on these human-carrying servers nowadays, so it doesn’t want its ‘servers’ to suffer too many casualties that would affect its ability to operate. On the other hand, I’m afraid that it wants to defeat Qing head-on on the battlefield, using its commanding abilities rather than human tactics.”

Qing Zhen, Luo Lan, and the others knew very well how many people were in that southwestern forest, and that terrifying tide of people would only need a single wave to lap over, and the Three Mountain Defense Line would be gone, I’m afraid, but Zero didn’t do that.

Luo Lan was even more puzzled, “Is there any point in defeating Qing head on?”

“Maybe it’s the AI’s competitive spirit, or maybe it’s Wang Shengzhi’s last wish? Who knows, it doesn’t matter,” Qing Zhen said with a shake of his head.

“How long do you think the Sanshan defense line can hold out?” Luo Lan asked.

“Three days,” Qing Zhen replied, “Last night was just a test run, the real war has just begun. I guess that AI has already found the weaknesses of the Three Mountain Defense Line.”

Zhou Qi, listening from the sidelines, suddenly interrupted, “Wait, why do I hear you two saying that you never thought we could win the battle from the start?”

“Yes,” Qing Zhen nodded, “There’s no shame in admitting one’s weakness, the other side came wrapped up in the entire Central Plains, and it’s only right that the Qing Clan would lose, so the outcome isn’t that hard to accept.”

“You are Qing Zhen ah,” Zhou Qi’s expression was exaggerated, “You are Qing Zhen ah, even feel that will lose, then we are not finished? Isn’t the human race finished?”

Qing Zhen said, “The point of victory in this battle is not here.”

“Where?” Zhou Qi asked.

Only, this time Qing Zhen did not answer Zhou Qi’s question, since he had already hidden the secret for so long, how could he possibly say it now.

Only at the moment when all the opportunities had arrived would the mystery be revealed.

Zhou Qi skimmed his lips and said, ”So what do we do now, sit here and wait for death? Hey, even though you guys have given the money in place, waiting for death is not something I’m going to do, by the time that human tide of AI really crosses the Three Mountain Defense Line, I’ll just drill into the water and run away, I don’t believe that it’s that powerful in the water as well.”

“No,” Qing Zhen shook his head, “We have to go together.”

“Walk how? Walk where?” Zhou Qi asked.

“To the northwest,” Qing Zhen said suddenly.

Now, not only Zhou Qi, even Luo Lan froze, “Retreating directly to the northwest? The entire Qing Clan giving up? But we Qing Clan can’t even win, even if we hide in the Northwest what’s the use, you should also know ah, the Northwest side doesn’t face fewer troops than we do here.”

Zhou Qi frowned: “What, planning to rely on Ren Xiaosu and their gang of Transcendents?”

Qing Zhen shook his head, “In the past, human civilization didn’t have any Transcendents, but hasn’t it been passed down to this day? It’s just that we need to unite our forces to create opportunities.”

“How much better to just retreat at the beginning then, what are you waiting for, why do you still need to build the Three Mountain Defense Line, why do you still need to let Qing’s generals reach the human tide,” Zhou Qi asked.

Qing Zhen said, “Because we have to make the AI feel that it defeated the Qing Clan.”

For this purpose alone, Qing was afraid that more than 100,000 soldiers would have to die before and after.