Chapter 1252, The Final War

The seventh day of the countdown.

The 6th Field Division led by P5092 arrived at the defense line as scheduled.

When he arrived he felt that the gazes of so many people looking at him were somewhat different.

There was like scrutiny and envy among them.

Ren Xiaosu greeted him outside the General Command Headquarters and opened the door, “Commander Zhang has already conveyed his message to all the generals that this defense line will be taken over by you to take over all the defense affairs, so from the moment you arrive at the defense line, you are essentially the supreme commander of the Northwest Army.”

P5092 froze for a moment, and he finally realized why everyone was looking at him with that look.

He wondered, “Is this in line with the procedure, I don’t have any real position in the Northwest Army yet, would it be a bit of a trick to let an outsider like me become the supreme military commander?”

As a result, at this time, Zhang Jinglin walked out from the command tent, “Human civilization is at stake, if we still stick to the rules of the past at this time, that would be irresponsible to everyone. The facts have proven that you are the most suitable person for this position, and I believe you are capable of handling it.”

P5092 was only silent for a few seconds before he suddenly said to Wang Yun, “You’ll summarize the information of the various combat sequences and then synthesize and organize it for me, you know what I need.”

With that, P5092 walked straight towards the command tent, “All combat staffs come over and report to me, then dock your respective matters at hand to Wang Yun so that he can keep track of your work progress.”

After he entered the command tent, he actually took off his dirty and torn jacket directly, then sat down at the top position of the conference room.

As if he had been sitting here for decades, it was incomparably natural.

No excuses, no pretense, no ink, P5092 quickly got into his role after only a few seconds.

The others in the command tent looked at each other in disbelief, not knowing how to react; it wasn’t that they weren’t cooperative, but that P5092 had entered his role so quickly that they were a bit at a loss.

At this moment, P5092 coldly looked up at those combat staff, “What are you all standing there for?”

As soon as these words came out, all the combat staff hurriedly sorted out the information that P5092 needed, and collectively handed them over to Wang Yun for summarization.

To P5092, nothing was more important than achieving victory in this war, and since Zhang Jinglin was willing to make him the supreme military commander and he was most suitable for the position, there was no need to push back.

Perhaps this attitude of being a good man would make some people feel uncomfortable in their hearts, but it didn’t matter, P5092 believed that the Major General would help him solve these problems.

Outside the command tent, many people silently looked at Zhang Jinglin, wanting to see how he reacted after P5092 nonchalantly “seized power”.

As a result, Zhang Jinglin smiled and said, “It is indeed the most suitable candidate.”

The Northwest Army needed someone who only wanted to win to lead them to victory.

Other than that, there should have been no distractions.

At this moment, Wang Yun quickly summarized the data of each combat unit, the ratio of veterans, the ratio of new recruits, the age ratio, and the ordnance and equipment ratios.

Wang Yun even let the combat staff go to the military affairs office to fetch the past combat reports of these combat units, how much ammunition a certain unit had consumed in the war, how many enemy casualties it had caused, and how many casualties it had suffered, he recorded them all in his head.

With all this, it was soon possible to compare which troops were the most capable of fighting, which could be attacked and which could be used to place in specific positions.

With this sea of majestic data, Wang Yun only needed to look at it to be able to quickly categorize it in the memory palace of his mind.

And all of this was what P5092 needed the most.

The Northwest Army didn’t have the kind of powerful computing power that an artificial intelligence had, even Wang Yun couldn’t, but he could try to make up for it somehow.

After Qing Zhen and Luo Lan heard that P5092 had taken over the military command, they also came to the command tent as if they were watching the fun.

They entered the command tent just in time to hear P5092 ask Wang Yun, “What was the weather at this time in the first ten years of history?”

Wang Yun replied, “In the next seven days, the first day was ten clear and no rain, the second day was eight clear and two rainy, and the third day was seven rainy and three clear……. It seems that we are about to enter the fall rainy season, and a cold front from the north is heading south, and heavy rains are on the way.”

P5092 nodded, “Be prepared to fight in the rain, how long will the rain last?”

“The probability is 3 days,” Wang Yun said.

P5092’s command style was actually a bit similar to that of the AI, both started from the details and were just as calm and cold-blooded.

When Qing Zhen, who was on the side, heard the information summarized by Wang Yun for P5092, he suddenly said to Luo Lan, “If I had such a talent by my side in the beginning, I’m afraid that Li and Yang would have been overthrown much faster.”

At a certain moment, Qing Zhen was actually still a bit envious of P5092 for having such a helping hand.

Suddenly, P5092 looked up and said to Ji Zi’ang, “Zi’ang, I need you to go to the 129th Engineer Battalion and lay mines in the 314th position bearing. This place is very important, make sure to inflict some heavy losses on the enemy forces passing through there.”

The AI had the ability to recognize mines, and the other side only needed to take a look at the dirt on the ground to determine where it had been dug.

But it was different with Ji Zion, on one hand, he didn’t even need to dig up the minefields, which was extremely efficient, and on the other hand, Ji Zion had the ability to camouflage the dug up ground in a way that was similar to the usual.

Position 314 was the main road leading to the core of the defense line, if Wang’s mechanized troops arrived, they would definitely have to pass through there before they could bring the defensive support points of the rear defense line into the range of firepower.

But if there was Ji Zi’ang planting anti-tank mines there, I’m afraid that it would be very difficult for any mechanized forces to come through for the time being.

There was no need to completely block that road, all P5092 needed was to stall for time.

Ji Zi’ang replied, “Alright, I’ll report to the engineer battalion and promise to complete the mission.”

After Ji Zion’s arrival, even the construction of this defense line had sped up quite a bit.

Right now, Ji Zion hadn’t slept for 19 hours, but he was still pumped up to go on his mission when P5092 gave the order.

After Ji Zi’ang left, P5092 suddenly said to Zhou Qi, “I’ve heard the Major Commander talk about your abilities, please move over to position 141 and wait for your chance there.”

Zhou Qi raised his eyebrows, “Are you ordering me? I’m not a member of your Northwest Army ……”

“Is there a problem?” P5092 asked.

Zhou Qi bristled as his aura weakened a bit, “Just go …… but you have to tell me what I’m going over there for.”

“Just being prepared,” P5092 said, “I also hope you don’t come in handy, as for what I want you to do there, you’ll know when the time comes.”

Zhou Qi yelled, “Wait a minute, where is position 141?”

Saying that, Zhou Qi glanced at the sandboard, then instantly became unhappy, “This 141 position is right on the second echelon defense line, according to the AI’s speed of attack, I’m afraid that it won’t take two days to flat out push it there, how dare you ask me to go to such a dangerous place?”

P5092 said seriously, “There are naturally reasons to let you go.”

Luo Lan laughed, “Come on ah Zhou Qi, I’ll accompany you.”

“That’s more or less the same, you have to pull a back even if you die, don’t you,” Zhou Qi then agreed.

In the next moment, P5092 said to another combat staff, “The defense line has been constructed, immediately convey my order to force the civilians on the defense line to evacuate, and make sure to leave this place before tonight. Otherwise, when the defense line collapses, we’ll still be slowed down by their retreat.”

“Can’t we hold this place?” Big Snooze asked.

“Well,” P5092 nodded, “but if our goal is just to stall for seven days, I think there’s a chance.”

At this moment, no one questioned P5092, everyone was thinking that if even P5092 said that it couldn’t be held, then it must really be impossible.

P5092 said, “The biggest problem we face today is that we are not quite sure how the enemy army is fighting ……”

Before the words fell, Qing Zhen let Xu Conceal to send a thick stack of combat reports, “This is the information that Qing’s troops exchanged their lives for on the Sanshan defense line, and every word is extremely precious.”

If you want to win a war, you naturally need to know yourself and your enemy, and Qing Zhen knew that the Northwest was the last line of defense for human civilization, so even if the Three Mountain Defense Line would collapse, he had to collect enough data in advance and bring it to the Northwest word for word.

When the Sanshan defense line was in combat, even if he was busy, he would ask Qing Yi to organize the combat report, and everything he did at that time was for this moment.

In this way, the Northwest Army would be able to take fewer detours.

Just at this moment, an officer ran over towards Ren Xiaosu: ”Major, there is an old man outside who arrived at the defense line along with the refugees, he said that he is a former friend of yours and wants to see you. But strangely enough, he also has a large group of half-grown children with him.”

Ren Xiaosu, who had been listening to P5092’s combat deployment, froze for a moment, “My former friend?”

“Yeah, he says his name is Nonsense and he has something very important to tell you,” the officer said.

“Quickly have him come over,” Ren Xiaosu said.

Hu Hu had been a god since he left Luo City, and few people knew what he was doing.

Soon enough, Hu Hu came striding over, and he opened the door and said, “I’ve gathered some intelligence here that might be useful to you. The Qing Clan in the southwest has been completely routed, and the AIs are splitting into two groups to come this way. The enemies coming from the Central Plains have also split into two groups, one group is circling around with your Northwest Army, while the other group is coming straight to the defense line. Xiaosu, we can’t beat it, this defense line is only a matter of days for that overwhelming sea of people to flood it.”

P5092’s eyes lit up, Nonsense had brought him very useful information, at least he now knew from what direction the enemy army would arrive and how many enemy armies there were.

“Right, where is Li Shentan?” Ren Xiaosu asked towards Hu Hu.

Nonsense muttered, “It’s not bad that you can remember him, it’s not in vain that he took you as a friend. He went to the rainforest further south of Zhou before, and I met up with him a few days ago, but he didn’t come to the Northwest with me.”

“Then where did he go?” Ren Xiaosu wondered.

Hu said, “I don’t know where he’s going, he only said that what he promised you before, he should be able to do it this time.”

……

The Northwest Army defense line used Linxia Mountain, Jishi Mountain, Yongjing Mountain, and Xigu Mountain as nodes to establish defensive support points, and the time had been so rushed that people hadn’t even named the defense line.

When P5092 started to get busy with army deployment, Zhang Jinglin discussed the matter with Ren Xiaosu.

“Let’s call it Dawn,” Ren Xiaosu said.

This was the darkest hour of human civilization, but they were going to wait for the light here.

Zhang Jinglin immediately understood what Ren Xiaosu meant, the night before the dawn was the darkest, yet all one needed to do was to survive this moment, and it would be the break of dawn.

“Then let’s call it the Dawn Defense Line,” Zhang Jinglin nodded.

Civilians on the Dawn Defense Line began to be forcibly evacuated, those Northwest refugees who had originally stayed behind one by one shouted that they would live and die with the defense line, they were unwilling to leave, and as a result, it was Zhang Xiaoman who led the people to forcefully whisk these people away.

By 10 o’clock that night, there were almost no civilians left on the entire defense line, and only the Northwest Army was left to fight.

In the darkness, the enemy seemed to be getting closer and closer, and everyone’s breathing started to get heavy.

At this time, a unit received a transfer order from P5092 for a change of defense and had just arrived at the first echelon of the defense line, position 317.

The 1st Division stationed at the position had received the order in the afternoon, and they wordlessly opened the rear gates to welcome the friendly troops.

“Welcome,” said the brigade commander of the 124th Infantry Brigade under the 1st Division, “We were informed in haste earlier, only that you were coming and needed our cooperation, but not why you were coming.”

The officer of the unit ordered to assist in the defense thought for a moment and said, “I’m sorry I can’t tell you that.”

Amazingly, just above this position, there was a falcon hovering over the position, occasionally hunting unidentified birds of prey.

The airspace above the 317th position had become a no-fly zone.

In the early hours of the night, a mortar suddenly descended from the sky at position 317, and the shells made a sharp sound in the air, like an alarm.

The next moment, a machine gun position at position 317 exploded.

The machine gun position was surrounded by bunkers and trenches, but the shell fell in the sky in a parabolic manner, avoiding all the bunkers.

The precision of the mortar’s shot was awe-inspiring.

However, just as this shell exploded, the troops that had newly arrived at position 317 immediately moved.

They set up a mortar behind their position and then launched the first round of bombardment on the forest outside position 317.

There was no need to aim, just adjust the mortars to the extreme range.

Before he came, Wang Yun had conveyed the order to them on behalf of P5092: “The AI is extremely good at, and prefers, mortar bombardment at the extreme firing range, but this also means that the distance between us and them is, in fact, fixed.”

A mortar shell blasted over, only, this time, the shells were white phosphorus shells.

When the white phosphorus shells exploded, the light yellow white phosphorus quickly burned, and the temperature reached 1,000 degrees in an instant.

Moreover, white phosphorus was very difficult to extinguish, not to mention whether the AI’s troops had any means of extinguishing the fire, even if they did have a backup means, they would not be able to cope with such a terrifying weapon as a white phosphorus shell.

With a roar, only a huge mountain fire was seen burning in that forest, rapidly spreading towards the east.

After the second round of mortar fire covered the area, this unit even directly gathered up the mortars and turned around to withdraw.

Five kilometers away, the mountain fire continued to spread, forming a natural flame barrier outside the 317th position.

If there was no rain, I was afraid that this mountain fire would burn for another ten days or so before it would go out.

And the first units of the AI in this mountain forest are afraid that it will be hard to survive.

The Co-Defense Force came here only because P5092 said that if the AI chose the optimal solution to attack, then attacking position 317 would be the place with the greatest gains, because position 317 was in the first echelon and had the greatest radiant impact on the entire rear defense line.

So, P5092 is now standing in Zero’s shoes to think about where the weaknesses of this position are, and then turn the weaknesses into strengths.

If he were Zero, he would definitely choose to prioritize the attack on position 317.

Of course, this method could perhaps only be used once.

But the thing about gaming was that it was in itself to take advantage of a little bit of advantage if you could.

As for whether or not white phosphorus bombs were too cruel when used, this was not in P5092’s scope of consideration.

Since the woods beyond the 317th position were suitable for white phosphorus shells to cause maximum damage, they should be used to form a burning barrier.

At this time, P5092 stood in the command tent and heard the good news coming from the 317th position side, and he looked at the sand table without a word.

What he wanted to do was not to share the joy with the others, but to think about what Zero would do now.

The final battle had begun.