Chapter 1253, One Win and One Loss

The sixth day of the countdown.

The AI’s first exploratory attack was blocked by a mountain fire, and along with a large number of troops in the forest, they were burned to death in the mountains.

Even though the AI-controlled humans are approaching true “health”, how can a human outrun a mountain fire.

Forests, autumns, and fires, P5092 used the terrain to their advantage, but it had to be used early, because they all knew the rain was coming.

This is where knowing the importance of the weather comes into play, it would be a loss if the P5092 saved this big killer hard until the end, only to have a downpour cause such an important tool to be unavailable.

After P5092 used white phosphorus bombs at the 314th position, many people saw the power of this hand, and some people asked him what he was doing next, and as a result, P5092 went so far as to say that he would let the fighters seize the time to change their defenses as required, and that all of them had to arrive at their designated areas within four hours.

This decision to change the defense was made by P5092 based on the data of each combat sequence, and in his opinion, the past deployment of the defense was not as good as it should have been.

When P5092 changed the defense deployment, everyone looked at him with difficulty because this battle plan was set by Zhang Jinglin, and P5092 was tantamount to tearing down Zhang Jinglin on the spot.

It is equivalent to saying to Zhang Jinglin face to face that your military capability is almost meaningless.

Zhang Jinglin took a look at this reaction, then laughed: “This is the military supreme commander of the Northwest Army today, you guys are dragging your feet is wanting to go to the court martial? Okay, no need to save face for me, my little military command ability is still all forced out by rushing to the duck.”

Everyone was relieved when he said that.

Even P5092 was relieved, to be honest he was also a bit worried about how Zhang Jinglin would react, so he had been observing Zhang Jinglin.

Now it seemed that the Major hadn’t lied to him, and as long as he was in the Northwest Army, he didn’t have to think about all those hooks and bends.

But at this time, Wang Yun, who was continuing to organize the data, looked up and asked, “But is there really no problem with changing defenses on the field?”

“Also yes, what if the defense line is left empty during the defense change?” Big Flip asked.

P5092 shook his head, “It won’t be, first of all, these changing defense units are in the second echelon, even if the enemy suddenly attacks, the first echelon’s position can still buy them time, secondly, the AI that has always preferred to operate in a delicate manner should be chopping down trees to create a quarantine zone at this time, and won’t be able to come and attack us.”

P5092 was well aware that the method of white phosphorus bombs starting a mountain fire could only be used once.

In the future, before the AI’s other combat units started attacking, they would definitely cut down quarantine zones in different areas in advance so that the Northwest Army wouldn’t repeat the same trick.

And that was exactly what happened.

Even further back, the AI troops quickly cut down trees dozens of kilometers away to create a quarantine zone, which completely isolated the mountain fire from the rest of the world, avoiding more losses in the aftermath.

A few hours later, all the troops had finished changing their defenses and there was still no enemy to attack, now everyone was really convinced of P5092, even calculating whether the enemy would attack or not.

“What next?” Wang Yun asked, “Any good ideas?”

P5092 shook his head, “The next battles to be fought will be hard fought, moreover, I’m afraid that the troops that were held back by Black Fox and the others before are already heading towards us. To the south, the two groups of enemy troops from Qing’s side will also soon arrive at the battlefield one after another. Now that we’re facing an enemy force that’s already a headache, we can only hope that we’ll still have some good luck in this battle.”

Do your best and listen to the fate of the heavens.

……

What was meant to be was meant to be, and once the AI had built up a sufficient number of mountain fire containment zones beyond the defense line, it attacked again.

Beyond the 317th position, Ji Zion led the soldiers of the engineer battalion to bury thousands of mines within a few hours.

Among them, anti-tank mines were the main ones, while anti-infantry mines were scattered, turning the road outside of position 317, as well as the road on the left side, directly into a horrible minefield.

This kind of minefield, every piece buried will bring great hidden danger after the war, and become a forbidden area for life.

No one dared to set foot in this kind of place, even the soldiers of the engineer battalion who planted the mines might not remember where the mines were planted, and an ordinary person who accidentally stepped into it would be doomed to a life of ten deaths.

However, P5092 couldn’t care less about what happens after the victory, it’s already not easy to win.

As P5092 expected, after the AI Zero analyzed the optimal solution, it did choose this place to pass Wang’s mechanized forces.

But something unexpected happened, those anti-tank mines didn’t work as they should.

Only to see that beyond the minefield, there was a tide of people raging, and bizarrely, these people were carrying one on their backs, marching towards the minefield in a carpeted formation.

The principle of anti-tank mines is actually more explosives and a pressure fuse that is difficult for infantry to trigger.

This fuse, to 180 pounds of weight pressure on it, and normal people, want to find more than 180 pounds of weight is actually not easy, especially in the army.

Soldiers in the army exercised all year round, their body fat was extremely low, and all of them rarely weighed more than 180 pounds.

The same was true of the AI-controlled army, who had gone through the most scientific workouts, and their bodies had long since reached a healthy standard.

However, the AI went so far as to have backpacks to increase the weight of individual soldiers, and then human demining in the most direct way possible.

Mechanized troops were the bastions of infantry, and when the war began to intensify, the AI had to choose to rapidly advance the progress of the mechanized troops as well.

In the midst of the minefield, a roar echoed through the mountains, and the soldiers in the 317th position could hear the sound, but when they were elated to think that the minefield had successfully blocked the enemy mechanized forces, they saw this amazing scene in their high powered binoculars.

Uncountable lives went forward and backward into the minefield, and when someone stepped on a mine, they continued on without making the slightest stop before being blown up by the mine that triggered the fuse.

There was no demining, no detection.

All the humans controlled by the AI were like moths to a flame, life seemed to have lost its own meaning at this moment, just a mere tool.

Young people, middle-aged people, their lives were discarded by the AI as if they were weightless, in exchange for time.

The soldiers on the 317th position fell silent, they suddenly felt an extremely desperate emotion, the enemy’s coldness and ruthlessness, at this moment were like another form of power, daunting.

It seemed that nothing could stop the other side.

The commander of the 191st Artillery Battalion in the position looked at all of this and suddenly said, “Brothers, now everyone knows what kind of enemy they’re going to face.”

The land in that minefield had been dyed red with blood, but not a single tank of the enemy was in sight.

Everyone in the Northwest Army knew very well that people were probably the least scarce resource for the AI right now.

A minefield blowing up ten to twenty thousand people could only be considered a drop in the bucket for the entire volume of the enemy army.

The battalion commander in the position immediately told his soldiers to prepare the close defense artillery, the mission of their 317th position was to prevent the mechanized forces from passing through here, and even though the minefield didn’t work, it didn’t mean that the battle couldn’t be fought.

At this time, in the command tent where P5092 was, a combat staff informed him of the news coming back from position 317.

P5092 thought about it and said, “Tell the 191st Artillery Battalion to allow them to attack at full capacity.”

The so-called full-load attack meant to stop fire on the place regardless of the cost or ammunition.

Wang Yun froze for a moment, this kind of order was actually allowing the 317th position to use its last remnants to finish off its ammunition before it was breached.

He asked P5092, “Are you planning to have the 191st Artillery Battalion retreat?”

P5092 shook his head, “They can’t retreat, there’s still explosives after the ammo is shot up, even if they rush up with explosives in their arms, they still have to hold the 317th position for 8 hours time. Only then will the other positions have a chance to stop the AI’s infantry units.”

This statement meant that the 191st Artillery Battalion would be completely abandoned, which made Wang Yun understand how much pressure P5092 had in his heart, going so far as to drain the utilization value of every soldier.

Wang Yun suddenly felt that P5092, who was in the command tent at this moment, must be feeling pain every moment.

P5092 suddenly said, “Attacking at such a reckless cost shows that the AI also knows the urgency of time, so the gift I left it at position 291 should be able to give it a surprise.”

Position 291 was located in the middle of the two defense support points, Yongjing Mountain and Xigu Mountain, and could only be considered a small position with little strategic significance.

If the enemy attacked from here, the Northwest Army on Yongjing Mountain and Xigu Mountain could always support it and encircle the enemy in front of the 291 position.

But when the enemy army was large enough and had strong enough firepower, they could cut off Yongjing Mountain and Xigu Mountain from here in a hard way.

If the AI continuously sends in more soldiers and occupies this place regardless of the cost, then Yongjing Mountain and Xigu Mountain will lose the significance of keeping watch.

At that time, it would only take a day for the isolated Xigu Mountain defense line to fall completely.

It might not even take a day.

Flooding the place with a huge difference in numbers was the AI’s current optimal solution on this battlefield.

The battle of the Sanshan defense line, as well as the AI’s trial and error in the past two days, seemed to be telling humans that the AI didn’t like to use human tactics.

However, P5092, not using man-to-man tactics before was just unnecessary, it did not mean that the AI would not use it.

291 position, may be P5092 to the artificial intelligence of the last accidental opportunity to hit hard, after this time, the other side is afraid that will not follow the “optimal solution” to make a choice every time.

Don’t underestimate the AI, this is what P5092 reminds itself every moment.

……

The 291 position is not at a high altitude and the terrain is not treacherous enough, so it is not suitable for defense in terms of military strategy.

But the battlefield is never static, and there are times when some subtle decisive factors can turn the situation around.

P5092 The surprises to be given to the AI are Zhou Yingxue, Ren Xiaosu, and Yang Xiaoguan.

The sharpest knives should be used together in the most critical places.

At this moment, more than ten kilometers beyond the 291 position, there is a raging sea of people coming towards the position, like a shocking tsunami.

The tsunami was coming from far and near, and in the woods, a single human with a gun was quickly running towards the position.

However, right at this moment, a green web of vines opened up, the sharp tentacles piercing into the bodies of the enemy troops one by one sucking in blood, and then converting that blood into life energy and feeding it back to Zhou Yingxue.

If there was no loss of vines, then Zhou Yingxue’s own life energy would continue to grow, perhaps one day reaching a qualitative change from a quantitative one.

However, the AI had enough experience in dealing with wall-crawlers, and when Zhou Yingxue was at the outpost before, she was unable to do anything about the human tide, and could only lose her life energy for no reason at all.

In the next moment, the raging tide of people crashed into the wall-crawler’s network, but whenever someone was bound and penetrated by the wall-crawler, there were others who took the initiative to come up and help rip off the vines.

Among the crowd, the division of labor was extremely clear, and even before some of the wall-crawler’s tentacles could penetrate the target’s skin, they were ripped off in advance.

When Transcendents encountered this kind of army that was like precision machinery, it seemed that they were also somewhat helpless.

However, since P5092 had asked Zhou Yingxue and the others to stand guard here to help with the defense, they naturally had a new countermeasure.

In the middle of the woods, I don’t know where there was suddenly a dense spray of potatoes, a potato as big as a head, when sprayed, it even made a buzzing sound in the air, and when smashed on a person’s body, you could also hear the sound of bones breaking and tendons cracking.

For a while, the sophisticated crowd was actually knocked over by the rows of potatoes, and they could no longer maneuver in the face of the wall-crawler vines.

From the moment P5092 took over the Dawn Defense Line, he directly asked Zhou Yingxue to come here.

It was quite difficult for him to order Zhou Yingxue directly, so P5092 had Yang Xiaoguan carry Zhou Yingxue to the 291 position.

Carrying was certainly an exaggeration, but it had to be said that P5092 realized that ordering Zhou Yingxue through Yang Xiaoguan was really good.

Zhou Yingxue was on the verge of cursing P5092 in her heart, but on her face, she was still honest and extremely well-behaved, and without a word, she planted thousands of potato shooters in front of the 291 position in a day’s time.

After planting Zhou Yingxue in fact has some “exhaustion”, just that wall-crawler is just a bluff, and now the potato shooter will be the front row of enemy troops knocked over, she rushed to take advantage of the opportunity to extract blood to make up for their own deficits.

Only in this way could a virtuous cycle be formed.

Earlier, Ren Xiaosu had not allowed her to absorb human life energy, but now that the situation had been jeopardized to such an extent, she naturally had to do nothing.

In the face of this boundless havoc, the entire world looked as if it had been plunged into darkness, and while the soldiers on the Dawn Defense Line appeared to be stoic, there was actually a despair that was growing in everyone’s hearts.

At such a time, Ren Xiaosu allowed Zhou Yingxue to use extraordinary means, no longer caring about any ridiculous benevolence and morality, fighting for those still alive.

This era might not be able to breed innocence, but absolute darkness would breed light.

Just Zhou Yingxue this means also has a limit, although the potato shooter from her hands to come out to be more tough, but her potato shooter daily storage capacity is only 100.

Moreover, after the enemy opened fire, many of the potato shooters were broken.

Even so, Zhou Yingxue could still bury hundreds of thousands of enemy troops here.

But what about after burying these hundreds of thousands, this number was not the limit of the enemy army.

According to Wang Yun’s estimation, now that the four enemy armies had only reached one way, the AI manipulated humans were also in the millions.

A few hours later, the potato shooters were also gradually running out of food.

The life energy once again began to fall short of their needs, and without the obstruction of the Potato Shooters, the enemy army quickly reorganized their formation, tearing apart the wall-crawlers that were entangling them.

Zhou Yingxue was unable to absorb the target’s life energy in time before the vines were ripped off.

However, right at this moment, Old Xu, who was wearing a white mask, suddenly killed his way into the woods and began to frantically harvest lives.

The moment the AI troops saw Lao Xu, they immediately opened fire and intertwined into a fire blockade.

This blockade line was more terrifying than any fire suppression Ren Xiaosu had ever seen, and he couldn’t even feel the gaps in this fire blockade line.

On the 291st position, Ren Xiaosu, Yang Xiaoguan, and Zhou Yingxue stood side by side, and all of them felt a bit powerless all of a sudden.

Especially Yang Xiaoguan, her ability itself was decapitation, but now decapitation was meaningless.

Perhaps she could still snipe more than a thousand people a day like Zuo Yunshan, but it was still meaningless.

Zhou Yingxue looked at Ren Xiaosu blearily, “Master, I’m running out of life energy here, every time I can’t absorb much before the vines are ripped off ah.”

However, Ren Xiaosu suddenly said, “Wait, I seem to have thought of something.”

In the next moment, Ren Xiaosu walked to an unoccupied place, and with the black True Vision Eye in hand recited, “Northwest of Daxing.”

The Stargate opened, and an unrivaled suction force appeared in the gate, hard pulling the creature behind the gate to the top of the 291 position.

Ren Xiaosu immediately retreated after the stargate opened, and both he and Yang Xiaoguan had their black snipers in their hands, ready to shoot down the unknown creatures behind the gate.

As a result, what the Stargate summoned this time was a blue whale in the sea.

The blue whale’s size was so large that it was practically the only thing Ren Xiaosu had ever seen in his life, even the dawn and dusk were inferior.

The blue whale was suddenly summoned by the Stargate, and struggled on the land, but no matter how it struggled, it was useless, because this was not its home turf.

The blue whale’s tail kept wrestling on the ground, but it was too bulky and heavy, and it couldn’t even turn over after being stranded.

Ren Xiaosu’s complexion darkened when he saw the blue whale, because he knew that he feared that both Dawn and Dusk were gone before the Starry Sky Gate summoned the other creatures.

However, now was not the time to grieve, he turned his head to Zhou Yingxue and said, “Use this blue whale as a reservoir of your life energy to draw from, I will summon another one for you once one is finished.”

Zhou Yingxue’s eyes lit up, it was like she had unlimited renewal.

Without Dawn and Dusk, Ren Xiaosu’s summoning ability also seemed a bit chickenish, as summoning extremely powerful creatures might not even be something he could deal with and drive himself.

But now, there seems to be a new way out for the summoning technique, and that is to give Zhou Yingxue a “battery” with unlimited battery life!

The blue whale was unlucky, but Ren Xiaosu had no choice. He couldn’t sympathize with the other species, and had to let the human beings survive first.

Therefore, justice actually only exists within the civilization system, human to human only have “justice” the value of this word.

With the blue whale, Zhou Yingxue immediately regained her vigor.

Wall-crawler vines quickly wrapped up the blue whale, tentacles deeply rooted in its body, a huge source of life energy into the Zhou Yingxue body, the battlefield surging enemy troops, actually no longer difficult to advance.

Although there are many enemy troops, but it is not possible to one-time hundreds of thousands of people to launch a common charge, here the terrain is narrow, once can pass through a few tens of thousands of people would be considered the limit.

Blue whale after blue whale appeared, Zhou Yingxue only one person to hold the 291 position, all of this to the soldiers on the 291 position, as if in a dream as absurd.

However, all this was extremely encouraging.

As darkness fell, the enemy forces beyond the 291st position gradually began to retreat.

In fact, even with Ren Xiaosu providing Zhou Yingxue with range, she couldn’t wipe out the enemy here, it could only be considered stalling for time, and once she got tired and needed to take a break, the 291 position would see a real crisis.

But the AI didn’t dwell too much here, because the attack on position 291 was meant to be a surprise, but now it lost its “cost-effectiveness”.

With the loss of position 317 and the victory of position 291, the two sides were tied as if there was a back and forth.

However, outside of these two positions, in just one day the AI had captured 12 positions in the first echelon of the Northwest Army’s defense line.

Tomorrow, the Northwest Army might fall to even more positions.