Chapter 1254, The Killer App That Overwhelms Defenses

The fifth day of the countdown.

Early morning.

Yesterday’s battle was a bit more brutal than expected, the Northwest Army lost 12 positions in one day.

None of the combat troops in these positions had evacuated, they themselves didn’t want to evacuate, and at the same time, P5092 wouldn’t let them.

P5092 said something to Wang Yun, if each position could not be defeated and withdrew, then where would the other Northwest Army and the people behind them withdraw to?

Standing on this line of defense with each other exists to buy time, and if they can’t beat it, then they will use their lives to drag it out.

Just like what P5092 said to Zhang Xiaoman twice: Otherwise, what do you think war is?

War, is a battle with the goal of eliminating the enemy’s living forces.

It was good that Ji Zi’ang near position 317 had temporarily changed the road terrain to almost overdraw his life by traversing the mountain peaks in the path of the enemy mechanized forces’ advance, otherwise, I’m afraid the situation would have been even worse.

It was important to know that the southwestern forest was impassable to mechanized forces.

That’s why the entire mechanized forces of the Central Plains had gathered here, the weapons and equipment left by the fire to the Wang Clan before were not much, they all destroyed them before retreating, and a single grenade would be able to directly blow up a tank’s gun barrel.

However, the Kong and Zhou clans had surrendered almost without a fight, and the two consortia had left Wang with far too much.

Ji Zi’ang knew the importance of lightness, so he had to help P5092 block these mechanized forces.

At this time, Ji Zi’ang was already deflated and was lying in the field hospital behind the general headquarters under the care of a nurse.

But P5092 hadn’t even visited Ji Zi’ang in the field hospital because he didn’t have the time.

Time was extraordinarily precious to the Northwest Army at this moment.

There were only five days left, and now the Northwest Army was struggling so much just to hold back one enemy army, and according to the nonsense, there were three more enemy forces of about the same size that were running in.

In the command tent, Wang Yun took advantage of the fact that all the combat staffs were sent out to convey orders, he looked at P5092 and asked, “How long do you think the Dawn Defense Line can still be supported?”

P5092 thought for a moment and said, “Three days, three days if we’re lucky. On the third day we’ll have to start evacuating towards Fortress 178, it’s our last battlefield.”

Wang Yun knew that P5092 was only telling the truth, so this Dawn Defense Line could only be defended for three days at the most, and with extreme luck it would only be three days.

In the face of a sea of enemies, this did not seem to be a difficult answer to accept.

It was said that the Three Mountain Defense Line had been defended for three days, and now the Dawn Defense Line had actually exceeded the defense time of the Three Mountain Defense Line if you added in the previous days.

However, there were still five days left in the countdown, and it was going to be the human civilization’s turn to be overthrown in the last two days?

P5092 looked at Wang Yun and said, ”The AI has already started to catch up with the time, today is the most crucial day, it will definitely come up with something that can crush us, as for whether we can block it or not, who knows. Moreover, facing the AI, our soldiers don’t even have time to rest.”

At this moment, the soldiers in every position were in the midst of extreme exhaustion, and this battle was unlike any other in the past.

In the past, both the enemy and us needed to rest, so even if the time was not well deployed, there was always time to sleep, a minimum of four hours of rest per day in the middle of a war was guaranteed, and if the battle was not intense, one could even sleep for six or eight hours.

But now it’s different, the AI’s attacks seem to be endless, the position is arranged to change the defense rotation, but the problem is that the sound of the guns is so loud, how can you sleep?

Today, there have already been situations where warriors suddenly fainted while walking, and the Quartermaster’s Office immediately disassembled thousands of military uniforms to make rudimentary earplugs to distribute to everyone.

In fact, in general, even if a soldier sleeps, he can’t bring earplugs, because he will not be able to hear the emergency assembly order.

But now there is really no way out, some warriors will really collapse if they don’t sleep.

……

On the high ground of Xigu Mountain 287, the third division led by Zhou Yinglong was stationed here.

The talented and lanky Zhou Yinglong patrolled the defense line with a sad face. At this time, the 287 high ground finally welcomed a rare break, and the enemy finally retreated like a tidal wave.

According to the enemy retreat is a good thing, but Zhou Yinglong knows that things are not simple, the enemy troops, equipment, all sufficient, there is no reason to suddenly retreat at this time, so there must be something wrong to happen.

The adjutant followed Zhou Yinglong as he toured the position, he followed Zhou Yinglong and said, “Division Commander, you’d better get some sleep, I’ve calculated the time, you haven’t closed your eyes for 30 hours.”

Zhou Yinglong calmly said, “Why do you need to sleep for a long time in life, after death you will sleep for a long time, there will be many more opportunities to sleep in the future.”

The adjutant froze for a moment, but did not answer.

287 The high ground was littered with craters several meters deep, and some shells came up and actually managed to collapse even the trenches.

When it was time to eat, one by one, the Northwest Army soldiers sat in the trenches, holding their aluminum lunchboxes and carefully taking a couple of bites.

Everyone was feeling hungry and burning their stomachs, but they just didn’t have any appetite.

They had killed too many people, and had seen their comrades blown to a bloody pulp beside them.

But there was no way around it, they had to eat if they wanted to keep fighting.

In the past, the delicious meals chewed like wax, the soldiers could only chew mechanically, this was the veterans, they were able to overcome the discomfort in their hearts and keep themselves in a state fit for battle.

Zhou Yinglong looked towards each soldier, everyone’s pupils were contracting as if they were pinpoints, each one of them looked like a living evil spirit.

The prolonged nervousness caused everyone’s nerves to tighten, and these emotions would directly act on the pupils.

So unlike a work of art, in a real war, everyone looks like a ghost.

No one was innocent, yet no one was absolutely wrong.

However, right at this moment, the adjutant beside Zhou Yinglong suddenly said, “Division Commander, look outside the defense line!”

Beyond the 287th Heights, Zhou Yinglong saw a black dark cloud drifting across the sky.

The dark clouds were extremely fast, as if they could come much closer in the blink of an eye.

It wasn’t a real dark cloud, Zhou Yinglong took out his own high powered military binoculars and looked, only to see densely packed feathers flapping and uncountable birds of prey intermingling.

Geese, cuckoos, orioles, and wild ducks.

Zhou Yinglong suddenly realized that all of these birds had a common characteristic, that is, they were all migratory birds.

Now that it was already fall, these migratory birds were supposed to be flying to the south to prepare for winter, but they suddenly turned back to the northwest.

Unbeknownst to them, the AI had found the best way to control the birds of prey, and all it needed was to find the roosting places that the migratory birds must pass through on their way to migrate.

And not far from Wang’s 61st ledge, there was a wetland suitable for birds to stopover in the middle of the way, and there were eight or nine such migratory habitats in the entire Central Plains.

The migratory birds rested briefly in the habitat, where they ate and drank briefly before being controlled by the AI, never to fly south again.

Zhou Yinglong saw a huge falcon in the sky on his side soaring towards the dark clouds, its speed was as fast as an electric jet.

At first, the majestic falcon rushed into the dark clouds, actually breaking up the front of the flock of birds, however, the next moment, the birds in the flock as if there was a division of labor will be the falcon circling around, will be its feathers wings and wings one by one grips down.

In just a blink of an eye, the falcon turned into a ball of energy and faded into the sky.

Earlier, Hassan’s falcon had made a great achievement in the northwest, but it was somewhat useless in front of absolute numbers.

Zhou Yinglong looked at the distant sky and sighed, “Wake up all the warriors, load up the ammo, we’re going to fight a tough battle.”

Judging from the direction that the dark clouds were flying from, I’m afraid that 287 Heights would be the first position to experience an air attack.

Yesterday, when the AI attacked Ren Xiaosu, Zhou Yingxue, and Yang Xiaoguan’s side, Zhou Yinglong knew that this enemy army intended to split Xigu Mountain and take this place first.

However, he did not expect that the other side came with a more direct attack today.

This was the attack that the AI used to overwhelm the Dawn Defense Line today in P5092’s speculation.

Zhou Yinglong couldn’t even tell how many birds there were in this flock, the birds that had mutated after that calamity had converged together, and it looked like a terrifying natural disaster that stretched for kilometers.

On the 287 high ground, the heavy machine guns all adjusted their firing angles, originally facing down the mountain, but as a result, they were now all padded with sandbags and tilted up towards the sky.

Not only heavy machine guns, 287 such an important high ground, there were also close defense guns, such big killers.

All the soldiers waited with bated breath for the birds to approach, and Zhou Yinglong lamented, “Old me’s ability is considered completely useless ah ……”

Zhou Yinglong’s ability was to summon a wild boar out, but no matter how powerful a wild boar was, it couldn’t arch the birds in the sky ah.

When the flock of birds was finally about to arrive over the 287 highlands, Zhou Yinglong ordered to open fire!

Early in the morning, the bullets from the heavy machine guns shot up into the sky like red-hot red pills with a trajectory visible to the naked eye, however, what was amazing was that when the heavy machine guns made their roaring sound, the originally cohesive flock of birds actually separated into a few gaps.

These gaps were exactly where the heavy machine gun bullets were going to hit the birds.

These gaps in the flock of birds were very precise, without a trace of redundancy.

However, the speed of the bullets was still much faster than the flying birds, and even if the AI had a prejudgement of the trajectory, it could not manage to avoid them all.

However, Zhou Yinglong said something bad in his heart, as the results of this round of attacks were obviously far below his expectations.

If there was only such a small hit rate, I’m afraid that the entire 287th Heights would not be able to kill these birds even if they ran out of ammunition.

Then what the 287th Heights would have to face next was being flooded by this black pressurized flock of birds.

Not only the 287th Heights, but also the second echelon defense line in the rear!

“Use the close defense artillery to fire one base in unison!” Zhou Yinglong ordered.

The high ground roared as if it was going to shake everyone’s lungs out.

The firing preparation of the close defense artillery was a bit more than the heavy machine guns, when the shells broke through the sound barrier in the barrels and sprayed out, the dark clouds hovering in the sky opened up a three-meter wide hole, and the artillery shells actually penetrated the birds directly from this hole.

In the midst of the close defense artillery fire, Zhou Yinglong quietly ordered his soldiers to take out the cloudburst shells behind the bunker, trying to sanction the birds by means of high temperature and lack of oxygen.

However, even though the soldier’s movements were very stealthy, the birds still avoided the trajectory of the cloudburst bomb in advance.

The warhead did not touch anything and could not trigger the fuse within the body of the bomb, and the Northwest’s level of technology was not enough to support them to create a remotely trackable missile.

Immediately after that, even the enemy ground forces that had retreated earlier began to attack the 287th Heights once again.

Moreover, even the large-caliber howitzers, which had not been used by the enemy on 287 Heights before, appeared, which indicated that the mechanized troop corridor near position 317 had been opened, and the enemy troops that had retreated before appeared to have gone to clear the road.

In the midst of the chaos and clamor, Zhou Yinglong inwardly sighed, Xigu Mountain will not be able to hold on, I’m afraid.

Adjutant whispered: “Division Commander, should we withdraw, we can’t hold it.”

Zhou Yinglong took a deep breath and said with a smile, “You are not aware of how cold-blooded the kid in charge of the command now is, he won’t let us withdraw …… again, Laozi doesn’t want to withdraw.”

“Division Commander, don’t you want to go back to Fort 178 to see your family again?”

Zhou Yinglong said, “When the war is won, my comrades will bring back my big grooved teeth and put them under the bronze bell in the square, and I will naturally go back.”

An hour later, the flock of birds flooded the 287th Heights and began to fly towards the second echelon defense line behind the 287th Heights.

Zhang Jinglin, who was busy in the field hospital, suddenly received the news of Zhou Yinglong’s death, and he was silent for a long while with mixed feelings in his heart, then wiped his hands and took on another casualty.

The word Zhou Yinglong was like a small stone that fell into the lake of his heart, causing only a ripple and then no more fluctuations.

After the batch of wounded were all sent to the operating room, Zhang Jinglin silently walked out of the porch of the field hospital and stood alone in the doorway to light a cigarette, looking away in the direction of Highland 287.

War is like that, time is too compact, there is not much time that can be used to reminisce.

Zhang Jinglin was not idle after handing over the supreme military command, he chose to come to the field hospital as a veteran medic, which seemed to be the most fulfilling and nostalgic time for him.

This change of identity surprised many people, but Wang Fengyuan, who knew Zhang Jinglin best, understood that the other party’s two greatest wishes were in fact to be a good medical soldier, or to be a teacher.

……

In the General Command tent, news of position after position falling came in, and it was as if the bird clusters in the sky that day had really become the heavyweight killer mace that had crushed the Dawn defense line.

The atmosphere in the tent was extremely low, and the bad news kept coming one after another as if it wanted to crush them.

If this pace continued, I’m afraid that the Dawn Defense Line would completely collapse without having to reach tomorrow.

Wang Yun suddenly said to P5092, ”Your heartbeat hasn’t changed much and your body temperature hasn’t changed either, aren’t you worried about the defense line at all? Just now, the combat staff also went to ask the Major General, and the Major General said that he doesn’t have too good a means to deal with these flocks of birds for the time being.”

Wang Yun’s implication was that their greatest reliance was now at their wits’ end.

Ren Xiaosu wasn’t omnipotent, all of his thank you coins had been used to buy proficiency stones to increase his proficiency in the Northwest of Daxing, and even the stock he had previously extracted from the Bursting Poker had been used when he had picked up Qing Zhen earlier.

Therefore, he didn’t have any good ways to deal with enemies in the air.

Wang Yun’s ability to manipulate the air was fine, but his ability as a Transcendent was not outstanding, and he was still stronger in his ability to memorize and organize and analyze.

P5092 glanced at Wang Yun, “Wait a little longer.”

In this command tent, it seemed that P5092 was the only one left who was not worried.

Wang Yun was puzzled, “Wait for what?”

“Waiting for the rain to come,” P5092 said, “In the morning I felt that the weather had instantly turned cold, indicating that the cold front from the north has arrived here and the first fall rain is coming.”

Wang Yun didn’t ask anything more, except that he still didn’t understand what effect the coming rain could have on these flocks of birds.

141 On the position, Luo Lan and the four of them, Zhou Qi, Qing Zhen and Xu Concealer, were eating breakfast around a campfire.

The surrounding Northwest Army soldiers had already entered the trenches, as the second echelon of the defense line, they had been notified that the enemy had broken through the first echelon and was about to arrive.

Everyone was sinking into despair, because they all knew what was happening on the defense line ahead.

Perhaps the once close friends and comrades will never be seen again.

Tension was spreading in the position, but Luo Lan and the few of them looked quite relaxed.

Luo Lan had specifically asked the infantry brigade in position 141 for heavy machine guns to issue to his twelve Yinglings, and at that moment, those golden Yinglings stood at the edge of the defense line, intending to fight side by side with the Northwest Army.

The sky darkened, and the wind from the northeast began to pour in toward the mountains, blowing the campfires around.

Suddenly, a large dark cloud suddenly drifted out from behind the mountains in front of them, and flocks of birds were heading over the mountaintop passes toward position 141.

Zhou Qi silently surveyed the sky above his head for a long time before saying, “I’m a bit convinced of P5092 now.”

Qing Zhen nodded.

Qing Zhen, who was also a military genius, naturally understood Zhou Qi’s subtext in seconds.

Previously, when P5092 had asked Zhou Qi by name to come to the 141st position, they hadn’t been too clear on what exactly the other party wanted Zhou Qi to do.

After all, although the 141st position was located at the front of the second echelon and belonged to the enemy’s first target, the problem was that there was no river here, and not even a small stream could be seen, so what role could Zhou Qi play?

At that time, P5092 only said that Zhou Qi would understand when the time came.

It seemed as if the other party was not worried about the failure of the plan at all, even the weather was in the other party’s calculations.

After the cold front went south, the clouds in the sky quickly condensed into water vapor when it was cold, and then the water vapor continued to coalesce and form water droplets again.

Above the firmament, a drop of crystal clear water droplet was leaving the clouds, fluttering towards the ground and falling down, snapping and falling into the dirt by Zhou Qi’s feet, splashing a slight earthy odor.

The heavy rain was really coming.

Zhou Qi turned around and slowly walked towards the edge of the defense line, as the fine raindrops in the sky fell faster and faster, gradually pulling up a majestic curtain of rain above everyone’s heads.

However, just as the flock of birds was about to approach the 141st position, the fine rain in the sky was like stars and sharp swords in the sky.

The soldiers were guarding the trenches.

Luo Lan, Qing Zhen, and Xu Conceal were waiting behind the defense line.

Zhou Qi was the only one who faced the raging flock of birds and suddenly opened his palms.

Suddenly, the raindrops were suddenly stretched into needles by an invisible force that was indestructible.

Millions of rain needles thundered down, actually directly penetrating the flock of birds that stretched for several kilometers.

Rain, blood, feathers, and the corpses of the birds mixed and fell towards the ground, and the flock of birds seemed to want to retreat towards the back, but it was a little too late to retreat now.

After the battle in the mud and sand field Zhou Qi was already a Demigod.

Some sadness appeared in Luo Lan’s eyes, because he knew that this was Lao San’s last gift.