Chapter 858, Gaming and Winning

The sound of the heavy machine guns at night was deafening, that one orange-red bullet flung out like a pike, while in front of them, were the barbarian vanguard troops that kept running.

This scene made the soldiers feel their adrenaline spiking just by looking at it and listening to the sound of gunfire next to their ears.

“These barbarians can’t really think that they can charge the formation like this,” muttered a Fire Seed soldier, turning his head to look at the tarpaulin-covered machinery on the side, and on the city wall, the one heavy machinery stood quietly under the gray-green tarpaulin.

P5092 silently watched the barbarians getting closer and closer, the leather shields they were holding were getting closer and closer, the adjutant said from the side, “Sir, we can’t wait any longer, if the shields aren’t broken by the time they charge into the three hundred meter distance, this defense line of ours will be in danger.”

But even then P5092 still didn’t say anything, because these thousands of barbarians stretched for several kilometers, and the last of the barbarians in the rear hadn’t yet entered his expected position.

He mentally calculated the distance until at some point P5092 said, “Artillery units open fire.”

The gray-green tarpaulin on that city wall was suddenly pulled open by the soldiers, and a rapid-fire artillery was immediately revealed. In P5092’s third division’s combat sequence, the thing that P5092 was most proud of was by no means the higher-than-usual physical qualities of the Fire Seed soldiers, but rather, it was the artillery unit.

There were two special infantry brigades in the third division, each of which consisted of 18 artillery batteries, with each six batteries being a separate combat sequence, bringing the artillery together to provide rapid fire coverage of a single target.

This huge artillery matrix can even become a huge “big artillery company” when necessary, just to hit the same area target.

The time in Longtan Canyon was just a small test for the artillery company, but now was the time for the 3rd Division to shine, and that was why P5092 dared to hang the corpses of the barbarians outside of his own defense area, not minding that the barbarians would come to attack his defense line at all.

On the contrary, he would hope that those barbarians’ fury could burn a little brighter and charge a little closer.

The artillery unit was equipped with a rapid-fire artillery with a caliber of only 76.2mm, but its rate of fire could already reach a staggering 20 rounds per minute, and accuracy would inevitably be sacrificed under this rate of fire, but P5092 didn’t care at all.

The brute was a high speed moving target, emphasizing on accuracy didn’t make much sense, instead of aiming carefully, the artillery should plow through the ground.

The moment the barbarians entered the one-kilometer range, the light rapid-fire artillery on top of the city wall began to roar, compared to them, the previous heavy machine gun sound could only be considered as a dog’s bark, while these artillery guns were the real beasts!

The huge artillery matrix was only the first round of firing, and it blew those charging barbarian formations to pieces, and the leather shields they relied on for cover looked extremely small under the effect of the artillery shells.

The Spark soldiers on top of the Great Wall could not wait to cheer, before they heard about the massacre one and all were furious, moreover, there were people who said that the scouts saw these barbarians piled up the corpses of the people of the 176th into a small mountain outside the city, as a way to swear by the strength of the expeditionary regiment.

There had been people who had read sporadic accounts of pre-Calamity wars in books, and the books said that the Middle Kingdom civilization had also been massacred in wars, with the number of deaths in a single battle reaching into the hundreds of thousands, and most of them were innocent civilians.

That battle was defined as a day of national shame that all must remember.

Nowadays, the significance of the massacre of Barrier 176 for the entire Central Plains was that it made all Central Plains people wake up and realize that this was a battle for racial survival, a battle that would not end in death.

Since the day Barrier 176 was massacred, there was no more possibility of peace in this war.

When the artillery troops began to plow the ground, the barbarians finally began to retreat, in front of the powerful firearms of the Central Plains humans, they had to retreat.

But just now, P5092 was too calm, and waited hard until these barbarians rushed into the range of one thousand meters before ordering the artillery unit to open fire, so even if the barbarians retreated now, there were not many people left.

A vanguard unit consisting of thousands of people would be lucky to get out hundreds of people alive.

The adjutant asked, “Sir, pursue?”

“Pursuit,” P5092 said coldly, “Execute plan B as I formulated earlier, and the rest of you wait for dawn to hang all these barbarians’ corpses so that more barbarians will remember this place.”

Saying that, the main force of Fire Seed began to strike, and the feeling of a large army pressing in made the artillery troops on standby on the city walls feel a surge of exhilaration.

They drove the buggies loaded with this heavy machine guns towards the north, aiming to complete the final harvest on the battlefield.

However, at this moment, P5092’s face still didn’t show any joy of victory as he ordered his men to bring binoculars and quietly looked into the distance.

More than ten kilometers north of the Great Wall, a forest would appear there, and the Fire Seed troopers had so far wanted to explore how many Expeditionary Corps forces were hidden in that forest, but all the scouts who had entered it had all been lost.

No one knew what was hiding there, just these forward troops?P5092 felt it was more than that.

The main force of the 3rd Division was getting closer and closer to those woods, while the barbarians who had survived were running towards them as if their lives depended on it.

Slowly, because of the bumpy terrain, the fire main force formation started to get a bit disjointed, with some companies rushing a bit further ahead and others falling behind.

At the moment when the most forward troops were about to enter the two kilometers outside the woods, what everyone didn’t expect was that the woods were lit up with gunfire.

The fire troops that chased out first were instantly hit by heavy machine gun bullets, and the sound of mortars even rang out in the woods.

However, at the next moment, the barbarians hiding in the woods suddenly realized that apart from the hundreds of dead Spark soldiers at the front, the other soldiers immediately retreated at a distance of 4.5 kilometers away from the woods, as if they knew the range of their firepower, and left in advance!

Only then did the barbarians realize that the original main force of the Fire Seed was not falling behind at all, but deliberately did not follow up, only that the main force came over to pursue with such a great momentum that the barbarians could not tell the difference between what was real and what was not.

Moreover, no one noticed that the illuminating tracer bullets in the sky had stopped at some point, which also seemed like one of the details carefully prepared for the feint, without the tracer bullets illuminating, the barbarians were even more unable to see the specific situation of the main force of the fire kind.

In this short game, many people did not expect the barbarians to use hot weapons, before this everyone thought they would only carry axes and chop people like the natives!

But P5092 used the lives of several hundred people to tell the other commanders of Fireseed that the other side was more cunning than they had imagined.

But anyway, in this short game, it was P5092 that won again.

The adjutant asked from the sidelines, “Sir, how did you know that the barbarians would use hot weapons?”

The so-called plan B was a feint plan, P5092 had never intended to really kill the remaining barbarians from the start, but only to use death squads to probe the reality.

Although some people died in this game, for a huge war, being able to get extremely important information with just a few hundred lives was definitely worth it for the commander.

Just as Ren Xiaosu summarized, although Fire Seed’s group was fighting against the enemy from the north, this would not affect their ruthless and cold nature in the slightest.

If this victory required him, P5092, to sacrifice, then P5092 was afraid that he would not hesitate to sacrifice himself.

They were ruthless to others, and very much so to their own people, and everything they sought was only for the final result, the process was not important at all.

“Although they have been missing the manufacturing process of thermal weapons, anyone knows how powerful they are,” P5092 said slowly, “After the fall of Barrier 176, there is a large amount of armament power there, there is no reason for the barbarians not to use it. However, until we know for sure, I can’t guarantee it. Go to the intelligence system, I want to know what other heavy firepower was originally stocked at Barrier 176 before dawn.”

With that, P5092 turned and descended the Wall, this was going to be a long drawn out battle, no point in wearing yourself out on top of the Wall.