103: Difficult blocking

"They're coming!"

At Yun Dongliu's reminder, Li Xiao looked toward the other side of the bridge, where a large number of Jiantu Squad's meng hu off-road vehicles were charging over side-by-side.

"Fire!"

The viaduct was only one kilometer long. As soon as the enemy got on the bridge, Yang Chao immediately ordered his troops to open fire.

Ten heavy machine guns erupted simultaneously, sending a dense hail of bullets flying out.

Jiantu Squad was not to be outdone; the meng hu off-road vehicles charging at the very front also opened fire.

However, there was a significant difference in the damage dealt by the bullets from both sides.

The damage from heavy machine guns hitting the meng hu off-road vehicles was seventy to eighty points, which was exactly the damage Yang Chao and his men were dealing.

But the damage Jiantu Squad dealt to their vehicle bodies was just over fifty points.

This was because Li Xiao's King of War title granted his troops and vehicles a thirty percent damage reduction.

Therefore, with the same firepower, Yang Chao was guaranteed to win.

Just as Jiantu Squad had charged onto the bridge for a few dozen meters, the dozen or so leading meng hu off-road vehicles exploded.

However, a large number of subsequent vehicles charged forward one after another, closing the distance between the two sides and making the firepower even more intense.

Jiantu Squad's troops in the rear could not hit the Second Company at the bridgehead, so they aimed their guns at the Xiaoyao Squad defenders on the hills on both sides behind the bridge and opened fire.

Yun Dongliu's troops on this side were not to be outdone and immediately launched a counterattack.

The battle between the two sides entered a white-hot stage within those short few hundred meters on the bridge.

After the Second Company's heavy machine guns finished their first ammunition boxes, they had destroyed dozens of meng hu off-road vehicles, and Jiantu Squad took advantage of the reloading period to approach rapidly.

At this moment, multiple riflemen and machine gunners inside the meng hu off-road vehicles took over shooting, but there were too many enemies, and they simply couldn't be stopped.

A large number of meng hu off-road vehicles rammed straight into them, attempting to break through the Second Company's defensive line.

But the Second Company's drivers slammed on the gas and held their ground.

Seeing that they couldn't break through and were instead being suppressed by the rear firepower, Jiantu Squad's players simply shoved their gun muzzles into their faces and fired.

Li Xiao watched the durability of the ten meng hu off-road vehicles drop rapidly and added one million durability points to each of the ten vehicles in one go.

With the massive amount of durability, the machine gunners on the vehicles, who had hundreds of thousands of health points, were not afraid at all; they reloaded their five-hundred-round ammunition boxes and fired wildly at the machine gunners of the opposing meng hu off-road vehicles and the infantry who had rushed to the front.

"What's going on! Why can't those ten meng hu off-road vehicles at the bridgehead be destroyed!"

"I don't know, Brother Cheng. It feels like they have an insane amount of health, just like hitting a steel wall; there's absolutely no reaction!"

"Use rockets to blast them! The troops are blocked at the bridgehead and suffering too many losses!"

At this moment, the entire viaduct was filled with Jiantu Squad players, and it felt like the bridge had exceeded its load and was shaking violently.

But that wasn't the key point; the dense crowd had become live targets for Xiaoyao Squad, a situation where they could kill blindly with their eyes closed.

Seeing this scene from the rear, Jiantu Squad Captain Cheng Mo felt some doubt in his heart. Clearly, Blue Ice Squad had already lured away the main force of Xiaoyao Squad.

Why was there still such stubborn resistance here?

Under the organization of the commanding players, a large number of rockets were fired at Yang Chao's Second Company. Facing so many projectiles, the first one million durability points of the ten meng hu off-road vehicles didn't last five minutes before being depleted.

"This won't do!"

Li Xiao was secretly annoyed. Although the enemy's forces couldn't fully deploy on the bridge, there were thousands of enemies who could hit him at the same time, with thousands of bullets hitting the vehicle bodies every second.

Even with damage reduction, they couldn't withstand this kind of assault.

"Yang Chao! Use rockets to suppress them first!"

Li Xiao had no choice but to use his reserved firepower. After receiving the order, the dozens of infantrymen who were originally transporting ammunition in the back quickly took out ten M20S four-tube rocket launchers.

With a two-minute interval, two rounds of volleys, eighty rockets instantly cleared out a large number of enemy troops and vehicles within a range of several dozen meters in front of them.

But in less than a minute, new enemies pushed up again.

"Use mortars too!"

While adding the remaining ten-plus million durability points to his troops, Li Xiao told Yang Chao to use the mortars as well.

But in reality, there were only five mortars and sixty-plus shells, which was a drop in the bucket.

All the mortar shells were fired onto the bridge deck, and countless vehicles and soldiers were destroyed or damaged by the shells.

This did not make Jiantu Squad retreat; instead, they charged even more fiercely.

"It's over... we can't hold on much longer!"

Li Xiao was a bit scared. This was the first time since transmigrating that he felt so weak.

Yang Chao's Second Company was still enduring the intense bullets, blocking any enemy who wanted to cross the defensive line, with mountains of corpses piling up in front of the vehicles.

The health of the ten machine gunners was boosted again and again by Li Xiao, but whenever their ammunition boxes were emptied, they would face crazy counterattacks.

At this point, it was no longer possible for them to retreat; they could only fight to the death. Otherwise, once the defensive line collapsed, there would be no saving the situation.

The health and durability points gained from the players and vehicles killed by Yang Chao and his men couldn't make up for what they were losing at the same time.

"Yang Chao! Are you afraid of sacrifice?"

Li Xiao asked with a trembling voice into the microphone; he had already planned to sacrifice the entire Second Company.

Yang Chao's voice, however, was not fearful; instead, he laughed and said, "Boss! The time I've spent following you has been my proudest moment. The number of enemies who have died at my hands has already exceeded a thousand! Why would I be afraid of death!"

Indeed, in just these short fifteen to twenty minutes, basically all the soldiers in Yang Chao's Second Company had been promoted, especially the few machine gunners who used to be under Leng He's command; they had already been promoted to lieutenants or even Captains.

This was something that could only be achieved with at least hundreds or even thousands of lives under their belts, but soon they would be overwhelmed by bullets.

As the heavy machine guns stopped firing again to reload, Jiantu Squad launched a more intense charge. A large number of infantrymen rushed up on foot, attempting to plant C4 explosives on the vehicle bodies, and no matter how the friendly forces behind the Second Company concentrated their fire, it was still difficult to stop them.

The remaining soldiers of the Second Company, who were hiding behind the meng hu off-road vehicles, rushed out at this moment, disregarding their own safety, using their own bodies to block the vehicles. No matter how many bullets hit them, they would never let a single C4 explosive be successfully planted.

So the crazy enemy soldiers simply pulled the fuses of the C4 explosives and threw them directly onto the vehicles.

The violent explosion waves of the C4 explosives even engulfed soldiers from both sides, and the level of madness was simply staggering.

Just as the last two hundred thousand durability points of Li Xiao's precious meng hu off-road vehicles were about to be depleted and explode, several missiles suddenly flew in from the air. The moment they landed and exploded, they directly blasted a vacuum zone at the bridgehead.

Seeing this scene, Li Xiao hurriedly turned his head and immediately wept with joy; the five infantry fighting vehicles he had previously asked Di Yun to transfer over had finally arrived.

Before Li Xiao could speak, a second round of missiles flew straight toward the middle of the bridge, severing the Jiantu Squad's meng hu off-road vehicle unit that was just preparing to press forward.

The immense destructive power of the anti-tank missiles even punched several huge holes through the two-way road surface of the bridge, with cracks spreading everywhere.

Through those large holes, one could even see the rushing river water dozens of meters below the cliff.