105: Mutation

"Well done!"

Li Xiao jumped up excitedly. Those large holes made the already narrow bridge deck even narrower. Aside from the infantry, all vehicles of the Jiantu Squad could only pass through one by one.

This greatly slowed down the offensive momentum of the attacking side, allowing Yang Chao's Second Company at the bridgehead to catch their breath.

"Yang Chao! Quickly, blow up the five off-road vehicles with lower durability first!"

Li Xiao hurriedly ordered Yang Chao to blow up five of his own vehicles; the five blade ifvs that had arrived as reinforcements from the east only had a few hundred thousand durability points left.

If the Jiantu Squad attacked again, they wouldn't be able to hold for long.

But blowing up five off-road vehicles with over three million durability points to apply to the blade ifvs was a completely different concept.

Originally, heavy machine guns dealt 80 damage to off-road vehicles, reduced to over 50 after damage reduction. However, against light armor, heavy machine guns only dealt 50 damage, and with the damage reduction from the King of War title, it was reduced to just over 30 damage per shot.

Clearly, even a fool could calculate whether three million durability points were more valuable on an off-road vehicle or on a blade ifv.

Yang Chao didn't hesitate to order the personnel in five of the vehicles to evacuate, then hung a pile of C4 on the vehicles and pushed them twenty-something meters onto the bridge.

With a thunderous boom, Li Xiao obtained over 16 million durability points, which he immediately transferred to the five blade ifvs.

Thus, five AMX blade ifvs with a durability cap of 4 million and an actual durability of over 3.5 million were lined up at the bridgehead, with five meng hu off-road vehicles behind them.

These ten light and heavy vehicles were like ten huge blocks of solid iron, firmly controlling the bridgehead. No matter how violently the Jiantu Squad charged, they remained standing tall.

"This! How is this possible! Where did these blade ifvs come from!"

Cheng Mo watched in disbelief as the autocannons of those five blade ifvs slaughtered his own attacking troops on the bridge, as if he were hallucinating.

"Boss, could that be Li Xiao's blade ifv?"

"Impossible! The blade ifv is tracked, and how could he have produced so many in such a short time!"

"Damn the Blue Ice Squad for not telling us such important intelligence!"

"Quickly, ask the Blue Ice Squad! What on earth is going on!"

On the other side of the bridge, inside the Jian Tu temporary command post, a dozen commanders were in chaos. Team Leader Cheng Mo was currently in a dilemma.

He hadn't originally intended to fight Li Xiao; after all, how could anyone who could obtain the King of War title be an ordinary person?

But he couldn't resist the persuasion of Blue Ice Squad Team Leader Blue Dragon. Now that the war had started, if they couldn't wipe out Li Xiao in one go, the only path awaiting Jian Tu in the future would likely be destruction.

"Where are the mortar troops! Bring them up for me!"

Cheng Mo steeled his heart. He still had 220,000 troops, while the opposing side had less than 40,000. Even with a two-for-one trade, he could take out the opponent.

"Boss! I'm afraid that's difficult! Li Xiao's vehicles are fishy, they're too overpowered! We've fired at least hundreds of thousands of heavy machine gun rounds from start to finish, right?"

"But not one of those ten vehicles exploded; in the end, they blew them up themselves. How could we possibly destroy the blade ifvs now?"

Cheng Mo was truly silent. He knew what his subordinate said, but was there any possibility of peace talks at this point?

"Try again, bring the mortars up!"

As Team Leader, he could only strive for the greatest possibility at this moment.

But before the order could be passed out, sudden thunderous roars came from the rear of the main force. Just as Cheng Mo was about to ask about the situation, wails filled the squad channel.

"Boss! We are being attacked by a large number of rockets! The troops have suffered heavy casualties!"

"Damn it! It's happening again!"

The thunderous roars from the distance made Li Xiao feel much better; that was the rocket attack from the Dark Soul Mercenary Group.

The 19-tube airborne rocket launchers towed by thirty pickup trucks fired nearly six hundred rockets in three volleys. These rockets all landed on the densely packed highway, causing thousands of casualties and the loss of hundreds of vehicles.

"How could there still be so many rockets!"

"Boss! I think we should retreat; the Blue Ice Squad hasn't paid any attention to us at all!"

"The losses from taking Xi City are so heavy. And sharing it with the Blue Ice Squad, it's too much of a loss!"

"That's right! This Li Xiao is too wicked. I knew that someone who came out of such an overpowered event as the King of War must be even more overpowered!"

Being attacked from the front and back immediately made everyone in the Jiantu Squad panic, and the several commanders beside Cheng Mo tried to persuade him.

Cheng Mo was still hesitating when another player hurriedly ran over and said anxiously: "Team Leader! It's bad! The Blue Ice Squad suddenly sent troops to sneak attack Zhaoming City!"

"What!"

"What!"

Everyone was shocked to hear this, and Cheng Mo immediately said angrily: "I didn't expect the Blue Ice Squad to have this idea! No wonder they didn't even tell us the major intelligence that Li Xiao had blade ifvs!"

"It's clear they wanted Li Xiao to hold us back so they could eat up our home base!"

"Boss! Let's retreat quickly. There are only a hundred thousand troops at home, and the main force of meng hu off-road vehicles has all been brought out by us. We can't defend it at all."

At this moment, there was almost no hesitation; Cheng Mo immediately ordered the entire army to retreat.

"Team Leader, it seems they are retreating!"

"Retreating?"

Li Xiao took the binoculars from Yun Dongliu and looked, only to find that the 100,000+ members of the Jiantu Squad were indeed turning around and heading back.

"What's going on? The Jiantu Squad has 170,000-180,000 men and they don't dare to charge our 20,000-30,000?"

Actually, Li Xiao hoped the other side would continue to attack, so the blade ifvs could farm more health and durability points for him.

"The troops should hold their position for now, in case Jian Tu tries a counterattack!"

"Understood!"

Li Xiao asked Liu Nian in the squad command channel: "How is Po Xia Town?"

"The Blue Ice Squad has all retreated back to the Yuling Tunnel. Currently, it seems there is no intention of counterattacking again."

Li Xiao finally breathed a sigh of relief. In this battle, they had lost 110,000 men, but Blue Ice and Jian Tu didn't get any benefits either.

Blue Ice lost 70,000 men in Po Xia Town, and Jian Tu lost over 60,000 on the bridge in front of them. Overall, the Xiaoyao Squad still had the advantage in the casualty ratio.

"Yang Chao, I have already sent Zuo Fei's medical team and engineering platoon over. Hurry up and recover, and repair the vehicles!"

"Yes!"

Yang Chao's voice came through the headset. If the blade ifvs had arrived a minute or two later, Yang Chao would probably be gone by now.

Thinking of this, he decided to hold a combat meeting in Xi City later to focus on discussing these two squads that had suddenly launched a joint attack on them.

This had seriously affected the survival of the Xiaoyao Squad, yet they had no understanding of these two squads at all.

Just as he returned to the Xi City command post and before Li Xiao could even sit down on the sofa, Li Le came in.

"Boss, Chang Zhan is looking for you."

Li Xiao took the satellite phone and asked: "Company Commander Chang, is there any progress?"