113: The ultimate tank is God

Seeing this situation, the players of the Jiantu Squad could no longer sit still and hurriedly ordered their troops along the line to open fire and intercept them.

The durability of the infantry fighting vehicles dropped even faster now. Seeing that the durability of the lead vehicles had dropped to two million, Li Xiao began adding one million points back every time it dropped by a million.

Gradually, the infantry fighting vehicles pushed forward more fiercely, while the Jiantu Squad troops became increasingly panicked as they fought.

"What the hell! Are these made of diamonds? Why won't they explode?!"

"This is definitely bugged! These vehicles have taken at least a hundred thousand bullets and thousands of C4 charges, and not a single one has blown up!"

"If this weren't reality, I'd suspect the Xiaoyao Squad was using an invincibility cheat!"

The heavy machine gun barrels of the Jiantu Squad troops along the line had turned red from firing, yet they still couldn't see any smoke rising from the infantry fighting vehicles.

And while they poured their firepower onto the infantry fighting vehicles, the Xiaoyao Squad unleashed all their firepower back at them.

Unable to damage the enemy, but instead getting beaten so badly they couldn't even lift their heads, the Jiantu Squad was forced to retreat step by step under these circumstances.

By the time they reached the Zhaoming City highway entrance ramp, the Jiantu Squad had already suffered over thirty thousand casualties, while the Xiaoyao Squad had only suffered a few thousand.

However, by rotating the ten infantry fighting vehicles to block bullets and tank C4 charges—with their durability caps all averaged up to six million by Li Xiao—they had traded this for the destruction of over ten thousand civilian vehicles and hundreds of meng hu off-road vehicles by the Xiao Yao Unit.

It was just that because the enemy had deployed a large number of meng hu off-road vehicles at multiple locations on both sides of the highway, the number of heavy machine guns reached over a thousand.

Although rifle bullets did basically no damage to the infantry fighting vehicles, heavy machine gun bullets dealt fifty points of damage, and even with the thirty percent damage reduction from the King of War, each shot still dealt over thirty points.

With so many heavy machine guns firing continuously, the damage to the infantry fighting vehicles was immense, so by the time they reached the highway entrance, the ten infantry fighting vehicles only had about two million durability left on average.

"Captain! The Xiaoyao Squad is almost at the toll station! What should we do?!"

Inside the Jiantu Squad's Zhaoming City command center, over a dozen players stood around an electronic sand table with tense and serious expressions.

Cheng Mo watched as the red zones in the east and south of the city were gradually encroaching upon the green zones representing his own troops, his expression grim and his gaze icy.

"We underestimated this Li Xiao! Those infantry fighting vehicles must have a major issue! Back when we captured Zhaoming City, even the Black Hawk Empire's infantry fighting vehicles and tanks couldn't withstand our concentrated firepower."

"Unless Li Xiao's infantry fighting vehicles are made of diamonds, there's no way they could have lasted until now!"

"Captain, but we don't have time to investigate his problem now. The enemy is already at our doorstep. How are we supposed to defend?"

"How to defend?" Cheng Mo pointed to the urban area and said, "Order the southern troops to retreat to the city area immediately and use the buildings to fight the enemy in urban warfare!"

"But if we do that, the bases of our brothers in the suburbs will be in danger!"

Someone couldn't help asking worriedly, and this question made everyone present look at Cheng Mo.

Cheng Mo placed his hands on the sand table and said in a deep voice, "What Li Xiao wants is Zhaoming City, the squad's military factory! And most importantly, the players here! He could destroy the bases one by one, but what point would that serve if he occupies Zhaoming City?"

Cheng Mo's reasoning was actually something many large squads were considering now. After two or three months of resource and town battles, the transmigrators had begun to have the strength to expand outward.

But when they conducted reconnaissance on larger cities, they discovered that the Black Hawk Empire's true main forces were actually located within these major cities.

Countless troop types, organized armored units, army aviation, air forces, and in coastal cities, there were even large numbers of Imperial Navy warships!

Apart from these, there were also large mercenary groups that had started frequently appearing right under the players' noses and causing all sorts of trouble...

Therefore, leaders began to value the importance of population. Battles between two squads were often just the troops fighting it out, with neither side wanting to proactively destroy the other's player bases.

At most, if you failed and still refused to accept defeat, they would destroy your high-level command base to force you to surrender command.

And Cheng Mo concluded that someone like Li Xiao, who had obtained the title of King of War and was famous globally, would likely not resort to such petty actions.

Of course, there were likely more petty people in the world, but Cheng Mo believed that few petty people could achieve anything earth-shattering. If Li Xiao did that, he would actually be happy, because Li Xiao would have reached the end of his road.

In fact, Li Xiao wasn't thinking too much at the moment. When the Jiantu Squad retreated into the urban area, he ordered his troops to push in without hesitation.

At the same time, on the eastern battlefield, Tang Wu's troops also shifted from a feint to a full-scale assault. Both sides unleashed their full firepower, using almost every piece of heavy weaponry they had available.

Every second, hundreds or thousands of people fell under the hail of bullets.

The fighting inside the city was even more intense. The Jiantu Squad used the high-rise buildings in the city to resist step by step, while the main force of the Xiaoyao Squad could only rely on the few pieces of cover along the streets to advance gradually.

But Di Yun's armored company was the exception; they moved as if in an empty land. They weren't afraid of those rifle bullets at all and only targeted all the heavy machine gun positions to open fire.

The dual-mounted autocannons had a wide elevation range, and their design targets also included low-altitude, low-speed objects, so they could relatively easily deal with machine gun positions even on rooftops.

The ten infantry fighting vehicles charged toward the command center at almost full speed. The interception points deployed by the Jiantu Squad along the way couldn't stop them at all; they had even used multiple buses to block the only path to the command center.

Unfortunately, under the continuous bombardment of the infantry fighting vehicles' anti-tank missiles, the buses were blown apart on the spot. The infantry fighting vehicles smashed through the deformed chassis of the buses and charged into the final commercial street leading to the command center.

"Quick! All troops retreat and defend the command center! Bring out all the remaining C4! Even if it's a suicide charge, you must blow these turtle boxes to pieces for me!"

Seeing the infantry fighting vehicles approaching the command center, Cheng Mo became completely desperate and hurriedly pulled back all the troops stationed in various directions, including the troops fighting interception in the east.

Once the troops were pulled back, the firepower on this three-hundred-meter commercial street south of the command center became unprecedentedly intense.

The three infantry fighting vehicles at the front were constantly hit by grenades, heavy machine guns, and a small number of rocket launchers, their durability dropping rapidly.

Seeing that the infantry fighting vehicles only had thirty thousand durability left and were about to fail, Li Xiao immediately ordered Di Yun to have the crew members in the three vehicles evacuate and ignite the fifty self-destruct C3 explosives he had prepared on each vehicle.

Besides the driver's seat, which could be entered from the front, the combat personnel basically entered the infantry fighting vehicles from the rear door, which could avoid being hit by bullets coming from the front.

The fifteen people who got off these three vehicles, including the drivers, entered the infantry fighting vehicles behind them. Di Yun had not sent the infantry fighting vehicles out fully manned from the beginning, precisely to make it convenient to pick up comrades whose vehicles were destroyed.