114: Surrender, there are only Li Xiao outside!

When the three infantry fighting vehicles had only about 10,000 HP left, the C4 explosives detonated.

A mushroom cloud rose into the sky, fire engulfed the vehicle bodies, and the spare anti-tank missiles inside detonated as well, instantly turning the surrounding area into a vacuum zone.

Seeing this scene, Li Xiao breathed a sigh of relief; three infantry fighting vehicles had been blown up by him, successfully recovering nearly 20 million durability points.

He quickly added a total of 22 million durability points from the Life Pool to the remaining seven infantry fighting vehicles.

As a result, the durability limits of these infantry fighting vehicles all exceeded ten million.

The destruction of the three enemy infantry fighting vehicles did not make Cheng Mo feel relieved, because this had exhausted all of the Jiantu Squad's heavy firepower within the city.

Right now, he only had over a hundred meng hu off-road vehicles left to defend the command post, but that was simply trying to stop a chariot with a mantis's arms.

The infantry fighting vehicle that Di Yun was riding in, which still had over four million durability points left, charged in the lead; its autocannon and coaxial machine gun tore the large number of rushing enemy troops into shreds.

Just when they were about a hundred meters away from the command post, the over 200,000 Jiantu Squad troops on the eastern battlefield had already retreated to the vicinity of the command post, and Tang Wu took the opportunity to close in.

For a moment, all the streets in Zhaoming city were clogged with people, and the sound of gunfire and artillery was deafening.

However, none of this had anything to do with Di Yun; the seven infantry fighting vehicles launched a strong assault on the command post, one after another the meng hu off-road vehicles were blown up, and the combat vehicles charged directly into the municipal building courtyard, trampling over the C4 explosives covering the ground.

With a bang, the tail door of the first infantry fighting vehicle was kicked open; four fully armed black figures jumped out of the vehicle and immediately launched an attack on the municipal building under the cover of the autocannon.

Every bullet from the assault rifles in their hands hit the vital parts of the defenders; wherever their cold gazes swept, there were only corpses, and the mist of blood sprayed out as bullets penetrated the enemies' bodies quickly dyed the main entrance blood-red.

While they were attacking, they were also subjected to heavy gunfire; the HP of these elites, who were supposed to be conducting special operations behind enemy lines, could not originally support such high-intensity combat, but at this moment, they were appearing on the front lines as assault troops.

All of this was because Li Xiao had granted each of them a massive 3 million HP.

The autocannon tore through the defensive line composed of hundreds of elite troops with the rank of lieutenant; Ling Chao led three members of the Shadow Special Forces straight into the building, killing everyone they saw.

However, they were immediately attacked by a heavy machine gun position deployed on the second floor; but as a machine gun specialist in the special forces, the squad machine gun in Ling Chao's hands seemed even fiercer than the heavy machine gun, and he immediately stood in front of the other members, suppressing the trajectory of the heavy machine gun with his squad machine gun.

Then, Yue Ge sent the heavy machine gunner on his way with a precise sniper shot.

Upon reaching the second floor, the door to the command post conference room was tightly shut; Ling Chao made a gesture, and the special forces members behind him stepped forward quietly, sticking a remote-controlled C4 explosive onto the door.

Then, the four of them retreated to the bottom of the stairwell.

Boom!

A cloud of black smoke instantly covered the corridor, and the entire wooden door shattered into debris; before the special forces could advance, dozens of pistols and rifles inside fired outwards simultaneously.

The wall opposite the door was immediately riddled with bullet holes, and several grenades were even mixed in.

Ling Chao waited until the opponent had exhausted all their firepower before tossing in a few stun grenades and hand grenades.

When the explosions ended, Ling Chao entered the room; a few dozen people were hiding in the hundred-square-meter conference room, and almost all of them were players; except for the dozen or so who were stunned or injured by the blast, the rest opened fire desperately upon seeing the special forces enter.

However, the special forces members, who had 65% damage reduction from their armor and titles, were not afraid of these bullets at all; they performed a few rolls to avoid most of the bullets, then stood up and swept the room with gunfire.

The special forces' shooting style emphasized absolute speed and relative accuracy; although headshots were rare at close range, their firing speed was definitely something these players could not match.

In ten seconds, all thirty-plus people in the room were taken out.

Cheng Mo and a few others hiding on the rooftop looked at the constantly refreshing messages of squad members dying in their field of view, their faces turning pale.

"Team Leader, surrender! More than half of the squad leaders have been killed. Now the brothers are fighting on their own, completely scattered."

"Team Leader, I beg you, just think about us brothers. None of us want to die like this."

The sweat on Cheng Mo's head had soaked his beige combat uniform; he never imagined that a defensive line of hundreds of thousands of people would be broken through by a mere few infantry fighting vehicles that just wouldn't blow up.

Could the power brought by the King of War title really be this astonishing?

Cheng Mo looked at the smoke-filled Zhaoming city; the results he had painstakingly built up for nearly three months had been completely wasted in just one morning.

"Forget it... let it be..."

Cheng Mo dropped the gun in his hand and opened the squad panel.

[System Prompt: Jiantu Squad is requesting to merge into your squad. Do you agree?]

"Hmm?"

Li Xiao, who was still outside Zhaoming city listening to Di Yun's report, suddenly saw a prompt box pop up in front of him; he took a closer look and immediately smiled.

Cheng Mo had sent a squad merger request, which meant surrender, because once squads are merged, troops within the team cannot attack each other.

Even if players force an attack command, bullets hitting friendly forces will have an effect but no damage, although players attacking other players are not affected by this rule.

This was also the reason why Tang Wu had not mobilized troops in advance to besiege the municipal building, but instead risked it himself to intercept and kill the squad's command members while the Lan Bing leadership was holding a meeting.

Li Xiao accepted Cheng Mo's request without hesitation; this time could not be wasted, as every minute and every second meant hundreds or thousands of lives.

When the system notification was sent to the minds of all members of both squads, the gunfire throughout Zhaoming city ceased abruptly, followed by cheers across the whole city.

The players were happy because they didn't have to sacrifice soldiers anymore, and the soldiers were happy because they didn't have to face a rain of bullets anymore.

Li Xiao, escorted by Zhao Feipeng, entered the Zhaoming city municipal building; this city was similar in scale to Hengshui city, but Hengshui was on a plain, while Zhaoming was half-mountain, half-valley.

The north-south orientation of the valley meant that after Zhaoming city was attacked from the southeast, it was impossible to outflank it from the other two directions; otherwise, Li Xiao's attack would not have gone so smoothly.

Arriving at the command hall, Cheng Mo and the remaining dozen or so Jiantu Squad command personnel were already waiting there.

As soon as Li Xiao walked in, the first thing he saw was a tall person at 1.9 meters, wearing a beige combat uniform, with a straight posture, who was his peer.

His sixth sense told Li Xiao that this must be the Jiantu Squad Team Leader, Cheng Mo.

He walked straight up to Cheng Mo and asked calmly, "Are you Cheng Mo?"

Cheng Mo looked down at the 1.75-meter-tall Li Xiao and said coldly, "It is me."