125: Empire strength

"Fifty percent!" Li Xiao said in surprise. "Do you mean that with my two vehicle production lines, I can produce two infantry fighting vehicles in a week now?"

"Yes, the same applies to the equipment production lines." Yi Ling put away her tablet and continued, "I will be working at the military factory from now on. You can come to me for anything related to the factory."

"Then thank you very much, Miss Yi."

Li Xiao felt secretly pleased. At this rate, he felt he could form a fourth armored company very soon.

After handling these matters, Li Xiao checked the Life Pool. In the past few days, the Black Hawk Empire patrols had become rampant, relying on the support of armed helicopters, and were almost everywhere sending out patrols to launch sneak attacks.

This caused Li Xiao's Life Points to accumulate to thirty million, and his durability points had also accumulated to six or seven million. Li Xiao didn't plan to make a trip to Yun City for just this much durability; besides, his level 11 base was currently upgrading, and he wasn't short on resources for the time being.

As the saying goes, having enough food and clothing leads to other desires. Given that Weixing City frequently sent out patrols to harass him, Li Xiao wanted to take action against Weixing City, including that Army Aviation Regiment.

However, after asking Chang Zhan about it, Li Xiao immediately dismissed the idea.

Good grief. The Weixing City defense force belonged to the 129th Group Army of the Black Hawk Empire. The entire army consisted of two mechanized infantry divisions, one armored division, one artillery brigade, one special operations battalion, and in addition, the newly stationed Army Aviation Regiment.

Adding the directly affiliated communications, electronic warfare, reconnaissance, and other branches, the total came to as many as eighty thousand troops.

You have to realize that this was an elite force of the Black Hawk Empire; their combat power was far beyond what the garrison troops of ordinary small cities could compare to.

If it were just about personnel, the Xiaoyao Squad could organize a force of over a million people in minutes. A human wave tactic could swallow up Weixing City.

But putting aside the fact that the two mechanized infantry divisions were equipped entirely with military off-road vehicles and a large number of infantry fighting vehicles, that one armored division alone would be enough to wipe Li Xiao out.

Chang Zhan directly took out satellite photos of Weixing City. According to incomplete statistics, this armored division of the 129th Group Army contained 4 armored brigades, each armored brigade had 8 armored battalions, and each armored battalion had 5 armored companies.

Each armored company was equipped with 4 to 5 infantry fighting vehicles and four M1A8 main battle tanks.

By this calculation, the armored division in Weixing City had at least over three hundred tanks, and that's not even counting the number of infantry fighting vehicles, which was at least over four hundred.

Chang Zhan also said that this armored division might also have a 155mm self-propelled howitzer battalion, estimated to have twenty-four self-propelled howitzers. A 155mm self-propelled howitzer—even a tank couldn't take two hits from that thing.

This was just the firepower of one armored division, and it was already terrifying to this extent, let alone the Army Aviation Regiment, which had two armed helicopter squadrons and two transport helicopter squadrons, with a total of over a hundred aircraft.

Without air superiority and lacking anti-aircraft capabilities, the Transcendent Ones were essentially just feeding kills when facing armed helicopters.

Li Xiao still remembered that during his first week of arriving on Hanhai Star, he almost died under the rockets of an armed helicopter.

Therefore, with such formidable firepower, the Black Hawk Empire could not only ensure its own safety but could even spare forces to attack the Transcendent Ones.

"With equipment like this, if a million people attacked, it would be lucky if twenty percent survived."

Closing the file, Li Xiao felt it was better to wait a bit longer. Anyway, he hadn't heard of anyone breaking into a third-tier city yet, so he wasn't in a rush for the moment.

Currently, after absorbing and integrating, the Xiaoyao Squad had brought the vast majority of players from the three cities under its command, with a total team size of eight thousand people and an active force of over one and a half million.

But this had been accumulated over time. If the siege failed, then the surrounding squads would take the opportunity to raid his base.

Just as Li Xiao was planning to rest for two days and wait for the squad's active force to increase to two million before considering Weixing City, Wang Si, the leader of the Dark Soul Mercenary Group whom he hadn't been in contact with for a long time, suddenly contacted him.

On the other end of the line, Wang Si seemed to have encountered big trouble and was very agitated.

"Brother Li Xiao! My life is truly at risk this time. For the sake of our many collaborations, please help me out?"

Wang Si cried and wailed. Li Xiao frowned. The Dark Soul Mercenary Group was, at any rate, a medium-sized mercenary group with four or five thousand people, and they had over a hundred pickup trucks under their command that had been modified by him.

They had even added a few new Armored Personnel Carriers and infantry fighting vehicles. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be many forces around that would dare to provoke them.

"Brother Wang, don't rush. Let's explain the situation clearly." Li Xiao said unhurriedly.

"It's like this. Our mercenary group previously accepted an assassination contract. The target was a gang leader in Yun City.

Our brothers were a bit heavy-handed and just blew up the hotel where the target was located. Originally, the target was killed, the bounty was received, and everything was OK.

But who would have known that the hotel we blew up also happened to be housing the wife and daughter of a large mercenary group's leader that day, and they were killed in the explosion along with him..."

"Ah? There's such an absurd thing?" Li Xiao was torn between laughing and crying. To run into something like this, it was truly miserable.

Then again, they used bombs to blow it up, and they still called this an assassination?

"That's exactly it. I'm just unlucky. Now they've tracked it back to us. Intelligence says that in at most two days, this Lan Bo Mercenary Group is going to make a move on us!"

"What is the enemy's strength?"

"The Lan Bo Mercenary Group is a logistics partner of Tianma Technology and has weapon support from Tianma behind them. They have thirty thousand members, are equipped with twenty tanks and over fifty infantry fighting vehicles, and also possess man-portable anti-tank missiles, man-portable air-defense missiles, and many other light and heavy weapons."

"A mercenary group of thirty thousand people is actually equipped with so much heavy equipment? That is truly impressive!"

"How do you want me to help you?" Li Xiao asked. The firepower of this Lan Bo Mercenary Group was more ferocious than his own; except for lacking air power, they basically completely suppressed him.

Wang Si said embarrassedly, "Actually, I also know the enemy is this strong, and it's a bit of a stretch for you to fight them. However, as long as you help me get through this difficulty, I will tell you an important secret!"

"An important secret? What important secret?"

"I can't say it now... Anyway, it's definitely a secret that will be of great use to you."

Li Xiao said half-believingly, "You're not trying to scam me, are you?"

"I swear on the reputation of my Dark Soul Mercenary Group. If I lie to you, may I get hit by a car as soon as I go out!"

Hearing Wang Si's sworn tone, Li Xiao thought for a moment and decided he had to wade into this muddy water one way or another.

Actually, it wouldn't be too difficult to fight this battle. The First Armored Company had seven AMX infantry fighting vehicles with durability exceeding ten million. Based on this alone, they could withstand at least six or seven rounds of attacks from the enemy's infantry fighting vehicles and tanks.

But the difficulty was that his firepower could not destroy the enemy's tanks in the first instance.