48: Qin Luming (Please add to your collection, big guys)

“From what Dong Liu told me, their forces are far superior to ours. Are you sure we can win?” Liu Nian expressed his doubts.

“Can't win? Don't worry, you guys just need to provide rear support; I'll handle the rest.”

“Alright then, I'll go mobilize them now. Where should we set the rally point?”

Upon hearing this, Li Xiao sent Liu Nian a coordinate—the Transit Yard, the most suitable rallying location.

Early in the morning, Liu Nian and several members from the Level 5 bases had already arrived at the Transit Yard. These guys had a mix of civilian off-road vehicles and all-terrain vehicles, giving them a decent level of mobility.

Li Xiao had two meng hu off-road vehicles and ten all-terrain motorcycles, a full platoon.

Yun Dongliu and Yun Ying's troops hadn't come over because they were already close to Qiao Town and were waiting there directly.

The journey of over ten kilometers took about half an hour, mainly because they constantly had to avoid the Black Hawk Empire's patrol units on the road. With their limited forces, they naturally couldn't get into a skirmish with a patrol team halfway.

After successfully meeting up with Brother Dongliu and his sister, Li Xiao immediately asked him, “What's the situation in Qiao Town now?”

“Forty to fifty Engineers from the Luming Squad are currently working, and besides that, there are over sixty infantrymen defending the front and rear intersections.”

Li Xiao looked at the troop distribution map Yun Dongliu had drawn and immediately ordered in the squad channel, “All teams prepare for battle! My military off-road vehicles will initiate the attack first, you all follow closely behind, and eliminate the remaining enemies as quickly as possible!”

“Understood!”

“Understood!”

The team members responded in unison in the squad channel. Li Xiao nodded in satisfaction. A squad should have the self-awareness to follow orders strictly, especially since this was a matter of life and death, making militarized management absolutely necessary.

After the operation was deployed, over a hundred vehicles of various sizes and colors headed straight for Qiao Town. Small groups of players occasionally encountered on the way immediately retreated three steps, and even patrol teams not equipped with armored vehicles dispersed.

With such a large movement, even before approaching Qiao Town, some players seemed to have received information. They immediately gathered their existing forces to block the northern entrance of Qiao Town, setting up roadblocks to try and prevent the troops from entering.

However, Di Yun and Zhao Feipeng's two super-tough off-road vehicles showed no signs of braking, accelerating at full power to ram through the few abandoned cars they had frantically dragged over. Heavy machine guns engaged in a close-range shootout with the checkpoint defenders.

The checkpoint defenders, with only a few squad light machine guns, were at a disadvantage against Leng He and his team, not only in firepower but also in health, and their defensive line immediately collapsed.

Li Xiao didn't let Di Yun and his team expend too much, directing them to enter Qiao Town and clear out the Engineers scattered everywhere. As for Luming's combat units, they were left to the main force that arrived shortly after.

In just half an hour, all of Luming's forces in Qiao Town had been cleared. Standing at the entrance of Qiao Town's police station, Li Xiao said to all the team members, “Now we just wait for the Luming Squad to come. I'll arrange the defenses.”

He glanced at Yun Dongliu; in fact, they had already made arrangements last night.

“First, Yun Dongliu's troops will monitor the national highway in the southwest direction of Qiao Town and report the situation at any time!”

“Secondly,” Li Xiao pointed to the southern entrance of the town, “If I'm not mistaken, the Luming Squad's forces should not take a detour but head straight for this entrance. Therefore, we will focus on setting up a defensive line here, while also utilizing the residential buildings on both sides and the abandoned vehicles on the street to block the enemy!”

After speaking, Li Xiao gestured for Liu Nian to continue.

Liu Nian was probably speaking in front of hundreds of people for the first time, a bit nervous. He paused for a few seconds before saying, “Then there's the mobile force. Later, I will pick three people's troops to control the northern entrance with me first, and then reinforce the south side as needed. That's... that's it...”

War is a matter of life and death. A month has passed, and everyone no longer treats this world like a game.

Someone specifically calculated, after collecting data from thousands of chat channels, that over ten thousand time traveler(transmigrators) die every day.

And this is only a conservative estimate, and only within the Tianyu Republic.

As military power develops, even more people will die in the future. Therefore, those who join a team cherish their lives exceptionally and become more united, serious, and diligent!

Just like now, when Li Xiao issued the combat orders, not a single player objected, because they needed teamwork to gain more benefits for themselves!

Two hours later, Yun Dongliu sent news that a mighty force of over seven hundred people was rapidly approaching. There were sixty to seventy civilian off-road vehicles alone, followed by over a hundred all-terrain vehicles, and various other miscellaneous vehicles.

“Over seven hundred people, I underestimated this Luming Squad. It seems their estimated strength is at least thirty people.”

Li Xiao was unfazed by this number, but Liu Nian's expression was not as relaxed.

“Lao Xiao, their forces are twice ours. Can we handle it?”

“I told you, you guys just need to provide auxiliary attacks; I'll handle the main assault!”

With that, Li Xiao allocated ten thousand health points from his life pool to Leng He and another machine gunner, leaving himself with a mere six thousand points. This way, they would each have twenty-four thousand health points.

Yun Dongliu quickly retreated, and everyone stood ready. About ten minutes later, the Luming Squad's forces appeared at the end of the road.

Li Xiao originally thought the Luming Squad would attack immediately, but he didn't expect their troops to stop about a mile away. Instead, an off-road vehicle carrying two people with a white flag arrived outside the town.

“Lao Xiao, what are they doing? Did they bring seven hundred people just to surrender?”

Li Xiao said speechlessly, “You wish. This is clearly for negotiations!”

“Negotiations? What's there to negotiate? If they want to fight, let's fight; why waste all this effort?” Under Li Xiao's strong influence, Liu Nian's courage had also grown.

Li Xiao pondered for a moment, then got into Di Yun's Meng Hu H9 and drove out. The two parties stopped twenty meters apart in front of a bus stop outside the town.

Through the car window, Li Xiao saw a young man with glasses and short silver wavy hair on the opposite side. He looked very young, at most in his early twenties.

The other party was quite bold, getting out of the car without hesitation and shouting at Li Xiao, “I am Qin Luming, Captain of the Luming Squad. Please ask your squad's person in charge to come out for a meeting.”

Li Xiao considered that he still had six thousand health points, and it wouldn't be easy for the opponent to instantly kill him with a sneak attack, so he opened the door and got out of the car.

“I am Li Xiao. Speak, what is it?”

Qin Luming adjusted his glasses, sized up Li Xiao, and said indifferently, “Captain Li, everyone is struggling to survive now, and maintaining troops is also very difficult. Our Luming Squad doesn't like fighting, but that doesn't mean we're afraid of trouble. We were the first to garrison Qiao Town, so we have the advantage logically.”