49: We’ll know if it works only after we try (Please add to your collection)

At this point, he looked at Li Xiao's troops at the town's intersection and said pointedly, "I hope you will retreat in the face of difficulties; otherwise, we don't mind a fight."

"Heh… I thought you were here to negotiate, but it turns out you specifically came to warn us. Captain Qin really went to a lot of trouble. I don't need to repeat that strength comes first. In short, if you want Qiao Town, then come and attack!"

After speaking, Li Xiao turned to get into his car. Qin Luming frowned and raised his voice, "I'll give you five more minutes to consider. After five minutes, you're on your own!"

The two cars turned around and headed in opposite directions. Liu Nian saw Li Xiao return and went up to him, asking, "What did that kid say?"

"Nothing much. He probably just told us to be sensible and not make him bully the weak."

Li Xiao turned to everyone and said, "Prepare for battle in five minutes! Di Yun and Zhao Feipeng, you two stand on both lanes of the highway and don't let a single vehicle get through!"

"Understood!"

The morning sun was particularly dazzling. The entrance to the town was eerily silent. Even the chirping of insects and birds along the highway and fields outside the town seemed much less, but a heavy aura of killing intent was brewing in the air.

As soon as the five-minute countdown ended, the Luming Squad's first echelon, consisting of over seventy off-road vehicles, nearly half of their forces, launched a simultaneous attack. At the same time, a large number of all-terrain vehicles began to outflank the town's defenders from the small paths and wilderness on both sides of the highway.

From several hundred meters away, soldiers in the off-road vehicles opened fire. Rifle and light machine gun bullets rained down on the two military off-road vehicles Li Xiao had placed in the middle of the road and the windows of the civilian houses at the town entrance.

Di Yun's and Zhao Feipeng's vehicles clanged and clattered, hit by hundreds of bullets in moments, yet Leng He still hadn't opened fire.

"Captain! Those two vehicles are strange; they've been hit by hundreds of bullets and haven't exploded!"

Several hundred meters outside the town, in the makeshift command post formed by a dozen off-road vehicles, the voice of the vice-captain came through Qin Luming's headset.

"Those should be new vehicles from a higher-level base military factory. Their durability is much higher, but definitely not more than ten thousand. Have the support team use rocket launchers."

"Understood!"

After Qin Luming finished speaking, he popped a piece of chocolate into his mouth. His eyes were unusually calm, as if the intense gunfire ahead didn't exist.

Whoosh! Whoosh!!!

Two rockets flew from the attacking convoy, hitting the two Meng Hu H9s one after another. The thick smoke and fireballs from the explosions obscured the off-road vehicles.

The Luming Squad commander, who was organizing the attack, stood on the roof of a vehicle in the rear and excitedly shouted, "Excellent work! Assault troops, push forward! Clear out everyone in those residential buildings!"

However, before he could even celebrate, two jets of fire erupted from the smoke, and the first few vehicles charging forward immediately burst into flames.

At the same time, the Xiaoyao Squad players in the residential buildings also simultaneously ordered to open fire, sending a dense hail of bullets towards the highway.

"How is this possible!"

Qin Luming's previously confident expression now showed some unease. Through his binoculars, the two off-road vehicles had not only not turned into scrap metal but seemed no different from before.

"Heavy machine guns, dismount, set up, and focus fire!"

Qin Luming issued another order. Dozens of people dismounted from the more than ten vehicles of the second echelon, shouldering heavy machine guns and setting them up on the hoods of the off-road vehicles. Crates of machine gun ammunition were brought forward.

In less than a minute, over a dozen heavy machine guns opened fire. The density of firepower was terrifying, all hitting the two Meng Hu H9s, and their durability plummeted rapidly.

Seeing this situation, Li Xiao quickly added 100,000 durability to Zhao Feipeng's vehicle and simultaneously ordered Di Yun and Zhao Feipeng to actively attack.

Di Yun, of course, understood Li Xiao's meaning. He called out to Zhao Feipeng, and the two off-road vehicles directly crashed into the Luming Squad's vehicle formation.

The Luming Squad's convoy had already been accelerating, but they didn't expect the opponent to launch a charge instead. The two sides collided within a few seconds.

This situation caused the firing lines of the dozens of heavy machine guns and countless rifles in the rear to overlap with their own teammates, blocked by their own vehicles, making it impossible to hit Di Yun and his group.

At the same time, only twenty to thirty rifles and two heavy machine guns could hit the Meng Hu H9s. However, with Leng He and his team's two heavy machine guns firing at close range, the windows of these ordinary civilian off-road vehicles were not bulletproof at all. In short order, the drivers and the gun-wielding troops on the vehicles were all utterly crushed.

Furthermore, leveraging the Meng Hu H9's more powerful engine and stronger chassis, they forcibly pushed aside the vehicles that had been shot to scrap and advanced all the way forward.

"What kind of vehicle is this! How can it not be destroyed!"

All the players observing from behind were stunned, each thinking, 'Are my bullets made of rubber?'

Qin Luming continuously calculated the durability consumption of the two Meng Hu H9s. When he realized that the two vehicles' durability had been depleted to 100,000 points yet still hadn't exploded, a chill ran down his spine.

Li Xiao added the final 200,000 durability to both vehicles. After Di Yun and his team destroyed dozens of vehicles in the first echelon and swept away all the troops, they even charged without hesitation through a hail of bullets directly into the faces of the second echelon.

Clearly, who could withstand a shootout with Leng He, who had two to three tens of thousands of health?

In less than half a minute, all these machine gunners were silenced, and the flanking troops, who had originally relied on the heavy fire cover from friendly forces on the main road, now became isolated enemies.

With the heavy machine guns and the enemy's main force no longer suppressing them, the Xiaoyao Squad soldiers, fighting from cover against those without cover, used their advantageous high ground to hold the enemy at bay dozens of meters away.

Qin Luming hadn't expected that in just two or three minutes, what seemed like a great advantage would be reversed like this.

He stared at the two off-road vehicles, which resembled moving bunkers, feeling that his imagination of this world was perhaps insufficient.

"Enough!"

Qin Luming seemed to have made a decision and then ordered a ceasefire in the squad channel, with all troops retreating.

The battle ended with the Luming Squad's retreat, but their remaining three hundred-plus soldiers did not leave.

Li Xiao was about to tell Di Yun and Zhao Feipeng to withdraw when he suddenly received a friend request. Opening it, he found it was from Qin Luming.

His mind whirred, and he clicked accept.

Soon, Qin Luming's voice request came through. Li Xiao didn't need to guess what Qin Luming wanted to say.

"Very well, I didn't expect Captain Li to be so formidable. I'm very curious, are your two vehicles made of titanium alloy?"

Li Xiao picked at his ear, looked at the Luming Squad's rallying point in the distance, and smiled slightly: "You want to know? Fight your way in and capture me, and maybe I'll tell you."

Qin Luming, of course, wouldn't be naive enough to think that Li Xiao would tell him the answer. The reason he said that was merely to provide a transition for his next words.

"That's all irrelevant now. The victor is king, the loser is a bandit; I have nothing to say. But what I want to say is, I believe your two vehicles are not invincible. If I had more heavy firepower, you would definitely collapse!"

Li Xiao paused for two seconds. Qin Luming was still smart. He suddenly remembered that he had just made a rookie mistake.