56: Making a plank road

"So, how many troops do we need to assemble?"

"For this kind of thing, the fewer people, the better. That way, we won't be easily exposed. Li Xiao has one base and definitely has fewer than a hundred men. If we pool a few hundred of our core members, we can wipe him out!"

"Alright, I'll go make the arrangements."

As she spoke, Xuan Yu got up to get dressed, but unexpectedly, Wu Chong pulled her back onto the bed: "Don't be in such a hurry. The operation is tomorrow night; there's still plenty of time. Let me reward you properly once more!"

"Annoying... Mmh... Ah... Mmh..."

On Li Xiao's side, after he set his trap, his nerves began to tighten. He had Liu Nian and Yun Dongliu notify the squad members to prepare for battle, while secretly keeping in close contact with Chang Zhan, terrified of missing even a shred of information.

"Lao Xiao, you told me to assemble the troops, but where are we attacking?"

In the group voice chat with Yun Dongliu and Liu Nian, Liu Nian asked eagerly. Ever since they had demolished several Hellfire bases, he had become hopelessly addicted to that feeling.

Li Xiao really wanted to tell the two of them the truth, but this concerned his own life and death; he couldn't afford the slightest carelessness.

So, even though he trusted Yun Dongliu and the others in his heart, this was all he could do.

However, he could let Liu Nian spread the news that they were taking leave.

"Liu Nian, tomorrow we will detour to Qiao Town and march south, but keep the marching speed slow."

"So you're saying your target isn't the resource zone in the south?" Yun Dongliu saw through Li Xiao's intentions.

"Of course not. Marching south is just to throw people off the scent. As for the real goal, I can't tell you for now. It's not that I don't trust you, but this concerns my personal life and death."

Liu Nian, who had been a bit angry, understood Li Xiao's actions after hearing the words "life and death."

No matter who it was, when it came to matters of life and death, perhaps one could only trust oneself.

"Remember, you must make a big show of it along the way, to the point where everyone in Xi City knows you are heading south to cause trouble."

"Alright, what about you?"

"Me? Heh, I'll be cooking up a feast, waiting for the guests to arrive!"

After setting the tasks, Li Xiao used up his conscription orders from the past two days, obtaining four infantrymen, one machine gunner, and one sniper.

Obtaining two support-type units in a row was a great encouragement to Li Xiao. He arranged the infantry and the machine gunner into Yang Chao's First Platoon to strengthen the base's defensive capabilities.

The sniper was assigned to Yan Yizhou's sniper team.

Early the next morning, still at the Transit Yard, ten teams with over four thousand troops began to march south in a grand, imposing manner.

Players along the way were trembling with fear, terrified that they might be collateral damage and have their homes demolished.

"All teams, listen to me. Keep the speed at twenty kilometers per hour. Fire off a few bursts with your light and heavy machine guns from time to time. No one is allowed to speed up without my permission!"

Liu Nian shouted loudly in the command channel. Commanding so many troops for the first time, he felt a bit insecure, afraid that someone would mess things up if he weren't careful.

On the other side, Li Xiao called Chang Zhan every half hour to ask about the situation, but he didn't get the information he wanted.

In the east of Xi City, hidden beneath the deep foothills, was a Level 6 base currently under upgrade. In the command post, Wu Chong shouted excitedly to the other end of the voice chat: "Xuan Yu, this is a great opportunity. The Xiaoyao Squad actually went to attack the south today. The battalion of troops we have prepared can set off!"

"Don't be impatient, Chong Ge. They haven't gone far yet. Wait another two hours, and it should be about right."

"Fair enough! Then let's wait a bit longer."

...

"Still no movement?" Li Xiao looked at Li Le, who had been maintaining contact.

"Report, there is still no situation detected for the time being."

What's going on? Is the Night God Squad this cowardly?

Li Xiao thought carefully for a moment and decided to have Liu Nian speed up the march. They were currently only a dozen kilometers away from the Transit Yard, so they could turn back and return in a dozen minutes.

Sure enough, after the main force crossed Qiao Town, Li Xiao finally received intelligence from Chang Zhan: a force of one thousand was rushing towards the Transit Yard.

From Chang Zhan's intelligence, it was clear that this force had been carefully selected. One or two hundred various civilian off-road vehicles were equipped with a large number of light and heavy machine gunners, accounting for a full one-fifth of the total force.

With such firepower configuration, even without C4 explosives, demolishing a base would be a matter of minutes.

"Very good, exciting enough!"

Li Xiao immediately set to work, ordering Di Yun's First Platoon to set an ambush on the road at the Transit Yard, and Yang Chao's Second Platoon to advance to the area between the base and the Transit Yard to set up a tiered blocking line.

At the same time, he also began to strengthen the combat power of Di Yun's troops.

After accumulating for some time, he hadn't touched the Life Pool since fighting Qin Luming, including the more than two thousand troops wiped out while demolishing over a hundred Hellfire bases this time.

Opening the Life Pool panel, Li Xiao saw those two strings of numbers and felt immediately relieved. Having teammates help earn Life Points was simply too efficient.

He now had a total of 340,000 unallocated Life Points and 290,000 unallocated Durability points.

Only one of Di Yun's five vehicles had 300,000 Durability, and since the First Platoon would be the main force later, the 290,000 Durability points were distributed equally among the four original meng hu off-road vehicles, allowing each vehicle to reach over 80,000 Durability.

At the same time, in order to improve output and damage resistance, Li Xiao thought about it and temporarily transferred the two machine gunners from Yang Chao's Second Platoon to Di Yun's command.

In this way, Di Yun's five meng hu off-road vehicles had three heavy machine guns. At the same time, he spent 110,000 Life Points to raise the health of these three machine gunners to 50,000 points, because two of these machine gunners originally had 24,000 Life Points, so he saved some.

In addition, Li Xiao took out 130,000 health to replenish the new recruits under Di Yun and Zhao Feipeng, making these soldiers, apart from the officers, have an average health exceeding 6,000 points.

He did not rush to allocate the remaining 200,000 Life Points, but would wait until wartime to replenish them as needed.

An hour later, Chang Zhan reported that the Night God Troops were less than one kilometer away from the Transit Yard. Li Xiao immediately ordered all troops to prepare for battle!

In the Night God convoy, Ren Hao, who was in full command today, appeared very excited. Today, he was about to welcome the most exciting decapitation operation of his life.

Team Leader Wu Chong had already promised him that as long as he successfully killed Xiaoyao Squad Team Leader Li Xiao, he would receive a bonus of 10,000 Star Coins and the command of five attack squads.

"Brothers! Everyone, full speed ahead! I heard that Li Xiao's base is above level seven. Once we demolish his base in a while, it'll definitely be super lucrative!"

Everyone cheered, and the drivers pressed the accelerator pedals even deeper.

Indeed, with ten times the force, it was a sneak attack; it could be said to be a guaranteed profit, and the twenty-plus players participating in the operation were all waiting to get a piece of the pie.