74: What is a surprise! (please add)

After speaking, Li Xiao turned to Di Yun and Yang Chao behind him and said, "Take your troops and the four-tube rocket launchers, get close, and make sure you take out those dozen or so tanks and infantry fighting vehicles for me!"

"Yes!" Di Yun and the other replied in unison, then turned and left the high-rise building where Li Xiao was located.

Since obtaining the four-tube rocket launchers, Li Xiao had been working tirelessly to manufacture them. As of now, there were a total of four launchers plus over 160 rockets.

Although he knew this was far from enough to destroy the dozen or so main battle tanks placed before them.

Di Yun and his team quickly crept into a residential building on the side of the burning roadblocks.

The two platoons led by Di Yun and Yang Chao dispatched soldiers with the highest HP, each carrying two rocket launchers. Di Yun himself shouldered a rocket launcher, aiming at a main battle tank not far below that was waiting for an opportunity to fire.

To facilitate continuous fire, only two rocket launchers were fired at a time.

When Di Yun finished counting down from three, he and a corporal pulled the triggers simultaneously. Multiple rockets flew out of the launchers with a whoosh, flying toward the same tank.

The top of the tank, which was rotating its turret, immediately erupted in flames and billowed with thick smoke.

If this were on Blue Star, Li Xiao had reason to believe that this tank would at least be crippled, if not destroyed.

Even if it were replaced with an Armored Personnel Carrier on Hanhai Star, the 8,000 damage per shot would have already taken out two.

Unfortunately, hitting the Black Hawk Empire's tanks with these rockets only dealt a cumulative 48,000 damage from eight shots.

Taking advantage of the smoke from the rockets blocking the vision of the infantry fighting vehicles and tanks, a second round of rockets was fired.

Thousands of soldiers from the Xiaoyao Squad hid on both sides of the street, watching Di Yun and his team's performance.

Within a few minutes, three rounds totaling 48 rockets were fired. Di Yun finally saw the tank catch fire and explode, its turret blown off by the detonating ammunition, just like opening a can.

At this moment, the remaining tanks and infantry fighting vehicles began to return fire. The tank guns pierced directly through the walls and hit the interior, causing significant damage to the firing team.

Fortunately, these guys were all thick-skinned, so there were no casualties for the time being.

Di Yun led everyone to another building to continue firing. After a dozen minutes of reloading and firing, three tanks were completely destroyed.

However, just as Di Yun was firing the last round of rockets, two infantry fighting vehicles simultaneously launched an anti-tank missile.

Di Yun and his team, who were just about to withdraw, were caught off guard by the missile. The high explosives inside the armor-piercing explosive shell generated hundreds of metal jets.

Di Yun, who was closest to the explosion, voluntarily shielded the two loaders behind him to protect them.

However, the power of the anti-tank missile far exceeded that of tank guns. Di Yun instantly lost over 100,000 HP, and the two loaders could not be saved.

Seeing this, Li Xiao immediately ordered them to retreat.

Liu Nian looked at the nine tanks still on the street and said anxiously, "Lao Xiao, why did you pull them back? There's almost a whole tank company left!"

Li Xiao leaned against the window helplessly. "This was all my ammunition. From here on, I'm afraid we'll really have to rely on throwing people at them."

Once these words were spoken, Liu Nian and the surrounding players fell silent. In this battle, the squad's strength had been greatly damaged, and it wouldn't recover for a week or two.

What was even more distressing were the dozens of teammates who died in the bombardment. Although it was for the common good, who would want to be the first to fall in battle?

Li Xiao pondered, finally about to make the decision for the final all-out attack, when Li Le walked up and reported, "Boss! Commander Wang Si of the Dark Soul Mercenary Group is looking for you!"

"A mercenary group? When did you get to know someone like that?" Liu Nian asked in surprise. This Li Xiao was full of secrets.

Li Xiao was also a bit puzzled; why was he looking for him at a time like this? He said to Liu Nian, "This is a local native I met by chance."

Taking the satellite phone, Wang Si said bluntly, "Brother Li Xiao, I heard from Chang Zhan that your siege is blocked and you've suffered heavy losses?"

"Chang Zhan? He told you that?"

Chang Zhan had been introduced to Wang Si by Li Xiao. Their mercenary group had a wide range of business, dared to associate with any faction, and was well-connected with both Black Hawk and Tian Yu.

Before the war, Li Xiao had asked Chang Zhan for help, but Chang Zhan had clearly stated that his team only had one or two hundred people and their equipment was not good.

Their only support firepower, a mortar platoon, had used up its stock of shells during the last attack on the Qin Chuan squad, so they couldn't participate this time.

And now that Wang Si had reached out, it seemed Chang Zhan had put some effort into it.

"Brother, I do have a way to help you solve your current difficulties, but it depends on whether you can afford the price!"

"You have a way?"

"200,000 Star Coins, and I'll help you take care of those iron turtles!"

It seemed the mercenary group's intelligence network was quite formidable; even in a city where the fighting was so intense, they could still obtain accurate information.

Unfortunately, Li Xiao shook his head. "I can't even come up with 10,000 Star Coins right now. How can I scrape together 200,000 Star Coins for you?"

"Haha! If you don't have 200,000 Star Coins, you can still pay with the method you're good at, right?"

"You mean..."

"I have 30 new pickup trucks here. As long as you add 100,000 durability points to each one for me, it's a deal!"

"For real?!"

Li Xiao was overjoyed. He really couldn't come up with Star Coins, but when it came to durability points, the 30 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles, and dozens of Armored Personnel Carriers destroyed at the toll station just now had already provided him with nearly 10 million durability points.

"Our Dark Soul Mercenary Group always keeps our word!"

"Good! Deal!"

Wang Si laughed loudly. "Brother, look up at the sky! Don't blink!"

The satellite phone hung up. Tens of seconds later, people saw streaks of white smoke suddenly appear in the northern sky, and the thunderous sound of breaking through the air came from far to near, which was terrifying.

When those smoke trails flew overhead, Li Xiao realized that they were actually rockets!

"Right! Rockets!"

Li Xiao slapped his forehead. He finally remembered that when he upgraded the pickup trucks for the Dark Soul Mercenary Group last time, most of what was mounted in the cargo beds were rocket launchers.

No sooner said than done, these rockets, which were many times larger than the M20S, fell one after another onto the tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in the blink of an eye. The intense light produced by the instantaneous explosions completely overshadowed the morning sunlight.

It had to be said that the power of these vehicle-mounted rockets was fierce. Several waves of continuous bombardment blasted through the solid turrets and the armor of the infantry fighting vehicles that Li Xiao had found so formidable.

When the fourth wave of rockets fell, there wasn't a single tank left on the field that could move. Li Xiao was extremely excited; the damage of these rockets per shot was at least 20,000 to 30,000.

Wang Si's subordinates were truly awesome. Relying on the coordinates collected by their own intelligence, they managed to land the rockets within a 10-meter margin of error. Li Xiao was almost becoming a hardcore fan of the mercenary group.