75: Creek City changes hands

Holy crap! Lao Xiao, what kind of background does this mercenary group of yours have? Isn't this too powerful?

Liu Nian was also completely dumbfounded; the situation they had been helpless against had been resolved just like that.

Heh heh, the Black Hawk Empire is allowed to summon bombers, but I'm not allowed to find outside help?

Li Xiao quickly replied to Wang Si, and this commander proudly said, "How about it, Brother Li Xiao, are you satisfied?"

"Satisfied! Extremely satisfied! After today, we must have a good drink together!"

"Sure, I'll be waiting for you. But remember your promise; I emptied out my ammunition depot!"

"Definitely!"

Li Xiao hung up the phone and shouted to Liu Nian, "What are you waiting for! Launch the total attack!"

At Liu Nian's command, over ten thousand people ran past the charred tank wrecks and charged toward the municipal building.

The Composite Regiment's last tank units had all been transferred to the north to fully block Li Xiao. Now, the tanks, along with the infantry fighting vehicles, had been indiscriminately destroyed by rockets, and the Black Hawk Unit could no longer field any decent defensive force.

Thousands upon thousands of soldiers swarmed toward the few lonely Armored Personnel Carriers guarding the municipal building, completing the encirclement with almost no effort.

The Composite Regiment's situation was hopeless. The Black Hawk armored units that had been blocking the Xiaoyao Squad's feint attacks on the other three sides gathered the remaining few infantry fighting vehicles and a dozen or so Armored Personnel Carriers, and actually managed to force a breakout from the east.

Lacking effective countermeasures, Xuan Yu could only helplessly watch as the enemy broke through her defensive line and escaped.

When Di Yun led dozens of brothers from the First Platoon into the regiment's command hall, they encountered desperate resistance from over a hundred Imperial Soldiers from the regimental guard company.

Li Xiao did not want to waste too much time. The Composite Regiment's soldiers held high ranks; the death of less than two thousand of them had already brought him over 600,000 Life Pool points, and the Life Pool had accumulated over a million.

He added 150,000 Life Pool points to each of the five machine gunners under Leng He. The five of them, carrying squad machine guns, swept from the main entrance all the way to the back hall, and from the bottom floor to the rooftop.

Finally, they found the resisting Composite Regiment Commander Lieutenant Colonel Chen Jun in the rooftop satellite equipment room. This lieutenant colonel with 1,500 Life Pool points held a DBS shotgun with a single-shot damage of 150 and a 15-round magazine, attempting to take one last soldier with him before he died.

However, he encountered Di Yun, who still had over 100,000 Life Pool points left.

Di Yun stood in front of him, watching him fire all fifteen shotgun shells at him, and then walked over and tied up this Imperial officer whom Chang Zhan had been thinking about killing day and night.

Lieutenant Colonel Chen Jun could not believe it. How could this soldier with the rank of second lieutenant in front of him have over 2,000 Life Pool points? Even after he had exhausted his ammunition, the opponent did not even show signs of being seriously injured.

"Could it really be, as Zhang Tian said, that this is a devilish unit?"

Lieutenant Colonel Chen Jun recalled what his capable subordinate, Composite Battalion Commander Zhang Tian, had said to him before leading an armored company to break through the blockade and flee Xi City.

Li Xiao looked at Lieutenant Colonel Chen Jun, who had been brought before him by Di Yun, and calmly said, "Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, you will be the first Imperial regimental-level officer I kill. I think the 40,000 fallen soldiers can rest in peace now!"

"Don't be happy too soon; the power of the Empire is beyond your imagination! Bombings like today's will be a common occurrence for you from now on, and they will only get more intense!"

Lieutenant Colonel Chen Jun glared viciously at Li Xiao; the middle-aged man's eyes were full of contempt.

"Too bad you won't live to see it!"

After speaking, Di Yun grabbed the bound Lieutenant Colonel Chen Jun, dragged him to the edge of the rooftop, stuffed a fragmentation grenade with the pin pulled into his collar, and pushed him off the fifteen-story building.

Boom!

Just as he was about to hit the ground, the grenade exploded, and Lieutenant Colonel Chen Jun's body splattered onto the ground.

[System Prompt: Your Xiaoyao Squad has successfully captured Xi City, Yun City, in the Tianyu Republic. The Xi City resource zone is open to all members of the Xiaoyao Squad starting today! The squad headquarters and squad military factory have been unlocked!]

If resource zones like Qiao Town and the chemical plant were public resource points where anyone could send Engineers to collect resources,

then Xi City had now become the exclusive resource zone for the Xiaoyao Squad, and outsiders no longer had the authority to enter the city to collect resources.

When Li Xiao opened the squad panel, he also discovered a new menu: the territory menu.

Xi City's name was already listed there, and he could also directly allocate the resource rations for Xi City.

For example, for the daily total of 200,000 steel, 200,000 fuel, and 100,000 Rare Ore in Xi City, he could set a fixed amount that each squad member could collect.

He could also set the squad's public resource retention rate, so that when squad members collected resources, for every two points collected, one point would be included in the squad's public resources.

These public resources could then be used to build the squad headquarters and military factory, as well as to produce high-level weapons and equipment in the squad's name in the future!

This system prompt rang in the minds of all squad members, and everyone knew that this meant Xi City was now firmly in their hands!

"We have won!"

Li Xiao couldn't help but shout to the bustling Xiao Yao Unit below from the rooftop, and cheers that rang through the sky erupted in the streets around the municipal building.

"We have won!"

"We have won!"

After paying the price of nearly 40,000 casualties and the deaths of dozens of squad members, Li Xiao finally felt a sense of relief.

He had reason to believe that this victory would be the beginning of the Xiaoyao Squad's takeoff!

...

Post-battle affairs were proceeding in an orderly manner. After the battle ended, because they had previously relied on suicide attacks to trade for the Black Hawk tank and armored units,

this caused the loyalty of the soldiers under many players to drop repeatedly, and by the next day, there were even cases of soldiers deserting, and more seriously, cases of soldiers shooting their officers.

After Li Xiao, Liu Nian, and other high-level commanders held an emergency consultation, they decided to suspend combat activities for at least two weeks and suggested that players use their own Star Coins to compensate soldiers with lower loyalty, allowing them to relax as much as possible.

So far, they did not have specialized psychological intervention units, so they could only alleviate the negative emotions of the troops through this external material form.

On the other hand, preparations for the construction of the squad headquarters and military factory also began.

Because it was being built using the squad's public resources, it was useless for individual players to gather resources themselves.

The construction cost of the headquarters was 100,000 of each of the three resources; this was simple. The next morning, Liu Nian mobilized all members to dispatch Engineers into the city to collect resources, and by noon, construction had begun.

The function of the headquarters was similar to that of a player's headquarters; once a squad's headquarters in a captured city was destroyed, it meant that the squad had lost that city.

Some people might say, "Then you can just not build it." Unfortunately, if you don't build a headquarters, you cannot touch the resources in the city, and the military factory can only be built and operated if the headquarters exists.