80: War game simulation

The three meng hu off-road vehicles sped toward the center of the square as if they had cheats enabled, instantly disrupting the enemy's formation. Togg raised his arms and shouted, and over sixteen hundred soldiers launched a ferocious charge.

Without the suppression power of heavy machine guns mowing down soldiers like wheat, the enemy forces scattered in the various civilian houses had no time to rebuild their defensive lines.

The short distance of three hundred meters was breached by the main force in just one minute. When they reached the square, the four or five hundred enemy soldiers who had been lying in ambush there had all rushed out of their cover and into the square, firing violently at the three vehicles, and even charging directly in front of the communication station.

Everyone looked up and saw that Zhao Feipeng and his team were already enduring the hail of bullets and beginning to attach C4 explosives to the communication station.

Boom!!

A massive mushroom cloud rose into the sky, accompanied by the deaths of over a hundred enemy soldiers and a dozen of Zhao Feipeng's men.

[Confrontation Ended! Attackers Win!]

As the system announcement rang out, all the surviving enemies in the entire town turned to dust, which meant they and the Commander they were loyal to had completely disappeared from the Inverse Fire World.

In front of the communication station, Zhao Feipeng and his team, who had become corpses, were all resurrected, and even the meng hu off-road vehicles that only had a hundred thousand durability left were restored to new condition.

"Oh my god! This is incredible!"

"Thank God! I'm actually still alive..."

"We won! This is too powerful!"

Upon receiving the news of victory, several players were already in tears, having once thought they would die in this space.

Togg walked up to Li Xiao and said, "Your troops seem to have some unique secrets, which makes me feel very uneasy. It seems I will choose to forfeit the next round of the competition, because I don't want to encounter an enemy like you, even after returning to Hanhai Star."

Li Xiao shrugged, "We don't necessarily have to be enemies. What we should be thinking about is how to survive, attempt to defeat the Black Hawk Empire, and then leave this terrible world."

"You're right. I hope I can live until that day!"

The two shook hands, and soon the system teleported everyone out of the space.

As expected, Li Xiao became the MVP of this confrontation, and his backpack now contained two blueprints and fifty F-rank Recruitment Orders.

In the second round, Zhao Feipeng destroyed over one hundred and seventy meng hu off-road vehicles in total, which brought him one point seven million durability.

At the same time, they eliminated over three hundred enemy soldiers with at least the rank of corporal, accounting for forty-five percent of the total eliminated, and also gained an additional one hundred and thirty to one hundred and forty thousand points of health.

At this moment, his health had accumulated to over six hundred thousand, and his vehicle durability had reached nearly thirteen million.

"Hmm, at this rate, I might even be able to earn back that four million durability from Dark Soul."

Through two rounds of confrontation, Li Xiao had already earned a fortune, but these things could not yet bring him a qualitative leap; the King of War was his ultimate goal.

When the third round of confrontation began, the number of participants was less than two hundred. Originally, there would have been over twenty thousand winners from the second round, but unfortunately, ninety percent of them could not withstand the pressure.

Just when Li Xiao thought the third round would still be about leading troops in combat, the system informed him that this round of the competition was actually Wargaming!

This immediately made Li Xiao panic. He had originally relied on the advantage of his soldiers and vehicles to win through practical operations, but now he was being told that it wouldn't test practice, but theory!

Li Xiao's heart sank instantly. He now knew why this event was called the King of War; it wasn't just to select the best combat general, but also to select a Commander who could devise strategies!

"System God, can we start over?"

Li Xiao was very unsure of himself. Although he used to be a game Commander, games and military were two different concepts.

The two hundred or so people remaining now were the boldest and smartest people out of two billion.

He even suspected that these two hundred-plus people might all have military backgrounds, and there might even be professional command talent among them.

However, the reward for the third round was lethal: Daily Check-in Recruitment Order +5.

This was N times more outrageous than the second round's simple gift of fifty Recruitment Orders.

The system quickly teleported Li Xiao into a closed hall. On the hall's ceiling were spotlights, illuminating the floor to a snowy white.

The surrounding walls were hung with many display screens, with various satellite maps and surveillance footage flickering back and forth. The surrounding walls were all made of high-grade concrete, without any paint.

And in the center of the hall, Li Xiao saw a table that was five meters long and three meters wide.

The tabletop seemed to be a single large display, and there appeared to be a projection device above the top of the table.

Without making Li Xiao wait too long, light and shadow flickered opposite Li Xiao, and a tall Brown-haired Man appeared.

The other party was wearing a set of desert camouflage training fatigues and a baseball cap.

When the other party saw Li Xiao, a trace of a contemptuous smile appeared on his lips. Li Xiao knew what he was smiling about; he was probably laughing at his youth and mysterious self-confidence.

Actually, Li Xiao was not confident, but the situation had already occurred, and he had to face it.

[Third round of confrontation begins. The two sides will use their current base troop resources as a reference to generate a wargame map. Both sides must rely on their own troops and weapon equipment to defeat the opponent, and destroying the enemy base will result in victory. The competition time is 5 hours. Timer starts!]

Li Xiao hadn't even had time to digest the information the system had provided when the table in front of him suddenly lit up. Several lasers shot down, and a three-dimensional sandbox map was presented before the two of them.

According to the scale on the side of the map, this was an area five kilometers long and three kilometers wide, with steep mountain ridges on both sides and a winding river running through the center of the map.

On the Brown-haired Man's side, there were lush forests and grasslands, and near the mountain ridges, there were some relatively flat open areas.

On Li Xiao's side, there was almost no cover, only a dirt road running horizontally across.

Near the very center of the map was a fifty-meter-long bridge, with a sturdy concrete bunker on each side of the bridge.

"Is this the battlefield?"

Li Xiao calculated to himself. Soon, the bases of both sides appeared before them. Li Xiao's Level 9 base, along with nineteen meng hu off-road vehicles and eleven all-terrain motorcycles, were neatly parked on the open ground of the base. One hundred and seventy-one soldiers and officers, including logistics troops, were lined up in front.

At this moment, Li Xiao looked at the opposite side and couldn't help but think that things were not looking good!

The other party was surprisingly a Level 8 base, and possessed fifteen meng hu off-road vehicles, fifteen all-terrain motorcycles, and as many as two hundred and ten soldiers.

Of course, this wasn't the most critical part; what truly made Li Xiao feel panicked was that the other party actually possessed two Armored Personnel Carriers!

Seeing these two Armored Personnel Carriers, Li Xiao's heart sank halfway. This was Wargaming, and the system would likely only calculate based on the health and combat power granted by the soldiers' actual military ranks and strength ratings.

"It looks like the team the other party joined must have long ago controlled a city, manufactured Armored Personnel Carriers, and assigned them to him, or perhaps he is simply a Team Leader!"

Li Xiao muttered to himself.