99: Storm is coming

"If Brother Wang is only worth two million Star Coins, wouldn't that make people look down on you?"

"Haha! Brother Li Xiao, just because you trust me this much, I will definitely get this done for you!"

Returning to the base, Li Xiao immediately felt relieved. With the addition of ten IFVs, the Blue Ice Squad was definitely going to be crushed!

"Now, the next issue is durability."

The IFVs haven't reached the protection level of main battle tanks, and heavy machine guns can still cause significant damage to them. In large-scale battles with over a hundred thousand people, there will definitely be a large number of heavy machine guns.

Furthermore, after the King of War event, we cannot rule out the possibility that the Blue Ice Squad possesses heavy firepower like mortars. Even if they don't have mortars, captured rocket-propelled grenades could still cause great damage.

Therefore, relying solely on the IFVs' original 150,000 durability points certainly won't last long. To withstand the enemy's sustained and fierce attacks, we need at least over a million durability points.

Li Xiao had a headache for a moment, then suddenly thought of a brilliant idea.

He ran out of the command center and called Di Yun over.

"Di Yun, bring the ten meng hu off-road vehicles you have on hand over here immediately."

"Yes!"

Di Yun drove the ten meng hu off-road vehicles to the plaza in front of the command center without hesitation, and then Li Xiao pulled out a large pile of C4 explosives.

Seeing this, Di Yun had a bad premonition and asked, "Boss, what are you trying to..."

"Blow these vehicles up!"

"What? Blow up the vehicles?!" Di Yun exclaimed in shock. "Boss, if you have any dissatisfaction with our First Company, you can just scold us directly. There's no need to take it out on our livelihood."

Li Xiao chuckled. "What are you thinking? You're about to be equipped with new gear, and these vehicles need to be repurposed for now!"

"This..."

Di Yun still felt he had misheard, but Li Xiao kept urging him.

Yes, Li Xiao couldn't get a large amount of durability points at the moment, so he had to resort to using these vehicles that had accompanied him in battle for two months.

During multiple battles and this King of War event, Li Xiao had already increased the durability of each of these vehicles to over a million.

He planned to transfer the durability points out of these vehicles, which would solve his urgent need.

Of course, before blowing them up, he had to blow up one first to test it, just in case owning the vehicles made the Life Pool ineffective.

Following Li Xiao's order, Di Yun and his men quickly covered a single vehicle with C4 explosives.

With a loud boom, over two hundred C4 explosives detonated simultaneously. The entire off-road vehicle was propelled several meters into the air by the massive explosive energy and then turned into a pile of scrap metal.

Li Xiao watched with satisfaction as over 1.1 million durability points returned to the Life Pool.

"Hmm, not bad. Blow up the remaining nine..."

Watching the meng hu off-road vehicles that he usually maintained like his own wife turn into wrecks one by one, Di Yun felt as miserable as if he had been dumped by his girlfriend.

"Hahaha, Di Yun, don't be too sad. Soon, a batch of powerful infantry fighting vehicles will be handed over to you. When the time comes, you'll be driving a real armored fighting vehicle, and you'll be able to pick any beauty in Xi City you want!"

"Infantry fighting vehicles! Boss, you're not lying to me, are you?" Di Yun was instantly revitalized when he heard about infantry fighting vehicles.

"Soon! You and your soldiers just wait patiently!"

...

After waiting for a day and a night, Wang Si's men finally drove the ten AMX infantry fighting vehicles to the base.

The moment the infantry fighting vehicles entered the base gate, the whole base erupted in excitement. Di Yun's expression was like he had fallen in love on the spot, and he immediately started jumping around the infantry fighting vehicles, tinkering with them.

The AMX infantry fighting vehicle's twin 25mm autocannon has a higher rate of fire than Li Xiao's own blade ifv, but its single-shot power is lower than the blade ifv.

Additionally, it does not possess an automatic fire control system and cannot automatically search, aim, or fire; it must be aimed and fired manually by the gunner.

Its wheeled propulsion system also has poorer off-road capability than the blade ifv's tracked system.

Even though it is relatively outdated, for other squads that can only be equipped with Armored Personnel Carriers at this stage, this is an invincible killer weapon.

However, precisely because it is relatively outdated, even standard infantry can drive the AMX infantry fighting vehicle and operate its weapons.

Of course, it also possesses anti-armor capabilities, with two TOW anti-tank missile launchers and five spare missiles, dealing 70,000 damage to light armor and 50,000 to heavy armor.

The durability is 150,000 points, the same as the blade ifv, which has no impact on Li Xiao.

"Di Yun, these ten infantry fighting vehicles are now in your hands. Load the ammunition as soon as possible and familiarize yourself with the vehicle's performance, especially the method of using the anti-tank missiles."

"Guarantee to complete the mission!"

Li Xiao immediately filled all ten vehicles with one million durability points.

With the hard hardware, the first thing Li Xiao thought of was organizing troops to launch a sneak attack as well.

However, thinking that the opponent's military strength was at least twice that of his own, an active attack was obviously inappropriate. He could only adopt a defensive counter-attack tactic, which would at least ensure that the disparity in military strength wouldn't be too extreme.

Li Xiao checked the upgrade progress of the level 10 base; it still needed one week to complete, which meant that the upgrade of the military factory would take a long time to wait for.

"Sigh, time, please give me a little more time to develop..." Li Xiao was extremely anxious at this moment.

Over these two days, as Li Xiao's conscription order expanded to eight people, his military strength began to gradually become sufficient. However, the spawn rate of the Shadow Special Forces was very low, and so far there were only three in total.

Li Xiao immediately took these three and sent them to Long Ming's military academy for further training. There was no need for them yet, so he took advantage of the time to maximize their combat effectiveness.

...

Finally, just as Yun Dongliu had guessed, the Blue Ice Squad's last attack was merely a probe. Just two days later, the main force of the Blue Ice Squad finally mobilized.

According to data observed by Zhao Feipeng's drone, the Blue Ice Squad had mobilized nearly half of its forces, 250,000 people, this time.

This was almost the entire total military strength of the Xiaoyao Squad, which was enough to show the formidable strength of the Blue Ice Squad.

In the squad command center, Yun Dongliu, Qin Luming, and Xuan Yu were discussing the battle plan, while Liu Nian was constantly mobilizing the 200,000 troops under his command to prepare for defense.

"Liu Nian, if we rely on the strongholds in each resource area to resist step by step, we can contend with the Blue Ice Squad with fewer troops."

"The 50,000 troops saved must be gathered at key points on the northern national highway and expressway to prevent the enemy from bypassing to the north after passing through the Yuling Tunnel!"

Yun Dongliu quickly marked multiple assembly points and defensive lines on the electronic sand table. Liu Nian looked at them and turned to ask Li Xiao, "Lao Xiao, what do you think? Currently, the drones haven't seen any of Blue Ice's vanguard troops splitting off to head that way."

"If we only leave 150,000 people on the front, the pressure will be too great!"

Li Xiao had not yet told Liu Nian and the others that he already had ten infantry fighting vehicles with one million durability, so he agreed with Yun Dongliu's cautious defensive plan.