Wasteland Commander

The Burning Corps convoy was driving along the highway, with Wang Dashan full of confidence.

Two tanks were leading the way, followed closely by five armored vehicles, and behind them were two hundred various modified vehicles.

A total of two thousand people, fully armed.

This was his force, the new Burning Army.

Zhang Zhijian had already discussed with him that once this battle was over, they would truly unify the Survivor Alliance, and at that time the Burning Army would merge into the Wangbei Army, making him the deputy leader.

As the soon-to-be deputy leader, he naturally had to show his worth.

Zhang Zhijian said they would arrive at the designated location by eight o'clock; he purposely arrived half an hour early.

He always had to set an example for others; otherwise, how could he command respect?

"Hurry up, hurry up, we must reach the designated location by 7:30, or face military discipline."

The convoy moved quickly on the snow-covered roads, getting closer to the designated location, Pinggang Town.

Wang Dashan could even imagine the scenario when Ye Fan and his team hurriedly headed to Huacheng and were ambushed by them.

New grudges and old ones, they would all be settled this time.

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Pinggang Town is a town by the side of the highway.

This town's location is quite significant, thirty kilometers south of Huacheng, and is a necessary path to enter Huacheng.

The main road runs through the middle, with rows of small buildings on both sides, facilitating ambushes and street fights.

The zombies in the town had been cleared by the Survivor Alliance; although not very thoroughly, it didn't affect the overall situation.

Those young and strong zombies had almost all been cleared, leaving only the elementary school zombies they hadn't cleared.

On one hand, their strength was limited, and bullets were scarce; on the other hand, they felt that these zombies were of no concern.

Wandering over, they could be kicked away with one foot, and as long as they weren't surrounded by a group, there was basically no big problem.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Survivor Alliance, this seemed to be a safe zone.

Besides here, they couldn't find a better ambush spot.

After all, it was impossible for so many troops to hide in an open area.

According to Zhang Zhijian's plan, all six factions would come together, all lying in wait in the town, and once the Dawn Army arrived, they would launch the operation together.

But the Burning Army was one step ahead.

At seven twenty, the Burning Army entered Pinggang Town.

Wang Dashan also instructed his troops, "Be careful, don't get too close to the elementary school in the northeast corner; there are more than three thousand Little One zombies there. Those little things are actually quite tough to deal with; they're small targets and hard to hit, and they come out in groups. Bringing them over might cause some trouble."

His subordinates all indicated they understood, and began preparing for the ambush according to the designated locations.

When Zhang Zhijian arrived, he would definitely praise the swift action of the Burning Corps.

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While the Burning Army was setting up an ambush in the town, Ye Fan's forces were separated from them by a forest.

Upon reaching this point, Ye Fan directly used the War Hawk's perspective to observe the town.

The radar screen showed that there were still many zombies in the town, all concentrated at the elementary school.

Ye Fan didn't pay much attention, controlling the War Hawk to fly a circle over the elementary school.

He wanted to see if there were any mutated zombies there.

Inside the elementary school, many zombies were wandering in the campus; since the beginning of the apocalypse, someone had locked the school gate, so the Little One zombies couldn't get out and just roamed inside the campus.

Their numbers were considerable, appearing to be three to four thousand, but there weren't many mutated ones.

Perhaps some fifth or sixth graders could mutate, but most of the lower-grade Little One zombies looked harmless.

"There are quite a few in the school building too, but they don't seem formidable, nothing worth seeing."

Ye Fan withdrew his view from the War Hawk; the radar didn't show anything particularly alarming either.

The War Hawk flew away to check on the Burning Army.

After the War Hawk left, a Little One zombie appeared on the third floor of a school building.

Small in stature, it looked like a first-grade student.

On its head was an iron bucket from the classroom, covering it.

Its scarlet eyes watched as the War Hawk left the sky, feeling the danger had passed.

Since yesterday, it had begun to sense danger and understood how to protect itself.

Under the iron bucket, its head was particularly large, like a big-headed doll.

It had a feeling that it must protect its head, so it found an iron bucket and placed it on its head, an action not seen among other zombies.

In the classroom, there were many other zombies, including classmates from the same class, upper graders, and even teachers.

The Little One zombie returned, and those zombies stayed around it, clearly taking it as the leader.

The Little One zombie felt hungry and looked at an Armored Zombie wandering downstairs.

A high-grade student had mutated into an Armored Zombie.

The Armored Zombie paused, sensing the Little One zombie's call, and staggered up the school building.

Reaching the Little One zombie, the Armored Zombie twisted off its own neck voluntarily, dying in front of the Little One zombie.

The Little One zombie began its meal.

It didn't like the taste of regular zombies, only the mutated ones were considered good food.

But recently, mutated zombies appeared more slowly, food was scarce, and everyone's evolution was slow.

While eating the Armored Zombie, it sensed the food scent in the air.

A large amount of food had arrived in the town, but the food was dangerous, and the Little One zombie dared not leave the campus yet; it needed to wait until the food was less dangerous before going out.

Only by constantly eating good food could it become stronger and lead more zombies.

Eating, evolving, these were its inner desires.

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Ye Fan's gaze fell on the Burning Army who were setting up.

This was a big gift; it was clear that the Burning Army was somewhat out of sync with the other Survivor Alliance troops.

As the second strongest Survivor force in the Alliance, Ye Fan was more than willing to eliminate them first, to weaken the Alliance and to rehearse for the impending battle.

"Sir, they've infiltrated a street."

Ye Fan nodded, having already seen it through the War Hawk's perspective.

On a street by the roadside, the Burning Army was rapidly setting up an ambush, even piling up fortifications.

According to War Hawk reconnaissance, the rest of the Survivor Alliance forces were still nearly twenty kilometers away from Pinggang Town.

It would take them twenty more minutes to arrive.

So Ye Fan didn't have much time; within twenty minutes, he had to deal with the Burning Army's main force.

Therefore, he had to strike with the force of a thunderbolt to annihilate the Burning Army in one swift move.

Ye Fan immediately turned back: "Prepare the rocket launchers!"

The Dawn Army had ten D-66 model towed rocket launchers, all of which Ye Fan had brought along.

The ten rocket launchers hadn't seen much use since the zombie siege, with two being Three-Star and eight being Two-Star.

The soldiers maneuvered the rocket launchers to the other side of the woods, aiming at the Burning Army's positions in Pinggang Town.

"Cannon One and Cannon Two, take note, main targets are the air defense infantry beside the armored vehicle, destroy their air defense capabilities first."

The soldiers operating Cannon One and Cannon Two adjusted their angles.

"Tang Yafei, are you ready?"

Behind Ye Fan, the combat helicopter was parked, ready to take off at any moment.

"Ready, sir. As soon as the opposing air defense infantry are destroyed, I'll take off and use anti-tank missiles to take out their two tanks."

"Alright, tank unit prepare!"

"Tanks ready!"

"Armored assault vehicles prepare!"

"Armored vehicles ready!"

"Infantry units prepare!"

"Ready!"

With each order given, the Dawn Army was fully prepared.

Zhongjing gave the command, and the rocket launchers fired!

Thud, thud, thud, thud~~~!

Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud~~~!

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Wang Dashan was setting up defenses when he suddenly heard a series of dull thuds.

As an Evolver, he was a bit sharper than the average person.

At the instant the rocket launchers fired, Wang Dashan's body hair stood on end!

"Holy shit!"

A sense of death enveloped him, Wang Dashan couldn't speak, he just threw himself to the ground!

Then came the most tragic moment, as the artillery plowed the ground!

Each D-66 model towed rocket launcher could fire twelve rockets in three seconds.

With ten launching simultaneously, that's a hundred and twenty rockets!

The troops of the Burning Corps defending this street were densely packed, and they were struck by a catastrophic blow.

The deafening explosion sounds filled the air, with huge fireballs soaring into the sky one after another.

These survivors, though fully armed, were far less resilient than zombies.

Being swept by the rocket fire, they had no chance of survival!

Some buildings collapsed under attack, leaving them defenseless!

The air defense infantry, who were the focus of Cannon One and Cannon Two, were in dire straits.

Over twenty Three-Star powered rockets landed around the armored vehicle they were in, turning it into scrap metal.

Their man-portable missiles were rendered useless, collapsing under the nightmarish scene.

The entire street turned into a sea of flame, filled with wails of despair.

Wang Dashan felt a burning pain on his back, possibly cut by shrapnel.

But at the moment, that didn't matter; his main focus was on his two precious tanks.

The tanks weren't completely destroyed; one was near a wall and hadn't been hit, the other had its turret on fire but could still move.

"Put out the fire~~~! Quickly put out the fire~~~!"

"Defend in place! Prepare to counterattack, the Dawn Army is coming!"

Screaming frantically, the surrounding people who were still alive and mobile got up.

Some people, though still able to move, were paralyzed with fear.

Even if their training was decent, actual battle was a whole different story.

This wave of operations by the D-66s directly took out over half of the Burning Army soldiers.

In the face of such a disastrous attack, the Burning Army's performance was quite poor.

Some who were brave and still sober hurried to the tanks to put out fires, as without tanks they had no counterattack strength.

Others went to prepare defenses in the direction from which the rockets were launched, as the Dawn Army might charge over.

But before they saw the Dawn Army, a whirlwind blew in!