Wasteland Commander

After Shen Ruihui captured Hu Yuan, Daqing Mountain's offensive forces also collapsed.

Although they inflicted some losses on the Dawn Army and had the advantage in numbers, their gaps in terrain conditions, weaponry, and other factors were too significant.

Of the five thousand attack troops, fewer than a thousand remained.

When the captured Hu Yuan came to, he immediately requested to speak with Shen Ruihui.

Shen Ruihui stood in front of him and asked him what he wanted.

Hu Yuan took a deep breath and looked at this small-time officer with a complex gaze.

"I want to surrender and request fair treatment."

.....

With Hu Yuan climbing the city wall and asking the people of Daqing Mountain to lay down their arms, this siege battle came to an end.

In this battle, the Dawn Army also suffered losses, with about dozens of soldiers killed and over a hundred wounded.

Of the five thousand people attacking from the Daqing Mountain Prison Base, fewer than seven hundred were still able to move freely.

Meanwhile, the number of wounded exceeded two thousand.

These people were temporarily bandaged and treated, all weapons and equipment were surrendered, and they were currently confined in a temporary shed in the Outer City District of the Dawn Army.

Perhaps the Dawn Army needs a prison.

After the battle, Shen Ruihui was excited to report to Ye Fan.

"Sir, all the invading enemies have been annihilated!"

"Well done, Deputy Shen....."

Shen Ruihui's excitement rose to his throat.

"Deputy Platoon Leader Shen."

Having said this, Ye Fan hung up the phone.

This brat promoted himself to deputy regiment leader, so let's let him fret for a while.

No time to worry about what Shen Ruihui thinks, Ye Fan's arrangements here were also at the final stage.

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The Survivor Alliance of over ten thousand people had surrounded Pinggang Town in a fan shape for almost two hours.

They, too, were waiting for the result of the siege.

However, they would not know the result of the siege since no one would report back to them anymore.

Ye Fan decided to close the net.

The Survivor Alliance had to attack, and he intended to utilize the terrain to snipe; otherwise, in an open field battle, with the opponent's numbers exceeding ten thousand and tanks and armored vehicles outnumbering his own, the Dawn Army, even with strong combat capability, would suffer significant losses, which Ye Fan did not want to see.

"All units, board the vehicles and prepare to retreat!"

The Dawn Army, with orders instantly executed, began boarding the vehicles to retreat from Pinggang Town.

Seeing this through the binoculars, Zhang Zhijian was immediately overjoyed.

Finally, the opportunity has come!

It must be that Dawn City couldn't hold on any longer, and Ye Fan couldn't wait here any longer and was preparing to go back to support them.

This rare opportunity should absolutely not be missed.

"Everyone, attention! The Dawn Army is preparing to retreat. We absolutely cannot let them safely return to Dawn City. Now, the whole army charge!"

With Zhang Zhijian's command, the Survivor Alliance troops were set in motion.

Everyone had come by car, and now all vehicles started up, with tanks and armored vehicles leading, followed by other off-road vehicles, raising clouds of snow and fog on the plains.

From above, it looked like long white dragons.

The momentum was so strong it seemed like it would engulf Pinggang Town at once.

The distance of three kilometers between the two sides was instantly reduced to less than two kilometers.

Seeing this, Ye Fan immediately ordered: "All units disembark and return to defense positions. Open with dispersed rocket fire! Mortar, second wave fire!"

The Red Alert Soldiers moved with lightning speed, returning to the defensive positions without delay.

The rocket launchers were towed by the vehicles, originally facing backward, requiring no adjustments; artillerymen moved in to load and fire directly.

There were enemies everywhere, no need to aim precisely, just open fire.

Thump, thump, thump, thump~~~~!

This was the most beautiful symphony in the world, a divine tool to narrow the gap between enemies and us.

Only one round of shells was fired during the attack on the Burning Army, and a second round was already loaded.

Over a hundred rockets rose to the snowfield, blooming countless red flowers, occasionally hitting distant enemy battle vehicles.

Such a direct hit means death; there is hardly any talk of injury.

Some rockets exploded on the ground, kicking up a snow mist that shot up to the sky; the Survivor Alliance's armored vehicles trudged forward in such conditions.

Zhang Zhijian was mentally prepared for all of this. The Dawn Army might fake a retreat, but he had no choice.

The snowfield outside was no place for people to stay, and he couldn't keep wasting time with the Dawn Army, so whether it was an opportunity or a trap, he had to break through it.

Plus, he believed the current losses were only temporary, that their army exceeded the Dawn Army by over tenfold; as long as they pushed through the town and engaged in street fighting, they would grind the Dawn Army down.

However, he underestimated the firepower of the Dawn Army.

When the rocket launchers finished firing, the mortars fired, and after the mortars fired, the rocket launchers fired again.

After two rounds of shooting, some of those Two-Star rocket launchers began to earn a Star Promotion.

24 rockets turned into 36, and the firepower intensified.

For those not receiving a Star Promotion, it didn't matter, as loading reserve rockets would trigger another round, with nearly all achieving a Star Promotion!

This three-kilometer journey was a hellish path for the Alliance.

Over one-third of the battle vehicles vanished under the enemy's rocket and mortar attacks.

Afterwards, some of the Alliance soldiers dared not ride in vehicles, opting to advance by foot; at least this way, fewer would die if hit by a shell.

This time, the Alliance still had thirteen tanks and one hundred armored vehicles.

The rockets found it difficult to destroy tanks, but there were injuries.

Those armored vehicles struck by rockets were done for; any direct hit rendered them powerless.

Furthermore, armored vehicles were favorite targets of the rockets, with only forty or so able to make it to Pinggang Town.

More than half of the battle vehicles were left on the road.

The personnel might suffer fewer losses, with about eight thousand out of thirteen thousand making it through this deadly zone.

They still outnumbered the Dawn Army several times over, so Zhang Zhijian was still full of confidence.

As long as the tank squadron broke through, it would spell doom for the Dawn Army.

But the Dawn Army did not give the Alliance this chance.

At Ye Fan's command, ten tanks from the Dawn Army maneuvered to the side of the enemy's tank squadron.

Seeing this, the Alliance's tanks dared not charge forward.

The Dawn Army had the advantage of terrain defense, making them difficult to attack; if the enemy's tanks came from behind, the Alliance forces would face certain annihilation.

Zhang Zhijian gritted his teeth and sent all thirteen tanks forward to engage the Dawn Army's tanks in a tank battle!

The Alliance's tanks separated from the units, started approaching the Dawn Army's tanks.

Among the Dawn Army's tanks, two were One-Star tanks, manned by Zhou Tao and Wu Ling respectively.

The other eight tanks were No-Star.

Even in a No-Star state, the Type T5 outclassed these Alliance tanks by a margin.

After all, the Type T5 is the latest light tank equipped by Qin Han's army, with extremely outstanding performance.

Under their deliberate leadership, the tank squadron parted from the main battlefield, opening a new battle area elsewhere.

The Alliance, considering their numerical advantage, relentlessly pursued.

As long as they destroyed these ten tanks, they believed the Dawn Army would surrender.

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After the tank units separated, the main battlefield's skirmish unfolded.

The Dawn Army had already set up defenses, deploying twenty-five heavy machine guns at various strategic points in the town.

When the Alliance forces approached, the heavy machine guns opened fire!

The extreme firepower suppression brought the Alliance's offensive to a halt.

Neither personnel nor ordinary vehicles could withstand the madness of heavy machine gun fire; armored vehicles could barely take a few hits, but coordinated fire from two heavy machine guns could still blow up an armored vehicle in ten seconds!

"Get off, get off! Snipers counterattack! Rocket launchers counterattack!"

Zhang Zhijian shouted loudly; they did not only have tanks and armored vehicles, but many new weapons, and the Alliance was not without ways to counter.

But what they had, the Dawn Army also had.

The Dawn Army's snipers were mostly stationed on rooftops.

With the enemy's reckless charge, the snipers stayed inactive.

Their task was to assassinate the opponent's key combat units, not the ordinary soldiers.

Inexperienced Alliance snipers just showed their heads and immediately faced attacks from all directions.

Even a random Three-Star Sniper could win a world shooting championship in the past.

The shots never missed, hitting whatever they aimed at!

Ye Fan had arranged forty snipers here, delivering catastrophic losses to the Alliance.

A person just about to aim a rocket launcher at a strategic point got a bullet through the forehead!

The instant they died, they pulled the trigger, but the rocket launcher lost its aim and exploded right in the middle of the advancing troops.

Such friendly fire drastically affected morale, causing a wave of attacking soldiers to fall prone, missing a critical opportunity.

Trying to mount another coordinated offensive, they had no idea how much strength they would lose.

Zhang Zhijian hid behind an armored vehicle, this one modified to be more defensively robust than others, and stayed away from the battle zone, ensuring his own safety first.

Holding a walkie-talkie, he cursed into it.

"Did you people grow up eating shit? Tell your troops to crouch during the attack, use shelters as much as possible, don't strut around giving them perfect shooting angles!"

"Crawl when you should crawl, roll when you should roll! We are facing not brainless zombies, but the Dawn Army who are hundreds of times more insane than zombies. If your mind's wandering, even if you survive the battlefield, I'll execute you!"

Thanks to the urging of leaders at various bases, the Survivor Alliance barely regained some composure after the frenzied assault.

Heavy machine guns and rocket launchers also began to counterattack against the Dawn Army.

Under various cover fire, the Survivor Alliance finally got close to the town's central avenue.

As long as they break through here, the Dawn Army would be nearly finished.

Zhang Zhijian organized over twenty armored vehicles for a collective charge!

Full-force breakthrough down the central main road!

The armored vehicles revved up full speed, anti-aircraft machine guns firing wildly above, disregarding the hits, aiming to suppress the Dawn Army's firepower.

The steel torrent advanced rapidly at full speed!

It was about to succeed~~~!

Balls of fire soared into the sky; Zhang Zhijian watched, seeing his armored vehicles blasted into pieces!

Mines~~~!

At some unknown moment, the Dawn Army had laid mines here!