Cultivation System: Stronger with Age Chapter 1454 - 637: Firepower Saturation (2)

Ding Ye frowned when he heard Hong Futian say this, "Old Hong, ever since you left my First Defense Battalion and became a Captain, have you been letting yourself go more and more? Do you still plan to ambush the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps? Knowing the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps has air force support, do you think ambushing them will be easy?

Behave yourself, even though I’m only a Deputy Commander and also a Deputy Captain, I can still command you! You listen to me now, lead your Defense Battalion from Liang County and Guo County, along with all officers and soldiers, and continue to build the second and third defense lines behind the first line. Speed up, and at the latest, complete it within three days, and the standard must be better than the first line!

Get going, use your energy not for thinking about ambushing the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps, but for doing these tasks well!"

Hong Futian felt dejected at these words, but he was indeed from Qingyuan City’s First Defense Battalion, and faced with his former junior officer Ding Ye, he could absolutely not defy his orders!

Thus, this fierce warrior, second only to Ding Ye in stature and ferocity, left the command post with a group of deputies to busy himself with building the two new defense lines!

Afterwards, Ding Ye arranged the shifts for numerous officers and sent them off to execute the tasks! After all, the arrangements needed for a ten-day defense compared to thirty days are vastly different, and not something Li Liyue, the Chief Commander, can complete with just a lip service!

Once all the officers had left, Ding Ye pondered privately, curious about the big surprise Li Liyue had mentioned... especially since this surprise gave the Chief Commander such confidence, Ding Ye naturally was very curious.

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Soon, another two or three days passed.

At the Chaokou Command Post,

Ding Ye was conducting exercises around a sand table with several officers when the phone on the table suddenly rang.

Ding Ye answered, and a slightly urgent voice came from the other side, amidst the rumbling sound of bombs exploding, "Commander Ding, the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps’ armored battalion is advancing rapidly and is already seven-eight miles away from the first defense line. Additionally, the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps’ bombers have begun bombing the lines and fortifications here! It’s estimated that after this wave of bombing, the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps’ armored battalion will strongly assault the first defense line!"

The tough battle was finally approaching!

The Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps was finally coming!

Ding Ye’s face showed solemnity, with a hint of killing intent in his eyes, and he shouted:

"Hong Futian, I have already handed over two of the battalions from the First Defense Battalion to you, along with your battalions totaling over six thousand soldiers and more than eighty cannons! This manpower and firepower are not just for you to hold the first line, but to at least take out half of the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps’ armored vehicles and tanks in the first wave of counterattacks!"

Hong Futian on the other side of the phone fell silent, only the sound of bombs incessantly roaring could be heard from there!

Moments later, a somewhat inexperienced voice came through on the line,

"Commander Ding, I am Captain Hong’s liaison officer!

The artillery company positions were bombed by the Ai Clan’s aircraft, reporting to Captain Hong that they were no longer able to shell the position of the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps’ armored battalion!

In desperation, Captain Hong personally took the Personal Guard to the positions! Captain Hong said that those cannons are half of your First Defense Battalion’s assets, and since they were found out and destroyed by the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps’ scouts, he has no face to see you unless he personally leads a team to take out several tanks before daring to return to see you!"

Upon hearing this, Ding Ye’s brow suddenly furrowed, "Reckless, he’s a Captain, the commander of the first line, how can he rush up himself..."

Just as he spoke,

On the other side of the phone, there was the piercing sound of bombs slicing through the air, followed by crackling interference noises, Ding Ye shouted a few times, but there was no response from the other side.

The surrounding officers saw this, and their expressions turned somewhat grim.

Instead, Ding Ye grabbed the binoculars on the table, ran quickly to the window, and looked outside.

He saw that near the first defense line positions about twenty miles away, smoke was everywhere, and the sky-high smoke clouds from bombs and shells were rising up! Further afar, the armored battalions of the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps were charging towards the trenches of the first defense line!

Those tanks and armored vehicles do seem undefeatable on the land of the Great Yan Kingdom in the Blue Star Republic era, especially after the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps’ air force bombed the artillery company... facing the rifle fire from the soldiers on the positions, they suffered no damage whatsoever!

Of course, what frustrated Ding Ye the most was that the position of the first line artillery company was discovered and covered by the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps’ air force fire... If not for this, the powerful artillery could still pose a certain threat and suppressive effect to the armored cluster, at the very least it could delay the enemy’s charge and disrupt their rhythm!

One of the officers by Ding Ye’s side watched the scene, his face turning somewhat ashen, and he anxiously said: "Commander Ding, should we summon the second artillery company to provide support to the first line?"

Ding Ye shook his head slightly, "Hong Futian has already had a lot of steel dragon horns and landmines laid in front of the first line to damage armor tracks, which should hold for a while! Moreover, the second artillery company needs to block the west side’s Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps’ second battalion’s armored battalion, if we summon them now, what if the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps launches an attack on the west side too?

Don’t worry, Hong Futian has always had a big fate, him leading the charge, surely..."

Just as he said this,

His voice paused unexpectedly, saying, "What is that? Is there really a mysterious Immortal from the Ghost Servant Sect within the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps?"

The numerous officers heard this and raised their binoculars one after the other, looking towards the first line position, and they saw a large number of white Paper People and Paper Horses appearing swiftly beyond the advancing armored vehicles and tanks!

Minutes later, those hundreds of somewhat eerie Paper People and Paper Horses stormed to the minefield and dragon horn area in front of the first line!

The soldiers of the first line hid their heads back after the first wave of Ai Clan’s air force bombing, and now they peeked out from the fortifications, witnessing this scene with some alarm!

After all, in broad daylight, seeing such white Paper People and Paper Horses charging towards them was surely shocking and chilling!

Fortunately, the officers leading the teams reacted quickly, shouted out some orders, and all the soldiers of the first line suppressed their inner fear, opening fire on those eerie white Paper People and Paper Horses!

Instantly,

Numerous bullets were shot towards those eerie white Paper People and Paper Horses, creating streams of bullet torrents!

To the shock of the first line soldiers, however, the bullets hitting the eerie white Paper People and Paper Horses did not stop their advance at all!

Those Paper People and Paper Horses, when shot in the head, merely staggered more violently while running! Those with their legs shot were moving forward with their bodies or arms! Those cut in half had both parts of their bodies advancing separately...

Thousands of skilled soldiers firing at full power still could not thoroughly stop those eerie white Paper People and Paper Horses!

Before long, those eerie white Paper People and Paper Horses rushed into the dragon horn and mine area!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

A large number of pre-laid mines were triggered one after another by those eerie white Paper People and Paper Horses, and those dragon horns were lifted up and thrown far away by them!

Until a large number of mines were triggered, some of those eerie white Paper People and Paper Horses could not withstand the mine explosions that could destroy steel tracks and were finally blown to pieces!

However, until those eerie white Paper People and Paper Horses cleared the minefield entirely, nearly a hundred of them still remained!

And these close to a hundred remaining eerie white Paper People and Paper Horses continued without pause, charging towards the fortifications of the first line, pushing towards those defenders!