Now that Qing Chen is gone, the main force of the Parents' Association on the A1 front has suffered heavy casualties, the Qing Clan's army defense line has been breached, and giants are dying one by one on the road to 'Reversing the World'... It's their turn to shoulder the responsibility.
As Qingchen said at He Jinqiu's funeral: In times of war, your coming of age does not begin at 18, but from the moment the people who sheltered you and fought alongside you died.
Qingchen taught them not only how to face life-or-death challenges, but also how to face the world with sincerity!
The two of them rushed faster and faster, crossing mountains and seas despite their injuries!
Just before the two old monsters were about to break through Wang Xiaojiu's blockade, they formed a triangular formation with Wang Xiaojiu, firmly sealing the two old monsters inside.
Wang Xiaojiu was getting more and more excited as she fought. She used to hear Li Shutong talk about the most glorious era of the knights, the era of the twelve knights, but now she was thinking... this is the most glorious era of the knights!
At this moment, the orc legion rushed over to pick up the two old monsters, and the giants in the distance, after a brief pause, started running again!
Their footsteps pounded the earth, heavy as war drums, and Kuangfeng held a flaming spear as if it were an immortal military flag!
On the way, the giants saw the Qing army's howitzers scattered on the battlefield. Unlike their modified grenade revolvers, these howitzers were as big as tanks and were not convenient to carry at all.
The Qing defense line collapsed too quickly. Before they could even finish firing all their artillery shells, they were forced to retreat, leaving these artillery pieces abandoned on the battlefield.
The giants had long since run out of grenades. Hehehe, who had taken to using firepower to cover the area, threw away his deformed alloy shield and tentatively picked up the grenade launcher on the ground... It didn't seem too heavy!
Hehehe!
(We can carry this thing into battle! I'll carry it, and you guys fire the shells! Look, there are a lot of howitzers over there!)
The giants seemed to have discovered a new toy. They carried howitzers and ran wildly across the battlefield, while their tribesmen loaded ammunition and fired behind them.
With a deafening roar, the terrifying howitzer shells pierced straight through the battlefield, blasting the orc legion head-on!
It's important to know that howitzers have enormous recoil; for example, the howitzers on this type of armored vehicle must be supported on the ground with a stand before they can fire.
The moment the cannon fired, he was thrown backward by the recoil.
However, Hehehe just stood up, dusted himself off, and continued charging forward with the grenade launcher!
It's okay!
In an instant, the sound of cannons rang out again on the battlefield, and shells fell on the orc legion. As the saying goes, all fear stems from insufficient firepower.
Truth is everywhere within the range of cannons!
When the orc army clashed with the giants, the battlefield where Wang Xiaojiu and the others were located served as a dividing line, as if fire and ice were colliding!
Li Shu and the others followed behind the giant. They hadn't expected the battlefield situation to change so unpredictably. Everyone thought they would be defeated, but now it looked like they were going to win!
Old Wan laughed and said, "These giants are actually quite cute."
Li Changqing looked at the battlefield without speaking. She knew that this was time rewarding Qingchen for all the efforts he had made.
Li Shu suddenly said, "There should be three more old monsters that crawled out of the golden coffin... and the Storm Duke."
“Not only,” Li Changqing said, “The A-level orc legion here only has 90,000. If you include the 30,000 on the A1 front, the other fronts will probably face even greater pressure. The orc legion over there will have 100,000 or even more, but they don’t have giants to help them.”
"What should we do then?" Old Wan's heart skipped a beat.
Li Changqing took out a paper map: "If you were the Storm Duke, where would you choose as the most suitable location for the final battle?"
"The A6 front?" Li Shu said, "The Qing army's defenses there are the weakest, and it's the easiest to break through."
“No,” Li Changqing pointed to the A5 defense line: “The terrain of the A5 line is the most open, enough for more than 100,000 orc legions to fight to the death. Let’s go, we are no longer needed here, let’s go to the A5 line to provide support!”
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On the A5 front, 190,000 parent association members are distributed along the defense line.
Compared to the other defensive lines, this one is more in line with everyone's imagination of a defensive position.
There is a wide battlefield.
There are extensive and interconnected trenches, stretching for dozens of kilometers and crisscrossing each other.
In front of the trenches, there was a minefield stretching for twelve kilometers.
This was originally prepared by the Kei clan for the Federation's civil war; the mechanized forces from Kashima and Kamishiro in the north could only come through here.
At this very moment, officers and soldiers of the Qing clan are conducting emergency military training for parents.
Just a few months ago, they were just low-level laborers in society. Although they had some spiritual cultivation, they had participated in the street battles to besiege Kashima and Kamishiro, and even participated in the defense of City 10.
However, when it comes to serious military knowledge, the parents' association members are far behind.
The experience from City 10 is unlikely to be applicable here, since you can use thermal underwear to cover your neck when fighting rat swarms to avoid fatal injuries.
But if you're playing as a werewolf and you're still wearing thermal underwear around your neck, it's somewhat disrespectful to an A-level werewolf.
A Qing officer explained to the parent-teacher association staff: "The area outside is a minefield. Once the first thunderclap sounds, it means the enemy is only 12 kilometers away from us. When the orc legion arrives, they will either have to take a detour or pay a heavy price to pass through directly. According to our calculations, anti-personnel mines can cause maiming and fatal injuries to them."
The waiter asked, "Excuse me, what is the kill radius of a landmine?"
The officer explained, "12 meters, but basically, anything over 3 meters won't be able to cause serious injury."
Xiao Er was taking notes diligently, while the Qing family officer answered questions in detail. Everyone knew that the Parents' Association was the direct force of the family head, Qing Chen, and no one would be idle enough to look down on the Parents' Association for lacking military skills.
Moreover, their average strength is only C, and the entire position can only be defended thanks to the parent-teacher conference. Being in the same trench means they are brothers.
Just then, Xiao Er suddenly poked his head out to check the situation outside the trench. He said with surprise and uncertainty, "Is it possible that the orc legion is clearing the mines? I mean, what if our minefields become ineffective?"
After Qing Chen robbed Forbidden Land No. 001, Whale Island gained some more strategic-level plant fruits, such as red raspberries that enhance the sense of smell. Eating 18 of these berries can even amplify a human's sense of smell by 1500 times, comparable to a dog's sense of smell!
Just then, a gust of wind blew by, and the waiter clearly smelled a fishy stench that shouldn't be there!
The Qing officer said doubtfully, "No way, we're still guarding against hacking. We haven't used electronic induction mines; we're using only mechanical pressure-activated mines. Anyone stepping on one with more than 80 kilograms of force will detonate it immediately. Unless..."
The waiter asked, "Unless what?"
The officer from the Qing clan said, "Unless they can clear all the landmines silently."
The next second, Xiao Er suddenly pulled his head back and roared from the trench: "Enemy attack! Prepare for battle!"
The officer from the Qing clan did not suspect him of lying about military intelligence, but asked solemnly, "What happened?"
The waiter said urgently, "I smell a strange, foul stench, a mixture of excrement and blood, it's incredibly disgusting. I estimate the orc army is already 6 kilometers outside the trenches, they're silently crossing the minefield, our minefield is ineffective!"
The line of sight to the horizon on flat ground is about 5 kilometers, so they haven't seen the orc legion yet, but Xiao Er is certain that the orc legion has arrived!
The Qing officer picked up the communication equipment, and the entire position quickly assembled. The parents' association members and Qing soldiers who were resting on the spot all entered combat readiness!
The waiter looked at the Qing family officer: "You're a professional, don't you doubt my judgment?"
The officer from the Qing clan shook his head: "You didn't come here on foot after trekking seven thousand kilometers, you're not joking with me. I believe you!"
On the first line of defense, all the garrison forces quietly observed the area outside the trenches.
It was early morning, and there was still a light mist in the autumn morning. But gradually everyone could see that in the distance, there were densely packed, burly figures slowly approaching from the mist, like tens of thousands of extremely strong wild wolves in a pack.
Nobody knows how this orc army managed to ignore the minefield!
Seeing is believing, and everyone's spirits plummeted. The minefield was their greatest asset; if the orcs could cross it safely, their casualties would reach an extremely terrifying level.
It should be noted that although there are more than 100,000 parents on the front line, the physical fitness of the beast soldiers is already higher than that of normal A-level gene warriors. Even A-level parents have to fight two against one to deal with a beast soldier, and they may be seriously injured if they are not careful.
If a B-level family member wants to deal with a beast soldier, at least six people need to gang up on it at the same time to have a chance of winning.
Based on this calculation, the gap in the defense line is still 300,000 to 400,000 men short...
However, when the Qing soldiers looked at the parents' meeting members with serious expressions, they found that these people were not flustered at all, and were even picking their noses next to him.
"Aren't you nervous?" the Qing soldiers asked, puzzled.
The parent-teacher meeting member rubbed his fingers together, then flicked away a small ball of booger: "So nervous..."
The Qing soldier's breath hitched: "You don't seem nervous at all!"
One parent-teacher association member said, "You have to look at my lower body."
The Qing soldiers looked down and saw that this guy's legs were trembling...
Whether they were soldiers of the Qing clan or members of the parent-teacher association, everyone had the courage to fight this battle and was willing to risk their lives. However, the tension before the battle was a normal emotion and there was no need to avoid it.
Gradually, Xiao Er summoned more members of the Parents' Association to the front line. They prepared explosive daggers, intending to disrupt the orc legion's formation first.
But as the orc legion drew near, the first thing they heard was a rustling sound.
Xiao Er peeked out and saw countless six-legged mechanical spiders walking ahead of the orc legion. Their gray bodies blended into the thin mist, and their 30-centimeter-tall figures were extremely well-hidden.
When they detect a landmine, they stand on top of it, using their four slender front and rear legs to support themselves on the ground, while their two middle legs dig the landmine out of the soil. Then, they easily cut open the landmine's metal casing and disarm it!
The waiter was stunned!
The Qing clan had once used satellites to take pictures of the orc army marching south, but these mechanical spiders had always been hidden under the orc army's massive bodies, playing a trick on them!
Everyone was focused on the vast number of beast soldiers, but no one noticed the terrifying intelligent robots!
No wonder the orc army could easily ignore the minefield!
The waiter whispered urgently, "Be careful! This mechanical spider has many functions; it can not only defuse mines, but also self-destruct!"
As they spoke, tens of thousands of mechanical spiders had already cleared the mines. They rushed towards the trenches as the vanguard, while the orc legion stopped and waited quietly.
The 36 Metal Storms on the defensive line roared and swept across the battlefield, bullets like a torrent. In the gray light of the early morning, the red-hot bullets turned into orange-red whips in the air, lashing towards the mechanical spiders!
However, these mechanical spiders seemed to be calculating the trajectory of the metal storms as they moved. Before the metal storms even fired, they had already parted the gaps, and the orange-red whips lashed out at the gaps.
After a barrage of attacks, the mechanical spiders suffered only 8% casualties.
On the defensive line, soldiers were using individual Stinger rockets to bombard the mechanical spiders. These Stinger rockets were homing, and no matter how the target moved, it was doomed.
If you hit just one mechanical spider, you can kill a whole area around it.
However, when the Qing soldiers took out their poison darts and fired them, the dense swarm of mechanical spiders suddenly separated, leaving only the one locked onto by the poison darts standing in an open space.
A poisonous stinger with a kill radius of 30 meters was fired, but it only killed one mechanical spider!
This computing power made the Qing soldiers realize just how terrifying mature artificial intelligence technology could be when applied to the battlefield!
Inside the defensive line, the Qing soldiers fired their guns, but the bullets only sparked when they hit the mechanical spiders and could not penetrate their bodies!
The first wave of mechanical spiders suddenly accelerated and jumped into the trenches. With a rumbling sound, they activated their self-destruct mode without hesitation, tearing open the defensive line for the orc legion behind them!
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"Retreat! Retreat to the second line of defense. The 1623rd Battalion will stay behind to cover the rear and buy time for the other units!"
The commander of the Qing clan on the A5 front gave the order, and they had no choice.