Chapter 78: Heavy Artillery Level
The ground of the battlefield trembled, caused by the charge of too many boar warriors. This scene was truly awe-inspiring; if a timid person saw it, they would be scared into collapsing on the spot.
The boar warriors becoming so fearless was actually normal. For those who were once slave prisoners, everything before entering the "Evolution Nest" and transforming into boar warriors felt like it happened years ago.
Due to their past experiences, the boar warriors so readily accepted the faith of the sun. They had never possessed anything, and when they gained a faith that could awaken their inner strength, they became more devout, fervent, and pure than ordinary people.
Built on this foundation, an Apollo descended from the sky, landed among the enemy forces, and exploded into the shape of a small sun.
Witnessing this firsthand, could the boar warriors not get fired up? The vassals were enemies of the sun, and the sun was their faith. At this moment, the object of their faith helped them strike a heavy blow against the enemy. There was nothing more capable of boosting their morale.
No, there was something even more morale-boosting: detonating the [Blazing Sun's Wrath·Apollo].
The boar warriors had temporarily entered a state of full morale, similar to fanatical believers.
The heavy tanks were even more severely stimulated. Dark-golden solid flames rose from their thick carapace outer armor, making them look more powerful.
On this basis, the enemy had also suffered heavy losses. Although the enemy forces consciously dispersed into 12 groups to avoid being carpet-bombed by powerful weapons, the 2-kilometer explosion radius of the Apollo was too deadly.
The vassal soldiers couldn't withstand the Apollo. An ordinary Apollo could cause 8000 points of true burning damage upon explosion.
If it were 8000 points of flame burning damage, the vassal soldiers could still resist with their combat suits, medical supplies, and personal abilities. But facing true burning damage, they turned to ashes on the spot.
Within the Apollo's explosion zone, the solar flames still burned. Red-hot weapons lay scattered on the ground, and melting combat suits were everywhere, most of them half-burned. The vassal soldiers had been burned to ashes. If it had been [Blazing Sun's Wrath·Apollo], they would have been vaporized, leaving not even ashes behind.
Around the burning zone, vassal soldiers retreated, gripping their war blades tightly. If these weren't battle-hardened soldiers, they would have turned and run, only to be killed by the rear execution squad.
"Is this... the sun falling? Believing in the sun... can it really achieve this level?"
A soldier muttered to himself, an indescribable fear gradually spreading in his heart. The sun, which he had taken for granted, had suddenly become the enemy's backing and true god.
Pfft!
A long hooked blade slashed over, killing the muttering soldier. Before his headless corpse could fall, the officer behind him kicked it into the fire.
"This is the enemy's heavy artillery-level weapon. Disperse, don't gather too densely."
A vassal captain shouted. It could only be said that the vassal officers had strong adaptability. Knowing the situation was bad, they admitted the enemy had heavy artillery-level weapons to regroup the morale of this group of vassal soldiers. If they admitted it was a miracle or divine intervention, the battle would be lost, and the vassal soldiers' morale would drop by half.
Shouts of warning about heavy artillery weapons spread. The vassal officers' response strategies were surprisingly consistent. Unfortunately, before the vassals could regain their morale, the boar warriors charged from the opposite side.
War hammers collided with flesh against armor plates nearly 2 meters high, 1.5 meters wide, and 20 centimeters thick. Last time, the vassals were almost overwhelmed and crying. This time, they brought armor plates meant for fortresses and equipped the front-line vassal soldiers with them. It seemed highly effective.
As war hammers struck, explosions of flames spread. The vassal soldiers hiding behind the armor plates lowered their heads, their faces scorched by the heat. They could smell their own hair burning.
Heavy running footsteps reached the ears of a vassal soldier holding a standing armor plate. He instinctively leaned forward to brace it, not seeing that a heavy tank was charging straight at him.
Boom!
A loud explosion rang out. The armor plate snapped with a crack, and the vassal soldier flew away with a whoosh. When he came to his senses, he landed with a thud on the front top of a living war chariot. A whistling sound came from diagonally above, and the vassal soldier's eyes filled with terror.
Clang! Half an armor plate slammed him underneath. Blood and flesh splattered, and a section of intestines spiraled away, slapping wetly onto the eyes of a boar warrior.
Before the boar warrior could figure out what covered its eyes, a battle axe flipped in the hands of a vassal officer and slashed over, cutting off most of the boar warrior's head.
On the living war chariot, two vassal soldiers emerged from the top observation hatch, back to back, each operating a front and rear machine cannon.
Boom! Boom! Boom!...
The machine cannons fired continuously. The hydraulic buffer device below pushed back and forth, launching explosive shells nearly 20 centimeters long.
Bang! An explosive shell hit a boar warrior's shoulder. Blood mist and dark black flames spread simultaneously, and the boar warrior was blown apart, leaving only two legs.
Why didn't the vassals widely equip this T-1044 type machine cannon? Partly because it was unaffordable, and partly because it was too heavy. Without the bottom hydraulic buffer device linked to the living war chariot's top, firing an average of 10 to 12 explosive shells would consume one vassal soldier—it was self-destructive.
The heavy machine cannon swept across, and the charging boar warriors fell in droves. Just as this living war chariot was about to continue its rampage, a heavy tank charged straight at it.
Buzz!
A shockwave similar to a sonic boom spread from the magnetic impact device at the front of the living war chariot. The charging heavy tank's speed plummeted, and dark black blood spurted from the gaps in its carapace armor. When the blood touched the ground, the high temperature on it sizzled and burned the earth.
Under the sustained attack of the magnetic impact device, the heavy tank slowed down more and more. Blood sprayed from its mouth and nose, and it finally collapsed with a crash.
The driver of the living war chariot finally dared to take a deep breath. If that giant beast had rammed head-on, the chariot probably wouldn't have survived.
"Fall back! Fall back! Quick, fall back!"
The observer inside the chariot screamed at the top of his lungs. Why was he so frantic? It wasn't his fault. On both sides of this living war chariot, a heavy tank was charging in.
After a deafening crash, the two heavy tanks simultaneously rammed the living war chariot from left and right. The chariot exploded on the spot, flames and broken metal parts flying everywhere.
Due to the disadvantage at the start of the battle, the vassals not only failed to break through the defense line but were almost pushed back. At this critical moment, the vassals revealed their fangs.
Sharp whistling sounds came from above. Many boar warriors looked up. Several blue streaks of light arced toward them. As they got closer, they saw what they were: five metal pillars, over 3 meters thick and 10 meters long.
Click!
With a neat splitting sound, the five metal pillars in the sky split into dozens, all standing still in the air. As they charged up, the azure blue on these pillars became dazzling, finally turning into beams of blue light as thick as water buckets that descended. This was "Heavy Artillery Volley."
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!...
The energy heavy artillery hit the ground, first sinking into the earth, then flipping up the surrounding turf, sending dirt flying.
The boar warriors caught in the blast first had their bodies eroded by the energy. Their eyes were full of pain, unable to move, their bodies becoming like ash. Coupled with the subsequent impact, their ashen bodies shattered, scattering everywhere.
The heavy artillery volley in the sky lasted at least a few minutes before the dozens of floating metal pillars lost their momentum and fell.
When the heavy artillery volley subsided, looking at the friendly position, large patches of boar warriors had turned to ash, scattered everywhere. It was tragic.
At least 5,000 boar warriors died in this round of "Heavy Artillery Volley." Such was the power of heavy artillery-level weapons, and this wasn't the only type.
From the number of casualties, the two sides seemed evenly matched in this equipment rain, but the reality was different.
In the mixed combat zone, the boar warriors had nearly beaten the vassal soldiers silly. Compared to the last time when the vassal hammer troops had barely held their own against the friendly forces, this batch of vassal soldiers was far inferior.
In the main command room on the top floor of the friendly base fortress, Su Xiao observed the battle situation through the projection on the wall. Judging by the current situation, it was about to become a war of attrition. The friendly forces just needed to hold the defense line.
Just as Su Xiao was thinking about how to better sustain the war through combat, a prompt from the Void Tree appeared.
[Prompt (Void Tree): Due to your current campaign against the vassal faction, it will have a historical-level impact on this world. Your exchange level in the Title Shop has reached Lv.5.]
[The Title Shop will open for you personally for 5 minutes.]
[Your exchange level is Lv.5. You can exchange for one-star to five-star titles in the Title Shop.]
[You can exchange for the following titles.]