Chapter 1073 Devil! The real devil!
The sun was high in the sky when Ruan Xiong, who was taking a nap, was suddenly awakened by an extremely subtle but continuous buzzing sound.
Not bees, more like... some kind of rotor sound?
He frowned and turned over irritably, trying to dispel the noise from his mind. The Zhou Bang woman who was captured by his men last night cried for half the night, making him fall asleep very late. He was dizzy at the moment.
"Damn, what the hell is that sound..." He muttered something and kicked off the dirty blanket to sit up.
The dilapidated commercial city was dimly lit, and the air was filled with the lingering smell of mold, sweat, and cheap tobacco.
Several guard men were napping against the wall. Everything seemed the same as usual, filled with a numb and corrupt "tranquility".
But the buzzing sound was like a fly, intermittent and lingering, causing Ruan Xiong to feel inexplicably irritated and uneasy.
He subconsciously grabbed the AK-47 next to him, stood up, and planned to go to the window to look.
Just as he walked to the broken window, trying to find the source of the sound——
Zila——!
The Motorola walkie-talkie that he kept on his waist and kept turned on suddenly emitted an extremely piercing, eardrum-tearing noise!
"Ugh!" Ruan Xiong felt a headache irritation from the sudden noise, and he hurriedly tried to turn off the intercom.
Almost at the same time, in the entire commercial city, all the open walkie-talkies, and even the broken radio in the corner, all emitted the same death scream, and then the screen went black, and there was no sound at all!
"what happened?!"
"Boss! The intercom is broken!"
"mine too!"
After a brief silence, the panicked shouts of the men were heard in the trading city.
Communications, their only means of maintaining a modicum of organization in this apocalyptic world, were instantly and completely severed! Everyone became deaf and dumb!
Ruan Xiong's face turned pale in an instant, and a cold chill rushed from the soles of his feet to the top of his head!
This method... is definitely not an accident! It's electronic interference! It's only...
Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—!!!
Before his fear-ridden brain could figure things out, another even more terrifying howling sound, as if from hell, came from far away, tearing through the air at an indescribable speed and instantly filled his entire world!
That sound… was artillery shells!! And it was dense, blanket bombardment!!!
"Bombard!!!! Take cover!!!!" Ruan Xiong used up all his strength and let out a distorted roar, his voice full of cracks caused by extreme fear!
He didn't even have time to complete the movement of throwing himself down—
BOOM! ! BOOM! ! ! ! ! ! !
The first 122mm grenade, like a punishment from heaven, accurately hit the machine gun fortifications they had carefully built with sandbags and scrapped cars outside the gate of the commercial city!
The violent explosion nearly shattered his eardrums! Blazing flames and shockwaves swept through like a storm, carrying shattered metal, sand, and... human remains! The remaining glass on the windows was instantly shattered into dust!
Then came the second, third, and fourth explosions... The sound of explosions was like endless thunder, pounding the earth madly and also pounding the decayed building of the commercial city!
Rumble, rumble! ! ! !
Dust and debris fell from the ceiling, and the entire building was shaking violently, as if it would collapse completely in the next second!
The flames of the explosion shone through the window, illuminating the room with flickering lights, like a flickering ghost cave!
"what--!"
"Help!!"
"my leg!!"
The screams, cries, and desperate cries of the men, drowned out by the explosions, seemed so weak and futile amid the deafening artillery fire.
Ruan Xiong curled up behind a load-bearing pillar, covered his ears with his hands, opened his mouth wide to reduce the pressure of the shock wave on his internal organs, and his body shook violently and uncontrollably.
Dirt and dust covered his head and face, but he didn't dare to move at all. Every time a shell fell, it felt like it hit his heart directly!
What kind of artillery fire was this? How could it be so accurate? So powerful?! They didn't even see any enemy! The attack came from the sky!
The artillery fire began to extend, but there was no sign of weakening. The explosions spread to the sides and rear of the commercial city, and all the vehicles parked in the open space were destroyed!
The other party obviously didn't want to leave them any chance of survival!
Who is it?! Chongyou's troops? Impossible! How could they have such a heavy artillery fire?
What’s even more terrifying is the precision that’s like embroidery!
This is a fucking cannon! How come it’s more accurate than the AK in his hand!
Fear, like an icy poisonous snake, tightly wrapped around his heart, almost suffocating him.
The roar of the bombardment continued, but experience told Ruan Xiong that this devastating baptism was about to end and the enemy's infantry was about to come up! He had to organize a resistance!
He struggled to raise his head, wanting to call on his men to take up defensive positions, even if it could only delay the battle a little longer...
however--
Buzz buzz buzz—! ! !
A deep and powerful roar of engines, like the roar of a savage beast, drowned out the reverberations of the exploding shells. It quickly became audible, coming from far away and approaching! And... there was more than one!
Ruan Xiong rolled and crawled to a wall where a huge gap had been blown open, and looked out in horror.
In the thick smoke, several huge, ferocious steel figures painted with unfamiliar digital camouflage rushed towards the trade city at high speed, just like demons rushing out of hell!
Those were infantry fighting vehicles and armored assault vehicles he had never seen before! Their shapes were full of the violent aesthetics of modern industry, the turrets on the roofs constantly rotating, and the thick barrels and black machine gun muzzles exuded the chill of death!
"Tank...tank?!!" One of the men screamed in despair, his voice completely distorted by extreme fear.
"No!! It's an armored vehicle!!"
"Fire! Fire quickly! RPG! Use RPG!!" Ruan Xiong roared hysterically, trying to make a final struggle.
A few veterans who had managed to escape the bombardment and remained calm tremblingly picked up the RPG-7 rocket launchers and tried to aim.
But those steel behemoths moved too fast! And they seemed to be able to foresee danger!
The veteran carrying the RPG rocket launcher had just shown his head when the 30mm machine gun on the top of a 04A infantry fighting vehicle instantly spewed out flames!
All, all, all!!
In just one burst, the veteran who had just picked up the RPG, along with half of the low wall he was hiding behind, was instantly torn to pieces by the powerful shells! Blood and flesh flew everywhere!
On the other side, the 105mm main gun of a ZTL-11 assault vehicle turned slightly—
boom! !
An even duller and more terrifying noise!
A high-explosive bomb directly hit a window on the second floor of the commercial city where they had placed a light machine gun!
The entire window, along with a large section of the wall behind it, exploded! The people inside, the machine gun, and everything else disappeared without a trace in an instant, leaving only a huge, burning hole with twisted edges!
This wasn't a battle at all! This was a complete massacre! An industrial civilization crushing barbarism and backwardness, a dimensionality-reduction-like attack!
Their AK bullets hit the enemy's armor, but had no effect except for a few sparks!
Any counterattack from the enemy, even just a burst of heavy machine gun fire, could easily crush them and their bunkers!
"Devils... They are devils..." A young man completely collapsed, dropped his gun, hugged his head, and huddled in a corner, crying incoherently.
More people were running around like headless flies in the thick smoke and collapsing ruins, and then were knocked down by accurate bullets shot from unknown directions.
Ruan Xiong watched helplessly as the forces he had painstakingly built were completely crushed by this incomprehensible, irresistible torrent of steel in less than ten minutes! He didn't even get a clear look at the faces of many of the opposing soldiers!
It’s over… It’s all over…
He leaned his back against the cold wall and slowly slid down to the ground, his AK dropping to his feet. He could hear the roar of engines, the roar of explosions, the cold shouts of the soldiers, and the screams of his own men before they died...
All ambitions, all cruelty, all calculations, at this moment, turned into the most complete despair and powerlessness.
It was not until this moment that he truly understood how ridiculous and insignificant they were in front of a real, systematic war machine.
Their so-called ferocity and armament, in the eyes of the other side, were probably no different from primitive people dancing with sticks and stones.
“Qu?... qu? th?t...” (The devil... the real devil...)
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