Chapter 1155 Informationized Warfare
About an hour later...
As the last H-20 bomber in the sky lifted its bomb bay cover and disappeared into the horizon with a slightly weakened engine roar, only the night market, its clothes torn and its body covered in bruises, remained lying in the limited space.
The echoes of the bombing still lingered among the city ruins, like the heavy breathing of a beast after it had departed.
The entire city felt like a young girl who had been rolled around on an Indian bus, squeezed and twisted roughly, and then carelessly discarded.
Most of the once towering buildings are now just charred skeletons, pointing askew at the sky stained gray-brown by thick smoke.
The streets were riddled with huge craters, some as small as ponds, others as large as craters formed by meteorite impacts, filled with murky mud and water mixed with fuel, blood, and ash, reflecting the bleak light of day.
The air was filled with a complex and nauseating odor: thick gunpowder smoke, charred plastic and rubber, the stench of carbonized proteins, and a strange, sweet, fishy smell, like roasted and rotting mushrooms—the deathly odor emanating from the mass burning of mutated fungi.
Fine dust and ash, like gray snow, fell silently, covering the ruins, twisted metal, and charred corpses.
A deathly silence, an almost absolute silence, enveloped the entire city... Even the howling of the wind through the holes in the ruins sounded exceptionally clear and eerie.
The previous artillery fire and bombardment seemed to have swallowed up and annihilated all sounds, including the roars of the zombies.
Only the occasional muffled thud of collapsing building components in the distance broke the chilling silence, reminding people that beneath these ruins, something still alive might be buried.
However, this deathly silence did not last long.
A new, deep, rhythmic rumble began to emanate from the city's outskirts, like the heartbeat of a sleeping beast gradually awakening, resolutely piercing through the barrier of ruins.
"Order: All ground attack clusters, launch a full-scale attack according to the pre-arranged plan!"
Inside the joint command center, after consulting with Gu Chengyuan, Lieutenant General Wang Tiefeng, Commander-in-Chief of the Central Plains Theater Army, delivered his cold and clear voice instantly to every combat unit through the "War God" system.
In an instant, the power that had been accumulating for so long suddenly erupted!
A torrent of steel crushes the ruins!
At the entrance to the city's main thoroughfare, a steel front appeared!
Leading the way were dozens of Type 99A main battle tanks. Their massive steel bodies resembled mobile fortresses, clad in desert digital camouflage reactive armor, and their thick 125mm smoothbore guns, like knights' lances, proudly pointed forward.
Their tracks were not the shiny, clean tracks seen in peacetime parades; instead, they were covered in mud and dark red stains, making them look particularly menacing.
"Boom--!"
The diesel engine roared furiously, and the heavy tracks began to turn, relentlessly crushing the wreckage of cars scattered across the streets.
Those cars, SUVs, buses... that once represented modern civilization, were already ravaged by the carpet bombing and were now being swept into the iron heel of these heavy armored groups, as fragile as children's toys!
"Crack—bang!!"
A twisted and deformed bus wreckage was run over head-on by the 99A's tracks. The fragile frame of the bus was instantly crushed and torn apart. The sound of metal twisting and breaking was deafening, and glass shards shot out in all directions like an explosion.
"Creak—Boom!"
A pile of private cars was forcibly pushed aside and crushed by the 04A infantry fighting vehicle. The vehicle body was torn apart by the track teeth, parts were scattered everywhere, the fuel tank was squeezed and ruptured, and fuel flowed out, which was ignited by sparks generated by the friction between the track and the ground, and burst into small flames.
"Clang! Clang!"
The Type 09 wheeled assault vehicle, with its high mobility, maneuvered nimbly through the gaps in the wreckage. Its thick bulletproof tires directly smashed aside small vehicles blocking its way, and the friction between the metal and the ground kicked up a trail of sparks.
This torrent of steel, in an almost savage and unstoppable manner, carved a path through the ruins of the city!
They ran over not just the wreckage of cars, but also the last symbols of the old order and civilization.
Beneath the tracks, all obstacles were reduced to dust, leaving behind two clear, deep crushing tracks covered with metal shavings and charred marks!
Infantry and tanks work together to eliminate the remaining enemy!
Under the cover of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, a large number of infantrymen wearing starry sky camouflage training uniforms and carrying QBZ-191 assault rifles leaped down or used infantry fighting vehicles as support to advance rapidly.
The scattered zombies struggling to crawl out of the rubble were simply unable to form an effective resistance.
"One o'clock position, three-story residential window, two targets!" The commander of a Type 04A infantry fighting vehicle calmly reported the location through the observation and aiming equipment inside the vehicle.
The 30mm cannon on the turret instantly and slightly adjusted its elevation.
"Thump thump thump!"
A few short, muffled shots rang out, and the window, along with two zombies trying to rush out from behind it, was blown to pieces, with rubble and limbs falling from the window.
The infantrymen, in combat groups of three to five, clung to the sides and rear of the armored vehicles like fish attached to a giant whale.
Their guns were always pointed at suspicious corners, and their steps were swift and steady.
"Bang! Bang!"
With a crisp burst of fire, an agile mutant that had suddenly poked half its body out of a basement vent had its skull ripped open by two precise bullets before it could even demonstrate its speed.
"There's a sign of people gathering at the shops on the right!" a squad leader warned through the communication module built into his tactical helmet.
The next second, the two combat teams immediately formed a crossfire, using the infantry fighting vehicle and the ruins at the street corner as cover.
As a dozen or so zombies roared as they poured out from behind the broken shop window, a hail of bullets swept through like scythes, cutting them all down to the ground, their black, filthy blood instantly staining the sidewalk red.
During the advance, the squad led by Chen Feng, a squad leader of a heavy combined arms brigade, suddenly encountered a narrow alleyway that was partially blocked by rubble on the pre-planned attack route.
Upon seeing this, squad leader Chen Feng immediately opened the personal tactical terminal, about the size of a normal mobile phone, which he carried on his arm, as per pre-battle training. He first raised his hand to use the terminal's camera to mark the target, and then, after the system displayed that the markup was successful, the personal terminal page immediately jumped to the fire support selection section.
Projects: Howitzer (Recommended by the War God System), Rocket Launcher, Air-to-Ground Missile, Short-Range Tactical Missile (Insufficient Permissions)
Howitzer √ (After a slight hesitation, Chen Feng quickly checked the box according to the AI's recognition recommendation)
Jump
Please select the caliber: 122mm or 155mm (Recommended by the War God System).
155mm caliber √ (Compared to the previous option, Chen Feng did not hesitate at all this time and directly chose the recommended option).
'Selection successful, God of War system in progress'
Approximately 0.3 seconds later
'Calculation successful. Optimal firepower has been allocated. Artillery bombardment units have been assigned successfully!'
'Squad leader, please find cover immediately! 30 seconds countdown! 29! 28! 27...'
Beep beep beep beep—
Seeing the screen on his personal terminal flashing red and vibrating wildly, squad leader Chen Feng immediately shouted:
"All personnel take cover! I have initiated artillery fire!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Feng's infantry squad immediately retreated in an orderly manner to find cover.
Meanwhile, on the 'thousand-cannon position' outside the night market, a group of 155mm howitzer firepower units were instantly activated, their muzzles moving in unison. 15 seconds later—BOOM ...
Clusters of fire erupted from the 155mm cannon barrel, the shells flew through the air in a swift arc, constantly adjusting their trajectory as they flew toward the street marked by Chen Feng.
A moment later, the countdown on Chen Feng's personal terminal reached zero!
BOOM!!
BOOM!!!!!
The continuous barrage of shells instantly blasted the streets, which had been blocked by rubble, into craters, turning even the zombies and mutated beasts lurking within into a bloody mist...
As for the minced meat tissue?
Sorry, not that big...
