Chapter 536: Mechanical Armored Vehicle Corps, Steel Torrent

"The cruise missile signal has disappeared. It's suspected to have been shot down. The attack mission has failed!"

Inside a combat command vehicle, the Dawn Consortium's combat commander, Mace, heard the soldier's report with an expressionless face.

"Where has the Reyes Legion reached?"

"The Reyes Legion has already appeared ten kilometers from Dead Mine Town. They are waiting for our attack order."

"What does the forward reconnaissance say?"

"No traces of Dead Mine Town sentries have been found ahead. Our flanking tactic has succeeded. We are currently forty-one kilometers from Dead Mine Town."

Mace pondered for two seconds, staring at the attack plan he had formulated on the electronic screen.

He gave the order in a low voice.

"Notify the Reyes Legion to launch an attack on Dead Mine Town. We will provide long-range fire support."

"Yes sir!"

Mace turned to the staff officer beside him.

"What do you think of that probing attack just now?"

The staff officer was reviewing the attack data from earlier.

Hearing this, he said, "Based on the missile signal analysis, the other side likely possesses terminal-phase anti-air intercept weapons—perhaps some kind of interception system. The biggest possibility I can think of is those few missile-launching armored vehicles we lost earlier. According to the data logs, four of those were anti-air missiles. Maybe those four anti-air missiles were what intercepted ours. Otherwise, I honestly can't figure out where Dead Mine Town's anti-air weapons came from. This is the best explanation."

Hearing the staff officer's words, Mace thought for a moment.

He gave the order in a low voice.

"This successful flanking maneuver of ours also proves that point. However, we only have this one opportunity. If the Reyes Legion launches an attack on Dead Mine Town and still can't take it down, then we'll have no choice but to use 'Dawn'!"

Mace's voice was calm.

But the staff officer's eyelids couldn't help twitching.

Mace's words were correct. If even their conventional long-range fire support still couldn't take Dead Mine Town, they would have no choice but to resort to the 'Dawn' tactical nuclear warhead.

"Let the Reyes Legion give it a try first. It would be best if they can take Dead Mine Town. Rook is one thing, but Maguire is our nuclear physics expert. If we can retrieve him, we should try our best to do so. That's also the main purpose of this operation!"

"I understand. That's why we're letting the Reyes Legion attack first to see what happens."

"I'm also very curious to see what Dead Mine Town is really made of."

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"The direction of the missile attack has been locked. It came from the north side, not the direction of Merry City. It's in our reconnaissance blind spot."

Quis pointed at the electronic dynamic map on the screen as he explained the situation.

"North..."

Yu Yuan looked at the map. Merry City was located east of Dead Mine Town, and the Reyes Legion was also positioned to the southeast. So, the main reconnaissance direction of Dead Mine Town's scout team had always been primarily focused on the direction of Merry City.

The situation was now crystal clear.

The enemy had already launched missile attacks. There was no doubt that the attacker was the Dawn Consortium.

They had obviously learned from the previous battle that the area between Merry City and Dead Mine Town was under tight surveillance.

They had taken a different route, bypassed the scout team, and arrived near Dead Mine Town.

Since the Dawn Consortium had already launched the attack, the Reyes Legion was likely not far behind.

Sure enough...

"Flying Eagle reporting! HQ, please respond!" A voice came through the radio.

"HQ here. Flying Eagle, go ahead."

"A large number of armed forces have been detected in the wilderness forest area ten kilometers south of our position. Among them are numerous armored vehicles, tanks, and artillery units, advancing toward Dead Mine Town. Please prepare for battle."

Quis's expression shifted. Flying Eagle was the call sign of the pilot flying the trainer plane from the Air Command Center.

He drew a circle on the map marking the wilderness forest location that Flying Eagle had just reported.

"They've already crept this close." Quis's face looked grim.

The enemy had advanced to within ten kilometers, and he hadn't even known. It was a dereliction of duty on his part.

But Yu Yuan patted him on the shoulder.

"No one could have predicted they'd flank this far, or even deliberately send people to divert our attention from the Merry City direction just to avoid our reconnaissance. Inform everyone to prepare for battle!"

"Notify Flying Eagle to return to base. The Dawn Consortium has anti-air missiles. His trainer plane can't outrun those."

At that moment, Carmen also sent a message. Aside from the Pioneering Group members in the Freedom Tower World and the Mechanical Garbage World, all remaining Pioneering Group members had already assembled. Alpha had led them into the transmission portal.

"Quis, since the Reyes Legion and the Dawn Consortium are so eager to join us, let's show them our strength!"

A cold smile curled on Yu Yuan's lips.

"How's the mechanical armored vehicle unit I asked you to build coming along?"

A glint of sharpness flashed in Quis's eyes as well.

"Master, we have currently produced twenty-five 'Mammoth' heavy assault vehicles, twenty-eight 'Fortress' fire support vehicles, thirty 'Peregrine Falcon' high-speed mobile vehicles, five 'Ghost' electronic assault vehicles, and twenty 'Rhino' troop transport armored vehicles—all fully equipped and ready to deploy at any time."

"In addition, ten 'Battering Ram' assault gun vehicles and five 'Steel Rain' wheeled mobile artillery vehicles were also completed just yesterday."

Yu Yuan hadn't expected Quis to have already produced so many specialized armored vehicles.

As if guessing Yu Yuan's confusion, Quis immediately explained.

"After discovering the reconnaissance units of the Reyes Legion and the Dawn Consortium, I suspended the expansion of the military base and diverted all materials to the construction of the armored vehicles. The current number is only half of my initial plan."

"Is the fuel sufficient?"

That was a critical question.

"Enough. We still have plenty from the last batch you purchased."

Yu Yuan nodded.

"The Pioneering Group will arrive soon. Since that's the case, let's prepare to move out! Let's take this opportunity to completely crush the Reyes Legion."

"Yes sir!"

Quis immediately began issuing orders.

Doo-doo-doo—

A special rhythmic alarm sounded over Dead Mine Town.

As the alarm rang out, inside the military base located between Dead Mine Town and the Dead Mine, row after row of garage rolling doors quickly lifted.

The mechanical armored vehicles that had been lying in wait, like steel beasts just awakened from slumber, left the 'cages' that had confined them.

With a low, deep, and rumbling roar, they drove out of the garage, appearing under the sunlight for the very first time.

The 'Mammoth,' 'Peregrine Falcon,' 'Fortress,' 'Ghost,' 'Rhino,' 'Battering Ram,' and 'Steel Rain'—each with its own unique functions—proclaimed their existence to the world with an aura of iron and blood and steel.

When Alpha led the Pioneering Group out of the fortress plaza, what he saw was this steel torrent formed by over a hundred armored vehicles.

Even Alpha was momentarily stunned.

As for the Pioneering Group members, there was no need to even mention it.

The oppressive pressure generated by over a hundred mechanical armored vehicles came crashing down on them.

Yu Yuan rode Mie Mie as he swiftly swept over from Dead Mine Town, looking down at the armored vehicle convoy and the Pioneering Group members below.

His voice rang out across the entire plaza.

"Everyone, prepare to move out. We'll take down the Reyes Legion and make them tremble in destruction and death..."

"The Ten Thousand Nations Pact, Conquer the Heavens!"