The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 48 Lieutenant Colonel, the responsibility lies entirely with your recklessness!
"Despicable vermin! I will kill them all!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Lieutenant Colonel August roared furiously, almost going mad.

He never imagined that the troops crossing the bridge, who had been doing so smoothly just moments before, would be blown up like this by enemy bombs in the blink of an eye!
What puzzled him even more was when exactly the enemy planted the bomb.

Although the infantry battalion that attacked this place before was completely wiped out, they at least removed the bombs here. The Cambrian army that followed should not have had the opportunity to plant any more bombs, right?
The sudden explosion not only instantly wiped out all the Black Hawk troops on the bridge, but also cut off the retreat route of the Black Hawk vanguard.

Although they were currently sweeping through trenches and deep into the town, they were not greatly affected by the explosions behind them. Apart from a few unlucky ones, most people were not hit by shrapnel from the explosions.

Even so, seeing their retreat cut off and only a few soldiers left standing there isolated and helpless, the remaining Black Hawk troops were starting to lose their composure.

Meanwhile, players who had either laid an ambush beforehand or had died and resurrected in previous battles, along with other Cambrian soldiers who were also ready, all sprang into action at this moment.

What was once a peaceful town has instantly transformed into a deadly battlefield.

Perhaps it was a seemingly empty, tightly closed window, perhaps a hole in a wooden wall, or even just a flowerbed by the roadside or a few wooden barrels piled up in an alley—all of them simultaneously fired bullets.

Bullets coming from all directions immediately knocked down a large number of infantrymen accompanying armored vehicles.

Before the remaining Peacekeeper mechs could react, the Tank Hunter's ambush and the cluster grenades thrown from the surrounding buildings reduced them all to scrap metal.

boom!
The anti-tank gun, which had been hidden in a pile of wood and whose exposed barrels were even covered by wooden barrels, finally fired.

Because the fire suppression from the trenches ahead was too severe, this anti-tank gun was not placed in the trenches at all, but rather at the end of an inconspicuous alley.

The sudden artillery barrage instantly pierced through the last Peacekeeper mech crossing the bridge, detonating its fuel tank and blasting the mech into countless flying fragments.

The town, which had suddenly become a place fraught with danger, left the already shocked Black Hawk team with almost no chance to fight back.

Even if a few soldiers reacted quickly and tried to return fire, the players who reacted even faster took their lives first, preventing them from launching an effective counterattack.

In fact, compared to positional warfare, urban warfare is the combat area that players are most proficient in.

Because in the game, players usually don't engage in combat at very long distances. Compared to shooting at each other from hundreds of meters away, players are more used to close-range combat in urban warfare.

In this situation, a player may not be good at other things, but their reaction speed will definitely be top-notch.

Both sides are equipped with automatic weapons and can charge at the enemy with bayonets. At this point, it all comes down to reaction speed; the faster you are, the less likely you are to succeed.

So even though the remaining Black Hawk soldiers were prepared to exchange fire with the enemy, they still couldn't withstand such a rapid response and dense automatic fire.

Especially when a Black Hawk soldier, in a panic, tried to escape into a house only to encounter a burly man wielding a broken glass bottle, he was genuinely dumbfounded. What kind of outrageous enemy was this, using something like that as a weapon? Had they lost their mind?
But when the sharp beer bottle easily pierced his heart, instantly rendering him unable to resist, he realized that the enemy wasn't just crazy, but truly outrageous!

As he lay dying, feeling the immense pain in his chest, the soldier couldn't believe his eyes before his vision went completely black—he, a proud soldier of the Black Hawk Empire, was actually killed by someone stabbing him with a broken bottle!
What a shame!
"Unfortunately, Lieutenant Colonel, our entire force that charged forward has been wiped out!"

"Your actions were far too reckless, resulting in the needless loss of so many soldiers' lives!"

Beside Lieutenant Colonel August, a strange man dressed in an officer's uniform but wearing a bird-face mask and holding a six-pointed star scepter crushed an eyeball in his hand and then spoke calmly to Lieutenant Colonel August.

Strangely enough, this man didn't have any military rank insignia on him, and judging from his tone of voice, he didn't seem to be afraid of the Imperial Lieutenant Colonel beside him at all; on the contrary, he seemed to have a superior air about him.

“Master Schmidt, if you have time to spout your sarcastic remarks, why don’t you just cast a few more spells and teach those despicable vermin a lesson!”

Looking at the mage beside him, and the squad behind him with orange-red armbands, flame skull patterns on their chests, and a bunch of strange orange-red thick-barreled guns, Lieutenant Colonel August said irritably.

“Lieutenant Colonel, you told me with absolute certainty that this war wouldn’t require me to use my evil witchcraft to kill the enemy; all you needed me to do was scout and report enemy positions!”

"I don't think I should be blamed for not using magic to provide timely support."

Upon hearing Master Schmidt's words, Lieutenant Colonel August, who was already furious, became even more enraged.

If he could travel through time, he would really like to strangle himself from a few tens of minutes ago.

At that time, he shouldn't have had any strange arrogance, and he shouldn't have underestimated the enemy in front of him!

His continuous victories inflated his confidence, to the point that he started to focus on useless things when fighting.

"Let our fearless warriors continue to suppress the positions on the other side, and send out medical teams and engineers!"

Ignoring the mage beside him, Lieutenant Colonel August turned to the other soldiers and gave orders.

I don't know how many people are still alive on the bridge. I hope the bridge can be restored as soon as possible, otherwise they will be in trouble.

The results of the inspection were not encouraging.

Although many people on the bridge did not die on the spot, these soldiers suffered severe internal injuries. Leaving aside how many people could be saved in the end, in terms of combat effectiveness alone, they could not recover in a short time.

Damn it, their Black Hawk Empire doesn't have medical nuns like the Cambrian Empire, so they can't quickly heal these people's injuries!
As for the bridge in front of us, it has suffered fundamental damage. In addition to the destruction of the bridge deck, the piers below it have also broken.

In other words, it's unlikely they can simply seize the bridge and cross it in one go.

(End of this chapter)