The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 69 Street Fighting! Smoke Screen Blockade!
"Mortars, fire smoke grenades! Everyone put on gas masks!"

Major Martin, who was in charge of leading the infantry battalion forward, shouted to the mortars behind him, and then ordered the soldiers to form a combat formation and advance rapidly.

This series of smoke grenades was designed to help them quickly cross open areas while reducing damage from enemy anti-armor and machine gun fire.

The enemy was hiding in this fortified town, and most of their firepower was difficult to hit. Instead, the machine guns, snipers, and anti-tank bullets that came from the other side from time to time always caught them off guard.

Because all the shells fired in this round were smoke shells, the mortars didn't aim carefully at all and fired very hastily, resulting in shells landing everywhere.

The shells that landed on the ground did not explode violently, but instead emitted a large amount of smoke to the bewildered gaze of the Cambrian soldiers.

"Cough cough, what's going on? Cough cough..."

"Be careful, their smoke is poisonous!"

As the smoke filled the air, the Cambrian soldiers hiding in the town suddenly changed their expressions, coughing uncontrollably, feeling snot and tears streaming down their faces, and their throats burning.

"Holy crap, is this a biological weapon? What the hell is this thing?"

Seeing the Cambrian soldiers coughing incessantly, with snot running down their faces, and even struggling to hold their weapons, Andrei was startled and quickly pulled out a gas mask and put it on.

Upon seeing this, the players, without needing any prompting, quickly put on their gas masks.

However, after observing for a while, Andrei noticed that although the Cambrian soldiers seemed to be in considerable pain, none of them appeared to have collapsed; they were simply forced to flee their original hiding places.

Judging from its appearance, this thing doesn't seem to be the poison gas bomb I imagined, but rather something like tear gas.

Good heavens, mixing smoke bombs with tear gas, that's really despicable!

The Black Hawk troops, rushing into the smoke, would quickly throw grenades into the doors and windows of every house they passed.

The Hunter mechs that rushed into the street alongside the soldiers activated the grenade launcher on one of their arms, firing a barrage of grenades at the surrounding buildings.

"This thing even has a grenade launcher? I thought it only had a nail gun and a harpoon!"

Beside Andrei, another lieutenant from the supplementary corps couldn't help but speak.

Judging from his appearance, he seemed to have encountered this thing on the battlefield before, but he had never seen it use a grenade launcher.

In addition to the grenade launcher, the nail guns on its two arms were also constantly firing at the surrounding houses. Large, dense clusters of metal nails easily penetrated windows and wooden walls, leaving broken glass and wood everywhere.

Andrei suspected that the Black Hawk troops must have experience in urban warfare elsewhere, and their methods of sweeping through these houses were somewhat too skillful.

Although the surrounding houses were actually empty, the advancing Black Hawk troops meticulously swept through the buildings, even at the cost of wasting ammunition.

After all, wasting human lives is a far greater waste than wasting ammunition.

In particular, the Black Hawk Empire has a strong industrial base, so these munitions can be replenished quickly.

The buildings at the forefront, which had long been riddled with holes by infantry artillery, were not guarded by any Cambrian soldiers, and the Black Hawk soldiers passed through them almost without any hindrance.

But when they reached the crossroads, the first wave of resistance suddenly appeared.

Most players are currently busy setting up all sorts of random traps, or gathering around Andrei, casually chatting with him. It seems that the quests they've already completed have been enjoyable, so they're eager for Andrei, the NPC, to drop more quests.

Andrei, as they wished, assigned them the task of holding the street corner for 30 minutes.

After receiving the mission, the players excitedly ran outside to complete it. Beside Andrei, besides a few other Cambrian soldiers who were unaware of what was going on, there was only the veteran Boris who had always followed him.

"Captain, I must say, your soldiers are truly...lively!"

Boris lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and for a moment didn't know how to evaluate Andrei's soldiers.

While they are known for their formidable fighting prowess, their organization is truly chaotic, and they fight with virtually no strategy. Yet, their various actions suggest they haven't received any training; on the contrary, their methods in many areas are quite sophisticated.

Andrei simply replied casually:

"Ignore them. It doesn't seem like a bad thing that they're livening up the atmosphere in such a heavy war."

Just as Andrei and Boris were talking, the first wave of players who rushed out encountered the Black Hawk army at the front.

At the crossroads, two second-floor windows were fitted with machine guns by Cambrian soldiers, creating a dense crossfire.

The soldiers here intended to use the machine gun positions to suppress the enemy's infantry assault, but the continuous explosions of smoke grenades caused them to lose their vision and could only blindly fire into the smoke.

However, the Hunter mech, positioned in the smoke and walking ahead, determined the location of the Cambrian machine gun by observing the trajectory of the bullets.

At the same time, along with the soldiers charging through the smoke, a strange green eyeball floated beside them, as if it could see the scene on the other side through the smoke.

Two consecutive volleys of grenades struck the machine gun positions, instantly blowing both machine guns away. The screams and curses of the Cambrian soldiers echoed through the air.

"Well done, Sergeant, we hit the target!"

"Hurry, hurry, keep moving forward! Position our machine guns on the second-floor windows!"

As the advancing troops moved forward, several Black Hawk soldiers, carrying a heavy machine gun and several boxes of ammunition, quickly ran down the stairs.

Meanwhile, the soldiers at the front of the machine gun team used submachine guns to clear a path for them, and a few rounds of burst fire killed all the Cambrian soldiers guarding inside on the spot.

Just when they thought they were about to set up their machine guns and quickly take control of the street, a sudden battle cry came from the smoke in front of them.

"Ula——!"

With a loud shout, soldiers in gray uniforms and gas masks, bayonets at the ready, suddenly emerged from the smoke like ghosts, startling the advancing Black Hawk troops.

Several unlucky guys at the front were caught off guard and stabbed through the chest with bayonets. But just as the player killed them with one stab, the tall Hunter mech came into view.

"Damn! Where did those armored vehicles come from in the smoke?"

The players barely had time to utter a curse before the combined firepower of two nail guns tore them to shreds in an instant.

(End of this chapter)