The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 80 Players Riddle Through Boxes and Cabinets Like a Locust Swarm

"Roger that, sir. Don't worry, we'll take care of those little bastards right away!"

"Sir, where did you get all that equipment you're wearing?"

Upon hearing Andrei's words, a passing player casually replied, but then suddenly noticed the Trench Warrior suit on Andrei's body.

Goodness, if he hadn't seen the important NPC mark on this guy and the exclamation mark above Andrei's head, he would have thought this guy was also a player!
Andrei shrugged and pointed to the area near the church, which was being used as a command post, and said:

"Who knows? I just found a box over there and happened to find this breastplate, spiked club, and a pretty good-feeling pistol inside."

"I wonder what the church here does, that it would hoard such weapons?"

Holy crap! There's a wild Trench Warrior set?
Upon hearing this news, the players instantly became excited, unaware that it was just something Andrei had casually mentioned.

These mere NPCs are actually trying to steal the elite soldier sets that they've just acquired?

Many players ran towards the church while complaining that the NPCs in the game were too intelligent, even trying to steal their equipment!
But they didn't know that only Andrei had the ability to equip these things. To other people from this world, they wouldn't even see the elite soldier set in the box; they would just think it was an ordinary junk box.

The players who flocked to the church did not find the elite soldier set that had spawned there, and they assumed that the set had already been taken by Andrei.

However, they did encounter a group of guards who had just rushed out there.

When the guards saw the group of soldiers running towards them with various weapons, their expressions immediately became tense. They thought that the front-line troops had already been defeated.

Prior to this, a Black Hawk team had already reached this area, but they were driven back by the combined forces of the other team.

With their numerical advantage, the isolated Black Hawk team was unable to make any significant impact, but this was not a good sign, indicating that the enemy's breakthroughs were becoming increasingly rapid!
However, they soon realized that the soldiers did not seem to be in disarray; they appeared to be looking for something.

"Stop right there! Soldiers, what's going on? What are you looking for?"

A guard approached them with a gun at the ready, and reprimanded them with some displeasure.

These guys are looking for things, fine, but maybe they're looking for something important?
But to even search their shell boxes, isn't that a bit much? What are these guys going to do with the anti-tank gun shells?
Upon seeing the guards who had approached them, one player's eyes lit up.

"Oh my, sir, you've come at the perfect time!"

"Could you help me think of any empty boxes around here that are filled with things, roughly this long and narrow?"

Seeing the group of players crowding around, the guard frowned and shoved them all away like flies, saying angrily:

"No! Where did this empty box come from? You'd better..."

Before the guard could finish speaking, a sudden bullet pierced his chest with a bang, causing him to fall to the ground without uttering a sound.

"Shit, enemy attack!"

One player exclaimed in surprise, but then he saw a reflection in a window in the distance.

He was startled; it seemed the enemy hadn't attacked yet, but snipers were already aiming their guns at them. Staying inside the church was fine, but if someone stepped outside, he would likely become a sniper target.

Unfortunately, the sniper in the distance underestimated the players.

Before the scout player could even make a move, another player quickly lay down on the ground, set up an AT gun, and fired it into the distance with a loud bang.

Experienced players can use AT cannons with pinpoint accuracy, but the Vickers Type 2 rapid-fire cannon, originally designed to destroy bunkers, becomes useless in the hands of players, let alone destroy bunkers.

From infantry to tanks to aircraft, and now to using this thing to fight enemy mechs and all sorts of strange elite soldiers, they've basically taken down anything they can get their hands on.

The sniper on the other side never expected that before he could retreat, a 40mm shell would come at him and take him out instantly.

"Nice! Do you even know what a sniper rifle is? This is a real sniper rifle!"

The chaotic battle continued, and with the addition of players, the command post, which was initially in some danger, became stable again. The enemy couldn't even reach the command post before the players pushed it back.

Unfortunately, the respawn point where the player was previously behind the enemy is gone.

Because Lieutenant Colonel August saw that Major Martin was unable to take the town and was being beaten badly inside, he simply sent in another infantry battalion of his own to attack the town from another direction.

Although the attack directions were different, the influx of so many soldiers still managed to occupy the players' respawn points.

As a result, players who were planning to continue refreshing the enemy's boarding pass suddenly missed the opportunity to rack up points, as if they had missed out on a fortune!

The fierce battle continued until the sun was about to set. The entire town was filled with the corpses of soldiers from both sides, and many houses had changed hands several times, even a dozen times.

Under these circumstances, the Black Hawk Army, which had fought fiercely for a day and suffered heavy losses, could only roughly divide their respective occupied areas according to the streets, halt their further offensive, and regroup their troops.

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Colonel Uneré also moved all his remaining troops toward the vicinity of the church, thus tightening his defensive line.

Unfortunately, despite the strong intervention of other players, the casualty ratio between the two sides was almost evened out.

But in reality, Lieutenant Colonel Unere's soldiers suffered truly heavy losses; the meat grinder-like war wiped out at least a third of his men.

Even the remaining soldiers were mostly seriously wounded, but they didn't die on the spot only because Yelena kept rescuing them.

In the command post, Lieutenant Colonel Unere first gave a grand commendation to Andrei, the master of urban warfare, and then lavishly praised the elite troops under his command.

In his view, he was about to lose the battle, but it was thanks to Andrei and his remaining elite soldiers that they were able to turn the tide and repel the enemy's attack.

Otherwise, it would be a miracle if so many elite Black Hawk veterans could win if they rushed in.

After praising him, Lieutenant Colonel Unere sighed wearily, pulled Andrei aside, and began to speak to him in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)