The thin morning fog shrouded the desolate highlands, the damp cold wind sliced through like a blade, emitting a piercing howl, as if orchestrating the slaughter to co. On the highlands, the soldiers of the Laines Empire huddled trembling in the trenches, their uniforms tattered, stained with mud and blood.
The Tang Army’s shells were precise and lethal, and those who hadn’t collapsed by now had shown considerable bravery. However, as ti dragged on, the positions they held had long lost their original shape.
"Damn this hellish weather..." a young soldier cursed under his breath, his lips purple with cold as his teeth chattered uncontrollably. It had drizzled again yesterday, and now the temperature in the fields was very low, the soil was extrely damp, and for the soldiers of the Laines Empire, such weather was truly torturous: "When will this damn war end, I’m so fucking done!"
They truly hated this kind of weather. The thin clouds and intermittent drizzle could hardly stop the Tang Army from deploying its Air Force to launch attacks, yet the incessant rain rendered the battlefield wet and muddy, a true tornt for the Laines soldiers.
To make matters worse, last night one of their sentinels discovered a surprise attack by the Tang Army special forces; a fierce battle ensued between the two sides. They fought through the night, yet co dawn, they hadn’t even seen a single enemy corpse.
On their side, they lost more than fifty soldiers, and the entire infantry company was almost wiped out. When dawn broke, reinforcents from the group headquarters arrived in the form of a new infantry company, finally stabilizing the situation.
"Shut up, what good does complaining do? Instead, spend your ti loading a few more bullets into your magazine," an old soldier beside him scolded, his murky eyes filled with bloodshot and fatigue: "You still hope to go back from here? We will all die here; fate has already been sealed... this is penitence, atoning for our ungrateful sins back then."
He was a firsthand witness of the expulsion of the Great Tang Group, back then as a soldier carrying a submachine gun, watching the followers of the Great Tang Group board ships at the docks of Brunas. He knew even then, these people were bound to return soday.
The young soldier shrank his neck in fear, not daring to utter another word. The old soldier was right; those Tang Empire soldiers seed like hellspawn, they were fierce, brutal, and unafraid of death, like tireless machines, claiming countless Laines soldiers’ lives.
Yesterday, he even witnessed a Tang Army soldier stumbling to his feet after being hit by a submachine gun, limping away from the battlefield!
Those guys all have an Undying Body... this rumor circulated among the grassroots soldiers of the Laines Empire, many believed such absurd tales, believing the Great Tang Empire’s Emperor cast a spell on his soldiers to make them forget pain.
The Laines Empire actually had a similar spell, sothing called Black Crow. Many soldiers actively sought out such drugs to console their hearts on a hopeless battlefield.
However, he heard that thing had significant side effects and wasn’t very effective. Those who took too much of it were often confused and muddled, easily dying on the battlefield, so he dared not ask his superiors for that Black Crow pill.
Having learned a lesson from the Ice Cold Empire, the Laines Empire’s military had no good opinion of Black Crow. They did not proactively distribute it to soldiers; only if soone actively requested it, they would bring out this stuff from Dorne.
In the distance, the rumble of engines gradually increased from faint to deafening, like the roar of ancient beasts, heralding a bloody feast about to comnce.
The steel torrent of the Great Tang Empire appeared, tanks erging from the horizon like black phantoms, rumbling forward with an unstoppable force.
These tanks had long barrels, their turrets glinting with cold light, nacing in the dim dawn—such a feature was particularly prominent, as the Allied Forces’ tanks rarely had such long gun barrels!
Under the cover of the tank cluster, the camouflage-clad Tang Army infantry calmly spread into formation, stepping forward with unwavering resolve, each man expressionless, their eyes only filled with icy killing intent.
The Laines Empire soldiers were terrified by this sudden steel torrent, they had never seen so many Tang Army tanks, nor so many Tang Army infantry. As they nervously surveyed the erging enemy in the distance, the Tang Army’s artillery barrage arrived.
A series of rockets exploded on the Laines Empire’s positions, the ground shuddering with each blast. The Tang Army’s shelling was dense and rapid, after rely a few breaths, the bombardnt seed to halt.
Even so, the quick coverage inflicted substantial casualties; the defending Laines soldiers were swept away by artillery in an instant. By the ti the surviving soldiers crawled out from the loose soil, the Tang Army was already upon them.
The Tang Army tank cluster halted a few hundred ters from the Laines Empire’s positions, then over a hundred 125-milliter smoothbore guns roared, a series of shells poured down like rain on the Laines Empire’s positions, turning the barely stabilized defensive works into a sea of flas.
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