On the battlefield surrounding Yelu City, as the ground forces advanced, the Jieke Group almost irresistibly destroyed the You Tai Army’s defensive lines one by one, causing the entire front to teeter.
The 1st chanized Battle Brigade was like the sharpest spear, piercing through the defenses of You Tai Country in one swift move.
You Tai Country’s most elite divisions were destroyed head-on by the 1st chanized Battle Brigade, beaten into an indistinguishable ss.
With the successful breakthrough of the 1st chanized Battle Brigade, the southern gateway of Yelu City was wide open, embracing the Jieke Group.
However, the 1st chanized Battle Brigade did not imdiately enter the city but instead expanded to the wings to consu other You Tai Country garrisons outside the city.
These iron beasts lined up to advance, their shiny tal surfaces reflecting dazzling light, like moving tal oceans, eight-legged limbs crushing stones and soil, amidst deafening roars, the steel torrent shattered defensive positions, breaking through all obstacles with an almost brute force posture.
Wherever the chanical army passed, smoke and dust billowed, the angry wind rolled up the dust on the battlefield, obscuring the sky and sun.
Everywhere they went, these main battle chas brought nothing but death and destruction.
The battlefield was littered with collapsed fortifications, wreckage of destroyed and burning vehicles, and corpses piled high.
After the 1st chanized Battle Brigade broke the You Tai Army’s lines and defenses, other Jieke Group units began to follow up one after another, to clean up the ss, further accelerating the collapse of the You Tai Army’s lines.
Just like peeling an onion, the You Tai Army around Yelu City was continuously eliminated.
In an attempt to rescue Yelu City, the Holy City and strategic stronghold, the You Tai Army began to fight desperately, constantly adding reinforcents.
But those reinforcents were bombarded by airstrikes on the way, basically being disrupted during air raids.
If any troops managed to break up and continue advancing through the airstrikes, they would face heavy artillery waiting in formation, with 155 howitzers and rocket launchers turning small teams of You Tai Army into disoriented targets.
Occasionally, so scattered soldiers managed to break through, only to face a death trap constructed by genetic warriors and spider main battle chas, with a predictable outco.
In fact, most of the You Tai Army reinforcents were already shattered during the airstrike phase, with majority dispersing and fleeing in chaos.
Because a significant portion of the You Tai Army consisted of militia reserves, the You Tai Army seemingly numbered over half a million but had low combat quality.
Many would scatter like rabbits once bombarded, fleeing everywhere like an explosion of hares.
Through this tactic of encircling and attacking reinforcents, within the following week, the Jieke Group exterminated a large number of You Tai reinforcents.
Until the You Tai Army realized they were caught in a baiting ga—Jieke Group would deliberately leave Yelu City unchecked to lure them into sending troops to their deaths—did they finally cease sending reinforcents.
By then, the number of You Tai soldiers killed or injured around Yelu City had already surpassed two hundred thousand. Of course, the majority had surrendered.
These You Tai soldiers had neither the determination nor the courage to fight to the end. Facing the overwhelmingly powerful forces of the Jieke Group, they surrendered in waves, much like wild grass sprouting in spring, difficult to completely eradicate.
Even the You Tai soldiers defending Yelu City, though not yet attacked by Jieke Group, so still ran out to surrender to Jieke Group.
These surrendered You Tai soldiers were handed over to the Faha soldiers for managent.
How they would be treated by their bitter enemies, the Faha soldiers, was beyond the concern of Jieke Group.
After all, Jieke Group was not violating the Geneva Convention, and whatever Faha soldiers did could not be blad on Jieke Group, or even in the event of criticism, Jieke Group simply would not care.
In rely a week, Jieke Group had virtually secured victory, exterminating the elite troops around Yelu City with minimal casualties.
Nothing else, just the Yin Soul Banner disguised as military flags, during the Jieke Group’s assault, absorbed a large number of Yin Souls from You Tai soldiers, significantly strengthening the Soul Banner.
After clearing the defenses and positions around Yelu City, seeing the You Tai Army had no intention of sending further troops, Jieke Group finally advanced to the city, then comnced to enter the city.
Due to the war, Yelu City’s population was sowhat reduced, but those remaining still numbered in the millions, mostly You Tai.
In the eyes of these You Tai, the Holy City must not be occupied by the Jieke Group, seen as heretics. Many even held the resolve to live and die with Yelu City.
Thus, the Jieke Group’s vanguard entering Yelu City not only needed to contend with You Tai soldiers but also had to guard against sneak attacks from the You Tai civilians, with incidents of hidden gunfire and homade bombs.
The first Jieke Group unit entering Yelu City quickly reported the situation and was subsequently ordered to withdraw.
Although Jieke Group could manage the situation, their genetic warriors were overwhelmingly powerful in urban combat, they had simpler and more effective ans.
Outside Yelu City, the commander of the 1st chanized Battle Brigade, Hao Guang, spoke with a hard expression, ordering: "All chas prepare, target Yelu City’s southern district, southeastern district, and western district, conduct carpet bombing."
Behind Hao Guang, more than a hundred spider main battle chas lined up, their 203mm caliber main guns angled towards the Sky Do, aid at Yelu City.
"1st cha Battalion ready!"
"2nd cha Battalion ready!"
"3rd cha Battalion ready!"
"7th Artillery Battalion ready!"
The first to open fire were the 12 Fly Rocket chas, their eight tal limbs penetrating the ground, anchoring the chassis.
The Fly Rocket chas are the firepower units of the chanical Combat Brigade, each equipped with 48-tube multi-barrel rocket launch pods.
Accompanied by the drone and howl of vibrations, 220mm rockets were launched amidst dazzling light, and all 576 rockets were fired in a short span.
Such a 220mm rocket can cause devastating damage to unshielded targets the size of a football field.
Now, with the massive launch, it was as if red teors fell from the sky. As the warheads exploded, shockwaves swept in all directions, destroying every human and structure around.
The You Tai settlent in the southern part of Yelu City instantly burst into flas, each house and building collapsing in the explosions, with steel and concrete flying everywhere.
Following closely were the 203mm cannons of the Spider Main Battle chas.
This main cannon has a maximum range of over 40 kiloters. Firing rocket-assisted shells can further increase the range, but these shells reduce the explosive charge and power. Since Yelu City lacks effective counter-fire, the Spider Main Battle chas use conventional shells, bombarding from 20 kiloters away, achieving higher accuracy.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Hundreds of kilogram thermobaric high-explosive warheads landed and exploded, flipping cars and shattering bodies, and leaving huge craters.
When hit by these shells, the shockwave can throw body tissues hundreds of ters away, making the clearing capability exceedingly effective.
With the 1st chanized Battle Brigade raining fire on Yelu City, the You Tai enclaves were seen covered and surrounded by flas and smoke from a distance.
As ti passed, more and more firepower joined in the bombing sequence.
Self-propelled howitzers and rocket artillery from the Army, and heavy air bombs from the Air Force, tons of ammunition were thrown into the city, as if determined to drown this ancient city in shells.
Amidst the continuous bombardnt, the city’s skyline was obscured by thick smoke, as if a giant beast had opened its deep maw. Buildings turned into ruins under the shellfire, debris swirling in the air, streets filled with burning vehicles and the panicked fleeing crowd.
Crying and calls for help rose one after another, each You Tai face marked with fear and despair, desperately seeking air raid shelters or places of refuge.
The Jieke Group’s bombardnt of Yelu City lasted for three days and nights, without a minute’s pause, with various units taking turns to output firepower.
When the shelling ended, the ground troops of the Jieke Group re-entered the field.
Hao Guyu, piloting the A-180 Spider Main Battle cha, led a chanical Battalion into Yelu City, accompanied by a squad of Genetic Warriors and Super Soldiers who had swallowed Strengthening Pills.
"Whoa, they really bombed this hard."
Seeing the state of Yelu City, Hao Guyu couldn’t help but click his tongue. It was much harder hit than Bitwei City.
The once bustling streets of Yelu City now lay in ruins, shop windows shattered, goods scattered everywhere.
The park’s fountain had dried up, benches lay broken, the laughter and play of bygone days were no more.
The street-side trees were either toppled or set ablaze, the flas licking and consuming the green leaves.
The city had long lost its past hustle and bustle, eerily quiet.
"Enemy spotted at three o’clock."
Soon a scout reported discovering a hidden enemy in a Third Level small building, reporting the situation via radio to Hao Guyu, the battalion commander.
Seeing this, Hao Guyu moved the main cannon of the A-180 Spider cha under him, aiming at the small building.
Boom!
The cannon blast spread out, and the shell instantly drilled into the building.
With just one shot, rebar and concrete scattered like a Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers, the small building vanished completely, leaving only a crater. The few You Tai soldiers hiding there were naturally blown to bits.
"Commander, enemies found at five o’clock, along with civilians."
Another subordinate reported the situation, this ti the location was a dozen-story building in a residential area, with quite a few You Tai soldiers hiding inside.
"With the enemy, they are not civilians, but militants, rember that."
Hao Guyu corrected his subordinate’s wording and then called over a Scorpion Fla Sprayer cha.
The rear of the fla sprayer cha arched high, its tail end spewing a torrent of fire reaching over 500 ters, flushing into the building and igniting everything inside including appliances, furniture, and bodies.
This was far more terrifying than ordinary infantry flathrowers, the building like a skewer of lamb over a fla, quickly engulfed in fire.
In an instant, flas shot from the windows and balconies, accompanied by chilling screams and the stench of burning flesh. Engulfed in flas, one after another, the You Tai leaped from windows, hitting the ground, turned to pulp.
They would rather fall to their deaths than be burned alive.
Those trapped on lower floors didn’t have that option, running madly amidst screams, set ablaze and struggling for minutes, until charred black, their skin and flesh emitting a burnt savory scent, reduced to curled, blackened corpses, dying in utmost misery.
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