Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 450 - 9 Ambush Circle and Internal Strife

Chapter 450: Chapter 9 Ambush Circle and Internal Strife

"But that’s a waste of shells. We only carry double the base number of shells. If we waste them for this reason, we wouldn’t be able to explain it to the general when we return to base," a tank commander’s voice immediately emanated from the loudspeaker, refuting Tang Zheng. The base was suffering from severe shortages of supplies.

"Exactly, without shells, how do we earn military merit?" The tank commanders were nestled in these iron shells, against the attack of Beastman civilians, as long as they were careful, they would basically not get hurt. As for the lives of human civilians, they couldn’t care less.

"There are no buts. Would you like us all to die in a street battle? Follow my order, the first and second tanks, fire all your shells. If anything goes wrong, it’s on me," Tang Zheng cut off the tank commanders, "What use are shells if the tanks are destroyed?"

The soldiers on the Hummers and trucks immediately responded to Tang Zheng. Their loudspeakers were filled with their shouts for artillery support. Their hearts were trembling as they watched endless bullets shoot at the bulletproof glass, causing web-like cracks.

Tang Zheng was lucky to be in the command vehicle. If he were in any other Hummer, tank commanders wouldn’t have bothered with him. After all, he was just a civilian, so they overtly complied but covertly opposed his order.

"If you don’t open fire now, you’ll be charged with treason," Tang Zheng became furious. Indeed, a commander led by example, and his soldiers were all a bunch of selfish cowards. "You treat the lives of your fellow comrades as if they are nothing. You all deserve to die."

"Open fire! Someone is taking responsibility, what are you worried about?" Soldiers in the truck pleaded, "Would you really watch us die?"

Beastman civilians were not fools, they aimed to kill humans and seize ’food’, so they focused their firepower on the trucks and Hummers. Consequently, there was a delay, and two RPGs hit a truck, causing it to explode into pieces. The civilians inside were completely out of luck; not even a single intact corpse was left.

Upon seeing the burning chunks of corpses, the Beastman civilians cheered and started a barbecue feast straight from the abandoned buildings on both sides, without even needing to start a fire.

"Open fire." The tank commander, unable to bear the nagging of these people, finally gave the command.

These tanks were considered high-tech weapons. They fired while in motion without slowing down, and their hit rate was high. As the cannon bore continuously spat out flames, the Beastman civilians hiding in the buildings ahead ran into bad luck. Entire buildings were bombed and collapsed, burying them underneath.

"Aim your fire at the buildings," Tang Zheng picked up the sound pickup and roared again. With this tactic, both the enemies on the rooftops and in the basements could be taken care of. No one could shoot from a collpasing building, and even if they were beside it, they would instinctively be scared and misfire.

Indeed, the Beastman civilians’ firepower significantly reduced, and the various commanders were cheering excitingly. If it weren’t too dangerous outside, they would be itching to go out and fetch some Beastman ears.

"The truck carrying the newbies is fine. Should we take the opportunity to get rid of the Burmese’s truck?" Dantai picked this moment, when their pressure had greatly reduced, to propose a malicious idea while operating the machine gun.

"Just drop it. There are our new guys on that truck as well." Gao Wei was holding the driver captive with a helpless expression, "It would have been better if we had delayed their escape."

"Let’s break out first." If it weren’t for the driver’s fully focused look as he drove, Tang Zheng was prepared to interrogate him about some intel. He rummaged about, looking for any useful items.

The full set of equipment from the six soldiers was naturally stripped off. Conveniently, he tossed a steel helmet to Dantai. This kid was ruthless enough to operate a machine gun wearing only a Kaffra Helmet, which was barely harder than paper in front of a Beastman bullet.

"I finally feel a bit safer now." Gao Wei held a gun in one hand and put on a helmet with the other.

The previously arrogant Gesang who had volunteered Tang Zheng as cannon fodder was now dead beyond any doubt. After being shot again by Tang Zheng, he rummaged through all of his pockets and stripped him down to nothing.

"What a foodie, only had chocolate and cigars." Without any valuable items, Tang Zheng checked Gesang’s handgun, tied it around his waist with a belt, then tossed the chocolate to the driver, "Calm down, don’t get into an accident."

"Calling command vehicle from 02, over a half base number of ammo has been used up."

"Don’t you see that the fleet is much safer now? Launch all of your remaining shells, don’t leave a single one. The third and fourth tank will take over after they’re done. Don’t worry, when we are back, I will reward you for your merit," Tang Zheng loudly gave orders. In fact, he had already sentenced them to death in his heart. These guys can’t be left alive. Even if they don’t speak about Gesang’s cause of death, they will surely report it to the superiors. By then, he himself would be in danger. It’s better to have them finish their shells as soon as possible, which would make it easier to deal with them later.

"Calling the command vehicle from 12, three Hummers are trailing the fleet."

"Are they ours?" Tang Zheng observed afar from the shooting hole. Although the entire fleet was not too far apart, his vision was limited, so he could only see Qin Yan’s Hummer. He did not know what had happened, but that vehicle suddenly sped out of the fleet and crashed into a building on the side of the road.

"They’re one of us."

"If they’re one of us, why do you need to report it? Let them follow." Tang Zheng was angry, treating them as if they were the commander, "Qin Yan, did you hear? What happened to you guys?"

Only the buzzing sound of electric current echoed from the radio, without any reply. The Hummer behind then sped up, catching up with them.

"Damn it, I’ll go take a look." Cursing, Tang Zheng almost slammed the sound pickup device on the ground before he got up to open the car door.

"Command vehicle, we’re okay, the driver was hit by a stray bullet." Qin Yan’s voice sounded, exactly aligning with the excuse Tang Zheng had in mind.

In reality, they had just experienced a mutiny. Because the bombardment suppressed the Beastman civilians, the soldiers in the Hummer were relieved. As soon as they felt somewhat safe and their adrenaline had nowhere to rush, a soldier harassed Qin Yan. Qin Yan, being tough, twisted his wrist and smashed his mouth full of teeth, knocking him unconscious. When other soldiers started cursing and were about to aim at them, Lu Fan had already taken the chainsaw gun and started firing. They happened to be hiding in the corner, so Lu Fan could shoot indiscriminately, not even sparing the driver. As a result, the Hummer spun out of control and shot out. Fortunately, Pang Meiqin reacted quickly, lunging for the cab and hitting the brakes, stabilizing the vehicle’s momentum.

Xu Biyun and Liu Yue were stunned. They had never expected that in just the blink of an eye the carriage would be filled with various mutilated corpses. Blood and minced meat were splattered everywhere, and none of the women escaped. They were all stained with red blood.

The chainsaw gun that could blow up a Beastman was a heavy weapon. Needless to say, it was even more effective against humans. Lu Fan wiped his face, only to make it an even bigger mess, all red and ghastly. Fortunately, Xu Biyun and Liu Yue had good resistance and neither gave a shout.

Qin Yan aimed the gun at the soldier who had tried to take advantage of her. When she pulled the trigger, the result was an immediate explosion, blood and neck tissue sprayed out, filling half of the carriage, making the seats slippery.

"Quickly, strip off the tactical vests and throw the bodies out." Qin Yan didn’t care about the flying brain pulp and broken flesh. She opened the car door and kicked the headless corpse out with one foot.

Since the Hummer did not return to the fleet and had fallen to the back, along with everyone else preoccupied with their own problems, Qin Yan thought that no one had seen their action of discarding the bodies. However, Pang Meiqin suddenly shouted.

"Damn, we were seen." Pang Meiqin’s voice was anxious, but she didn’t lose her sense of reason, "Have you turned off the radio?"

"Yes, it should be fine now." Lu Fan didn’t know how to switch off the radio using the button, but that was fine, she just unplugged a few wires on it, "Do they intend to counterattack?"

"No, but there is a woman who is staring at us constantly." Pang Meiqin’s driving skill was put to use. After driving for about ten seconds, she was completely accustomed to operating the Hummer, which allowed her to drive over mountains like an off-road vehicle. As soon as she stepped on the accelerator and the engine roared, they were about to overtake the fleet and catch up with Tang Zheng’s command vehicle.

"Don’t overtake. Just stay at the tail and watch their intention." Qin Yan glanced at the back of the car. After breaking through the ambush circle, there were very few Beastman civilians left, only sporadic attacks were launched, which posed little problem.

"Didn’t Tang Zheng want to find a person to rely on? Why did he kill his supporter?" Xu Biyun was confused. After only a short while, Tang Zheng astonishingly killed the commander of the entire fleet.

"That commander must have offended uncle," Lu Fan said nonchalantly, "Who cares, we can go anywhere in the world as long as we are with uncle."

"Plug back in the wiring head. Maybe some orders will come in." Qin Yan was pleased with Xu Biyun and Liu Yue’s performance. The two girls didn’t waste any time and were learning how to operate the soldiers’ chainsaw guns.

However, Tang Zheng was getting worried. He attempted to take out the AT-4 from his wristwatch space but got no response. He could only take out a share of food and weapons for one person. And the worst part was, he couldn’t put the dragon bone curved knife, he just took out, back into the space. He had to find a rope and tie it on his back.

"Damn it, Trojan wants to finish us off." Looking at his half-eaten ham and a cup of noodles in his hand, Gao Wei’s face looked miserable. His space backpack didn’t work as well, and the supplies he could take out were limited.

"This comes down to physical strength again. Darn it, isn’t it suicide to compete with the muscular Beastman soldiers?" Gao Wei chewed his sausage and chuckled, "The newbies are doomed."

"If you can’t outrun the enemy, you die. It’s that simple." Temporarily safe, Dantai climbed into the carriage, took out a chocolate to replenish his energy, and said, "Plug in the pickup. Be careful somebody reports us."

"Okay." Tang Zheng reconnected the radio. Shouts from various car commanders could be heard from the radio, "We’re ambushed on the left front, it’s all Beastman grenadiers and suicide bomber slaves, probably two squads."

This time Tang Zheng didn’t have to command, the tanks with the angle opened fire immediately. But it was clear the professional soldiers were not to be equaled by Beastman civilians, their attacks were more efficient. Just after they confronted the enemy, a Hummer and a truck in the fleet were bombed into the sky by rocket shells. (To be continued. If you like this work, please support it at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)