The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse
Chapter 246 - 241: New Monster

Chapter 246: Chapter 241: New Monster

The military was urgently redeploying while civilians were evacuating in a disorderly yet supervised manner.

The troops guarding Dushanbe had initially deployed heavy weapons on the outskirts, with only some infantry to maintain order within the city. Although there were tanks and armored vehicles in the city too, they were relatively few.

Now, all the tanks and armored vehicles were heading into the city, encountering the fleeing civilians on the streets.

An officer fired into the air, driving away a group that blocked the path of the tanks, and guided the tanks to stop at a predetermined position on a street corner.

In reality, the few dozen men, women, and children in the group were just moving slowly. The tanks could have passed with a brief wait, but everyone was in a hurry now, and the officer maintaining order chose to fire into the air rather than wait even a minute longer.

"This officer is not bad. He might be anxious, but what he did was correct,"

At this time, the only person who still had the leisure to judge others was Yu Shunzhou.

"The yogurt is tasty, but this one is too sweet."

Xinghe held a cup of yogurt in one hand and a nutty sweet in the other as she walked up to Gao Yuan. She pushed the cake toward him and said, "You eat it for me. It’s too sweet; I don’t like it."

Gao Yuan took the partially eaten sweet, finding it cloyingly sweet, too rich even for his palate, which hadn’t tasted sweets in a long time.

But Gao Yuan was not one to refuse food now, especially such high-calorie food. He might not have liked it, but he certainly needed it.

He stuffed the sweet into his mouth, finished it in a few bites, and wiped his sticky fingers on Yu Shunzhou’s back. Then Gao Yuan pointed at the tank approaching from the street and said, "Look at that."

A colonel jumped down from the vehicle and approached Zhao Qiang, saying urgently, "One of the flamethrower tanks won’t start, the other seven that can move have arrived. Where do you think they should be deployed?"

Zhao Qiang looked at Gao Yuan; Gao Yuan looked at Panxin.

After some thought, Panxin said in English, "These flamethrower tanks must be used as a mobile force. If no small, fast-moving creatures are spotted, then they should not be used at all. We can only rely on these flamethrower tanks as our main weapon against flying creatures."

Such matters were certainly not Gao Yuan’s forte, and Zhao Qiang seemed not to be very knowledgeable either, so now it all depended on Panxin’s expertise.

And Panxin seemed to have no issues at all.

Yu Shunzhou didn’t dare speak loudly, in case he distracted Panxin and the others from their important discussion, so he whispered, "So, these are flamethrower tanks? But no, that’s not right, these are rocket launchers, aren’t they?"

Gao Yuan also lowered his voice and said, "These are indeed rocket launchers, but they launch fuel-air explosive rockets, also known as thermobaric bombs. This type of rocket launcher can fire 30 rockets at once, first scattering a large quantity of fuel-air mixture before igniting. To put it simply, it’s not about direct flaming; it’s about spreading fuel and then setting it on fire. This is much more powerful than a flamethrower—firing all at once, they can burn an area of forty thousand square meters!"

In a low voice, Yu Shunzhou said, "That’s quite powerful, really powerful. If the aliens really use bugs, once the bugs land, a whoosh of fire like that will be great. Hey, how do you know so much about this?"

"Just heard someone explaining it. I also know that this batch of flamethrower tanks had been used in Afghan before; otherwise, Tajikistan wouldn’t have this kind of weapon. It’s just that they’re a bit old, so there might be some problems."

While Gao Yuan was still whispering to Yu Shunzhou, Xinghe poked Gao Yuan from behind and said, "I want more."

Gao Yuan turned and said to Xinghe, "You’ve already had four bottles of yogurt. Aren’t you afraid of overdoing it?"

"But it’s really tasty; I’ve never had it before."

For some reason, Gao Yuan found Xinghe a bit pitiful. Heaven knows why he felt sympathy for her—was it because, despite being over three thousand years old, this was her first time encountering yogurt?

"Wait a bit, I’ll get you more later. Not right now—it’s not appropriate. Now go stand over to the side, there’s a good girl."

Gao Yuan waved Xinghe away, but just then, Mosavizadeh’s vehicle arrived. He got out and addressed Zhao Qiang with a slightly fanatical tone, "Our forces will all be in the city in two hours. I’ve ordered the abandonment of all outer defenses. Are you really sure the aliens will launch their attack inside the city? If not! I hope you understand the consequences."

The threat was unmistakable. Zhao Qiang calmly replied, "General, war is unpredictable, but in every previous fight with the aliens, they have always dropped creatures directly into the shelters, without exception."

"Tell me about your shelters."

Zhao Qiang was about to reply, but then he suddenly remembered the nonsense Gao Yuan had spun.

"Uh, our shelters..."

Just then, a soldier suddenly pointed to the sky and shouted, "General! General! The aliens..."

The spaceship was descending at an extremely rapid pace.

There had been no unusual activity in the city of Dushanbe, and the aliens had made no movements, but as soon as the city began to evacuate civilians, the Serpent People immediately launched their attack.

Because they wanted to test a weapon, of course, it had to be in a place with a lot of people.

Mosavizadeh took a breath and then slowly exhaled, while Gao Yuan shouted, "Get to high ground, find a point of elevation. Have you finished configuring your communications? Get to the high ground!"

Dushanbe is not a large city, but it still covers over a hundred square kilometers with nearly a million permanent residents. When six ships landed to deploy the monsters, it was impossible for the tanks and armored vehicles to attack them immediately.

Unless the Serpent People actively dropped the monsters near the military’s location, maintaining the mobility of the troops was extremely important.

Gao Yuan and his team did not intend to participate directly in the war, but the first monster he saw landed in a square less than two hundred meters from him.

Because nearly ten tanks were deployed there.

Gao Yuan and Zhao Qiang exchanged a glance, then a complex message was conveyed through their eyes.

The Serpent People definitely did it on purpose, dropping the monsters right among the soldiers.

An Armored Beast descended from the sky, its two legs landing directly on the rear top of a T72 tank, causing the tank to shudder violently and the body of the tank to lift up, pointing its cannon towards the sky.

The impact was tremendous, but the Armored Beast suffered no damage. Then, in front of Gao Yuan and his team, the Armored Beast raised its forelimbs, a blue electric current appeared between the two forelimbs, and it sliced down directly on the top of the tank.

Accompanied by a crackling sound, the tank turret was cut in half, the barrel of the tank cannon smashed onto the tank and then fell to the ground, making a thunderous noise.

In Gao Yuan’s memory, Armored Beasts would first attack anything that posed a threat to it; otherwise, even if there were a lot of people running around nearby, they would not attack immediately.

But now it was different, the Armored Beast seemed to regard the tanks as their primary attack targets.

Every tank was aimed at by another tank’s main cannon, with armor-piercing rounds already loaded. That is to say, as long as one of two tanks in a group was attacked, the other could immediately open fire, requiring at most a slight adjustment to the barrel.

With a loud boom, a tank less than thirty meters away fired. The Armored Beast that had just destroyed the first tank was immediately hit by a powerful armor-piercing round that blew a large hole in its body.

Without any warm-up, the fight became intense from the start.

But as the first Armored Beast burst apart, eight more had already landed.

As the highest commander of the military in a city, Mosavizadeh was too close to the front line.

For Gao Yuan, this was his third encounter with an Armored Beast, but for the people of Tajikistan, this was their first time facing the terrifying Armored Beasts.

"Retreat quickly!"

Zhao Qiang’s voice was so tense that it broke as he grabbed Gao Yuan, yelling, "Take Xinghe and hide!"

The cars weren’t running, but there were always people around. Of course, if the Serpent People launched an electromagnetic attack on Dushanbe as they usually did, then those two cars wouldn’t be able to start either.

At least they wouldn’t be able to be driven in the short term because they would surely break down.

Mosavizadeh pulled out his pistol, swinging it wildly with excitement, speaking words that Gao Yuan couldn’t understand.

An anti-tank team carrying a rocket launcher burst out from the house behind them and ran towards the Armored Beast.

The artillery fire wasn’t very dense, because there were only seven shots fired in total, after which all ten tanks were annihilated.

The remaining Armored Beast had already run toward the nearest person, but two anti-aircraft guns deployed to the side opened fire simultaneously, their fiery lines continuously targeting the Armored Beast. The time bought by the tanks allowed the anti-aircraft gunners a few seconds to adjust their shooting direction.

The infantry didn’t move out, the rockets weren’t fired, and all eight Armored Beasts were dead.

Dushanbe fell.

Because the Armored Beasts themselves carried viruses, whether they were dead or alive, the virus would spread, and then this human paradise would be overrun with zombies.

Reality is that cruel, but the battle would continue.

The sound of cannon fire temporarily paused, and then Gao Yuan heard a miserable howl. Turning his head, he saw a group of people running frantically towards their location. However, they didn’t get far before a green column of water suddenly appeared, drenching a small building, which immediately emitted white smoke. Drops of water that fell mid-flight from the column, as well as the splashes that landed on people, instantly produced white smoke upon contact.

Then those people fell to the ground, one by one, struggling and convulsing, but they soon stopped moving.

Mosavizadeh watched, dumbfounded, while Zhao Qiang yelled, "Evacuate this place, we are surrounded, this is the center of the aliens’ attack!"

Just then, a massive creature, as big as a truck, slowly made its way along the road, crossing an intersection and exposing its side to Gao Yuan and his team.

"What is that!"

Mosavizadeh’s voice was not loud, but Zhao Qiang shook his head, saying, "I don’t know, this is the first time this creature has appeared."