The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse
Chapter 446 - 439 Blocking the Cannon’s Mouth

Chapter 446: Chapter 439 Blocking the Cannon’s Mouth

When people are in a state of urgency, they often unleash unexpected energy that they wouldn’t otherwise, but they may also do some foolish things they wouldn’t normally consider.

The machine gun on the tank opened fire. Gao Yuan, who was figuring out how to pry open the iron shell, immediately panicked when he saw the machine gun at his feet suddenly start spitting fire.

The machine gun was targeting his comrades. If these tanks, along with the armored vehicles, began to sweep continuously, Gao Yuan might be alright, but the others would surely be dead.

Members of the Spark Squad were certainly not idle either. Sirte was running desperately with a rocket launcher in his arms, trying to get to the side of a tank to strike at its side or rear armor.

But the enemy, of course, noticed Sirte, so the turret of one tank immediately began to rotate and quickly aimed in Sirte’s direction.

Gao Yuan was really in a panic now, so he stepped forward, swung the Steel Mace in his hand, and struck down heavily.

He hit the machine gun. Although only a short section of the machine gun on the tank was exposed, it still showed a bit, and Gao Yuan aimed exactly for that less than ten-centimeter section of the barrel.

With a crisp clang followed by a pop, the exposed section of the barrel burst open like a trumpet flower, evenly splitting into six petals.

The barrel had burst; the tank’s co-axial machine gun’s barrel had exploded.

Startled, Gao Yuan immediately realized what had happened. With one strike, he had bent the exposed section of the machine gun barrel severely, and while the machine gun was still firing, it instantly exploded.

In the time it took Gao Yuan to jump up, land, and jump again, he understood what had happened, because such a reaction took only an instant.

And by the time Gao Yuan landed again, he fiercely smashed the Steel Mace onto the co-axial machine gun of the second tank.

The T55 tank had two machine guns: one was the roof machine gun above the turret, the other was the co-axial machine gun next to the tank gun.

Since no one dared to use the roof machine gun, the enemy was left only with the co-axial machine gun and the tank gun. The tank gun was slow to fire and not very effective against infantry, so the co-axial machine gun became the tank’s best option for engaging infantry.

But now, the machine gun barrel had been bent and burst by Gao Yuan.

Gao Yuan jumped onto the second tank. Before he could stabilize himself, he viciously struck down on the barrel with the Steel Mace.

Thus, the co-axial machine gun of the tank that was aiming at Sirte and firing went silent in an instant.

Gao Yuan hadn’t thought he could save Sirte in this manner.

Nobody had thought so, neither Sirte nor the tank crews.

Because since the invention of tanks, no, since the invention of machine guns, no one had ever stopped the enemy’s fire by bending the barrel.

It wasn’t for lack of thought, but before Gao Yuan, no one was able to do it.

Because no one was able to do it, nobody thought of it.

Although it was just a 7.62mm caliber barrel, it was still a thick steel pipe. If one had the chance to charge to the machine gun position, it would be much easier to deal with the gunner than to bend the barrel.

Besides, even with a hammer in hand, bending a gun barrel - and to such a severe degree that bullets could not be fired - was unlikely.

Keep in mind that even a bent barrel doesn’t necessarily mean a burst barrel; at most, accuracy is affected.

So Gao Yuan’s strikes were truly beyond everyone’s expectations.

Gao Yuan couldn’t pry open the tank’s iron shell, but he could knock off the tanks’ protruding claws. Tanks without machine guns and cannons—could they really rely on crushing to attack the enemy?

So, at this moment, the enemy was in disarray, for a battle that defied human understanding would leave anyone in a complete mess.

The tank was still moving, and Gao Yuan stood on the moving tank turret, ran along the tank barrel, and then he bent over, stuffing a grenade that he didn’t even have time to pull the pin into the tank’s cannon.

He held a knife in his mouth, the Steel Mace in his right hand, and with his left, he took out a grenade from his pocket and crammed it into the barrel—all in one smooth motion.

It was only when Gao Yuan jumped onto the third tank that he heard a loud explosion.

The tank barrel, stuffed with a grenade, was evenly blasted into several petals, with remnants of the barrel still smoking.

The enemy had fired a shell, which collided with the grenade stuffed in the barrel. Thus, regardless of whether the shell exploded or not, the barrel’s breech explosion was inevitable.

But looking at the condition of that tank, it seemed the fired shell had exploded inside the barrel; therefore, the fate of the crew inside was most likely dire.

Gao Yuan was like a child who had found a new toy.

Who would have thought that a tank could be fought like this?

The third tank was destroyed, followed by the fourth. The last two tanks didn’t fire, so there was no breech explosion. However, with their barrels bent and grenades stuffed in, these two tanks were ruined.

The first tank had only its rifle barrel blown up, but the main gun was not affected; yet, which gunner wouldn’t be scared to death by then, daring to fire another shot to try it out?

However, there were still armored vehicles. Gao Yuan leaped onto the top of an armored vehicle and dealt with the machine gun in the same way: a strike of his mace immediately bent the barrel. But he had trouble solving how to block the thin barrel of the gun, as a grenade wouldn’t fit.

The 73mm smoothbore gun was very short.

Gao Yuan didn’t take a grenade; instead, he took the knife he had been holding in his mouth and directly stuffed it into the gun barrel.

The solution was that simple, yet who would dare to fire a round with a knife stuffed in the barrel?

Flipping off the vehicle, Gao Yuan joyfully climbed onto the armored vehicle and then started pondering what else he had that could block a barrel. Without thinking, he glanced around and immediately pulled out his Geological Hammer from his waist, stuffing the handle into the barrel.

The armored vehicle hadn’t been destroyed, but it had lost its function.

The same action was even simpler to repeat, but Gao Yuan really had nothing else to block a barrel with, apart from the Steel Mace in his hand.

Gao Yuan couldn’t throw away his Steel Mace, but that was okay; using his brain, he could find something else.

He tore off the walkie-talkie from his chest and tried to stuff it into the barrel. Finding it wouldn’t fit, Gao Yuan raised his right hand and smashed it down with the handle of the mace.

The walkie-talkie was destroyed, but the ruined device still blocked the barrel.

There was only one armored vehicle left, and that vehicle finally started reversing at full speed, while its parallel machine guns kept firing non-stop.

Gao Yuan could never be hit by a single machine gun’s fire; he just needed to run faster, outrunning the speed at which a turret could turn.

It was that wild.

Just when Gao Yuan was about to leap again, his legs suddenly gave way, and although he managed to jump onto the armored vehicle, he fell forward and sprawled on top of the armored vehicle.

Bad news—how long had he been running at full strength now?

Thinking about this problem, Gao Yuan suddenly turned pale, but there was no time to waste, so he immediately tried to stand up. However, the once seemingly invincible man now felt like a shrimp with soft legs.

The Steel Mace came down on the parallel machine gun again and again, bending it a little more with each stroke. After three hits, the barrel had bent enough, but there was no explosion, because the enemy had stopped firing.