The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse
Chapter 471 - 464 Unreasonable

Chapter 471: Chapter 464 Unreasonable

After listing so many difficulties, the decision was made to just go ahead anyway. Gao Yang was really... capricious.

So it was said and done, at Gao Yang’s command, Satan immediately set out.

This time, the support group didn’t move; the assault team once again took the lead, but unlike the marching order before, Satan’s assault team was now in a pre-battle state.

The airport was nearly eight kilometers away, but the distance to the enemy’s defense line was not nearly as far.

Sanitation Worker set up many outposts on the outskirts of Malakal City, as well as a lot of patrol teams. The continuous harassment by the Solar System Company had forced Sanitation Worker to deploy a large number of mobile armored troops as patrol teams, significantly straining their resources and indeed causing a lot of their forces to be wasted on endless security tasks.

But now that a full-scale war had started, the Solar System Company was under great pressure, and Sanitation Worker’s pressure was no less significant. Basically, Sanitation Worker had deployed all available troops, so as Gao Yuan and his team approached, they found both the number and quality of patrol teams significantly reduced from before.

Originally, a patrol team would have at least a tank and an armored vehicle, but now, Gao Yuan and his team encountered a patrol team that was all cars. The main task of the patrol teams now was to patrol the highway between Malakel and Kodok, and if there was a transport convoy that needed protection, then there would be dedicated personnel for that.

Many things were clear at a glance. The great war had started, and the volume of transport between the two cities had decreased significantly for Sanitation Worker. It wasn’t due to a lack of demand, but rather a lack of sufficient escort forces. Moreover, neither Sanitation Worker nor the Solar System Company had the capability to engage in a prolonged war, so this large-scale battle was bound to be quick and decisive.

Since it was to be quick and decisive, Sanitation Worker could temporarily reduce transportation to avoid attacks by the Solar System Company.

Every advantage has its disadvantage. The current environment made it very easy for Satan to approach Malakal, but sneaking into the Malakal city district would certainly be extremely difficult, and silently infiltrating the airport was absolutely impossible.

Because Sanitation Worker had significantly reduced the number of patrol teams and outposts, they would inevitably strengthen protection in the core areas.

Therefore, if nothing unexpected happened, a sneak attack should be impossible, and an assault turning into a strong attack would be the inevitable outcome of this operation.

These were all Gao Yuan’s own judgments, and by now, he had indeed learned quite a few things.

Whether the situation matched his judgment would have to be seen in the final outcome. However, as he got closer and closer to the airport without encountering any interception, Gao Yuan grew more confident in his judgment.

When the airport was just two kilometers away, and he could clearly see the lights of the airport, Gao Yang finally ordered the entire team to stop again.

Gao Yuan could even see several planes landing in succession.

In the rest of the world, airports were completely abandoned structures, because no planes could take off. Thus, both airports and planes became useless, but here, after Sanitation Worker suddenly revealed their hidden strength, the airport immediately became busy.

The airport was situated at the northernmost end of Malakal City, with the White Nile River to the immediate west, the city district to the south, and about three kilometers to the east was a dense city and industrial district. Gao Yuan and his team took a detour around two highways from the north and made their way there.

Now, the airport lay to the south of Gao Yuan and his team. To the left or east, less than a kilometer away, was a large residential and industrial area. To the right, about a kilometer away, was the river. This meant, if a battle broke out at their current location, Gao Yuan and his team would face being caught in a crossfire.

Because the industrial area was an essential zone that the enemy had to defend heavily.

The team had now stopped at this rather awkward position, and Gao Yuan really didn’t know what Gao Yang was planning to do.

"Establish contact with air traffic control, turn on the walkie-talkies! Turn on the IR lights, activate night vision, check your weapons, and prepare for battle!"

Hedgehog, who hadn’t allowed any conversation throughout the journey, suddenly shouted out loud, which really startled Gao Yuan as he was unprepared for such an outburst.

But Gao Yuan still subconsciously opened the radio.

"Ram, sound check, the enemy will inevitably discover us, maybe they already have, and are waiting to ambush us, so... there’s no need to sneak around, let’s just attack openly, over."

After Gao Yang had finished speaking, Gao Yuan was petrified.

What kind of infiltration is this? What kind of surprise attack?

From a surprise attack to a sudden assault, and then to a full-on offensive—is that the normal progression? What’s going on, are we skipping the first two options and going straight for the offensive?

"Prepare for artillery, over."

Li Jinfang said through the radio, and then Gao Yuan saw through his night vision device that the IR lamps on top of everyone’s helmets simultaneously lit up.

IR light is invisible to the naked eye. If the enemy also has night vision, lighting up... it’s just revealing oneself. Night vision devices paired with IR lamps are used to identify friend from foe when bullying enemies without night vision equipment, like Americans can do to Afghans, but if both you and I have night vision, turning on the light is deliberately exposing our position.

"Launch the drone! Over."

The people of Satan began to get busy, and a few dozen seconds later, Big Bird who was operating the drone suddenly shouted, "The enemy is prepared! They have crossfire positions at eleven o’clock, two o’clock, with three fire points, and nine o’clock. The enemy is mobilizing forces. From their reaction, we are already exposed, over!"

Gao Yang laughed triumphantly through the radio and then he shouted, "These idiots still want to spring an ambush. I knew it! They have a battlefield monitoring system and let us this close—definitely something fishy. I just knew it! Over."

Gao Yang was full of pride as he spoke, and then Grolyov came through the radio with, "Offensive or retreat, over."

Gao Yuan was a bit astonished at first because Gao Yang had guessed correctly, but he quickly came to terms with it, as it was impossible for Gao Yang and the Sanitation Worker to have fought for so long without gaining any insight.

"I think... we can do this. The enemy’s defensive strength isn’t very strong, maybe two hundred at most? Um, two hundred max."

Gao Yuan jumped again in surprise. If the enemy had about twenty or thirty, or even forty people, he felt they could fight, but two hundred of them, spread out and occupying advantageous terrain, with machine guns, autocannons, and mortars—how could they fight in such a situation? It seemed impossible.

Gao Yang continued very calmly, "The enemy is still waiting for us to approach, so let’s fight. Rabbit, Crow, take out the enemy’s high-threat targets, Worker Bee, try to inflict casualties on dense groups of enemies, the rest of you know what to do. Ram is now in position, over."

"Worker Bee in position, over."

"Big Dog in position, over."

"Rabbit in position, over."

"Crow in position..."

A few short dozen seconds later, Gao Yang suddenly commanded, "Fire!"

And then the battle began.