With the latest instructions from headquarters issued, the atmosphere across the battlefield immediately grew tense.

If the previous firepower bombardment was a comprehensive suppression by hot weapons, posing almost no significant risk,

then the upcoming combat in the forest is destined to be a high-risk battle.

Once the warriors enter the mountain for a sweep, all prior firepower lockdowns will be ineffective.

Whether it's the Third-order defense formation or HQ17-type anti-air intercept missiles, they can't provide support in the forest.

The warriors only have a Tier One Body Protection Talisman that lasts forty minutes, along with bulletproof vests and tactical helmets provided by headquarters.

However, the only good news is.

Currently, most of the two-headed bulls have already fled to the southern area.

The beasts still remaining in Xiaolianzi Mountain are basically the kind of villains that can be shot on sight like P Club players.

Therefore, the rabbits can still initiate two waves of firepower cleansing first.

Of course.

It's expected that a few two-headed bulls still survive within the main part of the forest, but compared to the warriors' safety, these two-headed bulls don't have a high capture priority.

With over eight thousand two-headed bulls, the death quota given by the base camp is roughly 4-5 thousand.

Moreover, from a certain perspective, those 'upright' beings whom even aphrodisiacs can't provoke are undoubtedly inefficient for domestication and breeding.

Those who aren't lustful deserve to die.

At this very moment.

Four hundred meters away from the main body of Xiaolianzi Mountain,

Yan Shaohua is reporting to headquarters:

"Reporting to command, the first batch of remaining beasts has been completely annihilated by our troops, about a thousand beasts slipped through gaps in our firepower net and retreated back into the mountains.

It is estimated that the number of beasts inside the mountain is about 3-4 thousand.

Additionally, all five Third-order large demons have been eliminated, except for the scaleless giant snake and the bamboo caterpillar, the remains are well preserved.

Our troops have reached the foot of the mountain, the chemical defense company is ready in place, awaiting orders!"

Inside the command room.

Major General Man finished listening to the report in silence, without showing surprise or dissatisfaction on his face.

After all, the number of personnel brought by the rabbits this time is just over twenty thousand, with limited artillery.

Plus, some shells still have accuracy issues,

so it's not surprising that certain areas experience firepower gaps lasting a few seconds or even over ten seconds.

Just like missile expert He Hui said earlier, the rabbits still have a long way to go in precision calibration.

After adjusting his breathing, Major General Man issued the most critical command:

"Chemical defense company, launch the fuel-air bombs, the heavy armored troops enter through the mountain pass, occupy strategic deep positions, under certain conditions, mobility can be sacrificed to ensure firepower coverage!"

Upon hearing this, Yan Shaohua exchanged a glance with Deng Xun, the battalion commander under Longxing River's command beside him.

Both nodded with tacit understanding.

Then Yan Shaohua said to Company Commander Jian Xianliang of the chemical defense company:

"Company Commander Jian, prepare to launch the fuel-air bombs."

Fuel-air bombs are a simplified version of thermobaric bombs.

They rely on vaporized fuel exploding in the air to generate high heat and ultra-high pressure, thus achieving mass destruction and damage effects.

Readers who often read ancient transmigrator novels might know the common knowledge:

The composition of gunpowder is one part nitrate, two parts sulfur, and three parts charcoal, known as the must-have divine artifact for transmigrators.

Its principle involves oxidizers, reducing agents, and fuel reacting to create flashy boomboomboom effects.

Among them, nitrate is the oxidizer in gunpowder.

So someone wondered, well, isn't there oxygen in the air also an oxidizer?

Why not mix the fuel thoroughly with air, then ignite it, thus reducing the amount of explosive charge and utilizing local material to achieve more dazzling effects?

This is the basic design concept of fuel-air bombs.

They have a particularly striking feature called "overpressure."

Within its damage range, the instant combustion of fuel and air produces overpressure bigger than any currently created on a battlefield, even slightly exceeding that of nuclear weapons.

Frequent diners of open-flame grill or hotpot might have experienced that as the flames ignite, a wave of heat hits you, sometimes even causing slight chest discomfort.

Now imagine that heat magnified a hundred thousand times. What kind of effect would that have?

This is the principle of fuel-air bombs.

Organisms in the Damo Realm require oxygen, and the oxygen content in the Damo Realm is much higher than on Earth. This finding was detected when the camp first arrived in the Damo Realm.

Though perhaps upon reaching the Nascent Soul or Divinity Transformation realm, creatures might survive for short or medium durations without oxygen,

at least the beasts in Xiaolianzi Mountain currently have no chance of surviving without oxygen and overpressure.

However, the advanced version of fuel-air bombs, thermobaric bombs, due to their overly bug-like effectiveness, were excluded by commander (Shen) from plans.

Thus eventually, what was arranged was the 93mm infantry fuel-air bomb squads.

The specific configuration included a 9-man mechanized infantry squad fitted with two PF-97 infantry fuel-air rocket launchers.

These launchers have pinpoint accuracy up to 800 meters, comparable in power to a 120mm howitzer, causing high-temperature and high-pressure effects that can directly suffocate and kill the enemy over large areas.

Once everything is ready, Yan Shaohua waves his hand:

"Into the mountain!"

Clank, clank, clank—

The heavy-armored vehicles on the main assault line began to slowly start up, producing crisp crunching sounds against the gravel.

They entered the heart of the area between mountains through the crevices at the foot, beginning to occupy the strategic depth region.

Frankly speaking.

Tracked tanks are not particularly suitable for mountain forest combat.

Fortunately, the batch of 99As under Yan Shaohua's command had been modified, like their counterparts in the west, to adapt to the rice field water network terrain of the Yangtze River Delta.

Therefore, in the woods, these tanks could barely move—although in terms of mobility, they were nearly halved again and again.

However, for this batch of 99As, speed was not an issue.

While they were advancing into the mountains, they were actually operating near the foothills, occupying the depressions between the two mountains.

M

↑ Pointing to this position.

And any magical beasts in the forest wanting to escape would have to climb over the main body of Xiaolianzi Mountain, over eight hundred meters high.

Thus, apart from those that fled earlier, the remaining magical beasts' speed in escaping through the forest would certainly not match the displacement speed of the armored vehicles on flat terrain.

Because most of the magical beasts were previously positioned on the front of the mountain.

As for magical beasts choosing not to escape south but directly exit the mountain…

Don't forget, there are two firepower points on the southeast side waiting to play whack-a-mole.

It took about ten minutes.

The mechanized infantry arrived first, organizing a preliminary scale firepower network.

Five minutes later.

The Type 15 light tanks arrived, further expanding the firepower scale.

Ten more minutes passed.

The 99A tanks slowly arrived, bringing the firepower scale at this blockaded point to its maximum.

There were seven similar depth blockade points in total. Under this kind of firepower blockade, the magical beasts were trapped within the main body of Xiaolianzi Mountain.

"Boom—"

An airburst explosive landed precisely in the forest under the mechanical infantry squad's gunner's aim.

The flames rapidly consumed all the oxygen around, and within a fifty-meter radius, the magical beasts were instantaneously killed due to the forest cover combined with high pressure and lack of oxygen.

This airburst explosive was like a fuse.

Following it, hundreds more airburst explosives flew into the forest, conducting sweeps in coordination with the artillery on the main position in the dense woods.

"Uwah!"

A second-tier flying magical beast that looked like a frog found itself cornered, flapping its wings trying to escape.

However, in the next second, it was turned into fireworks by an HQ17.

Another leopard-like magical beast emerged from the forest, ready to head south.

Yet, the moment it showed its head, it was taken out by a steel needle shell.

Similar scenes kept playing out.

Watching the mountain fire that had already begun to sweep through, the troops felt no concern at all.

The trade group had once purchased many second-tier Torrential Rain Talismans from the Purple Treasure Pavilion; while these talismans did not last as long as the Rain Talismans, they excelled in quantity over a short period.

With the cooperation of various other methods from the troops, extinguishing the mountain fire was still very easy.

After two rounds of fire bombardment, infantry officially moved into the mountains to begin precision clearing.

Meanwhile.

The infantry brigade from the southern direction also officially launched the cattle capture plan.

.......

Note:

This morning, I saw an amazing reader's comment:

I don't understand why capture cattle → sending cattle directly back home wastes transport capacity → enjoyment for the elite class

Along with a bunch of exclamation points and question marks.

Me: ????

No, when did I ever write about sending cattle directly back? Just came out saying sending cattle back is meaningless and waste transport capacity equals enjoyment for the elite class.

Forty chapters ago, I wrote that the animal husbandry bureau people came, before the campaign I wrote about hybrid breeding people came, specifically said this plain is suitable for grazing.

I never mentioned having to transport the cattle back.

You can go back and look at Chapter Thirty-seven, the exact words were 'Once this species is further improved and tamed.'

Isn't this such a big world that one cannot raise and breed cattle here? Or do some people think optimizing breeding doesn't take any time and can be done with one click like in a game?

The Damo Realm is not a toilet, where you must leave immediately after taking a dump; it is a new bedroom, where you can sleep.

I explained the significance of pricing rights three times, and one of them was even blocked and modified.

The definition of meat rights is an elective course in international economics; many might not have encountered it before, but I explained it quite clearly in my previous content.

So people don't read what I write, just latching onto scenes I never wrote about and viciously imagining things to rant about? It's truly baffling.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.