[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cluster-artillery-shattering-the-immortals":3,"chapter-cluster-artillery-shattering-the-immortals-cluster-artillery-shattering-the-immortals-chapter-93":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Cluster Artillery: Shattering the Immortals",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2342104,4578,"Chapter 93: Seven Middle Fortress","cluster-artillery-shattering-the-immortals-chapter-93",93,"\u003Cp>A large-scale military meeting was convened with officers at platoon level and above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Seventh Middle Camp has been located. Here is the relevant intelligence—please review carefully,” Hua Bing distributed stacks of video and image materials to all attendees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one spoke for the moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ding opened a drone video that had successfully reconnoitered the Seventh Middle Camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid dense wilderness, a sudden, isolated hill several hundred meters high appeared at the horizon, covered with massive boulders and trees; tire tracks from multiple tanks crisscrossed the surrounding ground, yet no tanks were visible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The forested terrain was blurred—this was due to the influence of a Level-One Invisibility Camouflage Array; however, the Seventh Middle cultivators’ skills seemed poor, and the array was still incomplete, only slightly obscuring vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The First Middle Camp’s Level-One Light Invisibility Camouflage Array had been completed hours ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were now urgently deploying supplementary defensive and offensive arrays: Level-One Golden Body Array, Level-One Revival Array, Level-One Electromagnetic Sensing Array, and others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of dense heavy machine gun rounds and even anti-aircraft machine gun bullets pierced through—the drone feed went black, lasting less than ten seconds, even after multiple drones had sacrificed themselves as cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ding frowned and opened several more videos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, in a corner thick with overgrown vegetation, a long, thick cannon barrel was faintly visible; with this discovery, they deliberately searched further and indeed found many suspected cannon mouths and heavy machine gun firing ports.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… is despicable!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ding shot to his feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is too shameless—it’s supposed to be a combat exercise, yet they’ve turned it into a fortress, forcing us to launch a siege assault? How naive!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, we can’t go!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone immediately exploded in the war meeting—it was Wu Tianli, sneering: “The Seventh Middle people have turned themselves into turtle shells, trying to make us walk into death. Is that possible?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Sun Ling, squad leader of Class Two, also agreed: “We’ll just watch from outside—I don’t believe they can hide in there forever.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The others all looked in agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was supposed to be a fair exam—they want us to storm their walls? Absolutely not!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s a problem.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Qi, squad leader of Class Three, spoke up: “Our Qi Refining cultivators and heavy equipment outnumber theirs by more than double. If we just sit here until the exam ends, they’ll score low—but we’ll lose.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He easily ignored the fourfold number of martial artists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s indeed a problem.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others also frowned, similarly avoiding any critique of the martial artist count.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ding remained silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was the only martial artist attending the platoon-officer meeting, yet he said nothing—without tank support, martial artists were indeed extremely vulnerable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What if we try to secure a small victory first, then wait quietly for their turtle show?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone suggested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How? They’re firmly dug into their defenses. Once they complete the Level-One Electromagnetic Sensing Array, the Level-One Infantry Radar’s detection range will expand from thirty to fifty kilometers, with improved precision—then advancing would be suicide.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Class Two student at Qi Refining Fifth Layer rebutted, sounding pessimistic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I think…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone argued back and forth, no consensus reached.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everyone!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After watching the debate drag on for a long time, Hua Bing finally spoke: “My suggestion is to launch an immediate assault now, during the three-day window before they can possibly construct the Level-One Electromagnetic Sensing Array.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There are several reasons.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before others could object, she continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“First, this is just a final exam—win or lose doesn’t matter. The most valuable thing is accumulating siege combat experience for the college entrance exam; losing some battlefield points is acceptable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some showed signs of being swayed—after all, a single final exam score wasn’t that important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Second, we hold double their forces—even a direct assault gives us a high chance of victory!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Bing scanned the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now, we’ll vote on the proposed plans: four provisional company-level votes, two provisional platoon-level votes, one squad-level vote. Let’s start with my forced assault proposal.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...Fine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some cautious students disapproved but couldn’t offer a counterargument.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ding glanced at the military meeting group—three votes had been submitted; unquestionably, compared to hunkering down, officers of all ranks preferred Hua Bing’s forced assault plan—even failure was acceptable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The offensive plan passed with 86.6% approval.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The decision was issued; all units sprang into action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, Li Junhao and the logistics team abandoned their partially set-up positions, dismantling reusable array materials and loading them onto tracked trucks; Li Junhao even landed himself a truck driver role.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the three classes advanced in a crescent formation, forty-three tanks spaced five hundred meters apart in depth, with heavy machine gun infantry following behind, radars and drones operating at full power, constantly on guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leading the advance were six tanks personally commanded by Hua Bing, protruding twenty kilometers ahead of the main force as reconnaissance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ding, alongside Qian Tongyi’s Dao Soldiers, silently concealed themselves several kilometers ahead of the tanks, guarding against enemy cultivator assassination attempts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That probably wouldn’t happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dao Soldiers were easily detectable by tank radars—they had no stealth assassination capability; this precaution was meant for enemy sect cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless some sect cultivator had mastered an invisibility technique and intended to strike—like Li Tie—such a possibility was extremely slim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After minor treatment, Jiang Ding had regained basic combat readiness, aside from slight discomfort in his arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the horizon, a streak of white smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enemy artillery detected! Evade maneuver!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Jiang Ding could warn, Hua Bing had already detected the shell via radar, calculated its impact point, and hastily ducked into her tank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A high-explosive shell detonated in the forest, directly above her tank; even with evasive maneuvers, fragments of anti-magic steel clattered against the tank’s armor, leaving numerous small dents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Patter-patter!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the vehicle-mounted dual-purpose machine gun spat flame, firing a series of rounds that obliterated two Seventh Middle students whose positions had been scanned by radar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had just crawled out from deep underground tunnels, providing artillery coordinates for Seventh Middle’s Qi Refining cultivator tanks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before she could breathe, more white streaks appeared on the horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, not high-explosive shells—but armor-piercing rounds capable of destroying tanks, narrowly missing Hua Bing’s moving vehicle and carving deep craters into the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, she wasn’t inside the interference zone—if she had been, she’d already be dead; high cultivation meant nothing here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Patter-patter!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More machine gun rounds destroyed newly emerged reconnaissance drones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Bing was growing increasingly irritated by the relentless ambushes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Jiang Ding! That direction—Seventh Middle tanks have exited their fortress camp. Go reconnoiter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She shouted in the group chat, while herself retreating her tank backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who knew how many drones and observation posts Seventh Middle had set up along the way? Charging forward blindly would inevitably lead to disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among all senior three students from both schools, only Jiang Ding had demonstrated reconnaissance infantry capability—he could hide from spiritual sense and even evade radar waves, unless he got too close to tanks or encountered a Cultivation-Level Completion version of the “Electromagnetic Sensing Wave Technique.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ding nodded, declined Qian Tongyi’s Dao Soldiers to follow, stepped lightly, and headed toward the Seventh Middle camp.\u003C\u002Fp>",1195,"2026-06-20T23:34:14.007Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","9f38aa8e0e58f03d24f61875010318f48b5a739765169a10e23d1d25ab155518","cluster-artillery-shattering-the-immortals-chapter-94","cluster-artillery-shattering-the-immortals-chapter-92",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcluster-artillery-shattering-the-immortals-cover.jpg"]