Chapter 77: [Songgu Peak Blocking Battle (Locked)] (3k)

As the order from the distance was conveyed,

Shen Yan and Liu Feng and others had their brains 'boom', as if they exploded.

Wrong, all wrong.

When watching the CG at the beginning, plus the training during this period.

Everyone thought that the key to [Bloody Battle of Sanjori] was the sentence at the end of the CG: "Five minutes ahead of the enemy, occupy Sanjori!".

However.

The word bloody battle already explains everything.

The unit that had just experienced a battle in Dechuan, followed by a forced march of more than 70 kilometers of mountain road without stopping for a moment, and then didn't even have five minutes to rest, had to start fighting.

Shen Yan and others thought that being able to run here was the peak infantry of the Republic.

But now the peak infantry of the Republic once again refreshed the cognition of Shen Yan and others.

The main force acted quickly.

The 1st Special Battalion led by Shen Yan also followed the main force and ambushed on the hillside.

Looking into the distance.

The vanguard of the American Freedom Federation's mechanized unit was slowly driving on the main road, the tank turret slowly turning,

The machine gunner on it was observing the surroundings.

The mechanized unit below was getting closer and closer.

Shen Yan's breathing gradually held, his eyes fixed on the mechanized unit below, and the muzzle was aimed at one of the machine gunners on the tank.

Bang!

After a series of muffled sounds of mortar firing, a roar came to everyone's ears:

"Shoot!!!"

The ambushed Republic Volunteer Army and Shen Yan and others fired at the American Freedom Federation soldiers below for the first time. Under the sudden surprise attack, the American Freedom Federation army was in a mess.

But relying on the copper wall and iron wall of the tank armor.

They soon organized a counterattack. One tank after another turned their muzzles towards the hillside, and artillery shells were fired, explosions rose into the sky, cooperating with the machine gun firepower suppression on the tanks.

The battlefield situation changed instantly.

And Shen Yan was lying on one side, focused.

Bang, one shot took away a tank machine gunner, but the muzzle quickly turned over, and Shen Yan rolled back.

Boom!!!

The artillery shell blew a big pit in the ground, but it didn't hurt Shen Yan.

Shen Yan climbed up quickly, commanding the 1st Special Battalion under his command, and started shooting at the tank machine gunners below the canyon.

After being tortured by Simo Häyhä in [White Death] for so

They quickly picked off one tank machine gunner after another, while the Republic Volunteer Army organized squads with Molotov cocktails to throw at the tanks below.

The flames of the Molotov cocktails burst open on the American tanks, yet they could not stop the tanks' advance.

Mortars on the mountain bombarded the center of the canyon incessantly; the long-lasting battle finally caused the American tanks to begin halting in the middle of the canyon.

However, the American tanks following closely behind shoved the tanks in front aside, intending to charge straight through.

Boom—!

Boom!

At this moment.

Three Republic Volunteer Army soldiers suddenly emerged, cloaked in flames.

Two of them used engineer shovels to jam the tank tracks, while the third aimed a Molotov cocktail at the exhaust vent and shoved it in; in an instant, a sky-high wave of fire and air pressure expanded.

Following the throwing of the Molotov cocktails, combined with the desperate throwing of explosive satchels, one tank after another began to be detonated.

The canyon road was successfully blocked.

The unwilling vanguard of the American 9th Corps continuously used tanks to ram the tanks piled up in front of the canyon, but seeing more and more of them, they simply could not move them.

After several hours of fighting, they were forced to retreat.

The smoke of gunpowder permeated the battlefield; in the canyon below, tanks were burning, a pungent smell filled the nasal cavity, and everywhere the eye could see were mangled corpses.

Shen Yan watched the slowly departing American mechanized unit and climbed up from behind the bunker.

After several hours of fighting, with shells falling at close range, his ears were ringing and buzzing, and he couldn't recover for a long time; he could only shout loudly:

"Liu Feng! Liu Feng!"

He shouted a few times, but there was no response.

Shen Yan felt his arm being tugged a few times and turned to look.

It was a soldier from the Special 1st Battalion, who opened his mouth to ask loudly:

"Where is your battalion commander?"

The Special 1st Battalion soldier pointed into the distance, where there were only dense shell craters and charred corpses lying all around.

Seeing this, Shen Yan felt a lump in his throat and turned to look.

One, two, three... seventeen.

From the original three hundred men in the Special 1st Battalion, only seventeen remained.

But the battle was not yet over.

Seeing that they could not break through here, the vanguard of the American 9th Corps partially changed routes and headed toward Longyuanli in the west.

At this time, the battle there had already begun.

With no time to clear the battlefield, Shen Yan, having received orders, took the remaining seventeen men and followed a portion of the Republic Volunteer Army troops, rushing to Longyuanli without a moment's pause.

And the 337th Regiment of the 113th Division, located at Longyuanli.

Had already been blocking the American armored forces at Longyuanli for several hours.

Two hours later.

Reality.

Daxia Federation, Northern Region.

Songgeer Icefield.

The 7th Special Operations Brigade, after waking up from the virtual pods.

Shen Yan called the men of the Special 1st Battalion to gather in the conference room, along with the cadres of the Special Operations Brigade.

In the battle of Longyuanli, he and the remaining seventeen men ultimately could not hold out until the end and were taken out by the American Freedom Federation's bombers.

However, they had also accumulated some experience.

As the personnel arrived, Shen Yan looked toward the Chief of Staff and said:

"Old Qu, have the results from the photonic supercomputer cluster come out?"

"Wasn't it said to be an impossible mission before? But this time, we had 67 people reach Samsori."

"This shows that we are capable of completing the mission."

"Setting aside the subsequent battles, just regarding the raid on Samsori, where do we differ from the Republic Volunteer Army in [Bloody Battle of Samsori]?"

Chief of Staff Qu Guang nodded and said:

"The supercomputer compared the real-time data of the 113th Division provided by Zhao Ming; they maintained an average heart rate above 160 for 14 hours and continued a forced march even with blood oxygen saturation as low as 82%."

"Their brainwave spectrum activity was 2.3 times ours, which means... if these data points were from real people, then during this raid, they were using their consciousness to forcibly rewrite their physical limits."

"We cannot achieve that level."

"Because we cannot embody the beliefs of the Republic Volunteer Army in [Bloody Battle of Samsori]. If the background were changed to the Daxia Federation, our soldiers' success rate would increase somewhat."

Shen Yan pondered for a moment:

"Only increase somewhat?"

"This non-combat attrition rate is too high, nearly four-fifths."

Chief of Staff Qu Guang smiled bitterly:

"No one can become a fatty in one bite."

"If we want to reach the standard of the Republic Volunteer Army in [Bloody Battle of Samsori], we still need to undergo specific training."

"I don't know what the Republic Volunteer Army in [Bloody Battle of Samsori] experienced to temper such a unit."

"But for the soldiers of our brigade, a forced march of this intensity is truly the first time; previous training didn't have this level of intensity,"

"so many people couldn't hold on."

"The previous calculations by the photonic supercomputer cluster were also made while preserving maximum combat effectiveness, so the success rate was very low."

"However, our soldiers' physical data is somewhat better."

"So as long as we temper their willpower, we will naturally be able to lower the non-combat attrition rate."

That was indeed correct.

Compared to the Republic Volunteer Army, the physical condition of the soldiers of the 7th Special Operations Brigade was top-notch, but it was precisely because they were good that it was embarrassing they couldn't hold on.

Their bodies were fine, but their willpower was a huge step behind the others.

Shen Yan nodded and said:

"First, pull all battalions in to follow through it once."

"Afterward, report the list of personnel who persisted to Samsori to me. [Bloody Battle of Samsori] is not just the Samsori plot; there are also Longyuanli and Songgufeng afterward."

As he spoke.

Shen Yan pressed the projection on his wristwatch.

A card and an introduction appeared.

[Republic Volunteer Army 38th Corps (Pending Unlock)]

[Title: Long Live Corps, Peak of Light Infantry]

[Introduction: The unit lineage starting from Pingjiang in 1928, the core main force of the field army that liberated the "Three Crossings of the Jiangnan and Four Battles of Siping"; the "Bloody Battle of Samsori" set a world record in the history of global infantry marching.]

[Inherited Tactics: Encirclement and Infiltration + Frontal Assault (Pending Unlock)]

[Note: Randomly become an operations staff officer of the 38th Corps to learn the Eastern Blitzkrieg tactics of Encirclement and Infiltration + Frontal Assault.]

[Inherited Skills: Snowfield Lurking, Night Raid, Close-Quarters Combat (Pending Unlock).]

[Note: Persist for 24 hours in the Longyuanli blocking battle to unlock the "Peak of Light Infantry" plot and follow Republic Volunteer Army soldiers to learn skills such as snowfield lurking and night raids.]

[Key Battles: [Bloody Battle of Samsori], [Songgufeng Blocking Battle]]

[Note: In the Second Campaign, follow the 113th Division to complete a 145-li snowfield forced march within 14 hours, break through enemy air blockades and terrain obstacles, seize the Samsori blocking point, and hold it until the main force completes the encirclement; survive for over 48 hours to unlock [Songgufeng Blocking Battle].]

[Completion Conditions: 145/145 (Raid on Samsori/Mileage) 8/48 (Holding/Hours)]

Looking at the card's introduction, everyone gasped.

[Bloody Battle of Samsori] is followed by [Longyuanli Blocking Battle], and [Longyuanli Blocking Battle] is followed by [Songgufeng Blocking Battle], this...

Shen Yan scanned the crowd and said:

"For the condition of the raid on Samsori, we will first screen out those who can persist, and then team up to complete the second condition: hold Samsori for 48 hours."

"Unlock [Songgufeng Blocking Battle]."

"Inherited tactics, inherited skills, these... let's take them one by one."

Snowfield lurking, night raids—the soldiers of the 7th Special Operations Brigade all know these skills, but they are clearly not the same as those in [Bloody Battle of Samsori].

Shen Yan was also very envious.

Raiding the [White Death] Simo Häyhä dungeon so many times had significantly improved the 7th Special Operations Brigade's overall lurking and shooting levels.

If they learned the snowfield lurking, night raids, etc., taught in [Bloody Battle of Samsori]—which is known as the "Peak of Light Infantry"—and added the willpower tempering from the raid on Samsori,

I'm afraid these boys under his command would all turn into Simo Häyhä.

That scene...