Chapter 3400: The Sun's Descent

On the defensive line a few kilometers in front of the base camp fortress, the massive armies of both sides stood in a standoff, separated by about half a kilometer.

The soldiers of the Clan faction were still wearing their combat uniforms and carrying combat blades that resembled horse-chopping sabers.

The color of their combat uniforms had changed from the original black to a blackish-red, as if coated with a layer of resin.

This was a heat-resistant coating urgently selected by the military research department of the Clan Alliance. They had originally had research in this area, but when fighting the human race, the humans rarely used soldiers who utilized fire or high temperatures, so although the research had yielded results, it had been shelved and never popularized.

After the disastrous defeat of the Warhammer troops in the last battle, the Clan Alliance learned from their mistakes. They transferred the formula for this heat-resistant coating from the military research department and had the sentry towers, which had stronger production capabilities in this area, manufacture it. The finished coating was then sent directly to the Dusk Fortress on the border.

After the various troops arrived at the Dusk Fortress, they began distributing it and having the Clan soldiers apply this mixture of "thermal coagulant" and "liquid chrome-aluminum" to their combat uniforms themselves.

The heat resistance of this stuff wasn't exactly excellent; it could only be considered standard. However, because it contained thermal coagulant, once exposed to high temperatures, this coating would make the objects it adhered to become exceptionally hard.

The hotter the environment, the stronger the defensive power of the combat uniforms worn by the Clan soldiers would be. The joints of the combat uniforms could not be coated with this, otherwise, once the ambient temperature reached a certain level, the combat uniforms would become rigid and bind the Clan soldiers.

With the Clan Alliance's ability to manufacture war materials, they could have built combat uniforms with super-strong heat resistance, but that would take time. It was far less efficient than mass-producing this coating and applying it to existing combat uniforms to ensure that soldiers could reach the battlefield faster.

Not only the heat-resistant coating, but the ceramic armor plates that the Clan soldiers originally inserted into the chests of their combat uniforms were also replaced with hollow ceramic armor plates injected with liquid nitrogen.

After enduring a certain amount of impact, these hollow ceramic armor plates would crack, and the liquid nitrogen diffusing from inside could, to a certain extent, cool down the Clan soldiers.

The last battlefield had turned into a fiery purgatory, and the Clan side had been shaken. The heat-resistant coating and liquid nitrogen ceramic armor seemed like simple countermeasures, but if one calculated the time cost and manpower cost, being able to equip hundreds of thousands of soldiers with these two items in a short time required a very strong logistics department and production capacity.

The enemy's 330,000 Clan soldiers were divided into 12 units in total. When the war began, these Clan units would charge the defense from several major directions. No matter how complex the tactics of an offensive and defensive battle were, the essence remained unchanged: one side would build a defensive line to hold it to the death, and the opposing enemy army would charge the defense.

The enemy's subsequent fire-based defenses would inevitably be strengthened, but Su Xiao's side was also progressing. After the human side seized the Clan combat uniforms, Su Xiao obtained a total of 11,900 units of active ore.

Counting his own side's output, the active ore reserves reached 13,500 units. Among these, Su Xiao spent 5,900 units of active ore to add 118 heavy tanks to his side.

In this way, the number of heavy tanks on his side reached 120. In the last campaign, only 30 heavy tanks charging the defense had been enough to make Brigadier General Lei Zi's face turn livid.

The charging ability of the heavy tanks had already been personally experienced by Aolandi, a top-tier expert of the Eighth Tier.

In addition to the heavy tanks, Su Xiao consumed a total of 7,000 units of active ore to metamorphose 143,820 wild boar warriors.

The wild boar warriors under Su Xiao's command reached 375,620, with 120 heavy tanks, and finally 25 Sun Maidens.

The metamorphosis cost for Sun Maidens was not high. As a Level 5 troop type, their metamorphosis cost was only 200 kilograms of active ore per person.

The problem was that there were too few female pig-headed people with the qualifications to become Sun Maidens. If male pig-headed people metamorphosing into wild boar warriors was moving in the direction of beasts, then heavy tanks were fully beastified. They evolved and metamorphosed on the basis of atavism, combined with Zerg genes—that was what heavy tanks were.

On the other hand, the Sun Maidens metamorphosed toward rationality and spirit. Wild boar people had no talent in this area, so they had to be female pig-headed people with more human genes to have a possibility of becoming Sun Maidens.

It was normal for pig-headed people to have human genes. Their ancestors, the "Progenitor Half-Orcs," were beasts that had devoured humans while being subjected to mechanical pollution. Because the mechanical pollution continued, the cells and genes of the two fused together, which was how the "Progenitor Half-Orcs" appeared.

Excluding the above consumption, there were 600 units of active ore left. Su Xiao used these 600 units of active ore to make a trade with the human side that seemed like a loss but was actually a gain.

After the last campaign ended, his side had seized a large number of standard Clan weapons. The wild boar warriors were no longer short of weapons, and there was even a surplus.

However, the weapons of the wild boar warriors were too messy, mostly combat blades. For them, who had not received training in this area, these combat blades were not easy to use at all.

Sometimes on the battlefield, their way of using combat blades was particularly bizarre. There had even been scenes where several wild boar warriors surrounded a Clan soldier with combat blades and finally beat the opponent to death with the blade body. Note, not hacked to death, but beaten to death alive, just like smashing a cucumber.

So Su Xiao proposed a trade to the human side. He used 600 units of active ore to exchange all the combat blades, alloy axes, saw-cut swords, and other weapons his side currently had for long-handled war hammers.

Su Xiao's proposal hit it off with the human side. The soldiers on that side disliked long-handled war hammers the most; they were too clumsy and did not fit their fighting style.

On the other hand, for the wild boar warriors on his side, after adding the "Raging Flame" effect to the war hammers, because of the bonus from war hammer-type weapons, the range of the fire explosions they smashed out would increase by 25% to 30%.

After emptying the war hammer reserves on the human side, the number of war hammers on his side reached about 300,000.

That is to say, at this time, of the 375,620 wild boar warriors on the defensive line, nearly 300,000 were equipped with long-handled war hammers. After the war began, the fire hammers would be swung until they flew, and the density and range of the fire explosions would be far more exaggerated than last time.

Located at the very front of the defensive line, the two armies stood in a standoff separated by hundreds of meters. This time, the Clan side was not just having soldiers charge the defense; they also brought many armored combat vehicles. The combat vehicles were driven by alloy tracks and were equipped with heavy machine cannons, with each bullet being nearly 20 centimeters long.

This armored combat vehicle was not entirely a metal structure; it had a biological structure inside. No matter how one looked at it, this thing was very similar to the structure of a mobile fortress, just much smaller, and could accommodate about 6 to 7 people inside.

The front of the combat vehicle was a magnetic impact device. This was not on the same level as the power of artillery. Being hit by this magnetic impact, a wild boar warrior would instantly turn into a large pile of minced meat and blood mist.

The two heavy machine cannons carried by the living combat vehicle had astonishing explosive shell power. The problem was the weight and the terrifying recoil.

If not mounted on a living combat vehicle, a Clan soldier could fire at most 10 to 12 explosive shells with a heavy machine cannon before their internal organs would be shaken to the point of cracking. A light case would be a severe injury, and a heavy case would be sudden death on the spot, so this thing could only be mounted on a living combat vehicle.

From the structure of the living combat vehicle, one could see that this was a unique technology of the "Sentry Tower." Even when facing the Clan Alliance and the Aurora Council, they only lent it and did not sell it.

The Clan side's living combat vehicles and the heavy artillery-level weapons located in the rear were their trump cards.

The Sun camp had 370,000 wild boar warriors. The enemy had living combat vehicles, and his side had heavy tanks, as well as Sun Maidens who could serve as "healing guards" on the battlefield.

More importantly, his side also had a trump card.

The bright sun was in the sky, the two armies were pitted against each other, and the cry of an eagle came from high in the sky.

Boom!

A loud explosion came from above, and a line of fire fell vertically, sinking into the area where the enemy soldiers were most dense.

The straight line of fire gradually faded in the air, but in the next second.

Thud!!

A large golden fireball expanded, instantly spreading to a size of 2 kilometers. The sun flames inside were exploding and burning. This fireball, which was a full 2,000 meters in size, had its lower half invading the ground, just like a small sun falling to the ground.

The wild boar warriors on his side's defensive line were all stunned in place. The first thing they did was look up at the sun in the sky. After confirming that the real sun was still there, they all breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. Instead, an excitement that could not be described in words surged in their hearts.

The incarnation of the sun had fallen to destroy the enemy for them. This was a miracle!

"The sun shines forever!"

The shouts of the wild boar warriors seemed to want to break through the sky. Their morale, which was originally at 92 points, immediately topped out at 100+. Not only was it full, but there was also an overflow.

This was the first time Su Xiao had seen the morale value become "Morale MAX," and even the entire morale bar was burning with golden flames.

"Kill them all."

Located at the very front of his side's massive army, standing on top of a heavy tank, Hausman roared loudly. Hearing his shout, the wild boar warriors rushed out like a torrent of fire. I don't know when, but faint golden-red flames had already ignited on their bodies.

In the enemy's formation opposite, the enemy army that had just been hit by an ordinary Apollo appeared in chaos.

The Golden Count standing in the crowd didn't care about this. He stared at the massive army of wild boar warriors rushing from the front. The momentum coming toward him made him sincerely feel that the situation was bad.