Chapter 937: The Annihilation of the 174th Division

The time for the hunt has arrived!

The Decepticon Replica Warrior Legion, having indulged in destruction and vented their cruelty throughout the city of Cairo, did not fall into a panic due to the arrival of the Egyptian Army.

On the contrary, upon discovering that there was finally a force daring to resist them, these vile-natured bastards became even more frenzied.

The Iron Guard 174th Division was a meritorious division that had followed the founding fathers of the Egyptian Republic in overthrowing the monarchy and establishing the republic.

Although the 174th Division had been beaten to a pulp by Israel in several subsequent Middle Eastern revolutions, it still received a massive tilt of national resources after the war.

After the war, the 174th Division, as Egypt's first armored division, was equipped with M1A1 Main Battle Tanks and stationed in a military base just 16 kilometers away from downtown Cairo.

They were the first Egyptian Army unit to arrive in support after Cairo was attacked.

Relying on the surging power of the American-made tanks, even though the roads into the city were packed with congested vehicles, the 174th Division only spent a little extra time, and after paying the price of four tanks suffering track damage and some malfunctions, the bulk of them entered the city.

The Replica Warrior Legion noticed them at the very first moment; the Terrorcons, a trio of brothers who were all Advanced Warriors and equally bloodthirsty—Crankcase, Hatchet, and Crowbar—took the lead, transforming into their Predacon forms and roaring as they charged toward the 174th Division.

Like Triple Changers, they also possessed three forms: vehicle form, Predacon form, and combat form.

The reason for this was that they were originally test subjects of Starscream when he was researching the Triple Changer project.

There were many factions within the Decepticon Legion, and the most powerful one was undoubtedly Megatron's faction, which controlled nearly ninety percent of the entire Decepticon Legion's power.

And within this faction, Megatron represented absolute force and the core.

Shockwave was Megatron's right-hand man; he not only rationally devised strategies for his military operations but was also his Chief Scientist, participating in and leading one dangerous experiment after another.

For a long time after the civil war, more than eighty percent of the advanced technology within the Decepticon Legion and even the entire Cybertronian civilization was born in Shockwave's Laboratory.

Soundwave was also Megatron's right-hand man; he was Megatron's Intelligence Chief and the sharpest blade in his hand, responsible for both suppressing internal conflicts and constantly launching various assassination operations against the Autobots.

Because of the combined efforts of these Three Giants, even powerful Decepticon veterans who were unwilling to surrender to Megatron, such as Onslaught and the treacherous Starscream, were kicked out of the core circle of the Decepticon Legion.

Onslaught was one thing, but Starscream was clearly unwilling to accept this change in status and power.

Even after two rebellions, he was strictly restricted by Megatron and unable to touch military power or frontline scientific research projects.

But there are policies above and countermeasures below; as long as Megatron still needed Starscream to cultivate Replica Warriors for him, Starscream could use this as a foundation to slowly strengthen the power in his own hands bit by bit.

Shockwave created Devastator, and subsequently developed Menasor.

Starscream could use the Replica Warriors to turn Devastator into cheap goods that could be cultivated in large quantities.

Shockwave could use the resources of the entire Decepticon Legion to create Triple Changers.

Starscream, unwilling to be outdone, could also rely on the limited resources in his hands to grope his way to the threshold of Triple Changers.

The technology applied to the Terrorcon trio, while far less advanced than that of Blitzwing and the others, was a breakthrough from zero to one, which is always much harder than from one to one hundred.

The vanguard tank cluster of the 174th Armored Division soon noticed the Terrorcon trio charging rapidly toward them.

"What is that thing... it looks like a mechanical lion..."

"Damn it... stop obsessing over what the hell they are... even if they are lions, they are alien lions... they are charging at us, request to open fire..."

"Approved, prepare to fire..."

Seeing the Terrorcons getting closer and closer, the armored division officers, who had originally been worried about opening fire in the capital's urban area, quickly made up their minds.

The booming sound of cannons suddenly rang out in the city; amidst the firelight, one Armor-Piercing Shell after another was rapidly fired from the castrated version of the M1A1 Main Battle Tank equipped by the 174th Armored Division.

The Terrorcon trio, relying on their super-fast reaction speed in their Predacon forms, constantly dodged and moved on the highway.

"Damn it... their speed is too fast and they are too agile, we can't hit them at all..."

"Where are the army aviation's armed helicopters? Have them provide us with support..."

Unfortunately, it was already too late!

Among the Terrorcon trio, the fastest one, Hatchet, was the first to charge into the vanguard cluster of the 174th Armored Division.

He stepped on several buses piled up on the side of the road due to collisions, jumped up violently, flew through the air for a while, and landed precisely on the main turret of a tank.

"Bang!"

The weight of several tons, under the action of gravity, instantly smashed a deep depression into the turret.

And the dozen or so metal segments on his back, resembling tails, also flexibly pried open the tank commander and gunner hatches the moment he fell, immediately stabbing the armored soldiers inside the tank to death.

After doing this, he jumped up violently and immediately transformed into his combat form.

Then, Hatchet held a hand cannon in each hand and fired a shot at another nearby tank.

That M1A1 Main Battle Tank exploded rapidly, with fragments splashing everywhere.

Crowbar charged in next; seeing his momentum unabated, he slammed violently into an M1A1 Main Battle Tank.

The huge impact force brought by the high speed caused quite a few armor fragments to shatter off Crowbar's body.

But that M1A1 Main Battle Tank was clearly in a worse state; it actually spun in place and even lifted several dozen centimeters off the ground before falling back down due to Earth's gravity.

Crowbar shook his head, and after coming to his senses, he seemed somewhat annoyed at the M1A1 Main Battle Tank that hadn't been knocked flying by him, and used his hands to forcefully flip it upside down.

Crankcase also charged into the tank cluster, holding a hand cannon in each hand, firing crazily at the surrounding tanks.

Because the distance was too close, the main guns of many tanks they had closed in on had lost their effectiveness and could only counterattack with the Machine Guns on the tanks.

And even while being strafed by the Machine Guns of a dozen tanks at the same time, the three brothers were not afraid in the slightest.

Whenever other tanks further away tried to fire shells to provide support, they would nimbly dodge, and even maliciously and deliberately get close to the 174th Armored Division's tanks, forcing the rear support troops to be tied up and restricted, fearing that one careless move would hit their own comrades.

After noticing the change in the Egyptian Army, the Terrorcon trio became even more unscrupulous.

And following them, continuing to surround them, were dozens of Replica Warriors.

With their close-quarters combat, one tank of the 174th Armored Division after another was quickly eliminated.

The dense explosions in the city did not last long before they turned into sporadic sounds once again.

The 174th Armored Division was completely wiped out.

PS:

I took the time to re-watch Transformers 3. The plot where Sentinel Prime uses hundreds of Energy Pillars to create a transport device to open a Space Bridge and pull Cybertron—which is at least seven or eight hundred times larger than Earth—over from several light-years away is too much of a bug, so I won't adopt it; I'm going with an original version instead.