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As long as we can attack the city faster than the people can flee, the problem will be solved automatically."
Avril was a little stunned, but after she realized what was happening, she raised her hand and patted his arm: "I have a headache, don't joke around."
"Who are you kidding?" Zhang Mu pulled a wooden chair over and sat down next to her, "The frontline is advancing slowly now, not because we can't fight, but because we want to train our troops.
The soldiers are almost fully trained, so we will not continue to tangle with them at the border."
Zhang Mu thought for a while and then said, "The only thing that will cause us headaches in the future is probably the governance issues caused by the rapid expansion of territory."
"Since my junior said so..." Avril blinked and stuffed the half-written plan into the drawer.
Zhang Mu stood up, raised his hands and stretched lazily: "Well, do it as I say.
By the way, I came to you because I want to ask you something. Do you know anything about the Gangnuo Empire?"
"I went there once with my father when I was young."
“What are their military capabilities like?”
"Hmm..." Avril recalled for a moment, "Gonno was one of those who barely entered the empire because they only had one epic.
As for the legions, I remember they had five legions composed of all professionals, and the rest were a mixture of ordinary people and professionals."
"Domit told me that he heard that there are flying dragons in the Gangnuo Empire. Are flying dragons powerful?"
"Flying dragons are the offspring of giant dragons and foreign magical beasts. They inherited some of the giant dragon's magical abilities, so they can cast magic. However, due to the dire nature of the giant dragon's bloodline, their magic is not very strong."
"So, apart from being able to fly, there are no other advantages?"
“Flying is already a huge advantage.”
Zhang Mu thought about it and realized that it was true.
Even on Blue Star, which has a variety of air defense methods, controlling the air can often determine the outcome of a war, not to mention the Sol continent, where except for high-level professionals, no one else can pose a threat to air units.
Zhang Mu thought of the anti-aircraft guns that were blown away by the First Army’s arsenal, and said cheerfully: “Feilong is not a big problem, senior sister, I’ll leave first.”
"So urgent?"
"Ah?" Zhang Mu walked to the door and turned back, looking at the slightly dissatisfied Avril and explained, "The Gangnuo Empire has sent a legion to us, and they may arrive at any time. I have to stay at the front line."
"Well, go ahead."
Zhang Mu continued to walk out. When he walked out of the door, he heard Avril's voice floating out of the house: "Next time you come back, remember to order the shredded pork with green peppers from senior sister."
"it is good."
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front.
Under the destruction of Lake's multiple rounds of artillery fire, the coalition's Green Valley defense line quickly collapsed.
They tried to fight back using magic crystal cannons, but to little avail.
The power of the magic crystal cannon's shells is not weak, and its accuracy is also acceptable. The only shortcoming is the firing frequency. Compared with the eight rounds per minute firing frequency of the 155mm cannon howitzer equipped by the Lake Legion, it is as slow as a snail.
Lake's commandos began to climb to the top of the mountain and encountered sporadic attacks along the way. After the soldiers responded with a volley of bullets, the resistance quickly disappeared.
After reaching the top of the mountain, the commandos set about clearing out the enemy forces.
The professionals of the coalition forces finally came to their senses from the shock of several rounds of bombing, raising their wands to cast spells or swinging their swords to attack the Lake soldiers.
The soldiers of the new legion were only equipped with primitive firearms and lacked the means to deal with the professionals, so casualties began to occur.
The captain contacted the ground, hoping to retreat temporarily and reorganize the climb after a few more rounds of artillery shells.
He felt that the commander would definitely agree. Midoriya would definitely win anyway, so half an hour earlier or later would not make much of a difference.
However, the commander refused outright.
The captain huddled behind a rock and asked in astonishment, "We can't stop the knights' charge. They're already close to our team. If they get too close, we won't even be able to evacuate!"
"Support has been sent up the mountain. The professionals are in charge."
support?
where?
The captain poked his head out from the rock and looked around in confusion, and coincidentally a fireball flew over.
"That was a close call!" The captain's hair stood on end and he retracted his head at the last moment.
The soldier next to him shot and killed a coalition soldier, and was then forced back behind a rock by the magician's fireball.
He ejected the empty magazine fearfully, replaced it with a full one, and asked, "Captain, aren't we retreating yet?
I just saw the knight rushing very close."
"How close?"
"In front of me." A voice came from above.
The two were stunned and looked up subconsciously.
A knight stood on the top of the rock, and the shadow of his body covered the faces of the two men.
They felt a chill down their spines and instinctively raised their guns and pulled the triggers.
"Da da da--"
This knight seemed to be advanced. He was not afraid of being shot in the face. With a disdainful arc on the corner of his mouth, he swung his sword to chop the bullet away.
"Click--" The two men emptied their magazines, and the bolts of their guns issued a heavy warning.
The knight's eyes turned cold, and he raised his sword and chopped it down.
The fear of death loomed in the captain's heart, and he had the illusion that time was slowing down. Yet it seemed not to be an illusion. He even had time to see the knight's face becoming increasingly hideous.
Then a strangely shaped bullet blew up the face head-on.
The knight's head exploded like a watermelon, and hot blood dripped onto the faces of the two men.
They were probably still confused about what they saw, staring blankly at the headless corpse, until they were awakened by the "bang" sound of the corpse slowly falling backwards to the ground.
“Hah—ha—” The stagnant breathing started again and the captain collapsed on the ground, gasping for breath.
"Who... who saved us?" The soldier who had just escaped death, either because he had forgotten his fear or because of the effect of adrenaline, was not in a hurry to check whether his body parts were intact. Instead, he was concerned about who fired the shot.
The captain seemed to understand something and waved his hand to interrupt his glance around: "It's the First Army, the legendary First Army."
"The First Army?"
"Yes, I heard the commander say when I was chatting that the First Army has snipers who can kill professionals."
The soldiers were very curious about what a sniper was, but unfortunately the captain didn't know much.
So the two were confused as they were both using the same guns and bullets, but why did the sniper shoot the knight in the head while the knight had all his bullets knocked away.
However, the ones who came were not the so-called First Army snipers, that is, Dam and his men. A war of this magnitude did not warrant the dispatch of a special forces team.
The sniper corps of the Fifth Army came to support.
After the trials and tribulations on the plains, they are capable of sniping missions below the level of high-level professionals, especially those who have never competed with them and lack vigilance.
With their help, the commandos regrouped and pushed forward again.
The on-site commander of the coalition forces soon noticed something unusual. After all, their own professionals were fighting a desperate battle with the enemy, but their heads suddenly exploded strangely. Anyone with eyes could see it.
He scanned his surroundings frantically, at the bushes, sparse woods, and piles of rocks, but he couldn't find the source of the attack.
The sniper's roll call was still going on, and magicians and knights kept falling to the ground at a fixed frequency. He knew that he could not hesitate, otherwise the whole army would be wiped out.
"retreat!"
The coalition forces tried to evacuate to the rear of Green Valley, but with the support they received, their morale boosted. Naturally, Commando Lake would not let them do as they wished, and they pursued them frantically under the cover of snipers hidden in the dark.
The professionals among the defeated soldiers had fought with the commandos before and knew that they were all ordinary people. They were naturally upset to be chased away like dogs by a group of ordinary people who had been ignored in the past.
Some professionals could not restrain themselves and turned around and rushed towards the commandos against military orders, and then were shot in the head by a bullet from nowhere.
Under the threat of death, their mad consciousness suddenly cleared up, and they immediately turned around and followed their companions' retreat.
The two sides chased each other and finally the coalition forces successfully evacuated the top of the mountain at the cost of corpses everywhere.
The commando captain stood on the edge of the cliff and stuck his head out, ignoring the professionals who jumped directly off the mountain, and shot at the ordinary soldiers of the coalition who were sliding down the iron rope to the foot of the mountain.
The team members followed suit. Since their bullets could not kill high-level professionals, they might as well kill more ordinary soldiers.
Their shooting skills were pretty good, and the Allied soldiers who were hit kept screaming, loosening the chains and falling down.
After more than ten minutes, all the coalition soldiers on the iron chain were out of sight, and the captain put down his gun: "Cease fire."
The team member grinned: "Captain, I have enough military merits!"
The captain's military achievements were enough to get him promoted, but he was not as happy as his teammates and just glanced around.
The team members were misled by his actions and mistakenly believed that there were hidden enemies nearby. They couldn't help but become nervous and raised their guns to aim around again.
The captain was stunned when he noticed their abnormality. After realizing that he was the cause, he smiled and said, "There are no more enemies."
"Uh, so what are you looking for?"
The team member who was with the captain before suddenly said, "Captain, are you looking for a sniper?"
"What is a sniper?" asked the team member who didn't know the inside story.
"Just now..." He gestured and recounted the captain's introduction in a vivid manner.
"Soldiers of the First Army?!" The team members imitated their captain with expressions of three parts surprise and three parts curiosity, looking around, hoping to see the true identity of the soldiers of the First Army.
"Don't look for them anymore." The captain waved his hand and walked towards the other end of the mountain. "The first lesson for snipers is how to hide themselves. If you find them, they will be fired when they return."
"So strict!"
"Otherwise, how could they have such strong combat power?" said a team member who noticed that in previous battles, there were professionals in the enemy army falling to the ground strangely.
The captain stroked the rifle hanging on his chest and said enviously: "If only I could be a sniper..."
"Drip-drip-"
A notification tone of communication request rang in the headset, and the captain answered it with a solemn expression.
"Supplies have been transported to the top of the mountain. The commandos will continue to move forward after replenishing their ammunition."
Chapter 389: Dragon Attack