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Chapter 1390 Returning Carnage
The exoskeleton soldiers used their agility and the terrain to put up a last stand, with soldiers constantly being torn apart by the robots' immense strength or cleaved in two by their energy blades, resulting in a horrific scene.
However, just when Xiao Dingshan thought the enemy was going to fight to the death, the "stubborn" resistance on the city wall suddenly snapped like a taut bowstring!
"Retreat! Retreat into the inner city!" A desperate command could be faintly heard between the explosions.
Like the receding tide, the Federation soldiers on the city walls abandoned their positions and began to fight and retreat, relying on the complex ruins of the city's streets and alleys.
They retreated in a chaotic manner, even abandoning some damaged equipment!
But a closer look at the retreat route reveals that there was order within the chaos!
They maintained sporadic harassment against the pursuing robots, gradually luring them into the depths of the barbican and narrow streets.
Of course, by this time they were already in a bloodthirsty frenzy.
"Trying to run?! Chase them! Leave no one alive!" Shahar roared excitedly, as if victory was within his grasp.
His already numb and exhausted Slavic soldiers, emboldened by the false encouragement of the breached city, mustered a little strength and followed the robots through the open city gates, joining the pursuit.
Surrounded by his personal guard robots, Xiao Dingshan rode slowly into Don Fort.
The city was filled with the smell of gunpowder, blood, and the acrid odor of burning energy weapons.
The streets were lined with collapsed houses and burning wreckage.
Ahead, his loyal steel legion combed through every alleyway like a comb, hunting down the fleeing Federation soldiers.
Gunshots and sporadic explosions echoed deep within the fortress, and everything seemed so real!
The end of a standard siege battle.
But Xiao Dingshan's unease reached its peak at this moment. It had gone too smoothly...
From the initial assault to the breach of the city and the subsequent pursuit, although resistance was encountered, the entire process seemed to be precisely guided by an invisible hand.
Where is Han Da's main force? Where are those new mecha legions that even he fears?
Where is Xiao Ce?
"Night Owl!"
Xiao Dingshan's voice carried a hint of anxiety he himself was unaware of, "Increase the scanning power! Scan the area beneath the fortress! Scan the mountains on both sides! Scan areas with abnormal energy reactions! Find Han Da's main force! Find Xiao Ce!"
"Yes, Master!"
The owl's cold voice responded, and the powerful scanning array brought by the creation base was turned on at full power. The invisible detection waves, like giant tentacles, instantly covered the entire Don River Fortress and its surrounding area.
However, this time, the feedback caused a slight delay in the Night Owl's core program.
"Reporting, Master... Scanning... Suppressed by a powerful, unknown interference source!"
"The interference sources are spread throughout the core area of the fortress and specific surrounding mountains! The signal is severely distorted... Unable to accurately lock onto large mech clusters or high-energy reactive targets! Only... small, scattered units and... pursuing friendly units can be detected..."
"interference?!"
The red light in Xiao Dingshan's pupils suddenly contracted, and a chilling coldness instantly swept over his body, more biting than a blizzard in the north!
Something is wrong!
He finally understood! It was all for this moment!
To shield him from view! To lure him into this meticulously crafted... Jedi!
"A trap! It's a trap! Retreat! Order all units to evacuate the fortress immediately! Quickly!!!"
Xiao Dingshan let out an unprecedented roar, his voice filled with undisguised shock and anger for the first time!
Xiao Dingshan's roar, tearing through the wind and snow, was filled with shock and rage!
"A trap! It's a trap! Retreat! Order all units to evacuate the fortress immediately! Quickly!!!"
His voice was like a thunderclap on an icy plain, instantly piercing the chaotic battlefield.
After he finished speaking, he said nothing more, then rode off on his horse, ignoring the frantic activity of the others...
He had already died once at Xiao Ce's hands, and he really didn't want to die again...
"Retreat...retreat?!"
The fervor and relief of surviving the ordeal on Shahar's face froze instantly, replaced by disbelief and even greater fear!
He had no idea what was going on. They had already stormed the fortress and were chasing down the remaining enemy. Victory was within their grasp. Why was his master suddenly acting so strangely?
But Xiao Dingshan's almost twisted, furious tone, and the deadly implication of the word "trap," chilled him to the bone.
He dared not question it in the slightest; his survival instinct overwhelmed everything.
"Retreat! Retreat immediately! The master's order! All troops! Withdraw from Don River Fortress immediately! Hurry!!"
Shahar screamed and tumbled, his voice sharp and distorted, as he frantically waved his arms at the equally bewildered Slavic officers and soldiers around him.
He himself turned his horse around and galloped towards the city gate without regard for anything else...
"Withdrawal order confirmed. All combat units, highest priority: disengage from combat and evacuate out of the fortress at full speed! Repeat, highest priority: evacuate!"
Night Owl's cold, efficient commands instantly covered the entire robot communication network.
However, it was too late!
The transmission and execution of orders takes time, and the chaos inside Fort Don, along with the combat robots and Slavic soldiers who have penetrated deep into the fortress and are entangled with the “retreating” Federation soldiers in the narrow streets, makes it extremely difficult to break away immediately.
In those crucial seconds when the order was given and the chaos intensified!
Deep within the fortress, in the basement of a seemingly abandoned, dilapidated tower.
The captain of the elite engineering squad that Han Da had sent out, who had already been lying in wait, heard the order from Han Da's side.
The captain took a deep breath of the cold, smoke-filled, and death-laden air, and with resolute force, pressed down hard on the remote detonator that connected the entire underground death network!
"For the Prince! For the Xiao Kingdom!"
The silent signal instantly spread to every explosive node that had been pre-buried deep in the foundation of Fort Don, in the key parts of the supporting structure, and under the main street!
boom....!!!!
There is no intro, no crescendo.
A terrifying roar, seemingly from the depths of the earth and of indescribable power, instantly swallowed up all other sounds on the battlefield!
The entire Don River Fortress, along with the mountain base it rests on, is as if it has been gripped tightly by an invisible, giant hand from hell, and then violently torn and thrown outward from the inside!
The earth boiled amidst its mournful cries!
At this very moment, originating from the core of the Don River Fortress, a visible, destructive shockwave, a mixture of blazing flames, thick smoke, countless rubble, giant trees, and twisted metal, spread violently in all directions like a tsunami!
Its power far exceeds that of the energy cannons that bombarded the city walls a thousand times more!
At that moment, time seemed to freeze.
The giant city gate, which had just been breached by the robots and was already on the verge of collapse, along with a long section of the city wall, was torn to shreds and thrown away like paper toys!
Dozens of meters high boulders mixed with frozen soil rained down on the follow-up troops gathering outside the city and the vanguard troops rushing out in panic, like a meteor shower!
The narrow, crisscrossing streets, filled with pursuing robots and soldiers, became a death tunnel.
Wherever the shockwave passed, the houses on both sides collapsed and were flattened inwards, like cookies being smashed by a giant hammer!
Bricks, beams, frozen clods of earth, and the secondary explosive charges hidden within them, all combine to form a deadly shrapnel storm that mercilessly shreds and buries everything in its path, both living and mechanical!
The true source of destruction lies here.
Beneath the core area of the fortress, the massive explosives depot that Han Da had ordered his engineering corps to lay over a long period of time at any cost was completely detonated.
The overpressure and directional blasting effect generated by such an explosion completely shattered the foundation of the fortress!
The ground cracked, arched, and then collapsed like a fragile eggshell!
A massive, charred crater, tens of meters deep and nearly a hundred meters in diameter, instantly formed, like the gaping maw of hell, greedily devouring everything upon it: buildings, streets, and the densely packed legions of black robots and terrified Slavic soldiers!
The high temperature melted the snow and frozen soil, and molten, magma-like hot mud gushed out from the cracks!
Thick smoke and dust formed a huge, swirling mushroom cloud that shot hundreds of meters into the dark sky, even briefly pushing aside and distorting the raging wind and snow!
Burning fragments, like the most terrifying fireworks of the festival, were hurled kilometers away, falling like a rain of fire carrying death.
This scene caused those fleeing for their lives, those rushing towards this side, to involuntarily stop in their tracks...
Xiao Dingshan roared "Withdraw!" at the very moment!
The warhorse beneath him seemed to sense the impending doom and let out a terrified neigh!
Almost with superhuman reflexes and the instincts of his mount, just before the shockwave of the explosion hit him, a dark robot suddenly pounced on him from his horse. At the same time, several top-level protective robots instantly activated their energy shields, stacking themselves in a suicidal manner to block him!
"Bang...! Crack...!"
The terrifying impact slammed into the energy shield!
The two outermost robot shields instantly overloaded and collapsed, and the robot body was flattened and torn apart by the enormous force!
The fragments, mixed with the residual force of the shockwave, slammed into the inner shield!
Xiao Dingshan felt an irresistible force coming at him. His entire body, along with the robot protecting him, was like being hit head-on by a giant battering ram. He was thrown backward and crashed heavily onto a relatively soft snow slope outside the city. Even with his modified body, his blood was churning, his vision went black, and his hood was blown off, revealing his face, which was completely distorted and ferocious due to the pain, shock, and raging rage!
He watched helplessly as his precious warhorse, closer to the epicenter of the explosion, was torn to shreds by the shockwave before it could even neigh!
Such anger was beyond Xiao Dingshan's ability to describe in words...
The main issue is that this wasn't the first time he'd suffered a setback at Xiao Ce's hands...
Shahar was slightly luckier.
He turned and fled immediately, landing near the edge of the city gate, and was surrounded by several loyal men!
Or perhaps they were surrounded by equally fearful bodyguards.
When destruction came, as massive fragments of the city gate and shockwaves swept in, his personal guards and a few unfortunate Slavic soldiers became his human shields!
Even so, he was still violently thrown away by the enormous force, leaving him dazed and confused, with only a continuous buzzing in his ears and inhuman, shrill screams coming from afar.
He struggled to lift his head, and what he saw was an apocalyptic scene: half the city wall had vanished, the core of the fortress had become a burning crater, and in the thick smoke and flames, his elite soldiers and expensive robots, which he had painstakingly brought out, were tossed about, torn apart, and melted like rag dolls...
He opened his mouth wide, but no sound came out; only extreme fear and despair, like cold venom instantly coursing through his body. It's over...it's all over...
Kornev and his pursuing force, along with at least two-thirds of the robot army that stormed into the city, vanished completely into the churning, all-consuming sea of hellfire and rubble, leaving not a trace.
This earth-shattering explosion not only completely destroyed the strategic node of Don River Fort, but also captured the vanguard, the most impactful siege force, and a large number of personnel of Xiao Dingshan's southward steel torrent!
In particular, the so-called elite Slavic forces of the Shahar were wiped out in an instant! The ferocity and suddenness of the battle far surpassed all previous ones!
But what they didn't know was that this was just the beginning...
"Ugh...!!!!"
A powerful, penetrating bugle call, signaling an attack, suddenly resounded from behind the mountains south of Don River Fortress!
The sound of the horn seemed to carry a metallic tremor, filled with a chilling sense of killing intent and the exhilarating feeling of revenge!
Immediately afterwards, another kind of tremor came from the earth!
It wasn't the destructive frenzy of an explosion, but rather the powerful, rumbling war drums formed by thousands of synchronized, heavy footsteps!
The wind and snow were torn apart!
A huge banner bearing the character "Xiao" embroidered with a roaring dragon's head was the first to pierce through the dust and smoke, fluttering in the wind!
Beneath the banner, Han Da piloted a mecha, holding an energy spear that shone with a ghostly blue light, standing like a war god atop a high hill.
His gaze was sharp as lightning, locking onto the chaotic remnants of the enemy army outside the city, his spear pointing straight ahead!
The mecha's amplified sound shook the surrounding area:
"Soldiers! We must annihilate the enemy and avenge our defeat in this battle! Follow me!!! Kill!!!"
"kill!!!!!!"
A deafening roar erupted like a tsunami!
Behind Han Da, his long-hidden trump card surged forth like a tidal wave!
A "new energy infantry legion" of tens of thousands of soldiers equipped with the most advanced individual equipment in the Qianlong Arsenal!
These soldiers are the core force in Xiao Ce's plan.
They were wearing mechanical exoskeletons and wielding energy weapons from the Dragon Armory!
They may not be as good at defense as robots, but in many situations, their combat skills far surpass those of robots.
Some elite squads are even equipped with shoulder-fired energy cannons or high-energy cutting blades!
They moved with lightning speed, their formations shifting in perfect unison, instantly splitting into several steel torrents that launched a pincer attack, fiercely assaulting the flanks and rear of Xiao Dingshan's stunned remnant army...