Chapter 857 - A new contest (1/2)

The Pyro Company’s main forces had gathered 70 kilometers away in the vast plains and forest north of Mt. Dashi. They were planning to establish a defensive line that stretched 31 kilometers long, and currently, only seven kilometers of the construction was complete.

A large number of refugees and stronghold residents had been deployed to the front lines. Besides engineers and maintenance workers, all able-bodied male adults were recruited for the construction as well.

After these refugees and stronghold residents arrived here, their only job was to race against time and build the defensive line as quickly as possible.

Several hundred brick kilns at the rear were working nonstop to fire bricks, and due to that, the amount of silt dug up from the nearby river had caused the channel to widen by more than ten times.

It was an extremely shocking sight. If someone were to look down from above, the defensive line could be seen extending horizontally outwards to the left and right.

In Hope Media’s article, they reported that when foreign enemies came attacking, a new Great Wall in human history would rise once more.

Initially, the plains to the north of the New Great Wall did not have a name. But it had been named the Dingyuan Plains[1]. That was because the Pyro Company was aware the barbarian troops were called the expeditionary army. As such, they planned to stop the barbarians at the Dingyuan Plains and send them back where they came from when the opportunity arose.

Actually, the main purpose of this war was to effectively wipe out as many of the barbarian troops as they could.

If they just defeated the barbarians without killing enough of them, the opponent might just make a comeback after some years.

As the terrain of the Dingyuan Plains was flat, the Pyro Company could maximize the power of their firearms and explosives against the barbarians.

Prior to this, the Pyro Company was most fond of fighting battles on complex terrain, because they had an overall stronger physical fitness. Once a battle broke out against their enemies in the mountains, be it the Kong Consortium or the Wang Consortium, they could only scurry away like frightened rats.

Even if the Kong Consortium had more troops than the Pyro Company, they would also be slowly worn down by the Pyro Company. This was a huge advantage the Pyro Company had over the Kong Consortium with their stronger physical fitness.

But it was different now. Even though the barbarians did not use firearms and explosives, they were much fitter than the Pyro Company’s troops.

Using the Pyro Company’s own strength as a comparison, their average combat power would be between T1 and T2, while almost all of the barbarians were rated as T3s.

Moreover, after the battle at Mt. Dashi, P5092 had submitted a very detailed combat report. One of the important points to take note of was that there were also stronger individuals among the barbarians.

The barbarians had already faced off with the Pyro Company’s main forces multiple times in the region between the Dingyuan Plains and the New Great Wall. However, they were still at the stage of probing each other’s strengths.

The Pyro Company’s 3rd Division led by P5092 had already arrived and garrisoned the strategic location assigned to them along the front lines.

However, the first thing P5092 did was not to consolidate the military and defensive line but to hang the barbarian corpses they had killed at Mt. Dashi in a very prominent area beyond the defensive line.

Hundreds of wooden stakes were suddenly erected outside the New Great Wall where P5092 was standing. The barbarian corpses hanging from them swayed like tattered rags in the wind.

After all, the massacre at Stronghold 176 had really angered everyone in the Central Plains, including the Pyro Company.

And P5092 was trying to provoke the barbarians.

To achieve this, he even ordered the main forces that went into Mt. Dashi to not let any barbarians escape. After killing them, they loaded all their corpses into the trucks and transported them to the front lines.

Crows were circling in the sky as though they could not wait to devour the barbarians’ corpses. However, the Pyro Company soldiers did not care and just let the birds eat to their heart’s content.