Chapter 431 - Against An Army of Ten Thousand Strong (2/2)
Natasha clenched her fist nervously as she fixed her gaze on Chen Fan.
Three kilometers.
2.9 kilometers
2.8 kilometers…
Chen Fan was getting closer to the soldiers by the second.
“Where is our field cannon? Fire the cannon I said! He is moving so slowly. Are you all stupid? Where are my armored tanks and rocket launchers? Where are the snipers?”
General Major Gromov, leader of the Infantry Division 116 berated the soldiers through the intercom.
He watched as Chen Fan inched closer to his division despite the dark shower of bullets. His heart skipped a beat when he recognized the man’s face. It was the same face that had tormented the minds of the leaders of the North Division for three months.
“But, didn’t he die after we used the Father of All Bombs on him?”
Gromov exclaimed in his mind.
Meanwhile, the Russian soldiers finally started to use heavy weaponry on Chen Fan. A few hundred armored vehicles had formed a moving circle around Chen Fan and trained their artillery cannons on the young man. Behind the rank of soldiers, a few rocket launchers had fired.
“Shu! Shu! Shu!”
A dozen or so Katyusha rockets rained onto an area of a few hundred-meter radius, causing countless explosions and filled the air with smoke, dust, and fire. Such a dense firing of Katyusha would kill an entire Battalion of soldiers.
Before the Russians could cheer for their victory, they saw a wash of golden light penetrate the dense black smoke.
Chen Fan was still surrounded by a golden glow that protected him from the deadly explosion.
“Not even Katyusha can harm him.”
Seeing the terrifying development, the Russian soldiers could only gape.
Meanwhile, the armored vehicles fired at him.
“Bang”
The sound of firing cannons sounded like countless hammers striking an anvil. The sh.e.l.ls traced a deadly arc in the air that looked like the curve of the sickle of the Grim Reaper. Countless field artillery and armored vehicles fired at once, pouring deadly steel onto Chen Fan.
“Vroom! Vroom!”
The blaring explosion made the earth trembled and sounded like the sky was falling around everyone’s ears.
The Russians referred to field artillery as the G.o.d of War ever since the cold war era. Even when new missiles and rockets dominated and became the focal point of the modern arms race, field artillery were still revered for their deadliness. As one of the most well equipped motorized divisions in Russia, Infantry Division 116 had hundreds of armored vehicles and self-propelled artillery. Although the confined s.p.a.ce near the city meant that they could only deploy half of their firepower, when they fired at once, they could deliver a devastating blow to any enemy.
If the Fourteenth Brigade of the j.a.pan Self-Defense Forces were caught in such a deadly bombardment, they would have been already routed.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
After firing once, the soldiers quickly loaded the cannon and fired again. They concentrated their firepower along a line located two and a half kilometers away from their front line.
The dead zone was over a few hundred meters long and the ground was already covered by holes and craters.
The first round.
The second.
The third.
In less than a minute, the Russians had unloaded three rounds of concentrated firepower onto Chen Fan. Each sh.e.l.l weighed a few tons and its impact was able to remove a small hill. The barrels of the cannons were red hot after continuous use.
“He must be dead now.”
An old soldier on the ground, hands covering his ears murmured to himself.
The other soldiers fixed their gaze on to the dead zone. They wagered that even the most advanced tanks would have been reduced to a pile of junk if they were caught in the deadly sh.e.l.ling.
Natasha closed her eyes and scarcely dared to look at what had become of Chen Fan.
The rest of the pa.s.sengers also shook their heads and felt sorry for Chen Fan’s death.
“Sigh… why would he be so stupid as to b.u.t.t heads against Infantry Division 116? They were well known for their deadly firepower and were called the Iron Wall.”
An old man lamented.
The journalist from the Global Mail finally lowered his camera.
However, what they saw next pulled the rug from under them. They watched in utter disbelief as a man surrounded with golden flames walked out of the billowing smoke. Although he was struck directly by half a dozen artillery sh.e.l.ls, he was unharmed.
Chen Fan walked out of the dead zone alive and well!
He had sustained the bombardment of over a hundred field artillery with his body.
“Oh my G.o.d!”
People who saw this incredible development were rendered speechless as if they had witnessed a miracle.