583 The City K Battle (1/2)

Chapter 583: The City K Battle

Translator: _Min_Editor: Rundi

The rural area of City K; three kilometers from the frontline.

It was the modern world, but the cold northern gust was mixed with the desolateness of the apocalypse and scattered into the corners of the streets.

City K had never snowed before, nor had it been this cold.

In the dark corners, the homeless and stray dogs could occasionally be seen living together. The supermarket on the street had been long closed leaving the hungry people inside searching for edible food. If they discovered fantastic loots, people who felt guilt would leave some cash on the unattended cashier, but most people chose to leave after they turned off their flashlight.

It didn't make a difference since the F Pesos was worthless. The rich and the poor both starved. USD still had some purchasing power, but no one was willing to sell food or valuable medicines.

Yesterday, the Moro guerillas had pushed to there again, and this time, they were even more ferocious. But regardless if they arrive or not, no trucks packed with food would arrive. Since a couple of kilometers away, a terrifying infection crisis was happening.

The civilians had long foregone their previous political stance, regardless of who is better, they wanted the stupid war to end.

Whether it was Country F 14th Division that quarantined the city or the Moro guerrillas, they didn't look like good guys in the locals' eyes. As to Celestial Trade, they rarely appeared in the sight of the ordinary people. So the locals didn't have a much better impression on the mercenary with equipment comparable to an actual army.

Invaders? Perhaps

But who cares?

To prevent the Moro guerillas from pushing forward, the 14th Division sent a large number of snipers and buried anti-personnel landmine at strategic locations.

This did interfere with Moro's 5th Division's push forward since Moro lacked tanks and armored vehicles, their force was mostly comprised of infantries and machine gunners. The highly precise snipers were obtained from the hands of F's 21st Division.

But not only did the guerillas died under the scope of the snipers and landmines, but more civilians without combat experience also died.

This place was the blind spot to humanitarianism.

To get rid of the troublesome snipers, Celestial Trade chose to airstrike.

The invisible Ghost Agents used laser positions to aim at the targets, and the Aurora-20 fired a stream of bullets over to shred the sniper and the building he hid in, into dust. To avoid causing civilian casualties, Jiang Chen ordered to avoid using bombs in the city area.

It was not out of kindness. It was to avoid disadvantageous evidence against Celestial Trade in the international society.

Even then, the snipers still delayed two day's time.

The situation was about to end very soon.

The night of December 31st.

Celestial Trade's Command Center ordered a full-scale attack, launching an attack on City K during the night of New Year's Eve and eliminating Country F's modernized 14th division and the tank brigade mobilizing for assistance. The goal was to take control of the city before January 2nd.

The attack initiated from Celestial Trade's missiles.

The EMP missiles first blew up on the east side of the city and completely destroyed 14th Division's electronic equipment.

But since the 14th division was the elite force of Country F, when the second missile was launched into the air, they launched an anti-missile attack on Celestial Trade's launch ground. Eight 155 mm cannons almost decimated an entire hill, but they didn't fire for long before they were turned into scraps by the missiles of Aurora-20.

To avoid the airstrike from Celestial Trade, Country F dug deep into their heads for methods out. For example, use grey cloths to cover the cannon, to hide the tanks among buildings, launch attacks when Moro soldiers were approaching…

But when the EMP missiles arrived in the battle, all trickeries lost their purpose.