Huang Quan's words caused the three of them to be stunned. Zhang Huai An's face turned pale, while Old Frank looked as though he had seen a ghost. Lu Xiaobu's heart skipped a beat as he asked Huang Quan carefully, "Did you notice something amiss?"
Huang Quan did not reply immediately, instead, he raised his right hand in a circle before swinging it down fiercely. Countless carriages started to move, dragging the cannons to the empty space in front of the Eight Trigrams Formation. They knocked aside the bones and started to turn the carriages around. After stabilizing, the artillery soldiers jumped off the carriages and waved their shovels to dig up the artillery formation. Carriages loaded with cannons stopped at the empty space behind the cannons, and boxes of cannons were unloaded.
"Old Frank's assistant has already been controlled. He did not stop you from coming out, which means that he has been bribed by White Horse. Old Frank said that we can go in and negotiate because they have He Wen Bin under control. A half-dead He Wen Bin is not a threat to him. He Wen Bin can threaten Old Frank, but he can't threaten me.
Feng Yong maintained his neutrality because he has also been controlled. Everything is an illusion. The Lieutenant Colonel is afraid of death, and although it might not be voluntary, he will definitely not resist.
If I didn't guess wrongly, I will bring my men to follow Old Frank into the tunnel, and the entire tunnel will be destroyed. As long as they survive the initial attack, they might really be able to defend the base. At that time, even if Miss Ke 'Er appears, the entire army will collapse. White Horse really has a good idea. If it's a ploy, I can't beat him, but he actually wants to play tactics with me?
Hmph! "
Huang Quan seemed to have changed into a different person. He spoke to the three of them with confidence and composure, but his eyes were burning with passion. The wall in front of him was very majestic, and it made him feel an urge to rob it or to bomb it.
Zhang Huai An did not speak, he could tell that something was wrong with Huang Quan. Unless Zhang Xiaoqiang was here, he would not listen to anyone else. Ding Jianwei naturally knew that the direction he was pointing at was the base. It was the base that he had built with Zhang Xiaoqiang, but he did not hesitate. He had always known that his loyalty was to Zhang Xiaoqiang and Yang Ke-er, and not the base.
"Is the residential area behind the wall?"
The cannons were being prepared, and the 120mm cannons were being set up. Huang Quan looked at the wall 4km away and asked:
"That's right, the base has already separated the internal and external areas, and all unrelated personnel have been evacuated from the valley. The outside is filled with residential areas, we cannot let the cannons miss …."
At the same time, he reminded Huang Quan. Huang Quan smiled faintly and continued to ask:
"Which direction are the survivors settled in?"
Wen Wen's Base had gone through a few expansions, and was already in the shape of a small town. There were a few businesses organized by the residents, such as a tailor shop for clothes, a specialty snack shop, a variety of handmade shops for daily necessities, and even a privately formed black market.
Originally, according to this development, the hearts of the people would gradually settle down, and the foundation would slowly solidify. The base would then become a powerful government, and with the birth of a new generation of people, it would truly develop into a country within a country.
Bai Ma was an intelligent and ambitious man. His own abilities were not bad, and he was many times stronger than Three. To be able to lead a team in the post-apocalyptic world, it was enough to prove his abilities. If he was lucky and became an Evolver, with a bit of luck, he might even be stronger than Zhang Xiaoqiang.
Upon reaching the base, Bai Ma was instantly envious. After a week of observation, he discovered that the managers of the base were all mediocre people. Although he had never seen Zhang Xiaoqiang before, but through the development of the base, he felt that Zhang Xiaoqiang was not someone with ability. If it was him, he would have long conquered J City, but Zhang Xiaoqiang brought a few people to a place with an unknown future, it was obviously putting the cart before the horse.
Seeing everything in the base, Bai Ma was not only envious, he even had the thought of seizing it. It was just that he was an outsider and had no foundation, and the previous residents of the base were wary of outsiders. Fortunately, he met Three. He looked down on Three, but that did not stop him from using his relationship with Three's classmates to turn himself into the base's local power.
Everything was planned by him in the dark. Before he joined the base, he had left behind two-thirds of the armed forces and half of the survivors outside. Using the opportunity to search for supplies, he used the base's ammunition to obtain benefits for himself, allowing his troops outside to obtain large amounts of supplies and expand.
Bai Ma not only had his eyes on the base, he also had his eyes on the missile base. However, he was not Zhang Xiaoqiang, and did not have the ability to charge through the gate guarded by the cannons. This made him covet the power of the base even more. In his understanding, if he obtained the base, he would also obtain the missile base.
With an unknown number of missiles in his hands, as long as he could connect to the military satellites, he would be able to seize all the strategic military targets in the country.
After Zhang Xiao Qiang was taken away by Big Bird, White Horse's ambition grew to its peak. He could not wait to put the Three Sons under house arrest, lock up He Wen Bin, isolate Old Frank, and bribe Old Frank's assistant. When Old Frank and Lu Xiao Bu escaped, the entire base was in his hands.
Bai Ma stood on the 18m tall watchtower, beside him was a powerful 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine gun. On both sides of the watchtower, there was a permanent artillery fortification. On the walls, there were hundreds of armed forces, 80% of them were his old subordinates. 17 anti-aircraft cannons were on standby, and the armory that Old Frank was guarding had already been opened. An endless supply of ammunition and ammunition was moved to the top of the walls, and a thousand men that he had roped in were lined up to receive their weapons.
White Horse saw the artillery position in the distance, but he was not worried at all. The ten-meter-thick wall was built with the best materials, not to mention cement and gravel. Just the steel bars alone were thousands of tons. White Horse did not believe that the cannon with a maximum caliber of 85 mm would be able to blast through the wall.
Bai Ma could see it clearly, but his subordinates could not. They all felt immense pressure, and although Bai Ma had assured them that they could defend, none of them were confident. The only thing they could rely on was the walls they were standing on.
The interior of the base was stifling, as the men were organized and prepared to be distributed. They were the second line of defense that Bai Ma had prepared. There were survivors who had lived here since the establishment of the base, and it was easy for Bai Ma to rope them in. With Zhang Xiaoqiang gone, they did not have to go against the godlike man. As long as they defended the walls, they could pick any wife they wanted from the tens of thousands of women. It was no longer like before, where they had to toil to get a wife that was not pretty.
The residential area behind the walls was completely different from when Zhang Xiaoqiang left. Small three-story buildings stood in the middle, and the best position was surrounded by a separate wall. Those were the old subordinates that Bai Ma had brought into the base. They had received the best treatment and had become the cornerstone of Bai Ma's usurpation of the base. Although the women inside were also worried, they were not as worried as the others. They had confidence in their leader.
While they were praying in silence, dozens of sharp whistles pierced through the sky. The artillery positions outside the walls also emitted bursts of white smoke. While everyone's hearts were in their throats, dozens of artillery shells continuously exploded in the residential area. Flames flashed, and black smoke covered the residential area amidst the rumbling sounds.
Debris, dregs, torn cloth strips, and human bodies were thrown into the air. The soldiers on the wall were dumbfounded. Small buildings were destroyed and collapsed like toy houses. Horrified screams and mournful howls were drowned out by the roar of artillery shells.
The shockwave and shrapnel swept through all the buildings in the residential area. The long walls looked like they were made of sand, and they were sent flying by the dazzling fireball. Layer after layer of the walls collapsed. Half of the house flew into the sky and disintegrated in mid-air. Those with sharp eyes could even see half a body in red falling among the flying debris.
The artillery position on the opposite side was like a devil that had been awakened, constantly turning white smoke of death. Hundreds of artillery shells continuously exploded in the residential area. The continuous roar was like a burst of thunder in the ears of the armed men, causing their ears to ring.
"Pa da …"
The binoculars in Bai Ma's hand fell to the ground. He stared at the place where the fireball shone, dumbfounded. There was only one word in his heart: "It's over!"
The artillery directly hit his vitals. All of his subordinates' relatives were in the residential area, and the sudden heavy firepower made his subordinates panic.
The men who had been pulled over to make up the numbers saw a scene that was a thousand times more tragic than in the movies. They were so scared that they could not hold their guns and wet their pants. Some even threw away their rifles and lay on the floor with their hands on their heads, wailing loudly. The bombardment had scared them out of their wits.