About half an hour later, while Old Bull and the workers were exchanging experiences, Tie Zha, who had just taken a hot bath, stood by the window of his office and looked at the expeditionary warship parked outside the fortress. He couldn’t help but feel warmth in his heart.

The gentle and elegant woman was full of intellectual beauty. She was like a female student standing in front of the library with her hands behind her back. She was calm and gentle, dignified and generous.

Suddenly, her words and deeds, her eyes and a smile, appeared in front of her eyes, lingering. He seemed to see her in an apron, busy in the kitchen, clean and steady, preparing for him a sumptuous breakfast; It was as if he saw the dawn, sitting in a corner of the hall, holding steaming black tea in front of the glass window, staring at the silent silhouette of the small garden outside. It was quiet and beautiful; He also saw the figure standing in the rain, holding an umbrella, sending him off …

She could always bring him peace, and a few simple whispers could dispel the irritation in his heart. When she was in bed, she was like a docile kitten, quietly lying on his shoulder, bringing him tepid joy.

Give her a cup of tea, a book, a rattan chair, and she can stop time.

For a moment, longing surged into her heart like a tide. It had been more than a year since the meeting in the Deepwater Prison. Did she still have a good life?

After an unknown amount of time, a few light knocks came from behind him. He immediately regained his senses and shouted, “Come in.”

With a “ka” sound, Tie Ling and Lilith pushed open the door and entered.

“Everyone has been notified.” Tie Ling said. Compared to a while ago, she was thinner, but her movements were filled with a sense of strength.

“I’ll make coffee.” After coming in, Lilith automatically ran to the cabinet and started to play with it.

Not long after, Hagrid, Black Pig King, Zhao Wenke, Old Amp, and the others arrived. After everyone had gathered, Tie Zha told them about the plan to attack the Hirano Stronghold.

“To be honest, I’m very confused about this kind of action that goes beyond our control.” Zhao Wenke rubbed his chin and said. In this plan, they were all chess pieces on the chessboard. The feeling of being manipulated by outsiders made him very uncomfortable.

Hagrid didn’t say anything, but silence meant acquiescence. Because their thoughts were completely different from Tie Zha’s, in their eyes, Notre Dame was an “outsider”, even a heretic, completely untrustworthy.

“What are you thinking so much about?” The Black Pig King said, “Just take the benefits. What are you talking about?”

Hagrid and Zhao Wenke were stunned when the Black Pig King’s words woke up the dreamer. Then, they looked at each other and laughed.

Afterwards, after some discussion, they decided on their respective tasks. Hagrid led the Chifeng Guards to the southwest of Pingye Stronghold, 20 kilometers away, scattered in an arc. The Black Pig King and Tie Ling led the Black Pig Group and the Sand Fox Group to hunt each other’s scouts in the southeast and northwest directions. After Wang Hu’s Tiger Regiment and Mu Qianhe’s Vermillion Bird Regiment arrived, they joined the Crimson Peak Guards under Hagrid’s command. Old Amp was in charge of the supplies with five hundred logistics staff, while Lilith and Sofia were in charge of the Crimson Peak Stronghold with the Nightingale team.

After making the arrangements, Tie Zha went to bed. He had not slept for three days in Silver City and was so sleepy that he yawned.

Twenty-four hours later, at 9:00 a.m. Silver City Time, Dr3717-01-10, and 67:00 noon Satt Time, the troops of Chifeng Stronghold had gathered and began to advance towards Hirano Stronghold. At the same time, the Storm Stronghold and Belle Foundation’s coalition forces began to move towards Sequoia Stronghold.

The fortress battles between humans could be roughly divided into three stages.

The first stage was to unleash a siege and remove the spies, leaving the opponent in a situation of isolation and lack of intelligence.

The second stage was to clean up the theatre. Generally speaking, in human civil wars, strongholds weren’t as important as fighting against swarm of insects. There were even times when defending strongholds was still a disadvantage. Because humans possessed howitzers, they could bombard strongholds. If all the troops were hoarded in the stronghold, they would only be the target of the fire.

In particular, the mecha troops were able to display excellent maneuverability in the plains. After firing a few rounds of artillery shells, they immediately moved their positions. Therefore, the defensive forces of the stronghold were all scattered, forming horns with the stronghold in various strategic highlands to take care of each other.

The third stage was to seize control of the stronghold. After cleaning up the surrounding troops, the attacking party could choose to continue shelling. However, this would cause a large number of civilian casualties, and many installations would be destroyed in the shelling. Civil wars between humans were usually fought for profit, and no one was willing to take over a stronghold that was riddled with holes and had no economic value. Therefore, most of the time, the attackers would choose to fight in the streets and fight with ease to seize control of the stronghold.

Actually, the outcome of the second stage had already decided the outcome of the war. Losing a stronghold was like a piece of cooked fat. The only difference was that it was eaten with some sauce. Unless reinforcements came to rescue him or a bunch of Saint-ranked experts were hiding in the stronghold, it was only a matter of time before they fell.

Mu Yuqinxin’s strategic goal was to let the troops of Chifeng Stronghold drag down the troops of Pingye Stronghold and prevent them from reinforcing Sequoia Stronghold. However, the Hirano Stronghold had nearly 500 mechs, more than 100 reformers, and more than 1,000 Marines.

The Chifeng Guards were not equipped with mecha because it was difficult for Windsand Castle to recruit mecha pilots. As for the Vermillion Bird Guild and the Fierce Tiger Guild, there were less than 150 of them. At present, their only advantage was that they had more than a hundred bounty warriors wearing mechanical power armor. However, half of them had only worn them twenty hours ago, and their proficiency was very low. They could only be used as protective armor.

Also, in the fifth desert, the mecha could play a higher role than the power armor warriors, so overall, Crimson Peak Stronghold’s forces were at a disadvantage.

After arriving at the designated location, the reward soldiers of the Crimson Peak Guards began to dig trenches, pull barbed wire fences, and set up various defensive fortifications. Tie Zha drove the wolf spider away from the army and wandered around, looking for the patrol of Hirano Stronghold.

On the one hand, he was used to acting alone. On the other hand, this wolf spider’s performance was so good that no one else could catch up with him.

Of the spider’s eight mechanical legs, four were thinner, four were thicker, thinner at the front and rear ends, and the thicker on both sides of the cockpit, with wheels installed at the first joint. When the mechanical legs were put away, it was a small armored vehicle. On the Gobi Desert, its speed could reach 150 kilometers per hour, faster than an ordinary jeep.

“Magnetic Magnetic Magnetic …”

A dense mechanical sound came from below, and it sounded like a heavenly sound to Tie Zha. This was the tremor of high-precision, high-performance machinery, as if every gear was perfectly fitted without the slightest bit of friction noise.

Tie Zha searched the Gobi Desert for more than half an hour and found no fresh car tracks. The Hirano Stronghold probably noticed the approaching troops and gathered the patrols. He was wondering if he was close to the fortress by five kilometers. There must be a lot of troops stationed there.

“Chip …”

Right at this moment, a sharp sound of breaking through the air suddenly came from above. Looks like Hirano Stronghold has already discovered the location of the main force on the satellite map and has launched artillery fire over there. However, 20 kilometers away, the accuracy of the howitzer was very limited. In addition, there was enough time to dig a shelter. If not for the grenade falling directly into the pit, it would be very difficult to cause many casualties.

Since the war had already begun, Tie Zha had no qualms and headed straight for Hirano Stronghold. On the one hand, he was confident in this wolf spider. On the other hand, he wore power armor, so no one could keep him.

At this moment, he felt like he had obtained a new toy and couldn’t wait to give it a try.

After walking for a while, he found a clear car mark. Judging from the width of the tire, the magnified image should be a Viper Sandtruck. He immediately followed the tracks and chased after them.

Dozens of seconds later, he saw a small red dot in the distance. It was a Viper Sandtruck made by Wilderness Heavy Industries. At the same time, the other party noticed him and immediately turned around to flee in the direction of Hirano Stronghold.

Tie Zha didn’t give the other party a chance to push/throttle, maximize speed, and hit the acceleration button to activate the rocket fuel thruster.

“Aggressive …”

The moment the drive shaft separated from the gear, four crimson flames sprayed out from the spider’s tail, increasing its speed by more than double. In less than half a minute, Tie Zha chased after him to a distance of five hundred meters. He pressed his thumbs hard and the four divine fire cannons immediately spun at high speed.

In the next second, the dense barrel of the gun spat out a half-meter long tongue of flame. In the blink of an eye, thousands of bullets poured out and cartridges bounced everywhere.

“Da da da da da da …”

Smoke and dust erupted around the sand truck. The bullets landed on the hard mud, bringing with them a large amount of dirt. Immediately after, the sand truck tilted sideways, and then, without any reduction in momentum, it flipped into the air and heavily fell to the ground, rolling forward continuously.

Seeing this, Tie Zha immediately stopped shooting. The throttle retracted and he slowed down.

Through the visual sensors, two scouts could be seen lying motionlessly on the ground after being thrown out by the sand truck from afar. Not far away from them, the sand truck lit up with raging flames, and occasionally, one or two explosions could be heard.

After confirming that the surroundings were safe, Tie Zha opened the hatch, stuck his head out, lifted the power armor helmet, and spat on the corpse.

Not long after, hundreds of soldiers emerged from the corpses, devouring their flesh and blood in large mouthfuls. The corpse’s military uniform was rapidly drying down at a visible rate, and with a “buzz”, a large ball of red mist exploded.

With a thought in Tie Zha’s mind, the ants immediately scattered in all directions. Not long after, he was able to clearly detect every single plant and tree within a thousand meters.

With the help of the ants, Tie Zha quickly discovered a mecha squad. There were about twelve Thunderflame units and two squads of twelve Marines.

Tie Zha completely ignored this small number of troops. However, the Marines wore tough tarpaulins, sandstorm scarves around their necks, and protective goggles. The ants could not lower their mouths, otherwise, they would have been directly exterminated.

After approaching the other party, Tie Zha’s group of wolf spiders immediately slowed down. At that time, the wolf spider descended to thirty kilometers. It suddenly opened its mechanical legs, put away its wheels, and continued to crawl forward with eight legs instead. The entire process was like flowing clouds and flowing water, without the slightest bit of frustration.

On the other side, the mecha squad had just seen smoke rising from the horizon when a deafening explosion sounded from behind them.

Due to the sight of the soldiers, Tie Zha fired four cannon strikes at the first moment he appeared, directly striking into the Thunder and Fire Style position. However, the wolf spider’s four cannon cannons were 35 mm in caliber and were not very powerful. Adding on the fact that they were more than a thousand meters apart, it only lifted the two lightning and fire cannons at the front.

However, the Marines guarding the vicinity of the Lightning and Fire Style were not so lucky. Several of them were blasted into pieces and cried out in an extremely miserable manner.

Anyway, this group of people would die, so Tie Zha wasn’t afraid that the secret would be discovered, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to pounce on them.

After discovering the intruder, the twelve Lightning Flame Styles turned their muzzles in unison, attempting to lock onto the target. The uninjured Marines were also divided into three groups. One half knelt on the ground, carrying a bazooka nearly two meters long. The other was standing behind him, in charge of loading the bombs. The last was standing in front, observing the target with binoculars.