Resurrection Empire

Chapter 604 - 227: Day One, Boiling Starfire_2

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The battle was intense from the very first moment it began.

The Ruined Beasts attacked the city fearlessly.

On the human side, although the incident happened suddenly and many people were just getting up, thanks to Guard Captain Ma Xiaoling’s decision to disobey his father’s orders and stay in the town, the guard had significantly improved the efficiency of the Night Watchman system two days in advance.

Normally, there were only a few hundred Night Watchmen, but this morning there were as many as two thousand on duty.

When the Beast Tide appeared, about eight hundred were guarding the city walls, while the other twelve hundred were preparing to go off duty.

After the alarm sounded, those twelve hundred Night Watchmen immediately rushed to the walls to support their comrades, just in time to reinforce the shaky defensive line formed by the eight hundred on the wall and the automated weapons installed there.

Of course, the pressure was still immense.

The sheer number of Ruined Beasts was overwhelming. Some were charging at the walls and gates on the ground, others were attacking the Night Watchmen from the air, and there were still more ready in the distance to concentrate fire for long-range attacks on command.

Fortunately, nearly every household in the town now had guns, and starting five minutes later, more and more Scavengers spontaneously joined the battle.

Ma Xiaoling, who had just woken up, arrived at the front line and fully displayed the skill of a top-tier Fifth Level Mechanical Warrior. After making several in-and-out strikes within the Beast Tide ranks, the situation was temporarily stabilized.

At the same time, Zheng Tian, also freshly awakened, stood up immediately to take over command as per Ren Zhong’s pre-arranged orders.

This was Zheng Tian’s first time commanding a large-scale battle.

She had never received any relevant training before and had only seen similar scenes in movies and TV shows.

But under Ren Zhong’s encouragement, she performed with great calmness and confidence.

She promptly deployed troops, using the company’s information database to guide the relatively elite teams of Scavengers to form up at the most appropriate defensive points on the city walls.

These people had developed a strong sense of camaraderie over time through joint hunts, creating a synergy in the restructured teams that was more than the sum of their parts.

When the team members, following commands, moved while shooting and reached their designated defense points, they found that the people they were replacing were the heavily scarred Night Watchmen who had borne the brunt of the first wave of the Beast Tide.

Zheng Tian opened the battlefield command system that Ren Zhong had someone program and produce.

Massive amounts of data gathered from various cameras at the walls, the tactical goggles worn by the Gunsmiths, the comprehensive detectors of the Mechanical Warriors, and other equipment were rapidly integrated into the intelligence database of the battlefield command system by the servers.

Zheng Tian and Strategy Officer Chen Hanyu immediately identified a group of elite Ruined Beasts led by a Level Five Ruined Beast within the Beast Tide, primarily composed of low-end First and Second Level Ruined Beasts, trying to quietly approach the city walls on the ground.

"Captain Ma! The 11th node on the third section of the east gate wall needs support!"

Zheng Tian’s finger trembled as she synchronized the marked video intelligence and coordinate information of those suspicious Ruined Beasts to Ma Xiaoling.

Ma Xiaoling, who had just retreated to catch his breath, immediately took up his weapon and leaped into the air once more.

Subsequently, Zheng Tian marked several other key defense areas and accurately assigned the combat tasks to elite squads led by Fourth Level professionals like Jiang Kai, Chen Meng, Yang Yi, and Bai Feng, based on the type of attacking Ruined Beasts.

At the same time, five hundred professionally trained elite members of the Hunting Team had already regrouped and were ready.

Zheng Tian sent them into battle immediately.

This group suddenly charged out from the north gate of the town, crushing into the enemy’s formation for nearly six hundred meters. Like a sharp knife, they plunged into a mass of Second Level Ruined Beasts that were performing long-range attacks by spitting corrosive liquid, savagely dealing a round of overwhelming damage, leaving behind a ground littered with Ruined Beast corpses, before retreating swiftly back into the town like a receding tide.

This elite group’s assault left the "artillery positions," composed of nearly two hundred long-range Ruined Beasts, reduced to only a third of their numbers, and all of them were injured.

The pressure on the builders and construction machinery risking their lives to repair the city walls significantly decreased.

While Zheng Tian was busy handling everything, there was good news from another area.

A Level Five Ruined Beast, which she hadn’t noticed, suddenly descended from the sky.

This Level Five Ruined Beast seemed strange; its body was small when flying mid-air but suddenly enlarged near the city wall, intending to smash a hole in the wall with its body.

But Yujin, who had long spotted this anomaly from a distance, led a heavy sniper team of nearly two hundred young Gunsmiths who had yet to take their professional examinations. With just one coordinated volley, they struck down this arrogant Level Five Ruined Beast in mid-air.