Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 442 - 435: Breaking Away from the Battle

Chapter 442: Chapter 435: Breaking Away from the Battle

Hu Daoke began sending out a rapid burst of machine gunfire outside the carriage. The Olavia Sisters saw such a scene for the first time, and though they wore noise reduction earplugs, they were still frightened, clinging to each other and screaming.

"Get down!" Luo’er didn’t care about anything else. He forcibly pulled the two sisters off the carriage and tossed them to Tangmo, yelling loudly, "Moumou, watch them!"

"Understood!" Tangmo responded loudly.

"Hu Daoke, Baiyue, provide covering fire on the side of the road, the rest of you retreat to the jungle!" Cheng Ziang commanded calmly.

"Understood!" The crowd responded loudly.

In such an intense combat environment, everyone’s voices were loud, shouting at the top of their lungs.

Cheng Ziang was the first to enter the jungle. He handed the 74U submachine gun he had to Tangmo, and then slashed through the undergrowth with his long knife. Just to be safe, his left-hand revolver was ready to fire at any time.

Clearly, the enemy’s main attack wasn’t here, so the advance team was fortunate to be able to escape the combat. The enemy had always believed that the Judgement Legion mainly relied on cold weapons, so the sudden retaliation by the advance team left them dazed.

After a counterattack, the advance team unsurprisingly killed all the attackers and retreated into the primitive jungle without any mishaps. It was only then that Luo’er had the chance to observe the intense battle from afar.

He saw a huge crater appearing on the ground not far away, and the scattered soil was still emitting puffs of gunpowder smoke. Judging by the size of the crater, Luo’er estimated that the enemy had detonated a grenade shell.

This was a type of roadside bomb common in both Earth and the Otherworld. The grenade shell is pre-set to explode when the target passes. Its destructive power was so great that it killed nearly fifty members of the Judgement Legion with a single blast.

This ambush hit the Judgement Legion’s attendants the hardest. They didn’t have the rune armor of the knights and couldn’t ride in the rune carriage. What’s more, because they were attendants of the Judgement Legion, they couldn’t use firearms or other modern weapons, leaving them helpless in the face of the modern enemy attack. They could only stand still and take the hits.

To encircle a team of more than five thousand, how many troops would be needed? At least five times that.

However, according to Luo’er’s observation and analysis, the attackers numbered only slightly more than ten thousand. But they were equipped with a large amount of weaponry from Earth, and their fighting power cannot be underestimated. They had a highly coordinated attack strategy, with both rifles for frontline fighting and machine guns for suppression.

To deal with the rune-armored knights of the Judgement Legion, they had also prepared a large number of RPG rocket launchers and 107 rocket shells. No matter how powerful the rune armor was, it was meant to withstand bullets. The RPG was designed to penetrate armor, and the 107 rocket was the go-to choice for guerrilla fire support.

The battle was one-sided from the start. The enemy detonated two grenade shells at the front and back of the troop line, throwing the Judgement Legion into chaos. Then they launched a surprise attack from both sides of the road, causing heavy losses to the Judgement Legion. Unarmored attendants fell one after another under the intensive bullet rain, and those who tried to draw their swords to counterattack were shot in their tracks.

"Attention, everyone, on guard, break off engagement!" Cheng Ziang commanded calmly.

"Understood!" The group responded.

The advance team formed a circle, each member guarding a different direction. In the middle of the team were the unarmed Olavia Sisters and Tangmo, who was tasked with taking care of them.

The southern primitive jungle was indeed thick and hard to see through. Once a person entered, it was almost impossible for others outside to locate them. As they moved deeper into the jungle, Luo’er lost sight of the Judgement Legion, hearing only the crackle of gunfire and the explosive shocks from afar.

As the advance team had anticipated, the Judgement Legion was bound to be attacked. They thought the top three people in the Judgement Legion would also know this, but they didn’t expect that they would be flustered and caught off guard by the attack, getting utterly defeated.

But it wasn’t entirely their fault. After all, the last time the Judgement Legion went on an expedition was more than ten years ago. That campaign, led by Dulens, ended in the complete annihilation of the Judgement Legion. At that time, the proliferation of Earth’s firearms wasn’t as high as it is now, so Theron still needed to face the Judgement Legion in close combat.

But who would have imagined that ten years later, Theron had completed a modern upgrade, while the Judgement Legion remained stationary, still believing that their rune armor was the best in the world. It was no surprise that they had been battered.

Looking at the organization of this attack, it’s clear that Theron has been training and integrating for a long time, bringing about a huge ascendency to the entire team. Although the Ancient States have been ostracized by the Church Court and cannot directly purchase arms from Earth, they can fully procure them through the Blaiqi people as intermediaries. Although the intermediaries make a profit, it is far better than the treatment given to the Bobulu people.

Earthlings have always had a contradictory attitude towards the trade of arms; Aud people dislike firearms, and the Earthlings are eager to sell them, but the Bobulu people desperately need firearms yet are blacklisted by the Earthlings.

In the end, they are still afraid that the Otherworld beings will become too powerful to control using their own munitions. If the Aud people ever unify their country and massively purchase arms from Earthlings, they would definitely be promptly blacklisted.

The battles of firearms and magic in the Otherworld ultimately come down to the clash of advanced and conservative weaponry concepts from Earth. Firearms, as the main weapons of Earthlings, have directly changed the form and method of warfare, while magic as a conservative weapon, always adheres to the inherent, outdated forms of war and combat strategies.

So it’s not that Earth’s weapons and combat concepts are combating the magic-led combat ideas, but rather it’s the advanced combat philosophies led by Earth’s firearms that are battling against the conservative warfare ideas dominated by magic.

The attack encountered by the Judgement Legion today is a thorough collision of old and new ideas. Theron used Earth’s weapons, learnt Earth’s combat methods, and utterly defeated the Judgement Legion that used magic weapons and adhered to old combat ideas.

Finally, they managed to move to a place where vegetation was relatively sparse, and the terrain was relatively flat. Everyone couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. The dense jungle’s foliage had scratched many people’s skin, but thankfully, they all applied wind oil essence and floral dew to ward off insects, or they would have been covered in welts.

At that time, several shadows suddenly shot out from the vegetation, with dark gun barrels pointing at all the members of the Advance Team. The Advance Team quickly raised their barrels, aiming at these unexpected guests.

Luo’er noticed that the outfits of these people were a mix of all sorts, and the firearms were also very uneven: there were bolt-action rifles as well as high-end automatic rifles.

They stared wide-eyed at everyone in the Advance Team. Strangely enough, these people didn’t immediately open fire, as if they had some reservations.

The standoff lasted for a moment. The leader of the group asked in a southern Tasta accent, "You people...which group are you from?"

Hearing his words, Luo’er was surprised. It seemed these people thought they were with them. This was not surprising, because the Advance Team’s equipment and the Judgement Legion’s differed, and their main weapons were firearms.

"We have rescued two young girls who were captured by the Judgement Legion and are moving them to a safe place!" Luo’er said, his gaze shifting towards the Olavia Sisters.

"Girls...Wait a minute. What’s with your accents; why do they sound Northern?" The leading man paused, suddenly realizing something.

Time was of the essence, so Luo’er and Cheng Ziang exchanged glances. The Advance Team suddenly attacked while these people were off guard. A few shots later, these people fell to the ground with widened eyes, lying in pools of blood.

Seeing them go down, Luo’er did not dare to relax. He signaled the others to stay alert, then went over to these men and made sure to shoot each one in the head to ensure they were all truly dead.

"It’s not safe here, the rest of you keep going!" Cheng Ziang looked around and gave the order.

After Luo’er’s actions, Cheng Ziang almost forgot that he should be the captain.

Under his direction, the Advance Team continued to move positions. This area was mostly hilly plains, so the terrain was relatively flat and didn’t require any climbing.

In the distance, the battle between the Judgement Legion and the attackers had reached its peak with constant explosion sounds filling the air. Although the Judgement Legion was a representative of conservative combat theories, it didn’t mean they were entirely bereft of solutions in such a situation.

The knights in rune armor began to fight back. Disregarding the bullets from the enemy, they stormed into the enemy lines. Like a descending wrath of God, they got the enemies to scatter in all directions.

Even though the enemies had firearms, their guns were no match for the rune armor of the Judgement knights — they were akin to fire sticks. Unless they had bazookas, they couldn’t do anything to these frenzied Judgement knights.