175: Chapter 175 The Modified Weapon! The Rising Mushroom Cloud!

Li Mo asked the old man, "Old man, do you really have a way to help us?"

Unexpectedly, this old man suddenly pulled out a pile of tools from nowhere, looking like they were for modifying machinery.

"Of course I do, but it will take some time, about twenty minutes. Can you wait?"

Hearing these words from the old man, the group was immediately annoyed.

They were in the middle of a full-scale battle, and the Black Earth Tribe had launched an all-out attack. They desperately needed this heavy equipment to suppress the enemy forces; how could they afford to wait twenty minutes for him?

Zhang Ran immediately said in a fit of anger, "Old man, stop messing around here and get lost immediately!"

However, for some reason, Li Mo trusted this old man deeply, or perhaps he had seen something extraordinary about him.

Li Mo could afford to wait twenty minutes.

Besides, the two armies were already locked in combat, and the heavy artillery wouldn't be very effective anyway, so he might as well let the old man try.

"Forget it, Zhang Ran, you Artillery Battalion guys just hold your position here for now."

Li Mo decided to give the old man twenty minutes after all.

Then, he looked at Xu Feng, who was not far away.

"Xu Feng, the brothers from the 1st Battalion and the Langliu Battalion down below might not be able to hold off the enemy's attack. Lead the brothers from the 2nd Battalion and link up with them!"

"Remember, don't force it. As long as Height 212 is still ours, we haven't lost."

Xu Feng immediately understood Li Mo's meaning. The Black Earth Tribe's army was attacking too fiercely, and there was no need for them to die defending their previous position. If the casualties were too high, they could consider shifting the position back.

"Understood! Brothers of the 2nd Battalion, follow me!"

After grabbing his wolf-tooth club, Xu Feng led all the brothers of the 2nd Battalion and rushed towards the Langliu Battalion's position at the foot of the mountain.

To be fair, the brothers in the 2nd Battalion were generally not very high in cultivation, all between the second and sixth grade of the Foundation Establishment Realm. Even if they charged forward, they would only be using human-wave tactics to stall for time.

Given the current situation, the total destruction of the Langliu Battalion's position was only a matter of time.

As Li Mo had expected, since the Black Death Group had been wiped out, Morpheus naturally kept a close eye on the Height 212 position and had reinforced it with more troops.

Even though Regiment Commander Zhao Xin's Langliu Battalion and the brothers from the Independent Regiment's 1st and 2nd Battalions fought bloody battles, they were ultimately forced into a steady retreat by an enemy force that outnumbered them several, if not ten, times over.

Just then, on the battlefield, Regiment Commander Zhao Xin of the Langliu Battalion was careless and was run through the abdomen by an enemy blade, causing blood to gush out instantly.

Regiment Commander Zhao Xin was already near exhaustion, and now, having suffered such a serious injury, his life was immediately in danger.

Fortunately, Zheng Jiahao and Xu Feng were not far away. Seeing that Regiment Commander Zhao Xin was about to be killed by the pursuing enemy, the two immediately rushed over to block them, ultimately saving Regiment Commander Zhao Xin's life.

The Langliu Battalion's position originally had several thousand troops stationed there, but now only Regiment Commander Zhao Xin and about seventy men remained; the brutality of this war could be imagined.

Fortunately, the brothers of the Langliu Battalion were also brave; that position had also buried tens of thousands of enemies!

At this moment, the ones still fighting on the front lines were the brothers from the Independent Regiment's 1st and 2nd Battalions, but they too were forced to retreat repeatedly by the enemy's ferocious offensive.

Seeing this, Li Mo understood that he had no choice but to have the 1st and 2nd Battalions retreat, and then everyone would hold Height 212 together. It was time for him, as the Regiment Commander, to take action personally.

Li Mo picked up the jingdi spear. Smelling the scent of blood spreading through the air, he seemed to have made a certain resolution.

"Pass on my order: have the men of the 1st and 2nd Battalions all retreat and defend Height 212 according to the original plan! Everyone remember this: if the height remains, we remain; if the height is lost, we die!"

"Yes!"

Soon, under Li Mo's orders, Zheng Jiahao and Xu Feng began to retreat rapidly, carrying the heavily injured Regiment Commander Zhao Xin.

Because the men of the 1st and 2nd Battalions had abandoned their position, the Langliu Battalion's position was occupied by enemy forces. Morpheus seized this good opportunity to boost morale and immediately ordered a large number of Black Earth Tribe soldiers to enter the Langliu Battalion's position, planting many Black Earth Tribe flags there.

"We have won!"

"Brothers! The Daxia people can't hold on anymore!"

The Black Earth Tribe soldiers were jubilant and looked provocatively at Li Mo and the others who had retreated up the mountain.

They were not in a hurry to attack now; Morpheus understood the principle of not chasing a desperate foe. Moreover, they were not familiar with the terrain on the mountain, and rashly pursuing could easily result in the enemy turning back for a counterattack.

Li Mo had indeed prepared a backup plan to set an ambush, but there was nothing he could do if the enemy didn't pursue.

Li Mo felt a bit helpless, but in this kind of large-scale positional warfare, especially with the enemy outnumbering them several times over, Li Mo had already done his absolute best.

Just then, that mysterious old man appeared beside Li Mo again, who knows when.

"Young man, I have finished modifying all your heavy weapons. Do you want to try them out? Sigh, it's been two hundred years, and human technology hasn't made any progress. It's truly lamentable!"

Li Mo understood that this mysterious old man had high-level strength, so he didn't care about how he had suddenly appeared beside him.

However, hearing the old man say that human technology hadn't progressed in two hundred years, wasn't that a bit too arrogant?

Li Mo really wanted to see the weapons he had modified at this moment.

So, Li Mo returned to the Artillery Battalion's position once again, but upon seeing the heavy weapons that had been modified, Li Mo was instantly dumbfounded.

In just twenty minutes, this mysterious old man had completely overhauled all types of heavy weapons in the Artillery Battalion, leaving them looking nothing like they did before.

And just from the looks of them, one could feel that these heavy weapons were much more powerful than before!

Li Mo couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Old man, this... did you do this?"

"That is natural, but I haven't done this for many years, so I've become quite rusty!"

The mysterious old man had a calm and indifferent expression.

And Zhang Ran, who had previously been spouting nonsense at him, was now completely won over by his skills and even respectfully poured a cup of tea for the old man.

Seeing the Black Earth Tribe soldiers still clamoring at the foot of the mountain, Li Mo immediately prepared to test the power of these modified weapons.

"Zhang Ran, fire a batch of crystal core cluster bombs toward the Langliu Battalion position. Anyway, that position has already been abandoned!"

"Yes!"

Upon receiving Li Mo's order, Zhang Ran immediately operated the instruments and launched a batch of crystal core cluster bombs toward the Langliu Battalion position.

The scene that followed left everyone dumbfounded.

One by one, crystal core cluster bombs, like meteors, instantly fell onto the Langliu Battalion position.

The speed was several times faster than before!

If the previous cluster bombs could still be intercepted, then these current cluster bombs were impossible to intercept; their speed was so fast that the naked eye couldn't even track their trajectory.

And it wasn't just the speed that had been enhanced, but also their incomparable power!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Deafening explosions rang out, and the entire Langliu Battalion position instantly turned into a sea of fire. Even more shockingly, mushroom clouds appeared above the Langliu Battalion position!

Everyone was caught off guard, and the tens of thousands of Black Earth Tribe soldiers who had occupied the Langliu Battalion position were instantly reduced to ashes!

Even Morpheus was startled by this commotion and stood up directly from his chair!