150: The war is imminent

Moreover, based on their experience attacking Xi City, once they launched an attack on Weixing City, they were highly likely to be subjected to large-scale air raids by the Black Hawk Empire.

Without air superiority, even if they had countless infantry fighting vehicles, they would still be like paper shells under the bombardment of aerial bombs and air-to-ground missiles.

However, Li Xiao had negotiated with Nangong Yan multiple times, but Nangong Yan still refused to sell main battle tanks to Li Xiao because that was the bottom line she had signed with the Black Hawk Empire; as for air vehicles, he couldn't even dream of it.

"As expected, having a father or mother to rely on is not as good as relying on oneself..."

Li Xiao sighed. Unless he had the strength to fight a decisive battle against the Black Hawk Empire, these arms companies would not bet their chips on him.

"In that case, it seems the ink crystal ammunition must be produced as soon as possible."

It was just that with the limited production capacity of the military factory, it would probably be exhausted within two minutes of the war, so he still had to stack the durability of the infantry fighting vehicles high enough.

Come to think of it, Li Xiao was not entirely without a low-altitude advantage; he still had two armed helicopters parked in the base that hadn't gone out. He planned to slowly increase the durability of these two armed helicopters so they could last longer in the air.

"Sigh, I'm so tired..."

As the attack on Weixing City was put on the agenda, Li Xiao found that he had more and more things to do. Unable to find a better solution, he simply lay down in the headquarters and took a long sleep.

This rest lasted for more than a week.

During these days, the number of idle infantry fighting vehicles he had accumulated reached ninety, and at the same time, he had over nine million in vehicle durability points.

Li Xiao distributed these idle infantry fighting vehicles along with ten basic units of ammunition to his three cities, while he himself retained fifty-five infantry fighting vehicles, including blade ifv, Lynx, AMX, and Ranger models.

Among them, the durability of the six blade ifv and twenty AMX infantry fighting vehicles all exceeded 15 million, while the remaining twenty-nine had durability under one million.

However, the blade ifv, along with five AMX and five Lynx infantry fighting vehicles, had already completed the ink crystal modification in the newly built Mo Jing Laboratory.

Now, the autocannons and heavy machine guns they were equipped with fired ammunition that dealt multiple times the damage.

The original single-shot damage of the blade ifv's twin autocannons had already reached 2,500 against light armor and 1,500 against heavy armor.

This meant that the blade ifv's 500 ready-to-fire shells could take out five enemy infantry fighting vehicles with full health of 250,000 at once, and could even destroy more than two main battle tanks.

And the anti-tank missiles equipped with ink crystal could now achieve a one-shot kill effect against main battle tanks.

However, limited by the military factory's production capacity, so far, Li Xiao had only obtained an average of two basic units of ink crystal ammunition per combat vehicle.

And this had already consumed more than half of the total ink crystal Li Xiao had brought back from the canyon base.

By this time, Li Xiao felt it was about time, even though there was still a huge gap of one to eight in the ratio of main battle equipment.

But don't forget that the nearly 10,000 members of the Xiaoyao Squad had over 100,000 military off-road vehicles that could be deployed.

This was a massive light armored group that could maximize the consumption of the enemy's main armored vehicle ammunition and durability before the main force of infantry fighting vehicles launched their attack.

In the last week of the fourth month since arriving in this world, Li Xiao decided to become the first squad in the entire Tian Yu region, or even the entire world, to conquer a second-tier city!

He opened the friend system and dialed Liu Nian's voice call.

"Liu Nian, notify all commanders and squad leaders to hold a pre-war mobilization meeting tonight!"

"Alright, Lao Xiao, I've been waiting for those words."

They had already started formulating the battle plan two days ago, but because they didn't have enough equipment on hand, Li Xiao had hesitated repeatedly and postponed it until today.

At 8:00 PM, over a hundred squad leaders and several commanders from the three cities of Zhaoming, Hengshui, and Xi City gathered in the squad headquarters meeting room.

At 8:30 PM, Li Xiao walked into the meeting room, and the previously lively meeting room immediately fell silent.

At this moment, Li Xiao stood on the podium, feeling a bit dazed. With the war imminent, looking at the squad's backbone in front of him, he didn't know when he, who used to struggle to speak coherently when meeting people, had started to be able to remain calm and composed in front of so many people.

"I won't waste any time; I believe everyone knows why I called you here tonight. That's right, it's to attack Weixing City!"

"Some people might ask, why go to war when we are living perfectly fine lives? Well, I'm telling you now, it's because the Black Hawk Empire has been frantically depleting our strength and savings, attempting to make us lose our guard by boiling the frog in warm water, and then suddenly wiping us all out!"

"That's one reason. The second reason is that the players around us have not stopped developing, and they are not just staying in their own little plots of land, waiting to die!"

"If we don't work hard, sooner or later we will be swallowed up by major forces that have been growing quietly!"

"I think you, who might have just been ordinary people in your previous lives, don't want to lose at the starting line again, right? Only by climbing upwards with all your might can you survive in this chaotic world! And become the masters of this world!"

After Li Xiao finished saying this, enthusiastic applause immediately erupted in the meeting room. His words brought a spirit of defiance to everyone's faces!

"Next, Yun Dongliu will report on the comparison of enemy and our forces!"

Li Xiao sat down after speaking, and Yun Dongliu, who was sitting beside him, stood up and opened his laptop.

"Weixing City is one of the sixty second-tier cities in Yun City Province of the Tianyu Republic, governing over forty third-tier small cities, including the three cities we hold, as well as multiple military bases and mines! It is currently garrisoned by the 129th Group Army of the Black Hawk Empire's Third Allied Army!"

Speaking of this, Yun Dongliu paused, glanced at the computer monitor, and looked at everyone again: "The 129th Group Army is a bona fide armored combined unit. As far as I know, although this unit's combat capability is not an elite force in the Black Hawk Empire, it is at a second-rate level!"

"Currently, the 129th Group Army has two mechanized infantry divisions, each with 30,000 men, both equipped with 200 Armored Personnel Carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, as well as a number of military off-road vehicles!"

"One combined armored division, equipped with 350 main battle tanks and 400 infantry fighting vehicles!"

"One artillery brigade, equipped with 80 self-propelled multi-barrel long-range rocket launchers!"

"One special operations battalion, number unknown, but estimated to be over 300 people."

"One Army Aviation Regiment, possessing 110 helicopters of various types, in addition to several logistics units! And this group army may receive reinforcements from the Black Hawk Air Force. Report complete!"

Yun Dongliu sat down after speaking. This intelligence was obtained after he spent two weeks investigating, and then synthesized with the intelligence of the Tianyu Defense Force.

The data of over a thousand armored vehicles was even larger than the one-to-eight ratio gap that Li Xiao had previously estimated.

Many members, upon hearing this configuration of the Black Hawk Empire, immediately felt a bit discouraged.