58: Sneak attack

Of course, in this situation, the health of the machine gunners and the two riflemen in the machine gun firing positions behind them was also dropping rapidly. Li Xiao, watching from a distance, had to keep adding health points.

Li Xiao also immediately replenished the durability of Ren Hao's troops' recently destroyed off-road vehicles to three vehicles with lower health.

Relying on this method of healing while fighting, Di Yun and the others actually held out for two or three minutes and remained firm.

"Commander Ren! There's something wrong with the enemy machine gunners too! They're like freaking BOSSes, taking hundreds of shots without blinking!"

"Holy crap! This is toxic!" Ren Hao grew anxious; by now, he had lost more than half of his forces.

Li Xiao looked through his binoculars at the troops whose expressions became more like they had eaten maggots as the fight went on, and he felt like laughing.

He replenished three to five thousand health points for the five firepower output positions every half minute, making them incredibly stable. Combined with over twenty riflemen specifically targeting the enemy soldiers who poked their heads out to weaken their firepower, sometimes they didn't even lose health, but actually gained some.

"Damn it! Forget about them for now. Everyone, speed up and charge out. Blow up his doghouse first!"

However, orders were easy to give but hard to execute. The off-road vehicles in front were indeed speeding up, but they were constantly hit by heavy machine gun fire. Once hit, they were paralyzed on the lane. The following cars weren't high-horsepower, thick-skinned armored vehicles, so they couldn't push them out of the way at all.

Seeing the convoy getting closer and closer to the enemy, yet not a single one could reach Di Yun intact, Ren Hao had to make a bold decision.

"Listen up! Groups four and five, abandon your vehicles immediately and enter the woods to advance toward Li Xiao's base!"

It must be said that Ren Hao's move finally had an effect. The remaining members of groups two and three stalled Di Yun's First Platoon on the road, while over three hundred men from groups four and five charged into the forest from the shoulder to escape the attack, quickly rushing toward Li Xiao's base.

As soon as they left, Zhao Feipeng's Reconnaissance Squad also rushed up from the rear in fierce tiger h9s, flanking Ren Hao's remaining troops on the highway from both sides.

Seeing his retreat cut off, Ren Hao decisively abandoned his vehicle and fled into the forest.

Seeing this, Li Xiao immediately ordered Di Yun to leave two military off-road vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns to continue clearing the remaining enemies with Zhao Feipeng, while everyone else returned to the base for defense.

Those on foot couldn't outrun four wheels. Di Yun rushed back to the base from the national highway heading north via the shortest shortcut. This path had been cleared by Yang Chao and his men two weeks ago specifically to facilitate the passage of off-road vehicles.

After meeting up with several players who had escaped, Ren Hao decided to stake everything on a single throw and launch an attack on Li Xiao's base. After all, they still had nearly three hundred men left and still held a numerical advantage.

But at this time, they were actually all afraid—afraid of encountering those immortal freaks from the highway again.

Returning to the base, Li Xiao actually felt a sense of relief. He was very fortunate that during the battle with Hellfire two days ago, the Night God Squad had basically used up all the captured rocket launchers and other long-range heavy firepower; otherwise, he really wouldn't have known how to defend.

Ren Hao arrived quickly. Over three hundred people were jumping around in the forest like rabbits. Yan Yizhou and two other snipers, who had long been in ambush, began their target practice from several hundred meters away.

Ren Hao's troops were being picked off one after another. He shouted angrily, "Where are our snipers! Where the hell did they die off to!"

In fact, to maximize firepower, Xuan Yu, the vice-captain of the Night God Squad, had only assigned them fewer than twenty snipers, more than half of whom had already died during the second group's charge.

The remaining five or six snipers were still trailing behind, but fortunately, they weren't too far away and soon caught up.

Thus, having double the numbers gave Ren Hao's sniper team an advantage. Single-shot and semi-auto snipers fired continuously, pinning Yan Yizhou and his team down so they couldn't even lift their heads.

But the health pools Yan Yizhou and the others had far exceeded those of these low-rank snipers. Risking several headshots, Yan Yizhou and Xiao He managed to out-tank and eliminate those few people.

However, by this time, Ren Hao had already rushed to within a hundred meters, and they lost the opportunity to continue their attack.

After crossing a small hill, the soldiers of the assault force finally saw a large base hidden deep in the forest. Looking at the base, which was as wide as two football fields, Ren Hao couldn't help but sigh inwardly—how could the gap between people be so large?

But the target was right before his eyes, and victory seemed not far off. Ren Hao roared, ordering the troops to charge directly.

However, as the troops rushed out of the forest and approached the base walls, muffled explosions kept going off around Ren Hao. Almost every muffled explosion was accompanied by the death of one or even two or three soldiers.

Almost none of those killed by the shockwaves of the muffled explosions had an intact corpse.

"What's going on!"

"Boss! They've planted landmines on the only path! Our men are hitting mines one after another; dozens are already dead!"

Ren Hao said irritably, "Damn it! How does this Li Xiao have everything!"

Of course, more lucky troops still made it through the minefield, but what awaited them was the defensive line meticulously arranged by Yang Chao.

A platoon of soldiers deployed, and five military off-road vehicles equipped with light and heavy machine guns flanked them from the left of their line of attack. Di Yun's three vehicles blocked their right side, immediately forming a three-sided pincer attack!

Facing such frantic firepower, Ren Hao grew desperate. He ordered all troops to attack the South Gate of the base with him, but the twenty or so soldiers blocking the way were like door gods; no matter how they were hit, no one fell.

Meanwhile, his own men were falling like wheat under the sweeping fire from three sides.

Li Xiao sat in the second floor of the command center, in a great mood as he watched the battle outside the South Gate.

He added the remaining 60,000 health points from before, plus the 70,000-plus points from the 600 or so Night God Troops just killed, to the Second Platoon.

This was equivalent to each soldier having forty to fifty times the health of the enemy, plus the protection of the South Gate's cover and the suppression from the flanking fire.

Ren Hao's troops couldn't even break into the hundred-meter range.

"How is this possible! How is this possible! How is this possible!"

Ren Hao's impotent rage—this sense of weakness from being defeated in such a bizarre way made him feel the full malice of this world for the first and last time.

Bang!

The three members of Yan Yizhou's sniper team fired simultaneously, hitting the commander's vital points in the head and chest. Since he had already been hit by stray bullets three or four times before, these three bullets directly emptied his remaining 200-plus health points.

Ten minutes later, Zhao Feipeng returned to the base. He had already destroyed all the dozens of vehicles Ren Hao had abandoned on the road and annihilated all the enemies.

To Li Xiao, these captured civilian vehicles were useless; only the extracted durability points were what he liked most.

"The battle here is over, so the battle over there can begin!"

Li Xiao opened the squad command channel: "Liu Nian, Yun Dongliu, Qin Luming, take your Combat Teams and immediately launch attacks on all the Night God Squad's resource points!"