101: Chapter 101 Fragmentation Grenades Pierce a Huge Hole! Lv.3 The Fortress's Death Knell

Twelve fragmentation grenades were ejected from the launch tubes on both sides.

This time, they did not detonate on top of the city wall.

Lu Chen lowered the height-setting fuse parameters by three meters. The twelve fragmentation grenades detonated simultaneously two meters directly in front of the four-meter-wide hole, and metal fragments poured into that penetrating black hole in a fan-shaped angle.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

The fragments struck the load-bearing structures inside the city wall, hit the broken steam pipes, and struck the already skewed reinforcement ribs.

The sound came out from the hole, so dense it was no different from pouring steel balls into an iron bucket.

"City Lord! It's catching fire inside!"

Lin Wan's voice came from the planting area.

He saw it through the periscope.

Open flames appeared inside the hole.

The fragmentation grenades ignited the lubricating grease in the leaking steam pipes, and the flames spread along the broken pipes into the interior of the city wall.

It wasn't big, but it was enough to create chaos.

Polaris swept past the front of the fortress at a speed of 85 kilometers per hour from the left, circling toward the rear.

The turrets on top of the city wall were desperately tracking it.

The three 105mm cannon that could still rotate opened fire as Polaris passed the front.

Bang, bang, bang!

Three shells detonated one after another within a range of fifteen to thirty meters around the vehicle body.

All missed.

With the 85 km/h serpentine maneuver and the city wall top having been washed by three rounds of fragmentation grenades, the effective firepower dropped from twenty guns to twelve, and then from twelve to the nine that could still rotate normally now.

The hit rate was pitifully low.

He circled to the rear.

Black smoke was still coming out of the exhaust vent.

The engine sound changed from a clattering noise to a low, intermittent metallic grinding sound.

After the exhaust pipe was clogged by three hundred bullet heads, the engine's backpressure problem began to deteriorate rapidly.

The fortress's speed dropped from five kilometers to three kilometers.

Three kilometers. The speed of a person walking slowly.

"Commander Tieji."

He switched the communicator frequency to that unfamiliar band.

The other end of the communicator was silent for three seconds.

Iron Spine's voice came through, two tones deeper than before.

"What else do you have to say?"

"Your engine is about to stop."

"I heard it."

"There is a four-meter-wide penetrating structural damage on the left side of your city wall, four load-bearing ribs are broken, and the middle section of the wall is indented inward by half a meter."

"I saw it too."

"Your effective firepower has dropped from twenty guns to nine."

Iron Spine did not reply.

"Did the maintenance team plug that hole?"

The sound of Iron Spine exhaling forcefully came through the communicator.

"They didn't."

"Why?"

"Because you poured fragmentation grenades into the hole, and two of my three maintenance workers were injured by the fragments."

"Then there is only one maintenance worker left."

"One maintenance worker cannot plug a four-meter hole."

This City Lord steered Polaris from the rear to the right side, and then circled from the right to the front.

He circled a full lap.

The fortress's turrets couldn't keep up with him.

When turning from the rear to the right, the turrets were still pointing at the rear.

When turning from the right to the front, the turrets had only just turned to the right.

Always fifteen seconds slow.

"Commander Tieji."

"What?"

"You can choose to stop the vehicle now."

The other end of the communicator was silent for five seconds.

"What do you mean?"

"Stop the vehicle, kill the engine, open the hatch, and bring all your people out."

"You want me to surrender?"

"I want you to live."

Iron Spine's laughter came from the communicator.

It was completely devoid of joy or mockery. It was the bitterness squeezed out from the depths of his throat after being stifled for a long time.

"Kid, do you know how Ice Thorn deals with deserters?"

"I don't know."

"Flayed alive."

The communicator was silent for a beat.

"So even if you stop, you won't surrender." Lu Chen's speaking speed didn't change.

"Correct."

"Then let's keep fighting."

He aimed the front of the vehicle at the four-meter-wide hole in the left city wall.

Two hundred and fifty meters away.

The Heavy Machine Gun turret rotated to the front.

The automatic target locking assistance system locked the crosshairs onto that skewed load-bearing rib visible inside the hole.

A hundred-round burst.

Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp!

All the bullet heads poured into the hole.

The bullet heads striking the load-bearing rib shattered that metal beam, which was already skewed at forty-five degrees.

The rib broke.

The fifth one.

The indentation in the middle section of the city wall went from half a meter to seventy centimeters.

The entire middle section of the left city wall began to emit a continuous metallic groaning sound.

That was the precursor to structural fatigue about to turn into structural collapse.

"City Lord! The city wall is collapsing!"

Lin Wan's voice revealed excitement.

He saw it.

The indentation of the middle section of the city wall showed no signs of stopping.

It continued to indent inward.

It was caving in every second.

The fortress's own weight was doing the work for him.

After four load-bearing ribs broke, the load at this position on the city wall lost its support point, and the weight of the dozen-meter-high armor plates and gun positions above pressed entirely onto the break.

Gravity was dismantling this fortress for him.

"Second harpoon."

This City Lord placed the crosshairs on the edge of the armor plate at the top edge of the hole.

Not shooting at the bottom.

Shooting at the top.

The armor plate above was still holding up.

If the connection points above were also blown off, the entire dozen-meter-high armor plate in the middle section of the city wall would lose its support and collapse inward.

Two hundred meters away.

His index finger pressed the launch button.

Bang!

The harpoon flew out.

It hit the welding line between the armor plate on the top edge of the hole and the intact area above.

Embedded.

Delayed fuse.

Three.

Two.

One.

Boom!