104: Chapter 104 A Pincer Attack from North and South! The Coordination Between the Iron Wall and the North Star

The eighth round of fragmentation grenade detonated on top of the southern lv.3 fortress's wall.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

A rain of metal fragments poured down, wiping out three gun emplacement lights on the right side of the wall.

The rotation mechanisms of two cannons were jammed by the fragments.

The fortress reacted as quickly as the one in the north.

The remaining twelve 105mm cannon turned within three seconds toward the direction from which Polaris was charging.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

Four 105mm cannon shells flew in from one kilometer away.

Lu Chen drove in a serpentine pattern at a speed of eighty-five kilometers per hour.

All four missed.

The closest one landed six meters to the right.

Shrapnel hit the angled anti-ballistic armor and ricocheted, causing the vehicle body to sway.

"City Lord!"

"Normal."

Polaris did not stop and swept past the right side of the fortress.

It did not attack the wall.

It did not look for weak points.

Lu Chen's purpose this time was to stall.

Polaris circled the fortress at a speed of eighty-five kilometers per hour, maintaining a distance of one kilometer, right at the maximum range of the 105mm cannon.

The fortress's turrets tracked it desperately.

Every shot fired missed by twenty or thirty meters.

With serpentine maneuvering at eighty-five kilometers per hour from one kilometer away, the hit rate of the 105mm cannon approached zero.

But the fortress commander had to keep firing; Polaris was circling right within range.

They had to fire.

But when they fired, they could not hit.

Every time a shell flew out from the wall, the ammunition magazine had one less.

"City Lord, why are we circling?" Lin Wan's voice came from the planting area.

"Waiting for someone."

"Waiting for whom?"

"Waiting for iron wall."

Twelve minutes later.

On the radar screen, the light cluster of iron wall was rapidly approaching from the northeast.

Distance to the southern lv.3 fortress: four kilometers.

Distance to Polaris: three kilometers.

It appeared within the radar's precise detection range simultaneously.

"Battalion Commander Zhao."

"I see it!" Zhao Tiezhu's voice was rough, revealing excitement.

"One hundred and ten meters long! Fourteen cannons! It is not much bigger than my iron wall!"

"You block it from the front, and I will dismantle it from the flank."

"Received! iron wall has no problem with frontal pressure! The 105mm cannon cannot penetrate my wall from three hundred meters away!"

"Don't be careless, it might have hidden cannons larger than 105mm."

"Hidden cannons?"

"Iron Spine from the northern one told me he had four 150mm heavy cannons, which were not recorded in the intelligence."

Zhao Tiezhu paused for a second.

"Understood, I will be careful."

The silhouette of iron wall appeared in the twilight.

The nearly hundred-meter-long steel behemoth rolled over from the northeast, and the buzzing sound of the engine's supercharger could be heard from three kilometers away.

The muzzle lights of the ten 105mm main cannons formed a line of fire in the darkness.

Zhao Tiezhu had no nonsense.

iron wall charged directly toward the front of the southern lv.3 fortress.

Two lv.3 Mobile Citys faced off on the ice of the Rustwind Wasteland.

Two kilometers apart.

iron wall fired first.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

Ten 105mm cannon fired in a salvo.

Ten armor-piercing shells trailed with tails of fire flew toward the front wall of the southern lv.3 fortress.

Two seconds later, it hit.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

Five spots of sparks and flying shrapnel appeared on the front wall of the southern lv.3 fortress.

But no penetration was seen.

Same level wall, same level artillery, the penetration rate at a distance of two kilometers was close to zero.

The southern lv.3 fortress's counterattack came.

Twelve 105mm cannon fired at iron wall in a salvo.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

The shells smashed dense sparks onto the front wall of iron wall.

"Battalion Commander Zhao!"

"It is fine! It ricocheted! It all ricocheted!" Zhao Tiezhu laughed out loud.

"A 105mm hitting my wall from two kilometers away is like tickling!"

lv.3 fortress versus lv.3 fortress frontal bombardment, unable to penetrate each other at a distance of two kilometers, is the same principle as Ice Thorn's lv.4 versus the Black Rock City-State's lv.4.

Distance is key.

The southern lv.3 fortress began to accelerate.

The speed increased from eighteen to twenty.

The goal was clear: shorten the distance and increase the penetration rate.

Zhao Tiezhu was also accelerating.

iron wall met it head-on.

Two hundred-meter-long steel behemoths traveled toward each other on the ice.

The distance was shortening.

Two kilometers.

One point eight kilometers.

One point five kilometers.

The penetration rate began to rise.

Bang!

A 105mm cannon shell pierced through the outer armor of iron wall's front wall.

"The first shot pierced the outer layer!" Zhao Tiezhu was not panicked at all.

"The ribs held it!"

At the same time, iron wall's ten cannons also pierced an outer layer of the southern lv.3 fortress.

Mutual penetration.

The war of attrition began.

But Lu Chen absolutely did not intend to let this turn into a war of attrition.

iron wall would take the front.

He would dismantle it from the side.

Polaris cut in at high speed from the right flank of the southern lv.3 fortress at a speed of eighty-five kilometers per hour.

The ninth round of fragmentation grenade was loaded.

[Consumed 50 Truth Points. fragmentation grenade: 12 rounds pre-loaded for the ninth round. Current balance: 3100 points.]

Twelve fragmentation grenades aimed at the gun emplacement group on the right wall of the fortress.

Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft!

The fragmentation grenades detonated on top of the wall.

The observation equipment of the four cannons on the right side was covered by fragments.

Blinding.

Within the blinding window, Lu Chen aimed the Heavy Machine Gun at the exposed area of the drive shaft at the bottom of the right wall.

The drive shaft on the right was the same model as the one in the north.

Two hundred rounds fired in succession.

Sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss!

The bullets hit the bearing housing of the drive shaft.

The protective cover of the bearing housing was newer than the one in the north.

It did not penetrate.

The bullets made dense dents on the protective cover, but no penetration was seen.

"City Lord, it did not penetrate!" Lin Wan shouted.

"I saw it."

Lu Chen did not linger, and Polaris swept past the right side.

The fortress's cannon muzzles chased over.

Bang, bang, bang!

Three 105mm cannon shells detonated behind Polaris.

All missed.

"Battalion Commander Zhao, its chassis protection is better than the one in the north."

"Then where are you hitting it from?"

"The back."

Lu Chen circled Polaris from the right side to the rear.

The exposed area of the exhaust system at the rear.

The same exhaust port as the one in the north.

But the protective cover was thicker.

The fragmentation grenade could not penetrate this thickness.

It needed the Harpoon Cannon.

Lu Chen placed the crosshairs in the center of the protective cover of the rear exhaust port.

Distance of one hundred and fifty meters.

His index finger pressed the fire button.

Bang!

The harpoon flew out.

It hit the center of the protective cover.

It embedded.

Delayed fuse.

Boom!

The implosion tore a crack in the middle of the protective cover.

The exhaust port was half exposed.

"City Lord! It is half open!"

"One more shot."

"System, recast one harpoon."

[Consumed 10 Truth Points. Harpoon Cannon: 4 / 4. Current balance: 3090 points.]

The second harpoon aimed at the other half of the exhaust port's protective cover.

Bang!

Hit.

Boom!

The protective cover was completely blown open.

The exhaust port was completely exposed.

The Heavy Machine Gun aimed at the exhaust port.

Three hundred rounds fired in succession.

Sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss, sss!

The bullets poured into the exhaust pipe line.

The exact same operation as the one in the north.

The sound of the fortress engine changed.

From a steady roar to an intermittent gasp.

"Battalion Commander Zhao, its engine is losing speed!"

"I see it! It has slowed down! The speed dropped from twenty to twelve!"

After the exhaust pipe line was blocked, the engine output dropped sharply.

The reaction was exactly the same as the one in the north.

"Keep bombarding the front!"

"Received!"

iron wall's ten cannons continued to pour firepower on the front.

The distance had already shortened to one kilometer.

The penetration rate jumped from one percent to five percent.

iron wall's front wall was pierced in three places, and the southern lv.3 fortress was pierced in four places.

iron wall had a slight upper hand in the war of attrition.

But what was truly fatal was that Polaris was behind it, dismantling its heart one shot at a time.