108: Chapter 108 Six Tons of Explosives Stuffed into the Ram! This Madman Wants to Die Together

The continuous three-sided pincer attack had plunged the Ice Thorn Lv.4 Main City into unprecedented distress.

Concentrated fire on the front had completely crippled the fire suppression system in the area three degrees to the left.

The outer layer of the city wall in that section had peeled away extensively under continuous hits, leaving the exposed second-layer rib structure covered in debris and scorched marks.

Flames licked outward from the bullet holes that had pierced through. Two of the fire suppression system's cooling water pipes had snapped, and the water jets turned into icicles hanging from the wall in the sub-zero air.

On the left flank, Lu Chen piloted the Polaris for its fourth high-speed strafing run.

The fourteenth round of fragmentation grenade detonated on the left city wall.

The effective firepower on the left flank dropped from twelve guns to seven.

On the right flank, Zhao Tiezhu's iron wall maintained a distance of one kilometer, firing continuously.

Seven of the fifteen guns on the right flank were diverted to track the strafing trajectory of the Polaris.

Only eight remained aimed at the iron wall.

Eight 105mm guns hitting the wall of the iron wall from a kilometer away was no different from scratching an itch.

Zhao Tiezhu's ten guns kept firing.

Although they couldn't pierce the Lv.4 city wall, the vibrations from every shot were accumulating.

The effect of the three-sided pincer attack fully manifested after twenty minutes.

Four penetrative damages appeared on the front wall of the Ice Thorn Lv.4 Main City.

One of them, in the area three degrees to the left, had pierced through three layers of armor, striking directly into the internal cabin structure of the city wall.

Ice Thorn's voice rang out over the public channel of the communicator, his speech rate twice as fast as before, his tone so high-pitched it was grating to the ears.

"Lin Xiao! You called two dogs to bite me!"

Lin Xiao's booming voice smashed back.

"You called two Lv.3 Fortress to flank me, so what if I called two helpers?"

"Your two helpers are one Lv.3 Fortress tin can! And one Lv.2 toy car!"

Ice Thorn's laughter welled up from the bottom of the frequency, sharp to the point of distortion.

"Lv.2! A Lv.2 little car setting off firecrackers on my wall! You think you can win like this?"

"Your city wall has four holes in the front." Lin Xiao lowered his voice.

"What are four holes?" Ice Thorn's speech rate quickened another notch.

"My city wall is century-old material! The best forged alloy in the Roaring Ice Abyss! Iron Crown used his Lv.5 to grind me for six days and only managed to crack it twice! Your hundred broken guns would need another hour to pierce my core defensive wall!"

"Then we'll hit it for an hour."

"You don't have an hour!"

Ice Thorn's voice cracked at its peak.

"Because I'm going to charge over right now!"

On the radar screen, the light cluster of the Ice Thorn Lv.4 Main City began to accelerate.

Speed jumped from eight to twelve. Fifteen. Eighteen. Twenty.

The kilometer-long steel giant city was accelerating.

Ice Thorn charged at full speed toward the Black Rock City-State.

"He's accelerating!" Zhou Yuan's voice came through the communicator.

"Speed went straight from eight to twenty! Frontal distance is seven kilometers! At a speed of twenty, covering seven kilometers will take twenty-one minutes!"

"He's going to ram us!"

Lin Xiao's voice dropped to its lowest.

"Brother Lu Chen, Ice Thorn has given up on the artillery duel; he's going to charge."

"I see it."

Lu Chen stared at the frantically accelerating light cluster on the radar screen.

Speed twenty-two. Twenty-five.

A Lv.4 City-State level Mobile City was charging at full speed of twenty-five toward another Lv.4.

The larger the carrier, the longer it takes to accelerate to high speed, but once it reaches this speed, its inertia is an unstoppable iron mountain.

"What is he doing?"

"He's going to ram directly into us." Lin Xiao's voice tightened.

"Two Lv.4s colliding head-on? Is he crazy? The impact will cause both city walls to collapse simultaneously!"

"He doesn't care about his own city wall at all."

Lu Chen's speech rate remained unchanged.

"He was crushed by the Iron Hoof Legion once in six days."

"He knows what it feels like to be crushed."

"Now he wants to return that feeling to you."

Ice Thorn's voice came over the communicator. On the public channel.

The sharpness faded, becoming lower, becoming heavier.

A man who had laughed enough revealed his trump card.

"Lin Xiao, do you want to know what my six-ton explosive battering ram looks like?"

All channels on the communicator went silent simultaneously.

"Six tons of explosives." Ice Thorn spat out, word by word.

"Installed inside the battering ram on the front of my city wall."

"The moment we collide, six tons of explosives will detonate simultaneously."

"Your city wall, my city wall, will all turn into fragments."

When he spat out the last five words, even the background noise in the communicator vanished.

"We all die together."

Lu Chen's fingers paused on the steering wheel.

Six tons of explosives. Installed in the front battering ram. A suicide ramming. Two Lv.4s mutually destroyed.

"He's crazy!" Zhao Tiezhu's rough voice roared out from the communicator.

"He's really crazy!"

"He's not crazy." Lu Chen's voice was steady.

"He has no way out."

"The two Lv.3 Fortress have been stopped, the front wall has four holes, and the fire suppression system is half crippled."

"If he keeps fighting, he'll just be ground to death by the three-sided pincer attack."

"So he's going to charge over and die together with the Black Rock City-State."

"That way, even if he dies, you won't survive when the Iron Hoof Legion arrives."

The communicator went silent for two seconds. Lin Xiao's voice rang out.

"Emergency turn for the whole city!"

The main engine of the Black Rock City-State let out a deafening roar.

The eight-hundred-meter-long steel giant city began to change direction.

But the turning speed of a Lv.4 City-State is extremely slow.

The 150-meter-high city wall rotated slowly on the ice, the main engine pouring all power into the steering system.

Turning takes time. Ice Thorn wouldn't give him time.

The Ice Thorn Lv.4 Main City charged at full speed of twenty-five.

Six kilometers away. At a speed of twenty-five, covering six kilometers takes fourteen minutes.

The Black Rock City-State needs at least five minutes to complete the turn.

After turning, it still needs to accelerate to escape.

The cruising speed of a Lv.4 City-State is ten to fifteen. Slower than Ice Thorn's twenty-five. Can't run away.

"City Lord Lin Xiao!"

"I'm thinking of a way!"

"You can't run away."

"I know!" Lin Xiao's voice squeezed out from between his teeth.

"But I must get The City-State moving! If I'm stationary when it rams, the impact force will be transmitted 100% to the city wall!"

"But if I'm also moving, even if it's only at a speed of five, the relative speed of the impact drops from twenty-five to twenty!"

"The difference between twenty and twenty-five could be the difference between the wall shattering and the wall cracking!"

Lu Chen completed the calculation within three seconds.

"Battalion Commander Zhao! iron wall, charge at full speed toward the right flank of the Ice Thorn Main City! Concentrate fire from all ten guns on his right transmission shaft area!"

"Transmission shaft?" Zhao Tiezhu's rough voice went up half a pitch.

"The Lv.4 transmission shaft is on both sides of the chassis, similar to the Lv.3 Fortress structure but thicker! Your 105mm cannot pierce his transmission shaft protective cover! But continuous hits on the same spot can deform the protective cover!"

"And then after it deforms?"

"The deformed protective cover will jam the rotation of the transmission shaft, increasing friction!"

"Make him run slower?"

"Yes! Even if it makes him one kilometer per hour slower, those extra dozens of seconds are the time difference needed for The City-State to complete the turn!"

"Received! iron wall, full speed ahead!"

The iron wall charged toward the right flank of the Ice Thorn Main City at a speed of thirty.

The Polaris approached at full speed from the left flank simultaneously.

Lu Chen had no intention of hitting the transmission shaft; his target was the engine.

The Lv.4 engine is in the rear, and the exhaust system is a common weakness.

The Lv.3 Fortress to the north and the Lv.3 Fortress to the south both died the same way: exhaust pipes blocked, engine speed dropped.

The Lv.4 exhaust system is three times thicker than the Lv.3 Fortress.

The Heavy Machine Gun bullets cannot block such thick pipes.

But a fragmentation grenade detonating inside the exhaust port can.

Metal fragments will ricochet and shatter inside the pipes, blocking the entire exhaust system.

The problem is that the rear wall of the Lv.4 is thinner than the front, but much thicker than the rear of the Lv.3 Fortress.

The protective cover of the exhaust port is heavy armored steel.

Can a harpoon blast it open?

Not sure. But must try.