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Chapter 2478 Death Highway (First Update, Please Subscribe)
A series of loud explosions followed. The violent blasts instantly illuminated the dark valley!
To avoid being detected by reconnaissance aircraft, the Syrian 2nd Armored Brigade did not turn on its headlights but instead used infrared headlights. When the flames from the explosions illuminated the valley, they were exposed.

After all, such a long snake formation is indeed very conspicuous.

In fact, they had already been exposed. After all, under a thermal imaging camera, an infrared headlight is like turning on a flashlight in the dark, leaving no possibility of hiding.

"what's going on?"

Before Brigade Commander Muhammad could figure out where the attack was coming from, the airstrikes escalated further, with Avenger drones, controlled by drone pilots, attacking their air defense systems with 70mm Sea Serpent rockets.

Missile launchers were reduced to scrap metal in the violent explosions, and the intense explosions of the missiles themselves illuminated the entire valley.

The Sea Serpent rocket launched by the Avenger drone is not a traditional unguided rocket. Three years ago, during the Chunlu Campaign, the Reaper drone used the Hellhound anti-tank missile to strike targets. Although it was highly accurate, it was too expensive and heavy. The military urgently needed to reduce the cost of precision-guided munitions and reduce collateral damage when attacking targets.

To this end, it makes full use of the huge number of widely used "Sea Serpent" 70mm rockets, installing a guidance component in the middle of the missile body. This guidance component uses laser semi-active guidance and has four wings to control the direction. The warhead, fuse and rocket engine of the "Hydra" can be retained, which greatly enhances the combat effectiveness of the tens of thousands of "Hydra" air-to-ground rockets in the stockpile.

These precision-guided air-to-air rockets are lightweight, and even the Avenger drone can carry two 7-launcher rockets. These launchers, with four on top and three on the bottom, are trapezoidal in shape and even incorporate stealth design.

Although this was its first deployment on the battlefield, its accuracy was no less than that of the expensive Hellhound anti-tank missile. In just a few minutes, the air defense missile battalion under the 2nd Armored Brigade was completely destroyed.

The radar vehicle and missile launcher were reduced to scrap metal in the explosion. Meanwhile, the 2nd Armored Brigade's Shilehe self-propelled anti-aircraft guns sprayed bullets into the air, instantly filling the valley with the trails of tracer rounds fired from the anti-aircraft guns. The red bullets drifted helplessly into the sky, utterly meaningless.

In fact, even when Syrian soldiers were firing shells into the air, they knew it was a blind firing because... the fire control radar of the self-propelled anti-aircraft guns did not react at all.

So they were just blindly firing into the air, simply to give an explanation, to tell everyone, "Look, at least I fought back."

Hundreds of kilometers away at sea, Commander Gu Changchuan, in the command bridge, clearly watched the torrent of steel below and the burning valley through real-time footage transmitted by a drone, a smile playing on his lips.

"The air defense system of Syria's 2nd Armored Brigade has been completely destroyed!"

"Target: the vanguard tank force of the Syrian 2nd Armored Brigade. Free attack."

He calmly issued the order, as if watching a trivial exercise. Major General Woodwater and the others stared wide-eyed at the scene with astonished expressions.

Is this all... is this their war?

They not only stared wide-eyed, but also gaped open. What did they see?
It was a form of warfare that was completely beyond their imagination.

This method of visually observing the front lines through a screen had already overturned their understanding of command, but what about now? What are they seeing on the screen?
It was a revolutionary form of warfare.

It completely overturned their understanding of warfare.

The valley had already begun to burn. After the air defense system was destroyed, the tanks and armored vehicles that were marching in the valley became the targets of the drones.

The drone pilots sat inside the base command vehicle, their fingers precisely operating the control stick. The screen in front of them displayed images captured by the drone's camera, clearly showing every tank and armored vehicle in the valley.

"Unit 1 has locked onto the target. Rocket launch."

"Unit 2 has completed bombing; laser-guided bomb has hit."

"Unit 3 has confirmed the destruction of the enemy's anti-aircraft vehicle."

Over the communication channel, the drivers' voices were calm and efficient.

What did the coalition commanders on the "Shenshan" command ship see?
The target on the screen is moving, and as the blue circle aims at it, there is a violent explosion.

The target was thus eliminated!

There was no fierce fighting, no soldiers charging, and no pilots risking bombardment. What was it like?

It's all about the calm operation of drone pilots and the continuous launch of missiles and rockets.

With a series of commands, the drone swarm, like hungry vultures, launched a fierce attack on the convoy below. Hellhound missiles, trailing white plumes of flame, swooped down, accurately hitting the tank turrets and engine compartments; laser-guided rockets, like meteors falling from the sky, exploded among the armored vehicles, sending flames soaring into the sky.

The entire valley was set ablaze!

There was no whistling of artillery shells, no roar of fighter jets swooping down, only the deafening explosions of missiles and the grating sound of steel twisting. The Syrian army convoy was instantly thrown into chaos. Tanks were destroyed and burst into flames, armored vehicles were overturned like paper, trucks exploded in a chain reaction, and cargo and the bodies of soldiers were thrown into the air.

None of this was in accordance with the way wars were conducted. Not only the Syrian army, but even the Soviet military advisors were bewildered by this kind of war, even though they had discovered drones during the Xuan Loc campaign in Vietnam and were already aware of the arrival of drone warfare.

But I never expected it to be so... fierce!
Amid calls for help from ground troops, a swarm of MiG fighters also arrived on the battlefield, but their outdated radars were completely unable to detect the drones in the air.

"Where are they? Who are they?" Colonel Mohammed roared in the command center, trying to direct the convoy to disperse. But the valley was narrow, and the convoy was packed together, making it impossible to spread out. The tanks and armored vehicles were crammed together, becoming perfect targets for drones.

A missile struck his armored command vehicle precisely, sending it flying and instantly engulfing the command compartment in flames. Colonel Muhammad didn't even have time to issue his final command before he and the vehicle were reduced to ashes.

In the valley, smoke filled the air and flames soared into the sky.

The drone swarm, like the Grim Reaper reaping lives, hovered in the sky, continuously using rockets to finish off the remaining vehicles.

Thick smoke billowed along the road in the valley. Although the smoke and flames obscured visibility, they did not significantly affect the thermal imager.

Faced with missiles raining down from the sky, Syrian soldiers jumped out of their vehicles to escape; compared to these personnel targets, the drones prioritized the vehicles.

Missiles and rockets fell silently, then exploded into bursts of flame.

The Syrian soldiers who had fled into the roadside woods looked up at the sky with terrified eyes, seeing only the black night sky.

There was nothing in the night sky.

Only death moved through the thick smoke, while missiles and rockets continued to fall.

The once-highway has become a road of death—hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed, and the Syrian army's most elite 2nd Armored Brigade was annihilated without even seeing what the enemy looked like.

Half an hour later, General Gu Changchuan stood there. In fact, everyone was standing there, inside the command bridge.

These generals from various countries had solemn, even bewildered, gazes.

What did they see?
What did I witness?
No one could speak.

However, the burning valley that can be clearly seen on the screen, the burning flames and billowing smoke do not represent the annihilation of the Syrian army, but rather the arrival of a new era!
The drone swarm, having completed its attack mission, has begun its return journey, leaving behind a devastated battlefield.

Thick smoke billowed from the valley, obscuring the sky and the sun.

Everywhere were burning vehicle wrecks, and the scorched black earth was riddled with bullet holes and corpses. The surviving Syrian soldiers hid behind rocks and in the forest, their faces filled with fear and unease.

They were covered in blood, their clothes were tattered, and they were terrified.

They stared blankly and helplessly at the sky, their eyes filled with fear and confusion.

They didn't know where the attack came from, or what the enemy looked like.

Without seeing any fighter jets or hearing any alarms, death arrived silently.

Everything was beyond their imagination. Death descended silently, like a messenger from hell, taking the lives of their comrades, destroying their equipment, and shattering all their will to resist.

A young soldier slumped to the ground, clutching his head, his body trembling uncontrollably.

He witnessed his comrades being blown to pieces by missiles, and saw tanks reduced to scrap metal in the flames. Even now, the deafening roar of the explosions and the screams of his comrades still echo in his ears. He looked up at the starry sky, his eyes filled with despair.

Inside the bridge of the command ship "Shenshan", Admiral Gu Changchuan looked at the death highway on the live screen, and a cold smile once again appeared on his lips.

"This is the consequence of provoking the coalition forces."

He turned to the chief of staff and said:
"Notify the follow-up troops to proceed according to the original plan. The situation in Lebanon is now in our hands."

The Mediterranean night breeze swept across the aircraft carrier's deck, carrying the smell of gunpowder.

The drone swarm returned to base one after another, their losses in this drone attack being zero. This silent battle became a permanent nightmare for the Syrian army, and it was also the first time the world was shown the changes brought about by drones in modern warfare.

At least for the officers from various countries aboard the "Shenshan" command ship, they truly felt this unprecedented change.

The war has been changed!

Commander Gu Changchuan stood on the ship's bridge, gazing towards Lebanon in the distance. What he saw was not a battlefield, but a revolution!
Having experienced World War II, he knew that this was just the beginning.

On the battlefields of the future, drones will dominate, and those armies still stuck in traditional warfare thinking will eventually be eliminated by the times.

"War..." In the darkness of the night, his eyes gleamed with a resolute and ruthless light.

(End of this chapter)