The most ruthless person in the apocalypse

Chapter 1159 Fear Stems from Insufficient Firepower
Without hesitation, they put the remote-controlled bomb to the middle of the gate with some tape, and everyone drove out of the mountainside and came to the reservoir, looking at it from a distance of nearly 100 meters.

The ordinary combat personnel craned their necks to look inside, their eyes filled with curiosity. They believed that the person in charge was being so cautious, so the bomb must be something special, but it was still rather small. Could it really blow open that heavy door?

"Okay, everyone hide behind the car, three, two, one, BOOM!"

Qi Xiaoshuai acted decisively; once everyone had taken cover, he pressed the detonation button.

Boom!

The sound wasn't loud, but due to the terrain, it still echoed loudly.

At the beginning of the explosion, a bright red flash disappears in an instant. This is a traditional explosive used to detonate the primordial vapors. The amount is small and the power is weak. It can only fly a stainless steel basin four or five meters away, which is not as powerful as a firecracker.

Immediately afterwards, pale purple bubbles appeared in the middle of the gate, with a strange and bewitching brilliance, giving people a sense of science fiction, and subconsciously making them feel that this thing should not belong to Earth!

Just as planned, the purple bubbles covered an area only about one meter in diameter and did not damage the mountain at all!

"This color... what is it made of?"

"No, it's quite beautiful."

"I, you... Look, it really looks like a hole has been made in the door! How, how did they do that?!"

As the discussion unfolded, the purple bubble dissipated, and a beam of light shone on the door, revealing a dark hole in everyone's eyes. Faint smoke drifted around, and the perfectly round shape sent shivers down the spines of the combatants who were unaware of what was happening.

I've never seen such a "civilized" explosion. There were no flying rocks or dust, it was as if a demonic hand reached out from another world and used a compass to dig a piece out of this world!
Shocking!

The ordinary combat personnel's gaze towards Qi Xiaoshuai and Pang Dakun changed. They were not weak, had special abilities, and were equipped with strange combat gear. Although they had become members of Tianma Island, they seemed to know far too little about Tianma Island!
So this is the foundation of the core members?

The secrets that could be seen by ordinary combat personnel were all authorized by Zhang Su. Qincheng had already completed unification and even recruited survivors from the Liao Peninsula. It was necessary to gradually demonstrate its strength to the camp members!
A deliberate demonstration would feel contrived; a subtle, unintentional revelation is what makes it seem more profound and enigmatic.

call……

Although there was no complete mess after the explosion, a gust of wind still blew out from the door, carrying a complex smell, a mixture of metal and oil, full of the atmosphere of old industry.

Qi Xiaoshuai led everyone to wait a moment. After the explosion, there was extreme silence, as if the whole world had fallen silent.

A little over a minute later, the mountain was still the same mountain, with nothing unusual happening. He got into the car and ordered them to set off, driving the car back to the entrance of the armory.

Everyone got off the bus and came to the thick gate. They didn't have time to pay attention to the situation inside the armory. They all stared at the hole in the gate, which was about one meter in diameter, and looked at each other in bewilderment.

The smooth cut surface was just like a laser cutter. Someone mustered up the courage to touch it. It was silky smooth and cool, and there was no tingling or rough feeling at all.

Cutting and polishing, done in an instant!

"Oh yeah, the cross-section is out, and the internal structure is clearly visible."

Pang Dakun was more concerned with the mechanical structure of the gate.

The entire gate is composed of two 10-centimeter-thick metal plates with a 7-8-centimeter-thick interlayer in the middle, containing a complex mechanical structure.

The cross-section revealed the severed electrical circuitry, confirming our earlier suspicion that the door required a power system to open. "Da Kun, you take your time studying it. I can't wait any longer, I'm going in to take a look!"

Qi Xiaoshuai nimbly somersaulted through the hole into the armory. A metallic liquid and an indescribable smell filled the air. He shone his flashlight inside and was shocked by what he saw.

"My goodness... so many tanks?"

As the light shone through, rows of steel behemoths lay quietly inside the mountain. The armory was very spacious, with rows of display shelves and storage boxes deep inside!
"This is not a tank."

Meng Changwei also climbed over and stood next to Qi Xiaoshuai, exclaiming, "I never expected there to be such a vast world inside this mountain!"

"Hmm, there should have been a cave originally, and it was later repaired to become what it is now. Hey, Old Meng, it has tracks and a cannon, isn't it a tank?"

Qi Xiaoshuai knew that Meng Changwei was a steady person and would never speak carelessly, so he asked him for advice.

Meng Changwei pointed his flashlight at one of them and explained, "It has tracks and a gun barrel. However, the three essential elements of a tank are tracks, heavy armor, and a long, thick main gun. For example, the ones in the camp perfectly meet these three elements and are therefore tanks."

Look at these again. They have tracks and armor, but aren't their gun barrels shorter and thinner than the tanks in the camp? These are called tracked infantry fighting vehicles. Their primary mission is to transport infantry on the battlefield; fire support is secondary.

Meng Changwei seemed to know a lot about this. He walked over to an infantry fighting vehicle and introduced it, saying, "This is the upgraded Type 86 infantry fighting vehicle. I remember the publicly announced number was over a thousand, and it mainly served in the mechanized forces of the Northern Army."

"Oh, I see! No wonder the gate was built so big, it was for infantry fighting vehicles to pass through."

Qi Xiaoshuai listened attentively, then pulled Meng Changwei to the other side, looked into the depths, and said, "Those must be tanks, right? The cannons are thick and long. No, they don't have tracks, so they have wheels... What kind of tanks are these?"

Meng Changwei laughed and said, "The kind with a thick barrel but no tracks is a self-propelled gun. The one in front should be a Type 11 wheeled assault gun, and those over there are Type 09 self-propelled howitzers, um..."

There seem to be some other types of self-propelled howitzers in the background! These self-propelled howitzers use indirect fire, giving them a much longer range than tanks.

Having come from the military, Meng Changwei still frequently follows military news after moving to civilian life; he could be considered a military enthusiast. Qi Xiaoshuai, on the other hand, was the complete opposite. After graduating from vocational high school, he entered society, first delivering packages and then food, living a simple and unpretentious life, with only mobile games as his interests…

This is a dialogue between military enthusiasts and those who are completely ignorant about military affairs!

"So... let me count, one, two... twenty-one, twenty-two, there isn't a single tank among these twenty-odd vehicles."

Qi Xiaoshuai looked at Meng Changwei with a strange expression. In his mind, tanks were the king of land warfare. Without tanks, the value of the arsenal would plummet.

Sensing Qi Xiaoshuai's slight disappointment, Meng Changwei smiled and explained, "Don't underestimate these just because they're not tanks. They have a wide range of uses and can play an important role on the battlefield, no less important than tanks."

For example, these infantry fighting vehicles are equipped with 73mm low-pressure smoothbore cannons with a maximum range of nearly 3,000 meters, anti-tank missile launchers that can also cover a range of 3,000 meters, and I remember there is also a 762mm coaxial machine gun!
With these weapons and equipment, plus the long-range firepower coverage of those self-propelled howitzers, they can control the battlefield at close, medium, and long ranges, making them even more formidable than tanks!

The description made Qi Xiaoshuai seem to see a scene of continuous gunfire, but then he shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Ultimately, it all comes down to whether we have enough artillery shells!

"Oh, that is a problem..."

Meng Changwei smiled awkwardly. With the current level of industrial technology, it would be good enough if they could even produce bullets; they couldn't possibly manufacture qualified artillery shells!

(End of this chapter)