Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 439 The Battle of Xinmu City

It was noon that day.

Several groups of soldiers from Durason mysteriously emerged from the city. Some of them attacked the nearby defensive cannons, while others attacked the city gates.

There was no time to ponder why Dulason had managed to send a surprise attack force into the city ahead of time. The garrison at Scalová could only immediately intercept and respond.

But Durrison's army immediately fired cannons outside the city, marking the start of the siege.

"We will breach the southern outer wall of Xinmu City within half an hour at the latest." Standing among the troops, Captain Durasson was still reviewing the strategy in his mind.

Half an hour is not a long time for a battle, but Kep planned to do it even faster; breaching the city walls was just the beginning.

The surprise attack force, which had infiltrated ahead of time, was highly effective. After the initial few cannon shots, half of the defensive machine guns on the southern outer city wall of Xinmu City had been destroyed.

Although not all of them were destroyed, half of them were still quite considerable, allowing their siege progress to accelerate rapidly.

Chaos soon broke out on the city wall as the raiding force arrived, and the current garrison of Xinmou City was no longer able to hold the southern outer city wall.

Next, Commander Melloni will make a swift decision, realizing that the southern outer wall has been thoroughly breached. The garrison at Xinmu City will choose to abandon the southern outer wall, retreating while simultaneously using the city's buildings for defense, eventually likely establishing a stronghold at the southern third wall…

Kep waited a moment, and sure enough, the figures of the Xinmu City garrison on the city wall gradually disappeared.

He also received a report from his subordinate that Xinmu City had abandoned the southern outer city wall.

As expected.

Even the self-disciplined Captain Durason couldn't help but twitch his lips slightly, causing his mustache to ripple gently, but he quickly concealed this insignificant joy and calmly issued the order: "Forward."

The troops are advancing methodically, which is good, just as he expected...

boom!
"What's going on!?" Upon hearing the explosion, Kep immediately shouted, looking at the blast in the distance on the road his troops were bound to take, incredulous.

They certainly did mine clearance work, and had previously conducted repeated surveys of Xinmou City, but there was no time to make arrangements in this regard.

Blindfold?
"Clear the mines!"

But this level of effort could not stop them. The unit was fully prepared, and small demining mannequins were quickly deployed. Immediately, explosions occurred one after another in front of them, which was shocking to them.

This is not over yet.

The city's defensive cannons, which should have been shut down long ago, suddenly started operating again, taking over the original duties of the garrison and activating the defensive forces of the southern outer city wall!
"The number of cannons is not right!" Kep immediately noticed the problem. Why were the half of the cannons that had just been destroyed restarted?

Could our own surprise attack force really rebel and spread false intelligence? We just confirmed from a distance that it really is broken! Even a top-tier mechanical weapons master wouldn't be able to repair it this quickly!

"It's not the half that was destroyed before!" The subordinate nervously gathered the intelligence brought back by the reconnaissance dummy: "It's new! They've deployed a completely new set of cannons!"

Kapp: ? ?

Is this fun? Why are you hiding so many cannons out there? Did the garrison at Xinmou City anticipate his surprise attack? If they anticipated it, why not put in more effort to stop him instead of firing half the cannons and handing them over?!

Kepp really felt something was wrong: "Where's the raiding party?"

"Lost contact!"

At this moment, on the city wall, several seemingly old and unadorned logistics puppets suddenly sprang into action before the surprise attack force could react. After suppressing and destroying these puppets with a barrage of firepower, the attackers quickly climbed up the city wall and joined up with several "garrison soldiers" who had not yet evacuated, and began operating them on the city wall.

The small number of people, combined with puppets, was even fewer than the previous garrison, yet they controlled a greater number of weapons to defend the city walls.

This didn't change anything; the Durason troops responded just as quickly, swiftly countering the initial back-and-forth attack.

It was only a matter of time before the southern outer city wall fell.

Once the southern outer city wall was breached, the Dulason troops filed in.

When Kep climbed up the city wall, he glanced at the turrets and the armed forces on the wall. All that remained were a few dilapidated doll wreckages, some of which were common models, some of which were Durason models, but most of them belonged to the garrison soldiers, along with the corpses of the garrison soldiers lying haphazardly.

Everything is fine.

but……

He picked up his watch and glanced at it. What was supposed to be half an hour at the latest had become a full fifty-three minutes! It took them almost an hour to get through what should have been the easiest checkpoint!
Kemp realized: "They're stalling for time. This is their home turf. If we start a full-scale street battle, we'll be on the defensive." The extra twenty minutes weren't much, but it was enough for the garrison to make thorough preparations during this extra respite.

They were all from Scallova, and in terms of equipment, puppets, and other technological aspects, the Durason troops were inferior to these garrison soldiers. Their advantages lay in their superior numbers, the number of puppets, the abundance of weapons, and the element of surprise.

"Speed ​​up," Kapp could only say.

Although something felt off, it has to be said that there are indeed capable people in Xinmu City who disgusted the Dulason troops.

But this still won't change the situation.

It just couldn't turn into a decisive victory with a huge margin of defeat, as Kepp had hoped.

The two armies clashed in the streets and alleys, and countless buildings collapsed in the artillery fire.

Many people fled in panic and were affected, but the two armies, blinded by rage, clearly didn't care about that.

Only a group of people were directing the civilians to avoid the artillery fire and fighting amidst the chaos, but by then no one cared anymore.

"All mobile puppet units, move out!" As the battle unfolded, Kep looked at the time, his furrowed brows becoming increasingly furrowed.

Ever since he was briefly dragged out of the city, he felt something was off about everything, so he immediately activated the entire mobile puppet force.

An independent combat force composed entirely of new-style military dolls costs far more than human soldiers, but its combat capabilities are far superior to those of ordinary soldiers.

Each of them is a super soldier capable of both offense and defense, suitable for various situations, and this kind of urban warfare is a piece of cake.

As expected, once the animated puppets began to swarm through the city like locusts, the garrison troops were once again forced into retreat.

Fortunately, the time they gained was more than enough, and the losses in the street fighting were acceptable. The garrison quickly retreated to the next line of defense, the southern third city wall.

The third southern city wall of Xinmu City can also be said to be the last city wall in this battle.

……

After covering Mrs. Ereshkigal with the blanket, the rabbi turned and left the room.

The muffled sounds of artillery fire could still be heard in the distance. Fortunately, Mrs. Eresh lived inside the southern third city wall, so she wouldn't be directly drawn into the battlefield over there.

However, the situation will be different once the southern three city walls are breached.

When Xinmou City is close to falling, the garrison will have no choice but to break up into smaller groups and fight amongst themselves in the city. At that time, the entire city will likely be in chaos.

"Awoo~ Awoo~".

Just then, a strange cry accompanied by the sound of an engine came from the side, and a car suddenly drove out onto the now deserted street.

Rabbi turned around and his previously serious face immediately fell.

"What kind of car is this?!"

“This is a minivan.” Zheng Fan leaned out of the driver’s seat and patted the vehicle.

This is a vehicle based on... a scaled-up version of a loaf of bread.

“You can also call it a toast cart, it’s the same thing. Although I thought of many interesting things, it’s definitely more back to basics this way,” Zheng Fan laughed.

As he spoke, he honked the horn twice, and the toast truck's mouth opened and closed, making a crisp "woof~" sound.

The rabbi was getting tense: "Do we really have to travel in this for the rest of our journey?"

"If you don't like it, I can drive, and then Radish will carry you while we chase after you."

"That's no different from us traveling on our own!"

"That's wrong. How can you confuse the journey with a loaf of toast running ahead with your own boring journey?"

(End of this chapter)