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Originium explosives are not gunpowder with self-oxidizing properties. They have a very low reaction rate limit and a large total energy release. This means that simply increasing the amount of explosive will cause a large amount of Originium components to be blown away before they can react and participate in the reaction. As a result, the power will not increase and may even decrease.

"Enemy attack!" The moment the sentry fell to the ground, the feint attack force launched a fierce assault on the bridgehead. All the mortars and grenade launchers were reinforced for this platoon, and dense grenades and mortar shells rained down around the bridgehead, while the old ballistae and Colombian snipers positioned above returned fire.

"Thunder Hammer Squad!" A Thunder Hammer Type 1 tank slowly drove onto the bridge, firing explosive crossbow bolts at the enemy with its electromagnetic piercing device while providing cover for its own infantry against shrapnel.

Fragments from infantry mortars and grenade launchers are unlikely to cause much damage to Thunder Hammer.

It might be possible to penetrate the armor of the Thunder Hammer II, but the armor of the Type I is thicker and difficult to penetrate.

"Whoosh!" A crossbow bolt as thick as an arm pierced the battlefield, pinning an unfortunate Ursus artilleryman to a tree. The Originium bomb at the end detonated, scattering fragments everywhere. The light mortar was blown away, its structure twisted beyond recognition, clearly rendered unusable. Without a mortar, the attacking side's firepower was immediately weakened significantly.

"Snap!" A searchlight abruptly went out. "Get on the bridge!" The demolition team used grappling hooks to grab the reinforced supports and flew towards the bottom of the bridge. "Watch out for enemies on both sides. Carter, take a squad down!"

The defending troops were aware of the enemy's intentions, but they were unsure of the enemy's exact numbers in the darkness and dared not divert too many troops from the front lines.

Meanwhile, under the bridge, the Ursus demolition team had already planted the first bomb and was installing the second. "Pfft!"

A barrage of crossbow bolts pinned the demolition expert to the bomb, while the infantry protecting the demolition squad quickly raised their shields for cover and returned fire with their crossbows.

Both sides engaged in fierce fighting, using the wooden planks between the bridge piers and supports as cover. Compared to the new firearms that appeared in Kazdel, the crossbows began to show their shortcomings, namely, their insufficient lethality behind cover.

After all, crossbow bolts are projectiles with excessively long diameters, longer than the thickness of a human body, making it almost impossible for them to tumble inside the body.

If the penetrating power is too strong, it will result in meaningless over-penetration. Therefore, arrows are designed to have a strong braking effect.

Once inside the human body, this will create a water hammer effect in the blood, quickly causing the target to lose consciousness and become incapacitated.

However, if it hits a thick wooden board, it will quickly get stuck and become difficult to penetrate further. Even if it does penetrate, its lethality will be weakened to the point that it cannot penetrate the target's protective gear.

Bullets are a different story. Even pistol bullets would be difficult to defend against with a wooden board of this thickness. If it were a rifle bullet, its only purpose would be to obstruct the enemy's line of sight.

The second bomb was successfully planted thanks to the desperate efforts of the covering squad. Next up was the third bomb. A total of four bombs were needed to blast a gaping hole in the bridge, and the mission was now halfway complete.

"Another squad down!" Sensing the battle below was turning against them and the heavy casualties that had forced the feint attack team to retreat, another infantry squad joined the fighting under the bridge. "Too late, detonate!"

The demolition expert, clutching the wound on his arm, rolled away from the grenade fragmentation zone, threw the remaining bomb next to the second bomb that had been installed, and pressed down hard to detonate it.

"Boom!" The bridge surface shook violently, stone chips flew everywhere, and large stones fell into the river like a waterfall. The reinforcing supports on both sides were also twisted beyond recognition by the shock wave, and some of the metal supports even flew dozens of meters into the river, stirring up splashes of water.

However, the ancient bridge ultimately withstood the incomplete blast, although a crack appeared in the bridge deck and a large number of stones and the bridge structure were destroyed.

However, the reinforced supports and the fact that the detonation itself was not installed at the weak points reduced the damage.

"Withdraw!" The Ursus retreated without hesitation. Although they had not achieved their goal, the bridge was now difficult for heavy vehicles to pass through. The Colombians had no choice but to either break up into smaller groups or spend some time reinforcing the bridge deck and structure and repairing the side support structures.

Either way, it greatly reduced the amount of supplies and weapons that Colombians could send to the front lines before the main battle began.

The following day, at 1 PM, the Ursus Army Group launched a large-scale attack on the Stone River Fortress. *Whoosh whoosh whoosh—*

Mortar shells whistled through the sky, followed by magical fireballs fired from fifteen amplification cannons. The meteor-like bombardment rained down on the ancient stone city, while the temporary defense post set up around the Stone River Fortress retaliated with pneumatic and electromagnetic crossbows.

"Whoosh—" The crossbow bolts trailed a trail of blood, piercing several Ursus assault soldiers. More Ursus infantry charged towards the fortress from the other side of the valley, crossing the shallow river, stepping over the jagged riverbanks, and leaving piles of corpses on the muddy terraces. More men stepped over the corpses and the overgrown ridges, launching an attack on the stone fortress set up on one side of the valley.

"Tap tap tap—" Ursus' electromagnetic crossbow emitted a deep sound, and metal arrows rained down on the vehicle formation. The metal struck metal with a crisp sound, like a large bag of steel balls being poured into a metal cylinder.

The flying debris and arrows caused considerable casualties to the defenders, and the subsequent artillery barrage from Ursus was like a heavy hammer shaking the earth.

However, as mentioned earlier, these rapid-fire cannons were not as effective as expected when dealing with fixed fortifications.

Most of the shrapnel was blocked by solid rocks, and the shockwave of the Originium bomb was not very powerful, making it difficult to kill the infantry hiding inside the fortress and the Columbia-designed anti-aircraft guns.

Next, the Colombian artillery began a massacre-style counterattack against the Ursus infantry. The rate of fire of 25 rounds per minute was like a wall of steel balls and shrapnel being pushed over by the Ursus soldiers, who were slaughtered in droves on the open plains of the valley.

The small number of electromagnetic piercers and the large electromagnetic piercers made it virtually impossible for Ursus's light armored vehicles to provide cover.

In just one afternoon, Ursus left thousands of corpses and dozens of wrecked vehicles at the foot of Stone River Fortress. The first attack was a complete failure, and they didn't even capture the outermost outposts of the barbican formed by the vehicles.

The Colombians also suffered heavy casualties, after all, Ursus concentrated all of the legion's heavy artillery and mortars, as well as the war sorcerers' intensive bombardment.

Even with the protection of a permanent fortress, the cost was still over a hundred deaths and hundreds of injuries.

Considering that Ursus's forces outnumbered the defenders by four times, the siege could even be considered a temporary advantage for Ursus.

If Colombia is unable to breach the battlefield cover and deliver more advanced weaponry, then Ursus will be able to use human lives to take down this thorn in their side of the offensive route.

Once Stone River Fortress is captured, the only defensive line between the Sami capital and the Snow River will be as wide as the Sami River. Ursus can launch an attack from any shallow spot on the river. What's worse, the Sami capital is downstream of the Snow River, so Ursus only needs to dam the river and store water. If they're lucky, there will be two heavy rains and then the dam will be breached to release the water. The flood will wipe out the Sami army downstream.

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Chapter 8 Observer

chapter eight

At the Ursus camp, "Hello, General Roman, I am an observer from Kazdel. You can call me Amsor."

With her purplish-black hair and dressed in an office lady suit, the young woman, looking quite respectable, smiled and shook hands with the army general in front of her.

The monitoring bracelet on her arm signified her status as an infected person, but in the Ursus military camp, which discriminated against infected individuals, no one dared to provoke this girl.

She represents the Republic of Kazdel within the Uka Cooperation Alliance. Beyond that, she is also a senior employee of Rhodes Island and the Minister of Security for Titan Military Industries. No one knows that seven or eight years ago, she was just a petty thief on the streets of Lungmen, making a living by picking wallets.

"Hello, Ms. Ansuo, I hope you are satisfied with the environment here."

"Not bad, better than the worst place I've ever been." An Suo shrugged. In any case, it was much more comfortable than the slums of Lungmen. His greatest dream in life was to be a prison guard.

Unexpectedly, he became a security guard by chance. Due to his seniority and the expansion of the department, Titan Military Industries transformed from a shell company into a real group, and he rose all the way to the position of Minister of Security.

Now, due to the cooperation between the arms trade and the Uka trade, he has even been dispatched as a military observer to the front line of the war between Ursus and Sami. This makes Xiao Ansuo, who is not actually old but has deliberately put on a mature look, feel extremely uneasy. He is going to die, he is going to die. This is all the Ursus inspectors and a bunch of murderous guys.

Compared to them, the special police team in Longmen was incredibly kind and approachable. The difference between the infected and cattle and horses here is that cattle and horses are valuable livestock, while they are not, and he himself happens to be an infected person, the severely ill kind.

“Don’t worry about security, we’ll take care of protecting our VIPs…” Ivan nodded. He knew General Roman; they used to work under Hrag, but now they were pretending to be strangers. Otherwise, the situation would be too awkward, awkward in every sense of the word.

"Phew... I'm a little nervous..."

“There’s no need to be so tense. No one here dares to touch our people. And Roman…” Ivan looked at the general returning to headquarters, “He’s a bit too ambitious to climb the ranks, but other than that, he’s a rare good person. At least he won’t easily hurt others unless they get in his way, and he’s trustworthy to his partners.”

Compared to those ruthless individuals who live by betrayal, he is a rare good person.

In fact, no one dared to touch Ansuo, the infected person who was under the title of Titan Military Industry Observer. Even without considering the forces behind her, the elite Shield Guard squad that escorted her, which had been integrated into the Security Bureau, was enough to make those black-skinned dogs in the military who were in charge of managing infected people wisely turn a blind eye.

They even ignored the occasional exchanges and assistance that An Suo offered to the infected in the cannon fodder camp.

After all, it wasn't worth going against one of his boss's biggest financial backers over something like this. In order to find a buyer for the obsolete equipment after the Kazdel War and monetize it for economic development, Titan Military Industries' corporate strategy department had given General Roman a lot of sponsorship money.

Even disregarding the issue of funding, those four heavily armored shield bearers, equipped with the new power armor, were not someone the Black Dogs would dare to touch. These were genuine heavyweights capable of storming half a military camp to rescue people, and the military logistics department had long desired to purchase this advanced equipment. Unfortunately, Titan Industries did not sell it externally, and the versions of power armor sold externally were significantly inferior.

"This afternoon, we will launch a fierce attack on Shihe Fortress. I will deploy the equipment you brought after our bombardment. I hope it will be worth the cost."

"I won't let you down..." An Suo immediately put on a business-like smile, inwardly complaining about why the company's professional technicians and salespersons weren't sent over.

Of course, they went to the other side to investigate. They learned how the officers and arms groups of these countries acted during the Kazdel Civil War, and now, in this war, the Doctor and his team planned to do the same.

This is a place to sell things; all we need is one person to fill the quota, plus a group of engineers.

The reason for the name "An Suo" is that the main task here is to prevent others from stealing their technology and belongings, and An Suo is the security supervisor, a professional thief, whose expertise is actually a perfect match.

Those on the other side were there to learn the art, so naturally they were all proficient in Sharingan techniques. Even if they weren't, it didn't matter; Old Xia modified their PDAs and equipped them with several portable active wave scanners produced by the Star Alliance. As long as the other side didn't have any advanced technology, they were guaranteed to scan down to the smallest screw.

However, due to the limited availability of dedicated gravitational wave oscillators and nano-aerosols for permeation scanning, the specific targets to be scanned depend on the on-site assessment by experts to determine which items are of high value.

Then comes the one-stop service of purchasing, importing, imitating, breaching contracts, reskinning, and launching on the market to grab business. These military service providers, still living in the "pure era," have obviously never seen the dirty tricks that have been accumulated over the centuries, nor have they seen the shameless face of "You are investigating the Thunder Hammer, what does it have to do with my Odin Tank?"

At 3 p.m., the convicts, infected, and deserters of the disciplinary camp had been assembled and gathered at the front of the battlefield. The infected were given simple, high-powered staffs, while the convicts and deserters were given Molotov cocktails, knives, and simple metal shields.

Their job was to break through the enemy's defenses. As long as they entered the enemy's position and held out until their own troops arrived, an entire battalion would receive a first-class amnesty.

In other words, if the crime is only of the first degree, such as ordinary murder, then one is considered a free man. If he succeeds again, he can receive military merit and extra rewards, and go home to live as an ordinary person.

In Ursus, being infected is considered a Level 3 crime. Therefore, it takes three consecutive attempts to gain freedom and even promotion as an infected person, up to the rank of sergeant. For former infected individuals, this is the only path to advancement and freedom, but the price is a lifetime in the military.

However, most infected people wouldn't survive such dangerous work. Even if they did, the large-scale and prolonged use of Originium Arts on the battlefield would cause their condition to deteriorate rapidly, and they wouldn't live long either.

Only a very, very few lucky ones can achieve so-called salvation. Of course, in the end, they are still consumed in war after war, but by then most of them already have descendants, in other words, at least there is a glimmer of hope for their lineage to continue.

Now, the disciplinary camp has a more tangible reward: the blocking agent sent by Kazdel, as promised by General Roman.

As before, once they take control of the territory, they will be given a full year's supply of inhibitors, allowing them to live like normal people for a year without suffering the pain of Oripathy worsening.

"A year's supply of blocking agents, a total of 400 tablets, two bottles, with a factory price of 60 yuan, can buy a life here."

This was the first time An Suo had ever seen something like this. Even in Longmen, it would cost at least 300 yuan.

“Ursus has always been like this. In the past, they didn’t even have a blocker that cost sixty yuan. And in northern Ursus, the blocker costs not just sixty yuan, but six thousand yuan a bottle, 200 times the price. The nobles won’t allow their free labor to just disappear like that, unless they can squeeze more profit out of them than they can create in their entire lives…”

"Fortunately, there will soon be no nobles left, at least the old nobles will be gone."

Before the emperor even made a move, the nobles had already suffered heavy casualties. Hard currency and supplies were in the emperor's hands, while the money was in Kazdel's.

Even if both sides repay the money, it's just a pile of worthless paper for now, so the nobles haven't pressed for repayment yet—they'd rather the two of them forget about it and bring it up again when the value of the currency rises again.

Unfortunately, the emperor was already using this war to reorganize the army, at least sending a message to the generals of these armies: the royal family has sufficient ability to pay for currency and supplies, so as to avoid the old nobles disappearing and new warlords and bandits emerging.

"Don't speak, open your mouth, hold the position, the shelling is about to start."

"what?"

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Countless bombardment drones fired grenades at the fortress, while more mortars and city defense artillery sent from the rear bombarded the Shihe Fortress. After several days of artillery battles, the enemy had long been accustomed to hiding in trenches and sturdy bunkers when the enemy shelled them, and then coming out when the enemy counterattacked.

Due to technical problems, the Ursus army found it difficult to launch reliable infantry-artillery coordination.

However, they often launch extremely brutal mixed artillery bombardments, which means shelling while their own punitive battalion cannon fodder is entangled with the enemy.

This maximizes the kill rate against the enemy. Of course, this will also increase our own casualties.

But who the hell cares? The routine bombing, the routine evasion, the routine preparation for the attack—it's just that a discordant note has been added between two routines.

After a night of hard work and adjustments, the old-model Originium railgun is finally in place. "One city-destroying missile, load!"

The export model, which involves removing a large number of wet parts and auxiliary aiming and loading equipment, is extremely cumbersome and requires more than a dozen people to handle.

However, for the Ursus people, none of this was a problem; they had seen far more clumsy, large, and crude things than this.

Two loaders, chanting in unison, unloaded a heavy shell, half a person's height, from a wheelbarrow, and then, with the help of another person, inserted it into the breech.

"Woo—" The mechanical motor emitted a hoarse sound as the square heavy cannon barrel slowly rose. There were a total of fifteen super-heavy Originium railguns, all of which were replaced from the warship. As for the warship? The warship was replaced with the Great Yan Divine Light Cannon, which Master Nian improved and enhanced to a Plus version.