Duels should be played with a smile.

At the entrance to the first outpost... there was a huge group of soldiers in deployment, each with a heavy machine gun set up, fully prepared. Their fierce firepower could blow up not only these few conscripts, but even a tank!

Under K's puzzled gaze, the recruits were instantly within the soldiers' firing range.

"Da da da da da da—"

Just like when the police dogs charged into the conscripts' positions before, this time the conscripts who launched the charge also fell under an even more intense barrage of fire. They didn't even make any move to retaliate; they simply moved forward, and forward again.

With utter rationality, even bordering on indifference, as he watched the conscripts he had sent out fall one by one to the soldiers' guns, Le You's expression remained completely unchanged.

"These are... necessary sacrifices."

Even with the added boost of health bars, flesh and blood could not withstand the hail of bullets from heavy machine guns for long. Within a few dozen seconds, all the conscripts were killed.

The blood stained the ground, but it quickly disappeared completely due to the game mechanics, as if nothing had ever happened.

"Heh, this is really quite baffling. The slight advantage you just gained has been so easily squandered. Is this all you've got... Wait?! What is this?! I haven't seen this before!"

The alarms blared incessantly throughout the first outpost. K flew out somewhat frantically, looking around, but found nothing suspicious.

Then Leyou flew out and stood beside him, smiling as she pointed to the sky.

"This is an air raid siren."

Above, a red-painted transport plane flew over the first outpost, airdropping more conscripts than had just been killed.

This is not a tactic employed by Leyou; it is merely part of the game's progression—when the attacking side breaches the first outpost, there is a planned troop support from the rear.

The criteria for an attack are relatively lenient; all that is required is for troops to enter a certain range of the outpost. This lenient condition has already been met after paying a price.

The first outpost's anti-aircraft guns had already automatically targeted the paratroopers in the sky, launching Patriot missiles to intercept them. At this moment, K also understood the meaning behind Leyou's actions.

"Don't get too cocky. If you can't break through my front gate's blockade, the paratroopers in the sky won't be your surprise attack; they'll just be a series of flying corpses... My position isn't so easy to breach! Without heavy armor, you'll be waiting to be overrun by my machine gun positions..."

"Solvadocana!"

Le You uttered the words "turn the tide," which seemed rather out of place with the current situation, and then issued the long-awaited attack order to his secret forces on the tactics panel.

"Let's see what the power of the shovel class really is!"

"Those who work silently in the ordinary days can also unleash incredible power once they pick up weapons and sound the horn of attack!"

"Come out! My ultimate trump card!"

"Elite-class! Armored mining vehicle!"

The steel tracks rolled forward, and the conscripted troops had split into two columns. In the middle of them, several elite-level mining trucks had put away the mining tools in front and mounted the howitzers obtained after the elite upgrade on their roofs.

"If our mine carts keep going... well, you know what will happen."

With a soft laugh, Leyou disappeared from K's sight. K could only stare in disbelief as Leyou's minecart, braving the firepower of countless heavy machine guns, launched an attack on his outpost with a resolute but unwavering pace.

Unstoppable.

This perfectly describes the state of the mine cart at this moment.

The sturdy armor almost completely ignored the soldiers' firepower, and the super high health and automatic health regeneration made the soldiers' firepower almost useless. Before K could even finish reading the data on the minecart, the soldiers' screams rang out on the battlefield.

The minecarts have grenades as firepower, but against so many enemy troops, firing one grenades at a time is obviously inefficient. So Leyou also adopted the simplest and most direct method.

One word! Rushing!

As long as they are still flesh and blood, whether they are conscripts, soldiers, or even super-powerful units like the Chrono Troopers, anyone who is crushed by armored units will die instantly!

As the mine carts pushed forward, he seemed to wake from a dream after most of the soldiers had been crushed to death. He ordered the soldiers to cancel their deployment and retreat in panic. Leyou immediately pressed his advantage, mobilizing his troops to swarm forward and dismantle all the anti-aircraft guns in the outpost.

Our good comrade in the sky landed smoothly, and the first outpost was easily captured.

A second before K lost sight of the first outpost, he saw several engineers wearing yellow hats walk out of Leyou's troops and slowly enter the building he had left at the first outpost.

And the last words Leyou left for him when his building was overtaken by Leyou.

"Your building works great, but it'll be mine in the next second!"

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Armored mining trucks are really awesome.

Chapter Six: Mission Complete!

"Sell all Allied buildings, except barracks, after they have been captured!"

"The deployment site will be changed to the first outpost, and training of conscripts will continue!"

"The remaining engineers remain on standby. The rest of the troops will immediately proceed to attack the second outpost!"

Leyou didn't actually use the buildings that others had built; instead, they sold them and reinvested the funds into building more minecarts.

The soldiers of the United States are nowhere near as useful as the mining carts of the shovel-wielding class!

The distance between the first and second outposts is not far, separated only by a bridge, which makes them very easy to defend.

After all, on that airport bridge in PUBG, countless people have become loot boxes every single time.

Thanks to Leyou's "blitzkrieg" tactics, the first outpost was captured too quickly. Even though K could directly command the overall situation, he couldn't strengthen the defense of the second outpost much.

And... probably because K had never played these games and didn't understand the real battlefield, he didn't notice that outside the sight of the fleeing soldiers, the conscripts and minecarts were following closely all the way.

K, who was already overwhelmed with coordinating the defenses, only had time to deploy some soldiers to two buildings near the second outpost exit when he saw that Leyou's army was attacking again without stopping. There were no other moves.

And this... is exactly what I wanted.

The conscripts and the minecarts came together. As a fourth-tier player who had played this level countless times, Leyou had long guessed that K might deploy defenses. Therefore, while the minecarts advanced to deter the enemy, the conscripts behind them had quietly circled around to the vicinity of the building.

Before the soldiers sent to set up defenses inside the building could even begin, they saw their teammates disappear one by one. Then, as if the Viet Cong were peeking out, conscripts appeared one after another, presenting them with a wonderful gift—a bullet.

"What's going on now!?"

From a tactical perspective, K saw that his soldiers had been wiped out in just a few minutes, and he was furious. It took him a while to calm himself down. Holding his breath, he tightened the defenses of the second outpost and the rear base even further.

However, all of this was still in vain for Leyou. Instead of continuing the attack, he sent several police dogs to explore along the edge of the second outpost's perimeter wall after occupying the two buildings.

K's attention seemed to be entirely focused on the intersection connecting the first outpost to the southeast, and his vigilance was somewhat lax in other areas. The police dog quickly circled around the perimeter wall and approached the other two entrances to the outpost.

If it weren't for the river just outside the wall and the narrow ground nearby, Leyou would have even considered driving the minecart to the back to surprise K from behind.

However, the purpose of this trip has been achieved: while investigating K's defenses, two upgrade item boxes were also discovered.

Instead of taking down the two crates immediately, Leyou launched an attack on the second outpost after recruiting another wave of troops.

As before, although K had strengthened its defenses in advance, the triple attack of elite minecarts, elite conscripts, and paratroopers quickly turned K's second outpost into Leyou's outpost—the kind of thing where engineers build things is really addictive.

As for why Leyou is so skilled... well, let's just say that when he used to play multiplayer games, his favorite thing to do was to use a light, fast vehicle with troop transport capabilities, load up a few engineers, rush into the enemy's base, and go on a rampage!

If the opponent doesn't build walls or other protective measures around their key buildings... a game might end in just a few minutes—their base has been destroyed, turned into a mobile construction vehicle and driven away, or simply sold off. What else can they expect if they don't surrender?

Of course, Leyou wasn't this skilled from the start. In fact, when he first started playing this game, the internet wasn't even online yet, and he never even thought about asking for help online—or rather, he didn't know where to discuss it.

He was able to learn this tactic simply because during his first match in an internet cafe, he was defeated after someone used this tactic to destroy all his buildings, and that's when he realized that the game could be played this way.

In short, Leyou, who had only ever played battle games, opened the door to a new world of combat one afternoon in a black internet cafe where even minors were not prohibited from entering.

……

When Leyou snapped out of his reverie, the invincible minecart had already captured the second outpost, and the engineer had also taken over the air force command post of the second outpost. After that, every now and then, Leyou could call in airborne reinforcements—of course, the ones that came were still the 100-yuan good brothers, and the quantity... well, it was just so-so.

better than nothing.

However, for Leyou, the benefits of capturing the second outpost are not in these obvious ways.

"All troops, assemble at the Second Outpost, prepare for the final offensive!"

"All elite conscripts, assemble! Follow me! Oh, and one more engineer!"

Leading the small team, Leyou headed towards the northwest exit of the outpost. Apart from a few large buildings, the only thing worth noting there was a broken bridge.

After sending engineers to repair the broken bridge, Leyou recalled all the details so far and murmured to himself, "It's obvious that guy doesn't know how to use an engineer? Or rather, he overlooked it?"

On the other side, K, who had already withdrawn all his forces to the last base near the Pentagon, has gradually calmed down his somewhat agitated state of mind. He had originally planned to study the next two battles, but now he is experiencing a bit of mental overload.

His thinking ability is more than sufficient to handle multitasking, but his comprehension is currently lagging behind.

Even though I have all the information, why does it feel like the guy on the other side can come up with things that I can't find in the information at all?

Putting everything else aside, what's with those elite-level mining trucks?!

After flipping through the documents in his hand several times, K finally found the mechanism for elite promotion in the long list of game mechanics. Considering the previous situation, he immediately felt a little discouraged.

It turns out the opponent had such a large number of elite soldiers and mining carts because they had their own coordination...

K, completely unaware of the existence of the hidden box, simply drew a conclusion that wasn't entirely wrong and went back to setting up defenses.

The police dogs were no longer of much use, and due to game limitations, he couldn't build tanks either, so... he turned his attention to something on the tactics panel that he had always ignored.

"This thing... a minecart is still just a minecart. No matter how tough it is, its firepower is always a weakness. As long as we blow up the minecart before he breaks through the defenses, he'll have nothing left!"

"Just you wait, you outsider who suddenly barged in. Get ready for the surprise I have in store for you!"

……

Leyou had no idea what K was thinking, nor did he care. He was now a pure fourth-day calamity player, indifferent to the ins and outs, and unconcerned about the cause and effect.

There's only one thing I want to do.

That means going on a killing spree!

Reaching out to touch the military green steel, the icy coldness of my hand contrasted sharply with the burning passion in my heart.

Even though I've witnessed military parades and seen steel torrents marching in neat rows across the square, this is the first time I've ever actually touched this steel behemoth.

【Rhino Tank】

With its simple and unpretentious name, this is the basic main battle tank of Leyou's current faction.

After the bridge was repaired and they reached the other side, there was a drive-in restaurant. The restaurant's parking lot was on the other side, near the coast. When Leyou led his troops over, support from headquarters also appeared here.

The transport ship carried four Rhino tanks as the "spearhead" for the assault.

Don't underestimate the Rhino tank just because it's a basic main battle tank. You should know that there are differences between basic military units—the most obvious difference being between conscripts and regular soldiers. A regular soldier in deployment mode can take down several conscripts with just a heavy machine gun.

After the Allies gained an advantage in basic infantry, the advantage in armored vehicles came from the Rhino tank.

To put it bluntly, the Allied basic combat tank, the Grizzly tank, is nothing but paper in front of the Rhino tank!

"Don't rush to move out yet. Clean up everything that can be cleaned up here first!"

Just like with the previous minecart upgrade, Leyou used the same method on the newly acquired rhino tank. The heavy tracks easily destroyed the car restaurant, and the NPCs inside were also turned into experience points for the tank.