Global Catastrophe: I Became the World Tree-Chapter 272 - 194: Heavy Weapons Enter the Stage_2

The bullets weren’t powerful enough, but they could make up for it in numbers.

If it weren’t for the need to target Five Six Order creatures, having these 1,000 Evolutionists face off against 1,000 main battle tanks would be a massacre in the Evolutionists’ favor.

"Commander Fang, have these Destroyer Hand Cannons started mass production? Can we purchase them?" Bai Yinghui asked eagerly.

This was without a doubt a great weapon against the Mutated Beings!

Fighting against Fifth Order Mutants might be challenging, but he felt that against Third or Fourth Order Mutated Creatures, one shot would likely inflict heavy damage.

"Yes, mass production has started. If you need them, we should be able to provide a batch within 10 days, and in a month, we’ll be able to arm various units on a large scale."

"The main thing is that it’s quite simple to make. The difficulty lies in the high threshold for use. In fact, we’ve already developed the second generation of Destroyer Hand Cannons, which use the same 125mm shells as the main battle tanks."

"But unfortunately, they can’t be equipped on a large scale because that requires at least Second Stage Evolutionists to handle the terrifying recoil."

"As long as our Evolutionists can physically manage it, the caliber of the future generations can be increased even more, and it doesn’t require much technical sophistication, allowing for quick iteration," Fang Wei went on to share his vision for the use of the Destroyer Hand Cannons.

Bai Yinghui and Dong Ming listened, their eyes lighting up with enthusiasm.

It dawned on them that this was an excellent path forward, a perfect fusion of weaponry and evolutionary progression.

Even Ye Feng, who was eavesdropping from the outside, couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.

He had to admit that the advent of the Destroyer Hand Cannons posed a significant threat to the Dragon Hall.

The Fourth Order animals he had trained could, under normal circumstances, hold up a battalion each.

However, if Evolutionists armed with these Destroyer Hand Cannons were to engage, any of them could pose a threat. After all, a direct hit would likely cause severe injuries.

But after thinking it over, if he truly had to fight against these elite troops, Ye Feng realized there was no need to send his Contracted Animals into battle.

The best strategy to counter them would be to deploy the Insect Clan Army.

Tens of thousands of Mutated Yellowjackets and Mutated Red Fire Ants charging through would surely reduce the army to trying to shoot down insects with cannons.

Once the Big Yellow Bees and Red Fire Ants got close, these First Order Evolutionists would be quickly dealt with.

This thought instantly lifted Ye Feng’s spirits, and given the looming great enemy, the stronger the military’s power, the better.

By this time, 100 armed helicopters, after dropping off the 1,000 soldiers, had half of them returning, evidently to transport more troops.

This stoked Ye Feng’s curiosity, making him wonder what other impressive hardware the military would bring to bear when they got serious.

After the first reinforcement batch from the provincial military district arrived, the support troops from Yang City were also close at hand.

Infantry fighting vehicles, main battle tanks, and armored vehicles were swiftly moving down the highway towards the area.

With a sweep of his spiritual power, Ye Feng quickly ascertained the convoy: 500 infantry fighting vehicles, 300 armored vehicles, and 200 main battle tanks in total.

The visible forces were just part of the picture. As they reached the battlefield, more Evolutionists emerged from the armored vehicles.

Ye Feng counted them; it appeared that Yang City had brought nearly all its Evolutionists here.

Almost 3,000 Evolutionists, including Superhumans, were present.

In addition to personnel, nearly 5,000 heavy machine guns, over 3,000 high-pressure flamethrowers, and 10,000 rocket launchers were unloaded from the armored vehicles.

The arrival of this wave of reinforcements elicited another round of cheers from the soldiers on the defensive line.

In fact, as exciting as the arrival of the Evolutionists and their equipment was, the most exciting additions were, without question, the main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and those armored vehicles.

Each one of these, placed on a battlefield, was absolutely a killer weapon.

As for the main battle tanks, it goes without saying that, in combination with armor-piercing shells, they could easily penetrate 1000 millimeters of steel plate, posing a deadly threat even to Sixth Order beasts.

Then there were the infantry fighting vehicles, with their vehicle-mounted autocannons that were far more powerful than heavy machine guns, certainly capable of fatally threatening Fifth Order skeletal creatures.

Moreover, the fast-firing vehicle-mounted autocannons could completely coordinate with main battle tanks when needed, using the infantry fighting vehicles to first suppress Sixth Order ferocious beasts with firepower, then the main battle tanks would deliver the killing blow.

Even the armored vehicles used for transporting troops had five heavy machine guns mounted on top and, additionally, five more could be placed in the firing ports on the sides of the armored vehicles.

In such a manner, each armored vehicle was a mobile fire support point, ready to rush to any part of the front line that required its firepower assistance.

With these heavy weapons, along with the multitude of heavy machine guns, high-pressure flamethrowers, and rocket launchers that had been transported over, the military’s combat power could be doubled immediately.

Just as everyone was getting excited about this, suddenly, the alarm sounded once again.

The reconnaissance drones, deep underground, spotted after a 10-minute interval that more creatures had been teleported in.

The first to appear were still skeletal creatures, and this time, they were all flying types. After emerging, they flapped their bone wings and rapidly soared into the sky.

It’s worth mentioning that these flying skeletal creatures had bone wings that were mostly made up of flat and broad bones, producing lift when flapped that was not much smaller than that of normal birds’ wings.

At this moment, the high-ranking officials in front of the screen watched the skeletal creatures ascending into the sky and quickly thought of what the enemy commander would do to counter their thermostatic shells.

These large skeletal creatures were, in fact, "bone shields"; evidently, they were using their own lives to intercept the thermostatic shells.

If they could successfully intercept one or two waves of thermostatic shell bombardments, allowing the Sixth Order beasts to break into the military’s defense line, the tide of battle would change.

Seeing this scene, Fang Wei was the first to react. He immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered, "Get the armed helicopter squadrons to use air-to-air missiles and take them down."

Then he turned his head to look at Bai Yinghui and asked, "How much longer will it take for your anti-aircraft troops to get here?"

Bai Yinghui immediately answered, "The second wave of support will arrive in 15 minutes, but they have already set off. I can ask the anti-aircraft troops to rush over at full speed; they should be able to arrive within 5 minutes."

The reinforcements sent from Yang City were naturally not only these Evolutionists. The command center had merely sent the most crucial forces over first.

The second wave of reinforcements included not only various weapons and equipment but also more heavy machine guns and high-pressure flamethrowers, as the weapons removed from the defense wall numbered over ten thousand. The first batch of reinforcements, in haste, had brought only a part of them.

Additionally, there was a third wave of reinforcements, or perhaps it would be more accurate to call them a logistical support troop, as they would take on the subsequent task of ammunition resupply.

Fang Wei nodded after listening, "Good! Then I’ll also contact the provincial military district and ask them to send all the fighter squadrons here. They should be able to arrive in about five minutes too."

"However, clearing out those skeletal creatures won’t be easy; the ground troops need to stall for more than 10 minutes to effectively weaken the enemy’s aerial power and lower the probability of them intercepting the thermostatic shells."

Bai Yinghui nodded continuously and quickly went to give orders.

As for Dong Ming standing to the side, all he could do was fret, as the first batch of his reinforcements would take at least half an hour to arrive due to the distance.

While the few were making arrangements, the battle situation rapidly reached a fever pitch.

The 50 armed helicopters that were still here were the first to get going.

They approached the edge of the restricted zone, quickly locked onto the skeletal creatures, and fired air-to-air missiles to bombard them.

Beyond that, the 30mm caliber cannons mounted at the nose of the helicopters were also furiously spitting fire tongues.

Massive tungsten steel armor-piercing shells swept through these skeletal creatures.

The cannons’ firepower was incomparable to that of heavy machine guns, and each tungsten steel armor-piercing shell could shatter a piece of bone from these Fifth Order mutants.

Although the shattered area was not large, the firing rate of the cannons was fast! With bullets raining down like a storm, the damage dealt was hardly less than that of the air-to-air missiles.