Borrowing the heat from their fiery spirit, Zhang Qin Feng volunteered to take the lead along with Wanshui Group and Yang Militarized Group. The decision that came out of sudden puzzled everyone in this room once again.
"Base leader, I'm afraid that having three leaders in an alliance is not that good..." Wanshui Group Leader spoke while the Yang Group Leader nodded.
"Everyone, please patiently wait for my explanation." Zhang Qin Feng tapped on Wanshui Group Leader's shoulder as he grabs everyone's attention.
"Right now in this meeting, I dare to say that only the Wanshui Group, Yang Militarized Group, and my Azure Wind Gang is capable of controlling the Titanfall." Zhang Qin Feng started to explain his reason.
"Although we're confident about now, how about in the future? We all know that the SCV mutants are growing and evolving as we eat and sleep."
"We'll need as many people as we can thus, I suggest that we'll form an Alliance Fortress at the best location we can use to control them." Zhang Qin Feng's idea is pretty straightforward.
Instead of randomly sending the troops to counter their attack, it is better to make them come forward to that trap and decimates them with all available force.
From the city map printed during pre-apocalypse, the zones that are at the most risk are 5th, 19th, and 21st. That's if they're based on the entire eastern side of the city.
Their negotiation continued after they agreed to Zhang Qin Feng's fortress idea.
By choosing three leaders instead of one, it allowed them to be more flexible. Of course, that's still based on trust.
Their Alliance Fortress option finally came out with a decision, which will be built on the outskirt of 5th Zone. As for their supply zone, it will be located on 13th Zone that Zhang Qin Feng's team recently cleared the place from mutants.
In fact, the 13th Zone can be said to be a strategic location. Due to the same reason during the pre-apocalypse period, the Changyang Government decided to put a park and garden here and turns it into an assembly point.
With the location and supply point decided, the retaliation plan against Titanfall officially begins.
The eighteen various bases contribute through manpower, average around 500 workers, and 150 soldiers. And from the two top tier gangs, their contribution is far more than what Azure Wind Base can offer.
Zhang Qin Feng sent 700 workers and 400 soldiers out to protect the area from Titanfall, along with 15,000 workers and 5,000 soldiers from the mix of two top tier gangs.
"D**n! The combination of two top tier gang's workers is more than what all of us smaller bases combined." Zhang Qin Feng complained. Although they're tied in an alliance right now, there are no rules stated one cannot be jealous of another.
"No wonder the other top tier gangs did not actively cause trouble to me, except Xicheng Base. It would seem not worth the effort because manpower alone, they can trample all of our bases without worries." Zhang Qin Feng monitored the large convoy left through the 13th Zone and returned to his post.
As a gesture of respect, he distributed three Luna III device to each base leaders. They're more available for purchase, but that's a totally different matter out of Zhang Qin Feng's jurisdiction.
Just like this, close to 33,000 people marched to the 5th Zone and started to erect a Defensive Fortress. The construction material will be contributed by Wanshui Group and Yang Militarized Group, with Azure Wind Base offering the Tantalite Blocks free of charge.
The base also offered compressed crackers, instant noodles, and flapjacks for the workers throughout the period they're working there. One meal will be provided daily, freshly made on the day based on what they have.
And with close to 30 Minos AVS, the food, and building materials came faster than they can build the fortress. Just like that, the construction and alert period quickly passed, and it's already Saturday morning.
Zhang Qin Feng tapped the dimensional travel and returned to the apocalypse. In this critical period, it will be irresponsible for him to take a weekend off.
The moment he opened his eyes, the entire base already at its highest alert. The half-completed Alliance Fortress started to get involved with the Titanfall.
All long-ranged weapon is fired consecutively, with APVs blocking the only entrance and pelting the mutants with suppression fire.
The first contact immediately pushes the mutated Titans back from their initial position. But after the first wave retreated, the second and third wave comes together!
Over a thousand mutated Titans are marching forward now with a layer of hardened skin on their chest and arms. They look like they already found the way to move forward under heavy fire.
"This is bad! They're still moving forward!" one of the lieutenants panic because his rifle is jammed, and he's struggling to unjam it.
"Cover me!" he kneeled down and forced the empty casing out. Suddenly, his surrounding went quiet, like everyone is out of bullet at the same time.
There's not even people shouting for help.
"What happened? Why are all of you..." the lieutenant turned and look around. Everyone is still standing nearby, and the workers under the wall still occupied with ammunition and food.
When he came back on his feet, even he turned into a mute.
The battleground is on fire, with the mutated Titans are all killed. No complete body can be found on the ground.
"Did a bomb fall on them when I kneeled down?" he asked himself, but there are no explosions or whatever when he's unjamming his rifle!
"The... The soldiers on the front of the vehicles fired their guns, and all the mutated Titans blew. I... I don't know what happened either!" the soldier roughly describes what he saw.
"You might as well keep quiet!" the lieutenant left the wall and headed straight to where the two platoons of Azure Wind soldiers positioned!
"Guys! Do you mind sharing the weapon you just used?" he waved at Zhang Qin Feng's soldier, trying to see if he can get his hand on this weapon as well.
"Sorry, but this weapon is our boss's property. It's inconvenient for us to speak too much about it." Wu Manya rejected the lieutenant's request and returned to his team.
The two platoons move forward to inspect the flesh before he determined that they're harmless now. It seems that the mutation boosts their infection rate and explosive power drastically. But in exchange, the virus no longer able to survive outside of its host.
Without further ado, the two APV moved forward to the pile of flesh. A suction tube with rotors at its cap started to cut them apart before they're sucked into the vehicle to be processed into fuel. Because it comes with a deadly ultra-violet ray, the flesh processed will be safe for fuel conversion, although unsuitable as food.
One of the soldiers found something else after some of the flesh is sucked away.
"Lieutenant!" Wu Manya and Yu Yuan were called over to this place.
Their attention is focused on something that looked like a Red Meteorite Core, but greyish.
They looked at each other, clueless about what to do. But a vibration on Wu Manya's wrist immediately gave him an idea of what to do.
"Sir," Wu Manya addressed Zhang Qin Feng politely the moment the call is connected.
"I saw the people outside cheering nonstop due to something. Tell me some good news," Zhang Qin Feng chuckled. He knows that the frontline just got [Titanfall-ed], but from how the people behaved, he knows that they won the first battle.
"We've tested a few weapons on this fight. Lightning Bolt and S35i are useless against them, with the Leishen Mounted Gun performed even worst. The Gemini sidearm is still capable of dealing with damage by using the Titanium Ammunition."
We've yet to test the Swarmer Unit, Hailstorm, or the Leidenfrost Curtain in this fight." Wu Manya reported everything as he was told after the battle report. But this guy is tricky as well, to keep the suspense last.
"Then how you guy's won?" Zhang Qin Feng asked.
"Reporting sir,"
"One hundred RR-HU with four Railgun Station firing nonstop,"
"They explode like a firecracker, heh!" when the news reaches Zhang Qin Feng's ears, even he smiled.
"Who would ever think that while the railgun is not working on the full-fledged Titan, the smaller RR-HU actually ends up as the game-changer in this fight against the mutated Titans?"
Zhang Qin Feng continued to tap his finger on the table.
"Sir, we've also found a core, greyish." Wu Manya's following words stopped Zhang Qin Feng from tapping.
"Hooo..."
"Collect them, split according to the gang's performance, and bring what's belonged to us and come back."
"I'll send Cao Ying and Cao Zhen to replace your position. ASAP!"