Fifth Wave (2)

"The plan works! What's next, sir?" Guo Jing quickly reported to Zhang Qin Feng as the battlefield regularly gets updated. The Titanfall's crowd continues to grow as time past, but perhaps due to the lack of targets, their number of Warriors dwindled.

"Keep the formation as it. Wait for backup." Zhang Qin Feng's order is direct. The frontline shall hold their position until their support came.

And with the help from Wasp, they're capable of Hit and Run tactics while focusing their defense on the few major breaking points. When it gets worst, a piece of Atom Battery can be thrown for it to explodes. The explosion around 10 to 15 meters width is far more persuasive than a cannon fire from an Abraham Tank.

On Wednesday morning, about two platoons worth of soldiers departed from Azure Wind Base, carrying the best equipment available within their arsenal.

Close to two units deployed their weapon 2 kilometers from the frontline.

As for the remaining eight units, two followed the newly developed King-Rhino, while the others were deployed with either a ChemRail or RR-HU to the frontline.

Just like this, the battle entered a situation where none of both sides manage to grab the initiative. The two units above the roof continuously blown the Titans into pieces, but the mutants quickly hide after a few Titan fallen to their victim.

But the Anti-Siege Rifle is still strong enough to deliver penance to other mutants. It's just that firing such a bullet at a weak target is a waste of resources.

The balance was finally disturbed after King Rhino's active participation in the battle. Using the ChemRail provided on the upper chassis, mutants like Water Lurkers got turned into a beehive before the Double-Barrel Ballistic Cannon tilt the battlefield.

Their battle for the supremacy right in this area continued with the mutants started to stands on the losing side. Splitting their numbers into three turned out to be a mistake, as the two top tier gang's defense remained strong.

And with the battle standing on mankind's favor, the Titanfall's wave gets thinner, until the roar of retreat sounded throughout the battlefield.

Five waves and nothing more. The signal of retreat brought the entire crowd of mutants out from Changyang City, with no SCV spawns remained. Of course, as time past, they'll be back soon, although less compared to Titanfall's wave.

"We've won! We actually won against the Titanfall!" the soldiers cheered and hugs each other to vent everything inside of their hearts. But that's also signaled the end of their alliance. With most of them already returned to their bases, it won't be weird if someone decided to turn their guns on another.

"Han Niu, Niu Ke, you'll defend this place after the remains are all collected. Others, get busy, clear the battlefield, and come back." Zhang Qin Feng ordered. Since the battle already ended, it's time for them to make sure they harvest everything littered on their way.

And with more Minos joining them, the collection went off pretty well until it's completed on Friday morning.

Zhang Qin Feng made a call to Luo Qing before he traveled into the Apocalypse.

"In total, we've collected 8,000 cores, close to 10,000 carapaces from Water Lurker, and corpses from Titans. There's also a mixture of 1,000 red and green cores," Dan Bao reported to Zhang Qin Feng as he read through the report.

"As for the battle report, five APVs are destroyed in this battle, along with 40 Minos, 120 Wolves, over 600 RR-HU, and no less than 2,000 BSV units. 30 Wasps fall on the battle, 6 of them due to bad piloting."

"We've lost 150 people in total, and waiting for your order to cremate them en masse. Their family members are given a different tag status, to honor them for their sacrifice." Dan Bao's following report pains Zhang Qin Feng, after he's delighted with 800,000 kg worth of Duranium entering his pocket, 15 units worth of skilled soldier fallen in this Titanfall.

It must feel even worst, especially to his men who have to kill their friends who've transformed into a Warrior from contact.

But luckily, the good news continued after he's done feeling bad.

Out of the 18 smaller bases in the alliance, ten decided to join Azure Wind Base to fight for Zhang Qin Feng's cause. It was great because that's an increase of close to 18,000 people. With his own number of people added into this big family, that's a 20,000 headcount under Zhang Qin Feng's whim.

With this, it brings Azure Wind Gang the rise onto the top, worthy of being called as the sixth top tier gang in this Changyang City.

From what he Guo Jing shared to him, out of the five top-tiered gangs, Xicheng Base came up at the top, with no less than 45,000 people. Wanshui Group comes at second, with 41,000 people. The Tang Family Gate and Yang Militarized Group take third and fourth, with 35,000 and 33,000 people.

Out of all of them, Sandrock Base is the smallest, with 26,000 people. But now, with Zhang Qin Feng's Azure Wind Gang counted inside, he's taking the last spot with a mere 20,000 people.

But one shouldn't underestimate this number.

When Zhang Qin Feng is still at 2,100 people, it cost him a truckload of goods to support his base for a single week. And with 20,000 mouths to feed, ten might be not enough.

Zhang Qin Feng also has to establish a legal source to lawfully supply him with the goods. If it wasn't handled properly, those from Five Families, Hongxin Party, and Heilong Gang might come to cause him some trouble.

Also in his concern is the volume of his order.

Like Mr. Wang's biscuit Factory, making a hundred boxes order might be manageable. But what if Zhang Qin Feng gave him a weekly order of a thousand boxes?

That time limit itself is going to push the company into its end. Let alone the quality control, equipment, and manpower. Perhaps not even a month is needed for the machine to breaks down and surrender.

Next comes in his mind is about the concern like the number of soldiers, department, and available jobs. Maybe the base is capable of coping with a sudden increase of 2,000 people, but 18,000 people added into the big family might give pressure on their current system.

Equipment, technology, lifestyle, and self-control are nothing the same as what they have outside.

"Dan Bao," Zhang Qin Feng called.

"Sir," Dan Bao replied.

"Cooperate with your brother and Guo Fu on what to do with the people joining us. Made sure all of them know the rules of our Azure Wind Base, and temporary limits them from patronizing the pub and canteen."

"You may select fit and experienced soldiers to join the military department. The numbers shouldn't be more than 100 platoons," Zhang Qin Feng's order also meant that he's going to increase their military strength tenfold.

That's a crazy intention, even to someone resourceful like Zhang Qin Feng.

"Delay the open interview for the Stein Tech Research Department. As for all others, we welcome them to join any of our available departments. Just made sure that there's nothing big happens for the next two days until I came back."

"Can you do it?" Zhang Qin Feng asked. There are less than four hours before it's midnight, and he'll have to make sure he can leave without worries for two days.

"Of course, sir!"

"I'll make sure that the base is taken cared of during your absence!" Dan Bao answered. He's confident he can do it.