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OPI Chapter 128: Strategic Maneuvers
🕑 Added 2024-03-24 07:01:57 +0000 UTC"Humph, war is not a child's game. We have to wait until both sides are ready for confrontation!" Bullet got up from the bed showing his body covered in wounds and burns. "By the way, where is that guy Crocodile?"
Only then did he remember the defeated general.
"Lieutenant General Crocodile has already returned to the Home World and is going to Cipher Pol headquarters for training." Addison said, resigned.
Bullet snorted in disdain. "That guy better leave. What about Amatori Biba? Did he leave with him?"
"No, he didn't. Originally, Lieutenant General Crocodile wanted to take him back with him, but he decided to stay here arguing that he didn't want to lose the opportunity to obtain military merits."
"Kahahaha, what a smart kid. I thought he was just another idiot who only knows how to act clever!"
...
A Hayajiro from the Governors alliance entered the region under Kongoukaku's control without problems, and as he entered deeper into the territory, soldiers dressed in black emerged from the forest where the Hayajiro had just passed.
"Tsk..." Bullet appeared and had a clearly displeased expression as he spat towards the retreating Hayajiro.
"It's not the Narukami, it looks like we'll have to wait a little longer... Everyone, stay hidden. If anyone is discovered, don't blame me for ripping their head off."
After the order, all the soldiers retreated into the darkness of the forest.
Bullet took out a Den-Den Mushi, called the colonel in charge of another access line to Kongoukaku and asked him. "How's it going over there?"
"Report, a Hayajiro just passed by, but it's not the Narukami!"
"Keep observing. Once you find the target, intercept it immediately and wait for support from other troops. However, let all the other Hayajiro go!"
"Yes, Lieutenant General!"
Bullet then called the other two colonels in charge of the remaining access lines, and the answers he got were the same.
Since Bullet learned that the forces of the Coalition of Governors were several times superior to his own, in addition to gathering intelligence information from various sources, he decided to ambush them.
And their first objective is to take over the Narukami!
Follow the introduction of Biba.
Narukami is actually an automatic cannon mounted on a Hayajiro. The cannon is more than four meters long and has a caliber of 480 mm. It's very easy to recognize!
After letting a Hayajiro pass by again, finally, about two hours later, a white Hayajiro with a huge cannon appeared.
Seeing it, Bullet showed a devilish and bloodthirsty smile.
In order to fulfill the training purpose, he cannot intervene easily, but he also wants to personally join the battle to experience the feeling of fighting on the battlefield, which had been absent for a long time. Therefore, he specially brought a heavy sniper rifle, with improved ammunition, the first jet bullets newly modified by Ikoma.
"Good luck..."
His battle plan is very simple, that is, first destroy the strongest part of the Alliance army, and then deal with those who have been let go from the rear one by one!
As the Narukami approached, Bullet aimed the rifle in his hand directly at the front of the Hayajiro and pulled the trigger.
[Boom!]
Bullet's shot was the order to fire.
The next moment, countless bullets fired from the forests on both sides of the road formed a dense network of crossfire, accompanied by the sharp roar of hundreds of artillery shells.
...
[Boom! Boom! Boom!]
The Narukami shook violently from a huge force, causing the unsuspecting soldiers inside to stagger.
Under the control of the engineer, the Hayajiro began to brake sharply, generating sparks between the wheels of the train and the tracks.
"Enemy attack!!" The Manager who was in the control cabin of the Narukami shouted towards the copper pipes next to him, and soon, his voice was transmitted to all the carriages behind.
To be honest, this was the first time they had encountered this situation. The years of fighting with Kabane had made them forget that Kabane could not ambush, but humans could.
When the Narukami soldiers opened the floodgates and were about to go out to fight, a hail of machine gun bullets rushed at them, making bloody holes one after another in their bodies, and a large number of corpses fell.
This made the soldiers behind stop in fear.
"Use a shield!"
"Bring the shields!"
With someone's shout, they quickly brought in specially designed steel shields to stop the Kabane.
The effect was surprisingly good. Under the protection of these large shields, only metallic sounds could be heard as more and more soldiers began to pour out.
It's just that... One after another, the artillery shells fell, knocking down the entire Narukami team formation. Basically anyone who dared to get out of the carriages would turn into a corpse in a few seconds.
"Return fire!"
Soon, the distinctive dull sound of steam guns began to increase.
In the forest under the darkness of the night, around the burning Narukami, nearly ten thousand soldiers engaged in fierce combat.
Meanwhile, the famous 'Narukami' couldn't do anything because they were too close, they could only watch helplessly as the soldiers on their side were constantly massacred and couldn't fire even once.
Suddenly, sharp sounds of artillery fire began to come from the Narukami army's side, and the forest on the Bullet army's side was bombarded...
"Kahahaha!" But this made Bullet even more excited.
"Exactly, that's how it should be!"
"This is the taste of war. What kind of war is it if you only get beaten and don't fight back?"
To be honest, he really...really...really wanted to throw away the weapon in his hand and rush straight into the opponent's formation to kill...
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[Boom! Boom! Boom!]
Hundreds of artillery shells constantly bombarded the Station wall.
"This deployment is really exaggerated..." Biba could clearly see the terrible scene of tens of thousands of troops deployed in formation.
However, despite the numerical advantage, against the high walls and defensive moats of Iwato Station they did not represent much of a threat. But the more than three hundred mortar pieces and more than a hundred cannons in front of them were a different story.
But... unfortunately, the gap between the World Government and Hinomoto is immense.
The so-called coalition of forces for the crusade was destined to perish.
However, Biba's current task was to defend Iwato Station, and it seemed like a rather difficult task now. The biggest threat is the twelve Hayajiro present.
Biba continued analyzing the war situation and was pondering how to get rid of the twelve Hayajiro.
Suddenly, a sound resounded that was so sharp that it suddenly suppressed all the roars on the battlefield.
[Boom!]
The next moment, before the astonished gazes of the Station's defenders, a devastating fireball devoured one of the Hayajiro, and the force of the explosion knocked down two nearby Hayajiro.
"What's that?!"
...
"Kahahaha!"
A kilometer away was the Narukami, full of bullet holes, blood and black ash.
Inside the front of the Narukami, Bullet was just laughing madly as he stood in front of the control panel.
Just now, he used his Kenbunshoku Haki to use the captured Narukami to fire at the alliance's Hayajiro position.
And he specifically targeted Hayajiro where the twelve Governors who led the alliance were hiding.
Their location was too obvious, with twelve people surrounded by hundreds of people with the strongest presences, and they were also in the rear, where else could he aim?
At the same time, the soldiers of Bullet's army had established a defense around the Narukami, with heavy machine guns, mortars, and rocket launchers ready for battle.
Their task was to stop the alliance army's counterattack and give the Narukami more time to fire more projectiles and destroy the rest of the Hayajiro one by one.
Although the simultaneous death of the twelve governors had caused some confusion in the alliance army, the high-ranking samurai quickly established a new command system.
They separated 20 thousand soldiers to continue bombarding the walls of Iwato Station, trying to take it as quickly as possible. Another 10 thousand soldiers were designated as reserves, while the remaining 20 thousand, under the leadership of several samurai, dispersed and advanced towards Bullet's side in a powerful tide.
However, since the distance was one kilometer, reaching it on foot would take quite some time.
As expected, Bullet fired another projectile, completely destroying one of the Hayajiro that was slowly moving to change position.
