RPAGF Chapter 1397 The Shocked Li Guangzhong
Chapter 1397 The Shocked Li Guangzhong
Pingxiang City, Xiguang Province.
The south gate of Pingxiang settlement, a magnificent city gate, casts a huge shadow under the afternoon sun, like a crouching steel behemoth, coldly scrutinizing the winding road ahead.
This is a composite structure made up of layers of precast reinforced concrete components, heavy containers, and military-grade protective steel plates, which are then stacked and poured together.
The base of the city wall is more than five meters wide, gradually narrowing upwards. The surface is covered with firing ports and observation windows. Every fifty meters there is a machine gun turret protruding from the wall, with the barrels of 12.7 mm heavy machine guns protruding from the firing ports, gleaming coldly in the sunlight.
Small air-to-air radars and electro-optical sensors are also mounted on the top of the tower, slowly rotating and vigilantly scanning the sky and the distance.
The city gate itself consists of two hydraulically driven steel gates, each 20 centimeters thick. At this moment, the right gate is half-open, allowing vehicles to pass through.
On either side of the doorway, four fully armed soldiers stood at attention with their guns.
They wore standard digital jungle camouflage combat uniforms from the Central Plains Theater, covered with heavy-duty bulletproof plate carrying gear, FAST high-cut helmets, noise-canceling headphones, and binocular night vision goggles; their eyes behind the masks were as sharp as eagles.
Right on the roadside inside the city gate, a Type 04A infantry fighting vehicle was parked in a guard position.
Its angular turret is slightly tilted to the left, with a 100mm cannon and a 30mm autocannon side by side, the muzzles pointing diagonally to the sky, and a 7.62mm coaxial machine gun next to it.
Outside the city gate, a smooth, paved road made of crushed stone and slag stretches into the distance.
buzzing-
Suddenly, a deep roar of a diesel engine came from the end of the road, breaking the afternoon tranquility.
A heavy military transport vehicle, SX2306, was steadily driving towards the city gate. It was painted in digital jungle camouflage, and the sturdy front bumper and added protective grille made it look particularly imposing.
The carriage is a closed metal box with narrow ventilation and observation windows only on both sides near the top.
Inside the truck bed, the light was dim, with only a few rays of sunlight filtering through the ventilation windows and swaying with the movement of the truck.
Li Guangzhong huddled tightly in the corner, his arms clutching the black duffel bag in his arms.
The bag, heavy with gold and gems weighing over a hundred pounds, offered him no sense of security; instead, it felt like carrying a scorching hot iron.
With each bump of the vehicle, he couldn't help but raise his head and carefully peer through the narrow gap at the front of the carriage, at the soldiers responsible for escorting him.
Two rows of simple folding seats were fixed at the front of the carriage, with four soldiers sitting on either side. They were wearing standard helmets, bulletproof vests, tactical vests, knee and elbow pads, and pistols at their waists, multi-functional daggers at their legs, and numerous magazine pouches on their chests. Every piece of equipment was neatly and professionally arranged.
As Li Guangzhong sized up the soldiers' attire, a storm of emotions raged within him as he journeyed here.
These camouflage uniforms were brightly and evenly colored, and the fabric was thick and sturdy; the tactical vests had full inserts and no worn edges; what made his pupils shrink the most were the rifles that the soldiers were holding in their arms—he had never seen this model before!
As a major staff officer in the Viet army, Le Quang Trung studied the "hypothetical enemy" in the north countless times before his death.
The standard equipment of Zhou Bang's army was definitely not the model shown before them!
What does this mean? It means that the enemy's military-industrial complex has not only recovered, but is also undergoing iterative upgrades!
This is fucking outrageous... You have to understand, this is a post-apocalyptic world where civilization has collapsed!!
We're struggling to get enough to eat and even survival is a problem, and you're still upgrading your military equipment?!
Is this not a testament to the profound heritage of a great nation?
Looking at the soldiers' exposed arms and faces, there was absolutely no sign of malnutrition; on the contrary, they were all frighteningly tall and strong...
In this state of affairs, let alone almost two years into the apocalypse, even before the apocalypse, probably only the special forces in the Yue Kingdom could match them...
Thinking about all this, Li Guangzhong's palms became sweaty.
He couldn't help but look down at himself—his cuffs were worn and frayed, there was still black dirt under his fingernails, and he looked thin and tired.
This is the gap.
It's a gap in equipment, a gap in systems, a gap in logistical support capabilities, and... even more so, a gap in civilization.
He suddenly understood why Commander Nguyen Van Hung had sighed wearily at the end...
Living next to such a behemoth would be a tragedy for any ambitious nation...
Ci—
The transport vehicle began to slow down, and a screeching sound of brakes came from underneath it.
Inside the carriage, four soldiers stood up at the same time, and one of them gestured to him—indicating that he should prepare to get off the train.
The car stopped.
A brief conversation could be heard outside, spoken quickly in Chinese, interspersed with radio noise. Li Guangzhong could only vaguely make out a few words such as "...pass...release..."
Then, the car door was pulled open from the outside, and the blinding sunlight rushed in, causing Li Guangzhong to squint involuntarily.
When his eyes adjusted to the light and he could see the scenery outside the car, he froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.
The magnificent city gate was right there!
Compared to his place, their own settlement was no different from a beggar's den...
The 04A infantry fighting vehicle inside the city gate, with its dark cannon muzzle, seemed to be aimed directly at his heart.
Further away, one can see neat roads, orderly rows of buildings, soldiers marching in formation, and...
The newly arrived army-level heavy equipment, which he had never seen before but had studied repeatedly in photographs, was parked in the rear assembly area within sight!
The escorting soldier jumped off the vehicle, turned around, and commanded him in simple Chinese, "Get off the vehicle."
Li Guangzhong took a deep breath, hugged the black duffel bag in his arms tightly, his legs were a little weak, but he forced himself to stand up.
He clutched the heavy black duffel bag, his gaze uncontrollably drawn past the magnificent city gate, peering in with a mixture of greed and fear.
The scene inside the city was even more breathtaking than what he had glimpsed through the observation window of the transport vehicle:
—The clean, paved roads, the orderly rows of buildings, and the massive assembly area faintly visible in the distance, with its steel behemoths that exude a sense of oppression even when hundreds of meters apart.
"This way," the escorting soldier's brief words interrupted his reverie.
The soldier didn't even glance at him, but simply pointed to a spot not far inside the city gate.
Li Guangzhong looked in the direction he was pointing and saw a small, oddly shaped vehicle that he had never seen before, parked quietly there.
That car is way too small!
Compared to the SX2306 heavy transport vehicle he had just ridden in, this little car looked like a toy.
The vehicle is low and compact with a high ground clearance. Four sturdy off-road tires occupy a large part of the visual area, and the treads on the tires are deep and dense, clearly designed to cope with various complex terrains.
The vehicle is covered in the same digital jungle camouflage as the soldiers' uniforms, with sharp edges that make it look sturdy and robust.
But what truly made Li Guangzhong's pupils shrink suddenly was the top of this "car"!
A thick 12.7mm heavy machine gun barrel was brazenly mounted on a simple rotating gun mount on the roof of the vehicle!
The gun was in excellent condition; the black barrel gleamed with a cold, oily sheen in the sunlight, and the ammunition box hung on the side of the gun, with the bright yellow bullets clearly visible inside.
A vehicle this small, equipped with a 12.7mm heavy machine gun?!
Isn't this a fucking waste?
Do they really know what a 12.7mm heavy machine gun means?! In their division, it would be an absolute treasure.
And here, they just give us a toy car?!
Thinking about all this, Li Guangzhong felt that reality was simply too absurd...
"Lynx. All-terrain assault vehicle."
The soldier escorting him seemed to notice his gaze and, unusually, spoke up, his tone flat, as if introducing something utterly ordinary.
"boarding."
Li Guangzhong composed himself, hugged the bag in his arms tightly, and tried his best to climb into the back seat of the "Lynx" without looking too disheveled.
The interior space was indeed cramped; the back seat could barely fit him and his luggage bag. The driver, a young soldier, was in the front seat, wearing headphones and focused on driving without looking back.
The escorting soldier sat in the passenger seat with his back to him.
hum-
The Lynx's engine emitted a sharp and powerful roar that was completely disproportionate to its small size. The car jolted violently, the tires gripped the ground, and it sped towards the south gate.
Li Guangzhong tried to remain calm, but his gaze kept drifting out the car window.
The car windows had no glass, only simple rollover brackets and canvas curtains that could be quickly hung up. At this moment, the canvas curtains were rolled up, providing excellent visibility.
The lynx drove onto the wide, smooth road inside the settlement.
The scenery on both sides of the road unfolded before his eyes like an apocalyptic myth!
The first thing that catches the eye is the endless stream of military vehicles on the road!
One after another, they passed by his Lynx!
There were also Mengshi armored assault vehicles painted with digital camouflage, their angular bodies even covered in fresh mud, clearly having just returned from the field.
There were military trucks of a model he couldn't name, with long cargo beds filled with supplies, all covered tightly with dark green waterproof tarpaulins.
There are also many more uniquely shaped vehicles that are clearly special models, equipped with various antennas or oddly shaped devices.
Every vehicle was in excellent condition, with the camouflage coating looking brand new and the tire treads clearly visible. You couldn't tell at all that they had struggled for two years in the apocalypse!
When he saw a place that looked like a temporary parking lot by the roadside, he was completely taken aback!
There, lined up in a row, were at least twenty main battle tanks that he had never seen before and that were extremely advanced!
This made Li Guangzhong instinctively grip the seat beneath him.
Those tanks were incredibly large, with wide hulls, heavy wedge-shaped turrets, and thick 125mm smoothbore gun barrels. Even when they were in a marching position with the gun muzzle facing backward, the oppressive feeling that seemed capable of crushing everything was overwhelming!
The add-on armor modules on the turret, the reactive armor on the sides of the hull, and those thick tracks... everything was so clear it was almost blinding!
The Lynx continued driving, and more steel behemoths came into view.
In an open area, a dozen self-propelled artillery pieces were parked in battle formation, their long barrels raised high, pointing towards the sky.
Further away, there were even more pieces of equipment that he couldn't recognize at all.
Wheeled assault guns, lighter than tanks, but with equally thick and long gun barrels; infantry fighting vehicles, one after another, their turret-mounted autocannons resembling branches in a forest; anti-aircraft missile launchers, their rectangular launch boxes tilting upwards, concealing missiles of a completely new type he had never seen before; various types of radar vehicles, command vehicles, communication vehicles…
Some were lined up, some were parked by the roadside awaiting instructions, and some were undergoing inspection and maintenance by soldiers...
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