Chapter 337 The Battle Begins
Mo Xiulian has an adorable baby face, and he's not very tall. Although he's over 9 years old, he looks like he's 7 or 8.
His easygoing personality didn't seem like that of a fire-type at all. Ah Chen felt that his previous understanding of the connection between the types of superpowers and personality was wrong.
However, this senior student Gong Yan has a certain sharpness, which is characteristic of metal, and she started bullying Tsuzaki Kaori right away.
He didn't like people like that, but he knew that the reason these two senior students were brought by Teacher Hengjiang was definitely not just to make up the numbers.
They must have some extraordinary abilities, otherwise why should the group lose 16 points just because they were there?
"Seniors, shouldn't our group elect a group leader? Otherwise, it will be difficult to coordinate our actions," Achen said to Gong Yan and Mo Xiu.
"I'm too impatient to manage things, so let Mo Xiulian be the group leader," Gong Yan said casually.
Ah Chen and Tsuzaki Kaori exchanged a silent glance, both feeling somewhat unhappy.
The four of them didn't care about being the group leader, but this person immediately decided on the group leader, which was far too frivolous.
"Hehe, juniors, please don't mind. I was the vice class monitor before, so Gong Yan made me the group leader." Mo Xiulian said awkwardly as he quickly explained.
“Alright, then I’ll have to leave the rest of the operation to Senior Mo.” A-Chen said expressionlessly.
It's impossible to get him to wholeheartedly submit under these circumstances. But with a major battle imminent, he wouldn't let such a trivial matter cause him to quarrel with his teammates.
Tsuzaki Kaori winked at him, clearly indicating that she would listen to him.
Teacher Hengjiang led his students on their way to a battle at a lake near the highlands.
In front of the lakeside highlands lies the largest lake on Green Algae Star, the Seven-Colored Lake. However, after years of torrential rains, more than a dozen smaller lakes have sprung up near the Seven-Colored Lake.
However, the so-called small area is only compared to the main body of the Seven Colors Lake. Each of these small lakes is at least tens or hundreds of hectares in size.
Beneath the vast expanse of water, many mutated aquatic beasts will inevitably emerge, while the lush mutated plants surrounding these waters will in turn give rise to many mutated land beasts.
Now, under the unified command of highly intelligent, high-level mutated beasts, both aquatic and terrestrial beasts have begun to form alliances and counter-alliances.
Once the scouts of the vanguard battalion discover that the water and land beasts are beginning to gather in one place, they will immediately send the information back, and the commander of the vanguard battalion will dispatch soldiers to encircle and annihilate them.
As the saying goes, the first to strike wins, and the last to strike suffers.
Today's practical assessment involves the teachers leading the students in a raid led by the squad leader.
Captain Qiao Jingsheng is a fifth-tier wood-type ability user, but his wood-type ability is a rare combat type because he has contracted a fourth-tier mutated ivy.
Even before the cataclysm, the Virginia creeper was a plant with extremely strong vitality and reproductive ability.
The mutated fourth-tier ivy can grow vines and branches as thick as a wrist in a very short time, tightly binding enemies like a noose, severing their bones and devouring their flesh.
This is also why Qiao Jingsheng, a fifth-tier wood-type, could serve as the captain.
"Speed is of the essence in war! My scouts reported half an hour ago that more than 500 aquatic and land beasts have gathered near Lake No. 11. Let's set off immediately!" Qiao Jingsheng said decisively.
The soldiers quickly boarded the fighter jets, and the students, under the guidance of teacher Hengjiang, also boarded the planes as quickly as possible.
Although they usually boast that they are fast enough, they are still a bit behind compared to truly well-trained soldiers.
However, Qiao Jingsheng was already quite satisfied with this, as the vanguard battalion had been losing men recently, and there were always some casualties in every battle.
Although these trainees look young, their ability levels are high enough that even if they can only consume the beasts' abilities, they can still alleviate the soldiers' stress.
To ensure the children's safety, the battalion commander gave him preferential treatment in personnel allocation. Normally, for a battle of this scale, he would be assigned at most three companies, but this time, including the students, there were four companies in total.
Three teams make up a squadron. There are a total of 64 students, who are divided into four teams. Qiao Jingsheng assigned these four teams to four squadrons, with one student team assigned to each squadron.
This way, they can be better cared for and prevented from being put in real danger.
Before setting off, he specifically instructed each squad leader and platoon leader to prioritize the safety of the children, as they were the future elites of Green Algae Star and their lives could not be compromised.
Even if Qiao Jingsheng hadn't said anything, the company commanders and squad leaders would have fought to the death to protect the cubs; this belief was ingrained in the bones of every soldier in the vanguard battalion.
After all, they risked their lives to defend the front lines so that the children in the safe zone could grow up safely.
Half an hour later, four medium-sized fighter jets carrying 128 soldiers and 64 children, plus three teachers, four company commanders, and one battalion commander, a total of 200 people, arrived at Lake No. 11.
The children looked down, their eyes wide with amazement.
Countless mutated beasts had gathered around the small lake below the clouds.
Although they begin learning about combat from preschool age, the vast majority of them have never participated in a real battle.
Ah Chen had once gone hunting for mutated beasts with Meng Tong's guards, but as the young master, they naturally dared not let him take risks.
They would often be the ones attacking from the front, while he would sneak up behind them to release a mental cage to trap the beast, or he would use a mental pierce to directly strangle the beast's brain nerves, rendering it unable to fight.
This time, he could finally fight the alien beasts face to face, and Achen couldn't help but feel a little excited.
Looking at the students around me, only a very few of them showed fear when they saw the large number of strange beasts.
Many others were even more excited than him, all eager to launch an attack at the first opportunity.
"All squadron leaders and platoon leaders, listen up! After the fighter jets land, each squadron leader must immediately lead his men to cut the beast horde into four large sections!"
Then the squad leader led his men to carry out a second division, dividing the beasts in their area into three smaller pieces. The squad members then counter-encircled and annihilated the beasts belonging to their respective areas!
"Did you understand?" Qiao Jingsheng shouted.
"Understood!" the four company commanders and twelve squad leaders answered in unison.
The students in the four squads did not appoint squad leaders, so the company commander of the vanguard battalion temporarily took command.
This arrangement was made because the students did not have command abilities, and if the squad leader made a mistake in command, it could very likely cause unnecessary casualties.
The three teachers did not intend to participate in the battle; their main purpose was to remain on the sidelines and only intervene to rescue the students in the event of uncontrollable accidents.
Four fighter jets landed directly in the center of the four areas they were visually identified, and fired laser cannons at an altitude of over 100 meters above the ground.
Laser cannons are unlikely to cause fatal damage to beasts of level three or higher; at most, they will cause superficial wounds.
However, for these beasts whose intelligence is clearly not high, such damage is enough to throw them into disarray.
While the monsters were frantically trying to dodge, the fighter jet swooped down, and Qiao Jingsheng summoned his ivy to entangle the mutated beasts around the fighter jet, preventing them from attacking for the time being.
This gave all the soldiers time to disembark and enter the battle, preventing them from being attacked by alien beasts as soon as they landed.
The moment I jumped off the plane, my ears were filled with the roars and screams of the alien beasts. The previous attack by the laser cannon had injured dozens of them.
Their thick skin was peeling back, revealing flesh and bare bones, but many more strange beasts bared their fangs and claws, charging towards the plane.
The mutated ivy vines managed to entangle the leading beast in time, and the students who rushed off the plane were shocked by the bloody and ferocious scene before them.
Ah Chen, who thought he had participated in real battles, was equally shocked.
Then he heard the captain of his fourth squadron shout: "All members of the 12th squad, head southwest and fight your way out! We must not allow the monsters to gather!"
Ah Chen didn't even bother to listen to the company commander's orders. The battalion commander had said before they set off that speed was of the essence in war. Now that the order from the superior had been given, as a soldier, he should carry it out immediately!
Like a small cannonball, Ah Chen was the first to rush out in the direction designated by the company commander.
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