Wasteland Commander-Chapter 434 - 125: Iron Curtain Assault

"Commander, the enemy has become cunning now, it’s hard to deal with them. We’ve laid out multiple tactics and kept harassing them, but so far we’ve only managed to sink two insignificant warships."

The officers of the troops responsible for attacking the Jiangzhou Navy are filled with complaints.

The people of Jiangzhou have completely turned into turtles, all huddled together, not giving the Dawn Army any opportunity to exploit.

Planes can’t get through, missiles can’t get through, drones don’t make much impact when deployed, after all, warships aren’t tanks, they’re not so easy to destroy.

Actually, everyone knows these warships currently aren’t getting any logistical support, dragging this on will ultimately lead to annihilation.

But the problem is, the enemy knows this too and is willing to drag it out, which presents an issue.

Ye Fan can’t help but suspect if the enemy has a backup plan.

Just when he was undecided, intelligence from the Military Intelligence Bureau confirmed this suspicion.

"Commander, Maid Country, Shanshen Country, and Kellogg Rooster are all showing signs of movement. They are organizing fleets heading in our direction."

"Oh! Are these countries intending to participate in our internal conflict in Qin Han?"

Ye Fan was somewhat surprised, but upon considering the current situation, he understood.

No wonder, no wonder Chu Yuan adopted such a turtle strategy, it looks like waiting for death, but in reality, it’s rebirth through imitation.

In the current battle, the Dawn Army has almost fully committed its forces.

The rear is extremely vulnerable, the deployable troops have been mostly deployed.

Although Ye Fan still has over a hundred million in funds, it’s all valuable, and meant for preparation for future warfare.

If attacked by several enemy forces at this time, it indeed poses some danger.

"We must swiftly conclude the current war, whether via sea or ground, we need to achieve a breakthrough in at least one direction and thoroughly defeat the enemy. This way, foreign powers will hesitate and fear involvement."

The officers nod in agreement, but are unsure how to achieve a breakthrough in the current situation.

But Ye Fan knows.

Because just now, a system alert sounded.

Iron Curtain construction complete!

After enduring 48 hours of ordeal, the Iron Curtain is finally completed.

Ye Fan quickly returned to Dawn Island, and deployed the Iron Curtain near the parliament building.

This structure spans over a thousand square meters at the base, connects to four massive metal spheres above, which glow with purple lightning, indicating this structure is ready for use.

[Iron Curtain: Red Alert’s special technology, can produce a defensive energy barrier covering a hundred-meter square area. Units within this area will be invincible for an hour, resisting any form of attack. Costs one billion Gold. Note: This skill has a cooldown period of 48 hours, the Iron Curtain device can be constructed repeatedly.]

Seeing this structure complete, Ye Fan was overjoyed.

The prolonged stalemate can now be broken with this Iron Curtain.

Ye Fan now has two options: to use the Iron Curtain on the land forces, covering a group of tanks to charge the enemy’s position.

The other option is to cover the warships, directly charging at the enemy fleet.

Considering for a moment, Ye Fan decided on the second option.

These warships were built at great expense, if they can be crippled, Jiangzhou’s war potential would essentially be nullified.

The only issue is covering the warships, as the Iron Curtain has a coverage area with a length and width of a hundred meters.

While warships typically exceed this range in length, so some portions may not be covered.

Ye Fan could not afford to be choosy now, whatever can be covered will be covered.

Taking a helicopter, Ye Fan flew directly to the Celestial River Battlefield.

Landing on the deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Ye Fan surveyed the surroundings and ultimately decided on the battleships.

In modern naval warfare, battleships are less useful, facing fast-moving missiles, battleships can hardly close in.

However, if a battleship can close in, it undeniably presents a significant threat to the enemy.

Ye Fan immediately issued orders for three battleships to approach.

The width is sufficient to cover three battleships, but the length is insufficient.

Though it’s fine, the bow and stern will not be covered, focusing on the main gun turrets, ammunition storage, and bridge to ensure the ship won’t sink.

Other parts will be left unenforced, as they aren’t critical areas, even if hit, it won’t sink immediately.

The three battleships, previously inactive, approached and aligned with the carrier.

The Dawn Army’s battleships are quite lengthy, each measuring over two hundred meters.

However, approximately fifty meters in the front, at the bow position, crucial equipment is absent and can be disregarded.

Ye Fan began calculating from the front main turret, leaving seventy-five meters uncovered.

Then deploying the Iron Curtain, leaving substantial area at the rear uncovered.

After the Iron Curtain was deployed, a purple glow flickered, covering the middle section of the three battleships.

The covered area had a purple glow that only Ye Fan could perceive, invisible to others; this zone is now in an invincible state.

As for the uncovered front and rear sections, they will sustain damage if hit by missiles.

But at this point, there’s no time for concern, seeing the battleships covered, Ye Fan waved his hand: "Charge! Head to the center of the enemy fleet!"

The Iron Curtain lasts only an hour, upon receiving the order, the three battleships immediately powered up, rumbling as they charged toward the distant enemy carrier battle group.

Due to the battle, the distance between both sides is now less than twenty kilometers.

The Three-Star battleships have reached a speed of thirty knots, and it will take only about ten minutes to reach the pre-determined position.

......

Chu Yuan is aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, directing the battle.

In the sky, Dawn Army’s planes are flying wildly everywhere, but they are hesitant to approach the vicinity directly above the warships.

They are cautious of the ever-present missile defense systems here, and before gaining an advantage, they remain apprehensive.

In the sky, missiles are also flying back and forth wildly. On the Dawn Army side, missiles combined with drones continuously harass, keeping Jiangzhou troops in a state of busy defense.

Although somewhat passive, they can still hold on. This time coming to attack Dawn Island, Chu Yuan’s troops brought ample ammunition, so despite the relentless attacks from the Dawn Army, so far they have only sunk a frigate and a transport ship, which is not much of an impact.

However, Chu Yuan never expected that the other side would have three warships charging in so mindlessly.

The distance isn’t very far, they’ve already identified three battleships.

"Could the commander of these three battleships be coming over to surrender?"

Chu Yuan believed that the Dawn Army had also received information about armies from three countries advancing towards here.

Even though the Dawn Army currently holds an advantage, they cannot take them down quickly. Once reinforcements arrive, the Dawn Army might lose.

In this kind of situation, is the other side’s morale in chaos?

Do these three battleships feel hopeless and come over to surrender?

Sorry, Jiangzhou won’t accept it!

No matter what the Dawn Army’s intentions are, Chu Yuan looks down on these three battleships and directly gives the order.

"Fire! Sink them, surrendering at this point is too late. Our Jiangzhou troops are not a garbage dump accepting any rust bucket."

With Chu Yuan’s order, the Jiangzhou troops opened fire.

Three anti-ship missiles lifted off from the rear cruiser, flying straight towards the three battleships.

Battleships, these relics from the last century, have almost no defense against missiles.

So Chu Yuan had no doubt the three missiles could hit and thought they could sink these relics.

His expectations were half met.

Three missiles indeed launched, faced no interceptions, hit their targets, and even exploded.

Then...

There was nothing more.

The three missiles hit, creating ripples like droplets in a pool, and then vanished.

Like a flying dagger shot into a mud pit, and nothing more.

Seeing this result, Chu Yuan’s mouth was agape, the image fixed for a full ten seconds.

He managed to close his mouth, raised his hand, rubbed his eyes, seemingly unable to believe what he saw.

"Are you sure you hit them?"

"Well, Young Marshal, we should have hit them. According to the radar, direct hit on the body midsection. We even saw the explosion’s flare."

Chu Yuan continued to question, "It exploded, so why is there no smoke?"

The radar operator was left pondering, unable to answer.

Yes, why isn’t there any smoke?

Could it be that the battleships have smoke hoods installed?

What kind of power would it take? What brand?

The radar operator was nearly questioning his existence, looking at Chu Yuan’s questioning eyes, completely unsure what to say.

"Useless! Fire again! Another round!"

Three more missiles were launched, and a few seconds later, hit successfully.

Puff puff puff~~~!

During the explosion, because the enemy’s ships approached again, Chu Yuan vaguely heard that they indeed hit.

But again, nothing followed. The three missiles were like three puffs, finishing with nothing.

Not even as much as three puffs, which could at least knock the opponent over. What is this?

Chu Yuan couldn’t believe his eyes, but this was reality.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"Were our missiles tampered with, launched without warheads?"

"Even without warheads, they should at least crush a few people, right? Is this a ghost?"

Relentlessly, Chu Yuan ordered another missile launch, with the same result, no effect whatsoever.

With this delay, the three battleships of the Dawn Army had already approached Chu Yuan’s combat group.

"No matter! Open fire! Torpedoes! Naval guns! Close-in weapon systems! Fire at will, I want to see, is the Dawn Army’s warship invincible like King Kong?!"