My Wife is Actually a top-tier Soldier King?!-Chapter 1169 - 1077: Inhuman! Devastating Strike!

Baldet. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Night, lit by the flames of war.

Sudden flashes of explosive light sparkled in the night sky.

Thunderous blasts, like claps of thunder, brought intense tremors and rolling clouds of dust.

Chaotic and dense gunfire erupted from the afternoon and resounded through the night.

Such a spectacle was perhaps only rivaled by the Spring Festival.

People would set off firecrackers and fireworks all night long.

But in Baldet...

Today was not a day of celebration but a day of suffering.

The uninvited Star Federation Marine Corps brought death to this huge and chaotic city.

Enraging Abulaxi’s private armed forces, Nabiya’s regular army, local militias, armed civilians, and others.

The Marines, targeted by public wrath, were mired in a brutal battle with the entire population.

It seemed as if enemies were everywhere.

Sniper and artillery fire were incessant, with shells and rockets flying in from time to time.

They were divided, surrounded, and in utter disarray amidst the chaos of hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Thinking of retreating to the airport for evacuation?

As if it were that easy?

Baldet airport was continuously bombarded with shells, with explosives dropping every moment.

Multiple planes and vehicles had already been destroyed by artillery fire; who would dare to evacuate by air?

And as for breaking out...

Narrow, pothole-ridden streets, densely packed slums.

Already dark as pitch, with poor visibility.

The local populace, familiar with the terrain and street layout, would carry out sneaky attacks.

A burst from an AK assault rifle, a shot from an RPG, a volley of grenades... they’d hit and run, crafty to the extreme.

Tragic! A tragedy!

Each isolated small unit was caught up in fierce fighting.

They had to use armored vehicles to forcefully clear the surrounding slums and build defensive positions.

Escape was impossible; they had no choice but to hold their ground and wait for reinforcements.

From afternoon to evening, they battled hard.

Despite the soldiers being well-defended and heavily armed, the despicable sniper and artillery fire increased casualties.

High-intensity defense operations saw their ammunition dwindling rapidly.

Fortunately, weapons and ammunition were so rife in Baldet that almost every household had some.

Simply breaking into any shop would yield a large amount of light and heavy weaponry and ammunition.

However, the deathblow was...

With Baldet airport out of commission, the wounded could not be evacuated, reinforcements couldn’t arrive, and they could only endure.

Some units tried to break out, only to encounter extremely heavy gunfire.

With anti-tank mines pre-placed on the roads, even tanks couldn’t withstand them; how could they break through?

The war in the district of Baldet had turned into a siege.

Abulaxi’s Cheetah Armed Forces, with combat and command experience, alongside YL Country’s armed personnel, and a large number of armed civilians, continually troubled the Marine Corps.

Preventing them from breaking out and converging, they were segmented, surrounded, and slowly being eroded and obliterated.

Regarding this.

The only support the Star Federation could provide to ground troops was through airstrikes.

Reliant on the Seleck port airport and carrier strike group, they dispatched a large number of fighter jets on rotation.

Guiding the jets with laser designators and infrared heat signatures, the encircled Marines provided target indications.

Beneath the night sky.

A sudden bright blaze.

Several White Phosphorus Incendiary Illumination Shells suddenly burst open from the air.

Like countless dollops of white lime scattered towards the ground, scattering enchantingly – a magnificent sight.

The low-ignition white phosphorus burned upon contact with virtually anything, fiercely igniting upon any surface.

As it produced temperatures exceeding a thousand degrees Celsius, it also generated toxic smoke containing phosphorus pentoxide, which upon inhalation could burn the nasal passages, respiratory tract, and lungs.

If splashed onto the body, it could not be brushed off; flesh would have to be cut away, or it would keep burning, even penetrating bone.

And when it stuck to buildings, vehicles, and vegetation, it rapidly caused massive fires.

The raging fires cast light all around.

Militants caught in the open were in a truly pitiable state.

White phosphorous stuck to them, burning wildly.

No matter how they slapped or rolled, they couldn’t put it out; the intense pain was heart-wrenching and excruciating.

It was as if they had fallen into hell, being tormented by merciless flames.

And those militants hiding inside buildings fled in haste.

What awaited them, of course, was a barrage of gunfire from the Marine troops.

...

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of explosions merged into a continuous roar.

Cluster bombs had been dropped by the fighter jets.

These bombs would spread out quickly at low altitudes, allowing the airflow to scatter each bomb widely, thus increasing the area of coverage before simultaneous detonation, creating an extensive sea of fire.

Such bombing was highly efficient.

Instantly it cleared a large area, significantly reducing the defensive pressure on an isolated Marine squad.

Whoosh~

From a dark corner in the city, a surface-to-air missile suddenly launched into the air.

The missile, with an orange tail flame, trailed long plumes of smoke as it soared towards the sky.

The approaching jets immediately released infrared decoy flares.

Thanks to dedicated electronic jamming aircraft, the old-to-middle-range surface-to-air missiles in Nabiya’s Baldet combat zone were so disrupted that they couldn’t function properly.

But the infrared-guided short-range surface-to-air missiles, especially the man-portable air defense systems, locked onto the jet’s infrared signals to fire; if one wasn’t enough, they’d simply launch several.

Additionally.

The air defense missile systems secretly supplied to Abulaxi’s leader by YL Country also took their chance to shoot from the shadows.

The long-range air defense missiles capable of downing the War Statistics Institute’s special plane had radar systems considered world-class.