The 28th, seven in the morning.
Underground at Point Three, inside the Dragon Tooth Bunker codenamed "03-1."
The soldiers of the 141st Division's Second Battalion were methodically making their pre-battle preparations.
Though snow was drifting across the surface, the air inside the bunker was unbearably hot and dry.
The smells of machine oil, sweat, metal, medicine...all kinds of odors mingled together, making the tension grow increasingly palpable.
From the outside, the Dragon Tooth Bunker was a massive structure, with a base more than fifty meters in diameter and a height approaching twenty meters.
But its actual interior space was nowhere near as spacious as it appeared.
Its thick, multilayered composite armor walls, complex internal weapons, drive and ammunition-feeding systems, as well as its ammunition depot, first-aid area, and so on, occupied the vast majority of its volume.
Now that nearly five hundred fully armed soldiers from the Second Battalion had entered, the bunker instantly seemed unbearably cramped.
Fortunately, everyone had undergone ten days of rigorous training and spent a long time fighting simulated battles inside a full-scale replica model in the rear.
Now that they had been thrown into the deep end, they still managed to remain orderly.
On the bunker's top level, inside the command room of less than ten square meters.
Zhong Li stared at the three Company Commanders under his command and pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses.
"Last confirmation."
"First Company, responsible for the first level."
"Second Company, responsible for the second level."
"Third Company, responsible for the third level."
His speech was steady and his enunciation clear, as if he were teaching a class.
"For the fixed machine guns at each firing slit, use manual operation whenever possible. Don't put too much faith in the automatic AI."
"I'm worried that thing will fall apart at