Actually, saying that the "North Mountain Camp" had been captured wasn't entirely accurate.
At this point, the "North Mountain Camp" held more than three thousand terrified, routed soldiers, over ten thousand defenders whose morale had been dragged down by the fleeing troops, and more than a million tons of munitions and supplies. Of course, it also had all the usual facilities: a field hospital, repair shops, landing pads, garages, and warehouses.
Although the base had only been built after the Imperial army arrived, it was already the size of a small city. The commando force under Meng Jiao numbered fewer than a thousand men. There was no way they could occupy the whole place.
Even so, Meng Jiao felt he had plenty of experience with the question of how to wreck a city-sized base that the Imperial army had worked so hard to build.
The assault force under his command struck as soon as the Imperial army's attention had been drawn away by the so-called "heavy artillery base" their side had buried in the mountains.
At the time, the defenders of "North Mountain Camp" had just seen their own troops off and were busy receiving the defeated soldiers retreating from Marshal Li Yuan's Geller. They certainly hadn't expected the people of Earth to fight so dirty.
The first thing they faced was several rounds of bombardment, which slammed into the warehouses and power plant. Incendiary shells fired from the mountain quickly set ablaze the warehouses packed with over a million tons of supplies, along with a vast expanse of energy panels.
The bombardment naturally came from the Commonwealth assault battalion. Its weapons were ten AK railguns. As everyone knew, weapons made by the unmentionable "Dragon of Dawn" had two features: they could be mass-produced in small workshops, and they could