Along a bearing twenty-seven degrees east of north lay a recently repaired railway branch, two artillery ammunition depots, and the defensive sector of India's Seventh Class-A Heavy Infantry Division.
The BETA might not understand what railways and divisional headquarters meant, but they could sense where energy was being continuously directed at them, and where vehicles, personnel, and vast quantities of usable material were gathered.
Unit acknowledgments sounded one after another in the command center.
The 7th Division's ninety main battle tanks began dispersing to either side from their frontal positions. Thirty-six Gao Hai units split into six squads and concealed themselves behind prepared flank shelters; the infantry withdrew from the foremost antitank ditch, leaving only remote demolition charges, directional minefields, and several teams of observers responsible for designating targets. The seventy-two 155-millimeter guns never ceased firing, but their impact points gradually shifted from the edge of the landing crater to the Assault-class advance axis.
The fire control center overlaid the Assault-class speed, terrain gradient, and estimated transit time.
The first blocking zone was less than nine kilometers from them, and time to contact had fallen to three minutes and twelve seconds.
"Eight hundred and thirty-seven in the first wave. The following wave has risen to over fourteen hundred."
"The Fortress-Class identified in the intelligence reports are starting to leave the crater mouth. Estimated visual speed, eighty kilometers per hour."
"The Tank-Class are spreading in three directions. Density is highest to the east."
Lin Cuo's expression did not change. He merely marked the Fortress-Class positions separately in black.
Twenty hours later, once the Main Shaft, reactor, and surface entrances took shape, Kashgar would become a true Hive.
He brought up the Nine Luminaries Squadron, Todo and the Four Holy Swords, the Gao Hai battalion directly under the Hexi Divine Strategy Army,