They finally saw the enemy.
No longer distant points of light beyond their reach, but a visible defensive line of steel and trenches.
Victory seemed within reach.
Yet when the first Lesser Demon charged within a thousand meters of the position, the ground beneath its foot suddenly gave way.
Click.
At the faint sound, it looked down in confusion and moved its foot aside.
BOOM!!!
A ball of fire erupted beneath its feet, and a dense spray of steel balls instantly shredded its body.
This was only the beginning.
BOOM! BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!!!
An unbroken series of explosions erupted along the Demon Clan army's charge route.
Bounding antipersonnel mines, Claymore mines, smart sensor mines...
The minefield the soldiers had laid bared its savage fangs at that moment.
Every explosion marked the fall of one or even several Demon Creatures.
The tanks' gun barrels recoiled and returned without pause, each shot kicking up dust under the recoil.
The demons at the forefront used their own flesh and blood to clear a road of death for their comrades behind them.
In the sky, the remaining thousands of flying Demon Creatures also launched their final, desperate charge.
Roaring, they dived from high above, attempting to smash open a path for the ground forces with their bodies.
"Air defense units, fire at will!"
Long Zhan issued the order in time.
Behind the position, the barrels of fifty Land Shield 3000 close-in weapon systems began spinning at high speed.
BRRRRRRRRT!!!
The eleven-barreled, 30 mm Gatling rotary cannons combined a terrifying rate of 12,000 rounds per minute with Tungsten Alloy discarding-sabot armor-piercing cubic nitrogen rounds, delivering extraordinary power.
They spat streams of blazing rounds that wove an impenetrable curtain of death across the sky.
The diving Winged Demons and Gargoyles seemed to slam into an invisible