However, using XK-17 to destroy a whole assembly point only happens in a small part of the whole battlefield.
There are a few tens of thousands of similar assemble points from the undead, but only a few tens of missiles from the Red Army have the warhead that carries with XK-17.
Even missiles that carry tactical nukes, it is still far enough from clearing all the assemble points.
Of course, they do have other types of chemical and biological weapons, but they all found that it is not as effective as the XK-17.
More often, the Red Army is fighting the undead with their guns, cannon, and aircraft.
Like some Red Army Naval Infantry troops, they removed various weapons from the stranded ships, such as placing rocket launchers on armored transport vehicles and installing close-in defense cannons on trucks.
Though the Red Army has the advantage of overwhelming firepower, the undead hordes are almost unlimited, they are always new undead appear in the battlefield after eliminating one.
The high intensity of the fighting caused many of their weapons to either overheat or be on the verge of becoming useless.
The undead gathered most of the country's troops here just to defeat the Red Army.
They only have a chance to change the barrel of cannons or guns when the Air Force builds a firewall in front of their position through aviation incendiary bombs or adjusts the fire frequency by combining various types of weapons.
"Hold on comrade! We will have a better situation when the sun rises, more support we will get by that time. Hold on and victory will be ours!"
A political commissar shouted to his soldiers, trying to encourage them.
But in fact, he does not believe in what he said also, he doubts whether they can hold until the sunset.
Both of his hands are shaking now, a few hours of non-stop shooting, even several of his AK rifles have been scrapped.
The Red Army has prepared enough rifles for their troop.
After the war began, by East German Soviet Army standards, each unit had five times as many guns as its personnel.
Commissar starts to feel despair, he knows where their troops are, the closest friendly forces are a few tens of kilometers away, which means they are surrounded by the undead.
Everyone in his troop has picked up a rifle and joined the fight, from vehicle drivers to military cooks.
Also feeling desperate are the two main commanders of the undead.
Now Lord Voren asking Marshal Draven madly.
"Marshal, what happened? I thought you said that they had lost their supply and we should be able to destroy them easily, so why didn't our troops be able to crush them after so many hours instead we have lost so many strongholds and bunkers in just a few hours!? What do you think that we should do now, retreat ?"
Draven sweating due to nervousness, knows all the troops at the frontline is the remaining troops that Nazg can assemble. If they are all lost, he, Voren, and the whole Nazg will not going to have a good ending.
"My lord, I believe this was just a small error in forecasting our enemy's supplies, but believe me, they can't hold longer for how long. As long as our troops continue their assault, then we can crush them when the sunrise, if still not able by then, then we should continue until we succeed, we are just halfway until it and we should not give up, we will not get any chance like this if we just retreat now."
Voren felt a little restless in his heart, what if Draven went wrong again, but it did not seem like he had any other choices now. Troops in the frontline send some reports about eliminating some enemies' small troops and garrisons in the occupied villages, which means the enemy does not know anything about their assault.
But this seems even worse, the enemy can hold their attack and due such heavy damage in such conditions, what if they have a break and are well prepared, can the undead still hold them?
Think about this, Voren has made the decision.
"Alright, I believe in you, Marshal."
Draven breathed a sigh of relief. If Voren did not accept his suggestion, then the chance of the empire defeating the enemy would be extremely close to zero.
"For a little safer, Marshal, you should go to the frontline and command it yourself, bring the equipment we are newly made also. I believe it will be working to our enemy and also help our troops."
Just finishing saying the sentence, Voren still tells to Draven worry.
"I understand this equipment is limited, and can't change the entire battle, but..., in case our army is defeated, please promise me to bring as much as you can to Plainspire, we need more to defend here, especially our new equipment, if possible bring the equipment back here before the sunrise, our enemy has many strong abilities to find it out."
"Understand my lord, I will kill as much as I can and bring all our equipment back."
Draven eyes immediately gain back his confidence after Voren asks him to use the equipment.
He has seen the use of this equipment and understands how strong they are when against humans.
After bidding farewell to the lord, he walked out of the gate, mounted his dragon, and headed to the base where the new type of weapon was prepared to be deployed.
Mounting his dragon and flying above the base, and shouted,
"Everyone prepare to move! Bring all the equipment and follow me to the frontline."
Soldiers below immediately mount on their dragon, controlling the dragon to grab on their new equipment.
They are the few remaining dragon knights of Nazg.
The new equipment only has 4, but it requires at least 4 dragons to carry one of them.
It is a massive ballista, with a range of at least 40km.
The ballista has a width of 20m, a length of 40m, and a height of 5m.
Those dragons grab the massive ballista with their big claws, from the front, left, right, and behind.
Soon, they reach the nearest battlefield with it.
"Set it here, we will launch one of them first, let see how strong it is."
Dragon Knight starts to set up in a position that is 40km away from the Red Army position.
Draven was flying in the sky on a dragon and clearly saw the Red Army ahead.
More than 10000 men, don't know what level of troops they belong to in the Soviet army.
They were defending the undead hordes on high ground, causing the hordes to have difficulty breaking through it.
So today they will be the first experiment product of their new weapon.
"Reporting to Marshal, 'Dora-1' is ready!"
"Alright, fire at will."
As Draven ordered, the ballista started to accumulate power, an energy ball started to form at the projectile.
The energy ball does not launch after form but continues to collect energy for another few minutes.
Finally, when it reaches the limit of the ballista, the ball is now only the size of a basketball.
"Biu!"
The launched balls streaked across the night sky like a meteor shower.
Red Army soldiers spotted this immediately, just as they wanted to report, the ball had already reached the center of their position.
It floats in mid-air, and the energy inside it starts to release.
First affected were all kinds of vehicles in the position, their fuel was ignited from inside, and the entire position was filled with explosions instantly.
Not long after, the personnel in the position also started to be affected by the ball, their skin started to drop, and then their muscle, then their consciousness.
In the end, all that's left is their unconscious bodies, with their rotting muscles, and the clothes they wore.
The whole Red Army in the position, more than 10000 men, are all eliminated.
And the whole process only takes less than a minute.
These soldiers who have been turned into zombies, still remember some of their skills when they are alive, for example, shooting.
They started to turn around, rushing to the other Red Army position like how the other undead are, but holding an AK in their hand.
"Marshal, we have success, what should we do next?"
The dragon knight asks Draven excitedly.
Draven also has a smile on his face, after so long of fighting, they finally find an efficient way to counter the Red Army, and this is the biggest result after the battle of Leningrad.
"Bring Dora-1 back to Plainspire, and the rest, follow me to other battlefields."
One of the bad things about 'Dora', it takes a long time to recharge its energy, mostly 3 days to a week.
In the next 30 minutes, the rest of the three 'Dora' again successfully destroyed another three troops of the Soviet Army.
Reports of the loss of contact between the four units and the fire contact with some zombies wearing Red Army uniforms and knowing how to shoot were also quickly sent to Orgakov.
He found that this may be some kind of magic from the undead.
"Mr Alistair, do you know what exactly happened to our army?"
Orgarkov asked the military advisor from Karak.
Alistair thinks for a while, and then he remembers something.
"Marshal, I believe I could answer your question."
"I believe what happened to those few troops is because of the undead zombification technology, it will turn humans or animals into zombies by corrupting their souls. Applying these techniques to living things normally requires more energy and 'Faguang' than applying it on a corpse."
"There is no way to prevent them from turning a normal human into a zombie without magic. The only way to stop them from converting corpses is to purge the body and soul after death."
"Unfortunately I have never seen the undead use this type of technology to destroy a whole army in such a short time, so I suspect that this may be a new weapon that is newly developed "
Orgarkov has a moment of silence, from the information provided now, many things can be analyzed.
Its requires a large amount of energy, and there is only four units have been zombification in the few thousand kilometers of the front line.
Orgakov now suspects that this weapon is limited in number and has many limitations.
He look at the time on his watch, 2 more hours left to be dawn.
More reinforcement will be sent from Moscow when the dawn comes, Orgarkov heard that some new types of fighter jets and aircraft might be coming to help.
But how much can these plane help? He doubts it.
After understanding the current situation, he immediately called a staff officer and began to issue orders.
"Lieutenant come here, send the order to our troops, for troops that are in the most frontline, continue their defense after dawn, and for troops that are behind, ask them to start cleaning all the undead and their bunker area by area after getting supply from the air force, ask Govorov and Ghasnov to be responsible for coordination issues between various units."
"Also require the air force and Moscow to investigate how the undead zombification has done. What weapon do they use? What is their range, size, everything!"
"Affirmative."
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One hour later, an airport near Leningrad.
Ground crews are busy refueling several planes that have just landed from Moscow.
In the dark night, crews that stay further away can still tell that these are fighter jets by their appearance.
Except for the IL-76 that landed, no one in the airport can tell out the names of these fighters.
Yet, they still get attracted by their impressive and formidable appearance.
Through the little lights in the airport, they could also see that the streamlined shape of this aircraft was different from other aircraft.
After finishing refueling, they started to attach missiles that carried nukes on them.
As more weapons were attached, the crews discovered that these aircraft seemed to be able to carry more missiles than other aircraft.
Time starts to pass minute by minute when the ground crew finishes everything for these planes and IL-76, the sun starts to rise.
People inside the airport can finally fully see its true face.
"Comrade, these fighters ... are so beautiful."
One of the crew in the tower murmured to himself.
"I agreed, Comrade."
The other also said.
There are in total of 4 new fighters in the airports now, and they are ready to take off.