Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!

Chan Country Yang City!

As the capital of Chan Country, this city is populated by over six million people and is considered one of the few large cities in Chan Country.

The Beautiful Country expeditionary fleet had carefully checked everything before finally choosing this location as their landing point, and batches of Marine Corps soldiers disembarked from the transport ships.

Because the depth of Yangon port was insufficient for docking mega ships and for fear of those inexplicable water mine attacks, the expeditionary fleet remained offshore, serving solely as a platform for firepower strikes.

Over these days, Beautiful Country also brought many soldiers to Chan Country from the Middle East and Japan and South Korea, using its globally scattered military bases and transport planes.

A constant flow of planes kept shuttling, with fighter jets arriving at Chan Country Airport.

The number of Beautiful Country soldiers stationed within Chan Country had steadily increased, already surpassing ten thousand.

General Davila had also come ashore by this time and was inspecting the Chan Country Government Army.

As a world superpower, General Davila had visited many armies worldwide, but he was still shocked by the state of the Chan Country Government Army he encountered.

The levels of training and weapons equipment aside, the main issue was the extremely disorganized morale and rampant occurrence of ghost employment.

From what General Davila saw during his inspection, a battalion supposed to have two to three hundred people was ghosting over a hundred headcount.

Nominally called a battalion, it was in reality just an infantry company.

"Moritz, has Chan Country always been like this?"

General Davila looked at Moritz, who was accompanying him on the inspection, unable to suppress the desire to complain.
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"Otherwise why would Chan Country always be in turmoil? If they were capable of fighting even slightly, they wouldn't be split and chaotic up to this day."

Moritz shook his head and spoke some data: "In 2000, Chan Country still had an army of 400,000. Over the years, they never advanced, draining the system with ghost employment. Now the soldiers under the Chan Country Government are only about a hundred thousand, and those fit for combat are just sixty to seventy thousand.

According to informants, back in 2000, a typical battalion in Chan Country had a combat structure of 857 people, including 31 officers.

Later, due to a shortage of soldiers, the structure was reduced and dispersed, cutting a battalion size down to 200, with the aim to deploy at least 120 on the front lines, leave about 60 back at the base, and approximately 20 in mobile service outside the battalion.

But in reality, very few battalions ever reached the reduced threshold of 200 people, most having only about a hundred or even fewer."

"A small amount of force, mostly deployed to guard banks, administrative offices, and towns where bases are located, lacking the capability to venture out for combat."

General Davila twitched his mouth twice, speechless at such an army, which was weaker than anything he could have imagined.

"It seems the main fighting will have to be done by us."

General Davila sighed, already having little hope for the combat effectiveness of the Chan Country Government Army.

"Right now, Jieke Security is attacking the Guo Family Warlords, which is the last territory in East Qin State not yet occupied by Jieke Security. We need to preserve it and gain a foothold for advancement, General Davila, when can your soldiers be in position?"

"Currently, two of our infantry battalions have already rushed to the frontline. In the name of mercenaries, they will join up with eight thousand government army soldiers and five thousand warlord forces to counterattack the Mande Region.

In the last few days, we have been intensifying the saturation bombing of the mountainous area where Jieke Security is based. According to satellite reconnaissance, our bombings are quite effective.

Under our intensive bombing, they probably have already suffered heavy losses and are in panic.

Just a bit more effort, and our ground forces can flatten them in one go, and this war can also be concluded."

General Davila was highly confident, with a battalion of the Beautiful Country's Marine Corps consisting of over three thousand men, along with air support, winning this battle seemed to pose no problem.

As Davila spoke, he suddenly thought of something, "Enough about my situation, have you located Su Jie yet?"

"Not yet, the other party is very cunning, appearing only in public places and never showing himself otherwise."

Moritz was a bit troubled, the enemy's cunning nature made capturing the person and bringing him back for trial in Beautiful Country more difficult.

"It doesn't matter, once we defeat those Jieke Security, Su Jie will be nothing but a commander without troops. At that point, he will be ours to shape as we please."

Davila didn't care about this; capturing Su Jie was not important to him. His current desire was to defeat the Jieke Group, to make up for his previous mistakes in the Dan Mian naval battle.

Moritz, on the other hand, had even more concerns, as the CIA needed the Tianyuan Hair Growth Liquid formula. The warlord supported by Asder Pharmaceutical obviously wasn't up to the task, and now the CIA had no choice but to take matters into their own hands, given their interests.

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Two days later.

At a front line 800 kilometers from Yang City, Fengpo Mountain, a very complex and narrow mountainous dense forest.

Guo Mindeng's territory was shaped like a dumbbell, thick at both ends and thin in the middle.

Fengpo Mountain was located right in the middle, and was now occupied by Jieke Security, cutting Guo Mindeng's territory into two parts, making it impossible for the two ends to communicate.

To relieve Guo Mindeng's encirclement, this mountain area was essential to capture.

At noon, after yet another extensive barrage of artillery fire, thousands of soldiers from the Beautiful Country's Marine Corps, in collaboration with thousands from the Chan Country Government Army and the few remaining defeated troops of Guo Mindeng, cautiously approached Fengpo Mountain.

The reason they dared to enter the mountain was not that they didn't learn from the previous defeats of the warlord forces.

It was because of their confidence in the devastation of their own bombing, the commanders from Beautiful Country gauged through satellite reconnaissance that the bombing had taken care of most of the enemy; it was now just a matter of sending troops to clear up the remnants and secure the position, posing no significant threat.

The search team spread out, with warlord soldiers who had previously encountered Jieke Security up front, followed by government troops, and finally the soldiers from Beautiful Country at the rear.

The whole team moved very slowly, especially the warlord soldiers, who were terrified by Jieke Security and had become skittish, dropping to the ground at the slightest rustle, not daring to lift their heads.

"Haven't seen a single person, could they all have been bombed to death?"

Nadaya looked at the bomb-scarred mountaintop, not seeing a soul for a long time.

On the other side, Blais nodded, saying, "The Air Force and artillery have been bombing here for days. The soldiers stationed here should have retreated, not just waiting to be bombed."

"Damn it, last time we lost so many ships, it was this bunch of warlords doing, I was hoping to kill some yellow-skinned monkeys to avenge."

Nadaya cursed, he and Blais were fortunate to have survived the Dan Mian naval battle without injury, but seeing many comrades die in foreign lands had long festered a fire inside them.

"No worries, once we reach the Mande Region, there will definitely be plenty of warlord soldiers, and we'll get our revenge one by one."

As the two conversed, they gradually ventured deeper into the forest.

And as these Beautiful Country soldiers thought they were retreating from Fengpo Mountain, Jieke Security had not actually left.

Unbeknownst to everyone, the forested area of the mountain had already been excavated by the Thousand-Handed Centipede, creating a vast network of underground tunnels.

The soldiers from Jieke Security were lurking underground, silently lying in wait, ready for their prey to step into the trap.