The western part of Yuanjing is a desert area, which once belonged to Qin Han. After the apocalypse, it became part of the Celestial Food Country and was reclaimed by Su Qiao, but now it's invaded again.

Hundreds of thousands of troops from the Western Continent are currently marching through the desert.

Their marching speed isn't fast. According to their Commander, General Jonas from the Zijing Empire, they don't need to be the first to join the battlefield, as long as they ensure their presence when the war ends. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Jonas doesn't intend to be the one sticking his neck out; he's a very cunning person.

Although Qin Han seems to be in turmoil now, under attack by zombies and facing global attacks, it appears about to collapse at any time, but it's not truly that way.

The Dawn Army shows no signs of exhaustion, instead, they appear more courageous in battle, and apart from the situation being very serious in Central Sea City District, other places are temporarily not in danger.

However, Ye Fan is a difficult person to deal with. Dawn Island appears dangerous, but whether it can be taken down remains to be seen.

Moreover, the Dawn Army's nuclear weapons have not been used, coupled with those terrifying weather weapons, Jonas doesn't think that provoking Ye Fan to the extreme at this time is a good choice.

So the Western Continent's troops adopted a lazy marching approach. He wants those from White Eagle Country or Curry Country to take the lead, and he only needs to sit back and enjoy the rewards.

But he never expected that his laid-back attitude would actually draw Ye Fan to come personally with a team.

When he saw countless fighter jets appear in the sky, Jonas knew he had made a mistake.

His leisurely march had precisely reached the middle of the desert, without quickly crossing it, giving Ye Fan an excellent opportunity for an attack.

Most of the Western Continent's forces are infantry, even though there are over three thousand fighter jets, none are fifth-generation!

Before the apocalypse, the countries of the Western Continent never developed genuine fifth-generation jets, only some four-and-a-half or fourth-generation jets.

And now the incoming Dawn Army's fighter jets not only have fifth-generation jets as the main force, but even include some sixth-generation jets!

This air battle, spanning two generations, is without suspense.

With only a thousand fighter jets, the Dawn Army can crush the Western Continent's air force.

After the Western Continent's fighter jets bravely flew into battle, they quickly realized this.

The main force of the Dawn Army is the Attack-20, and they're all Three-Star Attack-20s.

Once upgraded to Three-Star, the Attack-20 can almost be considered as a four-and-a-half-generation fighter jet with ridiculously strong performance.

The Western Continent's jets hadn't even seen the enemy before a long-distance air-to-air missile strike took out a large portion.

The Western Continent's troops tried every means to respond, showcasing classic air combat techniques abound.

But the results remain minimal, as the generation gap stands, and such dimensional crushing isn't something some strategies can change.

Jonas considered a retreat, but some hard-core battleship parties in the Western Continent still clamored, determined to fight the Dawn Army to the bitter end.

Until the sixth-generation fighter appeared.

With the appearance of the Dawn Army's Attack-36 fighter jet, the plane resembling a ginkgo leaf suddenly appeared above several countries' command centers.

This powerful stealth fighter jet completely eluded the Western Continent's radar.

These fighter jets dropped small Mushroom Bombs, consecutively destroying multiple command centers of the Alliance Army.

The command centers of those countries that resisted fiercely were directly flattened by the Mushroom Bombs!

Not only did the Commanders die, but a large portion of their elite troops perished as well.

An enraged Jonas immediately protested, accusing the Dawn Army of violating the nuclear weapon ban treaty and being the first to use nuclear weapons.

Unexpectedly, the Dawn Army resolutely denied it and directly provided evidence.

The Dawn Army's small Mushroom Bombs are not nuclear weapons!

They don't contain any enriched uranium or depleted uranium, so how can they be called nuclear weapons?

This is purely an advanced bomb independently researched by the Dawn Army; it's simply powerful and can create a mushroom cloud.

If the Western Continent doesn't agree with this, they can inspect the explosion area to see if there's any radioactive nuclear material.

However, all of this doesn't affect the Dawn Army's continued combat.

Negotiating and fighting simultaneously doesn't cause any delays.

As the air battle continues, the Western Continent increasingly sees its gap with the Dawn Army.

Fighter jets are shot down like dumplings because the ground forces are too distant to help.

Jonas, caught in a dilemma, still wanted to push the infantry forward but soon encountered a frenzied attack by the Dawn Army's drone swarm.

The drones, like locusts, rampaged across the entire desert.

The desert was covered in shadows of drones, their numbers too dense to calculate, and millions of Western Continent troops faced crazy drone attacks daily, unable to move an inch.

As the aerospace forces were decimated by the Dawn Army Air Force, the battle began to turn one-sided.

The Western Continent's weapons aren't so bad either, it's not without achievements; they shot down a large number of Dawn Army drones.

But what use is that? Aside from those fighter jets appearing, almost no ground troops from the Dawn Army participated.

The Dawn Army loses one drone, and the Alliance Army loses more than two people.

On the first day of battle, the Dawn Army lost two hundred thousand drones!

The Alliance Army suffered over fifty thousand casualties!

To these Western Continent soldiers, this is simply a terrifying nightmare.

By the second day of battle, some people on the Western Continent started to flinch.

Jonas made the phone call to the White Eagle Country under such circumstances.

"I can't hold on much longer here. Ye Fan has brought the main air force and tens of millions of drones here. In just two days, we've lost more than a million people!"

"At this rate, in three more days at most, we'll be completely annihilated!"

"You know, our people's will to fight isn't exactly strong. We can't hold out for three days. Tomorrow, if you haven't broken through, I'll choose to retreat. At worst, when Ye Fan comes over, we'll just surrender."

Facing Jonas's roar, the people on the other end from the White Eagle Country gave a clear response.

"Then hold on for one more day. Tomorrow, we will definitely take Dawn Island and eliminate Ye Fan's stronghold. By then, everything will turn around!"

Hearing this assurance, Jonas decided to hold on for one more day.

He hoped that the people from the White Eagle Country could deliver on their promise.

......

On Dawn Island.

The battle had entered the intense phase of wall defense.

Across, ten Corpse Kings, under the command of humans behind them, continually reinforced the zombie horde from the Central Sea.

They did not hesitate to pay any price in casualties, launching wave after wave of furious assaults on Dawn Island. Over a billion zombies had already been lost in the Celestial River Basin!

Yet, their reinforcements remained ample. Now, four to five million more zombies had been summoned, and another wave of ferocious attacks commenced.

In the Central Sea City District, ten Corpse Kings, each with a different controller in charge, launched tidal-wave-like attacks.

These controllers came from all over the world, believing that with the six or seven billion strong zombie horde from the Central Sea, they could flatten Dawn Island.

In reality, Dawn Army's battle was also extremely difficult. If the lightning storms hadn't recovered and weren't used periodically, they would struggle to withstand the attacks from over a billion advanced zombies.

Ye Fan was currently fighting to buy time. In at most five days, results from the Aerospace Weapons Institute would be ready.

Yet, the current frenzy of zombie attacks was indeed difficult to manage.

Ye Fan was even considering whether, at a critical moment, he might need to temporarily abandon Dawn Island.

Abandoning there to gain greater strategic depth, and as soon as the time comes, launching a counterattack.

However, he had invested too much effort in Dawn Island, and the losses would be immense, so unless absolutely necessary, he wouldn't take this step.

During this period, he had already used every available method.

He had even deployed conventional warhead nuclear weapons twice into the Celestial River.

After all, this wasn't a war against humans; using nuclear weapons against zombies didn't violate any rules.

But even so, it still couldn't decide the battle's outcome.

These zombies were armed to the point where, except at the very epicenter of a nuclear explosion, advanced zombies within the shockwave area wouldn't die easily.

Ye Fan had already prepared that if push came to shove, he would deploy high-yield nuclear weapons, even if it meant abandoning the Southern Region of Dawn Island. He was already organizing personnel to evacuate civilians from the Southern Region to the North.

After the battle, they would use Radiation Engineers to absorb the radiation energy.

And the deployment of high-yield nuclear weapons required Ye Fan's personal release; this authority could not be delegated.

These past two days, Ye Fan had been continuously shuttling between two battlefields on an aircraft to release lightning storms and nuclear weapons, leaving him extremely exhausted.

Now every minute counts, and the situation in the Southern Region is also extremely dangerous; the people from the White Eagle Country have already begun attacking the Lingnan Base.

Ye Fan has already ordered that, if necessary, Lingnan can be temporarily abandoned, trading space for time.

Additionally, in the plateau regions, people from the Curry Country have already driven long distances, having now crossed the plateau and are approaching the southwestern basin.

It seems that some significant losses are inevitable, and there's no way around it. After all, the entire world, along with zombies, is attacking, and the pressure is immense.

Selective preservation is the only way to ensure that Dawn Island, the core stronghold, wouldn't be captured.

In these days, time seemed to pass considerably slow for Ye Fan.

Especially since the Western Continent forces were still fighting with reckless abandon; Ye Fan wished to quickly end the battle to rush back to Dawn Island.

Today, he had already returned once to release the fourth restored lightning storm.

The next lightning storm wouldn't be ready until tomorrow, so he didn't need to return today.

While commanding troops to eliminate the Western Continent forces, he constantly monitored the situation on Dawn Island.

And today, the opposing zombie army's offensive intensity surprisingly escalated once more.

After receiving massive reinforcements, they had completely launched an attack on Dawn Island!

The initial forces of zombies landing on the island numbered over three million!

It seems waiting is no longer an option!

Ye Fan prepared to deploy high-yield nuclear weapons immediately.

But at this moment, the battle situation suddenly changed!

In the Central Sea City District, a large horde of zombies summoned by those Corpse Kings, ready at any time to be sent in as reserves, suddenly turned on each other!

Over fifty million zombies were abruptly summoned together and unbelievably began attacking the zombie troops assaulting Dawn Island!

A zombie civil war suddenly erupted!