The Military Chef of a Ruined World - Chapter 78.1

“The enemy is approaching.”

“Everyone, take up defensive positions.”

The enemies are approaching without any attempt to conceal themselves.

The vampires were not so foolish as to not notice their approach.

‘We have already fully established the defensive line in preparation for this.

Their base, the bunker, is already secure as a military facility in itself.

But they have also fortified the surrounding mountain area where the bunker’s cave is located.

“Seeing that they attacked as soon as the sun rose,

“Yes, it’s clear they’ve noticed our kind.”

However, it’s unclear how they noticed.

The enemies seem to know that vampires are vulnerable to sunlight and have launched their attack at dawn.

But the vampires are not intimidated at all.

“As if we wouldn’t have prepared for even that.”

All the way to the bunker,

There are dozens of outposts and defense positions they have set up.

Each outpost is a crucial location that attackers must pass through to reach the bunker.

They are all situated in the shadows, allowing the vampires to utilize most of their power even during the day.

The outposts are interconnected, so it would be like hell for the attackers.

“We can fend off even thousands of awakened individuals.”

“They’re soldiers, so more skilled comrades will be helpful.”

As the vampires were having this conversation,

Boom-

Startled by the sudden loud noise, the vampires looked up to the sky.

Something tracing a red trajectory was falling towards them.

“…Huh?”

“Hit confirmed!”

“Moving on to the next one.”

The engineer monitoring through a telescope shouted.

The artillery fire from the tank had hit its target.

“Found the next outpost as well, exactly where the benefactor indicated.”

“Coordinates?”

“Latitude…”

A woman gazed into the sky and spoke.

Her eyes were shimmering with a mysterious blue light.

That was not all.

A man holding a sniper rifle stood with his hand held up, eyes closed.

After a moment of apparent concentration, he spoke.

“The wind speed is…”

The man provided the environmental information needed for the artillery.

The surrounding area had been thoroughly cleared of the monsters’ presence, thanks to the vampires’ own efforts.

There was no need to worry about other monsters being drawn by the sound of the bombardment.

“Fire.”

The tank’s cannon had a range of 3km.

The range of the artillery fire from the tank battalion against us was less than half of that.

Due to the lack of guidance information.

Previously, when the tank battalion soldiers attacked us, they solely relied on the crew’s visual range, which resulted in some effectiveness in their attacking method.

But now that it’s in our hands, the story has changed.

The approximate locations of the outposts, as told by the captured vampire.

Further refined by Jeong Soo-ah’s spirit reconnaissance in the air.

On top of that, the environmental information obtained through Seo Su-hyeok’s senses.

All the necessary information for the artillery fire was in place.

As a result:

“Hit confirmed!”

Not only the mages in our unit but even Seo Su-hyeok, who has the longest range among us, cannot match this distance.

The ability to accurately fire at such distances.

‘No matter how powerful the awakened individuals are, they are still far from catching up to modern firearms.’

Of course, later on, the mages may be able to deliver firepower even more devastating than bombs, at ranges beyond direct fire.

But not yet.

They must have anticipated some kind of attack by the awakened soldiers.

But they couldn’t have expected us to bring a tank.

“To be honest, when I heard about the defense positions they had set up, I thought it would be quite challenging.”

“If we had entered directly, it would have been hell.”

Perhaps they even have military experts on their side.

The layout of the defensive structures, as learned from the prisoner, was truly formidable.

‘Without bringing a tank, there would have been no way to crack that.’

As the prisoner had said.

And now those defensive positions are being blown apart by the artillery.

This is the role of artillery in modern warfare – To destroy the enemy’s defenses in advance and attack their forces.

‘The infantry will then advance after that.’

After civilization was shattered, and the battles became focused on the awakened individuals, military strategy had regressed to something closer to the medieval or ancient era.

Their strategy is likely still at that level as well.

“But our unit is returning to the logic of modern warfare.”

In a regular war between armies, the other side would normally respond with counter-artillery or send forces to assault the artillery positions.

But they have no means to counter this range.

With the freshly risen sun in the sky,

they cannot even deploy their vampires.

Watching the outposts being annihilated,

I wonder what response options they might have…

“I might be able to glare at them a bit. There’s nothing to be caught for, so let’s shoot them down!”

“Yes!”

The fortresses they were so proud of.

Those strongpoints were blown up casually.

“Damn it!”

“It’s artillery fire! Everyone, run away!”

The vampires exposed to the artillery fire panicked and shouted.

“Fog them out just before the direct hit! This place seems too exposed, we’re retreating to the B-13 outpost!”

The vampire who was given the authority of a commander spoke with responsibility.

“I, I ran away from that direction! The B-13 outpost has already been destroyed!”

“What…!?”

It was an absurd situation from the vampires’ perspective.

All of them had been human until recently.

After the destruction of civilization and the appearance of monsters and zombies,

They had been trembling in fear every day, worrying about not being bitten by zombies.

“And now suddenly there are tanks…!”

From zombie horror to war.

The genre had completely changed, so it was understandable to be bewildered.

Boom!!!

“Urgh…!”

But unfortunately, that was the reality.

Artillery fire, something they had never experienced before in their lives.

By becoming vampires, they thought they had surpassed humanity.

They had been reborn as a superior race, unlike the inferior zombies they had to struggle against.

However.

Boom!!!

The explosion next to them tore their comrade’s body apart.

The proud strongholds they had built were ruthlessly destroyed.

The trembling of the ground from the explosions made it impossible for them to even jump properly.

Although their vampiric nature had not taken away their hearing, the deafening roar disoriented them.

The protagonists in movies can remain calm even in their first experience of artillery fire.

But reality is different.

An environment that makes any rational judgment impossible.

Since the day they thought they had been reborn as a superior race,

This was the first time when the vampires faced the fear of death.

At that moment,

Someone shouted in disbelief.

“Damn it. Those bastards! How the hell do they know the exact locations of all our outposts!?”