The guess was quickly confirmed; that mountain was indeed the camp of the Raiders.
Jubian controlled the drone and spotted the sentry on the mountaintop.
Under the infrared camera, the human-shaped silhouette was particularly conspicuous, but the sentry couldn't see the drone flying in the night.
Jubian lowered the flight altitude and quickly figured out the general structure of the enemy camp.
The camp was located in a three-pronged rift valley. The valley was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, so the space at the bottom was quite large, filled with many crooked iron sheet houses.
Two elevators led to the mountaintop nearly 200 meters high. The mountaintop area was huge and very flat, connected by suspension bridges, but it hadn't been developed or utilized, with only a few simple guard posts built.
Additionally, a rather large cave was discovered in the rift valley.
The Raiders used stones to block two of the rift valleys and installed a large iron gate and defense towers on the remaining one, forming a relatively well-defended fortress.
This little place of yours is not bad.
Lu Yuan stood behind Jubian, looking at the geographically advantageous Raiders camp on the Pad screen, and gradually had thoughts beyond just taking over supplies.
Why not occupy the territory too?
Jubian continued reconnaissance and found that four people were guarding the main gate in the defense tower. There were no other Raiders in the camp and no more all-terrain vehicles.
Lu Yuan pondered for a moment and decided to launch a night raid.
There wouldn't be many enemies in the camp, likely just those five.
Even if more Raiders were sleeping, they had no vehicles, while Ye Xing and Caoyuan had vehicles, making retreat easy if they couldn't win.
“Attention everyone, launch an armed attack and seize the camp!”
“Prioritize sniping the sentry on the mountaintop, then storm the main gate. The drone will provide aerial fire support.”
With a command, everyone began to act.
Moving further would go beyond the maximum communication range, so Ye Xing first removed the antenna and inserted it into the sand to continue providing communication relay services.
After that, he swapped seats with Caoyuan and drove the vehicle forward at a moderate speed that wouldn't arouse suspicion.
Midway, Caoyuan attached a suppressor to his sniper rifle.
This thing was nearly half a meter long, about as thick as an arm, and the sound suppression effect was excellent.
Through the drone's spotting, Caoyuan quickly found the sentry on the mountaintop, stopped the car, set up the rifle, aimed, shot, got the kill from 700 meters away, all in one go, and continued on his way.
A moment later, the all-terrain vehicle arrived in front of the camp gate.
The Raiders guarding the home were still wondering why only one vehicle had returned when Caoyuan stood up and shot, directly shattering the searchlight with one shot.
Couldn't give the enemy any chance; getting blinded by this thing was still quite troublesome.
Meanwhile, Jubian, who was already in position, pressed the bomb release button, and the drone dropped four grenades from the air.
The enemy's defense tower had a roof, so the grenades bounced and didn't fall inside but exploded in the courtyard behind the gate, causing no casualties.
However, this still attracted the attention of the four guards, making them stunned for a second or two.
For experts, a second or two is enough.
Caoyuan and Ye Xing got out of the car with grenade launchers, firing off two drum magazines in one go. Most of the grenades accurately flew through the windows into the defense tower. After a series of explosions, there was silence.
The engagement, from start to finish, lasted less than 10 seconds.
The only obstacle left was the camp gate. The gate was 6 meters high, very heavy, and had a sliding structure, making it difficult to damage from the outside. On both sides were equally high and heavy smooth metal walls with spikes and barbed wire on top, making it basically impossible to climb over.
However, this didn't faze Lu Yuan at all.
He quickly came up with an idea, deciding to apply adhesive to the remote-controlled bombs he had made earlier, then hang them on the drone. The drone would perform a horizontal toss, attempting to make the bombs stick near the locking mechanism on the back of the gate.
I can't blow up the gate, but I can't blow up your lock?
Hilarious!
This operation had some difficulty, but fortunately, there were enough remote-controlled bombs and adhesive in the car. At worst, they would try a few more times.
Next was the happy time for the three young players. Jubian shouted something about having calculated the perfect parabola and tried first, but the remote-controlled bomb flew over the gate, a beautiful miss, drawing merciless ridicule.
Caoyuan took over the remote control and tried second, but also missed, the bomb falling into the courtyard.
The three tried seven or eight times in total, but in the end, Ye Xing lived up to expectations, and the bomb stuck less than half a meter from the locking mechanism.
“See that, see that?! That's what you call skill! That's what you call a professional player!”
After pressing the detonation button with laughter, the previous bombs that hadn't stuck in the right place were also detonated. The huge explosion shook the ground, and one of the defense towers directly collapsed.
Amidst the smoke and flying sand and dust, the camp gate slowly slid open to one side.
This thing was really built solid; the main body was basically undamaged and could be used again after a little repair.
Caoyuan and Ye Xing were excited but didn't relax their vigilance. They advanced with alternating cover, carefully checking every iron sheet house, and found no more enemies.
The camp capture operation was a great success!
At this moment, the time in "reality" was 5:30 AM, and Ye Xing's live stream actually had over 20,000 viewers. This was simply unprecedented.
Don't you guys sleep?
When it came to looting the spoils, the fans were even more enthusiastic than he was, wanting to loot every single screw.
“Streamer, be serious, don't miss any corners.”
“Do the Raiders' daily necessities have recycling value? Take them too.”
“Anyway, we have a car, take as much as you can.”
“There must be a lot of fuel and weapons/ammunition here!”
The audience wasn't wrong. Ye Xing found a water tower with at least ten tons of fresh water, a small oil depot with about 2 tons of gasoline, and a 12kW generator.
With this gasoline, they wouldn't have to worry about power outages for a while.
The focus of work going forward would be to increase power generation capacity, which would mainly rely on building more solar panels. Solar energy is, after all, a nearly unlimited source of electricity, while gasoline and methane can only be considered supplements in the short term.
In the Raiders' ammunition depot, they found over thirty 90mm recoilless rifle shells, and a total of over ten thousand 7.62x51mm rifle rounds, plus 9mm bullets.
These two classic calibers had been used from the late 19th century all the way to the Age of Space Exploration.
In addition, there were various daily necessities, mostly wool and linen fabrics, as well as glass and iron products, which were not very useful.
Lu Yuan kept switching player perspectives to observe the material takeover situation.
Wool comes from sheep. Having wool and linen fabrics means there are sheep and flax.
Since there were no sheep or farming in the Raider camp, it indicates that there must be more human settlements in the Desert, and some of them are likely the more peaceful kind, living stable lives.
Now, only the large cave in the camp remained unexplored. Ye Xing gazed at the dark entrance, gradually lost in thought.