The Plane War Begins from Wandering Earth

Chapter 379 378. The Price of Victory

The little spider nearby came to the rescue, swinging on the spider silk.

The spider silk wrapped around Hawkeye in mid-air, before Spider-Man could place Hawkeye in a safe area.

Dozens of densely packed "stone thorn rain" pierced the little spider in the air to the core.

Looking at the little spider falling to the ground seriously injured with blood gushing out of his chest and abdomen.

Iron Man, who has always regarded him as his "godson", could not sit idly by.

He stopped dodging and sprinted towards Ebony Maw to buy time for his companions to rescue Spider-Man.

"Your power is insignificant compared to mine."

Iron Man, who no longer maneuvers to dodge, is no match for Ebony Maw.

It wasn't long before it was wrapped up by countless pieces of asphalt road debris and clay, unable to move.

But what's even more heartbreaking is that Ebony Maw doesn't seem to be in a hurry to execute Iron Man, and his attention turns to the other Avengers who are trying to rescue Spider-Man and Hawkeye.

Ebony Maw seemed to want Iron Man to witness with his own eyes his teammates dying one by one in front of him without any resistance.

"Smile, even in the face of death."

As Ebony Maw's mouth corners slightly raised, a telephone pole smashed Black Widow to the ground before she could dodge.

A series of ground spike attacks followed to complete the kill.

Looking at the Black Widow lying motionless on the ground, Iron Man, whose mouth was sealed with a stone, was furious.

"Whose turn is it next?"

Ebony Maw looked at the other Avengers on the battlefield.

Originally, the front battlefield was under the charge of two thousand-man legions of the main force of the United Government, who, together with a cluster of fortifications, resisted the attacks of the numerically superior Chitauri ground forces.

The Avengers played a key role as a support elite unit.

This greatly weakened the Chitauri troops' offensive on the ground, making it difficult for the Chitauri soldiers to defend both ends.

They cooperated well with each other, making it difficult for the enemy to target them.

But with Hawkeye injured, everything started to happen like a domino effect.

Hawkeye and Spider-Man are seriously injured, and Black Widow's life and death are uncertain.

The backbone of the New York battlefield, Iron Man, is now trapped.

The remaining Avengers could only hold on with difficulty.

Not to mention cooperating with the United Government forces on the front battlefield to annihilate the Chitauri.

There is no "complementary" cooperation between each other's abilities.

Whether or not one can survive the fierce enemy attack is a question.

War Machine Colonel Rhodes' mecha was designed by Iron Man and subsequently improved with the help of S.H.I.E.L.D.

If Tony Stark's mecha is a "fighter", it focuses on high-speed maneuverability and individual combat capability.

Then Colonel Rhodes’ mecha is undoubtedly positioned as a “strategic bomber”.

The powerful firepower configuration is enough to make him "an army of one man".

Just one person can provide a powerful aerial bombing advantage.

The Chitauri soldiers who were originally swarming towards the Avengers were instantly killed or wounded under the bombing of War Machine Colonel Rhodes.

Colonel Rhodes bought precious time for his companions to evacuate.

But his outstanding performance on the battlefield also brought him into the sight of Ebony Maw.

A series of sharp metal spears flew towards the war machine in the air from all directions.

With the previous lessons learned, when various metal spears and earth and stone spikes appeared in sight.

Colonel Rhodes didn't dare to attack any longer and quickly dodged.

But he was still beaten to a pulp by Ebony Maw's casual attack.

Ebony Maw easily suppressed the entire combat power of the Avengers' New York branch with his own strength.

Among them are even recognized strong men like Iron Man and War Machine.

This greatly disappointed officials from various countries who had originally placed high hopes on the Avengers, as well as Nick Fury, who was in charge on the scene.

"Dr. Banner, it's up to you!
You are now the last hope of the New York branch!"

Nick Fury's serious expression put a lot of pressure on Dr. Banner, the Hulk.

Normally speaking, as a high-attack and high-defense fighter who focuses on close combat, his best battlefield is to sweep away the large forces of Chitauri soldiers.

But unfortunately, Dr. Banner now faces some difficult problems.

“I can’t get bigger now…

It doesn’t want to come out…”

Dr. Banner slapped himself hard twice. His anger was just brewing and his green Hulk skin was just appearing.

But it disappeared the next second.

The other soul hidden in Dr. Banner's body, belonging to the Hulk, seems to be "passively idle".

This put Dr. Banner in an extremely embarrassing situation.

His fellow Avengers were fighting a desperate battle, and he couldn't join them.

Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., had a headache and scratched his bright, glowing "boiled egg".

He had considered mobilizing the external human official forces to join the war.

But in front of the organized Chitauri army, ordinary human troops are simply vulnerable.

The armored group's charge was tantamount to suicide.

The infiltration of elite trump cards is like an egg against a rock in the face of the Chitauri's high-tech individual equipment.

After more than 70,000 casualties, Nick Fury finally gave up completely.

Large numbers of Tomahawk cruise missiles and medium- and long-range ballistic missiles began to intervene in the battle.

However, they were all detonated prematurely by the Chitauri airships above the New York war zone using kinetic laser weapons.

“There’s no time to wait any longer.

If we continue like this, we will surely lose..."

As the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., he is the bridge between the Avengers and various official forces of human civilization on Earth.

He is also a key figure in the communication between human civilization forces and the United Government.

Considering the current difficult situation in the New York war zone, Nick Fury can only repeatedly plead, hoping that the United Government Fleet in outer space can provide support.

It is claimed that once the Avengers fail on the front battlefield, the more than 2,000 main force soldiers of the United Government guarding the urban area will be isolated and helpless.

Without them, the loss of the Holy of Holies would almost be inevitable.

The Eye of Agamotto, which is the important strategic item Time Gem, is also in extremely dangerous situation.

However, in fact, Nick Fury did not know whether Doctor Strange was in the "Sanctuary of the Most Holy" or "Kama-Taj" in Nepal.

For the safety of the Time Stone, no one from the various forces of human civilization on Earth knows Doctor Strange's true movements.

For the safety of the New York war zone, Nick Fury had to exaggerate the problem. When receiving this request for help, the situation of the United Government's defense fleet in outer space was not optimistic.

Faced with a Chitauri fleet that was nearly twenty times its size, the defense fleet was able to destroy eight enemy ships at the cost of only two warships destroyed, and has continued fighting to this day, which is a near-miraculous loss-to-duty ratio.

“These Avengers members sound so famous.

He is a genius scientist, a perfect gene carrier, and even has a 'body of a god'.

It turns out that the fight turned out to be so useless!

Our fleet is facing so much pressure, and we still have to provide them with support?
The ground troops can’t hold on?

How much pressure can ground troops put on them?

My battleship is about to burst into smoke!"

The commander of the auxiliary defense fleet had a bad temper and almost scolded Nick Fury on the spot when he complained and sought support.

But in the end, they had to draw out extremely precious battleship firepower to provide fire support to the ground forces in the New York theater.

This is not because of the consideration of the "friendly attitude of the United Government and the human civilization forces on Earth."

Even if all the members of the Avengers were killed, he, the commander of the United Government's defense fleet, would not shed a single tear.

But the more than 2,000 main force soldiers of the United Nations who are defending downtown New York are truly our own people.

Those so-called allies of the human civilization on Earth are dead if they die.

But what if we had to watch our fellow coalition government forces die in vain because of a lack of fire support?

This is absolutely unacceptable to the commander of the auxiliary defense fleet.

More importantly, the defense fleet and even all the coalition government forces stationed in the other dimension.

The purpose of their existence here is to fight against the Chitauri and the Thanos forces behind them.

The other is to do everything possible to protect strategic items such as the Time Stone from being obtained by hostile forces.

They can pay any price for this, including their lives.

Nearly thirty flagship starships of the United Government pointed their guns at the North American continent below.

The attack from outer space came almost instantly.

There are high-energy pulse energy columns, light columns formed by plasma fluids, and numerous dense high-energy ray beams that are like rainstorms.

It was "poured" into the New York war zone from top to bottom.

Above New York, a number of Chitauri airships were still slaughtering the official human troops that were coming from all directions and trying to break into the city.

The firepower projected from the sky caught all the Chitauri troops off guard.

Even these Chitauri airships, under the control of the "Beehive Mothership", activated their own force field shields with almost extreme reaction speed.

However, the force field shields on these airships are qualitatively different from those on the Chitauri battleships in terms of protective capabilities.

After only resisting for 1.3 seconds, the force field shield on the airship that lasted the longest was shattered and failed.

Dozens of alien flying vehicles, which were regarded as nightmares by the military forces of the human civilization on Earth, were completely torn apart by the firepower projected by the cluster of warships that fell from the sky without any resistance.

Under the impact of pure high-energy particle pulses, these airships and the Chitauri warriors on them were broken down into their most primitive molecular state.

Next came a large number of Chitauri soldiers under the cover and protection of the airships.

Approximately 160,000 Chitauri ground forces were teleported into the New York metropolitan area.

The vast majority were used to blockade the city, ensuring that outside forces would not interfere with the Chitauri forces in the city.

The Chitauri troops used to attack the "Sanctuary of the Holy of Holies" and clean out the Avengers members only had more than 30,000 people in total.

Ebony Maw, who was in charge of commanding the operation, knew clearly that the number of enemies killed was not the key.

The important thing is to force the Earthling who holds the Time Stone to show up.

The soldiers of the United Government Army are willing to pay the price of their lives to protect this strategic item, the Infinity Stone, from being seized by the enemy.

Similarly, the Chitauri army under the command of Ebony Maw can sacrifice all ground troops without hesitation for the Infinity Stone.

Ebony Maw slowly tortured the Avengers members present.

The purpose is to lure out Doctor Strange who may be hiding in the dark.

But he didn't expect that facing the Chitauri fleet that had absolute superiority in outer space, the United Government's warships still had enough energy to provide fire support on the ground.

More than half of the 160,000 Chitauri ground troops in the New York war zone were killed or wounded in an instant.

Hundreds of buildings over 100 meters high were also destroyed and collapsed by the aftermath of the fire projection attack.

Including the Zeta Soldiers trapped in the ruins of the building.

Perhaps less than one-third of them are still capable of fighting.

Inspired by this scene, more than 100,000 North American military troops who were hesitating on the periphery finally made up their minds and launched another charge.

Without the obstruction of those floating airships, Tomahawk cruise missiles began to attack the gathered Zeta Steel soldiers on the ground one after another as if they were free.

The situation has taken a turn for the worse.

Ebonymaw can be said to be a mage with maximum attack attributes.

But his own defensive capabilities are far inferior to those of other "Obsidian Five" members.

As a mortal being, he could even be injured by an ordinary 5.56mm caliber bullet.

So he had to give up attacking Iron Man and other members of the Avengers and instead use all his abilities to protect himself.

By the time he emerged from the ruins of the building, covered in dust and dirt, the Zeta Steel soldiers in the New York war zone had been gradually divided and surrounded.

Under the leadership of Iron Man and other Avengers, these ships had just been hit by the firepower of the battleship cluster.

The Zetauri soldiers, who had not yet fully recovered, launched a siege.

When Nick Fury saw the situation being reversed, he excitedly called the United Government's warships awesome, and vowed in his heart that he would convince top leaders in the future to seek cooperation and exchanges between the United Government and the human civilization on Earth in the field of interstellar warships.

However, in outer space, which the ground forces had no time to take care of, the United Government's auxiliary defense fleet also paid a heavy price for this fire support operation.

During the process of launching ground support, the opposing Chitauri fleet will naturally not just sit there and watch.

The defense fleet attacked the ground fiercely, and the Chitauri fleet attacked the defense fleet fiercely.

As a result, nearly ten United Government starships were severely damaged and had to withdraw from the battle sequence.

And it was completely destroyed in the subsequent battle.

The remaining surviving defense warships could no longer maintain the standoff and began to evacuate the outer space orbit, fleeing in a panic under the encirclement of the Chitauri warships.

At the same time, in the Himalayas of Nepal, the army of Thanos led by Black Dwarf has swept here.

All villages and towns with signs of human survival were brutally massacred by Thanos's forces.

The mages who were practicing Kamar-Taj, who had been hiding under occult magic, had to show up and fight with Thanos' forces.

Captain America, Winter Soldier, Falcon and other Avengers also came to support.

It took the cooperation of multiple Avengers to barely suppress Black Dwarf.

But the hundreds of thousands of ground troops of Thanos's forces are not something that a mere few hundred mages of Kamar-Taj can defeat.

Until a series of "Seven Rings of Raggador" appeared on the battlefield.

Doctor Strange, wearing a red magic cloak, arrived under the attention of everyone.

(End of this chapter)