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Chapter 560: New City Attack and Defense (Please subscribe and read, monthly ticket recommendation!)

Even energy weapons have the difference between guns and cannons. The damage caused by high-power energy output heavy artillery and ordinary small firearms can be said to be a world of difference.

Almost all energy weapons equipped on spacecraft capable of traveling in space have the power to destroy the surface of a planet.

Although the Justice League has no experience in space warfare, they have the complete history of Krypton and can get a glimpse of the cruelty of space warfare from the past of this old colonial empire.

Although the Kryptonians' activities were limited to the vicinity of their home planet many years ago, they have not forgotten the past when their ancestors roamed the starry sky, and have highly beautified that history.

By now, the history of Krypton has completely become one of the channels used by the Justice League to understand space. As for the ideology mixed in those historical records, Clark, a Kryptonian, doesn't care much, let alone the Earthlings.

In short, Bruce, looking at the situation from this place and determining the location together, is only conducting a trial and error test and has not shown his real ability, so he asked all troops to continue to hold steady and not leave the protection range of the defensive force field at will.

Therefore, the troops stationed in various strongholds became maintenance workers before the war, always paying attention to the large defense field generators on the border, and sending people to repair them immediately if there was any problem.

Frankly speaking, this is a boring and tedious job. The so-called data is actually just a series of numbers. It makes me dizzy and I lose interest after looking at it for a long time.

Repairing a process generator is a good job. At least it allows you to use your brain and repair the machine yourself. After the damaged machine is repaired, it can also give people a sense of success.

But not everyone can do this job.

The first echelon is of course those who perform well in daily work training, while those with average performance serve as substitutes.

For those reserve members, and those who performed well in the usual assessments, there was no problem when they arrived at the real battlefield, and most of them completed the tasks excellently.

A few people did encounter problems that were beyond their capabilities, but with the help of the rear command room, they quickly solved the problems before them.

Therefore, the substitute members could only stay in the stronghold depressedly, continue to act as human computers to analyze those complex and boring data, and provide information to the comrades who were repairing the defense field outside.

Despite this effort, although Savage's troops launched three small-scale fire probing attacks, they were unable to cause any destructive damage to the defensive position.

After the Justice League members in the stronghold got used to this kind of fire test, Savage's troops immediately launched the fourth fire test.

This time, they used heavy artillery. A red energy beam several meters thick suddenly rushed out from the sandstorm and hit the Justice League's defensive force field like a sledgehammer.

With a bang, two completely different energies collided with each other, and a strong light that could blind a person flashed at the center of the collision.

At the same time, the violent shock waves even pushed the air into a specific shape.

The sand and dust outside the defense field was immediately cleared away, forming a vacuum zone without yellow sand erosion.

Inside the defensive force field, those members who were working around the position, although they had turned on the defensive force field on the foreign armor to the maximum, many people were still hit by the shock wave and flew out directly.

Fortunately, the exoskeleton armor uniformly distributed by the alliance has reduced some functions for the sake of cost, but there is no reduction in the most basic defensive quality.

Even those who were knocked away by the shock wave and fell heavily to the ground from a height of more than ten meters only suffered minor injuries.

They quickly got up from the ground and reported what they had encountered to their superiors.

The alliance members, who were used to using small-scale firepower to test the Go troops, immediately got busy, withdrew from the state of maintenance workers, and prepared for battle.

“This is still a sleight of hand!”

Bruce received reports from all sides, but instead of panicking, he became more resolute in his previous predictions.

"Now I can be sure that the previous three rounds of firepower attacks were completely feints. The enemy did not care whether these attacks could tear open the defense field, but wanted to enter the new city from other places."

"The enemy commander is smart, but not cautious enough. His attacks were too calm, which is abnormal."

If Savage's troops really focused their attack on how to break through the defensive force field, then their firepower should have increased with the number of attacks.

However, when the enemy did not use weapons such as heavy artillery until the fourth round of shooting, it was a bit too focused on the falsehood of the feint and ignored the general laws of war.

"If the attacks on the defensive field were all feints, then they must be looking for another way out. Are they planning to attack from the sky?"

Clark looked at the sandstorm raging outside the force field and naturally thought of the sky.

If the purpose was not to launch an attack from the sky, why would the other party set up such a sandstorm around the new city?
"Clark, I am not a worm in the enemy's stomach. I cannot guess their every thought. But we already have a direction. Whether they want to fly from the sky or do something on the ground, we just need to investigate."

Bruce shook his head and did not use his brain to guess how Savage would not announce the outer defense. Instead, he asked the people in the command room to investigate the situation in the sky and on the ground.

"Something is moving underground. We have detected unusual vibration frequencies, and the roots of plants throughout the city also confirm this."

The pure sky and earth are not easy areas to explore, but the people of the Justice League soon discovered something wrong from an underground activity, and determined through the vibration frequency that something like a worm was moving underground in the new city.

"It reminds me of the scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Battle of the Five Armies, where the orcs used insects to break through the mountains and directly came to the battlefield where the dwarves and elves were confronting each other. It was really unexpected!"

Clark was surprised when he saw the worm shape inferred by the computer based on the vibration frequency.

Those worms were obviously biologically modified weapons. They directly devoured the ground that had been modified by the Justice League. Their speed of advancement was even beyond the reach of the tunnel boring machines used to open subway tunnels.

"Don't sigh for a minute, Clark! The most important thing now is how to deal with Savage's troops attacking from underground."

Bruce looked at the data inferred by the computer, especially the speed at which Savage's troops were moving underground, which made him feel troubled.

For them, the best outcome would of course be to be able to eliminate Savage's troops outside the city and minimize the city's losses.

The alliance members all cherish this city that belongs to them and certainly do not want anyone to destroy the results of their hard work.

"Even if we actively mobilize those members who have abilities related to the earth, it is too late to stop them from escaping from underground." Bruce immediately accepted the reality that he had to fight in the city and began to adjust the direction of the battle: "The outer defense forces remain stationary and pay attention to the surprise attacks of Savage's ground forces at any time. At the same time, order the city troops to converge at several points."

He pointed out several areas on the map that would not be greatly affected after the war. These were relaxing places like squares, and even if they were destroyed, they would recover quickly.

Clark looked at those locations and said uncertainly: "If we fight in these places, we can certainly minimize our losses, but will the enemy be so obedient?"

"Whether the enemy will obey or not depends on our efforts."

Bruce was obviously confident and asked those members with abilities and ground-related connections to organize themselves and rush to the several locations he mentioned.

The team is made up of not only those people whose abilities are related to the ground, but also those who can control plants and animals. They rush to the scene and start working immediately.

Led by the swamp monster, people with abilities related to plants manipulate the roots of plants inside the city to expand downward and in width. They are densely packed like walls that go deep into the underground, dividing the underground into thousands of different areas.

Immediately, those members whose abilities were related to the earth began to exert their strength, controlling the underground soil to begin to shrink, continuously reducing the density of the underground soil and rocks, and relying on the areas separated by plant roots, making the soil at a depth of twenty meters underground as hard as steel.

However, they did not block all the underground passages. Instead, they constructed a passage leading to Bruce's location according to the data analyzed by artificial intelligence.

"Did you find out so soon?"

Skendor received the news from the front and frowned. Although she knew that her actions would not be hidden from the Justice League, she felt that her men would be able to push the display to several dozen meters before being discovered.

However, they did not expect that their traces were discovered just after the three rounds of attacks were completed.

"Do you want to withdraw the people?"

Skendor's staff warned her and then said, "The enemy has discovered our actions. Continuing the attack is not a good option for us."

"We are now in a dilemma. If we withdraw our troops and attack from the ground, will we be able to see hope of victory?"

There was no expression on Skendal's face, but he saw it clearly in his mind.

For them, retreat was impossible.

Of course, she could choose to retreat, but what could she do after she returned? Facing the relentless pressure from the Justice League, as Savage's daughter, she had no other choice. Even if she retreated, she would just be trapped with Savage.

In the end, they still have to have a decisive battle with the Justice League, and by that time, their situation will only be worse than it is now.

"Keep going, we have no way out, only by fighting hard can we achieve results."

Skendall stood up, looked at the staff in the room, and said to them: "It seems that we have overestimated ourselves. Even without the amazing Martin, we are no match for those people in the Justice League."

"We are putting all our strength on the line. This is our last fight. Regardless of whether we win or lose, after today, the rest of the battlefield will have nothing to do with us."

Needless to say, if they lost, not only would the entire army be destroyed, but Skendo himself would not survive.

If they win, the forces under Skendo will be wiped out in this battle.

The Justice League is not a group of cowards. Anyone who wants to eat them must be prepared to have their teeth knocked out.

If a ferocious beast loses its teeth, it will be eaten by other beasts when surrounded by other beasts.

Skendo had seen her own outcome and knew that she was doomed to have a bad ending, so she made up her mind.

She left the command room and went directly to the front line, commanding all her force fields to launch an attack from the ground, using the cover of the sandstorm.

Soon, countless energy beams tore through the dust of the sandstorm and slammed into the defensive positions mercilessly.

These heavy artillery-level energy weapons fired at full power, directly tearing holes in the defensive force field.

With Bruce giving the order in advance, the people in the defense stronghold did not retreat at all. Instead, they further strengthened the maintenance and output power of the boundary force field generator.

Although the defense field was torn open, most of the gaps quickly returned to normal. Only a few gaps did not recover immediately, and those energy beams directly hit the residential area of the new city.

Boom!
Superman appeared directly in the sky, with red hot rays coming out of his eyes. He turned his head and swept across his body, directly destroying Savage's energy beam in the air and turning it into large fireworks.

At the same time, the worms underground in the new city encountered obstacles created by the Justice League. After receiving orders from Skendo, they did not retreat, but rushed towards the trap set by the Justice League.

"The Justice League is really hard to deal with. These underground worms we ride on are obviously biologically modified, but they can still affect them."

All the officers were worried in their hearts. They knew that they would probably never return, but they did not retreat and rushed forward with their troops.

As Skendall said, they can escape today but not tomorrow.

These people had long been tied up with Savage, and there was no way they could escape.

The next moment, the ground began to move, and the spreading roots stretched out from the bottom like tentacles, tearing off pieces of flesh and blood from the worms like tunnel boring machines, shrinking into the soil, and becoming fertilizer for plant growth.

Those weapons that had been biologically modified blocked the gap, but were also impacted by the underground fluctuations, and could not take care of both ends.

But these people didn't care about so much and were only focused on getting up, not caring how much troops they lost.

"As long as we can get out of the ground, that's victory!"

(End of this chapter)