Lord of Cinder in American Comics

Just before they were about to touch the ground, the three attack aircraft pulled up sharply and flew over the orcs' heads.

As they flew over the herd of beasts, they released bombs from the 11 external hardpoints on each of their aircraft.

The planes swept over the orcs, leaving behind several firebreaks made of flames and explosions.

A10's attack drew a clear mark among the beasts, with three isolation zones confining the beasts to a triangular area.

Just like the big X drawn by Li Mei's DJ Barbie Q, A10 also marked the way for later troops.

Two more AC130 gunboats then began their entrance display.

The two gunboats, one in front of the other, began to circle the battlefield.

The continuous firepower confined the orcs to the circle drawn by the A10 attack aircraft.

Suddenly, the battle began to turn in their favor, so much so that Stark, who had been helping the logistics officer replenish ammunition in the rear, ran to Ash's side.

Stark, never one to sit still, began to offer his opinions again, saying, "This is a completely asymmetrical battle; those monsters don't even have any anti-aircraft firepower."

Stark's words inflicted a debuff on his own side, and as soon as he finished speaking, a bone spear was fired from the center of the orc horde.

The swift A-10 attack aircraft evaded the attack with a side-swept wing, but the massive AC-130 behind it was not so lucky.

Human wars are always fought in response to the development of weapons by both sides. At this moment, the orcs' simple attack rendered the early warning system on the aircraft completely ineffective.

The bone spears fired one after another from the center of the orcs finally struck the AC130 attack aircraft circling in the sky.

Several bone spears struck the aircraft's belly with precision, disabling its weapon systems and part of its power system.

Fortunately, the bone spears didn't explode, preventing the ammunition inside the aircraft from detonating.

The other AC130 behind noticed something was wrong and quickly pulled up its nose, flying towards higher altitudes to avoid the impending attack.

The AC130 suffered severe power loss after being attacked, and one of its turboprops was completely rendered ineffective.

Over the channel, the pilot loudly reported the damage and requested an emergency landing.

However, the sea was already frozen, and landing rashly was not a good option. Under Ash's guidance, the pilot had no choice but to carefully glide away towards Long Island.

"Stark, you're not allowed to say another word!"

Stark's sharp tongue caused his side to rashly lose an attack aircraft, temporarily weakening their firepower. If Stark continues talking, all of their air power may be damaged in the future.

Stark was somewhat incredulous and continued to argue, "It was just an accident. Anyone with a modicum of resistance would have reacted. The enemy doesn't have many more weapons yet, so it's a minor matter."

Without picking up where Stark left off, Ashe continued to observe the battlefield situation.

After losing an AC130, the A10 attack aircraft rejoined the battle. Although they had already dropped all the bombs in their bellies, they still had the GAU-8 cannons in their noses.

Three A-10 attack aircraft began dropping depleted uranium munitions from different directions toward suspected locations within the Orcish horde.

The attack was quite effective in suppressing the enemy; for a time, only a few scattered bone spears were fired into the sky by the orcs, and even threatening attacks were dodged by the agile A10 attack aircraft.

However, the good times didn't last long. The machine gun, with only 1,400 rounds of ammunition, could only sustain fire for a little over ten seconds, even at full power.

Even if the drivers conserve ammunition and only use burst fire, they can only extend the attack time to a few minutes.

After running out of ammunition, the A10s reported the situation to Ash and then returned to base to reload.

At this moment, there was only one AC130 in the sky, which had increased its altitude from the very beginning to avoid the attack.

Without the support of another AC130 and the rest of the A10s, the firepower of a single flying gunship would be insufficient to inflict damage on these Orks.

Gradually, more and more bone spears were launched from among the orcs, some of which even had a range comparable to that of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles.

Fortunately, those bone spears lacked guidance systems, and none of them managed to destroy the last aircraft during the AC130's evasive maneuvers.

Ash said to Stark, who was staring in disbelief, "Stark, if you keep buffing the enemy, I'll gag you and make you strip naked and do a hula dance."

The orcs on the ice are also starting to change; the orcs who could be easily killed by guns are gradually decreasing in number.

More and more of them were creatures that looked like pangolins and crocodiles, capable of withstanding gunfire. And then, some even stranger creatures began to appear.

Those guys were like reptiles that had shed their skin; they turned their ribs outward and clamped them tightly with their muscles.

Meanwhile, their ribs had long since transformed into short spears. Although the bone spears that destroyed the AC-130 were not as massive, they were much smaller and more agile.

These guys, trembling, crawled to the front of the orcs, rolled over, and fired the first volley of bone spears at Ash and his men.

The moment those strange orcs acted strangely, Ashe pushed Stark into the nearby cover.

The others, thanks to the temporary defenses built up by Ash chopping down trees, were unharmed.

Hearing the crackling sounds outside, Stark felt a little uncomfortable being held down so tightly by Ashe.

Stark shook his shoulders, trying to break free from Ashe's grasp, when suddenly a massive bone spear pierced through the makeshift cover, flew over his head, and struck a small shop behind the position, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Stark stopped struggling and silently lowered his head even further, even picking up a helmet from the ground and putting it on his head.

The ghost crawled up from behind the tank and said to Ash, "Those monsters' giant bone spears pierced the tank's frontal armor and destroyed its engine. Now that thing is just a fixed turret."

Ash glanced at his watch, estimated the time, and said to Ghost, "Try to stall for a little longer. Sheffield's reinforcements will be here soon. If it really doesn't work, we'll take these civilians and retreat, and let Ross bomb this place flat."

As Ash spoke, she pointed at Stark, who was clearly the ordinary person who was holding everyone back at that moment.

Ghosts gestured that they understood. Next, they carefully removed the remaining shells from the tank, converted them into simple IEDs, and buried them in various places on the beach.

At this moment, the gunslinger Roland also found Ash.

## Chapter 76: Roland's Intelligence

The gunslinger in Middle-earth used to be able to handle most of his battles with just his two revolvers.

Gunslinger Roland had never seen a war like this in the world he frequented.

When he returned to the supply point after firing all his bullets, he gradually came to understand the ways of fighting on Earth under the guidance of the little boy Jack.

At this moment, he came to Ash to explain the situation regarding the man in black.

As mentioned earlier, the Gunslinger's father died at the hands of the Men in Black, so the Gunslinger has been searching for information about the Men in Black.

Although he had never fought the Men in Black head-on, he had found relevant information in some ancient books circulating in Middle-earth.

In those ancient texts, there were indeed even more powerful heroes who had been resisting the rule of the men in black, and in some battles, these heroes had almost killed the men in black.

In the hero's description, the man in black becomes immune to conventional attacks after being hit multiple times, and enters an even more terrifying state.

In that state, the man in black was omnipotent. The hero had to expend his life to defeat him, causing him to disappear for a period of time.

Many more stories tell of how, after failing to stop the Men in Black, they began to exterminate life.

Originally, these contents were just like fairy tales to Gunslinger, but after witnessing Earth's firepower, Gunslinger recalled those fairy tales.

Hiding behind cover, Ash listened to the gunslinger's story. At the same time, everyone on the channel heard it.

"Ash, I've prepared a tactical nuclear weapon. I've already sent you the link bitrate. Take off the bomber immediately."

Ross was the first to offer a solution on the channel. Although using nuclear weapons on home soil was not ideal, if Roland did as he suggested, and they didn't take advantage of the fact that the Man in Black hadn't transformed yet, then given the current state of affairs, probably no one on Earth could stop him.

Ross monopolized the channel, and no one else spoke, tacitly approving of Ross's actions.

Ash looked at the communication link on his phone. As long as he connected to this channel, he could legitimately drop a little mushroom on Ami.

Just as those surrounding Ash fell silent, Constantine arrived at the front lines covered in dust.

The once-neat detective's overcoat now looked as if it had been rolled in dust, and was even covered with small pieces of rubble.

"I said, in the time it takes me to go find a pack of cigarettes, you can't even defend against the attacks of those ugly things?"

Constantine's words mocked everyone present. Anyone who was looking for cigarettes in a store would feel a little better after being hit head-on by a bone spear RPG.

In response to Constantine's sarcasm, Stark was the first to retort: ​​"We're discussing whether to deploy nuclear weapons on our own soil right now. Your little matter can wait."

"Then you'd better hurry, that guy will be here soon."

Constantine, who was standing, was the first to see the huge guy who came out of the orc group. He pointed at the massive body and spat out the cigarette he hadn't finished smoking.

Constantine's reminder prompted the people hiding behind the bunker to stand up and observe the situation on the other side.

From the group of beastmen opposite, a massive body emerged, held together only by a few tendons. The body looked somewhat familiar.

Upon closer inspection, isn't that the siege assault beast that fell twice?

Now, all that remained of the Siege Assault Beast were its skeleton and the external bone armor that had once clung to its skin. Shrunken skin and tendons connected these bones.

Moving from the rear to the front of the orc horde, the siege assault beast's pace was initially quite uncoordinated, but it constantly changed its posture as it moved.

Then his movements became smoother and smoother, and he was even able to carefully avoid the little molting creatures lying on the ground.

Having reached the front line, the siege assault beast let out a furious roar towards the position.

'Roar~~~Ah~~~~~'

The shouts echoed for miles around, even generating sonic attacks. Sand on the beach was flung up and rained down on everyone.

The nimble ones saw the sand coming and instantly ducked into their bunkers, while the slow-reacting ones ended up with mouthfuls of sand.

Stark frantically spat out sand, trying to get it out of his mouth, but the more he spat, the drier his mouth became, and the more uncomfortable he felt.

"Pah~ Ash, this time, pah~ why didn't you push me into cover?"

"You're not in any danger this time, you'll just be eating sand. You'll get used to it after a few more times."

Ash, teasing Stark, took a bottle of water from his backpack and handed it to Stark so he could rinse his mouth.

After Stark finished rinsing his mouth, Ash continued, "This is not something a commoner like you can participate in now, Stark. You should go back to the back."

Hearing Ash's words, Stark didn't argue this time, but nodded and walked to the back. He understood that as long as he was on the front lines, someone needed to take care of him; without combat ability, he would be a loss of frontline fighting strength.

After assigning Stark to the task, Ashe ordered Ghost to begin slowly moving the remaining warriors back. Regardless of whether the nuclear weapon would be used, getting people out of the way first was always the best course of action.

At this moment, Ash took out a huge brass rifle and handed it to the gunslinger Roland.

"Roland, take this. Your shooting skills are good; you'll be responsible for supporting us. Given your physical condition, you should be able to use it."

This gun has a huge piercing point, and apart from a few protrusions at the rear for shoulder firing, it is a huge spear.

Upon receiving the long rifle, Roland was shocked by its immense weight. Without saying much, he simply crouched down, holding the rifle, and aimed at the enemy ahead.

After arranging for the other soldiers to evacuate, Ghost crouched behind the tank, picked up the observation and aiming equipment, and aimed it at the skeletal behemoth.

Upon receiving the data transmission from the ghost, the Zumwalt-class destroyer at sea fired electromagnetic cannon shells at the behemoth.

Two heavy shells struck the skeletal behemoth's back precisely, but this time they failed to penetrate even half a step into its body.

The shell exploded on the surface of the behemoth's skeletal armor. Huge sparks formed two enormous plumes of flame and smoke on the behemoth's back, making its appearance even more sinister and three-dimensional.