The Captains relayed this possibility back to the flagship's Combat Command Center, where Chu Xuan and several army staff officers were meticulously arranging the troop composition—specifying the number of veterans, officers, and the required heavy weaponry. Furthermore, the reinforcements brought with them a batch of ground armored vehicles recently rushed out by Earth's arms manufacturers. Since these were prototype models, there were only a meager one hundred and thirty units. Although they were primarily armed with just a single rotary cannon and lacked other heavy armaments, this contingent of one hundred vehicles, representing the government's adjustments to military hardware, was evenly distributed among the various units. At this moment, the junior officers of those units were already fiercely debating the allocation of these armored vehicles.

"Certainly, the Bugs aren't like grains of sand. If they don't use laser-type bugs to attack us, then the vast expanse of air between outer space and the ground becomes a vacuum zone where we have free license to attack. The Bugs won't be foolish enough to only take fire without retaliation. Therefore, don't provoke those laser bugs; we need to reach the Storm Fortress as quickly as possible."

Chu Xuan provided this resolute answer.

Since the decision was made to move swiftly toward the Storm Fortress, the warships engaged their maximum power, vectoring towards the plain where the Fortress lay. Over a hundred starships traversed the sky horizontally.

Their immense size was enough to shake the spirit; this represented the pinnacle of technology humanity could achieve in this era, and it was humanity’s greatest leverage in the war against the Bugs.

Two hours later, the hundred-plus warships arrived directly above the Storm Fortress—a sprawling military steel fortress. Due to the Bug Swarm's interference with communication signals, the soldiers within the Fortress were completely unaware of the approaching Joint Fleet.

It was only when the colossal steel warships hung overhead that hundreds of soldiers inside the Fortress were seen running back and forth frantically, with even more soldiers pouring out from the depths of the structure.

"Hmm, this area is flat terrain. Although the main structure of the Fortress is about fifty meters higher than its surroundings, this elevation is truly insufficient to withstand the frenzied assault of the Bug Swarm..." Chu Xuan muttered, studying the map of the Storm Fortress and its immediate vicinity.

The staff officers beside him were members of the officer corps recently reinforced from Earth.

The Chief of Staff asked with curiosity, "But Officer... the military Fortress is constructed from Earth's hardest material, X-Metal, the entire base including its foundation. This is the toughest metal known, capable of withstanding attacks from micro-nuclear missiles. How could it possibly fail to hold against the Bugs?"

Before Chu Xuan could reply, Zheng Zha, seated next to him, interjected: "Because the Bugs won't smash through the metal head-on. They will pile up corpses to fill that fifty-meter gap, then use their fallen comrades' bodies as steps to flood into the Fortress. In close-quarters combat, if we fail to concentrate our firepower on the Bugs, the only possible outcome is that we will be drowned by the bug tide... Inquire about the specifics of this situation from those veteran soldiers who survived."

New recruits.

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