One Thousand Three Hundred Ninety-One Scars on the Earth

Since the aliens were playing ostrich in the sand, the defenders had no need to be polite. Without saying anything, they launched a batch of nuclear missiles at the landing area. The number was enough to cover the entire landing area twice.

Such a good opportunity to annihilate the enemy, if you miss it, you will be struck by lightning!

The missiles from outer space are extremely fast, and the atmosphere of Mars is so thin. It took less than two minutes for the missiles to fall from the sky.

The speed of the missiles was too fast, far exceeding the speed of sound in the atmosphere of Mars, and the enemy soldiers hiding in the sand could not hear the sound at all.

A few enemy soldiers who had not yet hidden discovered the missiles in the sky, but they were the main targets of the Tianti. A beam of light from the sky swept across the airdrop zone, immediately killing hundreds of enemy soldiers, and the same number of insect machines.

The insect machines on the ground also discovered the missiles in the sky. The instinct rooted in the minds of the insect machines controlled them to fire at the missiles.

Thousands of insect machines vibrated their elytra at the same time, and a high-pitched buzzing sound resounded throughout the airdrop zone. The sand behind each insect machine was gently lifted by the jet airflow... Their power was too weak, so weak that they could only fly in space and low-gravity environments. The gravity of Mars is much greater than that of Ceres. No matter how the insect machines vibrated their elytra, they could not leave the ground at all.

If they could not fly, they could not aim at the missiles, and if they could not aim, they could not intercept. One insect machine was so anxious that it sprayed out a thin light without even raising its head, instantly cutting several insect machines apart.

This thin light seemed to sting the nerves of other insect machines. The nearby insect machines instinctively sprayed thin light, and more insect machines were sliced ​​by the thin light from friendly forces.

More and more insect machines emitted thin light, and quickly expanded to the surrounding areas, performing an annual drama of cannibalism.

Everyone believed that if it continued to develop, the insect machines that landed would be killed without human intervention, but before the chaos spread, a dazzling strong light exploded above the airdrop zone.

The second group...

The third group...

The missiles first exploded in the air and then on the ground. Nuclear explosions followed one after another, and mushroom clouds formed one after another. The nuclear explosion lasted for a full half minute and plowed the airdrop zone twice. The shock wave raised countless sand and dust, covering the entire airdrop zone layer by layer. Looking from the air to the ground, it was like a sudden Martian dust explosion suddenly covered the airdrop zone.

But everyone knew that this artificial dust explosion was much more deadly than the real Martian dust explosion. Even if the airborne alien troops had not died out, only one in ten would survive and they would never be able to make a difference again.

After a long time, the dust raised by the nuclear explosion was finally blown away by the wind, revealing the dust explosion covering the ground.

At this time, the airdrop zone could no longer see the iconic red desert of Mars. Instead, there were explosion craters with amazing diameters. They were so conspicuous that they could be clearly seen with the naked eye without the help of any optical equipment in the low-altitude orbit!

If you use optical equipment to get closer, you can find that the soil and rocks near the crater have been melted by the high temperature of the nuclear explosion, forming glass-like crystals. Even if the enemy soldiers and giant insects hiding underground are not dead, they can't drill through this shell.

The airborne enemy troops are finished. The defenders who saw this scene breathed a sigh of relief, but they immediately turned their attention to the Xuzhou and Discovery battle groups.

The shocking reversal on Mars completely changed the situation between the enemy and us. Originally, the human side was eager to intercept the enemy, and the two battle groups chased at full speed. Now that Mars is fine, Xuzhou and Discovery are suddenly calm and relaxed. When they are about to catch up, they suddenly slow down and follow the enemy slowly, neither attacking nor retreating.

The sudden change of the situation on Mars and the stalking of the human fleet put the aliens under great pressure. They don't know whether to turn around to meet the enemy or continue to fly to the earth... Turning around and flying to Mars is impossible unless they can break through the interception of the human fleet.

The strength of this alien fleet is not weak, and the fleet commander is full of confidence. Breaking through the interception is definitely not a problem.

But what can we do after the breakthrough? After flying to Mars, we still have to face the Martian defenders. The main force of the fleet is gone. How likely is it that a small force can defeat the defenders?

After thinking it over,

the fleet finally gave up the idea of ​​attacking Mars.

But the Earth is not a good target either. In the end, they turned away from Mars and returned to the asteroid belt.

Both Xuzhou and Discovery wanted to leave this enemy behind, but the strength of the enemy and us was similar, and there were too many variables in the fight. As the saying goes, killing one thousand enemies will hurt eight hundred of our own. The fleet guarding Mars is so small. If all the warships are really lost, what if the aliens send another fleet over?

It happened that the enemy had no intention of confronting the opposite side. Xuzhou and Discovery discussed it and reported the results of the discussion to the joint command. Finally, the joint command issued an order to withdraw to Mars, and the two battle groups turned around and returned.

No matter how the process was, in short, the task force crushed the aliens' conspiracy to invade Mars and successfully defended Mars.

When the news came out, the Earth and the expeditionary force breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

The Nanzhou fleet also received the news. After Gao Kai knew about this, he almost led the fleet to Ceres to fight the enemy again... It was so frustrating. Mars could hold on, so why should Ceres be abandoned?

However, no matter how angry Gao Kai was, he could not disobey the orders of his superiors. He could only apply for a counterattack on Ceres again and again.

He originally just wanted to show his firm attitude to counterattack Ceres, but he didn't expect to wait for a reply from the superiors, which roughly meant that they were studying it and would make a formal decision soon.

The military didn't let Gao Kai wait for long. Just a few hours later, Gao Kai received a notice to officially launch the counterattack plan on Ceres.

In view of the actual situation of the Nanzhou fleet, the military decided to allocate supplies from Mars to support the Nanzhou fleet.

Gao Kai was so happy that he almost jumped up. Mars won, and there was no need for the two battle groups to be tied to Mars. Was this the rhythm of sending all of them to counterattack Ceres?

I have to say that Gao Kai really thought too much. The military didn't plan to move the fleet on Mars at all. It just allocated a dozen transport ships, sent a large number of weapons and equipment, and supplies for repairing warships, and more than 20,000 servants.

Gao Kai was very surprised when he got the list of supplies. There were only 40,000 servants in total, half of whom stayed on Ceres, and the other half followed the Jizhou to Jupiter. Where did Mars come from? Just sent from Earth?

Well, it should have just been sent. After the task force arrived at Mars, the transport ships between Earth and Mars have never been interrupted. What's the big deal about sending a batch of servants?

Thinking of this, Gao Kai felt relieved and waited patiently for reinforcements from Mars - the distance between Ceres and Mars is not close, so he would have to wait for at least a month, so there was no rush.