Chapter 1 You Looked at the Wrong Person

The roar of artillery fire echoed over the T-119 district. Numerous missiles exploded like dazzling fireworks, taking countless sea beasts’ lives.

The marine apostles' method of invading human defenses was still to use a large number of sea beasts as a vanguard, with the lesser sequence followers of their own race interspersed throughout the battlefield. This method allowed them to minimize casualties within their own ranks.

"Awoo! Awoo!"

"Ugh..."

All sorts of terrifying roars rang out as the sea beasts and lesser sequence followers, driven to a frenzy, rapidly charged toward the tall walls of the defense line. Their sharp claws easily sliced through the hard earth as they ran. The defense line's hardened concrete plains were as fragile as tofu before these evolved creatures.

Boom! Boom!

Shells landed in the middle of the sea beast horde. One sea beast was instantly blasted through the chest, its body exploding. However, before the blood mist and gunpowder smoke could even dissipate, the swarming sea beast horde behind it had already pushed forward.

"There are at least three hundred thousand of them! And the numbers are still increasing!" A middle-aged combat staff officer stared at the energy display on the satellite screen, his brow furrowed.

On this satellite image, countless red dots moved rapidly. Each red dot represented a sea beast, and the brightness of the red light indicated the strength of its blood energy.

The stronger the evolver, the stronger the physique, the stronger the blood energy, and the greater the threat.

On this type of satellite image, the markers for ordinary mutated beasts were mostly pink, while those for first-evolution, atavistic beast kings were bright red. The colors for god-descended and intellect-type beast kings were already dark red. As for the lesser sequence followers, these second-evolution creatures, the fluctuations of their blood energy were displayed on the satellite image as a blackish color, like solidified blood!

As for the commander of this beast tide, the marine apostle at the very rear...

Its energy fluctuation was a completely pure, jet-black color, exuding a despairing depth.

"Shell their left flank, divide the battlefield from this position..." Li Zhi stared at the strategic map and suddenly pointed to a location: "Stop indiscriminate fire coverage, cut the battlefield, and let a portion of the sea beasts enter within five kilometers."

"Our ammunition is limited, and we don't know the exact number of enemies. We have to change our tactics."

"Let our evolved troops, mech warriors, and pioneers leave the city and kill the batch of sea beasts that are let in."

Li Zhi issued his commands in an orderly manner. He was the supreme commander of this area, and the pioneer legion and mech warriors stationed here would temporarily follow his orders.

And the order he was issuing now was well thought out and absolutely feasible!

The number of sea beasts was unknown, and the amount of ammunition in the T-119 area was finite. If they were all used up at once, it was likely that the defenders would be left with no ammunition or supplies before the war was even halfway over.

But now, under Li Zhi's tactics, the huge sea beast horde was being divided by artillery fire. The majority were blocked beyond five kilometers, and a small portion were allowed to approach the defense line.

Li Zhi would no longer bombard this small portion of the beast tide that was allowed close to the defense line. Instead, he would send out special forces such as the evolved ones to kill them. After the slaughter was complete, he would use artillery fire again to divide the battlefield, and then let in another small wave of the beast tide, repeating the process.

This tactic could maximize the role of each unit and save a lot of ammunition.

From the current situation, this was an excellent way to respond.

Although Li Zhi was commanding in battle for the first time, the thoughts in his mind were extremely clear. In the past, he had conceived countless ideas for commanding and fighting against the beast tide in his mind. This tactic had been tested countless times in his mind, so he was able to use it with ease!

Soon, the firepower from inside the defense line began to decrease. The original overwhelming barrage of shells was now reduced by four-fifths.

Some of the beast kings in the beast tide raised their heads, their eyes filled with doubt.

Did the weakening of human firepower prove that their internal resources were depleted and they had no ammunition to replenish?

Soon, the doubt in their eyes turned into fanaticism and excitement. They roared madly and ran quickly with their huge bodies, causing the entire earth to rumble.

Boom, boom, boom!

A neat row of missiles descended from the sky and instantly landed in the beast horde.

Fierce artillery fire soared, and the bodies of a large number of sea beasts were blown to pieces.

When the smoke cleared, a very obvious dividing line appeared in the entire beast tide, about three hundred meters wide and three kilometers long. The ground in this area was completely black, like a scorched knife mark!

The beast tide in the rear fell into brief chaos and trampling, and they were unable to cross this dividing line in a short period of time.

The entire beast tide was cut in two with one stroke.

The sea beasts at the very front, nearly thirty thousand or so, were separated from the main force in the rear and were now rushing madly towards the defense line walls less than five kilometers away.

And at this moment, ten mech warriors descended from the sky, their electronic eyes instantly turning scarlet.

They instantly charged into the thirty thousand sea beasts. Their giant spears waved like giant meat grinders. Wherever they passed, the sea beasts fell one after another, like wheat being harvested.

Thump, thump, thump!

Footsteps rang out.

The pioneer legion and the Northern Border War Zone's evolved forces also jumped off the city walls, their steel knives flashing with a cold light. They were expressionless. Facing enemies whose numbers and sizes exceeded their own, their steel knives did not hesitate in the slightest. With each swing, a sea beast was sent to the underworld!

Three minutes!

It only took three minutes!

The thirty thousand sea beasts that had been deliberately let in at the very front had all been killed!

In the history of the war between humans and sea beasts, this could be considered a lightning-fast annihilation battle of top efficiency!

Next, using the same tactics, in less than fifteen minutes, nearly half of the beast tide had been killed under the defense line walls, while the T-119 area garrison still had more than 80% of its firepower reserves! The casualty rate of the evolved forces and mech warriors was also very low!

"..." Li Zhi looked at the satellite strategic monitoring, standing with his hands behind his back, his face not showing a smile, but the corners of his mouth could not help but begin to turn upwards.

Yes.

My tactics are very effective.

I am a very talented commander. I can maximize the effectiveness of all the firepower, arms, and soldiers I have.

I can complete this defense battle very easily.

For some reason, Li Zhi now suddenly thought of Chen Qiong.

A strong sense of competition and exhilaration surged in his heart.

"You always said that I am too young and need to participate in and study at least fifteen more years of war experience, otherwise I would not be able to independently command a war." The corners of Li Zhi's mouth turned up as he whispered to himself: "But now I can tell you..."

"You looked at the wrong person!"