Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!

Mountain City.

After the ground access was opened, support forces began to pour into Mountain City continuously.

The first batch of support was mainly the remaining forces of the Han Shui City Expeditionary Army, mixed with some Mechanical God Sect's Guardian Army that had been "incorporated" in Anhan.

According to He Shuo's arrangement, all these people were to be managed by Guo Xu and the other two.

This was a blatant strategy. He Shuo intended to use these three Forbidden Army members, who had been "initially transformed," to further divide and transform the Guardian Army, eventually spreading into the entire Mechanical God Sect.

Of course, this was just the surface layer of the plan.

What truly took effect was not just the influence of Guo Xu and others on the Guardian Army.

Likewise, in the process of leading the Guardian Army, the Guardian Army would also influence the three in reverse.

But once they truly felt the difference between the two forces, it would become increasingly difficult to find a "moderate balance" between the two stances...

Looking at Guo Xu, who stood in front of the loosely formed Guardian Army, constantly scolding them with harsh words, a slight smile appeared on Chen Jian's face.

He would soon be driven insane by these Guardian Army members.

Even when new Supreme Army corps were transferred from Jinling later, this sense of discrepancy wouldn't be alleviated.

Because his threshold had already been raised very high.

To readjust, how could it be easy?

When his conflicts with the Guardian Army and the Mechanical God Sect develop to an irreconcilable point, He Shuo's next action would formally begin.

---- However, the main task now is not this.

Chen Jian withdrew his gaze and looked at the newly erected large screen in the temporary command center.

Then he spoke:

"Based on the intelligence from Shen City, the concept of the 'Ring' has already been preliminarily judged."

"It is likely a 'special equipment loop' distributed globally in various regions."

"Although we do not know the specific use of this equipment now, it can be confirmed that Mountain City is also a point on the equipment loop."

"Obviously, our offensive on Mountain City has shifted from 'optional' to 'mandatory'."

"How about it, does anyone have any opinions on this?"

As soon as the words fell, everyone in the temporary command center shook their heads.

"No."

"No."

Receiving everyone's response, Chen Jian nodded slightly and then continued:

"Then we won't beat around the bush, the matters on the Shen City side will be left to Shen Yue to handle ---- Lei Jie, you also fly back as soon as possible to assist."

"Everyone else, remain focused on this side of Mountain City, the goal is to quickly resolve the issues in Mountain City."

"Alright, now let's move into the tactical discussion stage."

Saying this, Chen Jian paused slightly, then projected the latest combat map on the screen.

He continued, saying:

"From the current situation, the entire Mountain City has completely entered a closed state."

"We have not detected any anomalous activity signals, and the electromagnetic detection equipment has also not monitored any unknown electromagnetic waves."

"Both the above and underground parts of Mountain City have been completely isolated; they are like a metal tortoise hiding in a shell, leaving no gap for us to attack."

"Now I understand why these Mountain City people are so..... confident."

"They do indeed have reasons to be."

"After hundreds of years of development, the underground space of Mountain City is as solid as a giant fortress."

"I now seriously doubt that even if we buried a large-yield nuclear bomb underground to detonate, it might not have much effect on them."

"Moreover, if we want to enter underground, the dangers during combat will immediately increase."

"The unmanned combat units within the underground space are not affected by the electromagnetic pulses on the surface."

"Without electromagnetic suppression methods, we will face a truly close-quarters combat battlefield."

"This is troublesome... here's the problem."

"Is there a way that allows us to quickly break into the underground, breach their defenses, and directly enter the core area inside Mountain City?"

As his words fell, everyone in the temporary command center fell into silence.

Moments later, Lei Jie spoke up:

"We can use unmanned combat against unmanned combat."

"They have unmanned machines, and so do we."

"Even if there is a disadvantage in production capacity, we can use resource advantages to level the playing field..."

"No."

Chen Jian shook his head, interrupting Lei Jie.

"There is a timeliness issue here."

"We need to breakthrough to the interior of Mountain City, but how soon we can achieve that will ultimately determine the outcome of this operation."

"Getting it done within 10 days versus two months later are completely different results."

"Even putting aside the 'Ring' issue, dragging it out too long will turn the situation extremely unfavorable for us."

"This underground city will become an unremovable thorn, or rather, a Damocles sword hanging above us."

"It could fall at any time, turning all our efforts into nothing...."

"What about negotiation?"

He Shuo asked.

With his line of thinking, many issues don't necessarily need to be resolved on the battlefield.

Problems that can be settled at the negotiation table or behind the scenes don't have to be dragged to the battlefield for devastating conflicts.

This way of thinking is not substantially flawed.

After all, the essence of war is attrition, a drastic solution when issues remain unresolved.

If there is a chance to stop this attrition, who would want to be a warmongering maniac?

---- But here's the problem.

Does the current Huaxia Army really have the chips to negotiate with Mountain City?

If we were talking before the ground access was opened, or before those level-one monsters were eliminated, there would indeed be a chance for negotiation.

But now that the war has started and both sides have paid heavy sunk costs, all visible chips on the table have reset to zero.

To restart the game, both sides must produce new chips.

And the reality is, Mountain City still has chips, but Huaxia Army has none left.

Thinking of this, Chen Jian shook his head and said:

"Negotiations aren't possible."

"With the cards we have on hand, we have far fewer chips compared to Mountain City."

"Once we enter negotiation processes, we will be directly led by the nose."

"Unless we manage to obtain new trump cards, but----"

"We actually do have."

He Shuo raised his hand to interrupt Chen Jian and then said:

"We can have new trump cards."

"Are you referring to the so-called Ring?"

Chen Jian asked.

"Of course not."

"The Ring is too ethereal for both us and Mountain City."

"Without fully understanding its function, it remains a mere possibility; perhaps it can embellish negotiations in the later stages."

"But using it as a bargaining chip is entirely inappropriate."

"So aside from this, what else do we have?"

Chen Jian asked curiously.

He Shuo lightly tapped on the table and answered:

"For negotiations at this level, the chips cannot be mere benefits."

"Since we are in a state of mutual hostility, then truly effective chips will definitely be destructive."

"We must grasp their lifeline."

"And their lifeline... is computing power."

"We need to disrupt their computing power as much as possible."

As he finished, Chen Jian spread his hands:

"This issue loops back to the beginning---- our basic assumption is that a large-yield nuclear bomb cannot effectively shake the underground computing power center."

"We don't need to directly attack the computing power center."

He Shuo directly revealed the answer.

"Water, the core is water."

As these words fell, Chen Jian suddenly realized.

Like being enlightened!

Indeed...

Water is the foundation of everything.

Because such a massive computing power center undoubtedly requires an enormous water source for cooling!

The fog that perennially disperses over Mountain City may just be the result of evaporating cooling water!

So the answer is quite obvious.

A large-yield nuclear bomb cannot directly destroy underground structures.

But what if I use the explosion to cut off their water source?

There must be a cooling water management system underground in Mountain City since they must deal with water shortages during dry seasons.

But even so, there's a lot that can be worked on.

Yangtze River...

Chen Jian slammed the table excitedly.

"This plan is excellent!"

"Conduct remote sensing operations on the surface to identify Mountain City's main water diversion channels!"

"Cut off the water source, let's see how long they can hold out!"