"Next, the remaining enemies."
"That would be the special forces team controlling the core area of the 1st Official Shelter."
"And the Snowwind Mercenary Corps' fleet in the eastern waters."
After watching the spider robots move towards the 4th Shelter to restore order, Su Wu turned his attention back to the map. The 1st Official Shelter and the over 200 ships stationed in the east were still marked in red.
He felt a deep sense of helplessness.
Both of those areas would have been easy to handle when he was at his peak strength.
But now, it wasn't as simple.
Unless he was willing to pilot the miniature mech personally and engage in a large-scale massacre at the frontlines, it would be difficult to tackle those targets in a short time.
After a moment of hesitation, Su Wu ultimately gave up the impulse to solve everything in one go.
His miniature mech, no matter how advanced, was still just a single soldier's weapon. If the remnants of the Snowwind Mercenary Corps were hiding any high-powered bombs, it wouldn't even take a nuclear bomb. A simple cloud bomb might be enough to take him down along with them.
Given that they already had the advantage, there was no need to take such an unnecessary risk.
However,
Though Su Wu had abandoned the idea of going in personally, he couldn't bear to simply let the enemy escape without a fight.
After careful consideration, he decided to send out the last guard force stationed at the farmhouse.
Fifty heavy combat spider robots, around five hundred machine dogs, and several drone squads.
He would launch an attack against the Snowwind Mercenary Corps' fleet.
"With the miniature mech in place, the safety here at the farmhouse is basically guaranteed."
"As for the force we're sending after the fleet, the more we send, the better."
"Hopefully, we can capture their command yacht."
Su Wu had long coveted the Snowwind Mercenary Corps' command yacht.
That yacht was essentially a floating mobile city.
If it were to be captured, it could provide immense support for transportation across cities in the current flood-ridden environment.
With Su Wu deciding to focus his remaining forces on the fleet, it meant that the 1st Official Shelter would have to be temporarily put aside.
After all, compared to the small special forces team at the 1st Official Shelter, it would be relatively inconsequential. Even if he caused chaos and looted, they wouldn't be able to take many resources.
On the Ground.
In the eastern waters of Jianghe City,
On the brightly lit command yacht,
"Report, Chief of Staff. Confirmed that General Lan Yu has been killed."
"All our forces near the 4th Shelter have been wiped out."
The messenger brought the worst news.
Yu Hong sighed wearily as he listened, his eyes flashing with resolve.
"Inform everyone that the fleet is to turn around immediately. We're leaving Jianghe City."
"But there are still people left in the shelter who haven't evacuated," an officer in the captain's room objected.
Yu Hong responded, his tone more severe than before.
"That's an order!"
Twenty minutes later,
When the spider robots and machine dogs Su Wu had sent out,
Along with a large convoy of transport vehicles, arrived at the outskirts of Jianghe City's eastern district,
The Snowwind Mercenary Corps' fleet was already far from the shore, leaving only vague, almost invisible silhouettes.
"Chase them."
Su Wu took a deep breath, then ordered the 30 medium-sized hovercraft he had available to join the pursuit.
He instructed the robot army to switch to the hovercraft and continue the chase.
On land,
The five remaining 155mm self-propelled artillery vehicles also began to adjust their coordinates, targeting the departing ships for long-range attacks.
At this point,
Su Wu was no longer concerned about capturing the ships in one piece.
He aimed to sink them.
As long as he could keep the ships, even if they became piles of scrap metal,
It would still have significant recovery value for Su Wu.
With Su Wu's orders,
The faint rumble of artillery began to echo again in the eastern city outskirts of Jianghe City.
Meanwhile, the clouds in the sky, torn apart by the nuclear explosion, began to slowly heal under the push of the high-altitude storm.
Darkness and rain once again ruled the surface,
Slowly washing away the traces of the battle that had occurred not long ago.
But below the surface, in the many shelters,
The true consequences were just beginning.
At the 4th Shelter,
Amidst intense gunfire,
The spider robots began to gradually capture key strategic points inside the shelter.
After more than 40 minutes of a back-and-forth struggle,
They successfully cleared all the Snowwind Mercenary Corps' remaining soldiers inside the 4th Shelter.
At this point,
The few hundred spider robots that had started with were now down to less than 80,
And all of them were damaged.
Their combat effectiveness had weakened to an extremely low level.
"Start firefighting and rescue operations."
"Open the medical storage."
"Recruit shelter residents with prior medical experience."
"Distribute medical supplies and provide unconditional treatment to the injured."
Su Wu gave the order to clean up the aftermath.
He left 10 relatively intact spider robots at the 4th Shelter as armed forces to maintain order.
The remaining 60-70 spider robots were sent back to the farmhouse for repairs and resupply of ammunition.
Afterward, they would head to the 1st Official Shelter to face off with the Snowwind Mercenary Corps' special forces team stationed there.
This was to prevent them from escaping and causing further damage.
Meanwhile,
At the production center, all other tasks were temporarily abandoned,
And full focus was put into manufacturing regular spider robots.
With the scale of the production center now, as long as there was enough raw material,
They could produce 400 regular spider robots per hour.
In just a few hours, they could ensure that every large residential gathering point at the official shelters would receive a certain number of spider robots.
During this urgent production of spider robots,
Su Wu did not leave the official shelters to descend into chaos under unmanaged conditions.
Instead, he drew a significant portion of the security team from his affiliated shelters
And sent them to restore order.
These security personnel were equipped with exoskeleton armor and electromagnetic rifles that Su Wu had developed.
Though they might be mere cannon fodder against the Snowwind Mercenary Corps' regular army,
They would be more than enough to maintain order and suppress scattered civilian unrest.
"Now, for the surface's official security
forces."
Having handled the most pressing tasks,
Su Wu turned his gaze toward the surface, focusing on the official security force he had nearly forgotten.
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