The planet Tikru, about a thousand kilometers away from the battle-torn city of Tiko, is a rolling mountain range. The mountain ranges towards Tico City and crosses a long, long-dried valley, and in the middle of the valley, on a gentle slope near the bed of the sand and gravel remains, is a community of all sorts of extremely ugly alien buildings.

On the slopes covered in purple-red fungus carpets, disgusting buildings resembling the internal organs of various large animals stand tall and low-level insects shuttling back and forth among these building communities. At the foot of the cliff near the side of the valley, a ten-story hive stands majestically, overlooking the dry riverbed on the hillside.

This is the target chosen by the new army of St. Prory's strategic counterattack against the insects. As the disgusting fungus blanket like the skin of an animal's internal organs slowly spread to the highlands around the river valley, the originally lush green mountain forest, as if infected with a serious disease, slowly "suppurated" around the base of the hive. The jungle closest to the base of the insect hive seemed to be smoked by the disgusting smell wafting from the base of the insect hive, and the branches and leaves of the trunks slowly turned yellow and withered, and then one by one fell into the thick fungus blanket, and were swallowed up and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Since the hive appeared in the jungle, the animals and birds of the forest were almost nowhere to be seen, replaced by ugly and terrifying insects, roaming the jungle day and night, attacking all other creatures they found. A red haze with a strong smell of blood permeated the jungle for tens of kilometers all day long.

"Whew!" In a valley at the back of the valley where the hive is located, a jumping worm is gnawing on a tiger elephant it has caught, raising its crocodile head from time to time, and roaring a few times with its bloody mouth, as if it is summoning other companions nearby to enjoy this delicious meal.

The Tiger Elephant, a wild animal unique to the planet Tikru, is the size of two elephants, and although it is a herbivore, it has a large head that resembles a tiger. If it weren't for the sudden invasion of this planet by alien insects, the tiger elephant would be the existence of the overlord in this jungle, and no animal would dare to provoke such a behemoth. However, in the face of alien insects with poisonous claws all over their bodies, even if it is just a jumping insect the size of a calf, no matter how fierce and mighty the tiger elephant is, it can only be reduced to the meal of the insects.

"......Snort" had just swallowed a bite of the tiger elephant's bloody flesh, and the jumping worm that was enjoying a delicious meal seemed to suddenly notice something, shrugged its nose and sniffed the thick bloody air, and the pair of green and cold triangular beast eyes swept through the depths of the jungle filled with blood-red haze.

......The next moment, the slender beast eyes of the jumping insect suddenly enlarged, raised its head to the sky and roared, leaving the bloody tiger elephant that was bitten under its claws, like a fierce cheetah, and swooped towards the depths of the jungle.

"Puff puff!" At this moment, the jungle, which was shrouded in a thick and heavy haze, suddenly flashed a faint light, and a row of specially made armor-piercing spikes whizzed head-on towards the jumping insect. The body of the jumping insect that could leap into the air suddenly froze, and several key points, including the head, suddenly exploded a few bewitching "red flowers" mixed with pieces of flesh and blood. Before he even had time to hum, the jumping worm, which was still enjoying the "delicious meal" just now, fell to the ground with a heavy head, and gasped for a few breaths with its bloody mouth, and then gradually lost its breath.

"The danger is lifted! Keep going! Between the shadows of the trees, there was a faint sound of extremely low commands, and a row of tall figures faintly flashing with metal cold suddenly flashed out of the blood-red haze, arranged in a huge fan shape, and continued to silently move towards the valley where the hive base was located.

These tall figures are none other than the mixed special operations team responsible for covering Haoyi's infiltration of the Alien Insect Base. According to the tactics that Haoyi had discussed hundreds of times with Guo Ling and others, this mixed special operations detachment, which was composed of Meier's captive soldiers and Shen Hu's members of the Hawkeye No. 1 Special Operations Detachment, should send Haoyi to the Insect Base before the main force launched a general attack on this insect hive base, and let him blend into the insect hive similar to the Insect Command Center in advance, so as to implement Haoyi's so-called "leading the snake out of the hole" Jihua.

Because it was a battlefield infiltration mission, neither Meier's more than 20 captives nor Shen Hu's Hawkeye No. 1 Special Operations Detachment participated in the operation. After careful screening, a total of 12 POWs and 12 members of the Hawkeye Special Operations Team were given the opportunity to participate in the operation. They were organized into two capable special operations teams, each led by Maier and Shen Hu.

The tasks assigned by Haoyi to these two special operations teams that cooperate with their actions are: the Meier team follows Haoyi all the way, and after Haoyi infiltrates the worm nest, he is fully responsible for Haoyi's safety; The task of Shen Hu's team is to clear all dangers in the way, and when they forcibly attack the insect base, they are responsible for attracting the attention of the insects, so that Mayer's team can successfully send Haoyi into the insect nest.

Together with the three of Haoyi, Maier, and Shen Hu, a total of twenty-seven tall figures faintly flickering with metallic cold glow, under the cover of the thick blood-red haze, silently approached the insect base behind the mountain. What they wore was the multi-functional special operations armor of the Black Hawk Special Operations Force.

In addition to various protective functions, this special combat armor is more advanced than similar armor, and it also has an extremely advanced environmental fusion function. The special combat armor with this function can adjust the color of the armor's exterior paint according to the changes in the surrounding environment, so that the body shape of the special combat personnel can blend into the surrounding environment as much as possible. There is no doubt that this chameleon-like armor can greatly improve the survivability of special operators during dangerous missions such as sneaking behind enemy lines. Although it is not possible for the special operators to achieve complete invisibility like those ghost agents, it can at least greatly reduce the probability of being detected by enemy forces.

In order to alarm the insects in advance, the medical transport plane that Haoyi and the others were riding quietly landed on a clearing in the forest about eleven kilometers away from the insect base. Then, the twenty-seven men armed to the teeth began to carefully cross the mountains and valleys, and it took nearly a whole day to finally reach the slope behind the canyon where the insect base was located.

According to Jihua, the mixed reinforcement corps led by Guo Ling himself had been assembled three hours earlier, about thirty kilometers away from this mountainous area. The accompanying heavy artillery clusters should also enter the preset positions and set up all the artillery elements. As long as Haoyi's vanguard small force arrives safely at the periphery of the Alien Insect Base, the mixed reinforcement corps will be able to launch a large-scale firepower assault on this Alien Insect Base.

In less than half an hour, the first wave of attack forces on various transport planes could pounce on the canyon where the Alien base was located, and under the cover of the powerful artillery fire of the heavy artillery cluster, they launched a powerful first wave of attacks on the Alien army defending the base. Then, the follow-up heavy troops will take various ground transport vehicles and quickly rush to the outskirts of the canyon along the narrow and winding mountain pass, preparing for the second or even third wave of onslaught.

This mixed reinforced corps is composed of the three main armored divisions of the Eighth Army Group and the Tenth Army Group, with a total of more than 350 siege tanks, more than 600 raider mechas, and nearly 2,000 armored locomotives of various types, with a total combat strength of more than 113,000. In addition to these ground forces, the two major army groups have all drawn out the few remaining army aviation units. A total of more than 200 hastily repaired Banshee fighters and more than 500 medical transport planes participated in this large-scale counterattack.

With such a large number of troops, for an army of millions of insects at every turn, it may not be enough for the insects to stuff their teeth. However, this well-planned counterattack was not like the two earth-shattering life-and-death battles that took place in Tikru before. The target of the mixed reinforcement legion is this insect base, which is only in the initial stage according to Hao Yi. Including the insects wandering around the base, the total number of insects in the entire hive base is only tens of thousands.

The superiority in troops, combined with the formidable firepower of the human army, was enough for this mixed army to sweep through this primary Insect base. However, according to Jihua, this mixed army only needs to maintain strong attack pressure on this Alien Worm Base, and does not need to take a devastating blow to the entire Alien Worm Base, unless Haoyi successfully completes the "Luring the Snake Out of the Hole" Jihua and obtains the exact location of the Alien Brain Worm or the Master.

The temporary commander of this powerful mixed reinforcement corps was none other than Lieutenant General Guo Ling, the second adjutant of the General Staff of the New Army. Originally, according to Haoyi's intentions, Guo Ling was asked to stay at the Longtan base, command all the troops gathered in the Tike City area, strengthen the fortifications, seize the time to rest and replenish troops and ammunition, so as to prepare for a new round of large-scale attacks by the main army of the insects.

However, Guo Ling insisted on personally leading the army to cooperate with Haoyi's action on the grounds that this operation was related to the survival of the entire St. Prory Star District, and handed over the task of strengthening the defense of the Tico City area to the commanders of the two army groups. In addition, the battleship Hope, which was originally about to be dispatched, also stayed in the sky above Tico City at Haoyi's insistence and continued to play the role of a protector.

......Seeing that they were getting closer and closer to the target area, the special combat team members marching in the blood-red haze became more and more cautious, and even looked around cautiously every time they took a step, for fear that there would be one or two strange insects hiding in a dark corner. At the head of the queue was a special combat officer holding a multifunctional miniature radar in his hand, and above the eagle-shaped special operations armband, the colonel's military emblem was impressively engraved. He is none other than Shen Hu, the captain of the "general" Hawkeye First Special Operations Brigade under Haoyi.

The micro-radar emits a regular series of muffled chirps, indicating that it is searching a local area within 500 meters of it. Although the bright radar screen did not appear again on the bright radar screen with red points of light representing alien insects, except for those blue light spots representing his own special combat members, Shen Hu's heart still jumped inexplicably, and he subconsciously made a gesture to signal the team to stop advancing, and his fierce tiger eyes immediately stared at a slightly gloomy jungle clearing dozens of meters away.