The battle to attack the Mushroom City was far harder than the previous four settlements—not only because the Mushroom City had a great stockpile of Mushroom weapons, but because the number of Bug Warriors here was the largest, and enslaved ordinary people took part in the fighting in great numbers too.

The ordinary people who could be relocated to live at the Mushroom City were, basically, all people who had already submitted to the Bug Warriors.

The fighting was hard.

Han Shoucheng's expression wasn't very good.

Yao Haibo, former commander of the Jinan Provincial Military Region, frowned as he watched the battlefield trading blows ahead, and said in a low, firm voice, "It seems the Bug Kingdom's Zhang Xiao and Wang Shuang have already made their preparations."

After the drones patrolled the skies, one could very clearly see that the entire Mushroom City had entered a state of combat readiness.

Every road and entrance was heavily guarded.

Han Shoucheng said, "Their being prepared was within expectation. We took out four settlements in succession, and those settlements all had trade dealings with the Mushroom City. Anyone with a mind to could spot the traces—and besides, the wilderness terrain is too complex; we can't guarantee a hundred percent that we'll wipe out every Bug Warrior. There are bound to be fish that slip the net."

"Commander Han, it seems we'll have to deploy the stockpiled rockets."

"Let's spend a while longer first. Their Mushroom weapons are too numerous, the pine forest's flames too great, the interference with signals too heavy; and lobbing them lacks accuracy—we won't hurt the Bug Warriors."

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The stalemated battle situation had already begun to see casualties.

Shen Cong switched on his humanoid radar, which could only cover a small area; battlefields in other directions needed drone reconnaissance.

The drone, looking down from the sky, saw the entire Culai Town Mushroom City, its central region shrouded by great swaths of mushrooms. These mushrooms varied in size, but broadly speaking there were four styles. The pointed mushroom's head was pointed, like a cone; the round mushroom was like a…