Martin Variety in American Comics.

Chapter 571 The Army and Violence (Please subscribe and read further, and recommend with monthly tickets!)

"finished?"

When Beast Boy returned to his human form, he was still a little scared when he saw the rioting worker bees around him, and instinctively shrank back to Martin.

“Sazara is dead. The remaining bees are just a rabble and pose no threat.”

Martin snapped his fingers and beckoned to Dick and the vixen, signaling them to join him.

"Diana, Sazara is dead. Order all units to halt their assault, set up camp, and prepare to control the crazed worker bees!"

With Sazara dead, the battle was 90% over, because the remaining worker bees had no desire for self; they only cared about destruction and could not be considered enemies at all.

Martin then took over command of the battlefield and began handling the aftermath.

“Sazara uses beehives to build her country, and also uses beehives to distribute her worker bees. This distribution method is quite unsophisticated. The worker bees, transformed from the local humans of Kolank, and the worker bees created by Sazara herself are clearly distinguished, which makes it easier for us to control and eliminate them.”

Marin's attitude was clear: for those humans who had been forcibly converted, the solution was control and treatment.

However, there is no need to show mercy to the worker bees produced by the hive; they can simply be eliminated.

"If Sazara is doing this to continue the tradition of its home planet, then this so-called alien civilization is not actually that advanced."

Diana mercilessly mocked Sazara's foolish actions.

Even disregarding the issue of social structure, from a purely military perspective, mixing the transformed worker bees with human workers could pose a significant challenge to the Justice League.

Sazara's decision to separate the two is arguably a self-inflicted problem.

However, the person was already dead, but that was just a sarcastic remark, and nothing more was said.

The key point is that she had nothing to say to a dead person.

"You should be back by now. Besides the cleanup work, we also need to consider how to attack Savage's country."

Diana wanted Martin to return to discuss the next steps.

Like Martin, she paid no attention to the swarms of bees in the Kolank territory.

Although these workers are numerous, when they move, it's like a dark cloud covering the sky; wherever they go, they can destroy everything.

But these worker bees are ultimately just tools without their own intelligence. Without Sazara's command, they will only act on instinct, and it is not difficult to eliminate them.

The queen bee, who could continuously produce worker bees, has died. They have lost their source of new blood and have no intelligence, so their numbers will only dwindle with each battle.

"Let's go!"

Martin looked up and saw that all the out-of-control worker bees had gathered together, blocking out the sky, and were charging towards him menacingly.

They had no specific goal; they were simply following the orders Sarah gave before her death, using her royal authority, to destroy everything in sight.

"Boring. I really can't understand how someone with ideals and ambitions could be interested in controlling these walking corpses."

Martin criticized Savage's faction's obsession with biotechnology, then the Mother Box spun in his hand, changing like a Rubik's Cube, controlling the surrounding spatial shifts.

The worker bees that swarmed down clearly aimed for Martin Egg when they were about to dive down, but instead they passed right by him and crashed into the ground, creating large craters.

"Let's go!"

Dick and the vixen returned with their squad, and Martin snapped his fingers, causing the Mother Box, which was suspended in the air, to open a sonic boom, transferring them directly to Diana's command center.

As the frontline troops advanced, Diana moved the command post from the AWACS aircraft to the ground in order to better coordinate troop movements.

The combat effectiveness of individual units is not a problem, but now the combat effectiveness of the troops mainly comes from the system.

The Justice League forces still have many shortcomings in this regard, so Diana hopes to move the command center as far forward as possible so that problems can be corrected in a timely manner when coordination between the various units occurs.

However, Sadara's command skills in war were absolutely terrible. Apart from the F1 and F3 charge, he could only add a few guerrilla tactics at most.

In reality, all of these things combined had no effect on the Justice League's forces.

The most critical issue is that although Sazara is the queen, she is a bee queen, and none of the numerous worker bees in the hive can provide her with advice.

Therefore, the lower limit of Sazara is the lower limit of the entire hive.

This hive, which actually had considerable potential, was destroyed by the Justice League before it could even unleash its full power.

Diana, who was prepared to mediate conflicts between the various units, actually failed to demonstrate her abilities.

This made Diana very uneasy, because the conflicts between the units hadn't disappeared, their cooperation remained the same, and the hidden errors, not being brought to light, meant no one was going to correct them.

"If you really think they have problems with their tactical handling, just give the order to the military commanders and tell them to make corrections. Why do you have to have a war to remind them?"

Martin held the mother box, and all sorts of thoughts about Diana flooded his mind.

However, he and Diana disagreed, believing that the best way to eliminate this tactical problem was to build a complete system that would allow troops to improve through self-training.

"They can't learn their lesson without real experience. I find this hard to understand. If I had time, I could adjust slowly, but right now we have to play Savage, there's no time for them to adjust on their own."

Diana's thinking on war was still biased towards the training she received on Paradise Island; to put it bluntly, she was rather tough.

Martin knew that such military arguments could easily escalate into disagreements about course of action, so he did not continue the discussion: "We must still trust the troops at the front, their enthusiasm and loyalty, and the understanding that officers at all levels have of their men."

When people celebrate victory, we should learn to guide them appropriately, rather than simply suppressing and criticizing them.

“Alright, let’s give them some time and let them solve this problem themselves. If they can’t handle it, then I’ll have to deal with it myself.” Diana thought about Martin’s words for a while, but ultimately decided that she couldn’t take on everything herself, so she decided to leave everything to Martin.

"No, you should keep the position of commander-in-chief for yourself. Commanding a complete battle is too exhausting, and I have no interest in staying here as your chief of staff."

"So what if you become my chief of staff? It's not like I'm doing you a disservice."

Diana felt a pang of distress upon seeing Martin's reluctant expression and immediately questioned him about his intentions.

"That's not what I meant. I just feel that the current staff system is not perfect enough. We can't always be on the front lines pointing out their mistakes. To improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, we ultimately have to rely on systemic improvements."

The foundation of modern armies actually depends on the establishment of a staff system, the emergence of which signifies the complete control of the military by industrialized forces.

The kind of situation in history where a brilliant idea from a famous general completely reversed the outcome of a major battle will never happen again.

The point is that what is necessary for the establishment of an army now is no longer famous generals, but a sufficient number of officers, soldiers who have received a certain level of education, a system that can closely link every individual in the army, and most importantly, military strength.

Rather, it is the result of the combination of factors that constitutes the staff system.

The culmination of this system was naturally the German General Staff.

Although the general model of warfare may seem outdated after the end of the Cold War, this is only because Western countries can no longer mobilize their domestic populations to participate in wars through nationalism, so they have to choose a small and elite military system.

In reality, this General Staff system, which reached its peak during World War II, was actually the best option for the Justice League, because they needed a way to maintain their internal mobilization capacity in order to face the invasion of Apokolips.

This raid on Kolank also proved the views of the Alliance's military researchers: even with an imperfect staff system, it was still able to mobilize the strength of the Alliance members to the maximum extent.

“Establishing a comprehensive staff system within the Amazonian and Saltwater forces is not a problem, because their lives are already in such a tense state. But for those young people, such a system is still too harsh.”

Diana fought against this General Staff system during both World War I and World War II.

As a resident of Paradise Island, she had no prejudice against Germany. The reason she joined the British and American side was entirely because Ares chose to stand on the German side.

However, this actually gave her a deeper understanding of modern armies.

She knew very well that people born around 2000 simply couldn't withstand such intensity.

Although the situation in Europe and America is getting worse and worse, and there are more and more homeless zombies on the streets, that is the result of indulging themselves.

The military is a different story. To become a soldier, you actually have to suppress yourself, learn to obey, and become part of the collective.

No matter how modern armies change, this characteristic has never disappeared, and it is unacceptable to young people who are deeply influenced by liberalism.

"If you can't accept it, then leave. The military is a place where you can be lively, but there's no such thing as true freedom."

Martin was very insistent on this point.

Although Western countries tout liberalism, their control over the military is pervasive, and their discipline is no less stringent than that of countries like the East and the Soviet Union.

Diana certainly shared this view. The military, police, and secret service are the embodiment of state violence, and such places inevitably emphasize discipline and organization, suppressing so-called individual characteristics.

Of course, Martin and Diana emphasized this point only because of the special nature of the military.

Those who cannot withstand such pressure can simply leave and take up positions in other departments. The Justice League is very large and needs many people.

While Martin and Diana were discussing how to improve the troop system, the troops that had halted their advance at the front, in coordination with Martian hunters, divided the battlefield into two parts, one inside and one outside.

As Martin described, the situation inside was indeed as follows: Sazara simply and crudely placed all the worker bees transformed from humans on the outer perimeter, and even set up very clear boundaries.

The Justice League forces quickly set up barriers along this line, unleashing a barrage of fire on the worker bees hatching from the wind hives.

There are many ways to deal with a group of mindless and unruly beasts. The flying troops that swept across the sky dropped a large number of incendiary bombs, turning the core area of ​​the Kolank Hive into a sea of ​​fire.

The raging flames were even more ferocious than the worker bees. The bombs, filled with special fuel, exploded, burning not only the worker bees flying in the sky to charcoal, but also dragging the structure that made up the hive into the sea of ​​fire, mercilessly scorching everything and turning this place into a completely white wasteland.

Instead of advancing further in, the Justice League forces remained stationed on the boundary line separating the inside and outside of the hive, using their vehicles as cover to fire at the worker bees emerging from the inferno, ensuring that no one escaped.

Although the worker bees that gathered together lacked intelligence, in order to survive, they huddled together and kept flapping their wings to create a strong wind, trying to suppress the flames on the ground, so that they could take the opportunity to escape from the air.

"Dealing with such beasts is hardly a satisfying task. These worker bees, created by Sazala himself, are not as intelligent as the worker bees outside."

The commanders of each unit looked at the worker bees trying to break out from the low altitude and all had the same attitude: they didn't take these worker bees seriously.

Although these worker bees hatched from the hive are very strong, they don't even deserve the title of "qualified" as an army.

The frontline troops didn't even need to devise any tactics; they just needed to control the defensive line and bombard the enemy with the heavy artillery carried on their tanks.

Amidst the barrage of fire, the fierce worker bee colony was quickly routed.

Even though they escaped the inferno caused by the incendiary bombs, they were quickly scattered and destroyed by heavy artillery bombardment and then easily dealt with by the troops.

At the same time, Martian Manhunter channeled his psychic power into the machines installed by the frontline troops, playing a lullaby. With the power of the machines, the sound echoed and overlapped, eventually covering a large area and forcibly controlling the worker bees.

In addition to the Martian hunters' own strength, the subsequent support troops also released pheromones that could isolate the communication between the hives.

Combined with the small-scale rainfall created by the air force, the entire outer area was eventually enveloped in a green rain curtain, bringing all the worker bees under control.

The Justice League is determined to eradicate the worker bees hatched from the hive.

However, they still try their best to help those humans who were forced into this form.

Let them return to normal human form, or find a new way of life.

(End of this chapter)