The Twins Appear

The soldiers, or rather the army, under Strucker's command were quite capable. The outer defense line was divided into three lines, one inside the other, clearly indicating that these were highly professional soldiers.

Moreover, they used a large number of weapons designed to defeat the Chitauri. If it were an army from another country attacking, it would be really difficult to conquer this place without deploying some heavy weapons.

However, these things proved extremely fragile in the face of the Avengers.

Let alone the current Avengers, even the one from Xia Yu's previous life would have broken through the castle in no time. If it weren't for Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, Strucker wouldn't have been able to escape either.

Xia Yu remembered watching Avengers 2 in his previous life. The movie opened with the Avengers attacking this castle. One of the scenes that impressed Xia Yu the most was when the original six Avengers crossed the first line of defense, the barricade.

The group quickly breached the first line of defense, and as they ran towards the barricade, Xia Yu couldn't help but want to recreate the classic moment.

'Click'

Xia Yu was still imagining how he would get across when Hulk crashed into the wooden barricade, turning it into countless fragments.

"Damn it, Hulk, you're so rude."

"Roar!~!"

Hulk turned and roared angrily at Xia Yu.

"It's okay, I said you did a great job, honey. Lots of tanks are coming out over there, go ram them, sweetie!"

Frustrated by his failure to recreate the classic scene, Xia Yu to stick to being a cleaner and vented his anger on the Hydra soldiers.

Inside the castle, the Avengers' sudden attack threw the entire castle into chaos. Strucker opened the twins' room, determined to retreat immediately if anything went wrong. These two were his precious darlings, and he couldn't bear to face the Avengers right now.

There was a lot of research data to be deleted from the base, and a lot of things to be taken away. In order to buy time, Strucker ordered his soldiers to go to the city and start attacking civilians.

"Gentlemen, the city has been attacked by Hydra."

JARVIS's voice rang in everyone's ears.

"Damn bastard, that son of a bitch, Stark, send out the Iron Legion."

I don't know if it's because Xia Yu has influenced him, but the Captain has become much more foul-mouthed than before.

"Yes, Captain. JARVIS, did you hear the Captain's order? Deploy the Iron Legion to protect the civilians. But Captain, you actually used foul language. God will forgive you."

Tony made a joke at the Captain's expense.

Hydra doesn't have many people right now, but the arrival of a large number of the Iron Legion quickly restored order to the city, and a squad of Hydra soldiers were killed by the Iron Legion one by one.

But the people of this country don't seem to welcome these robots with the Avengers logo and Iron Legion design.

They attacked the robots with incendiary bombs and other weapons.

The walls are covered with graffiti depicting Iron Man holding weapons.

Because of the large amount of arms sold to terrorists during Obadiah Stane's early tenure at Stark Industries, many civilians here have died from weapons produced by Stark Industries.

They didn't understand terrorist organizations or international forces; they only remembered that every blood-stained weapon bore the name Stark. This was the main reason why Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver hated the Avengers and volunteered to participate in human experiments.

Their loved ones, their homes, were destroyed by weapons bearing the name Stark.

Moreover, even relatively speaking, it was indeed the Avengers' operation to capture Strucker that led to the attack on this part of the city.

However, the Avengers are oblivious to all of this; they only know that the Iron Legion has taken control of the situation.

Hydra deployed a large number of soldiers and new weapons to buy time for the outer defenses, while the defensive shield surrounding the castle temporarily blocked Tony's advance.

"There are a lot of firing positions here in the castle, and the key is that there's a defensive shield on the outside. I'll need some time to break through it," Tony said into the headset.

"I'll do it. Let's just open the door and go in. We'll leave the outside to them." Xia Yu wanted to open the portal and go in directly.

"Wait, Xia, don't be impulsive. Your portal is a secret weapon; don't expose it lightly. Tony, try to break the Energy Shield first. If you really can't get in, then we'll talk."

The Captain stopped Xia Yu. Indeed, using this against a mere Strucker was too premature.

All the information available to everyone was that the Scepter was in Strucker's possession, but they didn't know what he was using it for research, or that Strucker was currently stalling for time.

We're sure we'll break through, so there's no rush.

Tony agreed to the Captain's request and began flying around the castle, scanning for weaknesses in its defensive shield.

On the outer perimeter, under the fierce attack of Xia Yu and his men, the second line of defense was also on the verge of collapse.

Baron Strucker was a master of stalling for time. He deployed a large number of troops, including tanks with new technology, along the existing defensive line, not to demonstrate his defense, but to launch waves of attacks on the Avengers from the rear.

It felt like they were sending waves of attacks, but it effectively slowed down the Avengers' offensive.

Inside the castle, Strucker's men were reporting the battle situation to him.

"Our lines won't hold for much longer, sir. Our weapons are practically useless against them."

"Can't we stop them from reaching the last line of defense by using all our equipment and personnel?" Strucker asked knowingly.

"They're the Avengers, sir." The subordinate felt his side had no chance of winning.

Strucker knew this, of course, but he was only doing it to buy time; he needed his soldiers to fight and risk their lives, and he had to give them confidence in victory.

He's the head coach; if the head coach stays calm, the people below can maintain a certain level of confidence.

So Strucker raised his voice, "What about the Avengers? We have powerful weapons and equipment, and a defensive shield that can withstand any attack. Those freaks won't break through our lines! Warriors, we will win!"

Strucker's encouragement proved very effective, and the remaining soldiers in the castle roared and charged out.

Seeing that almost all the combat personnel had left, Strucker beckoned to one of his most important scientists and whispered to him:

"Hurry up and delete all the data. Take the most important things with you; we're planning to escape. We've made a crucial breakthrough, and we'll have plenty of opportunities to settle scores with them later. You take the twins and go first."

"The twins..." The scientist looked around, "The twins seem to have already gone out..."