After hearing this, Tony glanced at Luke again: No wonder this guy was in a hurry to get so many "players" and train them to fly "cannon fodder" fighters.
T'Challa nodded: "I have about 2,000 fighter planes, plus Bruce's, it should be enough."
As for the battleships, no one mentioned them. The manufacturing speed of these things is not fast, and T'Challa and Luke remember the number very clearly.
Moreover, Thanos' fleet is equivalent to the "air base" of fighter jets, while Earth's fighter jets are mainly land-based.
In terms of speed and flexibility within the atmosphere, Thanos' battleship cannot compare with fighter planes.
Especially Wakanda's Vibranium fighters, their lethality should be enough to break the protective shield of Thanos' battleship.
Therefore, whoever destroys the opponent's fighter jets first can attack the opponent's base.
Once the base is destroyed, the war is 80% lost.
Of course, it's unlikely that Thanos would be stupid enough to let the base be worn down.
He is the director of the Family Planning Commission who specializes in killing half of the people, not a foolish man who would send himself to die.
Once the situation becomes irreversible, he will inevitably leave early.
As long as he has the Earth, he is not afraid of not getting the gems.
The group quickly walked into the conference hall inside the palace.
As soon as they entered, Shu Rui greeted them at the door and greeted Luke and Tony in a familiar manner.
As Wakanda's first technical engineer, she has been in charge of the manufacturing and production of various equipment in Wakanda since this year.
She knew the specific number and strength of Wakanda's equipment better than T'Challa, so of course she had to attend the meeting.
Then, Luke greeted the group of "retired" Avengers next to him.
Only Tony turned his face away, pretending not to see Steve.
Steve wasn't embarrassed.
Under normal circumstances, the young master would definitely scold him harshly, but now he only turned away half of his face, which was already very generous of him.
The others remained silent.
Steve and Tony had a big fight because of Bucky.
Although thanks to Luke's efforts, both sides finally gave in to each other and Steve took the initiative to admit his mistake, it was not appropriate for others to say anything.
As long as it doesn't interfere with your work, just turn a blind eye.
Everyone just greeted each other and took their seats.
It still starts with Dr. Banner, and Luke adds to make the matter of Thanos clear.
Then, Luke concluded: "Destroying a gem and stopping Thanos is actually useless to us."
A smart man like Tony has figured out the reason after thinking about it for a while.
He didn't want to be ridiculed by the knight, so he decisively interrupted: "Because Thanos already knows that the gems are on Earth. If we destroy them, the entire universe will indeed be safe, but an enraged Thanos definitely wouldn't mind doing it himself and destroying the Earth, right?"
Luke nodded. "His usual practice is to kill half of them, but when he gets angry, he can count all of us humans on Earth as the half that should be killed."
At this point, he looked around at everyone, and then slowly said: "I am an Earthling, and I will not sacrifice the Earth for the benefit of the entire universe. So, this time, either we kill Thanos, or let him collect all the gems, so that half of the people on Earth can survive."
Everyone was silent.
This is a very heavy topic.
If you win, everything will be fine.
If they lose, then Luke's idea is undoubtedly the best choice for the Earth.
Even if you put it this way, it's like exchanging half of the life in the entire universe for the survival of half of the people on Earth.
But everyone present knew that for most races, if half of the people survived, it would be enough for the race to continue.
From an absolutely rational point of view, it can also greatly alleviate the problem of resource competition.
Of course, this is actually Director Mie’s logic.
It’s just that the relatives and friends of the half of the people who were killed couldn’t accept it.
Among the people present, African T'Challa was the most saintly, and at most he had this thought in his mind.
Most of the rest accept the public opinion orientation of European and American societies, and although they agree in their hearts they dare not say it out loud.
Only knights can express their attitude without any concealment.
Everyone here knows that the Knight is Batman.
As someone who has saved the earth many times, he has already become a saint and is not afraid of being questioned at all.
Moreover, the Avengers also remembered his attitude towards non-human intelligent creatures - to Batman, aliens were never considered human.
Batman, who claims to never kill anyone, has his hands stained with the "blood" of non-humans such as vampires, experimental subjects, aliens, etc. He is a 100% alien butcher.
It would be weird to say that he chose to let the earthlings sacrifice themselves for the aliens.
Luke expressed his attitude and also set the tone for the upcoming battle.
Either you kill Thanos and surround the entire Earth, or half of the universe dies along with the Earth. There is no third option.
With this basic attitude, all that remains is tactical arrangements.
At this point, Luke simply let it go.
He has never been a good tactical commander. Apart from fighting his opponents head-on, he is best at hiding and shooting from behind.
This basic operation is ineffective against a mature space fleet like Thanos's.
Leave professional matters to professionals. Frank and Steve are the right people.
African T’Challa? Never mind.
Relying on technology that far surpasses their African brothers, this family has never fought a major war, at most they have just fought among themselves.
But they still follow the tradition and basically fight with cold weapons.
However, this is understandable.
The death of some people can be replenished through reproduction, but when starting a war, vibranium technology is used to bombard Wakanda, and internal strife in Wakanda can reduce the country to ashes.
By then they will have to spend a lot of vibranium to hide the existence of Wakanda again.
While they were discussing over there, Luke stood at the window, looking at the sunny African land, thinking about the Thor brothers' affairs.
It was no coincidence that they ran into Thanos.
As soon as Odin died and Asgard was destroyed, Thanos sent out his troops to steal the Power Stone from Xandar, and then turned around and blocked Thor and his crew's spaceship in space.
There is no doubt that whether it is an internal spy or space exploration, Thanos must be keeping a close eye on the situation in Asgard.
This is the only way to chase Thor's spaceship and steal the gems.
Even if Loki didn't bring out the Reality Stone, Thanos could still search through the wreckage of Asgard.
What can destroy the Infinity Stones are the stones themselves.
The enormous divine power that made Luke Gray was nothing compared to the Infinity Gems.
It's just a pity for Loki! Luke sighed inwardly.
It’s such a pity that I didn’t even have the chance to kill this Asgardian scum with my own hands!
Not to mention the experience points, just based on the bad things this second princess did on Earth and his murderous intention towards his younger sister Cindy, Luke really wanted to cut Loki into slices, burn his bones into ashes, and finally scatter the ashes into the sea of stars.
As for Thor, Luke was just worried, but didn't think he was dead.
He asked Dr. Banner, and before being teleported away by Heimdall, Thor was just trapped, not killed.
But a child of destiny like Thor would not die so easily.
Not only did the Thor of 2023 not die, but he also used the newly forged artifact Stormrage to chop off Thanos' head.
Even though Thanos was already half-crippled at that time, the Avengers still launched a surprise attack and besieged him, but there were not many people who could easily chop off his head.
Thinking in this way, Thor on my side shouldn't be so miserable.