Chapter 156: Landing on Zubin Planet!
Damn!
This group of insects actually take the initiative!
Yang Ming is now very glad that he did not go down directly to wrestle with the swarm of insects.
Can this be reversed?
This swarm of Zerg has evolved the ability to engage in bombardment against fleets. If Yang Ming had gone down rashly before, he would have basically helped the swarm of Zerg solve their biggest problem.
Light black light bullets continued to burst out of the atmosphere.
This is not a type of attack that can be caused by human technology, but the galactic humans are no strangers to it.
Accompanied by violent explosions on six civilian ships, all the civilian ships trying to approach Zubin Star expanded their protective shields to the maximum, reversed their engines, and fled to deep space in panic.
Three large shield ships immediately moved forward to provide cover.
Some Sherman warships received the order to open fire and opened fire at the area where the light bombs exploded.
Ion beams shot towards the uninhabited area of Zubin Star, breaking through a layer of dark clouds and generating even thicker dark clouds.
Ripples appeared on the ground.
Several civilian ships in the air had their already thin protective shields destroyed, and more warships lit up their main guns and launched fierce bombardments on the surface.
The two sides engaged in fierce shooting.
Civilian ships fled in all directions.
In the Feinan.
Yang Ming held a steaming hot refreshing drink and observed the battlefield through the main projection screen of the Feinan.
Boss Yang has already planned to go home.
Is it really wise for him, a melee infantry unit, to participate in a battle of this level without the direct support of the Sherman Empire's military?
Although everything is difficult at the beginning.
But the current situation is a bit too difficult.
There are still a large number of insect swarms in the Sherman Empire. Yang Ming really wants to take advantage of this "spring breeze" to improve his strength and fundamentally reverse the disadvantage when facing the Valkyrie.
——This is the source of his motivation.
Let White Ghost become the "superhero" of the Sherman Empire, cooperate with the imperial military, and protect himself with the power of public opinion.
——This is the only way Yang Ming can think of at the moment to participate in pest control from all aspects and ensure his own safety to the greatest extent.
The Zubin star in front of him was the beginning of his participation in the pest control plan.
The most ideal situation that Yang Ming anticipated was that whenever the Sherman Empire launched a war of insect extermination using legionary warfare or non-dreadnought direct bombardment, he would be able to get a piece of the pie.
Is this considered snatching food from the tiger's mouth?
No, this is just a personal struggle .
"Boss, the two mechas have been equipped with secondary batteries and can be deployed to the ground battlefield at any time."
Lu's voice stopped Yang Ming's daydreaming.
He continued to look at the screen and began to drive the Feinan to make a detour, circling the outskirts of the main battlefield and slowly approaching Zubin Star.
Fearing that the imperial military would directly bomb the planet, Yang Ming did not rush forward and continued to wait for the situation to evolve.
He has enough patience.
Lu's projection, 026, and Hera gathered around Yang Ming.
They brought chairs, ate the fairly delicious marching lunch, and watched the battle between humans and insects.
The three fleets of the Empire were obviously fooled by the Zerg.
In the long-range bombardment, the Empire's warships were not seriously damaged, as the Zerg's firepower density was not too high.
There was a ruin on the ground.
An uninhabited city was destroyed, and densely packed "craters" appeared on the surface, but the Zerg did not suffer too great a loss thanks to the cover of the rock layer on the ground.
Only the charged fire of the main guns of a kilometer-class battleship can effectively penetrate the strata.
And the Zerg achieved their goal.
The latest satellite surveillance footage shows:
Dense swarms of insects are flying over the three major cities of Zubin Star, and Zubin Star's original defense system has been completely destroyed.
The artificially hardened ground was constantly broken, and adult insects with a body length of about six meters and a rock-like shell drilled out of the ground and continuously attacked buildings where humans gathered.
These are two major categories of basic third-order Zerg.
A centipede-shaped acid worm that can spit acid and melt buildings;
The fireflies have a huge abdomen to store energy and a membrane device on their backs;
The knife-like insects are only two to three meters long, but they can fly at supersonic speeds over the surface and have sharp mouthparts and reinforced knife limbs;
There are also shield beetles that can release barriers, magnetic field beetles that release electromagnetic interference, electric beetles that are good at destroying human power systems, and pseudo-queen beetles that can serve as regional commanders...
Yang Ming has discovered more than a dozen evolved third-order Zerg species.
The batch of second-stage adults and queens he killed two years ago were not at all comparable to the swarm of insects in front of him.
This is the real second disaster.
They continued to destroy buildings and drive humans away, causing hundreds of thousands of human casualties in a short period of time.
The bugs showed their sinister and cunning side.
They did not intend to exterminate these humans. Instead, they drove them away with panic, trapping them in the central areas of three major cities, causing them to intersect and overlap with themselves.
The ground slowly cracked open, and huge shipworms emerged from the ground. Their bodies were similar to ladybugs that had been magnified countless times. At this moment, they were struggling to rise slowly under the influence of the planet's gravity, and rings similar to "superconducting magnetic levitation" appeared on their abdomens.
The number of these shipworms was terrifying, with thousands of them in the first batch.
It is obvious that the Zerg here attaches great importance to cross-space mobility.
The shipworms began to move towards the area where humans were driven and gathered.
The warships in space are now unable to launch a direct attack on the Zerg and can only carry out continuous bombing towards the edge of the city.
"Boss, it's obvious that the Zerg have held the humans on the ground hostage."
Yang Ming frowned and asked, "What do these bugs want to do?"
"There are two possibilities," Hera said, "Holding humans hostage to delay time, and the queen worm devouring a large number of adults to complete its own evolution. Judging from the number of special adults that have appeared, this queen worm is not far from advancing to the fourth level."
Yang Ming nodded and asked, "What's the other possibility?"
"They want to kidnap humans and escape into space."
Hera said slowly, "But these two possibilities cannot solve the fundamental problem facing this Zerg. The third and fourth-tier Zerg will only be defeated when facing the powerful and continuously supported Imperial fleet."
Lu continued, "The only difference is how the Empire manages to minimize casualties. Now the media inside and outside the Empire are paying attention to this battle."
Yang Ming looked thoughtful and quickly gave the order:
"Keep waiting. If they choose to land and attack the queen directly, we will join the battlefield. If they choose to only use long-range bombardment, we will give up this operation."
"Okay boss."
Yang Ming reminded him again with concern: "Add more imperial elements to the mecha, and the imperial star spray pattern must be conspicuous."
"clear."
…
The real-time battle footage of Zubin was spread by the media to every corner of the galaxy.
People who have not felt the threat of insect plague for a long time are now nervously watching the broadcast, waiting for the Imperial fleet to prove once again that mankind is invincible.
The Imperial fleet was caught in a tough battle.
The cunning Zerg held a large number of humans hostage, making the Imperial fleet hesitant and unable to fire at full power.
Large numbers of humans are killed and injured every moment, and most of the humans being driven away are middle-aged and elderly people, who have difficulty moving.
Zubin has become a purgatory for humanity.
In order to appease the people and establish the image of the military, the Imperial Fleet Command held an open discussion meeting.
At the meeting, the military put forward two plans.
One set is to try to attack the queen and carry out the decapitation plan. As long as the queen is killed, the threat of the swarm will be greatly reduced, and the insects will lose their discipline and organization.
It is estimated that 40 percent of the people can be rescued.
One plan is to lure the Queen into space, giving the Zerg the illusion that they can withdraw, and resolve the battle in space.
It is impossible to predict how many people can be rescued, so we can only do our best.
After the two plans were announced, it was equivalent to sentencing most of the humans on Zubin to death.
But Yang Ming judged that these two plans were just "routines" to appease the people.
The Imperial Army should have only one battle plan now - send troops to land first, control casualties of soldiers, and try to carry out the decapitation plan. When the decapitation plan fails and more humans on the surface are killed by the Zerg, the Imperial Military will adopt full firepower coverage and declare that the people on Zubin Star lived a great life and died gloriously.
The Empire would definitely do that.
However, Yang Ming tried to put himself in the perspective of the imperial military commander, but found no better way.
The Zerg are too cunning.
When they realized something was wrong, they immediately chose to take the humans on the surface hostage. The entire operation was extremely fast and the military did not have time to react.
Things developed just as Yang Ming expected.
After the Zerg drove most of the humans to the central city, they stopped killing humans and began to form a defense network, apparently intending to engage in a long-term confrontation with the human fleet.
The Imperial military announced that it would soon send a large number of marines and special forces to land and search for the location of the Zerg Queen.
——Because the enemy is Zerg, there will be no problem for them to directly announce their tactics.
Within half an hour after the battle plan was made public, landing craft left their respective mother ships, carrying tens of thousands of soldiers and sophisticated equipment, and rushed towards Zubin Star.
This scene was so spectacular that it was publicized by the imperial military as a "great deed".
The officers and soldiers who participated in the battle signed a life and death agreement;
A special force of hundreds of people also officially appeared on the news.
The landing craft began to land in a roundabout way, and dense light black light bombs appeared on the ground. Dozens of landing ships were directly exploded, and thousands of soldiers died as soon as they entered the atmosphere.
The fleet in outer space used strong firepower to cover the landing fleet and suppress the Zerg air defense system.
The landing ships are fully pressed into the atmosphere!
The density of light black light bombs increased again, and the main battleships of the Imperial Fleet bombarded the Zerg hiding under the ground with full firepower.
Flames of explosions continued to appear in the atmosphere, and each explosion represented the death of a group of imperial soldiers.
There were no casualties and no escape routes.
Just move forward fearlessly.
The Imperial fleet advanced on all fronts to provide full coverage for the landing fleet.
The media, which were used to filming "dreadnoughts destroying barren planets", directly transmitted these images to the human population in the Milky Way; most of the guests hired to comment on the war were now speechless and silent.
A profile photo of the Imperial military commander began to circulate on the Internet.
Veteran Thomas, who holds a non-hereditary earl title, rarely appears in the media. He has a resolute face and firm eyes. He puts his hands behind his back and stares at the Zubin Star in front of him.
The old general gave orders again, and the second batch of landing ships rushed towards Zubin Star.
A total of hundreds of thousands of imperial soldiers were personally sent to the Zerg purgatory ahead by this general.
The first batch of landing ships began to land, and rows of armored hovercraft quickly assembled, taking advantage of the surface terrain and carrying high-performance shaped-charge bombs, they rushed to several suspected queen insect burial sites.
Several swarms of insects launched sniper attacks from the air and underground at the same time, trying to wipe out this group of human soldiers.
Even if the Imperial warships in outer space began to provide precise fire support;
Although these new Imperial 'class' hovercrafts have excellent performance and firepower;
But there were too many insects.
The battle perspective transmitted back from the surface was broadcast by the media. The soldiers were directly surrounded by the swarm of insects. A dark cloud covered the sky, and more than a dozen hovercrafts exploded directly.
The special forces members who looked so cool before the battle turned into weak lambs after being surrounded by the swarm of insects.
No matter how strong the muscles of a biochemically modified person are, they cannot withstand ten insects flying at them at the same time.
The performance of the soldiers in the mechanical transformation direction is quite satisfactory. They can continuously support their teammates with their superior firepower, but their combat effectiveness can only be maintained until the energy storage battery runs out of power.
When it comes to ground combat, the Empire is clearly unprepared.
On the Imperial flagship, General Thomas clenched his fists tightly.
He knew that sending these soldiers to the surface would be a waste of time and effort, but this was a strategy the military had to implement.
Only through the sacrifice of the soldiers can the full firepower coverage tactics be recognized by the people and the military avoid bearing the infamy of destroying Zubin Star.
The people don’t know how cruel the war with the Zerg is, so this battle will let them know.
There is only one way to deal with the Zerg - blow them to pieces.
Of course, if the soldiers can really find the queen and throw high-performance shaped charge bombs into its mouth, General Thomas is willing to fulfill the reputation of these soldiers as heroes.
Everything is flexible and decisive judgments must be made based on the ever-changing situation on the battlefield.
But judging from the current combat situation, the situation is not optimistic.
Thomas didn't want too many soldiers to be killed or injured, so he was waiting for the right moment to declare the ground combat a failure and have the warships enter the atmosphere to cover the soldiers' retreat.
Sudden……
"General! There is a flying object that looks like a missile, rapidly approaching landing point number three from a height of 300 meters above the ground!"
"Um?"
Thomas frowned and looked at the officer who reported this information.
He was the commander of the entire ship and could not focus on any minor abnormalities in the local battlefield.
Thomas said coldly: "Is there anything special about this flying object that requires you to report it to me instead of shooting it down directly?"
"Y-yes General! This is special!"
The middle-aged officer's eyes lit up, and he quickly enlarged a picture and pushed it in front of Thomas.
The target is a 'fish-shaped' flying object.
The overall shape is a bit exaggerated. The air intake in the front is painted as an open giant mouth. There is a three-dimensional emblem of the Imperial Star just above it. Behind the Imperial Star emblem, a simplified image of a white ghost is very conspicuous.
"White ghost?"
Thomas frowned.
He immediately remembered that the media from the Imperial Star were filming him and quickly regained his composure.
"What is he going to do?"
"General! He is going to support us! We have received a message from White Ghost that he will support the ground combat forces! Find the Queen!"
"That's a mecha! The aircraft unfolds into a mecha! What a long light blade! It's a melee mecha!"
"General, White Ghost has started a live broadcast... He is attacking the Zerg!"
General Thomas was slightly stunned.
He stared at the image appearing on the big screen, reminding himself in his heart not to let minor local anomalies affect his control of the overall situation.
A decision must be made quickly.
Now it is the war against insects that is of national concern;
He cannot make a decision that would embarrass the military.
"Call to thank White Ghost for joining the battle and ask him to follow the unified deployment of the ground command. Everything is for the glory of the Imperial Star!"
"yes!"
