Chapter 172: The Battle to Defend Yilando from Insects!
"These damn bugs!"
Dabic growled.
His two mixed fleets were constantly jumping backwards, and one ship after another was quickly breaking away from the firepower network woven by the Zerg.
Each adult insect is like a small gunboat. In a vacuum without any material cover, the energy dissipation is less. When these adults squeeze out energy bombs with the tip of their abdomen at the same time, the total amount of energy generated is also terrifying.
In a brief exchange of fire, the energy shields of several main battleships at the front were shattered, and the hard roofs of the ships could not hold out for half a minute, making it impossible for the crew to escape.
This is because the Zerg have no intention of fighting. ——The super-large Zerg warship, which is made up of countless Zerg, is moving towards deep space at a super-strong acceleration.
Now, there are only three of the sixteen 5,000-meter-class Zerg warships engaging in a firefight with the Luofeng Empire's Third and Fourth Defense Fleet Regiments!
Dabic has obtained the monitoring data.
That 30,000-meter-long Zerg battleship was made up of about 16 million insects of various types. It contained enormous biological energy and had a complex cavity structure in the middle.
Sixteen 5,000-meter-long Zerg battleships, each made up of approximately three million Zergs.
Use insects as ships and insects as cannons.
Taking a five-kilometer-long Zerg battleship as an example, when they are deployed, there will be overwhelming ordinary adult insects, among which there will be 30,000 to 50,000 fifth-order fireflies equivalent to small gunboats, and two to three times the number of shield beetles to form an offensive and defensive combination. The remaining special insects - electromagnetic insects, magnetic field insects, gravity insects, ship-destroying insects, etc., all have a number of 5,000 to 10,000.
What does it mean to have 50,000 gunboats?
The New Federation's most advanced space carrier can maintain 1,600 unmanned attack aircraft on the battlefield at the same time.
This high-density firepower unit leaves our human fleet with no firepower advantage!
The forces deployed by Dabic at the moment are simply unable to defeat two such warships head-on!
Fortunately, Dabic had been reminded by Lu long ago and had no intention of fighting to the death from the very beginning. When the giant Zerg battleship appeared, he had ordered the auxiliary battleships to retreat; as soon as the opponent's firepower network was deployed, most of the ships began to jump synchronously.
Leaping and escaping is also a marching event that Dabichi often practices on a daily basis.
But even so, more than a dozen cruisers and three shield ships were destroyed, and more than 10,000 Luofeng soldiers died under the Zerg artillery fire.
Dabic felt suddenly heavy-hearted.
In the war with the New Federation, he remained calm. As an intelligent machine, while directing the battle, he marveled at the human's artistic attainments in killing each other.
But now.
When his human subordinates were crushed to pieces by the Zerg's firepower, a wave of rage swept through Dabich's mind.
He wants revenge!
These damn, dirty, garbage bugs that only know how to devour without any emotions and are dominated by the instinct of reproduction!
Dabic was trembling all over.
He was about to activate the forced calming system.
This powerful Zerg is simply not something the Luofeng Empire can deal with!
"General! The three Zerg warships that were engaging us are beginning to regroup!"
"General! According to the detectors we left behind, three Zerg warships have left the Zerg brigade... They are heading towards the star Elando!"
"The Zerg can sense the gathering points of life forms other than their own!"
"General! Those three Zerg warships are starting to jump!"
Dabic's head was buzzing.
The group of insects they avoided rushed towards Yilandu?
bite!
Forced cooling system activated.
Dabichi's eyes quickly regained their brightness, and his expression darkened again:
"Order! All ships ready, jump to the first star immediately!
"Send the process to General Gutonmaha. The Zerg's division of forces should be aimed at involving our military strength. Inform General Gutonmaha that our fleet will join forces with him to attack the Zerg!"
"yes!"
Dabic opened the fleet control panel he made and quickly mobilized the formations.
The supply ship supplies energy to the nearby warship.
The troops were briefly mobilized and all the team members on the ship were equipped with weapons to deal with the intra-ship battles that might occur at any time when facing the Zerg.
The air defense alarm on Yilando sounded.
One after another, royal defense ships took off to provide support into outer space.
In the airspace outside the star Ilando, three advance fleets appeared in different directions. Although the number of ships was small, the role of this advance fleet was to divide the jump area of each main fleet group to avoid mutual interference.
These are the three small allied countries near the Luofeng Empire. The commanders of these allies have long been partners of Dabichi.
If Yang Ming convened a meeting of his generals now, there would only be one purebred human attending.
——Gutonmaha.
At this moment, Gutonmaha's skinny old face was full of gloom.
He read the orders sent by Lord Yang Ming in an orderly manner, demonstrating his "powerful" ability to mobilize the battle situation, and set up a long and narrow pocket formation outside the Yilandu star.
The surface palace has been covered by an energy shield and the defense system has been fully activated.
A powerful energy reaction occurred underground.
The palace cannon is ready.
…
Messages were continuously gathered on the Feinan, which was constantly speeding and jumping.
Yang Ming has closed his eyes to rest and gather his strength.
Laws continued to sort out the data records sent by 026, which were the precious results of Hera's research in the past two to three years.
What experiment attracted the attention of the Zerg?
After detailed calculations, Lu has ruled out the two possibilities of "the transport ship's protection system is flawed" and "Hera itself attracted the Zerg."
After being infected by the Zerg sample, Hera lived peacefully on Ao Star for eight years, and no Zerg paid any attention to her at all.
Her position in the Zerg is just equivalent to that of a basic Zerg, and a relatively weak one at that.
The reason why these Zergs can be attracted is most likely related to the insect samples captured by Hera's research.
Two years ago, the New Federation implemented the insect burying plan with the intention of destroying the Luofeng Empire. Yang Ming and Lu discovered it in time and sent two transport ships full of insect eggs to the Sherman Empire. At that time, they kept some insect eggs and used them as samples for Hera's research.
Since then, Hera's research has made rapid progress and overcome many difficulties.
Hera's experimental direction has always been [how to achieve communication between space Zerg individuals], and recently, Hera began to adjust the focus of experiments under this topic.
After she was able to influence the Zerg samples, she began to try to control the bugs and send them instructions.
Is it because of this?
The law calculated carefully and continued to accept and store this data.
She glanced at Yang Ming, who was sleeping with his eyes closed, and sighed softly.
The boss also has a hard life and has no time to rest.
There are slight disturbances in the information flow.
The Sherman Empire sent inquiries to the Luofeng Empire. They discovered the insect plague crisis within the Luofeng Empire. The Sherman Empire's powerful border defense fleet has begun to prepare for departure and is estimated to arrive at the outskirts of the Luofeng Empire's first star within twelve hours.
Twelve hours...
Lu imitated Yang Ming and raised his middle finger towards the territory of the Sherman Empire in his mind.
Bah, if you don't want to support it, just say so.
Two hours later.
Seven fleets with a total of 1,200 warships of various types gathered on the outskirts of the star Ilando.
This is all the visible power that Yang Ming now controls.
twelve flagship battleships;
Twenty-one thousand-meter-class battleships;
19 large shield ships;
162 cruisers and heavy gunboats of 400-meter class and above;
More than 400 light and medium gunboats;
The rest are supporting ships such as supply ships, detection ships, support and maintenance ships, and transport ships.
Eight hundred thousand soldiers from four small and medium-sized countries are now packed into metal warships, on full alert, waiting for the outbreak of war.
This was their first time facing a swarm.
Because of the New Federation's Zerg burying plan against the Sherman Empire, the young people of the main civilizations in the galaxy at this time have begun to pay attention to the Zerg, understand the Zerg, and face up to these old enemies of mankind.
Many people may be afraid.
Many soldiers also wondered whether the government would take good care of their families as agreed if they died in this battle.
Many officers were frowning, wondering why they didn't just make money in peace, but instead had to participate in such a life-threatening war.
When the swarm appears;
When three giant five-kilometer-long cavity battleships appeared in the detection range of the deep space exploration ship and transmitted the images to various ships;
The humans stared at the swarm in silence.
Some of them lowered their heads and retched because of the dense swarm of insects, while others raised their hands to cover their foreheads and said words that went against science and praised religion.
But when the voices of the generals rose;
When the order to launch a general attack on the Zerg at all costs came down;
The officers roared at the top of their lungs, and the technicians took deep breaths to stop their shaking hands as they operated the ship systems they were responsible for.
The protective shield is opened, the main and secondary guns are charged, the shield ship spreads out the defense network forward, and the extremely fragile anti-interference gravity communication system has been fully activated.
The main battleship opened fire first.
Although the energy of the ion beam will be attenuated beyond the effective range, beyond-range combat is an effective means of exerting firepower advantage.
Golden guard bugs appeared in front of the Zerg warship, and layers of energy shields spread out.
Half a minute later, the Zerg battleship began to slow down.
Three minutes later, the Zerg warships began to deploy.
Under the control of the three pseudo-queens, the three warships formed a dense array within more than ten minutes. Nearly ten million space Zergs, under the illumination of the red dwarf star, blown by the stellar wind, and guided by the light of the Ilando star, launched a death charge towards the densely populated area of human species ahead!
All ships opened fire.
Gutonmaha issued the order for the general attack!
More than three thousand ion beams erupted , illuminating a small dark area on the star Elandu.
The Zerg suffered heavy casualties, but the number of casualties was just a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of the Zerg!
However, the casualties of the shield beetles caused the swarm's defensive effectiveness to plummet, while the irradiation of laser weapons began to effectively kill the larger Zerg.
A series of flames suddenly appeared in the deep sky.
The deep space torpedoes deployed in advance were triggered by the swarm!
This is the ultimate way to deal with bugs!
There is no air medium to generate pressure in a vacuum, and deep space torpedoes mostly adopt a "bursting fragment" design. Sharp metal fragments are given powerful kinetic energy by the explosion, tearing swarms of insects into pieces.
The swarm became more scattered, and the swarms on both sides began to make detours.
The fireflies began to fight back, and dense golden bullet rain swept in. The human fleet, which had already adjusted its countermeasures, immediately formed a strong magnetic field, which sharply reduced the insects' firepower hit rate and greatly alleviated the energy consumption of their own protective shield.
The disadvantage of this tactic is that it cannot last long and requires a lot of energy.
But with the support of Ilando, they can completely use the "battery replacement" tactic to make up for the lack of excessive energy consumption.
Gutonmaha issued an order to hold on to the death. The First Defense Fleet and the Third Defense Fleet, the two elite fleets of the Luofeng Empire, began to fiercely block the Zerg swarms on both sides.
Drive away and annihilate.
Although the preparations were hasty, Yang Ming, who had prepared for a rainy day, had equipped Luo Feng with a batch of kinetic weapons that were effective in killing Zerg.
At this moment, three main formations of each fleet ventured to approach the Zerg swarm, accelerating to shorten the distance with the Zerg swarm, while the remaining formations suppressed the swarm with firepower at all costs.
Dozens of special gunboats and transport ships hid behind the main battleships, opened rows of outer cabins, revealing dozens or hundreds of launch silos inside.
Ignition and launch.
Missiles carrying shaped-charge blasting warheads, dragging magnetic halos, bombarded the front of the Zerg swarm.
Extremely short-lived small stars appeared on both sides of the battlefield.
A large number of Zerg were melted by the intense radiation energy.
The Zerg was still charging in a roundabout way, but when the First and Third Defense Fleet Regiments sent out the second batch of gunboats, the Zerg began to turn around and retreat.
When Yang Ming saw this scene, his gloomy face finally showed a little smile.
Nuclear bombs that have been eliminated by the main civilization are still effective against the Zerg.
However, those missiles are very expensive. In order to ensure that they can play their role, they must be equipped with thick protective shields, and can only be used when the enemy has firepower advantage.
Otherwise, if the missile is detonated by the opponent's ion beam as soon as it flies out, it will be almost equivalent to self-destruction.
At this moment, the swarm of insects was driven back to the narrow pocket formation in front and was still moving towards the star Yilandu.
This is just their strategy to mobilize troops.
The swarm of insects never cares about the life or death of individuals. Only by defeating their queen can a swarm be truly defeated.
"Boss, the coordinates of a pseudo-queen have been determined!"
"Adjust the angle of the palace cannon and lock it."
"Locked."
A virtual button appeared in front of Yang Ming, and he pressed it casually.
The city of Yilandu began to experience continuous and slight earthquakes. A beam of light shot out from the huge crack in the earth, passed over the city of Yilandu, and disappeared on the western horizon.
The universe was lit up again.
A beam of light spread out, and the protective shield laid by the Zerg melted away in an instant. A large number of Zerg were directly vaporized, and a small number of high-level Zerg became materials for drastic reactions, constantly exploding in the beam.
At the front end of the beam, a three-hundred-meter-long pseudo-queen insect revealed its ugly half-human, half-insect body. Its eyes did not show any fluctuations as it turned into residue and disappeared in the light.
One third of the Zerg swarm lost its combat effectiveness.
The light beam went out, and the human fleet began to take the initiative to attack. The Zerg began to retreat, but they quickly stabilized their position and continued to charge forward.
This is the order they were given.
Lu said softly, "Boss, because of the rotation of the planet, there is no chance for a second shot."
"Well, let them do the rest. We already have the firepower advantage."
"Yes, boss. The casualties are estimated to be very light, but we have to say that war does cost money."
Lu complained calmly and said:
"We have to be prepared. The swarm is closely connected. After a setback here, they are likely to adjust their strategy."
"How long will it take us to reunite with 026 and the others?"
"Thirty-five minutes."
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows.
Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, on the projection screen next to him, something suddenly happened to the super-large Zerg battleship guarded by thirteen giant Zerg battleships.
A group of insects covered with golden patterns flew out of the giant battleship and used their bodies to quickly build a "small" battleship several hundred meters long.
Now there is actually good news, that is, the examiner hiding in the black box has already ticked more than a dozen green boxes in a row.
But here’s the bad news;
The battleship composed of sixth-order adult insects has begun to accelerate and is ready for a short-distance jump!
