Chapter 251: The Battle of the Emperor Insect!
"Boss, we will arrive at the third marker in fifteen minutes."
"There's a little situation here. Boss, do you want to sleep for a while? You're not awake yet."
"Become one with me... Ouch!"
Lu's simulated projection covered his forehead and squatted down next to the medical cabin.
Yang Ming sat up from the rest cabin with a gloomy face, and then he saw the projection screen in front of him.
The scene he had seen in that 'strange state' before reappeared in his mind.
The difference is that the projection screen shows real-time images from somewhere in the airspace of the empire.
There is no place for the Valkyrie here.
Yang Ming was silent for half a minute.
He understood how powerful this queen was.
The queen of the fifth-level Zerg swarm has already possessed powerful combat capabilities and is no longer the weakest link in the Zerg swarm.
A sixth-order queen, or a queen who is about to ascend to another dimension, is already the most powerful creature in the Milky Way. She can even lead the swarm of insects across the endless gaps between large galaxy clusters and migrate across large galaxies.
In short, the empire was in deep trouble.
"How is the Imperial Army's return to defense?"
Lu didn't dare to joke too much. He just stood aside and turned on a series of projection screens.
Nearly 2,000 firepower warships have gathered at the first line of defense outside the Imperial Star Circle. Four dreadnoughts that are like giant gun barrels are guarded by various ships and suspended in different positions in front.
Yang Ming could tell at a glance that the Empire must have ambushed troops nearby.
This formation is obviously intended for a semi-encirclement and annihilation war.
Behind the circular defense line formed by these firepower warships, there are countless supply ships, transport ships, and maintenance ships.
In the rear of the battlefield, one can still see continuous jump lights, and there are still a steady stream of ships gathering here.
Even if all the wealth of the Luofeng Empire is taken into account, it is still not even one tenth of the military strength gathered here...
There are also differences between empires.
What's more, this is far from the entire military force controlled by the Imperial Army.
At this moment, there are still more than a dozen "insect-killing battlefields" in the empire where fierce fighting is taking place. In the other battlefields, the queen insects have been eliminated, and there are also a large number of local defense fleets clearing out the remaining insect swarms.
This is the military power of the empire.
Yang Ming asked: " How ?"
"Thirteen minutes," Lu reminded, "Boss, this queen is too powerful. Even if the Empire's invincible fleet can stop her, it will inevitably cost a huge price. The Empire's fleet is likely to stretch the defense line. You'd better..."
"We will continue to support the designated administrative planet No. 3, and our goal is still to destroy the fourth-order queen."
Yang Ming said seriously:
“My physical strength is improving, but my spirit is so exhausted that I can only sustain one more fight.
"We will try to prolong the battle as much as possible. After I kill the queen, I will focus on clearing out the remaining insect swarms. If the Imperial Army sends a transfer order, just say that I am injured and in a coma.
“I must avoid this sixth-order queen. It is not something I can fight against at this stage. If I show up, I will probably become her first target.
"This is the Empire's war."
"Yes," Lu was actually relieved.
She was really afraid that her boss would get carried away and become a hero of the empire.
Yang Ming looked at the projection screen for a while, then opened the Empire Star Map, searched carefully for a while, then raised his hand and drew a desolate star field.
Possa is in that direction.
He jumped out of the rest cabin, took the combat uniform and toothpaste-like nutritious meal brought by 026, quickly replenished his energy, dressed neatly, and ran towards the tail cabin.
Having previously discarded a Ghost Mecha, he now only has one Ghost available.
"Boss," 026 chased after him, "026 applies to go into battle!"
"Well," Yang Ming nodded, "Wait until I kill the queen, and you come out to harvest the bugs together."
"Okay... As you command, Boss!"
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"Thomas, the safety of the empire rests on your shoulders."
Lieutenant General Thomas stood in front of the command desk with a gloomy face.
This 2,000-meter-class medium-sized battleship has already activated the global command mode. In Thomas' sight, each battleship formation has become a chess piece. As long as he makes any move, pushing, pulling, or moving these formations sideways, the corresponding ships will receive the command and complete the transfer as quickly as possible.
Air combat flags are a compulsory course for every imperial general.
Of course, the orders Thomas issues will be carefully deduced and verified by a group of supercomputers to optimize and complete his orders.
——This way of commanding a war will only appear in ultra-large-scale fleet wars.
Come on, swarm.
Thomas adjusted his breathing, kept himself calm, and repeatedly deduced in his mind the tactics he might use.
He didn't think about his future.
Behind him was the most densely populated administrative district in the empire.
There is no retreat in this battle.
"The target swarm has begun to jump, and the landing point is predicted point number three."
Directly so close to them?
It seems that this queen does not take the empire's regular fleet seriously.
Thomas has received detailed information that this queen invaded the empire thousands of years ago and was finally successfully expelled by the Imperial fleet.
Even though the empire today is a little weaker than it was a thousand years ago, it is still not something that these inhuman creatures can snoop on!
"Report the location of the white ghost."
"General! White Ghost has annihilated the third fourth-order queen and saved one-sixth of the population of the target administrative planet! Judging from the battle situation, White Ghost was almost exhausted. In the process of fighting with the fourth-order queen, it was surrounded by the Zerg guards. The queen was killed by high-performance bombs and mecha self-destruction."
Thomas frowned slightly: "Notify all armed forces near White Ghost and provide timely support to White Ghost!"
"Yes, General!"
"General, why don't you send the White Ghost to support us? Can't he restrain the insect swarm? Even if he can only affect the insects, that would be good."
"You can't ask a hero who has defended the people of the Empire to do something he is already unable to do."
Lieutenant General Thomas said calmly:
"He moved three battlefields in a row, and each time he went alone to raid the Queen Mother. It was natural that he was exhausted. He had already saved the empire from huge losses.
"The next enemy belongs to us and the empire."
From Thomas' command perspective, a thin black line appeared in the starry sky ahead.
The universe is empty, cold and dark, but that black line is so abrupt.
"General! The target swarm has completed its jump!"
"The enemy is accelerating and is expected to be within our maximum range in twelve minutes!"
"The swarm is spreading! They are surrounding the queen! The estimated number of swarms is... 3.9 billion! According to bio-energy feedback, most of them are sixth-order adults!"
General Thomas kept thinking.
Generally speaking, there will be some mutated individuals among the insect swarm, as well as higher-level individuals.
However, the sixth-order swarm is the final form of space Zerg in the three-dimensional world (the time dimension is calculated as the four-dimensional world), and no seventh-order adult Zerg can survive in this dimension.
How difficult is it to deal with a sixth-order adult?
An ordinary sixth-order basic worm has a body length between six and twelve meters, a relatively simple body structure, and half of its body weight is made up of a hard shell.
The sixth-order basic adults can use their tails and mouthparts to launch bioenergetic light bombs, which can easily destroy small patrol boats; they can also allow individuals to interact with each other to jointly launch more powerful light bombs, and the energy carried by these light bombs is positively correlated with the number of adult combinations.
Not only are their long-range attack capabilities amazing, ordinary sixth-order adults can already activate energy shields to protect themselves.
Their blade limbs can easily tear open the outer armor of a battleship, and the corrosive liquid sprayed from their mouthparts can directly melt ordinary ship alloys.
And those various special insects that mutated from ordinary adult insects...
"The queen insect begins to slow down!"
The signalman's call made General Thomas stop thinking and focus on the screen in front of him.
The huge queen began to slow down slowly and remained relatively still with the human fleet, but most of the swarm did not stop moving forward, but continued to accelerate.
The original thousands of giant Zerg warships have been quickly reorganized.
Sixty percent of the swarm spread out in outer space.
Despite their huge numbers, they, like this powerful human fleet, are still extremely small against the backdrop of outer space.
Dispersed assaults on human fleets are a common tactic used by high-level Zerg swarms, and can effectively reduce losses during the Zerg charge.
In the forward-rushing swarm of insects, a large number of sixth-order adult insects shrank again. They combined into twelve giant battleships, protecting the twelve pseudo-queen insects in the center of the battleships.
The logic of this war is simple.
As long as more than half of the bugs rush into the fleet, the human fleet will lose the chance of winning.
What they have to do is to destroy the swarm of insects in front of them!
"Send orders to all ships."
Thomas' voice can be heard all over the defense:
"The swarm has dispersed and charged towards us.
"The dreadnought battle group locked onto the airspace where the pseudo-queens were located and destroyed them within three charging cycles.
“The battleship is in full secondary gun mode, using secondary guns to cover damage and save energy for the main guns.
"The cruiser is in full gun mode, and the gunboats are filling in the firepower gaps according to the command system markings.
"Shield ship forward."
"Repeat, shield ships forward."
In the human fleet, more than 200 large umbrella-shaped ships slowly moved forward, spreading out thick light films in front of the fleet.
The swarm of insects swarmed forward, disturbing the gravity of space and causing the hulls of human ships to emit buzzing vibrations.
The soldiers completed the instructions one by one in silence.
The officers stared nervously at the various display screens.
The general looked into the distant space, staring at the queen insect.
Outside the range of the ship, it squeezed out orange-yellow light balls from its tail, spreading a brilliant light curtain in the universe.
…
My scalp is tingling.
When Yang Ming saw this scene through holographic images, he didn't know how to express the shock in his heart.
Looking at the low-level bugs flying around outside the mecha control room, I always feel that these fourth-level bugs...
Quite cute.
Is the sixth-order insect swarm too strong?
In the holographic projection, four ion beams with a diameter of several hundred meters suddenly flashed, and the Zerg swarm was torn into four long cracks. The four Zerg warships wrapped with the pseudo-queen were instantly defeated, triggering a series of "vacuum nuclear explosions" along the way.
Yang Ming clearly saw that the powerful barrier formed by the sixth-order insect swarm allowed the four pseudo-queen insects to survive for more than ten seconds under the shooting of the dreadnought.
The swarm is still charging forward.
The remaining eight pseudo-queens did not react at all, and the swarm was evenly dispersed, vaguely surrounding the human fleet.
The Zerg bullets rained down, but the shield ship's energy shield remained motionless.
The protective shields of dozens of ships at the edge of the fleet were in danger, and more than a dozen small warships had their protective shields directly broken, becoming victims of the Zerg's first wave of attacks.
More than three hundred battleships began their secondary gun coverage fire!
Thousands of cruisers have become the main force for long-range combat.
Various types of gunboats serve as firepower supplements, filling all firepower gaps steadily.
Large swarms of insects quickly melted under ion beams and lasers.
The supply ship at the rear opened its ammunition bay, and countless missiles, dragging tail flames, fired dispersedly towards the airspace ahead.
Deep space mines began to detonate in batches, and countless hot balls of light appeared in the swarm of insects, tearing the spread of the swarm into regular gaps.
The Swarm didn't care.
The swarm of insects continued to disperse evenly, maintaining an accelerated forward momentum, as if the front was their final destination.
The human fleet opened fire at full capacity.
The four dreadnoughts continued to charge, but it would take about five minutes to complete the second shot.
The shooting intensity of the dreadnought has been calculated in detail. It is not a full-energy shot, but just enough to defeat the pseudo-queen. Otherwise, the charging interval would not be so short.
In the past hundred years, the largest-scale war between humans and Zerg has entered a fierce stage.
"well……"
Yang Ming sighed softly and moved his neck back.
He was currently hiding in the cockpit of the New Red Devil, sitting in the co-pilot's seat.
The new Red Demon has a two-person cockpit with a tilted cockpit design. The co-pilot is on the top, mainly responsible for the fire control system, and the main pilot is on the bottom, with full operating authority.
At this moment, 026 was driving the Red Devil, responsible for driving and firing, constantly chasing the fleeing insects in space.
The Dongfeng followed right behind them, its secondary guns continuously firing, clearing out small groups of insects that could pose a threat.
Yang Ming did not expend too much mental energy when killing the third queen. At this moment, he did not have to worry about anything. He was only responsible for maintaining the intimidation of the Zerg, enjoying the strange biological energy harvested by his men, and observing the all-out war taking place in the distant star field.
Yang Ming suddenly thought of something.
"Lü, what are they doing in the New Federation?"
"They are gathering their troops," Lu frowned, "They didn't seem to expect that such a powerful Zerg would appear in the empire."
Yang Ming frowned and asked, "Are they going to launch a surprise attack on the empire?"
"Uh, no, they are defending Mint Star," Lu said with a sigh, "They are scared to death now, afraid that the Zerg will also go to them for revenge, and the entire territory has entered the highest level of defense."
Yang Ming breathed a sigh of relief.
He really doesn't want to see this hypocritical new federation grow bigger and stronger.
"It's different now," Yang Ming sighed, "It's all different now."
Lu naturally knew what the boss was talking about.
Everything that is happening in the galaxy now is completely different from the background that the boss knew in the first Trial of Civilization game.
Lu really wanted to put a mirror in front of his boss and tell him that the biggest driving force behind all these anomalies was right in front of him.
It was obviously the boss who messed up.
The boss single-handedly caused the empire's insect plague to break out ahead of schedule, and the empire took the initiative to clear most of the insect burial sites...
"Boss, are we here?" Lu said seriously, "There must be a lot of biological energy over there. There are billions of sixth-order adult insects..."
"Are you going to die?"
Yang Ming snorted and said calmly:
"People should be content with what they have. Who can guarantee that if we go there, the queen insect won't make me her first target to get rid of?"
Lu smiled and said, "This is not like you, boss. You are usually very brave."
"That depends on the situation. I am naturally not afraid of a swarm of level 3 or 4 insects, but anyone who wants to go can go against a peak level 6 queen."
"Where's Posa?"
"She hid too," Yang Ming's mouth twitched slightly as he thought of the graceful singing he had heard before.
The information contained there not only reminds Yang Ming that "natural enemies are coming", but also reminds Yang Ming to "hide quickly" to avoid losing his genes.
"Lü, take advantage of the chaos to mobilize all the exploration ships of the Mollymis Mining Group to search the desolate star region I have circled."
Yang Ming's eyes flickered with a faint light.
Posa probably didn't expect that the 'contact' triggered by the queen insect this time would just expose her hiding area.
In the holographic projection, the four dreadnoughts fired again.
Yang Ming continued to immerse himself in it, feeling this breathtaking space battle.
After two salvos from four dreadnoughts, the Zerg lost eight pseudo-queens and seemed to have suffered a huge loss.
But in fact, the first group of insects that charged forward had already covered two-thirds of the distance, and they had only lost a quarter of their number.
According to legal calculations, nearly 40% of the Zerg swarm will rush to the defense line formed by the shield ships.
Yang Ming couldn't help but wonder, if he were the commander, what would he do at this moment?
The defense line is moved back as a whole to increase the buffer space;
But this alone seems not enough, and other methods must be adopted to slow down the advance of the swarm and allow the ship's firepower to quickly destroy the swarm.
Lu suddenly said, "Boss, this seems to be a trap."
