Chapter 412: Strange Raid
Yang Ming and Posa each entered the medical cabin. The Dongfeng was escorted by hundreds of the Empire's main battleships and began to support the front battlefield.
At this point, no matter how much discussion their fighting video caused on domestic and overseas networks, it had nothing to do with them.
Since they have agreed to Li's request and are going to the front battlefield as bait, they must now recover to their best condition as quickly as possible to deal with the 'Queen's attack' that may come at any time.
Yang Ming was indeed very curious about the empire's ultimate weapon.
Relatively speaking, he still had a doubt.
He had already issued a transfer order to Bligh, wanting to drag Bligh to his side to join the battle. On his left was the ' strongest general cyborg' Gris, and on his right was the 'sexless angel' Bligh. His main goal was a sense of security after exhaustion.
But Bray never appeared on the battlefield.
Yang Ming fell into a deep sleep, putting all these thoughts behind him.
He wasn't actually worried about his situation.
Lu has been watching here all the time. If there is any danger, the device hanging in his ear will immediately sound an alarm.
What's more, Yang Ming has now perfectly raised the tiger flag given by the Faya people.
Even if the Sherman Empire wanted to touch him, it would have to carefully consider his current wealth.
…
Three galactic hours later.
On the route of the Dongfeng, near an administrative planet called Guilan not far from the airspace where the frontal battlefield was located, Reville, the second-youngest hereditary earl of the empire, was not happy at all.
He is going to kill the enemy head-on!
He had asked for orders from the military twelve times in a row, but all he got was a scolding!
Now, he is the commander-in-chief of a joint fleet of noble private armies, in charge of 1,600 ships of various types, most of which are old ships.
The escort forces of Sakaar were also here. Revell was envious of those well-equipped warships whose performance had not been compromised in the slightest.
As long as the military agreed to let him lead the charge, he would definitely form a fire formation with the entire fleet around the Sakaar guard.
The young commanders of the Sakaar Guard also left a deep impression on Revell.
Unfortunately, the military's feedback to him was always just eight words:
Hold your position and wait for orders.
Revil also understood that compared with the regular army of the empire, the combat effectiveness of the nobles' private soldiers was indeed not as good.
Their mission at this moment is to protect the safety of the right rear of the main battlefield, keep an eye on whether there will be any insect tunnels appearing in the nearby star field, and protect one of the empire's twelve supply routes.
The Earl sat in the command chair with his chin on his hand. Although he looked a little listless, he still carefully reviewed the data that passed by in front of him.
Feedback from monitoring ships in various locations is normal.
The population of several nearby administrative planets is relatively dense, and most people have moved to underground shelters. The densely packed orbital cannons deployed on the outer layer of the planet also have impressive firepower.
Revil grabbed the refreshing drink beside him and took a sip, frowning and asking, "How is the front line?"
Immediately, a staff officer sent by the military came forward and reported:
“My Lord Earl, sporadic battles have been going on, but they are not as terrible as when the main insect tide came. Our defense line has been stabilized again.
“It seems that the bugs want to devour our main army and then move towards the Imperial Star.
"Don't be too nervous. If we are infested with insects here, the Imperial Guard System will take over the fleet immediately."
"The Imperial Guard system is still artificial intelligence," Revil sighed, "We still have to put people first, otherwise it will easily lead to another disaster."
The staff officer laughed and said, "If it weren't for the Imperial Guard system, we might have been unable to dispatch quickly enough when the first wave of Zerg arrived, and our defenses would have been breached. The Imperial Guard system can make all of our firepower work to its full potential, increasing the fleet's combat power by more than 70%, especially in the current situation where tens of thousands of ships are crowded together."
Revell asked, "Any news about my idol?"
"The second battlefield has achieved great success, and we can even mobilize 2,000 to 3,000 firepower ships to support the main battlefield."
The staff officer hesitated a little, but decided to speak.
We are all dealing with humans here, so there won't be any insect spies.
The staff officer said slowly, "According to the military, Major General Hanton and his partner Valkyrie will arrive near the front battlefield in the next few galactic hours."
"Um?"
Revell's eyes lit up: "Are they going to pass by here?"
"That should be the case," the staff officer said with a smile, "The news was passed on in some military intelligence exchange group chats. Because of the Emperor Guard system, everyone is quite free."
"Can I meet him?" Revil asked, "Or, I'll leave this to you guys, and I'll lead my elite team to follow. I can help a lot. Think of me as a captain, a commander of a fleet. I can even drive a mecha. I've been training for several years!"
The staff officer showed a helpless expression: "You...you are the commander. More than a thousand ships here are under your command. Lord Earl, you must put away these willful words. This will have a certain impact on morale."
"Okay... huh? Why is the warning light on?"
Revelle frowned slightly.
The staff officer subconsciously glanced at the console, still saying, "You won't do something to distract my attention and then suddenly rush out... Is it really bright?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a shrill police siren suddenly sounded.
The flagship that Revell was on, as well as the nearby warships, all sounded shrill warnings.
"Detector 45922 detected an anomaly in space gravity!"
"Three anomalies!"
"The wormhole is forming! Warning! The wormhole is forming! Wormhole No. 1 is right in front of our unit, Wormhole No. 2 is right behind our unit! Wormhole No. 3... The coordinates of Wormhole No. 3 overlap with the spatial coordinates of Guilan Star at this moment! It's outside Guilan Star's atmosphere!"
"What?"
Revell stood up suddenly.
Return to the periphery of Blue Star?
"Can bugs create wormholes by ignoring the influence of planetary gravity?"
"It's not surprising that the great queen who is about to ascend to a higher dimension has any means."
"Why are you here?" The staff officer frowned. "Count, please immediately announce that all ships are ready for battle! The situation here has been automatically reported to the military!"
"No need for you to remind me!"
Revil leaped onto the command desk, tapped the three buttons in front of him, took a deep breath, and said in a calm voice:
"Everyone! Please cheer up!
"The space zerg appeared on the Guilan star, which is only a dozen minutes away from us. A large number of space zerg are about to emerge from directly in front of and behind us!
"Next, I will issue the transfer order!"
Revel took a deep breath and immediately said, "First, third, sixth formation... Hello?"
He frowned and looked at the technician beside him: "Why am I offline?"
"Count, I didn't cut it off!"
Instruments throughout the flagship simultaneously froze for a few milliseconds.
A line of words suddenly appeared on the main screen at the side: The Empire's national defense system has taken over the fleet.
Then, rays of light intersected, and the silhouette of the girl with twin ponytails filled Reville's sight.
“It’s a great mobilization.”
Li's voice reached Revel's ears, and then, as Revel stared with wide eyes, a little fluorescence flew out of her fingernails, and the liaison machine at the command center began to issue orders frantically. A map of the star field where the fleet was located appeared on the main screen, and each ship had its own route planned.
The operators guarding the control panels of each warship only need to follow the instructions that appear in front of them and in their ears, press the buttons in front of them and push the gear levers in their hands. They don't need to do anything else.
Even if an operational error occurs, other operating stations will issue instructions to make up for it.
The Imperial fleet responded within two seconds.
The twelve hundred ships were divided into three parts, and a series of green dots appeared on the edge of the screen.
That represented reinforcements rushing in from the nearby defensive positions.
Revill's tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed, and he suddenly felt relieved.
Such an artificial intelligence command system is indeed slightly more efficient than manual labor.
But he still firmly believes that this kind of virtual neural network and artificial intelligence with learning ability can never replace humans...right.
"Count Reville," Li suddenly turned his head and looked at Reville, "You are the most prestigious human individual in this area. Please issue disaster avoidance advice to the people returning to Blue Star. There are still about 30 million residents remaining on the surface. Please ask them to stay away from the wormholes as much as possible."
"Uh, okay!"
Reville responded immediately, and a photo ball flew over. The podium was set up in just over ten seconds.
About two minutes later, images of Revell appeared everywhere on the surface of Guilan Star.
Because the Zerg's chosen landing point for the tunnel was right above the densely populated main city of Guilan Star, many residents had already noticed the sudden hole in the sky .
As Revell shouted at a fast pace, the panicked crowd began to look for a building where they could save their lives.
A pitch-black beetle several dozen meters long slowly flew out of the oval hole, fluttering its extremely thin transparent wings behind it and making a gurgling sound from its mouth.
The scene seemed to be frozen for a few seconds.
Then, the hole with a diameter of several kilometers gushed out countless Zergs of various kinds like an oil well!
Above and below these bugs, two layers of planetary orbital cannons fired at the same time!
On the surface, thousands of missiles were dragging their tails and rushing towards the wormhole.
Above the towering buildings on the ground, a combined protection system that drew most of the city’s energy began to shoot high-energy lasers into the sky.
Thanks to the wealth of Guilan Star, the defense system that the local government and nobles spent a lot of money to build did have a certain effect. The insect swarm that had not yet had time to deploy suffered a heavy blow.
In particular, the first batch of insects were mainly fourth-level, mixed with one-tenth of ordinary fifth-level insects. Facing the saturation attack of human firepower, they were indeed not enough.
However, the cunning of the insects and their understanding of human technology were fully demonstrated at this moment.
The first wave of missiles failed to destroy the wormhole, and the human firepower was stagnate. Many planetary cannons needed to fill energy modules.
Thousands of adult insects with golden patterns on their shells suddenly appeared under the wormhole.
Immediately afterwards, countless fifth-order adult insects swarmed out, filling half of the sky within half a minute.
Humanity’s fire defense system is on the verge of collapse!
…
"Hurry! Can you go faster?"
Peterson urged the operator beside him with a growl.
"Captain! This is already the acceleration limit of our ship. We can't throw weights to increase the acceleration! The weights are all energy and war materials!"
Peterson glared and cursed: "Don't you see that the planet is about to be swallowed by bugs!"
"Then you drive!"
The operator had a close enough relationship with the captain that he glared back.
"That's not what I meant," Peterson sighed. "I think that in the face of disasters, we must work together, remember the Lord's teachings, and exert our subjective initiative as much as possible to make the greatest contribution to reducing casualties and property losses."
“What a bunch of stuff!”
The operator sat back in his seat, took a deep breath, and then began to adjust combat readiness according to the instructions that kept popping up.
Peterson paced back and forth, his mind constantly popping up with one wild idea after another, but these ideas were always quickly killed by the laws of physics and the level of technology.
On the projection screen nearby, several middle-aged officers whispered, "Peterson, you are the deputy commander of your fleet. It is not good to lose your composure like this. You must set a good example for the soldiers."
Peterson frowned and said, "We all come from the same planet, so who knows each other's temper?"
"There's no point in being anxious. It will take us at least nine minutes to reach the vicinity of Guilan Star. It will take at least half an hour to enter the atmosphere. The gravity of the stars and planets is already accelerating us. Do you want to jump over directly?"
"Can we attack the worm tunnel directly?"
"I'm afraid not," an officer said, "Captain Peterson, we understand that as a follower of the Imperial hero White Ghost, you have a lofty sense of mission in your heart, but now, we must obey the orders sent by the command console."
"Yes, Peterson. A soldier's duty is to obey orders completely. Look at what you are like now. Don't bring shame to the great ghost."
Peterson chuckled, crossed his arms, and carefully looked at the various commands that appeared on the console.
He frowned and asked, "So what can we do now?"
"Pray to the ghosts, pray that the planetary defense system can delay the bugs, and pray that the underground shelters are well hidden."
"My lord is an atheist," Peterson shook his head. "We will definitely make it in time, we will!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several projection screens popped up in front of him.
Inside is the battle situation on Blue Star.
The bugs have destroyed the lower planetary defenses.
They had clear goals and merged into black torrents, rushing straight to the ground from high in the sky; they were like huge tornadoes that had expanded hundreds of times, or like endless disasters falling from the sky.
At this speed, it would only take them a dozen minutes to reach the surface city.
——This is also thanks to the strong resistance created by the atmosphere and the planet's magnetic field.
What made Peterson feel a little relieved was the layout of the shelter that belonged to Blue Star.
The shelter was actually far away from the main city, underneath a ruin, and it was a multi-layered structure equipped with all kinds of weapons and equipment.
This might last a little longer.
"We must save them!" Peterson said gruffly.
…
Dongfeng, inside the medical cabin.
Yang Ming, who was soundly sleeping, listened to the rhythmic "tick", "tick" sound and suddenly opened his eyes.
