Putting aside his support for Valerian's coup, Horus began to consider Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, who was now a big problem.

It's very difficult to deal with the Queen of Blades. The expeditionary force can find her in Char if she doesn't wander around. But finding her is one thing, catching her among billions of insects.

She is something else again.

What's more, they have to deploy the Xel'Naga artifacts they collected previously on Char and charge them, which will take a lot of time, and during this time, the swarms will inevitably launch waves against them.

attack.

Char, the Zerg base in the Koprulu sector, is an ash world dotted with volcanoes, giant zerg lairs, and maze-like tunnel systems filled with millions of vicious zerg.

What's even worse is that there are at least 10 billion zerg in the entire world of Char. These beneficial insects make up 150 main insect nests and more than 1,000 secondary insect nests on Char. The insect tunnels have covered the planet.

Above 40% of areas.

In the past, humans and protoss have taken military actions against this planet to varying degrees. Although some results have been achieved, in the end the zerg still firmly controlled this planet and used it as a springboard to attack other planets.

After the Queen of Blades, Sarah Kerrigan, gained control of the zerg swarm in the civil war, she fought an extremely grand war with the Terran Empire's mind and the expeditionary force of the United Earth Council and annihilated the latter. This war laid the foundation for the blade.

The Queen's status in this sector.

And now, the human forces composed of the Tyranid Empire, Rangers and Ashes Expeditionary Force once again launched a special military operation against Char.

In order to ensure that the operation on Char was foolproof, Horus invited Valerian, Raynor and others to his flagship.

After everyone arrived, Horus turned on the holographic projection on the conference table, and the approximate data of the entire Char and surrounding galaxies were all marked on the projection.

Renault and others were surprised when they saw the number of insect swarms marked on Char.

"Dear me, there are so many bugs." Tychus exclaimed as he looked at the number of bugs marked on the holographic projection. It was more than 10 billion. Tychus may not have eaten so much salt in his life, but they had to fight with so many.

Bug battle.

That's not even worse, the systems surrounding Char are also filled with bugs, and Leviathans, Behemoths, and smaller Zerg transports also roam the nearby systems.

"So... we have to wait for the Xel'Naga artifact to finish charging under the siege of so many insects." Renault said solemnly.

"I have evaluated the quantity and quality of the insect swarm near Char. With the power of the Rangers and Valerian, it is enough to withstand the attack of the insect swarm at the cost of certain casualties." Then call up the specific data.

Finally, Horus said calmly.

Horus retrieved the terrain analysis data on Char and marked a dangerous terrain.

"What's more, I have mobilized 1,500 Space Marines and 20,000 auxiliary troops to support you. With my soldiers supporting you, if you only defend, it will be enough to guard the artifact for 12 hours."

Faced with enemies as large as tens of billions of insect swarms, Horus used to lead tens of thousands of Space Marines and more auxiliary troops and heavy equipment to deal with them, but now the entire Ashes Expedition only has 2,000 Space Marines. Titan

There wasn't much level equipment, and the limited resources meant that Horus couldn't do much.

"So, do you have any questions about the expedition to Char?" Horus asked.

"The primary problem we face is air superiority." Captain Matt Horner of the Hyperion said: "There are many mutalisks and other insect swarm air units on Char, very, very many, and we cannot get complete air superiority.

It's hard to commit all the Marines."

"This problem is easy to solve. We only need to seize an area for establishing a landing site. As long as the Hydra anti-aircraft guns and fire base are established, and coupled with our warships, it will be enough to seize air supremacy."

"And Sarah, her power is extraordinary, her psychic fluctuations have reached level 12." Renault added.

"Well, a powerful psyker...do you mind if she breaks off a limb or two? Raynor." Horus said without raising his head.

"What?" Renault was a little confused, "No, I mean Sarah is very strong, stronger than those big guys you have."

"I know, and I am also very strong." Horus raised his head and glanced at Renault, then said: "The two teams of Space Marines can still capture her as long as they cooperate well, but I don't mind taking action myself to reduce their burden.

"

Although Raynor knew that Horus's unit called the Space Marines were powerful individually, he had never seen Horus take action, so he did not know how strong the Primarch was who had awakened the essence of the warp.

Although he was a little worried, Renault still chose to trust Horus. Since Horus was confident, he should trust his allies. The expeditionary force's previous actions had proven that they were worthy of trust.

"Prince Valerian, can the empire's fleet support us in time?"

"General Warfield told me that the fleet will set off for Char with you. He is a veteran of the battlefield, so there will be no problem."

"There is also the problem of tunnel worms on Char. I once fought on Char. The worms dug a lot of tunnels there. If we don't solve these tunnels, we will be caught off guard." Renault raised a question.

"There is currently no good solution for these worm tunnels, but there are many volcanoes and magma on Char. When the time comes, we will go on-site to explore whether we can flood the worm tunnels with magma."

"The next item..."

"The current problem is that we need to suppress the number of insect swarms on Char and reduce casualties. More specific matters will probably be discussed on Char." The general direction of going to Char was quickly decided.

But the current situation is also somewhat challenging for the Primarch. Horus only has one battleship, two light cruisers, plus the Rangers and the Tyranid Empire's fleet, and the land combat strength is also very limited, and they

The enemies are almost endless.

But luckily they have the Xel'Naga artifact. According to research by Terran Empire scientists and the Adeptus Mechanicus, this artifact can release energy nova to clear out bugs near it after being charged. This is also the artifact that turns Kerrigan back

human principles.
Chapter completed!