Yang Luo was now very glad that he did not go directly to fight with this insect swarm.
Can this be overcome?
This insect swarm has evolved the ability to fight against the fleet. If Yang Luo had gone ahead rashly, he would have basically helped the insect swarm solve their most serious problem.
Light black light bombs rushed out of the atmosphere one after another.
This is not an attack method that human technology can cause, but galactic humans are no longer unfamiliar with this.
Following violent explosions on six civilian ships, the civilian ships trying to approach Zubin stretched their protective shields to the maximum, turned on their engines, and fled into deep space in a panic.
Three large shield ships immediately moved forward to cover.
Some Sherman warships received orders to fire and fired at the area where the light bombs exploded.
The ion beams shot towards the uninhabited area of Zubin Star, breaking away a layer of dark clouds and inspiring even thicker dark clouds.
There were layers of ripples on the ground.
Several more civilian ships in the air had their already thin protective shields emptied, and more warships lit up their main guns and carried out fierce bombing on the surface.
The two sides engaged in fierce shooting.
Civilian ships fled in all directions.
Feinan number.
Yang Luo was holding a steaming refreshing drink and observing the battlefield through Feinan's main projection screen.
Boss Yang has already made plans to return home.
Is it really wise for him, a close-combat 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, and Yang Luo really wants to take advantage of this 'spring breeze' to improve his strength and fundamentally reverse his disadvantage when facing the Valkyrie.
This is his source of motivation.
Let the White Ghost become the "superhero" of the Sherman Empire, cooperate with the imperial military, and rely on the power of public opinion to protect yourself.
This is the only way Yang Luo can think of at the moment to participate in pest control in multiple 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 Luo expected was that whenever the Sherman Empire launched legion operations in the future, he would be able to get a share of the war in pest eradication campaigns that were not directly bombarded by dreadnought ships.
Is this considered grabbing food from the tiger's mouth?
No, this is just an arduous personal struggle for the glory of the Emperor Star.
"Boss, the two mechas have been equipped with secondary batteries and are ready to be put into the ground battlefield at any time."
Lu's voice made Yang Luo stop his reverie.
He continued to look at the screen and began to pilot the Feinan to make a detour, going around the outskirts of the main battlefield and slowly approaching Zubin Star.
Worried that the imperial military would directly blow up the planet, Yang Luo did not move forward rashly and continued to wait for the situation to evolve.
He has enough patience.
Lu's projection, 026, Hera, gathered around Yang Luo.
They moved the seats, ate a fairly delicious military meal, and watched the battle between humans and insects.
The three fleets of the empire were obviously fooled by the insects.
The empire's warships were not seriously damaged by long-range fire strikes, and the Zerg's firepower density was not too high.
There is a piece of ruins on the ground.
An uninhabited city was destroyed, and densely arranged "craters" appeared on the surface. However, the Zerg's losses were not too great due to the cover of the rock layers on the ground.
Only the charged shot of the kilometer-class battleship's main gun can effectively penetrate the ground.
And the Zerg achieved their goal.
The latest satellite surveillance footage returned shows:
Dense swarms of insects were flying over the three major cities of Zubin Star, and Zubin Star's original defense system had been completely destroyed.
The artificially hardened ground continued to break open, and an adult insect with a rock-like shell and a body length of about six meters emerged from the ground and continuously attacked buildings where humans gathered.
These are two major categories of basic third-order Zerg.
‘centipede-shaped’ acid bugs that can spit acid and burn buildings;
The abdomen has become extremely large to store energy, and there is a membrane device on the back of the fire insect;
It is only two to three meters long, but it can fly on the surface at supersonic speeds, and has sharp mouthparts and reinforced knives.
There are also shield beetles that can release barriers, magnetic field bugs that release electromagnetic interference, and are good at destroying human power systems.
Yang Luo has discovered more than a dozen evolved third-order Zerg species.
The batch of second-order adults and females he killed two years ago was in no way comparable to the swarm in front of him.
This is the real second disaster.
They continue to destroy buildings and drive away humans everywhere, causing hundreds of thousands of human casualties in a short period of time.
The bugs showed their cunning side.
They are not trying to exterminate this group of humans, but are driving them away with panic, trapping humans in the central areas of the three major cities, allowing humans to intersect with themselves.
The ground slowly cracked, and huge ship bugs emerged from the surface one after another. Their bodies were similar to ladybugs that had been enlarged countless times. At this moment, they were slowly rising into the air under the influence of the planet's gravity, and similar shapes appeared on their abdomens.
On the ring of 'superconducting magnetic levitation'.
The number of these ship bugs is terrifying, with thousands of them in the first batch.
It is obvious that the insect swarm here regards cross-space mobility as extremely important.
The ship bugs began to rush towards the area where humans were driven to gather.
The warships in space are now unable to launch a direct offensive against the insect swarms and can only carry out continuous bombing towards the edge of the city.
"Boss, it's obvious that the Zerg have hijacked the humans on the ground."
Yang Luo frowned and said, "What do these insects want to do?"
"Two possibilities," Hera said, "Holding humans hostage to delay time, the mother worm swallows a large number of adult worms to complete its own evolution. Judging from the number of special adult worms that have appeared, this mother worm is not far away from entering the fourth level.
"
Yang Luo nodded and asked, "What about another possibility?"
"They want to kidnap humans and flee into space."
Hera said slowly: "But neither of these two may be able to solve the fundamental problem faced by this swarm. The third- and fourth-level swarm, facing the powerful and continuous support of the imperial fleet, can only be defeated.
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Lu continued: "The only difference lies in how the empire minimized casualties. Now the media inside and outside the empire are paying attention to this battle."
Yang Luo looked thoughtful and quickly gave the order:
"Keep waiting. If they choose to land and attack the female insects directly, then we will join the battlefield. If they choose to only use long-range bombardment, we will abandon this operation."
"Okay boss."
Yang Luo worriedly warned: "Add more imperial elements to the mecha, and the emperor 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 had not felt the threat of an insect plague for a long time were nervously watching the broadcast angle, waiting for the Imperial Fleet to once again prove that mankind is invincible.
The Imperial fleet was in a bitter battle.
The cunning Zerg hijacked a large number of humans, making it impossible for the Imperial fleet to use its rat-defying weapon at full power.
There are a large number of human casualties every moment, and most of the driven humans are elderly, and it is not convenient for them to move.
Zubin Planet has become a purgatory for mankind.
In order to appease the people and establish the image of the military, the Imperial Fleet Command opened a public discussion meeting.
At the meeting, the military gave two sets of plans.
One is to try to attack the female insect and carry out a beheading plan. As long as the female insect is killed, the threat of the insect swarm will be greatly reduced, and the insects will lose their discipline and organization.
It is estimated that 40% of the people can be saved.
One plan is to attract the mother insects 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 saved, so we can only try our best.
After the two sets of plans were announced, they were equivalent to sentencing most of the humans on Zubin to death.
But Yang Luo judged that these two plans were just "routines" to appease the people.
The current battle plan of the Imperial Army should only be to send troops to land first, control the casualties of soldiers, and try to carry out a beheading plan. When the beheading plan fails and more humans on the surface are killed by the Zerg, the Imperial Military will adopt a method of full firepower coverage.
Proclaim the greatness of life and the glory of death to the people of Zubin.
The empire will definitely do this.
However, Yang Luo tried to put himself into the perspective of an imperial military commander, but found no other better way.
The Zerg are too cunning.
They realized something was wrong and immediately chose to kidnap humans on the surface. The entire operation was so fast that the military had no time to react.
Things developed exactly as Yang Luo expected.
After the Zerg drove most of the humans into the central city, they stopped killing humans and began to build a defense network, seemingly to launch 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 the Zerg, there will be no problem if they announce their tactics directly.
Within half an hour after the battle plan was made public, landing craft one by one left their respective motherships, carrying tens of thousands of soldiers and sophisticated equipment, and rushed towards Zubin.
This scene was so spectacular that it was promoted as a "great deed" by the imperial military.
Officers and soldiers participating in the war signed life and death certificates;
A special force of hundreds of people also officially appeared on the news.
The landing craft began to log in in a roundabout way, and dense light-black light bombs appeared on the ground. Dozens of landing craft 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 fleet fully entered 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.
Explosive fires continued to appear in the atmosphere, and each explosion represented the death of a group of imperial soldiers.
There were no casualties and no means of escape.
Just move forward fearlessly.
The Imperial fleet advanced across the board and tried its best to cover the landing fleet.
Those media who were used to taking pictures of "dreadnoughts destroying deserted planets" directly conveyed these pictures to the human race in the galaxy; most of the guests who were hired to explain the war were silent at this moment.
Profile photos of imperial military commanders began to circulate on the Internet.
Veteran Thomas, who holds a non-hereditary earldom, rarely appears in the media's sight. He has a resolute face and firm eyes. He puts his hands behind his back and stares at Zubin in front of him.
The old general issued the order again, and the second batch of landing ships rushed to Zubin.
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 suspension vehicles quickly assembled. Taking advantage of the cover of the surface terrain, they carried high-performance shaped energy bombs and rushed towards several suspected burial sites of the female insects.
Several swarms of insects launched sniper attacks from the air and underground at the same time, trying to exterminate this group of human soldiers.
Even if the imperial warships in outer space begin to provide precise fire support;
Despite the superior performance and firepower of these Empire's new 'class' hover vehicles;
But there are too many insects.
The battle view 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 hover vehicles would explode directly.
The members of the special forces who were all 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 bugs swooping at them at the same time.
The performance of the warriors in the direction of mechanical transformation is quite satisfactory, and they can continuously support their teammates with superior firepower, but their combat effectiveness can only be maintained until the energy storage battery is used up.
For ground combat, the empire was clearly ill-prepared.
On the imperial flagship, General Thomas clenched his fists tightly.
He knew that sending these soldiers to the surface would only lead to death in vain, but this was a strategy that the military had to implement.
Only through the sacrifice of soldiers can the full fire coverage strategy be recognized by the public, and the military not have to bear the infamy of destroying Zubin.
The people don't know how cruel the war with the Zerg is, so this war will let them know.
To deal with the Zerg, there is only one way to destroy them.
Of course, if the soldiers can really find the female insect and throw high-performance shaped bombs into the female insect's mouth, then 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 the soldiers to suffer too many casualties. He was waiting for the opportunity to declare the ground combat failed and let the warships enter the atmosphere to cover the soldiers' retreat.
Sudden.
"General! There is a flying object suspected of being a missile, which is rapidly approaching the No. 3 landing site from a height of 300 meters above the ground!"
"Um?"
Thomas frowned and looked at the officer who reported this information.
He is in command of the entire ship and cannot focus on the slight differences in local battlefields.
Thomas said coldly: "Is there anything special about this flying object that makes you report to me instead of shooting it down directly?"
"Yes, yes General! This is special!"
The middle-aged officer's eyes shone, 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 front is painted into a huge open mouth. There is a three-dimensional emblem of the Imperial Star directly above it. Behind the emblem of the Imperial Star, a simplified picture of the white ghost is very conspicuous.
"White ghost?"
Thomas frowned tightly.
He immediately remembered that media from the Emperor Star were filming him and quickly regained his composure.
"What is he going to do?"
"General! He wants to support us! We have received a message from the White Ghost. He will support the ground combat troops! Look for the mother worm!"
"That's a mecha! The aircraft unfolded into a mecha! What a long light blade! It's a melee mecha!"
"General, White Ghost has started the live broadcast and he is attacking the insect swarm!"
General Thomas was slightly startled.
He stared at the picture that appeared on the big screen, reminding himself from the bottom of his heart not to let small local anomalies affect his control of the overall situation.
Decisions must be made quickly.
Now is the war against pests that concerns the whole nation;
He cannot make decisions that would embarrass the military.
"Call me to thank White Ghost for joining the battle, and ask him to obey the unified deployment of the ground command, all for the glory of the Emperor Star!"