Chapter Eighty-Six: Interception
The entire infantry division was reduced by 70 percent, the armored forces and the air force also suffered heavy losses, and several charges from the swarm even threatened the command center located at the core of the whole army. Fortunately, they finally withstood the crazy attack of the Zerg and pinned down most of the Zerg's main fighting forces in this area. The death squad composed of all Hurricane III assault mechs successfully bypassed the blockade of the Zerg, destroyed the "ovoid meteorite" that radiated this area, and cut off the Zerg's steady stream of reinforcements.
At the same time, three other battlefields on the XA-37 front satellite also reported good news. At this point, the XA-37 pre-satellite is finally completely back in human control. At this time, the battle between the neighboring XA-38 and the XA-36 front satellite was not over.
Shen Hao and the other six were rewarded again, and were transferred to the Lingxiao Fleet Marine Corps, which was in charge of the Western Theater, and they also came into contact with the Federation's strongest individual combat weapon for the first time, the armed mecha.
These steel giants, all over twenty meters tall, possess unrivaled melee abilities and long-range firepower. The operation of the mecha is very simple, completely controlled by the simulation operating system, and it took Shen Hao and the others less than a week to master the general way to use it.
The so-called simulation operating system is actually a bionic organization that links the driver's brain with the control light brain of the mecha, and all the actions of the driver can be synchronously reflected to the operation of the mecha. It's just that because the mecha will produce strong gravity and centrifugal force during combat, it will pose a considerable burden on the operator's physical body.
However, Shen Hao and the other six obviously did not belong to the category of ordinary people, and their flesh strengthened by the Nightmare Energy could almost completely ignore these adverse effects. Especially Shen Hao himself, who dominates with physical strength, can almost be in a state of overload of the power engine for a long time when driving the mecha, and the combat power of the mecha can rise to one hundred and thirty-two percent of the theoretical value, which makes the technicians in charge of debugging dumbfounded, and looking at Shen Hao's eyes is like looking at an alien monster.
Shen Hao's outstanding ability would not be buried in such a tense war period, and soon, he was transferred to the Lingxiao Fleet Marine Corps Sharp Striker Team, and in order to match his perverted body, the research institute specially improved a Hurricane Type IV - God of War mecha for him. The next task of his team is to quickly support the Star Sea Fleet and the Raging Tide Fleet in the Eastern Theater to recover the twelve colonial planets in the Eastern Colonial Star Domain, including XK-3.
And in front of them was the most powerful air force of the Zerg.
So soon, the expeditionary Ling Xiao fleet encountered the first wave of intercepted enemies. In the vast sea of stars, countless huge monster insects densely formed a huge blockade line. The upper body of these strange insects resembles a giant moth, but the wings and mouth have sharp and barbed fangs, the wings are mainly made of epithelium, its tail is very long, divided into multiple segments, curved and slightly hypertrophied, and the tail has a bulging/large gland, in which a deep hole grows. There is an indescribably shiny slime on their bodies, which seems to have been brushed with a layer of crystals, which is obviously why they are able to survive in space.
In the space between these giant moths were another, more numerous, smaller flying insect, with two hard chitiny carapace wings covering their backs, a large belly, hideous mouthparts, and black hairs growing on their bodies! It looks like a giant beetle with a beer belly, and its skin is extremely thick, making it perfectly adapted to the harsh environment of outer space.
Contradicting their bulky and fat appearance, they move incredibly fast and are no less agile than the latest human Phantom fighters.
And the most concerning thing is that in the center of the dense insect array, a hideous behemoth is floating quietly.
It was a giant centipede-like insect, nearly a thousand meters long, and its whole body was densely covered with various circular blowholes, large and small, and countless small insects crawled in and out of it. It has hundreds of giant long feet, which are paddled in the air like oars, so that flying in the air is like rowing on the water, and each stroke can instantly rush thousands of meters away. At the tip of the beast, two huge tentacles were constantly waving, as if receiving signals, and the large, hideous mouth with sharp teeth spewed flame-like air from time to time. From a distance, it looks like a biological warship moving in the starry sky.
This is the Zerg's brood, the heart of a Zerg army! However, at this moment, there is an unconcealable coercion in the brood, and the strong nightmare energy reaction makes the nightmare hunters hidden in the expeditionary fleet 540 million kilometers away feel a burst of heart palpitations at the same time.
"Report to the general, the enemy is approaching our troops, and it is expected to be in effective range in fifteen minutes." Flagship command center, the observer loudly reported to the commander.
The so-called effective range does not represent the maximum distance of the attacking fire.
Due to the vacuum, the range of all weapons is infinitely magnified, and even a shot fired from the most ordinary rifle ship can reach the designated target if there is enough time. Therefore, the effective range here refers to the shortest reaction time given to the enemy after firing, and the maximum chance of hitting the enemy.
Due to the large size, complex operation, and difficult evasion of the Galaxy Battleship, if an attack can hit the enemy within thirty seconds, it can be regarded as an effective range.
However, due to the different characteristics of the weapons, the concept of the so-called effective range is only relative, just as the effective range of a pistol and a sniper rifle is completely different. Therefore, in space warfare, the so-called effective range of enemy ships is usually defaulted to the fastest flying laser, and since the speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second, the so-called effective range in space warfare usually refers to 10 million kilometers.
Brigadier General Yang Wenli, who served as the commander of the expeditionary force of the Lingxiao fleet, was a female general in her thirties. I saw that she had short brown hair that reached her ears, big eyes and thin eyebrows, her lips were painted with Dan, the undisguised desire for conquest in her eyes, and the solemnity unique to a soldier brought her natural temperament into full play.
"The whole team is arranged in a dense formation, and all the main guns of the battleship are charged in advance, and once the enemy enters the firing range, the covering attack will start immediately." Brigadier General Yang pursed his lips and then added, "Immediately after the engagement, the rest tactics will be activated, and the enemy must not be allowed to get close to our ship. ”
After giving the battle order, Yang Wenli stepped down from the command platform and walked towards a man and a woman sitting side by side on the last row of sofas in the command hall.
"Sir!" When the woman saw her approaching, she immediately got up and gave a military salute, but the man only smiled and greeted her, but did not get up. His actions made the sergeants on duty around him frown slightly, and they really didn't understand why this guy with the rank of captain was so arrogant in the face of his highest commander.
"I wonder what Mr. Shen thinks?" Yang Wenli sat down in the place where the woman got up and gave up, and looked sideways at the young captain beside her.
The reason why this man and woman are Shen Hao and Anna, who have not long joined the fleet, can sit in the command hall of the flagship so proudly is not because their military rank has been promoted to the point where they can be equal to the main general of the first army, but because the Brigadier General Yang in front of them has another identity - the head of the special operations department of Miller Kerr Company.
Legend has it that she has been with Miller for more than 50 years, and although few people have seen her do it herself, almost all of the later members of the Special Operations Department were trained by her. As early as more than ten years ago, she had already set out to organize the hunt for high-level nightmares, and she had been successful many times, and within Millerker, she was definitely one of the top five powerful figures.
"One thing has been confirmed right now." Shen Hao took a cigarette, took out a lighter and lit it, "There is indeed more than one high-level nightmare that controls the nightmare realm this time......" He used his finger to point at the giant centipede-shaped giant insect that was specially magnified on the virtual screen, and said in a low voice, "There is a bully coming to the door right now, it depends on you whether you fight or escape, anyway, I don't know anything about this kind of group war." ”
Yang Wenli frowned, and Anna on the side couldn't help but interject: "Mr. Shen, can you still escape from our current situation?" What we should be looking at now is how to win this battle and try to preserve our strength...... Now that we've already cooperated, could you please take it a little more seriously? ”
"Seriously? I've always been serious. Shen Hao dusted off his cigarette ash and turned his head to look at Yang Wenli, "I'm a simple-minded person, and I'm really not suitable for leading a fight." Besides, now that Millerker's 'God of War' Yang is here, where do you need a layman like me to point fingers? ”
The corners of Yang Wenli's mouth twitched, and she barely squeezed out a smile, and said, "Mr. Shen is too modest, you have more experience fighting these demons than we combined, and at the moment I just have a general idea, and I want to discuss it with Mr. ”
"I think I've guessed a few too, it's better to be a little old-fashioned, let's write it in our hands and see if it's the same?" Shen Hao pretended to blink mysteriously.
Yang Wenli looked at him and shook her head helplessly, at this time, Anna on the side had already found two signature pens and handed them over to the two of them. Shen Hao smiled and wrote four words in the palm of his hand, and Yang Wenli on the other side frowned, and also picked up the pen and wrote two words in his hand.