Chapter 56
Shang Si didn't relax slightly until he saw the Zerg rushing out of the meteorite group.
For Xiao Yi, Shang Si doesn't know much. Even though he was the supreme military commander of the Shengyue Federation (once), his battles were rarely explained in the military academy. Shang Si's knowledge of him is limited to a few words in the history books and a limited number of battle materials found in the reference room.
This is actually very strange, but Shang Si is neither a scholar nor so curious, so he has not delved into it.
After checking those limited battle records, Shang Si had a general impression of Xiao Yi.
This is a commander who likes to break through.
Xiao Yi was not born as a regular military cadet, at the beginning, he was just a soldier at the lowest level recruited by the army from the people.
So he never fought the war in a straightforward way, as taught in the textbooks, but as if he did whatever he wanted, completely ignoring the principles that were written into the book as if they were the truth.
However, even if he does what he wants, Xiao Yi's command also has a core idea, that is, fast.
Don't hesitate to be fast.
When the opponent is not prepared, break through the opponent's defenses and implement the decapitation tactic.
In order to pursue speed, in a battle, Xiao Yi threw away all the baggage of the fleet that cost trillions of federal coins (equivalent to a quarter's financial revenue of the whole Federation at that time); In another battle, he directly drained the heavy ships in the fleet and abandoned them, even throwing away his own flagship.
Shang Si didn't know if Xiao Yi had been punished for consuming resources so much, but he could be sure that Xiao Yi could really do anything in order to pursue speed.
Therefore, he judged that Xiao Yi would still use fast attack tactics in this attack.
Sure enough, although Shang Si made a mistake in judging the speed of Xiao Yi's attack at the beginning, it was just a matter of Cheng Dù, and the general direction was right.
And after the initial mistakes, Shang Si had a new estimate of Xiao Yi's speed.
At that time, Shang Si didn't want to spare some long-range artillery ammunition, and then rely on the heavy ship to strike at the moment when the Zerg rushed out of the meteorite group. But then Shang Si rejected the idea.
The reason is Xiao Yi's fastness.
Of course, when the Zerg under Xiao Yi's command reached the edge of the meteorite group, the speed was very fast, but this speed could still be hindered with the firepower of heavy ships. But with Xiao Yi's character, is this speed the limit?
Shang Si believes that Xiao Yi is definitely more than that.
Just in case, he decided to use long-range artillery to delay Xiao Yi's marching speed.
When the Zerg rushed out of the meteorite swarm, Shang Si knew that he was right.
This time, it was not a defensive Zerg that rushed to the front, or even an offensive Zerg with a slightly thicker carapace. At the forefront are the agile Zerg.
The biggest feature of this Zerg is that it is fast and very sensitive, and it can even dodge lightly before the light particle cannon arrives.
Fortunately, the long-range artillery has just delayed the time for the Zerg to break out of the meteorite group, so that the formation of the fleet has been perfected by 90%, otherwise, the agile Zerg can rush into the fleet in the gap between the heavy ships' cannons.
At that time, the light ships were not fully prepared for battle, and the guns of the heavy ships were not suitable for close attacks, so it was strange that the fleet would not become a vegetable market for the Zerg.
Now that the formation is close to perfecting, it is better to deal with this situation.
The heavy ships began firing as early as the Zerg broke out of the meteorite swarm, and the light particle cannon emitted a dazzling white light, shooting at the dense enemy, slaughtering one Zerg after another.
The agile Zerg died in large numbers, but due to their speed and agility, many of them still passed through the firepower of the heavy ships and approached the fleet.
At this time, the light ship began to fire. The light particle cannon on the light ship has a short range, which is the most suitable for short- and medium-distance combat, which can just make up for the firepower gap of the heavy ship. Under the fire of the light ship, the Zerg that rushed through the fire net of the heavy ship once again expanded the casualties.
But if you say what is the biggest advantage of the Zerg, then as long as you are a human, you can sue sù, and that is the number.
A C-class female worm can lay tens of thousands of eggs in a month in wartime, although the level of the hatched Zerg is not high, but in terms of number alone, it can suppress the human fleet.
The crowd tactic was abandoned in the early days of the ancient earth, but now it has been picked up again by the Zerg. This is not because the power of human weapons is getting lower and lower, but because the Zerg defensive carapace is too strong. Large-scale weapons of destruction cannot play a lethal role at all for the Zerg.
It's hard to believe, but that's what it is. Since the beginning of the First Anti-Invasion War, humans have been studying the carapace of the Zerg, and until now they have not studied the reason for this situation. I just got two conclusions: one is that the light particle weapon kills the Zerg in a targeted manner, and the other is that all the Zerg have a very well hidden weakness.
However, there are many limitations on light particle weapons, and the most frustrating point is that due to its characteristics, it cannot be made into a weapon of mass destruction. And the weakness of the Zerg can only be found at close range by relying on mechas. Therefore, the number of Zerg has become their advantage again, and the Worm Sea tactics really make all human fleets fearful.
Just like the current battle situation, it seems that the number of Zerg eliminated by Shang Si's fleet is very large, but for Xiao Yi's side, the death is only a drop in the bucket. Although it is a game, the setting of the game still refers to the actual battlefield, and the ratio of human and Zerg forces is 1:20.
Therefore, although a lot of the Zerg have died through the firepower net of heavy ships and light ships, there are still fish that have slipped through the net among the Zerg vanguards and have entered the fleet.
At this stage of the battle, it is also the mecha that appears.
Following Shang Si's order, one by one the battleships opened their hatches, and the mecha troops with the title of melee king poured out of their nests, entangled with the Zerg.
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In the hologram, the beams of light particle cannons emitted by the fleet shone brightly, accompanied by the shattered torsos of the Zerg after being hit, as if a grand fireworks display was staged in the dark universe.
However, since the dispatch of the mecha unit, in order to prevent accidental damage, the fleet's light particle cannons have become sparse. But the situation on the battlefield has become more dangerous.
After the mechs and the Zerg began to fight in close combat, the battle damage inevitably began to appear and quickly expanded, in addition to the mechas, some armored ships were also damaged in the siege of the Zerg. It's just that because Shang Si responded in time, there was no situation where the ship was destroyed and people died.
Yan Kou looked at the image projected in the air, and said in a suppressed voice:
"Squad leader, troublesome ......"
Dolemi was knocked on the head twice, but this time he learned to be obedient and didn't intervene again. Just show with a firm look: the boss will not be in trouble!
Then he was slapped on the head by Yan Kou again......
Yan Kou, who finished filming Doremi's head, explained it well:
"Look at the current situation on the battlefield, you understand that Lao Xiao is shameless and ready to fight a war of attrition."
The number of Zerg is numerous, and there is a steady stream of reinforcements from the Guò Star Gate. Now most of the Zerg on the battlefield are low-level agility type, fast or fast, and the attack power is not so high, Xiao Yi used them on the one hand to think of the role of the raid, but this purpose was prevented by Shang Si in advance. Of course, Xiao Yi didn't think of this, so these zergs also have a second use: consumption.
Who is it that is consumed? Of course, it won't be the huge number of Zerg themselves, but the fleet of Shang Si, who doesn't have much in the first place.
"It looks like it's evenly matched right now, but it won't last long." At some point, Bowen, the always sickly military doctor on the Raven, also came to the hospital to watch the battle.
Because the game is set to be a Zerg raid, not only does Shangsi's fleet not have much, but also has not much energy and ammunition reserves. In reality, this is the case in a hurry.
Xiao Yi's first tactical goal was not achieved, so he used those agile zergs as cannon fodder, and began to consume Shang Si's reserve resources in waves.
In this way, by the time the slower attacking Zerg arrived at the battlefield, the ammunition and energy of Shang Si's fleet, including the defensive capabilities of the battleships, had been violently consumed, and for Xiao Yi, it would be much easier to fight that way. And for Shangsi, the situation with the fleet becomes extremely dangerous.
Yan Kou watched the battle situation intently, and did not notice Bowen's arrival, but when he heard someone answering, he analyzed Shang Si's situation with interest.
"It takes five hours for a transport ship to transfer the inhabitants of the star field from preparing to evacuate to arriving at another stargate in the star field. Among them, it is an hour to transfer on the planet, and it is four hours to take off from the planet to the B star gate in the star field that is not occupied by the Zerg. ”
"But now an hour has passed, judging from the situation on the battlefield, the captain's fleet can maintain a complete battle sequence within two hours at most, and two hours later, with the reduction of reserves and the increase of Zerg reinforcements, it is estimated that there will be a danger of breaking through the defense at any moment."
"Once the Zerg breaks through the defenses, with the speed of the Zerg, it will be easy to catch up with the transport ship that has not yet run to the B Star Gate."
After Yan Kou finished speaking, he pretended to let out a long sigh to show sympathy for the team leader's failure.
"I hope the team leader won't be hit!"
Yan Ko's elongated tone made people almost get goosebumps when they heard it, and the volume was uncontrollable, making Xiao Yi, who was still fighting on the table, look up at him.
But Yan Kou was talking about Xingtou, and he didn't understand what his old friend meant when he asked him not to disturb Shang Si, and he still wanted to continue to talk about it!
Then Yan Kou, who was opening his mouth and wanted to speak, was glanced sideways by the military doctor, kept his mouth open, and didn't dare to say a word.
Doremi crouched in the corner and said she was happy to see it.
Sune looked at the scene on the projection, her lips pursed tightly.
He also saw that Shang Si's current situation was fine, but the further he developed, the less optimistic his situation became.
As Yan Kou said just now, in the case of the failure of the first move, although Shang Si recovered the loss at the maximum, he still did not gain the upper hand after the Zerg rushed out of the meteorite group.
In such a situation that requires delay, Shang Si's situation is really worrying.
Although the attrition tactic is simple and crude, and there is no art of command, it is undeniable that this tactic is really useful. The captain himself is weak, and it is really hard to say how long he can support such an attack without hesitating the casualties of the Zerg.
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Far away, far beyond the hologram, on the inner planet where civilians gather, transport ships full of civilians are slowly rising into the air.