Chapter 424: The Attack Begins

Da Ming's Second Expeditionary Corps circled around the nearby airspace, and after making sure that there were no Zerg ambushes, they finally returned their attention to the turquoise planet. As the fleet slowly approached, the planet became clearer and clearer in everyone's eyes.

From the electronic images, it can be seen that in the outer orbit of the planet, there are some sporadic Zerg wandering wantonly, without any reaction to the expeditionary legion that is too large to hide its actions, and it is still acting on its own.

As for the interior of the planet, due to the turquoise shell, the electronic observation system alone cannot be explored, so even Zhang Yunfan cannot determine the reality of the planet's interior.

However, the Ming Legion has decided to clean up this planet first, so there is nothing to hesitate about. Ling Aocang waved his hand, led by the Heavenly Determination Legion, the Celestial Shadow Legion wandered around the periphery, and the two legions in the rear pressed the formation, slowly pushing the melee line towards the planet.

In the end, when the entire legion had suppressed to the limit distance and was ready to attack, those zergs in outer space finally reacted, but they did not attack immediately, but kept circling, as if they were doing evasive actions.

At this moment, from the turquoise shell, a number of zergs rushed out, and these zergs quickly gathered together, formed a battle formation, and then rushed towards the battle formation of the expeditionary legion completely without any strategy.

Although the Zerg have always suppressed the alliance army by numbers, this time it obviously did not show their characteristics, and the number of the Zerg on the outer orbit plus the number of rushing out of the interior of the planet is only 30,000, and this scale appears in front of the expeditionary force of the Ming Dynasty, which is basically nothing.

To deal with these, there was no need to even make a move at all, and under the several salvos of a division-level fleet at the head of the Heavenly Determination Legion, all the Zerg who rushed over disappeared from then on. The Legion's actions were not hindered in any way, and continued to advance according to its own points, and soon reached the outer orbit of the planet.

Judging from the construction of the outer orbit of this planet, this should have been a relatively prosperous civilization planet, but these wrecks of civilization that can be seen everywhere are also silently describing to them, the viewers, how completely these zerg have destroyed a civilization.

After the legion was stationed, at this time, the Heavenly Determination Legion, which was responsible for the legion's assault mission, was now temporarily relieved of its heavy responsibilities, cooperating with the equally mobile and flexible Celestial Shadow Legion to do vigilance patrols on the periphery, and the main task of the landing operation was handed over to the Tianling Legion, which had a more balanced combat power. The combat support mission is carried out by the Celestial Legion, which has strong firepower.

However, the Celestial Shadow Legion did not participate in the battle, but its commander Zhang Yunfan was pulled over by Ling Aocang to take command of the landing force.

Although Zhang Yunfan is not good at similar landing work, he is still the most suitable person compared to others who don't know much about the Zerg.

Under Zhang Yunfan's coordination, the entire landing force was quickly integrated and assembled into a dense battle formation, ready to carry out a surprise attack. As for the main fleet, because he didn't have to worry about the sneak attack of the Zerg, Zhang Yunfan spread out the entire fleet and distributed it in layers, giving full play to the fleet's supporting firepower.

When everything was ready, the battle began.

The whole battle was started by the shelling of the two legions of Tianling and Tianyu, and the huge laser beam broke through the turquoise fog shell, breaking through the layers of fog to keep its landing force with good visibility conditions.

After that, the landing force can make moves, and the landing craft form a dense battle formation, rushing towards the surface of the planet through the Qingming zone blasted by the ship's artillery, and behind them, some smaller destroyers and frigates will also slowly follow, and they will provide the landing force with the best quality and most direct fire protection.

Time passed slowly, and the landing force of the legion gradually entered the interior of the planet, although this process was not hindered by the Zerg, but Zhang Yunfan, as the commander, did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and concentrated all his energy on the real-time report of the battlefield, for fear of sudden unexpected changes.

Soon, the news of the successful landing force on the surface of the planet came back, and it was only at this time that Zhang Yunfan was truly relieved.

But he didn't be happy for long, another strange thing, Zhang Yunfan had personally experienced the landing operation of the alliance, and he felt the same way as the Zerg's attack and harassment mode, and those planets were just when the Zerg was entrenched for a short time, and now this planet has been assimilated into a planet with thorough Zerg characteristics, but it has not shown the Zerg's combat at all, which can't help but make Zhang Yunfan more vigilant.

At this moment, the thick turquoise fog once again blocked the rare direct vision of the legion, but now it could no longer be used in the same rough way as before, otherwise it would be unknown how many troops who had just landed in a volley.

As a result, the legion can only adopt an alternative plan, each reconnaissance and detection detachment is activated, and the band detection devices are all out to bring the surface situation of the entire planet into the detection range.

A complete projection of a planet also appeared in front of Zhang Yunfan, allowing him to detect the real-time dynamics of all war zones at any time.

Fingertips tapped a red area on the map, Zhang Yunfan knew that it was the landing site he had personally set, and then the details of that area were projected in front of him, and the map clearly showed the current situation of the entire landing force.

So far, the operation of the expeditionary corps can be said to have been a smooth mess, so smooth that every soldier in the corps sensed that something was wrong.

As a result, all the troops that have landed on the surface have established defensive positions on the spot, while those that have not yet landed have temporarily abandoned the landing, and then low-flying destroyers, frigates, take the lead, and begin a comprehensive inspection of the entire planet.

Twenty minutes later, the entire planet was rescanned in detail, this time in more detail than the real-time surveillance of outer space, and many undiscovered things were filled, including four large underground Zerg entrances that were not in the previous surveillance.

When he saw these emerging from the projection in front of him, Zhang Yunfan immediately understood the reason for all this.

The Zerg never thought that there would be any possibility of victory in a large-scale all-out battle with an expeditionary legion with sufficient backup under the current situation that their own combat forces were extremely scattered, so they simply gave up the attack and turned to the tedious and time-consuming battle of planet clearing operations to drag the coalition forces, and then whether it was to concentrate their forces and choose an expeditionary legion to attack, or continue to consolidate the defense line, they could gain great initiative.

But even if he had already seen the intentions of the Zerg, the legion could only choose to continue to act, and such a battle really made Zhang Yunfan, the commander, extremely aggrieved.