Chapter Seventy-Two: Another Expedition
The entire alliance began to produce equipment for the next long-distance recruitment, and then various trainings began, and the 'company' under the command of the captain became the basic operational unit of the front, and a battleship could generally carry ten of these companies and equipment, and at the same time an additional army aviation regiment was added.
Marshal Marceau began to study the target planet that needs to be cleaned up, how to complete the purge of a planet, this is a more difficult problem, the Zerg are staying underground, how to completely eliminate them?
The first thing you need to know is how deep they can lurk underground, and the scanning and detection equipment has become another focus of research, although it will not be possible to break through the technology in a short period of time, but it must be a long-term research project.
The construction, maintenance, and modification of warships are carried out the slowest, while the mobile forces are formed very quickly, so some people within the federation propose not to build combat warships, and to use transport ships for transportation, which can save a lot.
Murphy felt that this was very feasible, so the alliance changed its strategy, the starships increased the number of starfighters, and the mobile forces used transport ships for transportation, and the transports could withdraw some distance to ensure their safety after unloading, and the number of starships could be reduced.
And for the elimination of a peripheral planet, it can be encircled in a fragmented way, first surrounded by outposts, and then lured by outposts, luring the Zerg to besiege and then bombing in a large area. Later, a large force of the Mobile Force landed and began to clean up the nests in search of unknown species.
Murphy agrees with this plan, relying on new equipment to carry out large-scale killing, and at the same time dividing the huge planet into different regions, which can also be used to distinguish some of the social structure of the Zerg. See if they are also divided into regions, how large an area is, compare the number of insect colonies, species, etc., and analyze them by social behaviorists, biologists, etc.
The intelligence of the Zerg has been confirmed, and it is now necessary to analyze their social structure in order to deduce the Zerg's superstructure and command system, and to search for the mysterious Zerg interstellar travel ability. In addition, I hope to find traces of other alien civilizations, to see if the Zerg have destroyed other alien civilizations, and what can be gained from them.
There are many problems, and more needs to be done, and the significance of this expedition is very significant, and the whole alliance is fully operational for it, and all kinds of propaganda are endless. The mobile units used as bait are even more selective, and they are the elite of the elite. Although Captain Ritchie's last operation was very successful, the danger can also be seen, once the defense is breached, then a company will inevitably be torn to pieces.
The psychological pressure is enormous, so a large number of veterans have been gathered to reorganize into elite companies, and targeted training has been carried out, and the ammunition consumed every day is massive. Marshal Marceau went in person, visited each of the decoy companies, reported on them extensively, and promised to promote them in the future and give them medals.
Fame and fortune are the best motivation, and the soldiers work hard to train for this, and the fleet is also targeted exercises, especially for ground support, and equipped with a large number of jamming bombs to prevent the attack of plasma bugs.
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On this day, the huge fleet was built faster by the use of transport ships, and a year after the last expedition, a new fleet was assembled, and the fleet numbered hundreds of ships in space. The vast fleet was imposing and ready to go, and Marshal Marceau gave the order to depart, and one after another battleships and transports flew at the speed of light.
The target planet was very quiet, the fleet began to disperse, and then eight huge areas were divided, and then the fleet surrounded the planet, and the mobile forces decoyed as many as one hundred and twenty-eight companies, according to the demarcated area, together with the engineering troops, began to land.
And this time the outpost is much larger than the last time, the 50 m X 50 m huge camp camp, the modular construction speed is faster, the outer wall has a height of three floors, and the slightly sloping defensive outer wall prevents the Zerg from piling up corpses to increase the height. The number of machine gun towers was expanded to eight, which gave a huge increase in crossfire, while an anti-aircraft phalanx was installed inside, and then the two artillery detachments were deployed separately.
Tanks and armored vehicles maneuvered inside, but this time there were no helicopter gunships, and the infantry of the two field platoons began to disperse, one platoon was responsible for both directions, and a large amount of ammunition was scattered and piled up on the second floor of the wall, rather than directly on the ground in the center of the outpost. A vibrating detection rod is inserted into the ground to more accurately detect the situation under the ground.
The pace of preparation was quite rapid, and the time for the establishment of one hundred and twenty-eight outposts was only twenty minutes, but it was a lot more than the last time, and then the engineers retreated, leaving more space for the combat troops.
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Clusters of blue plasma bombs flew high and began to attack the battleships in space, the transports were out of range, and the battleships began to release jamming bombs while the fighters were dispatched. The plasma worm was finally killed, and the starfighter set off with missiles on board, and there was no problem in killing one missile at all.
At the same time, swarms began to appear around the outpost, and they began to assemble, and at present, the swarm did not know anything about the human battle plan, and they had not yet captured prisoners, so naturally they could not detect the human plan. And a large number of insect swarms have appeared around each stronghold, and the rough estimate is that they are more than 100,000.
One hundred and twenty-eight outposts, that is, tens of millions of insects, this number made everyone's hearts tremble when it was reported, how many people were there in their expeditionary force? The huge consumption of resources makes the soldiers of the expeditionary fleet only a million, and this is still related to the use of non-combat transport ships, what if you use starships?
And are these all bugs? "Mr. Murphy, how many more bugs do you think there will be?" Marshal Marceau asked worriedly.
"It shouldn't be too much, after all, the resources of a planet are limited, and the weakness of the Zerg is also quite obvious, that is, they can't build and produce, so the number must be controlled within a range. So that they will not starve to death, and then there is a matter of survival, one planet becomes a desert, then they need to choose another planet again, otherwise they can only starve to death. ”
"Yes, I was too scared to ignore the problem." Marshal Marceau breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't be careless, their basic insects are hexapods, but these basic hexapods may not be their reserve food!"
"Is it possible?"
"Why can't it be? So, don't be careless, we don't know about the Zerg, everything is unknown, so it's important to understand and observe, and the first battle is even more important, it depends on the situation! ”