CHAPTER 40

The Great Interstellar Retreat (Part II)

By the time the particle shield of the battleship Carl Vincent was activated to 60 percent, the meteorite swarm had already smashed down from above. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info These meteorites seem to have eyes, and they accurately hit the human warships in space, not only the flagship, but most of the warships of the 1978 fleet did not have time to avoid it.

The meteorite smashed through the Carl Vincent's sturdy titanium hull and burrowed directly into the engine room.

"Close the hatches! Turn on the pressure equalization system! "A lieutenant colonel decisively took over Karl's command, shouting loudly in the command channel, hoping to save the situation and minimize the damage.

"Oh my God, look! Those things aren't meteorites at all! Someone was shouting, only to see a meteorite burrowing into the cabin on the surveillance screen, rolling in a spiral, the uneven, hard shell like a rock suddenly unfolded, and turned into a strange-shaped reptile.

"It's a bug! These meteorites were changed by the Zerg! An exclamation was heard from the command room.

The astonishing insects quickly climbed onto the top of the battleship's machines, hugged them tightly, and began to glow red from top to bottom, which grew brighter and brighter until it turned into a blinding ball of light, producing a violent explosion.

"They're blowing up our battleships from within!" The people in the command room were stunned, and they felt the end coming.

Violent explosions continued to occur in the compartments of the "Carl Vincent", and seeing that the battleship was about to be destroyed, the lieutenant colonel who took over the command decisively turned on the microphone and shouted to all the officers and men of the ship: "Abandon the ship!" Abandon the ship! All personnel go to the escape pods! "

After receiving the order to abandon the ship, the personnel in the battleship immediately became a mess and rushed to the escape pod. However, the explosion continued, and even the ion generation capsule that generated power also exploded violently, and the uncontrolled ions caused a chain reaction in the battleship, and then the resulting nuclear explosion blew the 10,000-ton interstellar warship into pieces in an instant, except for a few escape pods that successfully escaped, nearly 600 officers and soldiers became dust floating in space together with the battleship.

The demise of the flagship "Carl Vincent" brought immeasurable losses to the entire fleet, and the few warships that were lucky enough to escape the attack of the Zerg had to fight on their own.

When Olga, Khalid and the others struggled out of the pit, they found that it was already daylight outside.

"O'Neill! I'm Olga, can you hear me? Aware that the giant tank was still stuck in the industrial area, Olgar was relieved and immediately made radio contact with Lieutenant O'Neill.

"Captain, is that you? Thank goodness you're still alive! I thought you wouldn't be able to get out again, and you were ready to retreat. O'Neill said over the radio.

"Retreat? What happened? Why retreat? Olga asked puzzled.

"Captain, the Zerg have attacked our fleet, and the battleship Carl Vincent has been blown up! I just got information from other wings that so far at least more than half of the battleships have been eliminated. ”

"What!" Olga exclaimed and asked, "When did this happen?" ”

"Just ten minutes ago, now everyone is in a mess, and there is no one in command at all!"

Ao Jia felt that his head was clouded, nearly half of the warships were destroyed, and that was the lives of more than 30,000 officers and soldiers. She was in a daze when she suddenly heard Khalid shouting, "Captain, look at the heavens!" ”

Olga looked up and saw a rain of fire in the sky, flying mercilessly towards the ground. It was the fragments of a battleship that had been blown up by the self-detonating bugs, and under the gravitational pull of the planet Aiha, it was struck towards the ground. The thin atmosphere could not stop these metal fragments, and they were bombing the human army on the ground like bombs.

"Oh my God, we have to get out of here right now!" Olga shouted, "O'Neill, is there any news of the evacuation?" ”…,

"Not at all! Those surviving warships can't care about our infantry! O'Neill scolded.

"Damn," Olga roared, "and what about Carl, what is that guy doing?" ”

"Colonel Karl has fled!" O'Neill gritted his teeth and scolded: "That guy only cared about his own escape, boarded the escape pod early, and left the entire fleet and ran away secretly." ”

"Bastard, how could he do that!" It was the first time for Olga to feel so helpless, even when she first evacuated Ahsa, she didn't feel so powerless, but now, she found that she really couldn't change the current situation.

Just when she was about to despair, a familiar voice suddenly came over the radio: "Wooha, dear Marines, I didn't expect you to be alive." "

"It's that crazy pilot!" Oga also remembered the voice of this man, who had dropped the giant tank she was riding in the desert from a high altitude during the landing on Aha. But this voice, which she hated before, now sounded so pleasant.

"Lieutenant Murphy, is that you?" Olga remembered his name and immediately called by radio.

"Roar, I didn't expect my name to be remembered by the most beautiful female officer in the fleet, what a blessing for three lives." This Murphy didn't forget to laugh at such a tense moment.

"Lieutenant, are you here to pick us up?" Oga didn't have a seizure, and she couldn't care about losing her temper at this point.

"On the orders of Captain Rice of the USS Stilwell, I have come to help evacuate my dear Fellow Marines, ma'am, and you are lucky that my first landing will be here."

As he spoke, he saw a large transport ship descend from the sky and landed steadily next to the giant tank. Ao Jia and the others ran quickly and rushed towards the transport ship together.

Lieutenant Murphy appeared at the hatch, with a black mustache and a pair of sunglasses, and waved his hand to organize the Marines to board: "Drop your weapons and loads, and make a little more room to come out!" He shouted, and the soldiers threw down their rifles and bags and boarded the plane one by one.

Olga hurriedly came to Murphy's side and asked, "Lieutenant, how many people can the transport plane carry at one time?" "

Murphy took off his sunglasses and said while directing the boarding: "At most a hundred people, then you have to squeeze in." "

"But my wing has five hundred soldiers." Olga said anxiously.

"You'll have to fly five times, and you'll have to remember to tip me."

Oga listened and couldn't help but be amused by Murphy. At such a time, he didn't forget to make a joke, which couldn't help but make Olga look at him differently.

"How's it going?" She finally relaxed a little and asked about the fleet.

"It's worse than the one down there. Now the fleet has suffered a lot of losses, only the warships deployed on the other side of the planet have not been attacked, but there is a lack of unified command. Now Captain Rice of the USS Stilwell is trying to contact the other ships, hoping to re-establish the chain of command and help the ground forces evacuate as soon as possible. "

"But there are 200,000 soldiers on the ground!" Olga is concerned about the lack of capacity of the transport ship.

"How much can be evacuated," Murphy turned his head to look at Oga and whispered: "I have even worse news here, the Zerg have taken advantage of the situation to capture St. Edinburgh, the situation of the entire Narcissus Thirteen Galaxy is precarious, the federal government has urgently notified the people of the Thirteen Galaxies to evacuate, but no more than one tenth will be able to escape by spaceship." "

"What?" Olga couldn't believe that St. Edinburgh was three light-years away from Ahsa, and that the Zerg could fly faster than light?

"How did the Zerg get to St. Edinburgh?"

"They may use a kind of twisted space like a wormhole to move long distances, and who knows, it seems that they really can't be underestimated in the future." Murphy answered Olga's question briefly.

The convoy was soon crammed with Marines, and Murphy put his glasses back on and said to Olgar, "Ladies first." "Motioned for Olga to board the plane immediately.

Oga shook his head and said, "I'm the commander of the wing, and I'm the last one to leave." "

Murphy listened, gave a thumbs up, and said, "Good luck, Captain Olga." I'll fly back again. "

Ao Jia watched the transport ship soar into the sky, and his heart was at a loss.

"The war with the Zerg has just begun, but we have already paid such a heavy price."