Chapter 143: Kazna
In September 1013, the 20th epoch of the cosmic calendar, the war had lasted for three months, and the Zerg still did not engage the coalition forces head-on, leaving a series of planets entrenched by the Zerg on the ground and then hastily withdrew.
The A90 star system Tai Ore Resource Star Kazna in the Zerg Occupation Zone of the Royal Ding Dynasty, which is the second largest Tai Ore Resource Star of the Royal Ding Dynasty, has lost control of this resource star since the Zerg invaded the Royal Ding Dynasty.
But now, due to the active withdrawal of the Zerg Leviathan fleet, this place has returned to the embrace of the Imperial Dynasty, but it is a pity that they have not been able to resume the mining of Thai ore resources here with peace of mind, because the underground of this planet is almost full of maddening insect swarms.
Tai ore is an extremely important strategic resource for both the Zerg and the human race.
The Zerg can hatch more combat units with the Tai Mine, while the humans can have the Tai Mine to activate more warships and more light weapons to operate against the Zerg.
So a battle for Kazna began, and the plan to solve the hidden danger of the Zerg with the help of the space battleship within the next month was completely bankrupt, and now that the war has been going on for the third month, Kazna's swarm is still rampant attacking any worker who dares to come to the mine.
Not only did the three months exhaust the Marines on the ground, but the Eleventh Fleet of the Dynasty, which had been hovering in Kazna's space, gradually lost patience, and finally left behind a dozen heavy cruisers and destroyers before hurriedly leaving to join the larger force.
Kazna Star 7 Mine Station.
In order to ensure the exploitation of the resources of Kazna Xingtai, the commander of the Kazna Military Region of the Imperial Dynasty, General Puxilan, decided to station all the military camps near the mine, which was also a way out of the way.
In the past three months, as many as 2,000 miners have been killed or injured by the swarm attack, and if this continues, the miners will probably go on strike en masse. Unable to do anything about it, Psilan had no choice but to abandon the plan to exterminate the Zerg and concentrate on defending the seven mines that had been restarted.
"This damn Kazna star, the air is so thin and cold. I really envy the garrison of Lefei Xing. At least you can smoke there without any scruples, as if we can only be smothered in this tin can. I wonder why those abominable bugs can still be alive in this environment, damn it, what the hell! A Marine standing guard complained.
Because of the harsh environment of Kazna Star, the marines here will never dare to put down the glass cover on their heads, otherwise they will be able to try the taste of death in every second.
"Okay, Hannah, it is said that Lefei Xing was attacked by the Zerg a few days ago due to a lack of military strength, and lost an entire Marine Division, and 20,000 people went into the stomach of the bugs, which is much better than them." Another patrolling Marine said after hearing his complaint in the communication channel.
Because Kazna is an extremely important resource star, eleven of the most elite Marine Mecha Divisions and twenty Marine Armored Divisions are stationed here. With the addition of infantry divisions, the strength is as high as 2.7 million, and there are three air bases to support them.
On such a desolate planet, as long as you don't take the offensive, defense is more than enough, because there are too few targets worth defending. And there are so many cities to defend in the colony that no amount of troops can cover everything. It is inevitable that the swarm will be given an opportunity, which is also the reason why Lefei Xing will lose a marine division in the sneak attack of the swarm even though he obviously has the support of the fleet.
"Do you think the Zerg will come and attack here?" Hannah asked suddenly.
"Don't be stupid. The other day we conducted a massive search for the Zerg. The insects were hiding in the ground and didn't dare to come out. Now that we are only defending a few places, and our forces are so concentrated, how can the Zerg dare to come out and sneak attack? It's even better if they come out, we can just annihilate them on the surface without having to burrow into the ground. The channel suddenly heard the laughter of his companions.
Hannah froze, remembering the horrific experience he had a month earlier.
Because the Zerg are afraid of the space suppression of the fleet, they have never dared to confront the Imperial Ground Force head-on and choose to hide underground. In desperation, the supreme commander of Kazna, Puxilan, had no choice but to order the marines to go underground to exterminate the zerg.
Despite the fact that there are many advanced weapons, such as flamethrowers, gas bombs, and even concussion grenades. However, the cunning Zerg is extremely powerful in the dark environment, as long as you are not careful, you may be killed by a bug that comes out of nowhere, and such a sweep lost more than 100,000 marines in two months. But there was no progress in exterminating the Zerg.
In desperation, Pusiran ordered to stop the operation, but the terrifying scene at the beginning, the scene of comrades dying in various ways by his side, made Hanna remember vividly, in the dark environment where he would die at any time was more terrible than fighting with endless swarms on the battlefield, the feeling of not knowing if he could survive the next moment made Hanna almost collapse, but fortunately he finally persevered.
Now the army is stationed in a steel base surrounded by iron walls, with machine gun bunkers and fortress-level defense guns, which are much safer than drilling into Zerg caves no matter how you look at it.
Maybe I'll live to the end of the war, Hannah thought silently.
At this time, the No. 7 mine has gradually operated to the back of Perseverance, and the heat that was originally only a dozen degrees under the direct light of the stars is gradually passing away. Looking at the star Agnar that was about to crash into the far side of the planet, Hanna knew that Kazner, which was about to drop to more than 200 degrees below zero, was approaching in the middle of the night.
At that temperature, even the Gauss gun made of Permel alloy in his hand could freeze to death, and the best way to avoid it at this time was to return to the warm base to avoid the long night, because even the Zerg's actions would be greatly affected in this weather.
The cold will freeze the hard carapace of the Zerg, and the sharp claws of the biological alloy will not even be able to dig into the ground, because the hard claws of the insects may break if they touch the ground frozen into ice, and this is the best truce between the Zerg and humans in such weather.
"Woo~Woo~"
But just as everyone was thinking so, the alarm at the base sounded, and the piercing sound seemed to open the bloodiest chapter of the war between humans and the Zerg again.
"Hiss...... Roar! Hannah couldn't see the Zerg in Kazna, who had fallen into darkness, but the distinctive roar of the Bug could reach his ears.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! The bright lights on the towers of the base were turned on one after another, and suddenly the entire outside of the base was illuminated as if it were day, and the purple-black insect tide that spread all over the mountains made Hannah's heart contract.
"Damn, all the members of the D1716 team, return to combat duty immediately." Hanna yelled.
"Attention First Combat Unit, please follow the instructions of the commanders to enter the defensive position, Second Combat Force, please take note, build a defensive position inside the base to prevent the underground attack of the Zerg soldiers......" The cold voice on the radio was repeating the orders of the top commander of the base.
"Knock, knock, knock......" Marines with Gauss guns stepped out of the camp and ran toward the metal walls in a neat pace, their silence contrasting sharply with the cacophony of announcements. The war has been going on for three months, and they have already learned what the cruelty of war is, and now they have long lost the pride they had when they first joined the army.
Base Operations Command Room.
"Haven't you connected to a military satellite in space yet?" Lieutenant General Yadisr, the supreme commander of the No. 7 mine base, said unhappily.
"General, it's very likely that the Zerg have already taken down our military satellites." The soldier in charge of communications replied helplessly.
"Damn it, it's a plasma bug!" Hearing this, the adjutant beside the general looked annoyed.
In the past three months, in order to completely win air supremacy over Kazna, not only has an entire fleet in space guarded it, but also countless military satellites have been released to monitor the actions of the Zerg.
But one of the Zerg's troops, the Plasma Worm, will always crawl out of the underground pit from time to time, rise up and launch mouthparts to shoot down one or two military satellites. In the past three months, more than a dozen military satellites have been tragically poisoned by plasma worms, and mankind has no choice but to pinch its nose and admit it and let the fleet continue to deploy new military satellites.
"Can't get in touch with any of them?" The general asked, frowning. Today, there are twenty-four military satellites around Kazna, and if only one or two are broken, it will not have much impact.
"Yes General, this time the Zerg is very likely to shoot down all our satellites, at least more than eighteen, because I can't contact any of the satellites in the area anyway......" The communication soldier's words gave the general a very bad premonition, as if a tide of conspiracy was coming towards him.
The reason why there is such a hunch is because the Zerg were unusually honest when the Eleventh Fleet of the Dynasty was hovering in Kazna, and now the fleet has only been gone for less than two days before the Zerg come to this hand, and it is obvious that they know the whereabouts of the Dao Fleet.
"How did the Zerg locate the location of military satellites?" The adjutant asked, puzzled.
"Who knows, maybe they have special sensor tubes, anyway, the Zerg have always been very mysterious, what is impossible?" The communications corps also had no good explanation for this.
After hearing this, the general's brows furrowed even tighter, the secrets of the Zerg were being studied within the imperial dynasty, and he knew the truth. Many of the Zerg's important intelligence military departments have already told the commanders at the grassroots level, although the reason given is the discovery of other war zones, but as a lieutenant general, he knows that this is not the case.
But until now, he has not learned from the upper echelons of the dynasty that the Zerg have the ability to sense space satellites, and things don't seem to be so simple...... (To be continued......)