Fang Jingquan slowly lowered the binoculars, and the light of the Montana's explosion slowly dissipated in his eyes. Two lines of tears silently slipped down his cheeks, wetting the eagle on his chest.

All the people on the bridge, up to the captain, the chief of staff, and down to the communications officer, all took off their hats and put them under their arms at the same time, and their right hands rested solemnly on their temples.

"Old chief, go all the way." Fang Jingquan wiped away the tears on his face, turned around and stared at everyone with a pair of red and swollen eyes, "Everyone obeys orders, we can't let Commander Kang's sacrifice be in vain." We must do everything in our power to send all six million people out unharmed. Even if you want to die here today, you will never give up. Advance! ”

"Forward!"

The three battleships lined up in a triangular formation, Fang Jingquan originally wanted to put the flagship SH in the first place and withstand the strongest wave of attacks from the bugs, but he had no choice but to insist on his own opinion, and he simply suppressed Fang Jingquan's order, so now it became the battleship Kirov, which was the least damaged in the entire fleet, to take the lead, followed by SH and JX, one left and one right.

The vanguard composed of these three ships is like the sharpest tip of a spear, directly inserted into the encirclement of the insects. The remaining warships were arranged in an orderly spherical formation, tightly wrapping the three hundred transports in the center.

Fang Jingquan was ruthless, as long as there was still one battleship in the fleet that had combat capability, the transport ship would not be harmed at all.

The overwhelming array of bacteriophage praying mantis swarmed, striking the shields of the fleet's combined condensation over and over again. Fortunately, without the help of Purple Eritan, it would not be so easy for the phage mantis to tear through the shield's defenses, and ordinary Eritan and Shock Worms could not quickly break the fleet shield created with six battleships as the core. What's more, even if most of the current fleet was killed and wounded in the previous battles, don't forget, the fleet in Fang Jingquan's hands is all elite troops, and both the advanced equipment and the training of the soldiers far exceed the five provincial fleets that Tang Jinglan handed over to Yang Jingzhong at the beginning.

And now, it has been about twelve hours since the fleet just arrived in the Sengerman system to send a request for reinforcements to the headquarters, although the crew is quite tired, these twelve hours are basically all fighting, and the rest time may only be about an hour, but everyone is still struggling to support it, and has not given up resistance.

Fang Jingquan also put on individual armor, and he was also ready to lead the guard troops to counterattack the praying mantis that was raging inside the ship.

At the very front of the entire fleet, the Kirov withstood the strongest attack. The phage mantis rained down and crashed into the fleet's shield, which was constantly rippling and rippling, but the shield itself was not thick enough to annihilate its shell before the mantis came out.

As a result, in just a few minutes, the praying mantis began to wreak havoc on the Kirov. The surface of the huge battleship was constantly bursting with fire, and before the fire could grow, the valves inside the battleship were closed, the air was emptied, and the fire was extinguished in an instant. Such scenes were constantly playing out on the surface of the battleship, and it could also be seen that the surface positions of the Kirov's hull were constantly being lost, and the marines were about to retreat into the ship.

"Goujian, order the Kirov to come back, it's time for us to get on." Fang Jingquan gritted his teeth and put down the binoculars, "The three battleships in the vanguard, switch positions clockwise, with my SH as the lead. ”

"My general, why should you take the risk yourself? Can't you get the JX on it? Gou Jian said anxiously.

"Don't worry, we'll carry the friendly ship for a while, and then change to the JX in ten minutes." Fang Jingquan grabbed the kettle and poured a big mouthful.

"But ......"

"It's nothing, I know it."

Receiving the order, the Kirov could not wait to step back and give the position to the SH that came up.

Due to the change in formation, the entire fleet's breakthrough ability fell off a cliff for a short time, in order to withstand the phage mantis that rushed forward without life, Fang Izumi had to let the Kirov use valuable arc weapons, and at the same time, all the fleet's electromagnetic railguns were fired forward to cover the Kirov and SH.

Two Shock Worms rolled and rushed up, taking advantage of the fleet's brief defensive gap, breaking through the weak zone of the fleet's shields, narrowly dodging several rushing antimatter orbital bombs and crashing into the Kirov.

The two Shock Worms came in a rather tricky position, and I don't know if it was the luck of the bugs or the luck of the Kirov, which was aimed at the nuclear reactor on the surface of the Kirov's hull that was responsible for maintaining the shield.

"Boom!"

A blinding flash of light flashed, and a violent explosion swept the oxygen on the surface of the battleship, and the shock wave instantly destroyed the three nearest main gun emplacements. More than 300 Marines died in the blazing heat before they could feel the pain of death.

The destruction of the nuclear reactor directly led to a huge hole in the shield of the entire fleet, which was still intact, and countless spiders rushed into the shield and landed on the surface of the Kirov, the surface of the Kirov's hull was instantly lost, and the crew could only retreat to the inside of the battleship.

", these brutes." Fang Jingquan angrily threw the telescope on the table, gritting his teeth in anger.

"In this case, the Kirov will have to withdraw from the battleship, shall we choose a new battleship to come?" The chief of staff asked behind him.

"No, just start with our two battleships." Fang Jingquan shook his head and vetoed the chief of staff's opinion.

"However, in that case, our ability to advance will be greatly damaged, and the shields condensed by the two battleships will probably not be able to withstand the attack of the insects."

"Then I can't help it, you look at our remaining battleships, which one is not seriously damaged, it is not easy for them to keep up with our breakthrough speed, and they can't let them spend too much energy on defense. When you ask them to come up, it's not helping, it's asking for trouble. Fang Jingquan sighed, damn, Lao Tzu has been in the army for decades, and he has never been so guilty of a thief as he is today.

The Kirov slowly retreated, but as their shield area was still weak, countless Shock Worms and Scorpions rushed through the gap like crazy, and the originally majestic battleship was in smoke in just a few minutes, five of the twelve trillion megawatt beam cannons lost control, and the leftmost engine was also reduced to countless pieces under the simultaneous attack of several Shock Worms.

The SH engine thruster in the rear left drove to its maximum and quickly overtook the Kirov to become the most advanced battleship of the entire fleet. This move almost instantly strengthened the shields near the Kirov, and a large group of scorpions and detonators that rushed towards the Kirov died tragically on the free antimatter. The rest of the bugs immediately reversed their attack and placed the strongest attack point on the SH.

At this time, the main fleet had already suffered casualties under the attack of Purple Eritan, and only a few battleships and cruisers were also billowing smoke, and I am afraid that they could not hold out for long. The real main force of the bugs also quickly gathered on the side of the counterattack fleet, and it would not be long before the counterattack fleet would completely lose the opportunity to break through.

Countless beams and antimatter orbital projectiles flew towards the attacking insects, and all kinds of broken flesh and limbs flew everywhere, raining down on the shield, causing the shield to flash points of light.

Fang Jingquan stared at the shields around the battleship, the continuous attacks of the insects made the strength of the shield always in a state of decline, the only thing the fleet could do was to slow down the speed of the shield decline as much as possible, if the fleet's shield collapsed and the fleet did not break out of the encirclement, then the fleet would be completely finished.

Several hours have passed since the beginning of the operation, and the counterattack fleet has broken through a considerable distance, but the encirclement shows no signs of wavering, and the detection equipment of the battleship is completely blocked by the insects in front, and it is impossible to detect how far the end of the encirclement is.

"General, the intensity of the bug's attack seems to have dropped quite a bit." Gou Jian's voice interrupted Fang Jingquan's meditation.

Fang Jingquan turned back to the astrolabe, the radar showed that the number of bugs around him was indeed sixty percent of what it was ten minutes ago, an attack of this scale was just enough to keep the fleet's shields in balance, but whether this sign indicated that the encirclement of the bugs was about to be broken through remained to be determined.

However, the results were soon revealed, and the next wave of the bug's attack began five minutes later.

During these precious five minutes, the fleet advanced as far as it could, but without the firepower of a battleship, the fleet's ability to advance was significantly reduced. The crew could only watch in despair as the number of bugs in the distance gradually increased, and they set up a position to start the next round of attacks.

The first to appear is the bone spur emitted by the purple Eritan that has been newly reinforced by the bugs. Although these sturdy and indestructible objects were lost a lot under the blow of the antimatter railgun, a considerable number of bone spurs were still pierced into the shield, and the violent explosion directly caused the fleet shield to stir up layers of waves.

When the first round of attacks was over, the fleet had not had time to recuperate, and the next round of attacks followed.

The protagonist of this round is the shock detonation worms played by ordinary Eritan, although their defense is far inferior to the bone spurs, but they are numerous, if it is a full six provincial fleets, it is absolutely no problem to block this wave. But the fleet had already suffered heavy losses at this time and was losing warships every moment, even the remaining six battleships were scarred, and the actual combat effectiveness may be less than one-third of what it was normal for.

What's more, like the bone spurs, this wave of detonation insects also attacked the fleet from six directions, up, down, left, right, front and back at the same time, and now the fleet's firepower simply did not have time to deal with attacks from so many directions, even if the ship's microbrain was overloaded, the detonation insects still continued to smash on the shield one after another.

The ripples of the shield are getting more and more, the thickness and energy value are also decreasing wildly, and the attack of the Shock Worm continues to continue, as if it will not stop until the shield is broken. Finally, thirty-two minutes after the attack began, the shield collapsed, leaving the fleet completely naked under the range of the bugs.

The most terrifying thing is that at the moment when the shield collapsed, the flood of electromagnetic interference instantly destroyed the communication between the warships, and the operational coordination in the fleet became more difficult.

The attack of the bugs did not stop with the collapse of the shield, and they decided to strike while the iron was hot and give the fleet the final blow.

The protagonists of the third round soon appeared, and the phage mantis rained down on the surface of the battleship, and the mantis holding the "sharp blade" was simply a natural killer, silently and quickly killing every Marine soldier guarding the surface.

"Guards, follow me!" Fang Jingquan grabbed a PT-40 laser rifle and yelled at the guards with red eyes and prepared to rush out of the bridge.

"My general, you can't do this, it's already the maximum I can accept if the flagship is at the very front of the battleship, but now you are absolutely not allowed to leave the bridge." Fang Jingquan's order was immediately vetoed by Gou Jian, if it weren't for the fact that the battle was too fierce and the SH couldn't get out of its current position, he would have ordered other warships to take SH's place long ago.

The hatch of the bridge slammed shut, and no matter how Fang Jingquan destroyed it, he couldn't open the heavy hatch.

"Damn, if we don't go out to help, we'll be completely finished, if we fail to break through, can you afford to take this responsibility?" Fang Jingquan clenched his teeth, his anger value had reached its peak.

"Calm down, my general, your impulsiveness now will not help us in the current mission, and only if you stay in the safe position of the bridge and command the overall situation, it is possible to lead us to victory." Gou Jian's facial expression did not change at all, he was still so calm, "All the staff officers, all accept the armament, go to the surface of the battleship to help." ”

Almost every battleship adopted this method, and all the men on the bridge, except for the captain and chief of staff, were pulled to the surface of the battleship to defend. Although everyone knows that this kind of behavior is just a drop in the bucket, no one is willing to give up hope. After all, the people on the transport ship are the relatives of themselves or their comrades.

The attack of the phage mantis is not over, and the protagonist of the next round, the scorpion swarm, has appeared again, which is the last straw that crushes the camel.