Chapter 119: The Catastrophe Ten Years Ago (15)
At five o'clock in the morning federal time, nearly ten hours had passed since the breakout.
The Sengermann system has been completely occupied by bugs, and after losing the ring of star system defenses, planetary defense is a piece of cake, and it can't stop the bugs' attacks at all.
Countless Eritan landed on the planet's surface, and the soldiers and civilians who stayed on the planet could only retreat until they abandoned the entire planet's surface and retreated to the underground fortress. But humans are not as capable of burrowing as insects.
These underground fortresses are usually provided to the army, and they cooperate with the fleet to fight planetary defense battles with bugs, but the protagonist of that kind of defensive battle also needs to be sung by the fleet, and now that the protection of the fleet has been lost, the shock and explosion insects of the bugs can plow the entire surface of the planet, and the army that has completely abandoned the surface position can not stop the insects that rush like a tide even if they retreat into the underground fortress.
Within five hours of the fleet's breakout, humanity in the star system had been largely wiped out, leaving only a sporadic fortified area to resist. The death toll continues to rise, billions of people have died just to count, once-thriving cities and space stations have been reduced to rubble, and once-lush planets have been swallowed up by fire.
And now, the bugs have completely withdrawn their forces and concentrated to surround the counterattacking fleet.
Fang Jingquan gasped heavily, and an iron pipe with a diameter of five centimeters pierced his abdomen, and the strength was so strong that even the sturdy individual armor could not stop it. The bridge, which was once glorious, was already littered with shattered instruments and soldiers' bodies left behind by the explosion, and even the toughest portholes were completely torn apart by the shock wave, and glass shards scattered like hail on the ground of the bridge. If it weren't for the fact that the atmosphere of the ship's surface had not failed, the bridge would have been completely non-existent.
Just an hour ago, the counterattack fleet had just finished the first wave of the Bug's offensive. The fleet paid a very heavy price to withstand the attack, all the battleships below the cruiser were destroyed, the cruiser losses were as high as 80 percent, and among the battleships, the AH and ZJ, which were already seriously injured, fell in the icy sea of stars, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians who were temporarily carried were not spared.
The rest of the battleships were also scarred, none of them were not billowing smoke, especially the SH at the front was the most seriously injured, three shock insects exploded near the bridge, the shock wave and high temperature made the bridge into chaos, and the iron pipe on a door beam broke free from its restraints under the violent vibration, and rushed to Fang Jingquan, who was standing in front of the astrolabe and commanding the battle, like lightning.
The moment Fang Izumi fell, the power supply of the bridge was finally destroyed in the explosion, and the huge astrolabe flew off the ground to the ceiling and was deeply embedded in the ceiling. The guards and soldiers also died one after another in the heat and shock wave generated by the explosion, only Fang Jingquan was still barely breathing, if it wasn't for the medicine in the armor that barely allowed Fang Jingquan to hold on, he also went with those soldiers.
And the wave of offensive carried out by the bugs just now was later written into the military textbooks by the surviving officers and microbrains, and was named the compound attack of the bugs.
With the sturdy bone spurs as the spearhead, it consumes the strongest round of defensive firepower of the fleet, forcing the fleet's defensive firepower to go on cooldown, and at the same time consuming a portion of the shield. The Shock Worm acts as the second wave, responsible for completely defeating the fairly thick shield. Immediately afterward, countless swarms of phage mantis and scorpions, including Eritan's tentacles, will completely crush the fleet of the Mighty Crossbow.
Such compound attacks are like waves after waves, constantly consuming and destroying the warships on the periphery, burning the flames of war all the way to the core of the fleet, and the fleet is helpless against it, and in the absence of reinforcements, the fleet can only be ravaged by insects.
"Gou Jian, how is the situation of the fleet?" Fang Jingquan gritted his teeth and asked with a pant.
There was no response, and it seems that Gou Jian had gone offline in the explosion just now.
Fang Jingquan used his strength, wanting to stand up and look at the scene outside, but moving at this time was to pull the most fatal wound on his body, and the sharp pain rushed straight to his brain, making him gasp and have to fall to the ground again.
"Is that the end of it? It's funny. Fang Jingquan smiled bitterly and sighed heavily. He knew that the fleet could no longer be saved, and the expected reinforcements were far away.
"General, the bugs are attacking again, and we can't hold it anymore."
"General, please, you must break out with the transport ship, my family is all in the transport ship."
Mournful requests came from the communication channel, even the soldiers on the SH did not know that the commanders on the bridge had almost all died, and these sad words could only make Fang Jingquan shed painful tears.
Fang Jingquan took a deep breath and grabbed the microphone with the last of his strength: "Soldiers, commanders and fighters, the fleet has lost the ability to break through as a whole, if you want to see your family for the last time, you can use the lifeboat to go to the transport ship to have a look." In the name of the commander of the Eastern Theater Fleet of Country Z, I ordered them to break into pieces and break out in all directions, as for whether they can succeed or not, everyone will leave it to fate. Good luck to you all, and may God bless you. ”
After saying such a long paragraph, Fang Jingquan felt that his eyes were dim, and he finally put down his hands weakly and closed his eyes forever.
When the light was spoken to each battleship, the captains took off their hats and bowed in unison, saluting the SH. The Supreme Commander, who had taken over the command, ordered that each of the breakout ships should protect as much as possible a fellow transport, even if it would cause considerable trouble for the ship. But the soldiers didn't complain much about this order, after all, it was their own families on the transport ship.
At 7 a.m. federal time, the last cruiser broke through the Bugs' encirclement and escaped using the jump engine, thus ending the Battle of the Sengerman System.
The final result of this battle: the fleet of country Z paid eight provincial fleets and a total of ten provincial fleets of GS and QH in the Eastern Theater of Operations, and E and M lost two provincial fleets each, a total of fourteen provincial fleets. More than 20 generals, including General Fang Jingquan, commander of the Eastern Theater of the Z Fleet, were killed. Only six cruisers and two transports escaped. More than a million soldiers have been killed, and billions of civilians have died. (When Chief of Staff Lei Zhenhua was in contact with the Mowolf Federation, the ship was unfortunately caught and besieged by insects, and Chief of Staff Lei Zhenhua also died heroically.) )
At the same time, the bugs also launched a large-scale attack on the other three major fleet defense areas, and each large fleet had different degrees of losses, among which the O Alliance fleet was the most seriously damaged, and the five provincial fleets fell into the Star Sea, and the degree of decline in combat effectiveness was second only to that of country Z. The control area of the human race was reduced by nearly one-third at once, and in the end, it was Marshal Tang Kecheng who commanded the Hanhai-class planetary battleship Z Hua to put into battle, and Athena's spear cut the doomsday octopus in the control area of the Z fleet in half, which was able to withstand the attack of the insects.
The losses of the entire human race in this battle were as high as nearly twenty provincial fleets, tens of millions of soldiers, and more than 30 billion civilians, and such heavy losses alarmed the entire alliance. The Evanos had to draw up the Twelfth and Twenty-Third fleets that were preparing for the attack to reinforce the Solar Federation. In order to commemorate this battle, which was close to a massacre, the human race itself named the battle "Catastrophe", and all citizens in the human-controlled area, from the commander of the fleet to the planetary governor, down to the ordinary soldiers and civilians, all observed three days of silence, during which all the tall buildings were covered with white cloth strips, and all entertainment activities were canceled.
This battle has exhausted the savings of mankind for many years, and the status of the Solar System Federation in the alliance has plummeted, and it has almost become the bottom part of the alliance. Some forces in the alliance that vainly try to annex the resource systems in the federal jurisdiction of the solar system have begun to relegate their courage and prepare to act, among which the Guar Federation is the most arrogant, and the two federations have had many frictions in the border area, but because of Evano's supervision, the two sides have not yet reached the level of saber rattling.
Before the war, the president of the Bundestag, who insisted on going his own way and demanded that the fleet attack forward, was dismissed from his post and sent to a military tribunal for questioning. The military tribunal was going to sentence him to death. However, it is unknown who posted a video on the Internet, which shows that when Xie Si had just woken up from his hibernation warehouse, the Speaker found him and promised him the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet of Country Z, but only if he unconditionally supported the Speaker's battle plan. Xie Si, who was eager to ascend to a high position and make contributions, agreed to the speaker without thinking, and this was the scene where Xie Si took the initiative to stand up against Lei Zhenhua at the pre-war meeting.
When the video went out, it caused an uproar among civilians, who took to the streets to demand that the court punish the former speaker, at least not just by death. In response to popular outcry, the court quickly changed the death sentence to exile, and exiled the former speaker to an uninhabited planet on the border, where he would be alone and in agonizing loneliness, while his every move would be broadcast in real time to every planet in the federally controlled zone. Xie Si, who was originally awarded the title of martyr for his death in battle, was also stripped of the title of martyr, but the soldiers of the GS fleet still retained their original titles, and the honor of the entire fleet of soldiers could not be denied because of the mistake of the commander.
The only difference is that it is probably because of this battle that the human weapons research and development department began to add antimatter particles to laser weapons, and since then, humans can more quickly deal with bone spurs and phage mantis and other bugs that were previously difficult to penetrate, due to the contraction of defense, the fleet that was previously responsible for defense can take time to form mobile troops at this time to deal with attacks from different areas, which can be regarded as a comforting thing in a defeated environment.
(The final chapter of the Catastrophe chapter ten years ago)