The Hyperion and the Ark entered the atmosphere, and the surface of the verdant jungle planet finally came into view.

I have to say that this is a very beautiful planet, and the vegetation on the surface is as dense as Pandora.

In addition, there are a large number of ornate and elegant Star Spirit Shrines in the jungle, the largest of which enshrines the second Keystone fragment needed by the Wandering Earth.

Tadarin would not give up this artifact, Qiao Lu and the others had to be mentally prepared to deal with a bloody battle.

Renault said to Qiao Lu: "We need to establish a forward base first, cooperate with the ground troops to advance, and get this alien artifact fragment." ”

"Let's get started, we're ready for that." Qiao Lu said to Renault while keeping in touch with the Ark.

Renault nodded, and then ordered:

"Start landing!"

The drop pod and landing craft were dropped from the Hyperion and the Ark, respectively, and landed in a clearing in the jungle.

This is a piece of high ground on the planet Baisher, which is geographically easy to defend and difficult to attack, and at the same time, it can detect the presence of a small number of energy crystals and high-energy gas veins, so it is naturally the best location to establish a forward base.

The Rangers directly dropped a command center from the Hyperion, and the biggest feature of the human architecture in StarCraft is that it can take off from the starship, and naturally it can land from the starship to the ground.

After landing at the command center, a batch of T-280 space engineering vehicles, as the Rangers call them, swarmed out of the command center and immediately began construction of the forward base.

The mobile base vehicle on the Wandering Earth side also roared down from the landing craft, and it was transformed into a front-line base construction plant near the Ranger's command center, and with the carrier engineering mecha that landed together, the front-line base of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force was also built.

The first coordinated operation between the Rangers and the Expeditionary Force took place on this planet.

Machine gunners in heavy power armor and expeditionary soldiers in standard steel suits stepped out of their respective drop bays, holding C-14 Gauss rifles and heavy pulse rifles, respectively, to hold the high slope to prevent Tadarin from attacking and interfering with the construction of the forward base.

Tadarin's counterattack has indeed begun, and the first to rush up is a group of fanatics.

These dual-wielding psionic warriors, as fanatical and fearless as their name, fearlessly charged at the hail of bullets in the face of the human forces occupying the high ground.

It is simply a group of typical outlaws, as if they want to hold two watermelon knives and cut from Nantianmen to Penglai East Road.

However, it would be a big mistake to really treat them as cousins.

Each of these Zealots is a well-trained, outstanding Star Spirit Warrior, and the psionic shields on their bodies alone are better than the power armor of the machine gunners.

Not to mention that they are as gorgeous as the Golden Saint Seiyas, they are as tough as tank armor, and they can even wield psionic blades to block bullets flying at supersonic speeds, and their physical abilities are completely beyond human imagination.

The Rangers' Marines immediately grabbed their Gauss rifles and poured ammunition at the fanatics, and unlike the deep-pocketed Tyranid Empire troops, they had not yet had the luxury of upgrading their ammunition to uranium-238 depleted uranium armor-piercing rounds, replacing them with 8 mm metal spike rounds, which were cheap and less powerful.

Dense spikes fall on the body of the fanatic, and often can only be bounced away by the opponent's energy shield, and by the time the shield is finally broken, the fanatic has already rushed in front of him.

The Psionic Light Blade in the Fanatic's hand slashed head-on, and the Heavy at the front could only reflexively raise his riot shield, hoping that this would slightly resist the Zealot's onslaught.

However, the Zealot fell with his sword, and the riot shield in his hand shattered in half, and was cut off along with his shield-raising arm, unable to resist the Zealot's psionic blade.

In the next second, the Heavy was cut off by another psionic blade of the Zealot, and on such a battlefield, even a second of breath was a luxury.

Once rushed into the crowd by these fanatics, it is like a wolf entering a flock, and it is impossible for ordinary soldiers to compete with these Star Spirit Warriors in hand-to-hand combat, these guys are ruthless characters who dare to fight the swarm head-to-head!

Seeing that the formation in front of him was about to be scattered by Tadarin, Wang Lei, who was in charge of commanding on the front line, hurriedly ordered: "Use gravity to gush and stop them!" ”

Several soldiers armed with particle cannons in the expeditionary force immediately fired several gravity bombs, which fell to the ground to form a small black hole-like singularity, absorbing the fanatics who rushed up, and the pace of the charge slowed down helplessly.

Although this move does almost no damage, it takes two to three seconds for the Zealot to break free from the gravitational surge, during which time they are a live target and can no longer pose any threat to human forces.

"Feel free to fire!"

After using the gravitational jet to trap the onrushing fanatics, the Expeditionary Force soldiers can easily concentrate their fire to destroy them one by one, although the heavy pulse rifles they use are not much more powerful than the Rangers' Gauss rifles, but they also have grenade launchers that can fire spiral missiles, which complements the individual firepower of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force.

The Expeditionary Force soldiers first used spiral missiles to shatter the Zealot's energy shields, and then joined forces with the machine gunners to rain bullets on the Star Spirit Warriors.

Even the high-tech armor of the Zealots could not withstand such a storm of bullets, and was quickly discarded and folded in front of the human forces.

Originally, he planned to take advantage of the fact that the human landing force was not firmly established to come up and fight a wave, but now Tadarin had to abandon this plan first, waiting for more troops to gather and launch an attack on the joint forward base of the Rangers and the Wandering Earth again.

"It's good they didn't gather too many troops here." Renault looked at the fanatics who were forced to retreat and said with trepidation, "What a bunch of madmen who are not afraid of death." ”

Then he turned to Qiao Lu and said, "But your weapon is really unique, I have never seen anything like this, is it the result of the latest research and development?" ”

Qiao Lu replied nondeniably, "Sort of, our tech tree is indeed different from yours, and it is precisely because of this that it is more valuable to communicate. ”

After repelling this group of fanatics, the Rangers and Expeditionary Force have temporarily established themselves on the planet.

But Tadarin wasn't going to stop there, and the Zealots were just the basic infantry of the Star Spirits. They will continue to attack next, and they must seize the time to consolidate the defenses of the forward base in order to deal with the more fierce offensive after Tadarin!