"Brother Captain, the opponent's forward force is less than forty kilometers away from the edge of the mining area, if you continue to let them approach like this, I'm afraid that in a while, they won't even have time to organize a defensive circle."

In fact, without Atlas's reminder, Zhou Xin had already seen the current situation near the mining area through the situation map on the big screen. At this time, his brows were tightened, and his complexion was constantly changing, as if he was making a difficult decision in his heart.

Seeing that Zhou Xin was still unable to make a decision, Dart also reminded: "Hurry up, now our combat units in the encirclement are just gathered to a suitable density, if we launch a counterattack at this time, we will definitely be able to effectively stop the momentum of the opponent's impact." ”

"I'm suggesting we still have to fight back with some necessary counter-attacks." Even Spreed said, "As you know, in order to speed up the process of resource gathering, we have shipped all the equipment that has been used to process minerals. If all of them were destroyed, it would take as long as the time to rebuild all the equipment would be the same as repairing the crack in the bow. Not only that, but more importantly, in order to repair our ship, the current resource reserves on the Voyager are already kept at a very low level, which makes it more difficult and time-consuming for us to rebuild the equipment. ”

After being silent for a while, Zhou Xin sighed deeply and smiled bitterly in a low voice, "Is it still inevitable in the end?" Then his expression began to become serious, "Atlas, prepare to fight back." Then he added, "Let the engineering robots in the mine speed up and abandon all the unimportant equipment, and I will only give them two hours to retreat, and as soon as the time is up, the engineering ships will take off from the surface of the planet, and the organization of defense will be carried out according to this schedule." ”

Dart sighed and didn't speak, he could easily tell from this order that until now, Zhou Xin was still trying to balance the losses between the two sides.

However, Atlas didn't care about these irrelevant contents, and she immediately responded excitedly, "Okay, people are ready for a long time." As soon as the words fell, a large number of green markers on the screen, which were scattered like headless flies, representing friendly units, began to move and organize rapidly like ant colonies. It didn't take long for the dense dots of light to converge into a small green semicircle. At the same time, not far from the outer side of the semicircle, a large diffuse pale red cloud was taking on a semi-enveloping form and pressing towards the center of the aura.

"The defensive line has been organized." As the situation continues to change in the picture, Atlas is also dutifully reporting the current situation, "The vanguard of the opposing side is still about a kilometer away from the perimeter of the defensive circle, and it is expected that there will be a large-scale contact between the two sides in two minutes." Corresponding to the little girl's report, a blood-red countdown began to appear in the center of the green circle in the picture.

At the same time, in the underwater hideout—

"It's going too well, isn't it, Sargincha really doesn't plan to make any resistance?" The news that had just arrived from the front made Mimiros a little incredulous, and he muttered to himself in confusion.

"No way, they must have some kind of powerful counterattack behind them, just like the last time we attacked this area." Hearing Mimiros's words, the round-faced old man immediately continued in a categorical tone.

"I also think that they are definitely not such a civilization that will choose to give up directly, and there must be some danger waiting for us next." At this time, the expression of the other old man also looked very solemn, "What's more, during the attack not long ago, the other party was still trying their best to protect that area, which proves that it is indeed quite important to them, how can their attitude change so dramatically in such a short period of time in this situation?" ”

As soon as the old man's words fell, Mimiros breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, the puzzled look on his face disappeared instantly, "The latest report, the front-line troops have encountered an organized large-scale interception by Sagincha. With his report, the situation of the defensive circle also appeared on the screen in front of several old people.

Although they were intercepted, several old men at this time breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the picture of his own troops who were blocked outside the defensive circle and had nothing to do, a dignified look instantly appeared between the thin old man's eyebrows, "Actually completely resisted?" Looks like they've got a backhand. ”

"What are the details of the front? How much did we lose in the first wave of contact? The yellow-haired old man asked with a frown.

After waiting for a while, Mimiros received an update from the front report before replying: "Our front-line troops have indeed been held back by Sagincha, but—the losses do not seem to be significant—"

"What do you mean, it seems, that there is no clear result?" The old man asked.

"It's not big, indeed." After checking the reports in detail, Mimiros replied affirmatively, "Most of the opposing defenses are still as weak as the last one, and the reason why they are able to stop us now is that they have organized all the units into a dense wall-like structure. In other words, at the moment, Sakincha is using a large number of unit losses to block our advance, as long as we pay attention to keep our distance from the opponent and don't rush out of the team, I don't think our next losses will be very large. At this point, he changed his tone to a puzzled tone, "Judging from the current situation, it seems that the defensive tactics used by Sakincha are similar to the last time we attacked - not much?" It's just that the formation is a little more dense. ”

"Then we'll have to keep an eye out for the other side's counter-charge." The thin old man reminded loudly, "Last time we planted it on this. ”

"I know." Mimiros replied casually in a confused tone, "This time we are very different from the last time, will the same tactics still work for us?" After saying this, he issued a new order to the front-line troops, "Don't rush forward, keep the formation moving steadily, as long as you suppress their movements, we can always annihilate the other side in the end." ”

Let's turn our perspective back to the Voyager. At this time, the little girl on the screen obviously began to get anxious, "Brother Captain, the speed at which the probe was destroyed was too fast, and at least one-tenth of the number of contacts on the periphery was lost in the first wave, so it couldn't last for two hours at all......"