Chapter 303: War of Attrition
At the beginning of the battle, the Phantom and Zeus leaned together, and the brilliant cannon light bloomed like a lotus flower, and in a short moment, a massive burst of light was spilled.
The dazzling cannon light collided with the Zerg army, setting off thousands of shock waves in the blink of an eye, and then Zeus launched a terrifying barrage of devastation, destroying all targets within fifteen kilometers.
Roderick was very nervous, and just after the start of the war, he hit a heavy hand, all gamma-ray bombs, which caused extreme radiation after exploding. Within fifteen kilometers, the Zerg had fallen one after another, and a tenth of the Zerg tide had been wiped out with just one blow.
"Rod, what are you doing? It's a waste that so many gamma-ray bombs can swallow one-fifth of the insect tide. Linciso shouted in the wave, angering him by the actions of the loser.
"I did this on purpose, Captain Lin quickly turned off the Phantom's monitoring system, this is a trick that my grandfather taught me in the early years." After Roderick finished speaking, dozens of cargo boxes were ejected from Zeus's attack platform.
"Mei'er, turn off the monitoring system and let the Phantom. The number is completely silent, to be quick. Lin Xisuo gave the order with a solemn face.
The Phantom and Zeus are very close together, and the two ships. At the same time, the interstar cruise ship turned off the monitoring system and silently counted the time.
"Bang" the cargo boxes that are falling in the air one after another. Burst, spilling silver shiny powder from it. These powders are specially treated metallic silver, and the remaining gamma rays within fifteen kilometers emit an indescribable strong light through the silver powder, and all the zerg who are irradiated by the strong light feel a whirlwind of the world.
In fact, the flash only lasted for a few seconds, but there were at least two. Millions of Zerg have become blind for the time being.
Due to the tiger beetle and the gallbladder such advanced zerg are far from the battlefield. They are far away, and their eyes have a strong filtering effect, so they are not affected much.
However, ordinary Zerg do not have this advantage, and the intensity of silver light exceeds . The range of the eyes is extremely limited, and the distance that can be sensed is extremely limited, resulting in the insect tide being unable to attack the human ship in a short period of time.
Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, the Phantom and Zeus rushed outward to kill, and the fierce cannon light kept calling ordinary zergs, how many can be killed at this juncture, and when the insect tide reunites, there will be no cheap to pick up.
"Hey, how's it going? My grandfather taught me a good trick, right? No mistakes, not a lot of words" Roderick's figure appeared on the Phantom's light screen, and he looked very proud at the moment.
Linciso laughed, "You! Captain Ben was impressed, and there was such a trick to damage it. After this trouble, the momentum of the insect tide no longer exists, and I believe that taking this opportunity to do a hard job can make the battle a little easier in the future. Rod, I'll invite you to drink another day. ”
"Drinking? Okay! Beauty and wine are exactly what heroes need, and I await your invitation. "Roderick is ready to make a big move, the captain of a starship can only establish his prestige in battle, and the Zeus has made a good start, and victory may be on the horizon.
The Phantom entered the swarm under the cover of Zeus's strong firepower, Harley's jumping dragonfly kills kept biting out of the gap, and Linciso tried to break out of the encirclement, but the Zerg bees outside were congested, and tens of thousands of tiger beetles were pressed into the formation, so the situation could only be fought to the death in the cemetery.
The Maltese slammed its horns into a giant colorful worm, and the stern of the ship flung sharply towards the center of the cemetery.
After a short period of adjustment, the insect tide recovered, and it was like a giant tornado storm sweeping in, and the flames of war were intertwined.
In the midst of this turmoil, even Harley's jumping dragonfly kills were sluggish, and Zeus launched the Limit Matter Bomb, a missile that can cause a space collapse-like effect, annihilating most matter under the terrifying force of gravity.
In less than twenty minutes after the start of the battle, the ordinary Zerg had plummeted from five million to four million and eighty thousand, and the Phantom and Zeus were unscathed, but there were still so many "cannon fodder" that Linciso and Roderick were in crisis.
"Hit, hit me hard." Roderick yelled in the cocoon in the main control room, feeling that this was the only way to vent his terror and relieve his tension.
Lincy was much calmer than Roderick, observing the rate of the insect tide while locking on the tiger beetles and gallbladder insects in the distance.
The comparison between the Phantom and the Insect Tide's pure combat power seemed to have no chance of winning, and now it was even more cost-effective to try his best, and after a little thought, Lin Xisuo decided to use the mirror array buried in the cemetery.
"Mei'er, it's time, open the mirror array to split the insect tide and gradually break it." Lin Xisuo looked at the insect tide with a determined gaze, without the slightest timidity.
"Huh? Do you want to open it now? That's a trick to escape. Mei'er was surprised, at this time, the use of a pre-set mirror array could certainly help, but it also completely blocked the way out.
"Do as I say, the tiger beetle and the gallbladder worm are not good, when I set up the mirror array, I didn't expect that there would be such a scale of the Zerg camp coming, now use the mirror array to compete for a glimmer of life, and then use the ordinary Zerg Do you think the Phantom and Zeus still have the power to escape?" Lin Xisuo was as loud as iron, and she had already made up her mind to fight to the death in the cemetery.
"Well, that's right! At this time and that time, I will activate the mirror array. Mei'er shook her arm as she spoke, and twenty-one light screens appeared around her.
Each light screen was facing the cemetery in one direction, and twenty-one rough iron pillars rose from the mountain of insect corpses.
The twenty-one iron pillars were made of meteoric iron, and when the Phantom entered the cemetery, Lin Xiso planted a mirror array for the sake of caution.
Due to the hasty arrangement, the mirror array is very simple, just a few distorted spectral refractometers that can distort the light and create countless "mirrors" in the cemetery. It's as if a huge mirror has broken into countless pieces, creating some visual illusion at best.
Of course, except for the slight difference in vision, the twenty-one iron pillars have been blessed with an anti-gravity magnetic field by the Phantom.
After the mirror array was opened, the small insect corpses in the cemetery rose under the action of anti-gravity, so that dense obstacles appeared in the air, and the insect tide was like a mixer mixed with countless stones, and suddenly fell into a situation of poor operation.
"Rod, follow the Phantom and attack." Lin Xisuo's voice was transmitted, and without waiting for the other party to respond, he motioned to Cui Hetang to sail away according to the pre-drawn battle plan.
The anti-gravity magnetic field emitted by the twenty-one iron pillars is not the same, some areas have a strong magnetic field, others are very weak, and the vision is reversed, which is expected to hinder the insect tide for three minutes.
Don't say three minutes, even if you fight for one more second, it is good, and you may be able to recover the decline at a critical juncture, not to mention that the Phantom and Zeus are not at a disadvantage, and the battle has been pressing the Zerg until now.
First, Roderick's ancestral "trick" caused the Zerg to be affected by strong light, and the insect tide could not gather momentum. Then there was Lin Xisuo's pre-buried mirror array and anti-gravity magnetic field, and the insect tide could not form an effective charge, and the Zerg in front of him could only be destroyed.
The Phantom and Zeus fought very well, and all moving objects were bombarded, continuing the previous unilateral killing, so that countless cannon fodder completed their "mission".
The balance of strength is constantly balancing, and after one kill, there are only 2.8 million ordinary zergs left.
Less than forty-five minutes after the start of the war, half of the insect tide was left in the cemetery forever, and this kind of killing frequency is probably not lost to any B-class interstellar cruise ship, even if it is not rare in the world. Supporting the kills were Harley's jumping dragonfly kills and Roderick's near-bottomless ammunition depot.
Linciso was suspicious that Zeus had massive space equipment on board that could attach a large amount of ammunition. Although Zeus's light cannon is also very powerful, it is those missiles that really work.
Roderick's grandfather, Zachary, had a powerful caravan, and caravans were usually willing to work on their carrying capacity, so it was normal for Zeus to have large-scale space equipment.
Linciso's fear is that with Roderick's "loser" speed, he will soon be unable to make ends meet. You must know that in addition to getting a small amount of essence blood from killing low-level zergs, the utilization rate of their corpses is infinitely close to zero. The Zerg are usually the big winners in wars of attrition, because humans and they can't afford to consume them.
The next step is the real knife and real gun fight, the Phantom and Zeus stop on the pile of corpses and keep strafing, this level of attack tests the ability of the weapon system to withstand it, fortunately, the evolution value of the two ships is not low. Roderick also knew that now was not the time to give it his all, so he didn't use his boat skills.
The two sides of the battle were deadlocked for about ten minutes, and then the insect tide completely engulfed the two ships, and in an instant there was a tall "insect mountain" in the center of the cemetery.
At this moment, the Phantom and Zeus were completely buried by the Zerg, and the entire Worm Mountain was overpowered, which can be imagined how terrifying it was.
Roderick asked in a panic, "Brother Lin, is there any other way?" My defense coefficient here is rapidly decreasing, so I really can't use my ship combat skills to fight, and it's a big deal to throw all the black hole bullets out when facing the high-level zerg. ”
"Changed your name to call Ringo? You can't be a bad seed with me. You see, there are 380,000 tiger beetles, 120,000 ground gallbladder insects, and a full 500,000 high-level zergs, which is not a number that can be solved by a few black hole bullets. During this time, I have a lot of neurotoxoids, and I am using them right now. Linciso reassured Roderick.
At the same time, the Phantom's energy shield shrank rapidly, revealing a small part of the bow of the ship in a moment, only to see a dozen probes sticking out of the deck, and then spewing smoke outboard.
The smoke was pervasive, penetrating along the eyelids, mouths, and groins of the Zerg, and some of the Zerg were infected and convulsed, and the Worm Mountain was facing disintegration.
The "boom" cannon light was once again vented outward, and the Phantom and Zeus collided out, narrowly out of the crisis.
The Zerg's stubborn fight is a headache, and even if they are infested by neurotoxoids, they still launch a death attack. Slowly, the number of cannon fodder was decreasing, but the defense coefficient of the Phantom and Zeus also fell to the bottom, and the weapon system was even overloaded, and a few small bugs even drilled their heads into the Phantom's energy shield and were shot by Payne instantly.
Before the insect tide is completely wiped out, tiger beetles and ground gall worms swarm in, and they want to enjoy a sumptuous feast in the cemetery.
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