After all, the Demon King is the Demon King, and it is very annoying for a mecha soldier to run away from the round-up of several phantom insects, and the octopus is still prioritizing.

According to the information obtained by Flour, MR247 can have three planets suitable for the Zerg to reproduce, and let the inferior insects evolve properly and develop another one, and the octopus is tasked with causing chaos behind enemy lines, and there is nothing better than infecting the resident planet as soon as it comes up.

Instead of sending the bugs to chase the fleeing mech, the octopus gave a mental command, and the swarm increased its acceleration slightly, while the hidden space bug mothers began to show their shape.

According to the plan, if the hidden insect swarm is not discovered, the insect swarm only needs to slowly approach the target planet, and at the same time consume most of the resources and essence of the space insect mother on the way to create shuttle insects and other main battle insects, and the space insect mother can stay in a safe place to watch the show in the follow-up battle.

In cross-galaxy operations, the space worm mother is not only a mothership carrying various cannon fodder insects, but also a mobile arsenal, and more importantly, the only space worm mother Donia is in the hands of the fat worm king, and the octopus has no way to produce more space worm mother without the support of the planet, not that he is unwilling to let the space worm mother take risks, even if they also have a strong shield and a certain degree of medium-range strike ability.

Lifting the hidden state at this moment is the inevitable result of the full production of the space worm mothers.

After several evolutions, the giant space creatures that have become very complex generate excess heat energy that cannot be reused when operating at full speed, requiring more aggressive heat removal methods, such as excretion with high-temperature and high-pressure steam. If the stealth action is performed at the same time, the Space Worm Mother's liquid consumption will become very fast, which is equivalent to reducing the total amount of production in the non-replenishing state.

When the Demon King Octopus went out, it emptied the entire K2 accumulation since the start of the war, excluding the few that had not yet reached the system after this jump, and the swarm had already gathered more than 200 production types, more than 60 ungrown and sac-laying guard types, and a small number of Type 3 insect mothers in the MR247 galaxy at this time. When these monsters are at full capacity, the swarm will add an average of one shuttle per hundred seconds, or four hundred phantoms, or thousands of cannon fodder bugs.

The swarm has its limit to the material reserves before occupying the planet, but according to the earliest blueprint, the space worm mother can do 72 hours of continuous production at full speed, and the improved version has increased the speed, and can maintain at least 60 hours of non-supply production. The swarm of the octopus has already been partially produced in the ice area, and there are less than half of the materials and essences left at the moment, so it is not a big problem to support it until the end of the battle.

By the way, the third type of insect mother can basically be understood as the production of simplified transportation type, which is responsible for transporting large insects such as shuttles in batches to save essence, and can only produce various small insects used to infect planets.

In this operation, there were about 2,000 shuttle worms that were freely guarded and transported into the MR247 system by Type 3 Worm Mother, and the part produced in advance was released by the Space Worm Mother when the jump was completed, and there were also about 2,000 of them. Compared to the scale of the battle in K11, it is still not very large, and the cannon fodder can barely deal with a human fleet of three or five hundred frigates. Considering that there are no other systems in the non-frontline area that can mobilize hundreds of frigates to the same point in a few hours, the bugs are enough for the first assault battle, and any more will only affect the density of bugs in the left wing of the KT cluster.

In this way, when it reaches the sky above the target planet in a few hours and completes the deceleration, the swarm will be able to shuttle two or three hundred more, and the increase of a few percentage points will not help the entire swarm much.

Of course, the Demon King will not be so naïve, and the emergency production at this moment is not done for the subsequent planetary infection operation, but to produce the last extra troops as soon as possible to divide the troops under the acceleration of the swarm, and to sneak attack other galaxies!

That's right, Octopus didn't plan to level the MR247 first in the first place! Unlike Fat Worm's more cautious personality, Octopus-kun is very fond of multi-line advancement and does not think much about losses, as long as he can achieve tactical or strategic goals, just like he did in the left wing of the KT star cluster.

All this went on very quickly, and a few minutes after the hiding was lifted, the swarm divided into a hundred percent of shuttles and half of the Type 3 Space Worm Mother, which no longer had much use value, and chose the direction of the jump and began to perform the hyperspace jumping action.

The octopus plans to separate another batch later, and the production of space worm mothers is indeed fast on average, in fact, a single space worm mother can only produce two shuttles and hundreds of small worms at the same time, and each batch takes several hours. There were just minions running away, and there could be fighting in the last few hours, so you can't let the size of the swarm shrink too much.

Florin's response was also quick.

Tianmei, the vice captain of the γ017 mecha detachment who escaped in the mecha, has not yet joined his teammates, and the information has been spread through the monitoring network.

A fleet of fleets on the way to carry out routine evacuation maneuvers were forcibly halted, and the enemy situation was also reported by the broadcast system.

MR247 has a slightly higher stellar mass, a larger-than-average gravity well range, and a delayed broadcast signal that takes nearly an hour of one-way time to reach the defense zone on the other side of the star, and a single communication back and forth for an intruder can wander 0.3-0.4 AU, which is clearly not in line with national defense needs. There is also a procedure inside, that is, the nearest border command center of the fortress or the command ship will convert the warning signal into hyperspace communication to notify the planetary defense areas.

In short, because of this and that kind of national defense arrangement, the Florin capital was briefed on the war just fifteen minutes after Tianmei escaped from the bugs. The subsequent border intelligence data clarified the route of the swarm.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or the bugs don't know about Florin's situation, judging by the route and distance, the target selected by the swarm happens to be the planet where the military stronghold Sakura Port is located, which greatly facilitates Florin's subsequent military operation arrangements.

The tidal control satellite Sakura Port has several functions in Florence - a military command center, a military space production center, a space force training center, and a military operations center.

After receiving the order from the Führer, the various departments of Sakura Port quickly took up their positions, and while mobilizing troops, they took over the command through a real-time connection with the border command post.

Therefore, while the previous driving fleet ensured long-distance monitoring, several mecha squadrons were divided into several mecha squadrons for close reconnaissance.

This time, the Demon King didn't give the little mechs a good face, and in the face of the less than 100 mecha reconnaissance troops, thousands of phantoms in the swarm accompanied by more cannon fodder insects hugged several shuttle insects.

Florin's mechs and the abilities of the soldiers are very specialized, but the insects are so strong that they are powerless, and after just a few minutes of contact, less than twenty mechs have escaped from the pursuit. Eighty mechs crashed, and in exchange for more than half of the crusading insects were killed, so the combat efficiency was far higher than that of the mechs/fighters in service with any other country.

The results of the battle are so high, it seems that the worms of the Demon King Octopus will be physically invisible, and the phantom worms have the help of cannon fodder to deal with mecha troops of the same level, how can they pay such a price?

In fact, it should be emphasized that if physical stealth can really defy the sky in the space battlefield, the K11 defense line will not exist for a long time. The shooting accuracy of the Florine mecha is not as good as that of the powerful fighters in the outside world, and in the case of a short combat distance, the insects will form a greater temperature difference with the surrounding environment during combat, and physical stealth has no meaning.

After being bitten by a mosquito again, the swarm seemed to suffer slightly, but the Demon King gathered more usable information. The octopus already knew that the mech troops it would face next would probably be much denser than in previous engagements.

The Space Worm Mother has been given a temporary correction order, the production ratio of the Shuttle Worm in the process of being conceived has been modified, the number of medium-range plasma beams has decreased, and the number of living missile and plasma barrage weapons has increased.

On the other hand, the loss of nearly eighty mechs and personnel is not bad news for Florin.

After the Sakura Port Command Center announced the situation downward, the morale of the troops in combat readiness increased significantly.

Does morale work in space combat?

Of course it works. Why are the mercenaries of the Islamic Empire and the Gabrian Federation scary? Just because of the large total size? No, because they are the only troops that can fight to the last ship and never surrender or retreat. For NPCs, the only way to reduce their escape rate is to boost the morale of their fighters.

Boosting morale is just a small means for the command center, and the reconfirmed intelligence has allowed the command center to roughly judge the overall size of the swarm and begin to arrange targeted tactics.

It is true that Florin does not interact with the outside world, but in order to stay out of date and receive a few intergalactic signals from interstellar media, the direct appearance of the bug in MR247 is surprising, but it does not make people feel unknown or alarmed. In fact, as early as the beginning of the Florin Republic, the Ministry of Defense was already formulating a corresponding strategy, which even clarified under what circumstances it would send troops to foreign aid.

At this time, the swarm is only 0.7 AU away from Sakura Port, and at an average speed of 6,000 kilometers, it will arrive at Sakura Port in five hours.

If the ship is not activated at this time, it can move another 0.5 AU when the crew board the ship, and even if the ancestors bless, Florine will not be able to transfer back the border troops that are on the other side of the star at this time. The purpose of the bugs is likely to infect the resident planet, and it is difficult to ensure that there are no lapses in the monitoring range of Sakura Port, and the bugs must be inflicted heavy damage further away, as long as there is enough time to recall the border fleet.

Under this guiding ideology, the preset battlefield is set at a distance of 20 million kilometers from Sakura Port, which is still within the range of the support missiles launched from Sakura Port, and the Sakura Port Command can make decisions on whether or not to carry out annihilation operations, and can also decide whether to send recalled frontier troops to complete the final extermination according to the situation.

There are also calls for the direct use of antimatter shells to protect the soldiers, but this voice is not dominant.

The main reason is that the scale of the swarm is too large, and according to intelligence calculations, three antimatter bombs must enter the designated position in the swarm array to be completely cleared, and the particularity of the antimatter bombs makes it possible to gnaw into the enemy formation piece by piece when breaking through the defense, and a total of hundreds of bombs need to be launched, and the cost may be higher than using conventional troops. On the other hand, if we win a conventional war, we will not only be able to generate stronger cohesion in the country, but will also take the opportunity to change the structure of army commanders who are about to ossify, which cannot be easily achieved with money.

As a result, more than 100,000 mechs of various types, as well as the accompanying transport ships, maintenance and support ships, command ships, and command escort fleets, were sent up to meet the octopus swarm.

If Florin's mechs were as expensive as the oversized mechs equipped by Panvin's fleet, the 100,000-strong troops would have gone bankrupt. But in fact, because the production batch is too large, the development cost is basically negligible, and it is self-produced for self-use, and the local currency transaction is used instead of star coins, and the procurement cost is very low. Of course, even so, the size of this force is unquestionable, and once it is destroyed by the swarm, Florin is afraid that it will take several years of procurement to recover.

Then, Octopus-kun almost vomited blood and died.

Saying a thousand things, the octopus died and didn't expect that in this dog-SHI country of MR247, he would actually use mecha as the main force of space warfare!

The result is that the insect swarm that is obviously in the advantage of combat power cannot exert its due combat effectiveness, and those shuttle insects that should be used to deal with the capital ship type spend a lot of resources, but it is not efficient to fight mecha at medium and long distances. It's just that it's okay to miss, the problem is that in the distance that can hit, the shuttle worm is actually at a disadvantage, and every six to eight mechs cleared will be killed.

Little bugs?

Hi! Angry! The demon kings never thought that one day when they engaged, the mechas/fighters of the human army would be of the same order of magnitude as the insects, even if this was a swarm dedicated to sneaking up on the rear, but only a two-to-one numerical advantage should be considered a shame for the swarm.

Seeing that the situation is not right, the octopus is also very decisive.

The insect swarm made a pocket action, as if it wanted to wrap the mecha and the small insect in the melee in the middle and kill it, but in fact, while some of the space insect mothers were speeding up while the formation was changing, the moment they completed the formation change, some of the shuttle insects broke away from the swarm formation.

Florin's several years of combat preparation, of course, it is impossible to put it into the battlefield at one time, seeing that there are bugs to escape in front of her, the reserves on the way to rescue friendly troops are also divided into a group to pursue, the mecha/fighter has a small mass, has a natural acceleration advantage, and the weakness of endurance will not be exposed in a short pursuit, and the full-time anti-fleet mecha is very suitable for doing similar things.

It's a pity that the decision made by the octopus in a short period of time has taken into account a variety of factors, and when the pursuit force and rescue force of the reserve team really engaged, and even many space worm mothers in the swarm have been besieged, the worm mother he is in has run away with a few worm mothers.

What's even more powerful is that since these insect mothers entered MR247, they have never left the hidden state, nor have they followed other insect mothers to join in full production, and when they left as one with the background, none of the mecha or observation equipment captured them in the hot battlefield background clutter/high-energy reaction. Later, by the time the reconnaissance network detected the anomalous data, these insect mothers were already close to the speed of separation, and the Florin army could only take a look.

After MR247 was hit hard, the swarm's goal of making a big news story was almost ruined, but the octopus' habit caused the swarm to have several waves of smaller bugs scattered around the MR cluster, and the matter was not over.